Finding out my boyfriend is stuffing someone else's turkey isn't the greatest way to start out the holidays, especially when he signs my paychecks, and I live with him.With no other choice but to move out and quit my job, I'm forced to exist on ramen and stay in a cheap motel while I figure out my life.Just when it's starting to look like Santa didn't read my letters, I land a seasonal job at Wrap It Up, where the holiday spirit is sorely lacking.It...

A book such as this spins not only words but also whole worlds: eighteen of them, representing the best lesbian-themed stories of the fantastic or futuristic published the prior year: An artisan who tests the skills and wares of her friends in the hope of finding the ideal housing for an idealized love. A shape-shifting sidekick ensures that the heroine, who might not even be aware of her, saves the day. The device on a young girl's wrist that counts down the years until she will meet her ...

In a world dominated by magic, martial arts, and cultivation, a young girl who has endured immense hardship and struggle finds herself admitted to a mysterious academy for the immortals. There, she faces a harsh social hierarchy and conflicts with both violent roommates and arrogant heirs.However, she refuses to be defeated. She must overcome countless challenges to prove herself and carve out her place in a realm filled with secrets, power, and legends. The story follows her journ...

Grounded in critical theory, southern studies, archival methodologies, and anticolonial thought, Record, Document, Archive illuminates how the U.S. South is made knowable through the acts, objects, and systems that produce records, documents, and archives. Rather than treating “the South” as a fixed geography or predetermined object of study, this innovative, forward-thinking collection reframes region as an ontological and epistemological project shaped by—and resistant to—Euroce...

T is for Tarot is the twentieth book in an epic series of twenty-six horror anthologies. Between these pages you will find a collection of thirteen unsettling tales from some of the most talented independent horror authors writing today. From modern day to historic settings, from carnival fortune tellers to powerful mystics, T is for Tarot will draw you in with the power of the cards and show you that your destiny cannot be outrun.

Recent events from the economic downturn to climate change mean that there has never been a better time to be thinking about and trying to better understand the concept of risk. In this book, prominent and eminent speakers from fields as diverse as statistics to classics, neuroscience to criminology, politics to astronomy, as well as speakers embedded in the media and in government, have put their ideas down on paper in a series of essays that broaden our understanding of the meaning of ri...