Incorporates experimental archaeology to understand the food-caching strategies led by Indigenous women in Late Woodland Michigan.This experimental archaeology book centers on the decision of Indigenous women in Michigan’s Late Woodland to store food in cache pits for later use, to ensure a stable food supply. These food storage techniques were efforts to increase communal chances of survival in direct responses to sociopolitical changes. Kathryn M. Freder...

Trump is pregnant.This is inconvenient for almost everyone.Trump is Pregnant is a motherhood-horror opera-libretto love-poem in which political grotesque, philosophical fable, musical comedy and metaphysical travelogue collide. A narrator, a troupe of frogs, assorted revenants, musicians, bureaucrats, mystics and other unreliable entities move through a world where pregnancy becomes cosmology, revenge becomes pilgrimage and certainty proves conside...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was written in 1845, seven years after Douglass escaped slavery, and is the first of three autobiographies. It covers his life as a slave, enduring the whips of the overseers and the hopelessness of his circumstances, until his escape to the north and arrival at New Bedford, Massachusetts. The brutalities he witnessed and his slowly growing desire for freedom are presented in the vivid language he was already known for in his antisla...

George Arthur Rose aspired to the priesthood, but after being much abused and taken advantage of for many years by his Catholic brothers, he finds himself disillusioned with humanity. But just as the secret conclave in Rome is deadlocked in the election of the next Pope, he finds himself rediscovered. A compromise in the election results in Rose being chosen for the office, and he styles himself as Hadrian the Seventh. With his new authority, he implements church reforms and a program to b...

Captain Marryat's The Little Savage opens with a fierce survival story and a haunting question: what becomes of a child raised outside ordinary human life? Frank Henniker grows up on a remote island with only a brutal, secretive guardian, learning hunger, labor, fear, and silence long before he understands language, family, or the world beyond the sea. The island itself is both prison and provider, with cliffs, scarce water, seabirds, fish, and improvised shelters shaping a life of hardshi...

A pacha's darkly comic reflections on power open into a chain of calamities where love, war, and arbitrary authority crush the vulnerable. Against a backdrop of ominous, storm-darkened skies and sudden upheaval, the narrator's irreverent voice turns political cruelty into bitter satire while hinting at a larger adventure shaped by fear and fate. A renegade then confesses a ruinous passion for a princess, surviving a sea disaster, the loss of his companions, and a grotesque commercial windf...

In a weather-beaten cottage near Terneuse, seventeenth-century Holland, Philip Vanderdecken lives under the shadow of a sealed room, a dying mother, and a secret that has poisoned the household for years. Restless, proud, and desperate to escape poverty, he longs to go to sea, but his mother's fearful warnings and sudden collapse draw him into a mystery far darker than want. As she bleeds to death, she reveals the truth about Philip's father: a Catholic sailor from Amsterdam whose final vo...

Captain Frederick Marryat's The Mission; or Scenes in Africa follows Alexander Wilmot on a journey that begins as an act of filial devotion and becomes a full-scale adventure across the southern African frontier. Moved by his grand-uncle Sir Charles's lifelong grief over the lost survivors of the Grosvenor wreck, Alexander sails from Portsmouth in hopes of bringing back news that may ease the old man's sorrow. His departure is shadowed by homesickness and uncertainty, but also by the thril...

Captain Marryat's Peter Simple launches with the comic misfortunes of a self-described "fool of the family," an awkward young man pushed into naval service and into a world far rougher than his rural upbringing has prepared him for. Sent first to London and then on to Portsmouth, Peter endures family embarrassment, stock-market anxieties, coach-road absurdities, and the first shocks of seafaring life, all filtered through his innocent, self-deprecating voice. Once among the midshipmen, he ...

Captain Marryat's The Poacher begins in the English countryside, where drink, mischief, and lawbreaking lurk beneath a comic surface. A stormy Devonshire night, a drunken schoolmaster, a crafty pedlar, and a seemingly helpless invalid quickly give way to a stealthy family outing that reveals the hidden world of poaching, secrecy, and survival just beyond respectable society. At the center stands Joseph Rushbrook, a former poacher turned soldier who returns home restless and unsettled, marr...

Captain Marryat's Newton Forster, or The Merchant Service launches with a comic, combative narrator who mocks critics, defends storytelling, and turns from literary satire to the hard realities of naval life. That restless, self-aware voice gives way to a storm-lashed seaside drama, where retired officer Edward Forster leaves his cottage to answer a gunshot in the night and help a ship in distress. On the cliffs, he and fisherman Robertson battle wind and darkness, burning a beacon as a ve...

Worry doesn't ask permission to interrupt a good moment-it just convinces your body that the moment issecretly dangerous. Part of The Money Instinct Library, Frederick Huxley's insightful book explores the neuralpattern that turns routine uncertainty into a full-body emergency signal, and why stopping it requires more thanpositive thinking.When your brain defaults to worst-case scanning, everyday situations shift from neutral to threatening. Aheadach...