Five-year-old Chelsea wants to know where baby unicorns come from. When she asked her mother, she took off like a frightened rabbit. Perhaps her new unicorn friend will have the answer...or maybe Chelsea will just have to find out for herself.

All Lily wanted was to be a normal high school student. Well, the most normal a six foot, three inch tall girl who was bigger and stronger than the average football player could be. And it really was wonderfully normal...until a Goblin fell in love with her. Now Lily is dodging Goblins, Ogres, and table cutlery in this amusing misadventure of awkward high school romance.

Kyan is the infamous Cat o' Nine, a spy, thief, and assassin for Nybaaz, the vampire kingpin of Gorkath. Her name is only spoken in hushed whispers in the alleys and streets, and her quarry never manages to escape. But when Kyan's best friend dies because of her druidic powers, Kyan is thrown into emotional turmoil and flees Nybaaz, intending to find a way to oust her inherent magic.Nybaaz, however, is unwilling to give up his valuable lover--and her powers--that easily. With the h...

Tirk Talongrave was never very good at magic. A clumsy apprentice Magician to his father, he has spent nineteen and a half miserable years inside his home with his family, the most powerful line of Enchanters the kingdom has ever seen.With his test to become a full Magician right around the corner and no familiar to speak of, Tirk's parents are turning him out in the hopes that the real world can teach him the lessons that his parents have failed to instill in him. Tirk is given si...

In this sequel to The Ugly Kids short story, Lily finds herself roped into a formal dinner with Gohber's family, the Goblin king and queen. Gohber's brother Tog, however, has other plans for the couple, and everything goes to Hell in a handbasket.

Kyan is the infamous Cat o' Nine, formerly a spy, thief, and assassin. In the second book of the Cat o' Nine series, having won her freedom from her former vampire lover, Nybaaz, she and her companion, a Warg named Grawl, are entrusted with a message for the duchy of Agonul warning of an impending Orc invasion.With sharpened blades and twisting schemes waiting for her around every corner, Kyan tries to shed her dark past and become a normal Mau. War is right around the corner thoug...

A celebration of National Public Radio "full of short histories from familiar names . . . [a] retrospective illustrating just how much they have given us" ( Publishers Weekly)."Always put the listener first" has been NPR's mantra since its inception in 1970, and the result is that its programming attracts tens of millions of listeners every week. This beautifully designed volume chronicles the first forty years of NPR's storied history, featuring dozens of ...

Sous la coordination de Marie-Hélène Broihanne, Gunther Capelle-Blancard et Antoine Rebérioux, le numéro 157 de la Revue d’économie financière plonge au cœur des enjeux de genre dans le secteur financier. Un secteur où, malgré des avancées significatives, les femmes restent sous-représentées, notamment aux postes de direction et dans la gestion d’actifs. Alors que les inégalités persistent, la question se pose : comment transformer cette réalité pour un secteur plus inclusif et pl...

Cari Allen is a novelist with a few good books under her belt, and another on hold, considering her sister's tragic death. Now Cari is taking over her sister's winery, trying to piece together what really happened to Kelli, and suspicious of foul play, her lead suspect is the billionaire boss her sister was apparently dating. But when she pays the ex a visit, bringing wine as a pretense, she comes face-to-face with his head of security, she can only call tall, dark, and deadly.That ...

The Impact of Natural Disasters on Systemic Political and Social Inequities in the U.S. examines how natural disasters impact social inequality in the United States. The contributors cover topics such as criminal justice, demographics, economics, history, political science, and sociology to show how effects of natural disasters vary by social and economic class in the United States. This volumestudies social and political mechanisms in disaster response and relief that enable natural disas...

Social justice rhetoric is prevalent in contemporary America, but are we as a nation ready to do the work to effect real change? Emily Allen Williams has gathered a group of essays that interrogate matters of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access. In doing so, the essays contribute to what Williams call “tilling the ground,” i.e. a process by which the nation is prepared for the changes that must follow the rhetoric through the work of diversity and inclusion in a variety of social aren...

Ho, ho, ho, aus dem Krankenhaus da komm ich her, ich muss euch sagen, es weihnachtet sehr ... Nach dem fulminanten Erfolg seines ersten Buches in Großbritannien blättert der Bestsellerautor und ehemalige Assistenzarzt Adam Kay erneut in seinem Tagebuch zurück, um einen urkomischen, schrecklichen und manchmal herzzerreißenden Blick hinter den blauen Krankenhausvorhang in der Weihnachtszeit zu werfen, wo nicht nur Babys zur Welt gebracht, sondern zuweilen auch Christbaumkugeln von den sonder...