After a lifetime in India, Philip returns to Australia, to his estranged wife Jenny, whom he had brought from India fifty years earlier. Philip seeks to establish links with his ex-wife and his grandson amidst the 2001 'Tampa' crisis. Displaced and disappointed in his hopes of resuming a career in his own country, Philip is visited by a ghost: Ragini, the young revolutionary he fell in love with in 1948. Philip is troubled by his unsorted memories of those times. In 1948 India has achieved...

From USA Today bestselling author Jeneane O'Riley comes the first in a series of deliciously dark and whimsical standalone romances.Some secrets were never meant to be unearthed.Perched on a windswept cliff, Blackwood Manor looms like a dark monument to a mysterious family. Behind its grand iron gates, one part of the estate has been left to rot since the tragic death of Hester Blackwood: the once-glorious conservatory, now choked by...

This volume explores what phenomenology adds to the enterprise of anthropology, drawing on and contributing to a burgeoning field of social science research inspired by the phenomenological tradition in philosophy. Essays by leading scholars ground their discussions of theory and method in richly detailed ethnographic case studies. The contributors broaden the application of phenomenology in anthropology beyond the areas in which it has been most influential—studies of sensory perception, ...

Power never disappears. It reorganizes. WHEN A CIA OFFICER IS ASSASSINATED in a London safe-house, intelligence analysts Jack Keller and Catherine Vienna uncover his final discovery: a digital ledger that doesn't track money—it tracks crises. Every major shock of the past half-century appears inside it: Wars. Financial crashes. Pandemics. Each event triggers the same sequence: emergency legislation, humanitarian funding, and trillions of dollars moving through government budgets. The publi...

What happens when a computer glitch sends eighty-nine copies of the same scientist (and no one else) to settle a new planet? Or a privateer gets stranded on a slow ship he tried to hijack that’s still years away from its destination and has no food?BRAVE NEW WORLDS presents fifteen original stories that follow humanity’s long dream of traveling to the stars, from heart-wrenching departures from Earth, through the unknown dangers of the long flight through the cold vastness of space...

In the heart of Theodore Roosevelt’s America, a storm of anarchy threatens the nation, leading to a gripping tale of betrayal, fear, and the birth of the FBI.America, 1908When a bomb narrowly misses President Roosevelt’s personal railcar at Union Station, New York senator Jason Ellis is convinced it’s an assassination attempt. But no anarchist group claims responsibility. Could it be the work of a lone radical?Angel Casimer, an American Bol...

PORTALS: What mysteries…or horrors…await you on the other side?The lure of an open doorway is hard to resist. What lies beyond? Where will it take you—and how will you be transformed? Will it lead to paradise…or a living hell? You’ll never know, unless you have the courage to take that first step.In this anthology you will find sixteen stories of portals to exotic destinations, whether it’s a doorway in the desert that appears out of thin air, a fairy ring of mushrooms in t...