A study of how literary strategies illuminate the evangelical foundation of Southern culture.In Southern Strategies: Narrative Negotiation in an Evangelical Region, Michael Odom argues that through the narrative strategies of resistance, satire, and negotiation, a multigenerational group of twentieth-century white Southern writers provides unique insight into the central role evangelical religion has played in shaping the sociopolitical culture of the Amer...

Bringing together methods and scholars from rhetoric and related disciplines, essays in Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics blend personal and scholarly accounts of Texas sites, examining place as an embodied poiesis, an understanding and composition formed through the collaboration of a body with a particular space.Divided into five sections corresponding to Texas regions, essays consider aesthetics, buildings, environment, food and alcohol, private and ...

Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that both reflect and facilitate multiple ways of being an academic. Engagement functions as a gloss for these shifts—addressing more expansive understandings of where, how, and with whom we research, teach, and partner. This book examines these shifts, locating them within socio-economic trends within a...

DARKNESS EVERYWHERE...The Sixth World is a dangerous place, with deadly hazards lurking around every corner. Everywhere shadowrunners go, from the top of the world to the deepest, darkest sprawl neighborhood, someone’s always looking to make their rep by taking you down.World of Shadows is the second anthology of original Shadowrun short stories, each one showcasing some of the most far-flung, treacherous locations around the world. From a scientific missio...

Has anyone noticed Los Angeles is going to the monsters?The City of Angels is under attack and the Silver Griffins are calling all agents. What monster is making the rounds and threatening to expose magic?Gruffbar has returned and is invading dreams. The sinister Dwarf has figured out how to sap away magicals' dreams and aspirations. Silver Griffins Agent 485 Lucy Heron is on it!But it's getting worse.How will she protect a ...

A mysterious illness plagues the Queen at Primdale Hive. Her cure resides deep within a treacherous forest, where few meadow-bees have ever dared to go. She organizes a race to find the fastest bee in the hive, but the unexpected victor, Abelbee, is a mere adolescent. Should the future of the hive be placed on such an inexperienced bee? When Abel bravely accepts the challenge, he is thrust into a quest to save his civilization. The weight of the world is on Abel's shoulders, as perils of t...

Is it just a nightmare or a premonition? The suburban witch, Lucy Heron isn't sure, but she has a bad feeling something is coming, not just for her family, but the entire city.Sometimes intuition isn't wrong . . .Shadow Men are on the prowl, trying to return the world to shadow by fulfilling a prophecy. A prophecy that would plunge Los Angeles, then the world, into darkness.It could be the end of the world as humans know it.Magicals...

Lucy Heron is a mom with three kids, and a baker with a happy marriage in sunny Echo Park. She's also Silver Griffins Agent 485.The suburbs will never be the same.Fighting supernatural crime from a minivan while keeping the magical world a secret is a full time job. Then there's the PTA bake sale and the neighborhood barbecue.Hard to balance even with a wand.And now, a monstrous loan shark is spreading his shadowy empire fro...

It's time to clean up their city or die trying.The Remembrance have stepped up the pressure after the Federal Agents of Magic slapped them down hard. There's a bounty on Diana's head, as well as her second in command. Criminals are dying for the chance to collect. And the bad guys have found more artifacts to steal—from the police. The lines are drawn. The battle is at hand.The Blackops Agents of Magic are ready. Diana's search for the artifact sword nears ...

FBI Agent Diana Sheen is an agent with a secret . . .. . . she carries a badge and a troll, along with a little magic.But her Most Wanted List is going to take a little extra effort.She'll have to embrace her powers and up her game to take down new threats, not to mention deal with the troll that's adopted her.All signs point to a serious threat lurking just beyond sight, pulling the strings to put the forces of good in harm's way.Ma...

Special Agent Diana Sheen runs a secret agency . . . locked squarely in the crosshairs of a magical conspiracy far greater than she'd imagined.The bad guys are seeking artifacts to increase their power, and it feels like they're leading up to something big.Can she stop them in time?The attacks are getting personal. Other bureaus have taken heavy losses, and only her team's magical abilities have kept them from the same fate.That includes a t...

Ghetto Ghosts is a book about how life can be at times and how it can be faced and resolved. It is a "wisdom of life" filled book that teaches you how to best live life to its fullest - no matter your background or condition. A book packed with real-life lessons and not just myths or some fairy tale but a book like Ghetto Ghosts interweaves relationships, races, classes, culture, families, and history. It is the story of five people whose paths crossed at a point in time. Who appeared to b...