À la suite d’un grave accident de voiture, Liz a été déclarée cliniquement morte pendant douze minutes. Quand elle a repris connaissance, elle était orpheline et son corps portait d’immenses traces rougeâtres. Des années plus tard, alors qu’elle tente de retrouver une vie normale au sein de sa famille d’accueil, elle assiste à un combat entre un prêtre et une créature terrifiante. D’instinct, elle récite des mots latins sans comprendre d’où ils proviennent, jusqu’à ce qu’un cri inhumain s’...

Angleterre, 1843. Alors que William s’est fait la promesse de ne jamais se marier, le voilà mis à mal quand Abby, la meilleure amie de sa sœur, revient à Londres pour la saison des bals. Comment l’enfant qu’il a toujours connue peut-elle être devenue une aussi magnifique jeune femme? Pourtant, il est hors de question qu’il change d’avis: il n’a rien à offrir à une femme, et encore moins à une noble comme Abby. Mais lorsqu’un vieil aristocrate semble prêt à tout pour l’épouser, les convicti...

Dans un bar perdu au milieu des bois, Johanna rencontre un homme magnifique qui lui fait perdre la tête. Après une nuit sans lendemain, elle se retrouve marquée d’une griffure et… fiancée à un loup-garou ! Et pas n’importe lequel, puisque Marcal est destiné à devenir l’Alpha de sa meute. Si Johanna croit d’abord qu’il s’agit d’un mauvais rêve, elle s’aperçoit rapidement que son cauchemar est loin d’être terminé… Alors que son corps amorce sa transformation, elle découvre qu’elle n’est pas ...

A rogue tooth fairy from the Chlorophyll clan, spotted owls, and Earth Mother tell a story of the intimate connections we have to our planet, how things work together, and the ultimate love that makes it happen. The original tale was written by Beth Jacobs, who won a Junior Literary Guild award in 1961 for her book Look to the Mountains. Chlorophyll was illustrated by world-famous abstract artist Roy DeForest, who was Ms. Jacobs’s brother. The tale was written in the 1950’s and lay dormant...

In this161-page book, the reader will find short observations and poems that provoke thought and suggest the insights to be gained from taking a moment in this world of information overload and stressful preoccupations to listen intently to the underlying music and rhythm of life.

Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to lay bare the diversity and essence of African cinema discourse. It is an anthology of historical reflections, critical essays, and interviews by film critics, historians, theorists, and filmmakers that signifies a dialogue and engagement apropos the ideology and cultural politics of film production in Africa.The contributors are extremely concerned, not only with the history of African cinema,...

One of the most serious challenges to environmentalism that has emerged in the 1990s is the so-called Wise Use movement. While operating under the guise of an independent movement of small landowners, it is in reality a backlash against environmental protection measures, funded and organized by corporations with a vested interest in preventing further environmental gains. Let the People Judge collects the writings of a wide range of thinkers on the Wise Use movement and the contro...

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A French-Canadian immigrant girl attempts to keep her dreams alive as she grows into womanhood in the "Little Canada" enclave her culture created to protect itself from the American melting pot.Her journey toward self-discovery and self-determination is one that women of all cultures are still struggling to complete.

In this stand-alone sequel to the historical novel THE ENCLAVE, a Franco-American woman in Lewiston/Auburn, Maine struggles to complete the journey toward self-discovery and self-determination she began as a French-Canadian immigrant girl in Lewiston's "Little Canada."

North America’s Indigenous population is a vulnerable group, with specific psychological and healing needs that are not widely met in the mental health care system. Indigenous peoples face certain historical, cultural-linguistic and socioeconomic barriers to mental health care access that government, health care organizations and social agencies must work to overcome. This volume examines ways Indigenous healing practices can complement Western psychological service to meet the needs of In...

Volume 25 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the Enlightenment. Ranging from China to Cheltenham and from Spinoza to civil insurrection, volume 25 celebrates the emergence of long-eighteenth-century culture from particularities and prodigies. Unfurling in the folds of this volume is a special feature on playwright, critic, and literary theorist John Dennis. Edited by Claude Willan, ...