A study of how literary strategies illuminate the evangelical foundation of Southern culture.In Southern Strategies: Narrative Negotiation in an Evangelical Region, Michael Odom argues that through the narrative strategies of resistance, satire, and negotiation, a multigenerational group of twentieth-century white Southern writers provides unique insight into the central role evangelical religion has played in shaping the sociopolitical culture of the Amer...

Ghetto Ghosts is a book about how life can be at times and how it can be faced and resolved. It is a "wisdom of life" filled book that teaches you how to best live life to its fullest - no matter your background or condition. A book packed with real-life lessons and not just myths or some fairy tale but a book like Ghetto Ghosts interweaves relationships, races, classes, culture, families, and history. It is the story of five people whose paths crossed at a point in time. Who appeared to b...

A mysterious illness plagues the Queen at Primdale Hive. Her cure resides deep within a treacherous forest, where few meadow-bees have ever dared to go. She organizes a race to find the fastest bee in the hive, but the unexpected victor, Abelbee, is a mere adolescent. Should the future of the hive be placed on such an inexperienced bee? When Abel bravely accepts the challenge, he is thrust into a quest to save his civilization. The weight of the world is on Abel's shoulders, as perils of t...

Bringing together methods and scholars from rhetoric and related disciplines, essays in Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics blend personal and scholarly accounts of Texas sites, examining place as an embodied poiesis, an understanding and composition formed through the collaboration of a body with a particular space.Divided into five sections corresponding to Texas regions, essays consider aesthetics, buildings, environment, food and alcohol, private and ...

Has anyone noticed Los Angeles is going to the monsters?The City of Angels is under attack and the Silver Griffins are calling all agents. What monster is making the rounds and threatening to expose magic?Gruffbar has returned and is invading dreams. The sinister Dwarf has figured out how to sap away magicals' dreams and aspirations. Silver Griffins Agent 485 Lucy Heron is on it!But it's getting worse.How will she protect a ...

Is it just a nightmare or a premonition? The suburban witch, Lucy Heron isn't sure, but she has a bad feeling something is coming, not just for her family, but the entire city.Sometimes intuition isn't wrong . . .Shadow Men are on the prowl, trying to return the world to shadow by fulfilling a prophecy. A prophecy that would plunge Los Angeles, then the world, into darkness.It could be the end of the world as humans know it.Magicals...

Lucy Heron is a mom with three kids, and a baker with a happy marriage in sunny Echo Park. She's also Silver Griffins Agent 485.The suburbs will never be the same.Fighting supernatural crime from a minivan while keeping the magical world a secret is a full time job. Then there's the PTA bake sale and the neighborhood barbecue.Hard to balance even with a wand.And now, a monstrous loan shark is spreading his shadowy empire fro...

Lucy Heron knew Los Angles was a little weird, but dangerous magic is upping the ante and making art 3D.At first, it was just one incident, but trouble never stops there.Graffiti is peeling itself off the walls and starting fights on the streets of LA. Paintings are coming to life and stepping out of their frames.Tucked at the bottom of the art is the only clue—the tag, VX.Can the Silver Griffin Agent tag the art back before humans start to ...

Magical medieval artifacts are on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. They are the perfect target for magical thieves.Look out Lucy Heron. It's not the usual menace looking to steal a strange magical crown.Good thing Lucy and the Silver Griffins are on the case.Meanwhile, the Underfoot Brigade are on a case of their own. Monsters are in the underground tunnels. Time to find out why.The answers to both problems a...

Silver Griffins Agent 485 Lucy Heron is on the trail of a string of magical thefts. But first, she has to pick up the kids from school.Talk about trying to find a life and work balance.Dylan is in that awkward middle school phase when magic can turn a friend into a frog and back again. Did anyone notice? And third-grader Ashley keeps recruiting friends for her own secret agency to fight magical crime.Kids these days. The Heron children are even trai...

It's getting harder to keep magic hidden from the mundane population of Los Angeles.Good thing Lucy Heron and the Silver Griffins are working overtime to keep it a secret. Will it be enough?More magicals are flexing their powers. Nuada Industries' magical owner is trying to take out the competitors so he can grow his business. But something's off about Finn Nuada.There's something hinky about what he's doing.Meanwhile, the younger Herons hav...

Leave it to a Magical Mom to clean up the streets of the city of Los Angeles. Lucy Heron, Agent 485, is on the job, and trying to keep things together at home.It's not an easy job . . . Especially when pipes are bursting, your kids are trying to solve crimes, and a dangerous new monster is polluting the city.Gives a whole new meaning to the LA smog.More people, magical and mundane, are getting sick from breathing in the poisoned air. Do Lucy...