Pandemic Pondering: A Poetry Collection, written in April 2020 speaks from the heart, in real time, as Covid spread exponentially across the country and around the world. Each poem offers an up close and personal perspective into how the pandemic effected one woman and her family with themes that will resonate with readers as they think back on those uncertain and frightening times. Thoughts and feelings expressed within the poetry may help others process how Covid impacted them a...

A stunning gathering of creative nonfiction, research, and poetry, Sensoria will broaden the moral imaginations of its readers and challenge conventional worldviews about human relations to the nonhuman world.Humans, along with all other creatures, are an entanglement of sensual relations, shaping and shaped by our somatic engagement with the world.The essays and poetry of Sensoria transport readers into compelling stories and ethical reflections that stret...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From three-time National Jewish Book Award winner Dara Horn, a masterful new work of nonfiction that boldly confronts and dismantles the myths and lies that have spread antisemitism from ancient times until today—and then offers an audacious but achievable vision for the future.After publishing the “extremely engaging” (The Washington Post) and award-winning essay collection People Love Dead Jews about the insidious nat...

Meena and Lina share a room. They whisper at night, swap secrets and laughs.But sometimes ... they argue.When Dad clears out the sunroom, Meena asks, 'Can it be mine?'But will Meena be happy in her own room, away from her little sister?

Folk Media and Decolonizing Art Education advances a critique of conventional multicultural art education by centering folk media as a site of epistemic resistance and pedagogical transformation. The book argues that multicultural frameworks often reproduce liberal inclusion without dismantling colonial hierarchies and develops an intersectional, decolonial methodology attentive to race, caste, class, gender, indigeneity, and geopolitics.This book provides readers with act...

It Takes a Valley is a practitioner's guide to building entrepreneurial ecosystems, drawn from a decade of field research, podcast interviews, and on-the-ground conversations with more than fifty community builders across the United States (and a few beyond). It tells the human story of the connectors, conveners, and community champions who work behind the scenes to create the conditions for entrepreneurs to find support, build relationships, and grow businesses that strengthen lo...

Five friends are given mysterious valentine's presents. An anonymous gifter(s) has given each of them an unique, large-size hand-crafted rag doll—elegantly made stuffed cloth effigies, rich in designs and details; each rag doll perfectly capturing its receiver's likeness. As strange—nearly magical—occurrences take place, curiosities, wonders and desires build to wild consequences for them all….The dolls are real…and alive!A horrifying vision over 30 years in the making....bas...

The sunlight, oh how its warmth and soft radiance provides visibility and a pretend sense of safety against the night and the fiendish beasts who roam in the devilry of the darkest shadows…. A shy, bookish female sitting across from you on the bus—her satiny hair in a tight bun, those big, pretty eyes glancing nervously up at you from behind a pair of thick lenses, then a delicate draw of her lips shaping an uncertain smile on her plain yet elusively beautiful face when she notices you sta...

Will you BECOME ONE with the terror? The Mind Walker….. …a diabolical man who possess the power to invade, distort and rape your mind….. For retired Dominic County Sheriff Jack Yuma, the terrifying incidents of the local chophouse ended years ago on that one dreadful night where so many lost their lives and bestowed upon the chophouse its infamy. But something has been reborn in an unholy womb, thriving on fear and hatred, driven by savagery and revenge, and it is coming for him. They say ...

Stationhouse No. 1 once held the town's most prestigious fire & rescue unit, but in late 1959 almost the entire team was savagely slain, their remains burned. Years later, the grisly incidents which had taken place became legendary, and the terror never exactly stopped. Its history has been since drenched in the blood of many an unexplained death. When a group of adventurous, irresponsible horny teenagers decide the building would be perfect for their high school Junior Firefighter group's...

A sinister night falls over the relaxed rural community of Dominic County. Before the light of day would return to the quiet woodland town, many came to believe that the gates of Hell had broken open and the Devil's minions were rampantly spreading terror and death there. The Chophouse is OPEN!

Stationhouse No. 1 once held the town's most prestigious fire & rescue unit, but in late 1959 almost the entire team was savagely slain, their remains burned. Years later, the grisly incidents which had taken place became legendary, and the terror never exactly stopped. Its history has been since drenched in the blood of many an unexplained death. When a group of adventurous, irresponsible horny teenagers decide the building would be perfect for their high school Junior Firefighter group's...