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...

The crew barely escaped the Resurrection Crypt with their lives. Now they're paying for it.The supernatural half of the team licks its wounds in Xibalba — guests nobody invited, in a realm that doesn't do hospitality. Sverre's not faring much better. His werewolf side has stopped taking orders, and every shift is a threat to everyone around him. The only fix comes from Clan Cen'Ful. Their price does not come cheap.Still fugitives from the Order, Jessica and Malcolm race to ...

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 ever changing, and a comprehensive understanding of the world will not be achieved without theoretical and methodological advances to decode complex dynamics in human and environmental systems. Computation and Visualization for the Understanding of Dynamics in Geographic Domains: A Research Agenda synthesizes key ideas and issu

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.

In war-torn London, 1941, fourteen-year-old Ruth Goldberg and her two younger siblings, Gabi and Hannah, survive the terrifying bombing of their family home. They believe their parents are dead, their bodies buried underneath the burnt remains – but unbeknownst to them, their father, Joe, survives and is taken to hospital with amnesia.Four years on, Ruth stumbles across a newspaper photo of a celebrated pianist and is struck by the resemblance to her father. Desperate for evidence ...

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 ...

Meet the inspirational students: This narrative tells the story of seven women and one man at the heart of a sit-in protesting decreased enrollment and hiring of African Americans at Swarthmore College and demanding a Black Studies curriculum. The book, written by the former students themselves, also includes autobiographical chapters, providing a unique cross-sectional view into the lives of young people during the Civil Rights era.Correcting media represe...

Thrown out by his mother, 17-year-old Luke hopes to overcome his narcotic addiction and depression by changing his surroundings. At his new school, he quickly becomes friends with Sean, but finding that his developing feelings aren't returned, Luke retreats into old habits. Determined to hide his self-injurious behavior and an advancing eating disorder, he soon risks much more than a broken heart.When Sean meets Luke, the last thing on his mind is falling in love with a boy. Grappl...

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...