Maxine is the girl of Jayla’s dreams: she’s charming, magnetic, and loves Jayla for her transgender self. There’s only one problem with Maxine—she already has a girlfriend, perfect Becky.Jayla quickly falls under Maxine’s spell, and she’s willing to do anything to win her. But when Becky turns up dead, Jayla is pulled into a tangle of deceit, lies, and murder. Now Jayla is forced to choose between love and the truth.Jayla will need all the strength she has to escape the dar...

Clarissa and Lexie couldn’t be more different. Clarissa is a chirpy, optimistic do-gooder and a top rider on the school’s equestrian team. Lexie is an angry, punk rock activist and the only out lesbian at their school.When Clarissa declares she’s bi and starts a Gay-Straight Alliance, she unwittingly presses all of Lexie’s buttons, so Lexie makes it her job to cut Clarissa down to size. But Lexie goes too far and finds herself an unwitting participant in Clarissa’s latest crusade. ...

What does it take to survive in a world built on lies?Sixteen-year-old Rubric loves her pampered life in the Academy dormitory. She’s dating Salmon Jo, a brilliant and unpredictable girl. In their all-female world, non-human slaves called Klons do all the work. But when Rubric and Salmon Jo break into the laboratory where human and Klon babies are grown in vats, they uncover a terrifying secret that tears their idyllic world apart.Their friends won’t believe them, and their...

"Es ist ein magischer Ort, an dem einfach alles möglich ist." Seit einer Weile schon können die Tiere des Raubtier- und Exotenasyls Ansbach/Wallersdorf ihre Käfige verlassen und das angrenzende Wäldchen betreten. Bis heute wussten ihre Pfleger nichts davon. Jetzt werden sie es erfahren. Und auch ihr werdet lesen können, welche spannenden Abenteuer die Raubtiere dort erlebt haben. Selbst der Waldwächter, der in Form eines kleinen, schillernden Tannenbaums dieses Waldgebiet beschützt, wird v...

Verlassen stehen sie da.Niemand hat sie seit Jahren beachtet.Kein Mensch kümmert sich mehr darum.Die Steine sind verwittert, die Inschriften oft kaum mehr lesbar. Gras, Moos, wild aufgegangene Bäumchen oder Sträucher verdecken sie beinahe ... Doch nicht nur von der Welt fast vergessene Mahnmale und Gedenksätten bergen die verschiedensten Geheimnisse. Auch hinter Grabsteinen stecken oft mysteriöse bis gruselige Geschichten. Und manchmal ist sogar ein u...

Combining biography, history, and literary theory, this work looks at three of the most significant women writers to emerge from American radicalism of the 1930s. Le Sueur, Olsen, and Herbst were influenced by the Communist movement of the time, but each also forged an independent vision of feminist socialist literary milieu. Drawing on Marxist and post-Marxist theory, and addressing the challenge of such new feminist theorists as Jean Bethke Elshtain, Roberts takes a theoretical approach ...

Science and religion are often viewed as dichotomies. But although our contemporary society is often perceived as a rationalization process, we still need broad, metaphysical beliefs outside of what can be proven empirically. Rituals and symbols remain at the core of modern life. Do our concepts of science and religion require revitalization? Can science itself be considered a religion, a belief, or an ideology? Science's authority and prestige allows for little in the way of alternate app...