The Battle of Concepcion, the Fall of Bexar, the Siege and Fall of the Alamo, the Goliad Massacre, the Victory at San Jacinto-The Texiad presents the great events of the Texas Revolution and the lives it consumed. The narrator, William Physick Zuber, was a San Jacinto veteran who spent his life defending the truth of his tale of the dramatic escape of Louis Rose from the Alamo after William Barret Travis drew a line in the sand and challenged Alamo defenders to cross it and die with him for Texas liberty. Through Zuber, Glowka ties the personal stories of Rose, Travis, James Bowie, David...

Violence, mutilation, magic, eroticism, a sad wedding, and a happy ending--there is something in The Seduction of Sir Gawain for readers of all kinds. When a green giant challenges King Arthur's knights to play a decapitation game, Sir Gawain, a young, handsome knight famous for his physical strength and moral virtues, accepts the challenge. On the quest to face his death, he learns the limits of his bravery and his moral perfection and discovers his intense sexual desire and love for a woman many years his senior. Sir Gawain survives the beheading game but returns to Camelot in shame,...