Twenty-Something Thoughts is a poetry collection reflecting on life-changing events during my college experience. Split into four parts: Twisted Mind, Note to Self: It's Not Me, It's You, Grassroots, and Magic No More.Twisted Mind explores abusive relationships, body image, and a small act of kindness.Note to Self: It's Not Me, It's You explores getting back up after feeling powerless. I struggled with depression and body dysmorphia. I also found romantic relationships impo...

**A thrilling adventure for the puzzle-solving archeologist turned legend following the events of “Tomb Raider: Underworld,” as a new era of Tomb Raider comics begins!Adventurer, archaeologist, socialite, survivor…legend. Lara Croft's life is anything but boring! She’s survived a shipwreck, betrayal, ancient traps, prophecies, and paparazzi.**When Croft Manor goes up in flames, it forces Lara to take stock of her life and figure out what is important to he...

In the spirit of American cultural prophecy—from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Rebecca Solnit—acclaimed writer Casey Gerald offers a groundbreaking work of joyous dissent and stunning vision, a survival guide to a society in crisis.“Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking outside his window and inside himself. Extraordinary.” —Marlon James on

A sizzling standalone romance by USA Today bestseller Ember Casey.Never trust a bad boy with your heart. Especially when that bad boy is one of Hollywood's notorious Fontaine brothers...Ashlyn just wants to move on with her life. Run her bakery. Heal her broken heart. She's had three years to try and forget Dante Fontaine.To the rest of the world, Dante is Hollywood royalty, the ridiculously attractive oldest son of the notorious F...

A standalone, full-length prequel to the sizzling Fontaines series by USA Today bestseller Ember Casey.Felicia Liddle has eight days to seduce Hollywood bad boy Luca Fontaine.If she wants to keep her dream job, she needs to score an interview with the infamous actor--or with one of his equally legendary (and ridiculously sexy) brothers, the notorious Fontaine boys of Hollywood. And everyone knows that the Fontaines never give interviews--b...

A billionaire made me a promise.And I'll do anything to make sure he keeps it...Even play by his twisted rules.A BILLIONAIRE. A BARGAIN. AND A THRILLING COMPETITION...Lily Frazer would do anything to save the Frazer Center for the Arts--even take on the infamous billionaire Calder Cunningham. When Lily breaks onto the Cunningham estate, she only wants to find and reason with Calder. (All right, all right, she wants to punch him in the ...

What if you want your career to grow—but do not want the job everyone assumes comes next?For many capable professionals, "advancement" has one visible shape: more direct reports, more meetings, more people problems, and a title that signals management. But a bigger job is not always a better job. You may want to deepen your craft, take on more consequential problems, influence decisions, earn more, and protect the capacity to do good work for a long time. That is ambition. It simpl...

ROBERT KIRKMAN, JOE CASEY, ANDY KUBERT, DAVID FINCH, AND ARTHUR ADAMS TAKE SUPERHERO VIOLENCE TO A NEW LEVEL! Alessandra is lost in despair after recent events. Yet, the battle rages on! Her team faces larger and more deadly threats as The Awakened gain more power. But unfortunately, a deadly new enemy emerges! When it rains, it pours!

A bold and timely exploration of queer joy as both an experience and a method, this book offers a powerful intervention in gender and sexuality studies by theorizing queer joy not as merely pleasure, but as a radical practice shaped by failure, contradiction, grief, risk, and repair.This book draws its argument from two major research projects: a study on queering sexuality education with over 80 in-service teachers in New Brunswick called SexualityNB and Pride/Swell+, a community-...

Citizenship in Shakespeare's England was not attached to nationality but rather to one's city and employment. In this study of urban citizenship, William Casey Caldwell explores the range of economic relationships which existed through a range of dramatic texts.Revealing how citizenship was defined along urban lines and controlled by early forms of corporations, Caldwell argues that playwrights at the time used this context to imagine new opportunities for non-citi...

Bob is just too nice for this world. Innocent, naive, gullible, seemingly born under a bad sign or a misalignment of the stars, but good hearted and always with a smile and a helping hand. It's a wonder someone like Bob can even survive in such a harsh world, jostled about by circumstance and those with bad intent. Or does he? Whether he can overcome a mind boggling series of misfortunes and bad luck is anybody's guess. He most certainly will take his lumps, more so than most, and all unde...

*Book #1 in the Slater Brothers series.*After a car accident killed her parents when she was a child, Bronagh Murphy chose to box herself off from people in an effort to keep herself from future hurt. If she doesn't befriend people, talk to them or acknowledge them in any way they leave her alone just like she wants.When Dominic Slater enters her life, ignoring him is all she has to do to get his attention. Dominic is used to attention, and when he...