Blasphemy and Other Ancestors is comprised of four novellas, in which authors Padgett Powell, Darius James, Lee Henderson, and Jean Marc Ah-Sen explore the tag end of existence and the abasements that memory holds in store for characters living "outside of their time."In Blasphemy and Other Ancestors, a Southern man of letters tries to instruct his assistant on the matters of the heart, a self-centered telephile recounts how his aunt taught him about the world bey...

Misty is your ordinary teenage girl or so she thought...When Misty's mum gets offered a movie role across Europe she takes it leaving Misty to move from her luxury LA life and live with her dad and grandparents in Harper Ferry. Her whole lie changes as she makes the move but she didn't expect it to change that much. When she meets the local bad boy Matt she is instantly drawn to him and when she learns his dark secret it leaves her wanting him more. Will she be able to handle the se...

Wake Up, Mom! is a heartbreaking story about a mother's emotional journey through her son's addictive years. She chronicles their family's life and its downward spiral after a supposedly helpful prescription drug meant to aid her son's ADHD caused a nightmarish sequence of events that nearly destroyed him.This tale of chaos portrays Mom's emotional seesaw as her son experiences disaster after disaster, candidly describing the pain and the challenges they b...

“The collection consistently does what the oeuvre does best: communicate intense emotion with force, give life to characters that struggle with their circumstances, illuminate the universal through the specific and the particular, and turn the commonplace into art.” Globe and Mail“[The anthology] amuses, astonishes, and enlightens; it is a delicious cacophony of voices and engaging stories . . .”Books in CanadaThe Journey Prize Stories is ...

Beyond the Scriptures focus on a variety of hidden secrets of the bible that not many Christian know of or will ever accept. The book gives a clear insight to the tricks of the devil and exposes the true agenda of the devil. This book also addresses question about forgiveness, does God very love man, is there really a God in heaven, and how can there be a God with so much pain in the world. A lot of people dismiss the idea that Christ is the only way and this book rejects this statement be...

This book employs an intersectional feminist lens to examine how U.S. national, social, and cultural ideologies surrounding health and intelligence have been shaped and sustained through racist, gendered, and ableist scientific practices and photographic technologies. Focusing on posture photography programs implemented at women’s colleges throughout the 20th century, the chapters trace the entanglements of these visual regimes with the eugenics movement of the late 19th and early 20th cen...

WINNER OF THE ANNE B. AND JAMES B. MCMILLAN PRIZEA powerful collection of firsthand stories from the Tuskegee Institute High School Class of 1964—students who came of age in the crucible of the Civil Rights Movement. Their stories uncover the bold choices of their ancestors who chose to stay and help shape the South.Children of the Struggle and the Ancestors Who Stayed, edited by Sonjia Parker Redmond and Beatrice J. Adams...

The history of Melbourne's Kew Children's Cottages (18872008) is the challenging story of an institution that failed its residents - and it is vividly relevant to today, when the rights of people with disabilities are the subject of a royal commission.Those with an intellectual disability were historically the most vulnerable in our society and the least protected. Governments continually failed them by underdelivering on ambitious promises of reform. Failed Ambitions trac...

Now that she's a fugitive, Willa leaves Chicago and goes on the run. But when she takes refuge with some low-G farmers, she stumbles across a plot to attack the city. Oh, and on top of all that: giant, man-eating bugs! Maybe we should have led with that. Collects SKYWARD #6-10

Over the last fifty years, tourism has become firmly established as a development option around the world. Commensurate with this, the study of tourism's developmental role has also expanded significantly. There now exists a broad understanding of the policies and processes, opportunities and challenges that apply to tourism's potential contributions to development. As the tourism environment now faces numerous challenges and transformations, it is timely to reflect on contemporary underst...

Nominated for the World Fantasy Award, the Aurealis Award and the Ditmar Award.Sword and Sonnet contains twenty-three fantasy and science fiction stories featuring battle poets. A poet in search of the dragon her mother banished. A labyrinth that is the last sanctuary against the hunger consuming the world. A gunslinger who kills with a single word. A machete-wielding poet defending her street against the children of revenge. A spaceship-devouring poet who sings to...

Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad of success stories are being forged among educational institutions, supporting industries, and educational consortia that are embracing innovative approaches to all aspects of the higher edu...