What if you woke up one morning to learn your father had bet you in a game of dice...and lost?On her 14th birthday, apprentice herbalist Isabel Sutton learns that she now belongs to the town's sheriff—a man whose last wife died in sinister circumstances. Desperate to escape marriage to a smelly old man, Isabel disguises herself and runs away. But the sheriff's men are hot on her trail, offering a bag of gold coins as a reward for her capture.On the road, she meets other tra...

Three spirited old women, lifelong friends who are facing eviction from their beloved home, engage in a battle of wits with a determined young man who holds the key to their future. As they navigate the housing crisis, each character in this darkly comedic stage play discovers just how far they will go to secure their home and their futures.

Who doesn't yearn for the exhilarating rush of falling in love? Alas, the more desperately you chase it, the more it slips through your fingers like grains of sand. Sometimes, all it takes is a fresh, new perspective.In the enchanting seaside town of Brighton, England, where the sun kisses the shore and dreams linger in the salty breeze, a vibrant tapestry of souls will gather: Vicar’s daughters and country maides striving to ascend the social ladder, widows daring to seek a second...

Family history can be fatal.Riley Carson Connors is yanked out of Pittsburgh and coaxed to New York by two tall, sexy strangers. Nicholas Sherwood and Damian are the only people in the world who know anything about her parents, and what they know is terrifying. She must face a powerful enemy who killed both her parents, who were the best demon hunters of their era.But while the truth about Riley’s family history is a powerful magnet, Damian and Nic...

Can she accept the destiny being thrust at her?For weeks, the darkly sinful Zachariah, her favourite customer at McGinty’s, has been raising NYC student Beth Siegel’s pulse, driving her crazy with need.Neither can she keep the tall, blue-eyed mysterious Luke who haunts the library stacks at her day job, out of her mind or her sweaty, desperate fantasies.Fate hands Beth a startling destiny: to bond with both of them—a bond formed via sex. Se...

THE STORY OF SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND LITTLE-KNOWN ACTIVISTS OF THE 1960s, IN A DEEPLY SOURCED NARRATIVE HISTORYThe historians of the late 1960s have emphasized the work of a group of white college activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality. Poor and working-class whites have tended to be painted as spectators, reactionaries, and, even, racists. Most Americans, the story goes, just watched the...

Making up 65 percent of Africa's population, young people between the ages of 18 and 35 play a key role in politics, yet they live in an environment of rapid urbanization, high unemployment rates and poor state services. Drawing from extensive fieldwork in Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania, this book investigates how Africa's urban youth cultivate a sense of citizenship in this challenging environment, and what it means to them to be a 'good citizen'. In interviews and focus group discussions, Af...

A groundbreaking look at how a predominantly white faith-based group reset the terms of the fight to integrate US cities.The bitterly tangled webs of race and housing in the postwar United States hardly suffer from a lack of scholarly attention. But Tracy K’Meyer’s To Live Peaceably Together delivers something truly new to the field: a lively examination of a predominantly white faith-based group—the Quaker-aligned American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)...

This book is a wide-ranging ethnography of Mazatlán, a mid-sized city and tourist destination on Mexico's Pacific coast. The text focuses on diverse aspects of Mazatlecos' lives, especially in public realms. Readers will finish with an analytical understanding of life in Mazatlán and a good practical sense of it, too - knowledge that should apply, in some degree, to many other parts of Mexico and, indeed, to much of Spanish-speaking America.Rife with concrete observations of local ...

Letting go is sometimes the only gift love has left to give.Sera arrives in New York to help Lindál, but a vampeen attack brings her face to face with two men and changes her life forever.Diego Savage lives up to his name. Cynical, rebellious and a womanizer, he doesn’t believe in the trinities at all. Only a handful of people know the truth about his scarred heart and terrible past, and it would take a miracle for him to change. A miracle, or someone like Sera wit...

Alex has a past he’d rather no one learns about…until Mia returns.Ten years ago Alexander hungered for Mia Menendez and for a single day they had indulged that passion before tragedy struck. Now Mia is back, but she thinks Alexander died ten years ago, and no man has been able to stir her heart since. The truth could kill her.Wyatt Whitacker, demon hunter, hates Alexander and all his kind. But one look at Mia and her pulse-stopping curves and his scarred, angry hea...

Some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960s were poor and working-class radicals. Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers, and progressive populism, they started to organize significant political struggles against racism and inequality during the 1960s and into the 1970s.Historians of the period have traditionally emphasized the work of white college activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing ...