Following the kidnapping of his wife who is now being held hostage, Max Flynn is forced to break the laws of the city of Denver, the very same laws he’s spent his career trying to protect and enforce, if he ever wants to see her alive again.Growing increasingly desperate with each new dangerous request from the kidnappers, Max knows he’s close to the point of no return and must decide whether to take matters into his own hands before it’s too late… for both him and his wife.

Notorious writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final novel—visionary, phenomenally strange, and unfinished at the time of his brutal murder—tells a fragmentary and characteristically provocative story of an oil executive split between the desire to dominate and the desire to be dominated.Seventeen years after Pier Paolo Pasolini’s brutal death, his sprawling, unfinished magnum opus was published in Italy. Petrolio is an extraordinary display of Pasol...

The rediscovered gay cult classic, published in English for the first time in thirty years'A classic of Italian gay fiction . . . the whole thing is bathed in elegiac pathos'SUNDAY TIMES'A story of love and youth and pain that will have you clutching at your heart . . . Surely one of the best novels I've ever read'ANDREW SEAN GREER, author of LESS and VILLA COCO'Beautiful and poignant'

The story centers around Hanit, a powerful and captivating enchantress who possesses remarkable magical abilities. Set in a mythical world filled with adventure and intrigue, Hanit's journey unfolds as she navigates the challenges of her enchanted life.As Hanit encounters various characters—both allies and adversaries—she becomes embroiled in a struggle for power and love. The narrative explores themes of magic, self-discovery, and the complexities of human emotions. Hanit's enchanting nat...

Max has finally reached a breaking point with his wife’s kidnappers and, with his most trusted allies by his side, has taken matters into his own hands to get her back. But when a shocking revelation shatters his world and everything he believed, it soon becomes a race against time to save the city from total systemic destruction, countless deaths, and absolute chaos. Will Max be able to stop this insidious enemy before it’s too late, or is this the end of everything he’s worked so hard to...

As the war progressed Hitler did not need obedient bureaucrats like Keitel, failures like Paulus and was paranoid about having military leaders who were loyal. The three field marshals in this book were amongst the best.Field Marshal Kesselring gained a reputation in Italy as an expert in defense, and his Allied code name was The Emperor. Kesselring was diplomatic, charming, known as Smiling Albert, but convicted as a war criminal which may not have happened had it not been for the...

This book is based on the premise that love is not as spontaneous and free as one would have us believe. While it is true that love exists in all human communities, not all communities love in the same way. The words used to speak of love, which simultaneously reveal and censor, inform and sublimate, channel and repress the stirrings of the heart, are chosen according to everchanging social and cultural norms. Love stories or romans d' amour are widely read and appreciated by all classes o...

Poet, linguist, novelist, filmmaker, and journalist, Pasolini was one of the great post-Marxist homosexual artists of his time. As such, he encountered problems throughout his career as both a writer and a filmmaker. The expression of his own sexuality in his art consistently offended not only the Roman Catholic orthodoxy of post-war Italy, but also the Marxist establishment. His vision of Marxism offended Catholics, while his interest in Christian culture irritated Communists. [...] From ...

Ten years have passed since the destruction at Portsmouth. Sampton lies in ruin, Portsmouth was lost to the raiders, and the Kingdom of Laundun's borders lessen with each passing year. Famine, raiding, cannibals, and corruption seep into every corner of the Kingdom, yet through it all, the people try to survive and even thrive in a world that had long since moved on from Technology.Max Ferguson (formerly Maxwell York) has also moved on since then. His daughter, Lily Ferguson, had g...

Earth is now an industrial harvest. The alien Tower looming over Los Angeles operates as a flawless, miles-high abattoir, processing human beings with terrifying mechanical efficiency. Jonas Cook wasn't trained for combat; he was a supply-chain auditor. But understanding the cold logistics of the enemy's system is the only reason he's still alive.Trapped deep within the labyrinth of the Tower's kill floors alongside a desperate handful of survivors, Jonas has one impossible goal: c...

Since the destruction of the Arms Facility, Max and Lily had been on the run from the Flames of Technology for roughly a year.Hiding out in the forests outside of Laundun, beneath the eyes of the kingdom and even beyond the reach of the Flames of Technology, and having gathered Roland, all three of them have to decide on where to go from there. The decision? To take what they have to the Overking and see if he and the nobles can help.Spurned by nobility before and turned aw...

On Maple Street, luck is a superpower, and so is bad luck.Sam Grant, the effortlessly "Lucky Bastard," bends probability without meaning to. Ben Mercer, the sharp and deliberate "Jinxer," breaks it on purpose. Their rivalry keeps the neighborhood on edge.But when ambitious developer Victor Langford begins buying up homes one contract at a time, accidents stop being funny. Pressure builds. Tensions rise. And Allison, the heart of Maple Street, becomes a target.Now luck ...