An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea working in myriad genres across media, ranging from oral narratives and traditional wonder tales to creative writing as well as visual artwork and scholarly essays. Collectively, this anthology features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative futures, and in so doing reimagines relationships betwee...

Eleven months before the historic 1909 flight of the Silver Dart in Baddeck, Frederick Walker "Casey" Baldwin, became the first Canadian to fly. One of Alexander Graham Bell's young associates, Casey was an aeronaut, engineer and politician—and heralded as a true genius. In this biography by John Langley, Casey's remarkable story is told in full for the first time.

In this Asian/Canadian perspective on "foreignness," Marion (the protagonist) eventually leaves the cruelty of racial discrimination in Quebec and moves to New York in pursuit of her dream to become an artist. In New York not only does she continue to confront racial discrimination, but also objectification as a woman. Unable to support herself as an artist, she becomes an artist's model. This is a story of "passing," racial identity, and gender during the turn of the 20th century in New Y...

Six hot burly cowboys and one hipster ex are ready to claim me as their own.The question is, am I ready for one wild, wild ride?A photoshoot for the Handsome modeling agency takes me back to my Wyoming hometown.While I’m delivering cookies to Gran who feels unwell, I run into Wolf, the ranch owner who hates my family, and three sworn enemies from my past…Uptight police officer Lincoln with whom I locked lips before,...

My body might be allergic to the sun, but it sure isn’t allergic to the seven hot-as-sin men who have turned from friends into my lovers.My illness prevents me from being out in the sun.Last time I ignored it, I nearly died, so when I announce that I’m going to Iceland to film a documentary about Sasha Snow, everyone thinks I’ve lost my marbles.Luckily for me, my next-door neighbor and six of my brother’s best friends agree to sail across the ocean ...

I never thought a sensual hookup with my foster outlaw brother and his six buff mountain friends could turn into love….When a photoshoot takes my brother Hans and my modeling agency Handsome back to the mountains of our old childhood foster home, I’m full of dread. Abandoned by our parents at this horrible place, I want to get the job over with ASAP and return to the city.That is until I run into Jake, my old foster brother…Not only has Jake buffed ...

They say Iceland is cold. But in a cabin with seven rugged strangers…I’m anything but frozen.I came here on assignment—sent to assist with remote research.Instead, I got mocked by Queenie, my jealous boss, and watched too closely by Hunter, my unsettling coworker.And when I got caught in a blizzard alone, I thought that was the end.Instead, I woke up in a remote cabin…Surrounded by seven men who burn hotter t...

I’m here to interview The Beast, the French billionaire and ex-wrestler. Who knows that SEVEN lonely French men have other plans for me…When I’m asked to write an investigative piece on the ripped ex-wrestler who disappeared years ago, I know this is the job of a lifetime and potentially my biggest break as a journalist.There’s just one problem. The Beast never leaves his castle. If I want the job, I need to move in with him.Jacques, The Beast, is n...

This volume explores and engages with the key thinkers and ideas of the Austrian School of economics to better understand how individuals coordinate their separate interests in a peaceful and productive manner by unintentionally forming not only market prices but also rules, customs, cultural norms and other institutional arrangements that allow specialization and trade. Together, these dynamics generate a market order by ameliorating the potential for social conflict, and, in turn, facili...

This set of essays offers new insights into the journalistic process and the pressures American front-line reporters experienced covering World War II. Transmitting stories through cable or couriers remained expensive and often required the cooperation of foreign governments and the American armed forces. Initially, reporters from a neutral America documented the early victories by Nazi Germany and the Soviet invasion of Finland. Not all journalists strove for objectivity. During her time ...

What is “Comic Accuracy” and why does it come up so often? Which comics do movies need to be accurate to? Which author? What artist? Who gets to decide? Should Lex Luthor pose as his Australian son during the Death of Superman? Should Superman be split into dual electric personalities? Should Hal Jordan date an underaged alien girl? We can go ahead and nix that last one. This book will tear down the concept of sacred comic accuracy and reveal the shocking movie details that, while controve...

Following the loss of most of his colleagues in a violent ambush, Kenton has become Lord Mastrell of the few remaining Sand Masters, magicians who can manipulate sand to do their bidding. With the ruling council poised against him, the hot-headed Kenton must become a diplomat to have any hope of preventing the eradication of his people forever. However, there's another complication: assassins are coming for him from all directions, and Kenton's only true ally is Khriss, a visitor from the ...