A stress-baking werewolf, a unionizing fox, and a romance they never expected.Bennett Reynard needs one thing: to speak to the Rougarou about starting a union for shifters in New York City before the delegation arrives. When his dirigible finally lands in Louisiana, he finds the Rougarou is gone and in his stead is his handsome son, Theo, who seems to care for everyone but himself. Hoping he can still petition the Rougarou, Bennett stays only to find he is growing ...

An autistic necromancer, his undead love, and a future in perilThe Paranormal Society has been Oliver’s home for over a decade, yet he still isn’t sure where he fits. At Gwen’s suggestion, Oliver joins the mutual aid committee, but between misunderstandings, sabotage, and a life-changing proposition, Oliver once again fears he is out of his depth. At least there’s one thing he can count on: Felipe and the cases they solve together.Felipe has always been the...

Caught in a web of illicit drug dealing and murder, Frank Silver Shore embarks on a quest to find who killed his friend Gene Darveaux and track down a satchel of drug payment money hidden by Darveaux at a place called Rainbow Rock.In a deadly cat-and-mouse game with Gene’s killers, Frank joins forces with grizzled Lakota lawman Al Twocrow and intrepid Hot Springs Star reporter Maria Tager in a race to find the hidden cash and solve Gene’s murder.But just where is this myste...

Simple Tools explores the use of technology in the classroom and offers a considered, student-centric and foundational approach.In this book, teachers will be introduced to the selection of simple digital resources that have a clear purpose and do one thing well. They will be able to identify suitable technology that is quick and easy to set up for classroom use, as well as a host of strategies that will help make learning clear for both teachers and students.Along...

Stories of the Little People are common among many tribes, particularly in the southeastern region. The Seminole identify distinct species: one tribe of little people is typically 4 inches tall, another is 12 inches tall, a few are occasionally taller at 15 inches, and one tribe is a master of disguise, able to transform their skin melatonin into shapes that mimic what is behind them. According to Muscogee stories, grasshopper legs taste like turkey and crawdads like lobster. If you lose y...

A grounded archaeologist, a scrappy inventor, and a hidden city that holds the promise of a better tomorrow.Eilian Sorrell is no stranger to cheating death, but when a dirigible accident costs him his arm, he fears his days of adventuring are over. As the eldest son of the Earl of Dorset, Lord Sorrell knows he will face a bleak future among London's aristocracy unless he can escape. On a quest to return to his old life, Lord Sorrell commissions a prosthetic arm, bu...

In Unmasked, the final chapter of Julie Jorgensen's psychological thriller trilogy, the shadows finally speak. Joshua's search for truth leads him deep into the network that created him—a web of surveillance, betrayal, and human experimentation. Every secret he exposes pulls him closer to the people who built the Ghost program and the lies that shaped his identity. When masks fall, the line between victim and villain blurs, and survival means facing the darkest parts of himself. Unmasked i...

Marilyn Monroe made history by standing over a subway grating in a white pleated halter dress designed by William Travilla. Hubert de Givenchy immortalized the Little Black Dress with a single opening scene in Breakfast at Tiffany's. A red nylon jacket signaled to audiences that James Dean was a Rebel Without a Cause. For more than a century, costume designers have left indelible impressions on moviegoers' minds. Yet until now, so little has been known about the designers...

The first three installments of a sequential sci-fi epic, each part set five years from the last, stretching from 2020 to the early 2600s.

Do you look back at your sex ed classes and wonder WTF?! Are you a parent looking at your kid's curriculum and asking the same question?Sex Education 101 is less of a how-to of sex education and more of a why. Why does abstinence-only sex ed receive so much federal funding? Why do instructors show gross images of STIs to scare students? The answers, believe it or not, have a lot to do with folklore.Folklore—informally transmitted traditional culture—has a lot to sa...

The purpose of this book is to make available to beginning graduate students, and to others, some core areas of analysis which serve as prerequisites for new developments in pure and applied areas. We begin with a presentation (Chapters 1 and 2) of a selection of topics from the theory of operators in Hilbert space, algebras of operators, and their corresponding spectral theory. This is a systematic presentation of interrelated topics from infinite-dimensional and non-commutative analysis;...

Solomon Northup's story did not end with freedom. It continues in memory, movement, and meaning.Hope Out of Darkness chronicles the remarkable journey of a monumental bronze statue created to honor Solomon Northup--the free Black man kidnapped into slavery whose memoir, Twelve Years a Slave, awakened a nation. More than a sculpture, the statue became a living witness, traveling hundreds of miles to the very places that shaped Northup's life, suffer...