The nineteenth-century roots of environmental writing in American literature are often mentioned in passing and sometimes studied piece by piece. Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature brings together numerous explorations of environmentally-aware writing across the genres of nineteenth-century literature. Like Lawrence Buell, the authors of this collection find Thoreau’s writing a touchstone of nineteenth-cent...

Having grown up as the ward of powerful men, Miss Emma Willis is resigned to being unwanted—particularly by her loathsome current guardian, Lord Maximus Aloyisius Tremaine, the Duke of Ardennes. When he abruptly orders her to find a husband, she's prepared to fight him tooth and nail—just as she's done ever since the unfortunate day when they first met.Max has always delighted in riling up his prickly ward, but one unexpected kiss forces him to realize that the only candidate he'll...

A cunning thief meets her match.A woman who isn't what she seems to be.Miss Antonia Lowry’s beauty and wit have gained her access to England’s highest social echelons. Each trinket she pockets from London’s haut ton brings her one step closer to freedom—or the hangman’s noose. As suspicion mounts, London’s best jewel thief decides it’s time to bid adieu to her false identity…but she may have overstayed her welcome.A...

A snowstorm. A scandal. Compromised for Christmas.England, 1817. Grace Dawson has already paid the price for trusting the wrong man—an infant son and a reputation in ruins. Her plans for a fresh start in Cavalier Cove are thwarted when a blizzard forces her to take shelter in a crowded inn.Lord Bryce Emerson, Duke of Falkmere, doesn't mind sharing his room with a stranded widow and her infant son. He figures he owes a good deed to ...

Bewitching the DukeAmidst a land of rolling hills and picturesque farms, common people scratch out a living shadowed by an aristocracy, fixed on expanding their holdings and wealth. It is a time of lustful ladies and scandalous men, uniting to fulfill family obligations and not for love. Women are bound to lifelong vows of marriage, hoping for a modicum of affection, while living days of servitude. This is not what Arianna Borges envisioned for herself. From the time she was a smal...

This story is about how on a hope a mother gets a horse for a young man with autism. Drawn into the emotional nature of horses, a life changing bond forms between this young man and both the best and the worst horse he could learn from. The stubborn and defiant will of Rocky challenges him to understand the body language through which horses communicate their emotions. As these two minds learn from their struggle together, competing on who will be the leader on the trail, an autistic mind ...

Duke and Hunter grew up together and know each other like the backs of their hands. Duke is concerned about his friend, though, because Hunter is not being himself. As for Hunter, he wants Duke to know how much he means to him. Friendship is a special gift that can teach everyone how blessed they are.

This Love Leaves ScarsEveryone in England believes that Lord Gareth Lucan, the Duke of Wolfhaven, is responsible for the untimely death of his late ward and - disgracefully - his intended bride. The scandal was so shocking that even the servants fled his decaying castle on the cliffs.Miss Evaine Ballard doesn't care about rumors. All she wants is a roof over her sick grandmother's head, even if it means renting a cottage on cursed land. She doesn't expect t...

Part reportage and part protest, A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb is an inquiry into the cultural logic and global repercussions of the war on terror. At its center are two men convicted in U.S. courts on terrorism-related charges: Hemant Lakhani, a seventy-year-old tried for attempting to sell a fake missile to an FBI informant, and Shahawar Matin Siraj, baited by the New York Police Department into a conspiracy to bomb a subway. Lakhani and Siraj were cau...

This accessible book introduces the key concepts and theoretical developments of queer criminology and explains what they mean for modern criminal justice frameworks and practitioners.The book sets out experiences of the LGBTQ+ population as victims, offenders and professionals in legal systems in the US and internationally and explores what they mean for elements of those systems including police, courts, corrections and victims’ services. It is both a useful reference point for a...

The U.S. victims’ rights movement has transformed the way that violent crime is understood and represented in the United States. It has expanded the concept of victimhood to include family members and others close to direct victims, and it has argued that these secondary victims may be further traumatized through their encounters with insensitive journalists and the cold, impersonal nature of the criminal justice system. This concept of extended victimization has come to dominate represent...