In the fast paced, tech heavy future, even cowboys get the blues. Bristol is unwinding at a non-work party when she's approached by a bullrider with trust issues; he's had enough injuries that he can't do the rodeo circuit anymore, and he's got a deadline to get married and claim his family fortune if he wants a ready-made alternate career path. With Bits and Dolly posing as her bodyguards, Bristol is plunged into the social lives of the ostrich ranching elite. It's rife with rivalries and there are parties for days, but when people from Bristol and the team's past catch up to them, the race to the altar takes a left turn.

The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this counterculture idol's legion of fans.

This book uses cultural and psycho-social analysis to examine the beat writer Charles Bukowski and his literature, focusing on representations of the anti-hero rebel and outsider. Clements considers the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions represented by the author and his work, exploring Bukowski’s visceral writing of the cultural ordinary and everyday self-narrative. The study considers Bukowski’s apolitical, gendered, and working-class stance to understand how the writer represents reality and is represented with regards to counter-cultural literature. In addition, Clements provides a broader socio-cultural focus that evaluates counterculture in relation to the American beat movement and mythology, highlighting the male cool anti-hero. The cultural practices and discourses utilized to situate Bukowski include the individual and society, outsiderdom, cult celebrity, fan embodiment, and disneyfication, providing a greater understanding of the beat generation and counterculture literature.

"The day I learned that the supernatural world was real was the day that changed my life forever." After being attacked in an alley while riding his bike home from the library, Sean Sharpe finds out that the world isn't as average as he'd originally thought. Although he escapes his assailant, Sean cannot help but have concerns after the attacker disappears, especially since the attacker had claimed to want Sean's blood. He eventually excuses the strange confrontation as the ranting of a crack-head that 'suffers from an addiction to Anne Rice novels and bad television' and moves on with life. But then Sean is approached by a mysterious stranger who claims to be a Hunter. He tells Sean that his attacker was a vampire, one of the many manifestations of the Nephilim; half human spawn of fallen angels who have taken the form of creatures of the night. Offered a place among the Hunters to be one of the few that stand between the Nephilim and man, Sean is faced with a bitter reality. The world may not be average, but he is. There is nothing special about him. If he is going to survive, he will have to learn to be more than average. But will it be enough?