Murder stalks the halls of Ballantyne Manor...September 1926: When flapper Clara Camden arrives uninvited to Charles Ballantyne's 60th birthday celebration, she becomes entangled in a web of deadly secrets. As a violent storm cuts off all escape from the gothic mansion, a series of murders rock the estate's very foundation—and Clara discovers she may be the killer's final target.Detective Alexander Rios must race against time to unmask the murderer among th...

Multimodal and Digital Creative Writing Pedagogies offers a breadth of expertise and informed pedagogies on teaching multimodal and digital creative writing in the college classroom. This book presents engaging methods to inspire student writing beyond traditional, print-based texts. The contributors in this volume, all experienced creative writing instructors, share indispensable strategies for incorporating multimodal projects, including video game poetry, fan fiction authorship, digital...

Some forty scholars examine California's prehistory and archaeology, looking at marine and terrestrial palaeoenvironments, initial human colonization, linguistic prehistory, early forms of exchange, mitochondrial DNA studies, and rock art. This work is the most extensive study of California's prehistory undertaken in the past 20 years. An essential resource for any scholar of California prehistory and archaeology!