**NEW FOREWORD BY JANELLE MONÁEExperience the time travel science fiction classic from the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and winner of the MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo Awards.A modern Black woman is pulled through time to face the horrors of slavery in this “Great American Novel” about racism, sexism, and white supremacy—then and now (The Atlantic).**“I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm...

Jacob Payne, bounty hunter, is on the trail in the Arizona Territory.The town of San Adrian has been taken over by an outlaw, a wife-murderer, and violent man who won't succumb to Jacob's usual methods.He must protect the sheriff's widow, the townspeople, and himself all while unmasking this despicable character.If you love traditional westerns, with noble men fighting for what's right, you're going to love Jacob Payne.This novella is 15,000 words and can be...

When Kelly Jean Cavanaugh left behind her years in Hollywood as a Marilyn Monroe impersonator, she believed she had finally found peace-a stable life, a loving marriage, and the quiet comfort of knowing who she truly was.But when everything changes overnight, Kelly is left shattered and struggling to navigate grief, loneliness, and the uncertainty of starting over.As Kelly attempts to rebuild her life in Nashville during the pandemic, memories of her past begin resurfacing ...

The prize-winning author of The Method reveals the forgotten origins of America's culture wars-a story of late 20th century art vs. censorship, brimming with intense drama and fierce moral urgency.It's 1988, the final year of the Reagan presidency, and the curtain is closing on the Cold War. In the absence of external adversaries, the American public is on the precipice of war with itself. The religious right, newly ascendant and emboldened, is determined ...

For fourteen years, alpha wolf Jason has stood in the shadows, watching his partially marked mate, Cadence, live her life without him. Bound by duty and guilt, he's pushed her away, but now circumstances force his hand. He must break through the wall of buried memories that keep them apart—before another wolf steps in to claim her.Cadence has loved Jason with every beat of her heart for as long as she can remember, but his rejection has left her drowning in anger and shame. No othe...

It is commonly understood that teacher educators help develop teachers. It is less commonly understood how teacher educators come to develop as teacher educators themselves. Who and what develops the teacher educator? We know that teacher education does not exist apart from the teacher educator, yet too often teacher educator development becomes an afterthought in our teacher education discourse. This book examines this key group's development through historical and contemporary c...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - The Divine Comedy [Dante Alighieri] - Emma [Jane Austen] - Persuasion [Jane Austen] - Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] - Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac] - Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë] - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë] - Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë] - The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler] - Don Quixote [Miguel de Cervantes] - Heart of Darkness [Joseph Conrad] - Nostromo [Joseph Conrad] - Mo...

Based on authors’ experiences in working in the NHS and in teaching medical students, nurses, social science undergraduates and trainees in community medicine, Health and Health Services (originally published in 1984) is an introductory text on health care policies.Since its introduction in 1948, the National Health Service had frequently been the focus of intense scrutiny, debate, conflict and passion—and perhaps never more so than in the 1980s. Health and Health Serv...

Justine is happily married, making ends meet as a massage therapist. Her work has always opened the door to the occasional fantasy: thoughts about what if? with her male clients. After all, they're there, alone, together, with the urban legend of the "happy ending" always in the air...But she never does anything more than fantasize.Until she meets her newest client, the dark and very forward Marcellus, who wants a happy ending and isn't shy about making it a reality. If she...

The first in a light, loving wife, hotwife/wife-sharing series:Sheila's an age-defying hottie: prim, professional, and a mother of two grown kids.She's also a very kind person.Alistair isn't thrilled when she invites a young man to live with them to help him out. It's the sort of thing that Sheila does.And they do have all this extra space.Booker turns out to be a charming, polite, and handsome young man. Sheila's become a little more youthful...

Burned-out Phoenix cop Ben Shockley gets what looks like a throwaway assignment: pick up a witness in Las Vegas and bring her back for a mob trial. The witness turns out to be Augustina "Gus" Mally, a sharp-tongued call girl who insists she knows too much to arrive alive.At first Ben thinks it's just paranoia. Then the bullets start flying.As they cross the desert toward Phoenix, the trip becomes a rolling ambush, with bikers, hitmen, and even fellow cops trying to turn the...

In 1892, critically acclaimed novelist Paul Butler plunges the reader into 19th century St. John’s, its light and its shade . . .An obscure servant, Kathleen, yearns for her home in Ireland. A mysterious scientist, Dr. Glenwood, believes he can be the first to bring a new photographic discovery to the world. A stable hand, Tommy Fitzpatrick, battles inner demons as he tries to win Kathleen’s heart. These collective struggles will soon erupt to change the f...