As portrayals of heroic women gain ground in film, television, and other media, their depictions are breaking free of females as versions of male heroes or simple stereotypes of acutely weak or overly strong women. Although heroines continue to represent the traditional roles of mothers, goddesses, warriors, whores, witches, and priestesses, these women are no longer just damsels in distress or violent warriors.In Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture,award...

Gender in a Transitional Era addresses a range of issues relevant in current gender and sexuality studies scholarship which span many disciplines. The contributors prioritize the critical thinking that continues to support the notion that we, as a society, still have a ways to go toward full gender equality in all spheres of life. This collection positions marginal voices at the center of complex gender issues in today’s society. Broad thematic topic areas include parental identities, advi...

'Heart-searing, sensual, and life affirming' EMILY HENRY on Before I Let GoAward-winning and bestselling powerhouse author Kennedy Ryan is back with a compelling new novel in her Skyland series, following Before I Let Go.Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the lif...

'Deep, emotional, and sensual storytelling' ABBY JIMENEZ'Can't Get Enough balances brutal emotion, whip-smart humour, and delicious spice. Moving, romantic, and thrumming with life, this is Ryan's best work yet' TALIA HIBBERT'This book made my heart absolutely soar' BOLU BABALOLA'Kennedy Ryan pours ...

'Real, raw, magnificent - Before I Let Go is the beautiful angst I love to read' COLLEEN HOOVERTheir love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love had its limits . . it couldn't save their marriage.Yasmen wasn't prepared for how her life fell apart, but she's finally starting to find joy again. She and Josiah have found a new rhythm: co-parenting their...

USA Today bestselling author Kennedy Ryan's Audie award-winning novel launches a passionate series exploring the wild ambition, artistic obsession, and unrelenting love in Hollywood.One moment in the spotlight . . .For months I stood by, an understudy waiting in the wings, preparing for my time to shine.I never imagined he would watch in the audience that night.Canon Holt.Famous film d...

In this scorching romance from the bestselling author of Before I Let Go, one man must earn the trust of a woman with diamond-hard defenses in order to win her heart.Mean girl. Goddess. Bitch. Supermodel Sofie Baston has earned those labels . . . yet they don't scratch the surface of who she really is. Before she can follow her own dreams, Sophie must do her daughterly duty and reel in a "fish" for her father's business-a tall, brown-eyed entrepreneur who ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Before I Let Go, a mysterious artist's dark past could cost him everything in this “achingly beautiful” second-chance romance. (A.L. Jackson)Jo Walsh has loved Cameron Mitchell for as long as she can remember. Whether front and center in her life or on the periphery, the tall, brooding artist has made his presence seductively and irresistibly known. But whenever they start to get close, Cam pulls away....

Their love is impossible, their chemistry undeniable in this sizzling forbidden romance from a New York Times bestselling author.Kerris Moreton should be the happiest woman in the world. She has a successful business and is about to start the family she's always wanted. But the man of her dreams—the one whose green eyes see straight into her soul and whose gentle hands make her body hum with pleasure—is not hers.Each secret moment with Walsh Bennet...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Before I Let Go comes a powerful forbidden romance about one woman on the brink of making a life-altering decision.Kerris Moreton knows how to make things work. Bounced from foster home to foster home as a kid, she adapted; when opportunity arose, she thrived. Now, about to open her own business and accept a marriage proposal, Kerris is ready to build the life she's always wanted.The only thing...

Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Survival of the Thickest in Danielle Allen’s CURVY GIRL SUMMER, a smoking-hot, hilarious novel about the perils of online dating.“There’s got to be an easier way than dating. I want the shortcut. I just want to find my person and start our lives together.”After a one-night stand with her clingy ex, Aaliyah James has an epiphany: this ain’t it. She knows what she wants, and she’s...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde is an epic love story one hundred years in the making . . .Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing.Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn't one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she's the opposite of her famo...