An incantation transferred a Dragon Lord’s spirit into a human’s body. Can two companions reverse it before it becomes permanent? A dark priestess, intent on escaping through an enchanted door into another world, invokes a dragon from his prison, The Void, into the human body of a pirate so he can locate and capture a young but powerful light goddess to assist her in gaining her freedom. However, the longer the dragon stays in the pirate’s body, the more human he becomes, and as he frantically searches for the young goddess, she is also searching for him to break the priestess’s enchantment and send him back to The Void, and free the pirate. This fourth and final book in the Dragon’s Tear Chronicles follows the stories of Kaida and Meelay as they attempt to break Hariah’s enchantment and return the Blood Dragon, Valeskas, to The Void.

A dark priestess-backed tyrannical lord hunts and slaughters followers of another faith. Can an alliance of strangers defeat him before he succeeds? A warlord orders raiding parties to find and destroy the faithful followers of a goddess. A priest and followers flee and hide in a cave for safety, but the attackers are approaching their location. A young woman who has just discovered her true identity joins forces with others determined to rescue the trapped group and escort them to another world and safety. A peaceful king joins them after one of his subjects is kidnapped and tortured at the direction of the warlord. Together they plan to combine forces to end his tyranny. A high priestess of a dark god assists the warlord to build an army against the goddesses’ followers. However, her true purpose is to locate the young woman heading towards his compound because she needs her power to escape the confines of a ruined temple. She has also summoned a demon lord from his prison in the Void and transferred him into an innocent pirate’s body to assist her. The dragon guarding the greatest source of magic in existence, The Dragon’s Tear, discovers her plans and summons assistance of his own to stop her. This second book in The Dragon’s Tear Chronicles series follows the story of Raven and Shayla and their animal companions, a wolf named Motomo and a horse named Daybreak.

The definitive account of the gay rights movement, Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney's Out for Good is comprehensive, authoritative, and excellently written. This is the definitive account of the last great struggle for equal rights in the twentieth century. From the birth of the modern gay rights movement in 1969, at the Stonewall riots in New York, through 1988, when the gay rights movement was eclipsed by the more urgent demands of AIDS activists, this is the remarkable and—until now—untold story of how a largely invisible population of men and women banded together to create their place in America’s culture and government. Told through the voices of gay activists and their opponents, filled with dozens of colorful characters, Out for Good traces the emergence of gay rights movements in cities across the country and their transformation into a national force that changed the face of America forever. Out for Good is the unforgettable chronicle of an important—and nearly lost—chapter in American history.

New Orleans, 2007. There is another layer beneath the society we see and understand. Vampires and shapeshifters are real and malakh are the offspring of angels who descended to earth over 10,000 years ago. To exist, they've adapted so well that the unknowing human doesn't recognize a malakh. 8,000 years ago, a unique destiny was forged by the Midael angel Israfil Arakelba. He defended humanity and accepted imprisonment as a way to protect mortals. He has lived many lives from behind the walls of the citadel created to keep him asleep. Now, 8,000 years later, his imprisonment is about to end. A familiar evil has set its foot on the world and only one malakh possesses the power with which to beat back the rising tide of darkness. But, how much does this potential anti-hero remember of his real nature? This is a proem: six individuals and the journey they are going to make, remembering the past and preparing to battle the future. Contains homosexual tones and potentially offensive language.

Alex McKnight finds himself in over his head when he and his occasional partner, Leon Prudell, agree to help Randy Wilkins, his old minor league teammate, find Randy's old flame, a woman he had walked away from nearly thirty years before.

A demon-backed necromancer hunts a powerful source of magic. Can an alliance of strangers defeat evil before they're all destroyed? In times long past, an evil god invades a peaceful goddess's universe with Dark Ones, blood drinkers. Her beloved dragons become infected, and the other gods and goddesses intervene to assist her. They create a pact with the evil god. This pact allows the goddess to cast the Dark Ones into an unfinished world of hers. Her infected dragons agree to sacrifice themselves to create an orb of great power from their souls, named the Dragon's Tear. One dragon remains to guard it. A Gypsy seeking darker powers finds a crystal that opens a door into another world. There he learns of the Dragon's Tear and wants it. He believes he can discover powerful magic from the Dark Ones to help him find it. He creates a rift into their world by accident, setting them free. Now bitten, he is also infected, and the released Dark Ones are causing chaos. So, he creates a magical seal to close the rift and resumes his search for the Tear, now joined by a demon lord. The dragon, who guards it, is forced to summon help to stop them. A group of characters joins to assist the dragon, avenge wrongs and prevent the perpetrator from gaining possession of the most significant power source ever created. In this epic fantasy story, a small group of heroes join to try and stop an evil perpetrator from gaining possession of the greatest power source ever created, unaware that he has the assistance of a demon lord who desperately wants it too.

"This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition Valeska Soares: Any Moment Now, organized by Julie Joyce and Vanessa Davidson, and presented at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, September 17-December 31, 2017, and the Phoenix Art Museum, March 24-July 15 2018."

Analyzes East German feminism for an American audience through an exploration of their women writers.

Watching Weimar Dance asks what audiences saw on stages from cabaret and revue to concert dance and experimental theatre in the turbulent moment of the Weimar Republic. Spectator reports that performers died or became half-machine archive not only the physicality of past performance, but also the ways audiences used the temporary world of the theatre to negotiate pressing social issues, from female visibility within commodity culture to human functioning in an era of increasing technologization. Archives of watching a range of performance artists, including Oskar Schlemmer, Valeska Gert, Kurt Jooss, Mary Wigman, Bertolt Brecht, Anita Berber, and the Tiller Girl troupes also revise and complicate our understanding of Ausdruckstanz as the representative dance of this moment in Germany. They further reveal how such practices came to be imbued with different significance in the postwar era as well as in transnational context. By bringing insights from theatre, dance, and performance studies to German cultural studies, and vice versa, Watching Weimar Dance develops a culturally-situated model of spectatorship that not only offers a new narrative but also demonstrates new methods for dance scholarship to shape cultural history.