Sverre Walker was having a pretty good semester — right up until the girl from karate class tried to kill him.Jessica Luvkrafft isn't just a girl. She's a supernatural assassin sent to his college to hunt down a killer, and Sverre pinged her radar as something not entirely human. She was wrong about him being the killer. She wasn't wrong about the other part.Getting beaten half to death has a way of waking things up. Suddenly Sverre...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these mo

The Order fell first. That was the warning shot.Grigori Rasputin — ancient vampire lord, self-appointed god-in-progress — has stopped playing coy. His armies now occupy what's left of the United States, and the professionals who were supposed to stop this are gone. What's left is a ragtag militia and Sverre, trying to build an alliance out of people too smart, or too scared, to say yes.Because Grigori isn't just powerful anymore. He's become something the world has never ha...

The world is on fire, and Grigori Rasputin is just getting started.With the United States under his boot, the vampire lord turns his armies outward — hunting the Order's remaining bases and the artifacts of ancient power hidden inside them. Time is no longer on anyone's side.The Liberators and the Underworlders, enemies for centuries, forge an alliance neither side ever thought they'd need. Trust doesn't come easy when the hatred runs that deep, but survival has a way of re...

The last 15 years has seen an explosion of studies that use cognitive science to understand theatre, whilst at the same time theatre-makers are using their artistic practice to address research question. This book looks at the current discourse around these emerging fields.

The Santa's Great Treasure Chest gathers more than 450 Christmas novels, tales, carols, poems, and legends into an expansive archive of festive imagination. Moving between devotional verse, fairy tale, domestic realism, moral fable, comic vignette, ghostly wonder, and children's adventure, the volume traces Christmas as both sacred observance and secular cultural ritual. Familiar holiday narratives, carols, and folkloric retellings stand alongside less-circulated period pieces, making the ...

The Unseen Frontline gathers thirty Civil War narratives that shift attention from battlefield strategy to the improvised labor of survival: nursing, refuge, relief work, captivity, displacement, and the moral pressures of divided communities. Diaries, memoirs, eyewitness chronicles, reformist testimony, and literary reflections create a formally varied archive of wartime experience. Accounts of hospitals, occupied towns, Confederate homes, Union relief networks, and African American servi...

A collection of short fiction portraying all phases of the war from Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Henry James, and others.Civil War Memories is a compilation of nineteen stories of the Civil War written in the late 1800s, giving them a ring of authenticity. The voices are both Northern and Southern, male and female, angry and melancholy, serious and comic; but they all treat the Civil War as a watershed in American history an...

'backwards' is a compilation of poems that link to a certain timeframe for the collective. Reading these poems unlocks clarity in the collective as well as pondering thought. Poetry and prose are designed from newest to oldest, which differentiates the mood and theme of 'May night S.' and her writings.

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as vice president from January to April 1945 under FDR and as a US senator from Missouri from 1935 to January 1945. Assuming the presidency after FDR's death, Truman implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established both the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain the expansion of So...

Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska, faces a storm unlike any other.For years, faithful police officer Eva Bekhor has toiled Alaska’s tough soil and raised a family of survivalists. The sudden explosion of an EMP bomb hurls her and the rest of country back to the Stone Age. Pushed to her limit, Eva must pull out every stop to keep her kin alive. Meanwhile, a foreign threat rises from the rumble of a crippled society. Winter draws near. Will Eva’s preparation be enough or will she...

James S. A. Corey’s Expanse series has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 23 languages, establishing itself as a modern masterwork of science fiction.Now, the Hugo Award–winning author returns with the second volume in their New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed space opera trilogy, The Captive’s War**.**...