Rhetoric, Race, Religion, and the Charleston Shootings: Was Blind but Now I See is a collection focusing on the Charleston shootings written by leading scholars in the field who consider the rhetoric surrounding the shootings. This book offers an appraisal of the discourses – speeches, editorials, social media posts, visual images, prayers, songs, silence, demonstrations, and protests – that constituted, contested, and reconstituted the shootings in American civic life and cultural memory....

What happens when the study of French is no longer coterminous with the study of France? French Civilization and Its Discontents explores the ways in which considerations of difference, especially colonialism, postcolonialism, and race, have shaped French culture and French studies in the modern era. Rejecting traditional assimilationist notions of French national identity, contributors to this groundbreaking volume demonstrate how literature, history, and other aspects of what is consider...

Beloved author Donna Kauffman tells the spellbinding story of two lost souls, one remote Idaho ranch, and a love threatened by dark truths.Kane Hawthorne has no ties, nothing to anchor him, which is essential in his line of work. Except for a truck and a few horses, the bounty hunter has never found anything worth claiming. But that’s before he lays eyes on the person he has been hired to find. Elizabeth Lawson, the wife of a shrewd bank president is missing—and he...

She escaped every trap he set — only to fall prey to his timeless seduction....As a child, animal rescue worker Talia Trahaern was enchanted by the bedtime stories her mother spun of castles and kings, but she thought they were only fairy tales ... until a darkly compelling stranger invaded her world to reveal the fantastical truth. Suddenly Talia found herself face-to-face with a flesh-and-blood hero straight out of her wildest dreams.Devlin Archer had com...

She was never meant to be hunted.He was never meant to care.Elara lives quietly among ink-stained pages and forest paths, recording the secrets of plants so healers may tend the sick. But she carries a secret of her own—one she does not fully understand—and discovery could prove fatal.Until the king’s Hunters come.They sweep across the Highlands in search of a powerful healer, seizing any believed to possess forbidden gifts....

As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy, and knowledge to pay it forward and inspire other writers, experienced or a...

Griffins, cyclopes, monsters, and giants—these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? Through careful research and meticulous documentation, Adrienne Mayor convincingly shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact—in the enormous bones of long-extinct species that were o...

Institutions of higher education are keen to improve teachers’ intercultural experiences, communication, and understanding, but offer few resources for bringing the research literature to direct application in teacher education programs. This volume addresses that gap by examining what intercultural exchanges in teacher education look like, why they are important, and how they can be maintained. The authors examine how socio-cultural beliefs, institutional structures, and external accredit...

Ralph was finally back on the farm that he so missed. However, after graduation from High School, he decided to go to Cleary College, in Ypsilanti, MI. There he studied accounting. Trouble was accounting jobs were in the cities. So, Ralph decided to help his Pa on the farm instead.Once married, Ralph and his wife, Edith, moved to the farm. This wasn't without its problems. His dad, Millie, didn't appreciate Ralph suggesting that he try new ways of farming. After all, his way of far...

When a stay-at-home mother of four hauls her kids and camp trailer over Colorado's Continental Divide, she has no clue that she is leading her family into the epicenter of a murder mystery.Jean Branning's priority for the summer is to reunite her family with husband Chad, who works a temporary job in Steamboat Springs. Caught in the turmoil of downsizing, they've spent the entire school year apart, except for weekends when weather permitted Chad's journey home over...

Welcome to Rug Town.Come and join Hunter and Connor in their young childhood adventures with Grandma and Grandpa.Story time is great for family time, school time, and don't forget library time. Children need to hear our stories, and they need to tell us theirs. Stories are good for fun, and they are good problem solvers too. I'm glad I wrote our stories down. I would have forgotten those special little times, and my children and grandchildr...

There is a chill in the air. Something is coming.Change is coming.It's a time to celebrate. It's a time to hide.It's a time to get ready for the things we don't expect.It's time to open up the Autumn Breezeway.Edited by Sam Knight. Associate Editor Bailey FinnStories by:Steve Ruskin, Jude Deluca, James Rogers, CJ Mattison, Arlo Sharp, P. Francis Smythe, AE Stueve, Sheila Hartney, Eve Morton, Grayson Wilson, Jessica McLain, Tanya Hales...