Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South is an anthology like no other. Featuring over 15 stories and poems by new and veteran authors, the writing reflects a diverse range of Southern experience. From the post-Kartina New Orleans of Rose Yndigoyen’s “Long Gone Girls” and the deep-rooted family of Hardy Jones’ “Visitin’ Coremierville” to the racial tension of Eryk Pruitt’s “Them Riders” and Shane K. Bernard’s “The Phrenologist,” the anthology represents a new interpretation of the ...

Ever wanted to understand the Christian faith better but do not know where to begin?Theology Devotional provides readers with a 365-day journey through the important doctrines of the Christian faith. Approaching the topic from a broad, evangelical perspective, K. Bernard Knutson has designed this book for all biblically minded Christians to not only better understand the matter of their faith but to grow closer to God in the process.Every month offers a deep dive i...

The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained strikingly distinct. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People explores these six decades and analyzes the forces that had an impact on Louisiana's Acadiana.In the 1940s, when America entered World War II, so too did the isolated Cajuns. Cajun soldiers fought alongside troops from ...

Blake Karrington Presents is back with a collection that’s all about grown-man energy—strength, wisdom, and heart. A High Value Goon delivers stories of men who know the streets but live by a higher code. These aren’t boys chasing clout; these are real men who protect, provide, and stand tall with character.Every tale is penned by Blake, bringing you drama, passion, and the kind of love-and-loyalty choices that hit home. These goons may have street ties, but they’re not st...

Recipient of a 2017 Book of the Year Award presented by the Louisiana Endowment for the HumanitiesShane K. Bernard's Teche examines this legendary waterway of the American Deep South. Bernard delves into the bayou's geologic formation as a vestige of the Mississippi and Red Rivers, its prehistoric Native American occupation, and its colonial settlement by French, Spanish, and, eventually, Anglo-American pioneers. He surveys the coming of indigo, cotton, an...

Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader's History traces the four-hundred-year history of this distinct American ethnic group. In its original English, the book proved a perfect package, comprehensible to junior-high and high-school students, while appealing to and informing adult readers seeking a one-volume exploration of these remarkable people and their predecessors. It is now available for the first time translated into French.The narrative follows the Caju...

The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period, they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained strikingly distinct. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People explores these six decades and analyzes the forces that had an impact on Louisiana's Acadiana.In the 1940s, when America entered World War II, so too did the isolated Cajuns. Cajun soldiers fought alongside troops from...

Nevaeh Chapel’s life was picture perfect. A loving family, great job, and a doting boyfriend, one would think that she had it all together from the outside looking in.She thought she had it all together too until she crossed paths with a loose cannon that was the epitome of the phrase.Kaleb “Cannon” Barnes had one belief that he didn’t compromise on: My life, my rules. He was unapologetically himself living life on his own terms. Crossing paths with a feisty woman whose per...

Somya Hilton has known nothing but a life of ultimatums. From a young age, it was her and her sister Eliza against the world. When both of them find love and start families of their own, Somya finally feels like she has the life she deserves.Then tragedy strikes, leaving both her sister and brother-in-law dead and Somya to care for her niece Jazlynn, who is ten at the time. For Somya there is no question that Jazzlyn should be with her. Her husband, however, has a difference of opi...

"Sustainable development" quickly became the universal goal for environmentalists in the 1990s, motivated by the 1988 Brundtland Report and the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. When the time came to bring theory into reality, sustainable development revealed far more complexity than first anticipated. To attain sustainable development in the full sense of the phrase"meeting present needs without compromising the resources needed for future societies"environmental and social concerns would need a ...

After seeing the man she’s been dating post an engagement announcement, Jahnae Greer is devastated. With the advice from her friends, she goes out and has a drunken one-night stand with a handsome stranger. Months later when she finds out her ex-boyfriend isn’t the father of her child, she has no idea how to get in touch with the man from her one-night stand. She vows to raise her daughter alone until two years later when she sees him on a news report that he’s been arrested.Footba...