The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film...

The imagination of the author takes us in to jungles of Africa where we find a young zebra less than content with his stripes. It seems that all of the other animals in the jungle and on the savannah have much more interesting marks and coloring.Would it be better to be like one of the other animals? Or is it better to just be yourself.Read and enjoy! The author teaches all of us a valuable lesson.

When the great war between the Redwoods and the Centrals occurred three decades ago, the Talon Pack risked their lives for the side of good. After tragedy struck, Gideon Brentwood became the Alpha of the Talons. But the Pack’s stability is threatened, and he’s forced to take a mate—only the one fate puts in his path is the woman he shouldn’t want.Though the daughter of the Redwood Pack’s Beta, Brie Jamenson has known peace for most of her life. When she finds the man who could be h...

New York Times Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan returns with the next generation of Montgomerys and a second chance romance bound in memory and heat.Leif Montgomery fell hard for Brooke Alder in Paris when they were young, and he thought their fling was just an early taste of what life had in store for him.But life had other plans, and he didn’t find that kind of love—or see Brooke’s face—for years.Until he visits his cousin’s house and sees who’s moved in next do...

NYT best-selling author Carrie Ann Ryan returns to her best-selling Dante’s Circle series with a collection of four never-before-published and highly anticipated romances.Fallen for AlphasLiam and Alec watched their Pack fall from grace and fought with tooth and claw to make it rise from the ashes again for the Alpha. Once from rival families and now true packmates, they’ve fought their attraction for longer than they should have. Now, as ...

The Wilder Brothers from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan continue in this emotionally charged enemies to lovers romance.It took two days for me to know Kendall was the one for me.And it took two years for me to realize I had to leave in order to protect her.When I walked away, I told myself it was for the best. But now we work together, and every time we’re in the same room, we end up fighting. If we didn’t, we’d end up naked. Or worse–spilling heartbreaking ...

The war between the Redwood Pack and the Centrals is one of wolf legend. The Talon Pack was always on the fringes, prepared to fight, but not in the right leadership. With the new Alpha and ruling family, the Talons are a Pack of wolves that no one wants to mess with.Tattered Loyalties – Talon Pack Book 1The Alpha of the Talon Pack finds his mate in the daughter of the rival Pack…a submissive wolf ready to take on the world for her family. Gideon and Brie will have to fight...

Jump into the world of fated mates and the darkness of fantasy paranormal romance with two romances from Aspen Pack series.Etched in Honor (Aspen Pack Book 1)I thought I’d lost my fated mate until he shows up years later. Only with no memory of me. Or us.As Beta of the Aspen Pack, I was forced to watch our former Alpha turn to dark magic and destroy the bonds of our people.I nearly died trying to save us, bu...

Gabriel Wilder.Rock God.Voice of an angel.And in love with his best friend’s sister.Resisting Briar Ashford has been one of the hardest things he’s ever done.Until the one night he breaks his promise.Only when tragedy strikes, forgiveness slips through his fingers.Briar Ashford never let herself fall for her brother’s best friend.Until the night she did.She wanted to live in the shadows, writing the songs for the stars...

The Montgomery Ink Fort Collins series begins with two second chance romances from the heart and have all the heat.Inked PersuasionYears ago, Annabelle Montgomery married not for love but for a promise of hope. When she lost him weeks later, she told herself she never needed those sentiments again. Only when she discovers years later that her new neighbor is her late husband’s brother, Annabelle finds she can’t quite shake the emot...

Conner Jamenson knows two things:One day he might turn rogue.And he can never risk his mate.Romy Temple knows what it means to be lonely.She’s spent ninety-nine years in the Talon Pack, not part of the hierarchy, and not quite old enough to be elder.She’s the wolf no one remembers.With a rogue on the loose and the winter season approaching, two wolves who promised they would never fall find themselves on the brink of doing what could cost the...

Aimee knows two things for sure: Walker is her mate. And she’s dying.As Healer to the Talon Pack, Walker must come to grips with the idea that he can’t save everyone…including the woman he loves.But he refuses to give up, even if it means breaking the new human laws that keep the peace between shifters and the world.Now under the sights of their enemy Pack, Aimee now must fight to survive as well as fight for her mate.The rules of mating and shifters are cha...