James has lost his ship and crew to Peter, his first mate. Now he's forced to play Peter's games. And Peter's games are bloody. This retelling of Peter Pan flips the classic story on its head and asks the question: what if Peter Pan was the bad guy?This is the fourth book in the 12 Months of Whump series. Each month in 2025, look out for a new standalone whumpy book!

Dive into whumpy goodness in the 12 Months of Whump 2025 Omnibus! This book brings together the first 6 standalone novellas of the 12 Months of Whump 2025 series. Be warned: these stories are a bloody good time.Lux in Tenebris: Poena et Salus by Isaac RyalsThere's nothing angelic about these angels.Hunting Static by Jayde LayneBeware the static. Outrun the static. Hunt the ...

Dive into close to 300,000 words of whumpy goodness in the 12 Months of Whump 2025 Omnibus! This book brings together 12 standalone novellas from 12 different authors. Be warned: these stories are a bloody good time.Lux in Tenebris: Poena et Salus by Isaac RyalsThere's nothing angelic about these angels.Hunting Static by Jayde LayneBeware the static. Outrun the stati...

For fourteen-year-old Callie, life is perfect. She can drive a Humvee, take anything she wants from stores, play with explosives, and keep library books forever. She can spend hours watching movies with the other kids in the clan or just tinkering with her machines. So what if there are only nineteen people left on earth? The Fixer virus was fourteen whole years ago and it’s not like it was the end of the world or anything.But then Fixer returns, leaving the only remaining adult in...

A fabulously warm, funny and romantic novel that will have you laughing and crying in equal measure.'What would I do without you, Lucy Brown?' he said, and kissed me softly. I held his face in my hands and kissed him back. I felt that life just couldn't get any more perfect. And I was right, it wouldn't.By the end of the next day, I'd be dead.Lucy is about to marry the man of her dreams - kind, handsome, funny Dan - when she breaks her neck the night...

A sparkling seasonal tale of finding true love at Christmas.**'**A seasonal delight' Venue***'***I was hooked from the first page to the last' Chik Lit Chloe Blog'A sparkling story' GlamourBeth Prince has always loved fairytales and now, aged twenty-four, she feels like she's finally on the verge of her own happily ever after. She lives by the seaside, works in the Picturebox - a c...

Providing a detailed guide to editing multi-authored publications such as a collection of papers, a special issue of a journal or an academic blog, this must-read book canvases the benefits and challenges of undertaking editorial work.This compact book is designed to guide new scholarly (co-)editors through the complex journey of editing. It provides considered and detailed advice on the less well-known scholarly practices and the processes, challenges and rewards of this work, thr...

The worldwide spread, diversification, and globalization of the English language in the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has significant implications for English Language Teaching and teacher education.We are currently witnessing a paradigm shift towards Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL) that aims to promote multilingualism and awareness of the diversity of Englishes, increase exposure to this diversity, embrace multiculturalism, and foste...

This book tells a single story, in many voices, about a serious and sustained set of changes in mathematics teaching practice in a high school and how those efforts influenced and were influenced by a local university. It includes the writings and perspectives of high school students, high school teachers, preservice teacher candidates, doctoral students in mathematics education and other fields, mathematics teacher educators, and other education faculty. As a whole, this case study provid...

Violence is a serious public health problem. The number of violent deaths tells only part of the story, and many more survive violence and are left with permanent physical and emotional scars. Violence also erodes communities by reducing productivity, decreasing property values, and disrupting social services.In recent years, scholars have broadened their definitions of violence beyond the realm of interpersonal harms such as murder, armed robbery, and male-to-female physical and s...

Writing is the principal means by which doctoral candidature is monitored and measured; this, combined with the growing tendency to use publications as proxy measures of individual and institutional productivity, underlines the centrality of writing in academia. One of the central questions for scholars in higher education, therefore, is ‘How do we make writing happen?’, and it is this question which the book seeks to answer.The book provides detailed illustrations of collaborative...

This book maps out the pedagogical implications of the global spread and diversification of pluricentric languages for language education and showcases new approaches that can take account of linguistic diversity.Moving the discussion of contemporary norms, aims, and approaches to pluricentric languages in language education beyond English, this book provides a multilingual, comparative perspective through case study examples of Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, and Vietn...