For fans of C. E. Murphy’s Negotiator series, this is a story of a hidden fantasy world amidst our normal world - where those who are normal know and are scared of these creatures, though the normal world will intrude, with the 1929 Stock Market Crash just days away . . . Is it possible to stay alive when you’re surrounded by the enemy? Her parents tortured her. She escaped. And headed to New York City. Karolina Wokowski dreams of a career on Broadway. In a world where werewolves and other...

Trust and fear and demons don't mix.Tessa Palmisano loves her husband, Bert Gaston, a djinn. But she can't trust him with her secret: He might not be the father of her baby, and the baby might be more than he or she appears to be.Tessa confronts Jane, her landlady's daughter, in Hades, Jane's home turf, as Tessa guessed years ago she was a real demon. Tessa only has to massage the information out of Jane and offer it telepathically to a magical Elder (her landlady). Yeah, r...

Tessa Palmisano gets no respect—from the magical or normal side of her life, as the Elders and potential boyfriends don't divulge things to her that she thinks they should.When someone's inner organs are found behind her apartment house, she is called in to find the body. After all, she has her own supernatural investigative business, and she could use the practice.Except there isn't a body. Doreen Ipcress, one of the Elders, says it's the sign of a vampirish creature from ...

Two short fantasy stories for the price of one.Ten Cent Wings:Doug "Tank" Sherman is a down-and-out boxer in the U.S. Midwest, circa 1950. Drifting from tank town to tank town, he travels with his manager, hoping to finally Make It Big.Battered in his last fight, he decides to try his luck one more time, by calling out to his "friend," an unnamed angel. The angel fixes his broken body. But this angel extracts a price, a monetary price, for Tank to keep his healed bo...

Tessa Palmisano cleanses bad auras, because leaving such auras can lead to fistfights and, sometimes, death.She's summoned by gorgeous Bert Gaston, an ex-military man amputee, to check out his landlord, also a veteran; he's been getting bad vibes from the guy for some time now.And he's never seen the man's face in their meetings. What's up with that?Tessa investigates. She sniffs out the bad auras, which lead directly to the landlord. If Tessa can't cleanse the aura...

Although overshadowed by her higher-profile successors, Lou Henry Hoover was in many ways the nation’s first truly modern First Lady. She was the first to speak on the radio and give regular interviews. She was the first to be a public political persona in her own right. And, although the White House press corps saw in her “old-fashioned wifehood,” she very much foreshadowed the “new woman” of the era.Nancy Beck Young presents the first thoroughly documented study of Lou Henry Hoov...

Over time the presidential election of 1964 has come to be seen as a generational shift, a defining moment in which Americans deliberated between two distinctly different visions for the future. In its juxtaposition of these divergent visions, Two Suns of the Southwest is the first full account of this critical election and its legacy for US politics.The 1964 election, in Nancy Beck Young’s telling, was a contest between two men of the Southwest, each with a very different...

This book assesses contrasting interpretations of President Roosevelt's relations with the Nye Committee. It explores the complexity confronting Rayburn in weighing the factors that influenced his actions during the New Deal portion of his near half century in Congress.

How did Americans respond to the economic catastrophe of 1929? In what ways did the social and cultural responses of the American people inform the politics of the period? How did changes in political beliefs alter cultural activities? This volume examines the presidency of FDR through a very distinctive set of lenses: the representation of FDR in film and popular culture, discussions of New Deal art and art policy, the social and political meanings of public architecture, 1930s music, and...

Although Roosevelt had no single plan to alter Congress's role, the incremental changes adopted during the New Deal transformed Congress. Examining the immediate reactions of groups in Congress and beyond, and the long-term effects, this study offers insights into a key period in US politics.

As the first collection of new work on sound and cinema in over a decade, Lowering the Boom addresses the expanding field of film sound theory and its significance in rethinking historical models of film analysis. The contributors consider the ways in which musical expression, scoring, voice-over narration, and ambient noise affect identity formation and subjectivity. Lowering the Boom also analyzes how shifting modulation of the spoken word in cinema results in variation...

She didn’t have to say, “What about me” – but she did. Alone on foreign soil in pre-war China, Madelaine was pregnant, injured, and afraid. Her low-ranking husband promised a honeymoon “never to be forgotten,” but this was not what he had in mind. Circumstances became more critical when the Admiral declared the fleet was shipping out. Harold couldn’t sail away and leave her, but he was a sailor in the United States Navy, sworn to follow orders. The newly-weds were forced to face a frighten...