Examines the complicated political legacy of our first black presidentWritten during the presidency of Donald Trump, After Obama examines the impact President Barack Obama and his administration have continued to have upon African American politics. In this comprehensive volume, Todd C. Shaw, Robert A. Brown, and Joseph P. McCormick II bring together more than a dozen scholars to explore his complex legacy, including his successes, failures, and contradicti...

How to develop and sustain research university leadership from the inside out, from a seasoned academic leader at both MIT and Boston University.America’s research universities are the bedrock of the US innovation ecosystem, supplying the knowledge and the graduates we need to drive our economy and lead our society. Fighting Fires and Building Flywheels tells the inspiring story of former president Robert Brown’s 35-plus years in academic leadership at bot...

In an unprecedented, one-of-a-kind anthology, six contemporary authors contribute a wide variety of holiday-themed stories featuring the series characters that have populated—or will populate—their bestselling novels.Betsey Kulakowski launches her series character, travel-adventure-show host Lauren Grayson (The Veritas Codex) on a hunt for the Christmas demon—Krampus. Robert A. Brown and John Wooley's correspondents from T...

In 1939, as war clouds mushroom around Depression-era America, former Civilian Conservation Corps worker Robert Brown finds himself with a new government job— gathering tales from ancient denizens of the Ozark Mountains. Possessed of an extrasensory intuitive skill he calls his seventh sense, Robert is no stranger to magic or the preternatural. He is, however, woefully underprepared for the animalistic horrors he discovers on this assignemnt--and the ancient horrors he unleashes."A...

Welcome back to Mackaville, Arkansas, a a small town in the Ozarks where nothing is what it seems. Strangers are suspect. And the townsfolk harbor horrible secrets.WPA Folklore Project worker Robert Brown — the man with the extrasensory powers he calls his "seventh sense" — finds himself surrounded by black magic. After a brutal rattlesnake attack, Robert faces an invasion of feral hogs — including a couple who turn out to be more than animals. Unsure who ...

Some secrets are best left buried...As The Cleansing trilogy roars to a conclusion, trouble and terror assail WPA Folklore Project writer Robert A. Brown from all sides, boiling up in a cauldron of horror that threatens to destroy both him and his extraordinary "seventh sense."This concluding volume of the three-book series, following Seventh Sense and Satan's Swine, finds Robert on the trail of eldritch secrets thought to be long buried i...

A bizarre murder in an idyllic Southern town propels a boy and his father into a world of evil in this World Fantasy Award–winning horror novel.New York Times –Bestselling and Bram Stoker Award–Winning AuthorSmall town boys see weird sights, and Zephyr has provided Cory Jay Mackenson with his fair share of oddities. He knows the bootleggers who lurk in the dark places outside of town. On moonless nights, he's heard...

Bestselling Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis delivers a powerful companion to his multiple award-winning ELIJAH OF BUXTON.Benji and Red couldn't be more different. They aren't friends. They don't even live in the same town. But their fates are entwined. A chance meeting leads the boys to discover that they have more in common than meets the eye. Both of them have encountered a strange presence in the forest, watching them, tracking them. Could the Madman of Piney Woods be r...

Everyone in Kenton Hills knows that short-tempered, tongue-tied Bob Talbert wasn't the one responsible for the brutal crime that ended Josie Eddleman's life. Nevermind that he was the last one to see her alive.But in a town filled with the likes of an amoral tabloid reporter known only as The Captain, a district attorney who'll do anything for a confession, and Bob's parents, who care as little for Bob as they do for each other, guilt and innocence are little more than a matter of p...

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • In this taut, chilling story,Lester Ballard—a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape—haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance."Like the novelists he admires-Melville, D...

With her mama recently dead and her pa sight unseen since birth, fourteen-year-old Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister--and of the family gas station. Harley Blevins, local king and emperor of Standard Oil, is in hot pursuit to clinch his fuel monopoly. To keep him at bay and keep her family out of foster care, Melia must come up with a father--and fast. And so when a hobo rolls out of a passing truck, Melia grabs opportunity by its beard. Can she hold off the ho...

THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURYWilliam W. Johnstone's Last Gunfighter novels have made him a national bestselling author and confirmed his standing as America’s most popular chronicler of the Wild West—and of the men and women who tamed it. Now, he brings his gritty, hard-edged vision of the frontier to a story of greed, power, and courage, as a beautiful land is caught in the grips of a dirty little war . . .The Bu...