This collection offers a critical and feminist media scholarship approach to the ongoing 21st-century true crime media boom.Including contributions from a range of media scholars with diverse areas of expertise and interest, televising true crime features essays that analyze the intersections between and across streaming programs, traditional television, and podcasts, while also exploring the ethics and audiences of true crime, narrative and affect, and genre. Each section presents...

When Santa Claus declares he’s canceling Christmas to “work on himself,” the North Pole goes into a full-blown HR emergency. The elves panic, the reindeer demand severance packages, and Mrs. Claus starts a tell-all podcast called Spilling the Cocoa. The once-magical workshop now feels more like a collapsing tech startup, with holiday cheer traded for burnout, bureaucracy, and peppermint-flavored existential dread.Enter Lucas Meyer, the overworked HR manager, and Ava Montgo...

When the residents of Bellweather Apartments decide to make their crumbling building the most festive spot in the city, they don’t expect it to become a twelve-day disaster zone. From exploding wreaths and blackout bake-offs to the world’s most unhinged Secret Santa swap, every day brings new chaos, and every tenant has something to hide.Tyler Brooks, the overworked building manager, is desperate to keep the place standing long enough to pass inspection before Christmas Eve. Harper...

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Life as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and respected sailor as the crew pursues pirates on the high seas.There's only one problem: Jacky is a girl. And she will have to use every bit of her spirit, wit, and courage to keep the crew from discovering her secret. This could be the adventure of her li...

Orphan gangs in London’s Cheapside? Check. British warships? Check. Pirates? Check. Disguises? Check. Nautical adventures with a saucy heroine? Check.Embark on a swashbuckling adventure with the highly entertaining and endlessly cunning Jacky Faber, aka Bloody Jack. Once a dastardly London street urchin, Jacky alters her fate forever by sneaking on board a British warship and disguising herself as a ship’s boy. Jacky climbs ships’ rigging better than the rough-and-tumble boys of th...

Comprehensive and balanced history of the Reform Movement.The movement for religious reform in modern Judaism represents one of the most significant phenomena in Jewish history during the last two hundred years. It introduced new theological conceptions and innovations in liturgy and religious practice that affected millions of Jews, first in central and Western Europe and later in the United States.Today Reform Judaism is one of the three major branches of ...

The intrepid Jacky Faber, having once again eluded British authorities, heads west, hoping that no one will recognize her in the wilds of America. There she tricks the tall-tale hero Mike Fink out of his flatboat, equips it as a floating casino-showboat, and heads south to New Orleans, battling murderous bandits, British soldiers, and other scoundrels along the way. Will Jacky's carelessness and impulsive actions ultimately cause her beloved Jaimy to be left in her wake?

An excellent overview of the intellectual history of important figures in German Jewry.Until the 18th century Jews lived in Christian Europe, spiritually and often physically removed form the stream of European culture. During the Enlightenment intellectual Europe accepted a philosophy which, by the universality of its ideals, reached out to embrace the Jew within the greater community of man. The Jew began to feel European, and his traditional identity became a pr...

Brings together leading Jewish scholars to explore the developing interrelation between tradition and change within modern Judaism.Although the ideas of "tradition" and "modernity" may seem to be directly opposed, David Ellenson, a leading contemporary scholar of modern Jewish thought, understood that these concepts can also enjoy a more fluid relationship. In honor of Ellenson, editors Michael A. Meyer and David N. Myers have gathered contributors for Between ...

The British crown has placed a price on Jacky's head, so she returns to the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston to lay low. But the safe haven doesn't last--a school outing goes awry as Jacky and her classmates are abducted and forced into the hold of the Bloodhound, a ship bound for the slave markets on the Barbary Coast. All of Jacky's ingenuity, determination, and plain old good luck will be put to the test as she rallies her delicate classmates to fight together and become ...

An invitation to a conversation about the direction of our worship life.The Anglican colloquium of the North American Academy of Liturgy acknowledged the need for a collection of insights to aid in the liturgical formation of the Episcopal Church as we move into liturgical revision. The volume's contributions have been shaped around the clauses of resolution A068, looking at the ways in which parishes and individuals can live into this time of revision and creativi...