When Patrick's long-term girlfriend Li Ling dumps him just as he's working up the nerve to propose, he ends up drunk on David's couch—and later in David's bed. Although initially reluctant to pursue anything beyond a one-time drunken tryst, David throws caution to the wind during an intimate dinner, where the two men also discuss Patrick's dream of entering the food industry. Just as the friends-turned-lovers are settling into their new romance, Li Ling calls Patrick—she's pregnant.

There is a goose in a bottle. So big now it can no longer squeeze through the small narrow glass neck. How then, can you free it from the bottle without damaging the goose or the bottle?

A Twitterlight StoryKill the dragon, marry the princess, and rule the kingdom. It's a fantasy come true… if you're straight.Adam is a chemistry student and martial artist, active in his local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism. But none of that prepares him to be the savior of a faraway land locked in perpetual dusk.In a world of shape-shifters, necromancy, and religious politics, Adam is fated to slay the golden dragon, Khaliv...

After being attacked for standing up for equality, Travis "Rook" Rookford falls into a coma. At his bedside sits fellow student Leon Capper, there to keep his new hero company. Instead he finds a boyfriend in nurse Warrick Kwok.When Rook wakes with amnesia, he thinks Leon is his boyfriend—which surprises everyone, given Rook's prior dating pattern. With everything that's going on, Leon has a hard time telling Rook the truth—and Warrick's possessiveness grates on him enough that he ...

Lex Cranbourne has adjusted to his unlife as a creature of the night--mostly. The unspoken divide between the living and vampiric is sometimes hard to take, and Lex has consoled himself to a lonely life. When a hot young man dares to push past his barriers to find his buttons, Lex has to decide whether or not he can let someone in. Featuring a vampire, half a cow, and no geese whatsoever.Sequel to Mr. Perfect.

Set in Edwardian England, Anya and the Dream Keepers follows eleven-year-old Anya, who discovers the fairy stories her grandfather told her are true. Separated by time and space, the two find themselves whisked away to the land of the dream keepers, their quests fatefully intertwined as they encounter evil sorcerers, fairy warriors, and unnatural beasts. Through haunting deserts and icy chambers, mystic ruins and secluded forests, the travelers wield the magic and science of this enchanted...

It is officially the worst night of Lex's existence. For starters, he's dead. Notice I said, 'for starters'. The Dead Man Walking* has been hired out by a group of Vampire geeks. And right now, Lex is really wishing he'd bothered to check their reflections in the mirror. Featuring cocktails, footnotes, three sheep and a duck, Lex may have finally found his Mr. Perfect. The question is. Mr. Perfect what?*formerly located at 228 Nicholson St, Footscray, Melbourne, VIC, 3011

Modern tech junkie Dirk spends his days webcamming with hot guys over gay chat sites–including today. Only today his best friend Fiona's dragging him out for a night on the town. But is it really better meeting someone in person as opposed to over the internet? And which is truer to reality: the persona we affect in person or the one we show the world online?

The relationship between colonial pluralism and nationalist civil war in former British coloniesWhy do some communities fight civil wars over national self-rule while others do not? In Legacies of British Rule, Matthew Lange offers insight into this question through a rigorous multimethod and comparative analysis that pinpoints the combined impact of precolonial statehood and British colonialism. During transitions from empire to nation-state, postcolonial...

In Educations in Ethnic Violence, Matthew Lange explores the effects education has on ethnic violence. Lange contradicts the widely held belief that education promotes peace and tolerance. Rather, Lange finds that education commonly contributes to aggression, especially in environments with ethnic divisions, limited resources and ineffective political institutions. He describes four ways in which organized learning spurs ethnic conflicts. Socialization in school shapes students' identities...

In Killing Others, Matthew Lange explores why humans ruthlessly attack and kill people from other ethnic communities. Drawing on an array of cases from around the world and insight from a variety of disciplines, Lange provides a simple yet powerful explanation that pinpoints the influential role of modernity in the growing global prevalence of ethnic violence over the past two hundred years. He offers evidence that a modern ethnic mind-set is the ultimate and most influential caus...

This bright, engaging title provides a thorough and integrated review of comparative-historical methods. It sets out an intellectual history of comparative-historical analysis and presents the main methodological techniques employed by researchers, including:- comparative-historical analysis,- case-based methods,- comparative methods- data, case selection and theory.Matthew Lange has written a fresh, easy to follow introduction which showcases classi...