A critical engagement with and interrogation of the dominant tropes of racial violenceThis volume brings together a diverse cohort of contributors working to trace the genealogies, geographies, and the entanglements of anti-Asian violence. Representing a range of critical perspectives, these essays—a collection of works by scholars, students, and community organizers—open up lines of inquiry that unsettle the taken-for-granted framings of anti-Asian violence as sim...

When a select team of high school graduates becomes stranded on Mariner's Island, their year end trip dissolves into a living nightmare. A series of suspicious accidents endangers the life of one of the students, Mallory Stewart. Does her interest in Aiden Chambers, a newcomer to the group, put her at risk? He has a reputation for violence and the rest of the students assume he is behind the attacks, but there's something about him that just doesn't add up....

Seventeen-year-old Meryn Latimer never wanted to trade city lights for dirt roads. Dragged to the countryside against her will, she's furious about leaving behind her trendy life, her friends, and everything familiar. Meadowbrook feels like a prison… until she meets Spook — the magnetic outsider who makes this small town suddenly impossible to ignore.Just as Meryn finally starts carving out a place for herself, a new girl arrives at school.Eden Bryson is beautiful, withdraw...

She stumbles out of a wheat field on a hot September afternoon, torn, battered, and in a state of shock—but who is she? Daniel calls her Willow and is determined to protect her from her past. Despite the horrific memories that plague her, Willow reluctantly allows Daniel and his cousin Zach to try and uncover her identity. The journey they undertake puts all three of their lives in danger. Deception and murder are in her past, what else will they discover? One thing is certain … Willow is ...

~Editor's Pick~Becky May goes missing on her sixteenth birthday and only her cousin Madison knows how and why. The police investigate until the trail runs cold, but as the months go by with no word from her cousin, Madison becomes frantic with worry.Madison’s claims that she has had recent sightings of Becky are ridiculed on social media until she begins to doubt her own sanity. Her only offer of support is from her brother’s best friend, Jake Stewart. Madison is attracted ...

Fierce, haunted, urgent, these are poems that could only have been written in the 21st Century, Catastrophe is already around us and more may lie ahead, but here are offerings of stars, coffee, memories, paintings, and words that stubbornly keep dancing on the edge.—Joyce JohnsonSusan Thomas's Silent Acts of Public Indiscretion clarifies the poet's belief that poems surround us, waiting to be captured. Paris, Italy, imagining death as a bus, visual art, Jewish cooking, and c...

The Empty Notebook began its life as a very literal metaphor for a few weeks of what I thought was writer's block, but was really the struggle of an eccentric persona to take over my working life. It won. And for the next three years everything I wrote came to me in the voice of the Empty Notebook, who, as the notebook began to fill itself, became rather opinionated, changed gender, alternately acted as bully and victim, had many bizarre adventures in exotic locales and developed a somewha...

The characters in Among Angelic Orders are harassed by the distant and not-so-distant past, by the future, by this world and the next. They live their lives in a state of ambivalence, yearning for something they have lost, or are about to lose, while desperately clinging to what they have. These are stories of mischief, longing, confusion and loss, tempered by the random nature of mercy that rescues us from the certainty of our lives.

The Empty Notebook began its life as a very literal metaphor for a few weeks of what I thought was writer’s block, but was really the struggle of an eccentric persona to take over my working life. It won. And for the next three years everything I wrote came to me in the voice of the Empty Notebook, who, as the notebook began to fill itself, became rather opinionated, changed gender, alternately acted as bully and victim, had many bizarre adventures in exotic local...

In the northwest corner of the Adirondack Park lie Cranberry Lake and the village of Wanakena. This remote area was the last-settled part of New York State; from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, its name evoked the very essence of wilderness. Initially, sportsmen, naturalists, and artists flocked to the area. By 1900, summer tourism was booming. The logging industry followed, to harvest the virgin timber; after that, the state purchased the mostly cleared lands. Today, seventy-five percen...

An ethnographic rendering of overseas students' fraught encounters studying at an American public university.As states have reduced funding to public universities, many of those institutions have turned to overseas students as a vital, alternative source of revenue. Students from India have especially been seen as among the most desirable populations, as they’re typically fluent in English and overwhelmingly enroll in professional fields deemed critical to the know...

When Mrs. Willowbrook notices bullying amongst her students, she decides to do a class project to help teach that differences aren't something to tease over. She hopes to teach the students that those differences are what make the class unique and beautiful. Follow along with Mrs. Willowbrook, then use the Party Quest in the back for your own group project!