Two years have passed since Alfred the Great successfully defeated Guthrum, King of the Vikings. The fair land of England is at peace. That is, until the harmony is threatened by Guthrum's angry, vengeful, illegitimate son, Rigr, who is hell-bent on usurping his father's throne. Rigr demands his Birthright - an acknowledgement that he is the sole heir to the Danelaw, but his father refuses his claim. Rigr assembles his army; a motley, but formidable, cohort of disenchanted warriors. Fearsome Guthrum, ruler of everything from Kent to Northumbria, is made aware of the threat and conjures his forces, meeting the rebellious host on the field at Thetford. Thousands upon thousands of bloodthirsty warriors confront each other on the sunlit, windless plains of East Anglia. The victors will rewrite the course of history, and the fate of England is in the hands of the gods of war.

With their backs to the wall the children of the Fillagrou prophecy are forced to fight against seemingly impossible odds. Questions will be answered and mysteries revealed. Lives will be lost, friendships will be tested and the bonds of family stretched to the limit. If the universe is to survive, the ultimate sacrifice must be made. Endings and Beginnings is the final installment in an epic trilogy that follows an unlikely group of children turned heroes and their adventures in a world that seems, on the surface, to have very little in common with their own. Pitted against a tyrant king hungry for vengeance, the fate of the universe rests in their hands.

Travel back in time to late Ninth Century Anglo-Saxon Britain where Alfred the Great rules with a benevolent hand while the Danish King rules peacefully within the boundaries of the Danelaw. Trade flourishes, and scholars from throughout the civilized world flock to Britannia's shores to study at the King's Court School at Winchester. Enter Concordia, a beautiful noble woman whose family is favored by the king. Vain, willful, and admired, but ambitious and cunning, Concordia is not willing to accept her fate. She is betrothed to the valiant warrior, Brantson, but sees herself as far too young to lay in the bedchamber of an older suitor. She wants to see the wonders of the world, embracing everything in it; preferably, but dangerously, at the side of Thayer, the exotic Saracen who charms King Alfred's court and ignites her yearning passions. Concordia manipulates her besotted husband into taking her to Rome, but her ship is captured by bloodthirsty pirates, and the seafarers protecting her are ruthlessly slain to a man. As she awaits her fate in the Moorish captain's bed, by sheer chance, she discovers that salvation is at hand in the gilded court of a Saracen nobleman. While awaiting rescue, Concordia finds herself at the center of intrigue, plots, blackmail, betrayal and the vain desires of two egotistical brothers, each willing to die for her favor. Using only feminine cunning, Concordia must defend her honor while plotting her escape as she awaits deliverance, somewhere inside steamy, unconquered Muslim Hispania.

Remember the weird kid in grade school with a mouthful of paste and britches full of waste? You know, the one that still had an imaginary friend in junior high? That creepy oddball with the belly that made it impossible for him to run a mile in under thirty minutes? The one you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt would one day get caught with a severed head in his freezer? Well, that kid grew up. He grew up, he convinced someone to marry him, he bought a house in the suburbs, he wrote a book, and he even stopped eating paste Goats Eat Cans is his story. In Volume 2, Steven Novak continues to recount the mostly woeful tales of his life in the peculiar way only he can. There are more inappropriate bodily functions, more awkward social mishaps, and a heck of a lot more obscure pop culture references that only the nerdiest of the nerds will recognize. Goats Eat Cans features 56 stories, 56 illustrations, and a carton rendering of his buttocks in a thong. If that's not worth the price of admission, nothing is.