When Morgan Taylor finds that she has inherited her grandfather's country estate and rural newspaper, she quits her successful advertising career in San Francisco and returns to her birthplace in Tennessee. There she learns that she has also "inherited" a business partner. Travis Cooper not only shares the newspaper with Morgan, he is joint owner of her land. And under the terms of her grandfather's will if either of them wish to leave the land or the newspaper, they forfeit the entire inh...

"When we got to the rooftop and sat down, he ordered a half bottle of white wine, dug into the plastic bag and pulled out a tiny book of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Inside was written Pierre Elliott, 1968. 'Somebody gave it to me on my first Christmas as Prime Minister. I wrote an inscription in it, so no one would think you’d stolen it…' 'For Brooke, for her birthday—And the best of memories, Pierre E.T. 1987'"In 1985, while a student at the National Theatre School of Canada, Brooke Jo...

In the face of impossible odds, can one girl stem the tides of war?It has been six months since clockwork engineer Petra Wade destroyed an automaton designed for battle, narrowly escaping with her life. But her troubles are far from over. Her partner on the project, Emmerich Goss, has been sent away to France, and his father, Julian, is still determined that a war machine will be built. Forced to create a new device, Petra subtly sabotages the design in the hopes o...

In this steampunk adventure, a teenage girl helps engineer a clockwork automaton only to uncover its dangerous true purpose.*Sometimes, even the most unlikely person can change the world.*Seventeen-year-old Petra Wade, self-taught clockwork engineer, wants nothing more than to become a certified member of the Guild, an impossible dream for a lowly shop girl. Still, she refuses to give up, tinkering with any machine she can get her hands on, in between working and b...

Petra Wade's older brother, Solomon, has always dreamed of being an actor. Instead, he works grueling shifts in the clockwork city's boiler rooms to help support his large adopted family. When Le Theatre Mecanique holds an open call for their upcoming performance, he decides to audition. However, the only role he is suitable to fill is that of the theater's custodian.Leaving the well-paying boiler job behind him, Solomon immerses himself in the theater—watching rehearsals, studying...

Taking military charter schools as her subject, and drawing on years of research at one school in particular, Brooke Johnson explores the underpinings of a culture based on militarization and neoliberal educational reforms and probes its effects on individual identity and social interactions at the school.

Learn to see the world with the smarts and visual acumen of a great designer. This treasure trove of pithy aphorisms, longer-form essays, and first-person interviews compiles years of design school education into one comprehensive yet compact book. Here are lessons in life and work, learned both in the classroom and on the job, from design teachers, students, and gurus, covering everything from practical know-how to big-picture brilliance. Design School Wisdom provides a well of i...

For readers of Annette Gordon-Reed and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the shocking untold story of the British royal family’s centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy—from Elizabeth I to the present—and the monarchy’s culpability in the racial injustice that gave birth to the United States.Narrated by Allyson Johnson.For centuries, Britain has told itself and the world that it is an abolitionist nation, one that, un...

Walking home late one night, burned-out barista Nell accidentally incinerates someone.Whoopsie!Now, if this tale began in a fantastic, far-away land, or Nell was, perhaps, a wizard, such a mishap might make some kind of sense. But this is not a wondrous, fantasy world. This is real life, and Nell just wanted to go home and eat macaroni. As Nell stares at the smoldering corpse, she realizes something with horrifying certainty: She's magic.And not the...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.The public and parliamentary debate about UK abortion law reform is often diverted away from key moral and political questions by disputes regarding basic questions of fact. And all too often, claims of scientific ‘fact’ are ideologically driven.But what effect would decriminalisation be likely to have on women’s health? What would be the impact on the incidence of abortions? Would decriminalisation equate to deregulation, sweepi...

Like many teenagers, Will is haunted by the question: 'When are you going to grow up?'During his parents' separation, Will is sent away from the city to live with his grandparents among the rugged Cumbrian fells and lakes. This is a place with no colour TV or mobile phone reception and, worst of all, nowhere to use his computer games. But far from being bored, Will soon uncovers well-kept family secrets and other local mysteries that will threaten the lives of those he loves.

Join Will Houston, his uncle Phil, a disgraced Catholic priest, a menopausal widow, and her pampered pooch, as they are chased across London, Oxford and Florence.Through crypts, churches and libraries, they must keep one step ahead of a sinister religious network, guilty of unspeakable crimes against humanity.Following clues, deciphering codes, uncovering corpses they must track down the truth wherever it leads, even if it means facing their own demons and skeletons.