"Say Yes to the Dress meets Rosemary's Baby" (Margie Sarsfield) in this fresh, darkly funny horror novel in which a woman finally agrees to marry the man of her mother’s dreams. . . only to discover that wedding planning will eat you alive.If Ophelia Cohen learned one thing from her parents, it’s that getting married is a bad idea. But if she’s learning anything from her widowed mother’s dementia, it’s that dying alone is worse. So when she meets ...

"Say Yes to the Dress meets Rosemary's Baby" (Margie Sarsfield) in this fresh, darkly funny horror novel in which a woman finally agrees to marry the man of her mother’s dreams. . . only to discover that wedding planning will eat you alive.If Ophelia Cohen learned one thing from her parents, it’s that getting married is a bad idea. But if she’s learning anything from her widowed mother’s dementia, it’s that dying alone is even worse. So when she m...

Underland Arcana explores the parts of our heart which we don't want to share with others.This issue contains stories from Gerri Leen, Mary Berman, Hermester Barrington, Kimberly Moore, Katherine L. P. King, M. Shedric Simpson, Erica Sage, and Charles Wilkinson. Stories about spending time with family, stories about finding your way back to family, stories about the terrible secrets families keep, and stories about what happens when families rot from within. Why, yes, this issue is...

Strange tales at a strange university. Some quiet horror, some dark humor, and some fantastical slice of life at this storied and magical institution, steeped in the occult and part of the odd town of Arkham. Come visit this fascinating New England university—where science and magic, tradition and experimentation go hand in hand—and the quiet, secretive town on which it relies.More odd tales of campus life at Miskatonic University fromLynne Hardy • Tonya Liburd • S.L. Edwar...

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping federal protection for abortion rights and placing control in the hands of individual states. This monumental shift in policy underscores the need for deeper historical perspectives on reproductive rights.The Nursing Clio Reader answers that call, bringing together essays that examine reproductive health through historical research...

A long sequence of social, cultural, and political processes characterizes an ever-dynamic Caribbean history. The Caribbean Basin is home to numerous linguistic and cultural traditions and fluid interactions that often map imperfectly onto former colonial and national traditions. Although much of this contact occurred within the confines of local cultural communities, regions, or islands, they nevertheless also include exchanges between islands, and in some cases, with the surrounding cont...

SynopsisHarlem, 1938.A routine jewel heist turns into something far stranger when a mysterious steel case begins to hum with impossible energy. As tensions rise inside the Lenox Palace Theater, detective Elijah Mercer, theater manager Yvette Laroche, and an enigmatic Bureau operative named Devon are pulled into a collision between crime, corruption, and forces that do not obey ordinary physics.When the case opens, it reveals more than stolen treasur...

Is someone you care about gambling your life away?You don't have to be a gambler yourself to suffer from the often disastrous effects of excessive gambling. Behind the 8-Ball is the must-have guide to reclaiming your financial, legal, and emotional freedom.Spouses, parents, siblings, children, friends, and coworkers of the gambler will learn how to:Understand why some people lose control of their gambling Recognize the compulsive gambler and realistically a...

The Phantom of HarlemA Xerium Cinematic Universe NovelHarlem, 1940.War rages overseas, but on these streets the battle is quieter - fought in shadows, in whispered alliances, in back rooms where power trades hands and no one writes it down.When a string of impossible robberies targets Harlem's political elite, the city begins to whisper a single name:The Phantom.No one has seen him.No one can...

This issue of Profession contains Russell A. Berman’s introduction to his Presidential Forum, Language, Literature, Learning, held at the 2012 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Christopher Freeburg, Jack Halberstam, B. Venkat Mani, and Imani Perry. To mark the journal’s thirty-fifth anniversary, the issue also features a retrospective sampling of articles that illustrate the evolution of the profession and of the professional issues...