This new collection brings together plays and monologues from the National Black Theatre Festival, one of the most historic and culturally significant events—not only in the history of Black theater but in American theater. Held every two years in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this gathering of Black theater companies and artists from around the country and across the globe features an extraordinary array of performances, workshops, films, spoken-word poetry, and more. Established in 1989...

Wie wäre es, wenn die Geschichte eines Denkmals einmal aus dessen Sicht erzählt wird? Die AutorInnen dieser Anthologie wagen den Perspektivenwechsel und schildern, wie es Denkmälern im Wandel der Zeiten erging, hin- und hergerissen zwischen ursprünglichen Intentionen, Umdeutungen und Instrumentalisierungen. Mit tiefgründigem Humor begeben sie sich in den Kopf der Freiheitsstatue, lassen die Brooklyn Bridge über ihre Rezeption in der Literatur zu Wort kommen, oder enttarnen die Neue Wache i...

A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children is a companion to its predecessor published by Oyate, Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children. A compilation of work by Native parents, children, educators, poets and writers, A Broken Flute contains, from a Native perspective, "living stories," essays, poetry, and hundreds of reviews of "children's books about Indians." It's an indispensable volume for anyone interested in prese...

Ich bin kein Mann für eine Nacht, auch wenn das von einem Starspieler der Philadelphia Pucks automatisch erwartet wird. Als ich zum ersten Mal auf Officer Dakota Scott treffe, bekomme ich das so ziemlich skurrilste Telefonat mit, das ich je gehört habe. Per Zufall sehen wir uns nur wenige Tage später erneut. Sie ist die perfekte Kombination aus Intelligenz, Witz und heißen Kurven. Als sie mich dann auch noch nach einem Date fragt, kann ich nicht Nein sagen. Doch je näher wir uns kommen, de...

The Great Reawakening did not come quietly. Across the country and in every nation, people began “coming up Latent,” developing terrifying powers—summoning storms, raising the dead, and setting everything they touch ablaze. Those who Manifest must choose: become a sheepdog who protects the flock or a wolf who devours it…In the wake of a bloody battle at Forward Operating Base Frontier and a scandalous presidential impeachment, Lieutenant Colonel Jan Thorsson, call sign “Harlequin,”...

The Great Reawakening did not come quietly. Across the country and in every nation, people began to develop terrifying powers--summoning storms, raising the dead, and setting everything they touch ablaze. Overnight the rules changed...but not for everyone.Colonel Alan Bookbinder is an army bureaucrat whose worst war wound is a paper-cut. But after he develops magical powers, he is torn from everything he knows and thrown onto the front-lines.Drafted into the Supernatural Op...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.At 4:47 AM, Nora Vass wakes to her dog growling. Her front door stands open, the deadbolt withdrawn, yet her smart home system shows nothing. According to the technology Nora meticulously installed as an architect, nobody was there.But Nora knows her house like a surgeon knows anatomy. She notices the shifts others dismiss: the thermostat adjusting at 3 AM, the voice assistant responding to unheard commands, lights extinguishing...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.BOOK 2: ALWAYS WATCHINGSix months after the trial, Nora Vass is rebuilding her life. New clients. New routines. The smart home system her security consultant Dan Cole installed is running clean. The locks work. The cameras are hers. The house on the hill is finally what it was supposed to be.Then a mortgage application she never submitted is approved.An email she never wrote apologises to a client she never off...

John Henry Cole's life has quieted down from what it had always been, and he can now settle down and make improvements on his small ranch. But everything changes when an old rancher named Wilson rides in with his two sons. Wilson is willing to pay Cole $5,000 to help get back his wife Lenora who has been taken hostage by Lucky Jack Dancer, an outlaw who had robbed the train on which she was a passenger. She is being held prisoner in Gun Town, a safe haven for outlaws. Cole had sided Lucky ...

Myke Cole, star of CBS's Hunted and author of the Shadow Ops series returns with book two of the Sacred Throne Trilogy: The Queen of Crows.In this epic fantasy sequel, Heloise stands tall against overwhelming odds?crippling injuries, religious tyrants?and continues her journey from obscurity to greatness with the help of alchemically-empowered armor and an unbreakable spirit.No longer just a shell-shocked girl, she is now a figure of revolution whose cause grows ever strong...

Army Officer. Fugitive. Sorcerer.Across the country and in every nation, people are waking up with magical talents. Untrained and panicked, they summon storms, raise the dead, and set everything they touch ablaze.Army officer Oscar Britton sees the worst of it. A lieutenant attached to the military's Supernatural Operations Corps, his mission is to bring order to a world gone mad. Then he abruptly manifests a rare and prohibited magical power, transforming him overnight fro...

Business lately has been deadly for Ike Kelly. Recent unexpected gunplay has left his agency to a single operative. John Henry Cole is that operative. Kelly has received a letter from former lover Lydia Winslow, who operates an escort service in the new mining camp of Deadwood in Dakota Territory. "Three young women have been murdered since they arrived in camp." It is obviously a dangerous assignment, and Cole is advised that he must take every precaution--as if he needed such advice. Dea...