Avira Bianco is the daughter of the most powerful skyship baron in all of Aerope. She dreams of inheriting his empire someday but knows the odds are slim given her place as a daughter, not a son. When her father betrays her by announcing her arranged marriage, Avira runs away. On board the great skyship Apollo, Avira dresses as a kitchen boy and soon develops forbidden feelings for one of her crewmates, Matteo.But Matteo has a secret of his own. He is a detective hired by Avira's f...

Encounter God’s extravagant grace.The Christian life isn’t without challenges. It’s easy to wonder, What if troubles overwhelm me? What if I can’t find my purpose? What if I fail?Despite the anxieties, God’s abundant grace is always with you. Accepting this undeserved gift equips you to silence the stresses of the day. Through the stories in Grace to Grow, you will discover how totransform trials into spiritual growth,encounter peace ...

Release Guilt and Embrace Grace: A Mother's Guide to Experiencing Hope and HealingAre you a mother trying to cope with the painful reality of your adult child's addiction or self-destructive behaviors?Are you overwhelmed with feelings of hopelessness, fear, and despair?Do you experience regret, as though you could have prevented this from happening to your child?Are you worn out from trying to save them from themselves?

In Communicated Stereotypes at Work, the editors and contributors posit that stereotypes communicated in the workplace remain a pervasive issue due to the dichotomy between the discriminatory and functional roles that these stereotypes can play in a range of professional settings. Contributors demonstrate that while the use of stereotypes in the workplace is distasteful and exclusionary, communicating these stereotypes can also appear-on the surface-to provide a pathway toward bon...

This short story originated as a class assignment. My professor expressed how it touched his heart so I saved it with the intent of using it to share with other. Time passed and I forgot I wrote this paper until I was challenged in a writing class to self publish something I had written. When I considered what I would share, I wanted to ensure that the readers would be able to gain knowledge and grow from the content. This encouraging testimony of how God allowed me to walk in his love and...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

The heated national conversation about gender equality and women in the workforce is something that women in academia have been concerned with and writing about for at least a decade. Overall, the conversation has focused on identifying how women in general and mothers in particular fair in the academy as a whole, as well as offering tips on how to maximize success. Aside from a long-standing field-specific debate in anthropology, rare are the volumes focusing on the particulars of motherh...

In pursuing how fourteenth-century English texts engage with philosophical, intellectual, and theological questions, the work of Denise N. Baker has powerfully shaped the field of medieval studies. This collection honors Baker’s legacy as a scholar and teacher by taking a fresh approach to the most salient literary, mystical, and devotional works written in late medieval England. The contributors examine a variety of foundational texts ranging from Piers Plowman and The Canterbury Tales to...

Meditations on activism following the turbulent 1960s—back in printAfter the Detroit Rebellion of 1967, James and Grace Lee Boggs decided they should rethink what activism looks like. Pairing with trusted veteran activists Freddy and Lyman Paine, they ruminated on central questions emerging from their politics and activism, and they discussed the purpose and responsibilities human beings share for the future. The recorded dialogue among these four friends invites r...

What social change has been achieved over the past 30 years?What have been the main barriers to progress?What great achievements can we identify and celebrate today?Marking Jessica Kingsley Publishers' 30th year of publishing books on social and behavioural issues, this book gathers together over 30 leading thinkers from diverse disciplines - from autism specialists and social workers through to trans rights activists and complementary therapists.Contributors ...

Is anything more terrifying than a dragon? Bat-winged nightmares swooping down from the sky to breathe fire and ice on the wretched humans below, kidnapping princesses, hoarding treasure, swallowing cows.Or not.In DRAGONESQUE, the latest fantastic anthology from Zombies Need Brains, you finally get to experience all that awfulness from the dragon’s point of view. And what if it isn’t necessarily that awful? What if the princess wants to be kidnapped, or the dragon is tired ...

This surly earl expects obedience from his fiery new ward. What he gets is nothing but trouble.The fire that claimed the Earl of Foster's father and brother left him scarred in every sense of the word. But despite the guilt and his mother's hatred, Benedict took on the duties that came with the earldom. Including looking after his new ward—the orphaned daughter of his mother's closest friend.He expects a timid child to arrive on his doorstep, not a...