Rated "Most Popular Fiction Magazine 2024" by Chill SubsNamed Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill SubsRated "Top 50 Fiction" by SubstackDelight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contri...

Examining Vietnamese diasporic literature as a critical site for understanding memory, identity, and cosmopolitanism from below, this book repositions Vietnamese literary writings as a form of cultural and political engagement.Through literary and media works by Vietnamese writers across the United States, France, Germany, and Australia, the authors trace generational shifts from South Vietnamese exile and first-generation writers, to 1.5- and second-generation authors. They examin...

A neurodivergent gay war refugee navigates academia, racism, and indeed life itself as a poet, artist, and teacherHow to Exi(s)t: A Poet's Memoir is an experiment in nonlinear autobiography by the author of the American Book Award-winning Book of the Other, Truong Tran. Beginning in the present—at a writing residency in the aftermath of this success—How to Exi(s)t moves back and forth in time, in bursts of brief poetic essays grouped by t...

When beloved French bulldog Bijou vanishes from the most exclusive Christmas market in Vermont just three days before Christmas Eve, small-town baker and amateur sleuth Claire Laurent discovers that behind every festive smile lies a web of secrets waiting to unravel. Claire thought her biggest challenge would be perfecting her grandmother's legendary pain d'épices recipe for the annual holiday competition, but when the town's most prominent family reports their prize-winning Frenchie missi...

When a wounded therapy dog escapes into the snow-covered streets of Pine Hollow just days before Christmas, private investigator Sarah Chen discovers that some secrets are worth killing for. The gentle golden retriever, Buddy, carries more than just physical scars—he holds the key to a web of corruption that reaches into the town's most respected families. Sarah, still grappling with her own recent divorce and the loss of her police career, finds herself drawn into a case where every clue ...

This two-set volume CCIS 3103-3104 constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems, MEDES 2025, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, during November 24–26, 2025.The 46 full papers and 12 short papers included in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. They are organized into topical sections as follows:Part I: Education and Learning; Deep Learning; Smart Cities; Parallel and Distributed Archi...

From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Trang Thanh Tran comes a pulse-pounding thrill ride set in the remote forest of Vietnam, as three best friends battle to survive the night.An ancient demon. Three best friends on a trip of a lifetime. Six hours to survive until dawn.Tess Pham has always been a mess, especially after her brother died. Depression, grief, and a secret crush on her best friend have made the last year feel lik...

When champion groomer Miranda Hartwell arrives at the prestigious Golden Paws Dog Grooming Championship in the quaint mountain town of Cedar Falls, she expects fierce competition—but not murder. The beloved owner of Paws and Claws Salon, Miranda has spent years perfecting her craft, building her reputation, and nurturing the town's most pampered pets. But as rival groomers clash over coveted ribbons and prize money, the atmosphere grows as sharp as her grooming shears.The Victorian-era com...

When renowned ornithologist Dr. Elena Vasquez discovers a mutilated body among the pristine aviaries of the exclusive Blackwood Bird Sanctuary, she realizes that protecting rare species is the least of her worries. The victim, a controversial conservationist named Marcus Holloway, had been receiving death threats for weeks, but no one imagined the threats would turn deadly within the sanctuary's supposedly secure walls. As Elena struggles to maintain her research schedule while assisting t...

When amateur winemaker Clara Bennett discovers a body buried beneath the ancient oak tree in her backyard vineyard, her dream of crafting the perfect vintage transforms into a nightmare of suspicion and fear. As the small town of Millbrook Harbor buzzes with harvest preparations, Clara finds herself at the center of a murder investigation that threatens to destroy everything she's built.The rolling hills of Clara's family estate stretch toward the shimmering waters of the harbor, w...

Three seductive male-to-female transformation stories. One irresistible box set.In this steamy collection, ordinary men are irresistibly pulled into feminine bodies and awakening desires they never expected. Slow-burn magic, technology, and supernatural forces reshape not just their forms, but their deepest cravings.Mirror of TransitionAnalytical game designer Nolan Reed activates an ancient mirror and suddenly finds himself in the curvaceo...

Digital Futures in the Making brings together digital anthropology and anthropology of the future to examine digital future-making and its politics in Europe, contributing to the growing conversation in digital humanities about how technology is lived, contested, and imagined in everyday life.Taking a practice-oriented perspective, the volume explores both current engagements with digital technologies and the possibilities imagined around them. Spanning diverse domains suc...