From one of the first and few women of color to reach the C-suite in Silicon Valley, Apple’s former chief of HR and first VP of inclusion and diversity, comes a heartfelt story of growing up Black and female in a world with little regard for either and a practical road map for embodying the best in yourself and emboldening others along the way.“You will enjoy reading this book and benefit as a business leader but mostly as a member of the human race.”—Ron J...

From our Varuna Awards program comes a classic outlaw tale of a father and son on the run. ten-year-old Chook knows something is wrong when his father, Kev, bundles him into the car in the middle of the night, leaving their friend Max white-faced, silent and covered in blood.As the two head for Broken Hill and the hope of refuge with one of Kev's old girlfriends, the fierce bond between father and son is tested by Chook's memories of previous hasty exits, of happier times in Bowraville, a ...

From one of the first and few women of color to reach the C-suite in Silicon Valley, Apple’s former chief of HR and first VP of inclusion and diversity, comes a heartfelt story of growing up Black and female in a world with little regard for either and a practical road map for embodying the best in yourself and emboldening others along the way.“You will enjoy reading this book and benefit as a business leader but mostly as a member of the human race.”—Ron J...

Purge: A True Story is my real life story. I began to write poems and quotes again after having years of trials and tribulations. Painfully, they put me into a great transition of life while in my midforties. After being a devoted wife and mother for years, Im now a divorced, single woman, who has raised two grown sons. I decided to search for my position in my lifes journey. Although Ive experienced many heartbreaking issues, I also have plenty of happy days. These happy days allowed me t...

How do you choose between the love of your life, the man that your soul can’t seem to live without, your destiny or the other man that your body seems to yearn for uncontrollably? That is Fury’s dilemma. As if thigs weren’t hard enough. The council is convinced that a dark handsome Ismael is the right mate for Fury. Although there is a connection between the two Fury refuses to believe that Ismael is the man that she belongs with. Just when Fury believes she’s about to have a break down fr...

What need is there for kinship? What good is it anyway? The questions are as old as anthropology itself, but few answers have been enduringly persuasive. Kinship systems can contribute to our enslavement, but more often they permit, channel, and facilitate our relations with others and our further fashioning of ourselves-as kin but also as subjects of other kinds. When they do, they are among the matrices of our lives as ethical beings. Each contributor to this innovative book treats his o...

KinoSputniks closely analyse some key films from the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. Written by international experts in the field, they are intended for film enthusiasts and students, combining scholarship with an accessible style of writing.This KinoSputnik about Fedor Bondarchuk's megahit Stalingrad (2013) examines the production, context and reception of the film, whilst offering a detailed reading of its key themes.Fedor Bondarchuk’s 2013 blockbuster fil...

KinoSputniks closely analyse some key films from the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. Written by international experts in the field, they are intended for film enthusiasts and students, combining scholarship with an accessible style of writing. This KinoSputnik on Andrei Tarkovsky's debut feature Ivan's Childhood examines the production, context and reception of the film, whilst offering a detailed reading of its key themes.Through a close examination of its intricate narrativ...

KinoSputniks closely analyse some key films from the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. Written by international experts in the field, they are intended for film enthusiasts and students, combining scholarship with an accessible style of writing.Ira Österberg's KinoSputnik on Aleksei Balabanov's cult film Brother (1997) examines the production history, context and reception of the film, and offers a detailed reading of its key themes.Balabanov’s Brother...

A coven of witches with a tangled destiny...I'm Cassie Gearhart, and the last thing I remember, I cast a spell in 1974. Then, I woke up on a rainy July night to find it was 2019. And the entire Willow Creek Coven—my coven—was gone.Well, there is one witch left in Willow Creek, Virginia: Nick Felson, the grandson of my high priestess, a brooding farm boy with magic in his blood and a chip on his shoulder.Every time we get too close, love—the...

Welcome to Foster Springs, Virginia, a small town where the fae roam the forests and magic is an open secret...You can find all sorts of things at the annual holiday market in Foster Springs, Virginia. But local witch Paige knows she won't find the one thing she wants most for Christmas: her missing magic. A chance run-in with a mysterious tarot reader sends Paige on a journey that just might have her believing in the holiday spirit after all....

The debut title of a new city-based anthology series featuring stories with speculative, sci-fi, and paranormal themesAs an incubator of the future, Los Angeles has long mesmerized writers from Philip K. Dick to Aldous Huxley. With its natural disasters, Hollywood artifice, staggering wealth and poverty, urban sprawl, and diversity, one can argue that Los Angeles is already so weird, surreal, irrational, and mythic that any fiction emerging from this place should b...