A collection of humorous stories of modern American life by Eli S. Evans, former male model-turned-professional life and writing coach. Spot illustrations by Patrick Giroux sprinkled throughout the text.

In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immigrants to the present day. Evoking the rhythms and heartbeat of Jewish life in the Bible belt, Evans weaves together chapters of recollections from his youth and early years in North Carolina with chapters that explore the experiences of Jews in many cities and small towns across the South. He presents the stories of communities, individuals, an...

The adventurous brothers have a new family member - a new baby. The little brother, Max, thinks that babies are bad news. They cry really loud and worst of all they smell! Big brother Jax is here to show just how much fun babies can be and remind him that, after all, he was the baby not too long ago.

Meet Jax and Max. Two adventurous brothers with wild imaginations that sometimes get them into trouble. The boys are on an epic starship battle before dinner time. Will they make time to clean their room before dinner, or will a monster of a mess be waiting for them when they return?

Representing Rural Women highlights the complexity and diversity of representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in this collection offer fresh perspectives on representations of rural women in literature, popular culture, and print, digital, and social media. They explore a wide range of time periods, geographic spaces, and rural women’s experiences, including Mormon pioneer women, rural lesbians in the 1970s, Canadia...

Jax and Max are brothers. Their curiosity always lands them in the middle of a wild adventure. Today, while splashing around in the backyard, they find a fantastic new pet. They have the perfect plan to convince their parents to let them keep it! But this isn't just any pet-a mischievous and messy little creature that turns their lives upside down! What will they do to catch their sneaky pet?

Richardson was the astronaut chosen for the test. He had passed every one of the grueling preliminary tests with flying colors, mental and physical, and as far as could be judged by science, he had seemed to be the perfect specimen, mentally and physically, for the job.The job was to be the first man to be sent to space and return safely to Earth. The test was going well until Richarson started talking in a strange language. What was happening? What did it mean?

Richardson was the astronaut chosen for the test. He had passed every one of the grueling preliminary tests with flying colors, mental and physical, and as far as could be judged by science, he had seemed to be the perfect specimen, mentally and physically, for the job.The job was to be the first man to be sent to space and return safely to Earth. The test was going well until Richarson started talking in a strange language. What was happening? What did it mean?

How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region, Southerners share their lives in food, with a complex mix of stories of belonging and not belonging and of traditions that form identities of many kinds.Cornbread Nation 7, edited ...

Uns restos arqueolóxicos de orixe galega que se atopan en Roma son roubados cando viaxan de volta a Galicia. Anxela, unha nena de 12 anos, atopa un gato de tres colas, con poderes máxicos, que é exactamente igual ao que estaba gravado no petróglifo roubado. De onde procede ese gato? Como puido chegar ata unha necrópole romana? Que interese hai detrás do roubo? Unha novela de maxia, intriga e acción que nos transporta á Galicia castrexa e á época da romanización.

O verán comeza prometedor no campamento que Anxela está a gozar en Muíños xunto con Sabela, Jorge e, por suposto, a gata Morriña. Mais, pronto, un misterio do pasado crúzase no camiño e dá paso a unha carreira contrarreloxo por descubrir a verdade e manterse a salvo. Que relación teñen unha mina abandonada, un avión dos Aliados e unha poderosa multinacional? Unha trepidante aventura que viaxa á II Guerra Mundial e descobre a presenza nazi en Galicia, os tesouros agochados no subsolo e as t...