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A blend of contemporary rock and roll fiction mixed with the ancient tradition of myth. In the genre of Zen and the Art, it's a significant book of our era that explores the role or even need for religion in modern times, especially as it clashes with the creative.

Experience a novella within a novel:

Whiskey Myths

The story Whiskey Myths is contemporary with an edgy, experimental structure. Van Blackmar lives in the Valley of Dregs and Skidders -- a slow death of a place. She sits alone in her room with only books and her music. Whiskey Myths is her favorite album by the band BloodFire. The band's story is also told through rock lyrics, journal pages, even a manifesto.

Restless - A modern myth

Van writes to escape, and her novella appears in full text interspersed through her own story. Come on a journey with the Dregs and Skidders, the introverts, Old Woman Vera, Copperman and Julian Wiseblood.

Appalachian Christmas Dream is an inspirational novel about the Moonlight School movement in Kentucky in 1913. Young school teacher Junie Corban's dream is to teach the illiterate adults in her county to read and write, but she faces overwhelming odds, including a lack of money. When Junie gets unexpected help from handsome mining engineer Linton Todd, her dream begins to take shape, along with a surprising romance. Junie's father gets injured in a mine collapse, and the only way to save him is to hijack a train. Zavada, the author of four paperback western novels, mixes romance, suspense, and a heartwarming reminder of what matters most at Christmas.

An artist escaping from urban depression in the provinces is called upon to put his talents to the depiction of an extraordinary copulating machine called Janko, and discovers that its practical applications appeal to his wife who subsequently uses it to fruitful effect at the expense of the local doctor, who just happens to be her lover.

A philosophical-cum-romantic novel in which a young artists restablishes contact with an old flame only to end up getting seduced by her mother in the most bizarre circumstances, with paradoxical consequences for both of them.

A country-house novel involving a group of talented artists of one kind or another who are being encouraged to make contributions to a unique museum which specializes in the human voice, including the voices of the famous. But there are snags, and one or two of the guests have opinions and motives of their own.

A first-person narrative of autobiographical persuasion in which subjectivity is gradually transmuted from concern with the person to speculations about the probable links between a person's sexuality and his politics.

This little novella - or novelette - revolves around a menage a trois involving two females and one male, the latter of whom is a radically progressive philosopher who refuses to countenance marriage and insists on relations between the participants remaining artificial, even in regard to sex, which, with them, is never straightforward.

As a member of the Resistance, Dr. Bridget Dunne's assignment is to tame the Prime Reaper Kamerone Cree. Though she fears the Shapeshifter, she knows the only way her fellow captives will ever know freedom is to bring the Iceman Cree over to their side.

This novel is told as a long letter written by John Densch to his son, but the letter is addressed to his son ten years in the future. In it, John tries to understand what happened to him and his family after an accidental media circus brings them momentarily into the national limelight - and brings John into suspicion in the case of a missing person. John himself is trying to wrestle with memories from his childhood that he intertwines into his narrative. He realizes, eventually, that those memories - those stories of alien abduction and time travel - matter to him in ways he had never realized before. The story has a wide cast of characters and philosophical questions. But it all comes down to: who is the bog monster and what does he want?

In the realm beyond the seventh circle a princess prays to the mother goddess for a man to fight her enemies. She asks for a man skilled in the arts of war and put the plans of her enemies to nought. By chance, a suitable candidate is conducting bizarre experiments beside a holy spring in the realm beyond the sixth circle - our realm. He arrives in the princess' camp and her prayers seem to have been answered - but not as she imagined. Genre: fantasy, romance, humour. Free for a limited time.