Media, Myth, and Millennials: Critical Perspectives on Race and Culture debunks the post-racial myth among millennial media consumers and producers. This theoretically diverse collection of contributors highlights the complexity at the intersections of media, race, gender, sexuality, class and place. Loren Saxton Coleman and Christopher Campbell’s edited collection offers critical and cultural insight on the commodification of millennial audiences and the acts of resistance that e...

Murder sparks witchcraft hysteria in this "entertaining" seventeenth-century historical mystery from the New York Times –bestselling author (Stephen King).It's 1699 in the coastal settlement of Fount Royal in the Carolinas when Rachel Howarth is sentenced to be hanged as a witch. She's been accused of murder, deviltry, and blasphemous sexual congress, and the beleaguered, God-fearing colonial village wants her dead. But M...

Set around the January 26, 1700 Cascadia megathrust, the novel follows five interwoven POVs from river, inlet, and island communities on the North Pacific Coast. Tayiʼ (Cowichan) wrestles grief and stubborn pride until a night of sky-born "thunder without storm" forces him to lead children uphill; afterward he's entrusted with Thunderbird elements in regalia—weight that means work. Saayaa (Nuu-chah-nulth), trained in disciplined whaling protocol, becomes a steady field cap...

"Birds of a Feather" is a science fiction novel set in a future world where the Earth has become a dystopian society controlled by a totalitarian regime. The story revolves around the character of Dan Pritchard, a man living in this oppressive future.Dan Pritchard is a member of a group that is rebelling against the regime, and his journey involves navigating the complexities of resistance and survival. The novel explores themes of freedom, conformity, and the struggle against authoritaria...

**Brought to you by Penguin.From the creators of the internationally bestselling, award-winning, multi-adapted phenomenon The Lost Words: a dazzling celebration of birdlife in Britain, re-imagining the classic field guide for a new generation of nature lovers**A great thinning of the skies is underway. Around 50% of bird species are in decline worldwide. Our dawns and springs are quieter each year than the last. An almost unimaginable abundance has been lost. It doe...

A new, improved and thoroughly updated edition of the bestselling photographic guide—the only one to cover every bird, in every plumage, ever recorded in Britain and IrelandA bestselling guide since it was first published, Britain's Birds has quickly established itself as the go-to photographic identification guide to the birds of Great Britain and Ireland—the most comprehensive, up-to-date, practical and user-friendly book of its kind. Acclaimed by birdwa...

A dramatic historical novel rooted in early American frontier life.

The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West.On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people. The attack was a geopolitical turning point. It marked the beginning of Hezbollah as a political force, but even more important,...

Robert W. Chambers captures the delicate beauty of love, renewal, and human longing in "Blue-Bird Weather"—a lyrical and emotionally rich story that soars between romance and self-discovery. Known for his mastery of atmosphere and emotion, Chambers paints a world where nature mirrors the heart’s most intimate desires, and every whisper of the breeze carries the promise of change.In this deeply moving audiobook, listeners are drawn into a tale of pa...

Provides a series of fourteen addresses delivered in 1993 before the Senate by Senator Robert C. Byrd. Discusses the constitutional history of separated and shared powers as shaped in the republic and empire of ancient Rome. These lectures are also in opposition to the proposed line-item veto concept. The introduction states that Senator Byrd delivered these speeches entirely from memory and without notes.

A beautifully illustrated account of the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts with informative details from the award-winning author of Electric BenThe story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the earliest recorded Greek myths. Here, master artist Robert Byrd has created a striking telling of the legend for a new generation of readers. Complete with explanatory notes and illustrated back matter, Jason and the Argonauts traces each step of our h...

The films of Andrei Tarkovsky have been revered as ranking on a par with the masterpieces of Russia's novelists and composers. His work, from films such as Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, Nostalgia and Sacrifice, has had an enormous influence on the style of contemporary European film, with its open narrative structures and slow, pensive mood; yet Tarkovsky has remained an elusive subject for reflection and analysis. T...