Bianca was supposed to attend art school in Chicago, not run for her life from Hunters. The only chance she has to survive is to find The Purple Door District, a safe haven for a parahuman like herself. When she stumbles upon a magus named Gladus and a fellow avian named Carlos, she thinks she's found safety. But the Hunters are relentless, as is the dark force driving them.Vampire, werewolf, avian, magusIt's up to the parahumans of the Purple Door District of Chicago to pu...

Bad dreams always end the same; eventually you wake up. But Nick is trapped in a living nightmare with no end in sight.After his pack fails to rescue him, Nick and his friends are whisked to a new fighting pit that's bigger and deadlier than the last. Werewolves and vampires aren't his only opponents; magi, werebirds, and werecats are also out for his blood. To make matters worse, he's attracted the hungry gaze of the leader of the pit, a fae named Vesp who thrives on ...

Mermaids, sea witches, selkies, ahoy! Dive into ten tales of sapphic romantasy.Separated by land and sea, two lovers ache with yearning. Can a human and a mermaid really make a life together? Elsewhere, a selkie despairs, trapped in an arranged marriage, only for her fated heart mate to pull her in with a sweet song. Across the sea, two pirate lovers-turned-sworn-enemies must work together against a foe trying to steal a goddess's power. On a seductive island, a swordfish shifter a...

Discover new and uncharted worlds as the authors of Unknown Realms weave tales of time travel, mystic portals, alternate dimensions, and undiscovered landscapes.

Can you change your fate? Are you brave enough to try?Join the authors of Fate's Design as they challenge Fate herself and prove that nothing is set in stone.All proceeds from this anthology will be donated to To Write Love On Her Arms, a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and also to invest directly int...

Leave this world...for a little while, and walk through the portal that leads to mind boggling realms.In this collection we venture outside the restraints of current reality to dive into magic, mystery, and the unexpected.Excerpts from the short stories:Ivy Moon by Camilla Ochlan.Tonight. A hundred years ago tonight, the sky just as dark, just as clear, the stars singing just as loud, and the moon just as full, he'd looked at the hill of...

Bodies surface and disappear, seduce and corrupt in these original stories by bestselling, award-winning female crime writers from the Killer Women crime-writing collective. Keep your eyes peeled, your ears cocked and your wits about you as twenty deliciously twisted tales take you to surprising places... 'A killer collection of dark and devious tales' Mark Billingham'A lot of women have terrified me over the years, but none quite like these...

Online Teaching: Tools and Techniques to Achieve Success with Learners will provide the online teacher with essential strategies to successfully design, develop, deliver and improve their online course offerings. This book is an invaluable resource for the novice instructor, as well as the seasoned educator. The chapters of the book will take the reader from the basics of online course development and delivery to assessment and improvement after a successful semester. The authors provide p...

Antiracist work in education has proceeded as if the only social relation at issue is the one between white people and people of color. But what if our antiracist efforts are being undermined by unexamined difficulties and struggles among white people?Whiteness at the Table examines whiteness in the lived experiences of young children, family members, students, teachers, and school administrators. It focuses on racism and antiracism within the context of relationships. Its authors ...

Using a behavioral perspective, Behavior Analysis and Learning provides an advanced introduction to the principles of behavior analysis and learned behaviors, covering a full range of principles from basic respondent and operant conditioning through applied behavior analysis into cultural design. The text uses Darwinian, neurophysiological, and biological theories and research to inform B. F. Skinner’s philosophy of radical behaviorism.The seventh edition expands the focus...

No disease has upended life more in the past fifty years than COVID-19. As the pandemic unfolded, coeditors Christine Crudo Blackburn and Gerald W. Parker saw how many areas of society are impacted and how those impacts can ripple through to other sectors.Seeking to provide both warnings of these vulnerabilities and direction for future efforts to address them, Blackburn and Parker have assembled a cross-disciplinary, multinational team of researchers and writers to provide a criti...

Professorin June Monroe hat dank ihrer geliebten Grandma vieles im Leben erreicht. Als diese stirbt, führt Junes Erbe sie von Seattle zurück in ihre Heimat - die Rocky Mountains. Sie erfüllt den letzten Wunsch ihrer Granni und tritt an der Universität von Montana in Missoula einen neuen Job an. Dort kreuzt eine junge Studentin ihren Weg, doch dies ist nicht ihre erste Begegnung. June gerät in einen Strudel der Versuchung und riskiert damit ihre gesamte Karriere. Kann sie den Reizen dieser ...