It's the start of a new semester, and high school junior Kuroki finds himself seated beside the girl everyone whispers about: Mai Chihara. With her gothic fashion, jet-black hair, and intense stare, Chihara is said to be a "landmine" girl or jirai-kei, the hyper-feminine, dark aesthetic often associated with yandere tendencies and unstable personalities. But when Kuroki accidentally draws Chihara's attention, he discovers she isn't nearly as unstable as people claim. Beneath the intimidati...

The deepest waters of Earth hide more than darkness. They hold the remnants of forgotten epochs, where time stretches, collapses, and remembers differently.Abyssal Sapience asks whether the minds we search for in the heavens may already have risen in the depths of the sea. Weaving together science, myth, and speculation, Keaton Ryon traces hidden patterns of life and consciousness that may extend far beyond human imagination.What if the oldest minds on Earth have always bee...

A girl journeys across her family’s land to save her grandmother’s life in this captivating and magical debut that’s perfect for fans of The Thing About Jellyfish.Yolanda Rodríguez-O’Connell has a secret. All the members of her family have a magical gift—all, that is, except for Yolanda. Still, it’s something she can never talk about, or the townsfolk will call her family brujas—witches. When her grandmother, Wela, falls into an unexplained sleep,...

Positive Psychology: The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths offers comprehensive coverage of the science and application of positive emotions and human strengths such as empathy, altruism, gratitude, attachment, and love. Authors Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, Shane J. Lopez, Ryon C. McDermott, and C. R. Snyder bring positive psychology to life for students by showing how it can improve all phases of contemporary life. The fully revised ...

Two weeks before Halloween, Chrystal dreams of six founding families' members, an ancient seal breaking, and an evil sorcerer being freed. Now she and Alex race to help their friends-Keisha, Tristan, Katie, and Michael-unlock their powers and uncover the secrets of Amethyst Harbor before Titus Kane is set free and destroys the town for his imprisonment.

In his first book of short stories and poetry, Neall Ryon offers both an uncommon view of mundane reality and a revealing view of the sublime. A book in 5 parts that offers three stories from the perspective of a soul and in between these unique stories he shares 52 poems plus a mixture of haikus and aphorisms, all of which touch on the spiritual ups and downs of being human and living an experience common to us all ... life.

The main story is a novelette, The Brighton Tarot Card Mystery. This story is a delightful little romp through the streets of Brighton, England with a self styled detective chasing the young thief who stole a mysterious deck of Tarot Cards that is gaining a reputation for for accurately predicting the future. There are a dozen additional short stories that offer a range of topics, some taken from life and others that are purely fictional. A Million, Million, Stars is a true story of a chil...

The stories and poetry in this book are about life and the compassion we need to learn so we can see that we are one humanity all on a journey. This books sees the commonality in our humanity as we all seek to love and be loved.

The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western prairie. Data were collected during interviews from at least five persons in each of t...

This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in inter-Asia cultural studies.The chapters in this volume cover a wide range of dance works, artists, genres, and media, from Kathak to K-pop flash mob dance, from Cold War diplomacy to avant-garde dance collaborations, and from festival dance to dance on screen. Working against the Western-centric category of “Asian dance” and Western-centric theorizations of interc...

The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western prairie. Data were collected during interviews from at least five persons in each of t...

Yolanda Rodríguez-O’Connell has a secret. All the members of her family have a magical gift—all, that is, except for Yolanda. Still, it’s something she can never talk about…because, if she does, the townsfolk will call her family brujas—witches. When her grandmother, Wela, falls into an unexplained sleep, Yolanda is scared. Her father is off fighting in a faraway war, her mother died long ago, and Yolanda has isolated herself from her best friend and twin sister. If she loses her grandmoth...