Heléna Katsaros has a great life, especially a job she loves. Her work of orchestrating fundraising for organizations allows her to travel and meet all manner of interesting people.So, when she meets someone who would make the top of that list—the god of the Underworld himself—she's intrigued and more than a little attracted to him. He makes her a proposition: "come to Hades and spend six months helping me to improve the land of the dead for the souls who are there."Not one t...

Where can you find a severed hand, a lunatic teddy bear, a bus destined for hell itself, and a mysterious glass cookie with the power to possess your soul? In your nightmares perhaps! But if you're too scared to sleep, you can find these, and more spooky scenarios, in Creepy Shorts, a new collection of short stories for kids who love a good scare.Inspired by classic spooky story collections, Creep Shorts is a great way to get your csare on before bed or on the bus ride to school. T...

A normal, hot summer stretched before thirteen-year-old Alice Hammond. She'd made a promise not to touch her mom's secret traveling coin. Gone were the exciting trips to the past in Chinatown. The evil Mr. Wong met his end with a trolley car, but a new threat has appeared. When the opportunity for more travel, and perhaps more danger, arises, will she break her promise or play it safe?Eighth grade also has its own surprises and adventures for Alice. Will her best friend Penny be abl...

Can Alice find out what it is? How long can she keep her travels hidden from her mother? Will the evil Mr. Wong haunt her in more than just her dreams?Follow Alice's adventures with a magical coin as well as her journey from an ordinary kid with an annoying brother, soccer practices, and otherwise middle school life through her trips to the past which will leave her forever changed.

A distinctive and original analysis of how the politics of the UK and the lives of British citizens have evolved in the first decades of the twenty-first century, this book provides an interdisciplinary critical examination of the roots, ideology and consequences of austerity politics, the Brexit vote and the rise of populist politics in Britain.Bringing together case studies and perspectives from an array of international researchers across the social sciences, it dissects the way...

Portent, symbol, metaphor: from the Bunyip to the Slenderman, from Count Dracula to the (far more sinister) emotional vampire, monsters of all forms have offered us ways to express and exorcise our fears for thousands of years.Griffith Review 89: Here Be Monsters surveys beasts and bogeymen past and present, real and imagined, to peel back the layers of our social and cultural anxieties. What are we most afraid of? When is monstrosity alluring rather than frightening? And ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A “tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf, from the acclaimed author of Girl at War“This important novel should—true biz—change minds and transform the conversation.”—Maile Meloy, The New York Times Book Review (Edit...

Contributing authors: Don Ball, Jon Chaus, Sharri Cohen, T.L. Eastwood, Carol Elek, Lisa Griffiths, Sue Maywood, Tamara Miller, Holly Scott, and Scott Skipper offer some autobiographical memories, a little historical fiction, several good creepy tales, some heartwarming stories, a couple of talking animal escapades, action and adventure, and even a children's book about baby hummingbirds. No matter what you're hankering to read, you'll find it here.

'Original, tender, thoughtful and true. Can't wait for people to read!' Reese Witherspoon'Part tender coming of age story, part electrifying tale of political awakening, part heartfelt love letter to Deaf culture, True Biz is a wholly a wonder' Celeste NgA transporting novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf, from the accl...

August 18, 2020, marked the centennial of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1920, women wearing yellow roses stood shoulder to shoulder in Tennessee, awaiting the roll call of men who would cast their votes for or against a woman’s right to a voice in government.Though this movement won rights for some women—an achievement to be acknowledged and celebrated—the struggle did not end there. Due to states’ laws and prohibitive policies, ...

This anthology offers a little something for everyone. You will confront dangerous beasts, demons, dragons, and cold blooded killers. Travel from the Orient to the Grand Canyon and into the universe. Get scared, get amused, and get enchanted. These stories have been crafted by a group of talented and experienced writers from the foothill community of La Verne, California.

»ANBINDEN – AUFBAUEN – TEILEN!« Nie gab es einen besseren Zeitpunkt, um ein spirituelles Unternehmen zu gründen, denn nie war der Bedarf an ganzheitlichen Dienstleistungen größer. Aber wie geht man dabei professionell vor? Wie erweckt man Aufmerksamkeit und zieht zufriedene Kunden an? Wie entfernt man eigene Blockaden, die den Fluss der Einnahmen hemmen? Und welche Mittel und Wege gibt es, um sein ganz persönliches Angebot möglichst weit zu verbreiten? Dieses einzigartige Handbuch zeigt Sc...