Rhea's magic is eating her alive.In a split second, she's forced to abandon her corporate accounting life when she's suddenly dropped into an unfamiliar world. This new world is one full of wild magic, mysterious cults... and a tyrant king hell-bent on making Rhea's magic his own.Between the elves, fairies, and demons, Rhea feels out of place most everywhere she turns. Though she manages to make new friends, her magic even puts them in danger, and she quick...

2017 Wiener Library Ernst Fraenkel Prize (WLEFP) FinalistThe majority of European Jewish children alive in 1939 were murdered during the Holocaust. Of 1.5 million children, only an estimated 150,000 survived. In the aftermath of the Shoah, efforts by American Jews brought several thousand of these child survivors to the United States. In Child Survivors of the Holocaust, historian Beth B. Cohen weaves together survivor testimonies and archival documents to...

Drop the Act, It’s Exhausting! is one woman’s call to all women to embrace the imperfections in their lives and to air their “improper” thoughts about relationships, love, sex, parenting, careers, self-esteem, and self-image. By no longer being ashamed or apologetic about how they "really feel,” women will become more aware of who they are and more accepting of themselves and one another. With wit, candor, and refreshingly blunt observations, Beth Thomas Cohen proves herself the prime exam...

This edited collection addresses theoretical, political and practical aspects of the connection between external immigration controls and internal welfare controls. It considers the implications for the both those subject to controls and those drawn into the web of implementing internal welfare controls. Topics discussed include:forced dispersal of asylum seekerslocal authority and voluntary sector regulationsnationalism, racism, class and 'fairness'...

Nuria fondly remembers her nights in front of the bonfire in Peguerinos with her grandfather Mateo, when she was just a little girl and listened spellbound to the fables and scary stories he told her by the fire, especially the one about The Voice Thief.

Set on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza, but ranging afield to a small college town in North Carolina, to the streets of Manhattan, and to the barrio chino of Barcelona, Writer-in-Residence tells the story of a successful American painter named David Bloom, who, to the horror of his family, his friends, and his fellow artists, is obsessed with destroying everything he paints. For the past five years he has burned every single painting that he has produced over the past 12 months ...

The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States in November 2016 was a political earthquake, one supporters and detractors alike agree has changed the course of history. The policy implications have been stark and will continue well beyond his presidency. The political implications have been perhaps even more drastic—for both political parties. Trump has shaken the 40-year-old coalition of traditional conservatives, orthodox religious voters, and free-market libertarians tha...

Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essays in this volume investigate how evolving, contemporary views on mass atrocity frame and complicate the possibilities for the understanding and prevention of genocide. The contributors ask, among other things, what are the limits of the law, of history, of literature, and of education in underst...

He saved her life. Now he’s decided it belongs to him.Oshali was raised in a hidden sanctum, far from the war-torn world beyond its walls—and under the watch of the dragon lord called Tyomar who rescued her as a baby.Tyomar is powerful, ruthless… and used to obedience.Although he has never seen her face, Oshali has always been something to guard.His.But she is no longer the helpless baby he placed at the sanctum.But when Osha...

This trilogy of brilliant novels - The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land - that charts the life and times of one of the most beloved and enduring characters in modern fiction.When we meet Frank Bascombe in The Sportswriter, his unguarded voice instantly wins us over and pulls us into a life that has been irrevocably changed by the loss of a marriage, a career, a child. We then follow Frank, ever brilliantly and hilariously o...

NBCC Award Winner: "The narrative lyrics in this remarkable collection . . . could stand as compressed stories about anxiety and the body." — The New York TimesVulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility—"What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry ...

Leksander is a Dragon Prince of the House of Smoke… and he is in love with the wrong woman. Leksander never meant to fall for an angeling, and he certainly never meant to hurt her. The protection of humanity is his most sacred duty, but how can he do that when he can’t even protect the woman he loves? Saving Erelah means saving himself—he’ll be useless for anything else until he does, including finding a mate to fulfill a ten-thousand-year-old treaty to keep humanity safe ...