A call-to-action for anyone involved in the autism community - especially autistic people and non-autistic parents - to learn from one another and achieve more together.There is a significant divide between autistic advocates and parents of autistic children. Parents may feel attacked for their lack of understanding, and autistic adults who offer insight and guidance are also met with hostility and rejection.Meghan Ashburn, a mother of two autistic boys, an...

In Matthew, Disability, and Stress: Examining Impaired Characters in the Context of Empire, Jillian D. Engelhardt examines four Matthean healing narratives, focusing on the impaired characters in the scenes. Her reading is informed by both empire studies and social stress theory, a method that explores how the stress inherent in social location can affect psychosomatic health. By examining the Roman imperial context in which common folk lived and worked, she argues that attention to social...

This edited collection explores how the New Testament, specifically the four canonical Gospels, negotiate the Roman imperial world.Within this volume, scholars from a variety of interdisciplinary contexts come together, examining a particular aspect of the New Testament's complex relationship with the Roman Empire. By incorporating literary studies, gender criticism, Jewish studies, and disability studies into their analysis, the essays herein provide fresh readings...

There comes a point in your life where you have to say enough is enough.I wasted my college years on a guy who played with my head, played with my heart. I was blinded by the fairy tale, the one that didn't exist.The day I gave up on the idea of happily ever after, my focus became me. Moving forward and establishing my career.Until one day . . .I didn't expect him. My new boss, a six foot two, inked rock god. I believed I was working for the record label—I w...

Trust. Five Letters. One Word.I'm the girl who doesn't let anyone in. My world was shattered and turned upside down in one night. Since then I've been trying to live, if that's what you call it, but fighting the anxiety of what happened and trusting others is hard. Each day is a struggle to reach for the unknown.Truth. Five Letters. One Word.I watched my father give my mother the world and the stars. She took everything from him, th...

Saving myself for marriage, not hardly. Saving myself for someone who will make my heart race, most definitely.In theory it's a good plan, however even the best-laid plans fall through. Seeing him, being around him, alerts all my senses and I dream about being his, wrapping myself in his arms and never letting go. The only problem—he sees me as his sister.My name's Ava Evans, and I'm in love with my older brother's best friend, Nate Garrison.Burying myself in work f...

Lauren captivated me with those big brown eyes of hers, and I knew my life would never be the same. What started out as friendship has turned into so much more.I was shocked when Tristian asked for my number. There hasn't been a day since that I haven't heard from him. He may be the drummer, but that deep sexy voice, it turns me inside out.I assumed it would be one and done, but that's not how our story ends.I worry it's not what he wants. He tells me he's definite....

Tatum Thompson is living the dream. Her life is perfect; with a loving boyfriend and loving parents, and as a soon-to-be college graduate, how can life get better? Life is good until it isn't. When tragedy strikes, Tatum runs to Josh only to find him in a compromising position with someone else. Turning away from the only life she knew, Tatum is forced to alter her life plan.Blaise Richards is a tattoo artist who moonlights as a volunteer firefighter. Lies and deception leave his b...

He's chaos on and off the field.For hotshot quarterback, Luke Finnegan, Love and Chaos are always intertwined, and when he decides he's through with relationships, a blonde artist with pink streaks in her hair convinces him sometimes love is worth the madness.Miley St. Claire doesn't do relationships. She's seen the chaos they cause for those around her and she wants no part of that drama . . . so why is she considering taking Luke Finnegan up on his friends with benefits o...

She came into my life without warning. It wasn't love at first sight, but the more time I spent with her, I knew she was the one. Our relationship was complicated, and I knew I had my work cut out for me. I have to prove to her that she's all I see. That no matter how the past reads, we can re-write the future.He's the sexiest one of the group, in my personal opinion. We're friends, and colleagues, well technically he's my boss. He's also the man that consumes my thoughts, and ...

Zane has learned everything he knows from his father, the most dangerous biker of The Devil's Dust MC. He devours the darkness with a cocky grin and no f**** to give. His immoral obsessions barely keep him content in a life of chaos and havoc until he finds himself craving more.Addie doesn't need the risk that comes with Zane . . . that is, until her perfectly orchestrated life takes a sudden turn and she's left with nowhere else to go.She's sunshine and charities, he's bul...

I've always been the guy who plays the field. I like variety and my career ensures that I can have my pick of women.Until her . . .I've always been the girl who wants more. I want the white picket fence, the two-point-five kids and the dog. That's what all little girls grow up dreaming about.Until him . . .Why is it that she's all I can see? I no longer want the variety instead all I want is her. I won't stop until she believes that she's mine.I assu...