Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England seeks to provide a comprehensive examination of the notorious Mannings' ‘Bermondsey murder’, and its wider implications in Victorian criminal narrative and popular culture. Exploring the ongoing textual afterlife of Maria Manning, including significant literary contributions by Charles Dickens through his characters Mademoiselle Hortense and Madame Defarge, this volume illuminates representations both echoed and challenged in mid-nine...

Sweet Little Somethings: Love Is The Best Part by Anna-Kay Powell is a profound and inspirational collection of 81 short meditations, poems, and philosophical insights designed to guide readers on a journey of self-love, spiritual growth, and personal empowerment.This book offers a unique blend of spiritual wisdom, contemporary life lessons, and raw emotional honesty, encouraging you to embrace your inner light and overcome external challenges. Drawing on metaphors...

Highlighting the best in management learning theory and practices, the authors provide a comprehensive approach to leadership from a learning perspective. This exciting new book, from award-winning authorities on learning, describes how leaders gain the advantage when they cultivate learning in themselves and others.

Seven tales from the deep explore what life is like for the daughters of Poseidon.Not all goes swimmingly when your father is the ruler of the Deep, from learning to protect the realm, to conquering your desires, battling your dual nature, to discovering what consequences your choices provide, it’s never easy when the blood of gods and humans flows in your veins.Featured Contributors:K. T. Morley, Yasmin Nayrouz, Jose Oseguera, Anna Kaye-Rogers, Bella Shore, Leslie ...

Senior year can't come or end fast enough for Amelia Campbell. For the shy, nerdy girl-next-door that she is, high school is torture, and all she wants is for it to be over. Having her heart broken by a popular, womanizing boy all those years ago doesn't help matters. Nor does his best friend, who still has a habit of mercilessly teasing her. Now, she only has one year left, one year to be invisible before she can move on with her life.Derek King doesn't do drama, but his life is a...

Tales of passion and jealousy, lust and romance from the award-winning author of Red Dust RoadThis fierce, funny and compassionate collection explores every facet of that most overwhelming and complicated of human emotions: love. With winning directness, Jackie Kay captures her characters’ greatest joy and greatest vulnerability, exposing the moments of tenderness, of shock, of bravery and of stupidity that accompany the search for love, the discovery of love and, most of all, love...

A gorgeous and magical collaboration between two critically acclaimed, powerhouse YA authors offers a richly imagined underdog story perfect for fans of Dumplin' and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.There hasn't been a winner of the Miss Meteor beauty pageant who looks like Lita Perez or Chicky Quintanilla in all its history.But that's not the only reason Lita wants to enter the contest, or her ex-best friend Chicky...

What if your morning hair routine took a matter of seconds?What would it be like to get compliments and eager questions of ‘Can you show me how to do that?’What if you could walk out the door in the morning feeling confident and chic, or boho, or whatever suits your style?This book contains more than 25+ different Head wraps - each style with a photo, visual instructions (CAD ) and...

Sebastian Black. The broody bad boy. The rockstar God with the most haunting voice I’ve ever heard. And, starting now, my next-door neighbor.I never thought I’d bump into my teenage crush on campus, but when it happens, any childish illusions I had about him are erased with a few harsh words. I don’t expect to run into him again, but I’m wrong.He’s at Blairwood to stay, and not just that, he wants me.Sebastian claims he lost his muse, and I...

For the past several years, Jahzara Franklin has had the weight of the world on her shoulders.Her mother suddenly passed away from a brain aneurysm, making her the sole caregiver for her teenage sister because their father wasn't in the picture. When she's unable to find a job that pays enough for her and her sister to live comfortably, she swallows her pride and does something she never thought she'd do. When she meets a man who appears to have good intentions, sh...

Ten kinky stories of sadism and suffering, submission and pain in a single bargain edition. Comprising: Dark Fantasies, Tishala's Adventures, Vice, Punishing The Brat, Nightmare, Rachael Reborn, The Wheel, Jaded, Fairy Slaves and Heather's Humiliation.Please Note: All stories have been previously published. Strictly 18+ Open Minded Adults

A novel of early eighteenth-century Venice that Cooper called "in spirit, the most American book I ever wrote."The Bravo (1831) takes place in early eighteenth-century Venice, when the "Serene Republic" had lost much of its glory, leaving its oligarchs struggling to hold on to their family wealth by manipulating the government and people through secret councils and a figure-head doge. In 1844, Cooper called it "in spirit, the most American book I ever wrot...