The eighth month of the Gregorian calendar brings summer to a close, at least on our calendars. Nature will continue with her wise and infinite ways regardless of our need to keep a count of where we expect her to be.Summer with its heat, its holidays has a lung-bursting capacity to energise our thoughts, our ambitions and our contentment.1 - Fifty Shades of August - An Introduction2 - Stanzas For the First of August by James Monroe Whitfield3 - Hymn For the...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

When the world’s largest, most pungent flower goes missing right before its grand unveiling, 11-year-old Batthew Aromascent is on the case. After all, he’s desperate to see it. That majestic corpse flower has taken seven years to grow from a single seed sent back by his parents … right before they vanished on their final expedition. Now, Batthew and his best friend, Lavender, have just three days to find the flower before it withers and dies – along with any clues to the whereabouts of his...

Candlenut’s famous fragrance houses have fallen victim to a string of robberies, and Batthew's beloved home, Olfactory, is the latest target! When Olfactory's entire collection of perfume recipes are stolen by a mysterious burglar, Batthew and Lavender must follow the strangest of clues and find the recipes before Olfactory's legacy is snuffed out for good. But is there more to this investigation – and indeed, more to the history of Olfactory – than they realise?