Is it "gallows" humor when your remaining parent is in Hospice care? For three siblings navigating these rough waters, shared comedy is their one solace.

Bloomsbury Teacher Guide: Macbeth gives you everything you need to teach Shakespeare's most famous tragedy, tailored for both GCSE and A-level students.Designed as the perfect companion for secondary practitioners, this teacher guide weaves together the expert subject knowledge, ready-to-use resources and tried-and-tested classroom strategies needed to teach Shakespeare's renowned play. Bloomsbury Teacher Guide: Macbeth covers the main points that...

How to Make Money in Stocks Getting StartedThrough both bull and bear markets, Investor’s Business Daily’s CAN SLIM® Investment System has consistently been the #1 growth strategy, according to the American Association of Individual Investors. How to Make Money in Stocks—Getting Started shows you how to put the CAN SLIM System to work for you.How to Make Money in Stocks Success StoriesThe most successful inv...

Proven Methods for Stock Market SUCCESS!"ALL YOU NEED ARE ONE OR TWO GREAT STOCKS IN A YEAR AND YOU CAN ACHIEVE SOME OUTSTANDING RESULTS." -- David Ryan, Three Time US Investing ChampionMillions of investors around the world have used William O'Neil's bestseller How to Make Money in Stocks as their guide to profiting in the stock market.Now, the most successful investors explain exactly how they have used O'Neil's CAN SLIM method to generate outs...

She was born beneath dancing stars. Crowned in duty. Destined for greatness. But all she ever wanted… was to live.Princess Naliya O'Tani was a symbol of galactic unity — her birth celebrated with fireworks, festivals, and an empire's hopes. But behind the dazzling lights of Nairo-Kingship, she lived a life scripted by politics, duty, and isolation. On the eve of her seventeenth birthday, Naliya makes an impossible choice: she vanishes from her palace, shedding her ...

A young woman finds herself washed up back home on the Scottish archipelago of Orkney, trying to rebuild her life after a decade of addiction.The life she has left behind in London, with all its intoxicating temptations, has pushed her to the point of destruction. Now there is wildness of a different form – an alluring wilderness that she must learn to navigate.Speaking to the impact of isolation and loneliness and – ultimately – the resilience of people, Amy Liptrot's best...

Fifteen of North Carolina’s finest writers reimagine and reclaim the stories of the ghosts who have haunted all corners of the state.North Carolina ain’t what it once was: forests and fields have given way to suburbs and vacation homes, textile mills to high tech, tobacco farms to tourism. That doesn’t mean, though, that the ghosts of the Old North State have gone away.In this anthology, readers might glimpse some of the ghostly apparitions, headless fiends...

A new examination of how and why American religious parents seek to pass on religion to their children The most important influence shaping the religious and spiritual lives of children, youth, and teenagers is their parents. A myriad of studies show that the parents of American youth play the leading role in shaping the character of their religious and spiritual lives, even well after they leave home and often for the rest of their lives. We know a lot about the importan...

**"This one is hard to put down." Publisher's WeeklyThe phone rings in the middle of the night. It's that the call we all dread: someone we love has been a car wreck.**Nicola Jones doesn’t hesitate when her beloved, charismatic older sister Viv is left widowed and unconscious. The 26-year-old artist drops everything to get to her sister. After all, the two of them are all they have for family since their parents abandoned them when Viv was in high school. It’s alwa...

The Magic Emporium. A place where you can purchase almost anything your heart desires. From elemental dragon eggs to potent potions, the Emporium has it all. What creatures wait beyond the doors, creatures you could only imagine?When Alec Salvatore and his class head off on their trip to the Emporium, he only has three things on his mind (dragons, mermaids and cake). Little did he know he would fall into his daydream featuring creatures of fantasy. Just wi...

Out of His Mind interrogates how Victorians made sense of the madman as both a social reality and a cultural representation. Even at the height of enthusiasm for the curative powers of nineteenth-century psychiatry, to be certified as a lunatic meant a loss of one’s freedom and in many ways one’s identify. Because men had the most power and authority in Victorian Britain, this also meant they had the most to lose. The madman was often a marginal figure, confined in private homes, ...

Dark Matter explores the thin line between lust and destruction, revealing a blasted spectrum where thirsty raindrops cause havoc between wet sheets, and from the windows view young girls are hanging by rope from the mango tree; from vast twisted tempests, where Miranda carries Caliban’s spawn, to the moist incubator of a breathless baby on the very edge of life, Amy Neilson Smith’sDark Matter work burrows into the bones of what is so viscerally here – and what is so nearly not.It’s the af...