Howie gets a job at Artie Kraft's Arts 'N Crafts hoping to score with his lady coworkers. After all, girls love a sensitive guy, and what's more sensitive than dedicating your life to selling yarn and ... stuff? (Okay, so maybe it'd be a good idea to actually learn what one sells at an arts 'n crafts store.) But things don't go exactly according to plan. Coworker #1 is Kristy: blonde, bubbly, unattainable perfection. Coworker #2 is Cora: tiny, much-pierced, and way too fierce to screw with...

It's that Halloweeny time of year, and Howie, Arthur, Kristy, and Cora are on a mission to create the perfect haunted house event at the store in order to win over new customers.Turns out, it's not as easy as it sounds -- especially when you're trying to charm the town's most popular (and terrifying) arts 'n crafts blogger into writing your store a favorable review. And it just gets worse when that blogger insists that her wild child ten year old son be given creative control over ...

Exchanged Death for LifeBy: Hannah JohnsonExchanged Death for Life follows the author as she navigates, step by step, year by year, the physical difficulties in her life and overcomes them with an insatiable desire to learn and her deep Christian faith. Perhaps her story will help you in your struggles.About the AuthorHannah Johnson’s hobbies are learning about new things and how her early life was before she could realize it on her own. She loves to crochet...

A prince is caught between the doldrums of duty and the joys of (a most improper) love. A young woman sets no stock in all that dying-for-love nonsense, and woe betide the anguished knight who tries to brood at her. And a little girl observes more of life, love, and regret than anyone would have thought to expect from a clever and vengeful witch. Three old stories given new shapes.

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...

This new edition of Psychosocial Elements of Physical Therapy: The Connection of Body to Mind improves and expands on the first edition to include intuitive chapter organization, refreshed exercises, and content reflecting current research and applications throughout, as well as a new chapter examining neurodivergence. This cutting-edge text presents selected mental health and psychosocial conditions seen in physical therapy practice, drawing explicit connections between c...

A chain of crepe paper was strung up for a garden banquet, taut at each end and sagging in the middle. When they arrived, the guests commented on how pretty the paper links were, their colours made vital by the Grant Price.Laura, at the advice of her therapist, began writing the issues that bothered her on the small yellow Post-it notes she pulled from the dispenser on her desk, then tearing the paper into quarters, and depositing them in the trash. By mid-morning, bits of paper sp...

Of all the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale, in which a young schoolboy is murdered by Jews for singing a song in praise of the Virgin Mary, poses a problem to contemporary readers because of the antisemitism of the story it tells. Both the Tale’s antisemitism and its “Chaucerianism”—its fitness or aptness as part of the Chaucerian canon—are significant topics of reflection for modern readers, who worry about the Tale’s ethical implic...

'He tells me, like a regular Bluebeard, never to visit the third floor.' What if Jane Eyre had found another source of fascination at Thornfield Hall?

Shortlisted is the inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered—but not selected—for the U.S. Supreme Court.In 1981, after almost two centuries of exclusively male appointments, Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female Supreme Court Justice of the United States, a significant historical moment and a symbolic triumph for women's rights supporters. But there were other remarkable women shortlisted for the Supreme Court...

In this warm Christian historical fiction, Henrietta, a tough 95+-year old North Dakota cattle rancher, weakened from a bout of pneumonia, comes to live with her great-niece in rural Oregon, bringing the family treasure with her. From the time of Queen Elizabeth I, each generation of the Van Demere family has added a cookie cutter to the collection, marking milestones, passing down their oral history. Each cookie cutter’s vignette tells a story of American history, including WWII spies and...

The September/October 2025 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring all-new short fiction by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, M. M. Olivas, AnaMaria Curtis, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Juliet Kahn, Tim Pratt, and Hannah Yang; essays by Senaa Ahmad, LaShawn M. Wanak, Del Sandeen, and Theo Kane; poetry by Angela Liu, Dr. Taylor Byas, Jasmine Leng, and Susan L. Lin; interviews with Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Juliet Kahn by Caroline M. Yoachim; Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe’s Listen To Me And I’ll T...