Armed conflicts continue to wreak havoc on children and families around the world with profound effects. In 2017, 420 million children—nearly one in five—were living in conflict-affected areas, an increase in 30 million from the previous year. The recent surge in war-induced migration, referred to as a “global refugee crisis” has made migration a highly politicized issue, with refugee populations and host countries facing unique challenges. We know from research related to asylum seeking f...

Contains the River City books, Dead Even, Some Degree of Murder, and No Good Deed.DEAD EVEN:Dead Even features fifteen stories highlighting major and minor characters from the River City series, including series favorite Katie MacLeod, Detectives Finch and Elias, hard-luck Officer Paul Hiero, and transplanted gangster, Dominic Bracco.SOME DEGREE OF MURDER:...

[Enemies to Mates. He hates me but he can't kill me.] On the night of my sixteenth birthday, I transformed into the werewolf that had haunted my nightmares, right before the terrified eyes of my family.Driven from my home, I fled into the forest and stumbled into a brutal, bloody world of werewolves governed by savage laws. My new pack was slaughtered, and the Alpha who led the massacre turned out to be my fated mate. I killed the one he loved, yet because of this damned mate bond, ...

CLAIMED FOR MAKAROV'S BABYStop the wedding!Dimitri Makarov's former secretary is getting married, but instead of congratulating the happy couple, the masterful oligarch plans to stop the wedding… For he's just discovered that the blushing bride is also mother to his secret son!Erin Turner thought her luck was changing until Dimitri dispatches her convenient groom with his signature ruthlessness. But in other ways the high-flying businessman seems com...

Summoned by the sheikh!Sheikh Saladin Al Mektala isn't used to being disobeyed. Incomprehensibly, the woman he summoned to help his favorite mare-the best horse "whisperer" in the world-turned his generous offer down! So he takes matters into his own hands.The snow is falling, the fire is roaring and the mince pies are in the oven when innocent Olivia Miller finds a darkly handsome and physically compelling man on her doorstep… The sheikh she dared to refus...

THIS IS A COLLECTION OF RIVER CITY SHORT STORIES, featuring many of the characters you know from the series. I've included it in the series because many important events occur in (or make better sense after reading) these stories. However, it is not absolutely essential that you read these stories in order to follow the novels. If you wish to skip ahead to the next full novel, please do. If you choose not to, I believe your series experience will be richer.River Ci...

In the Jewish community of Târgu Mureș, Transylvania, Holocaust concentration and labour camp survivors struggle with the weight of their tragic past. Having endured unspeakable horrors, these men and women live in isolation, many haunted by both Nazi and Communist repression.While resources run thin, their wise leaders fight to preserve their spirit. Then in 1999 two strangers from Scotland arrive, and a spark of hope begins to flicker. This transformative encounter, led by Jewish...

[Enemies to Mates. He hates me but he can't kill me.] On the night of my sixteenth birthday, I transformed into the werewolf that had haunted my nightmares, right before the terrified eyes of my family.Driven from my home, I fled into the forest and stumbled into a brutal, bloody world of werewolves governed by savage laws. My new pack was slaughtered, and the Alpha who led the massacre turned out to be my fated mate. I killed the one he loved, yet because of this damned mate bond, ...

Stop the wedding!Dimitri Makarov's former secretary is getting married, but instead of congratulating the happy couple, the masterful oligarch plans to stop the wedding… For he's just discovered that the blushing bride is also mother to his secret son!Erin Turner thought her luck was changing until Dimitri dispatches her convenient groom with his signature ruthlessness. But in other ways the high-flying businessman seems completely reformed from the disrepu...

Six months after getting married impetuously, Chad disappears. Brokenhearted, Angel leaves London and returns to her native Ireland, but soon after, Chad’s older brother, who opposed their marriage from the start, pays her a visit. He tells her some shocking news: Chad and the woman he ran off with have died in a car accident. Then he says, “My little brother had a child. A newborn baby boy. I’ve brought him here. Will you come with me and help take care of him?”

[Enemies to Mates. He hates me but he can't kill me.] On the night of my sixteenth birthday, I transformed into the werewolf that had haunted my nightmares, right before the terrified eyes of my family.Driven from my home, I fled into the forest and stumbled into a brutal, bloody world of werewolves governed by savage laws. My new pack was slaughtered, and the Alpha who led the massacre turned out to be my fated mate. I killed the one he loved, yet because of this damned mate bond, ...

Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature, American literature, women's literature, drama, the slave narrative, and autobiography.Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," provides not only resources for the teacher of...