Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South is an anthology like no other. Featuring over 15 stories and poems by new and veteran authors, the writing reflects a diverse range of Southern experience. From the post-Kartina New Orleans of Rose Yndigoyen’s “Long Gone Girls” and the deep-rooted family of Hardy Jones’ “Visitin’ Coremierville” to the racial tension of Eryk Pruitt’s “Them Riders” and Shane K. Bernard’s “The Phrenologist,” the anthology represents a new interpretation of the ...

16-year-old Miranda, and her friends, Neeta and Billie, have fled New Orleans, heading toward a future no one is sure of.In Colorado the trio meet up with Miranda's aunt, along with another witch looking to shake things up. Miranda and her friends are taken to a centuries-old school with the promise of magical learning, but as Miranda has already experienced, promises mean little in her chaotic world.When Miranda's love and Neeta's mother are taken into custody back in New ...

Miranda loves her husband, no doubt about it. She would really like to be able to show him that love in the bedroom. But a serious heart condition means her husband is banned from this type of activity until a donor heart can be found. For over a year now, Miranda has struggled to support her ailing husband and suppress her own needs, and it's starting to take a toll.The women in Miranda's book group have noticed a change in her, and it's getting worse as the sex ban drags on. They...

A teenage runaway, New Orleans, 90s alt ballads, and emerging magical powers—this summer is shaping up to be anything but normal.16-year-old Miranda Stone wants to be a typical teenager, but when she, and women around the globe, develop magical powers, typical flies right out the window.Miranda, feeling like danger could be lurking, runs away to New Orleans. New friendships and a job singing as the opener for a drag show, reveal to her how fun life can be. When her friends ...

He's the ultimate temptation. He's also a vampire who wants her dead. At least, that's what she's been trained to believe.Deep in the secretive halls of the Bloodstone Institute, Lucy is determined to become an elite vampire hunter. But her carefully controlled life explodes when her forbidden psychic dreams materialize in the flesh – as her hot new combat instructor. Fin's lethal allure threatens everything she's worked for, and the raw power he ignites in her cou...

In the last decade the world has witnessed a rise in women’s participation in terrorism. Women, Gender, and Terrorism explores women’s relationship with terrorism, with a keen eye on the political, gender, racial, and cultural dynamics of the contemporary world.Throughout most of the twentieth century, it was rare to hear about women terrorists. In the new millennium, however, women have increasingly taken active roles in carrying out suicide bombings, hijacking airplanes,...

She’s an executive assistant. Killing her boss isn’t usually in her job description.When several assassins fail to get close enough to eliminate Holly’s vampire boss, Nick, the shadowy Bloodstone Institute dispatches her to seduce and poison the billionaire CEO.Posing as Nick's date to a weekend-long Christmas party is Holly's chance to slip her poison-laced blood past his defenses. Until she discovers she’ll be spending the weekend with a house full of blo...

Educators have long been pursuing and applying ways that play can be a context and even a medium for teaching and learning. Volume 15 of Play & Culture Studies focuses on the special topic on Play and Curriculum, a long waited topic to many educators and researchers in the field of play and education. This volume includes chapters reporting recent studies and practical ideas examining the relations between the play and curriculum from early education to higher education. The volume has 3 s...

Miranda and Braden seemed fated to be kept apart until one day when Braden found a ring, giving it to Miranda.Little did either know that their destinies changed from that day forward. The ring, a beautiful amber stone set in gold, was the home of a genie. Her name was Kendra and she was beautiful with white blonde hair and violet eyes.But with the dangers that Miranda lived through every day, could even Kendra's magic be strong enough to keep her safe until Braden could cl...

This collection includes books 1-3 in the bestselling Stone Blood Series by Jayne Faith.A secret twin kidnapped by a Faerie king . . .Hunting down the rogue vampire who killed her mother is Petra Maguire's sole mission in life, despite her father’s urging to serve her people back home in Faerie. But when Petra discovers she has a changeling twin who’s been kidnapped, she can’t avoid Faerie affairs any longer. Plunging back into a world of magic, royalty, an...

An authentic and heartfelt story about uncovering who you truly are and where you belong from bestselling Australian author Mandy Magro.After making a mistake that felt like the end of the world to her teenage self, Nina Jones fled the small town of Huntingvale. Now sixteen years later her beloved adoptive mother, Bea, has passed away, forcing Nina to return and decide whether to sell her family home, Riverstone Ridge. But even though Bea can't be there to help her through...

Women have made an enormous impact on life on the planet. They are deified and remembered in song, story, legend, and statues since at least 30,000 BC.We are, and have always been, brilliant inventors, innovators, and leaders for hundred and thousands of years. We are the survivors of everything that came our way and passed on our culture.Women are the creators of life! A woman can create life inside her own body, give birth to another human being, and make milk from her ow...