The global landscape is dotted with border crossings that can be particularly perilous for displaced women with children in tow. These mothers are often described by their various legal statuses like refugee, migrant, immigrant, forced, or voluntary, but their lived experiences are more complex than a single label. Reclaiming Migrant Motherhood looks at literature, film, and original ethnographic research about the lived experiences of displaced mothers. This volume considers the ...

James wakes up in one of the places he never thought he would be. And his friends are with him. The only difference is that they are not hooked into an electric line and they are not getting electrocuted every once in a while. Only one thing can get him out, solving a riddle. But then there appears more cases of people being tied up like that, and James is the only one who survives. The police know they are dealing with a serial killer and as James and his friends go after the guy, things ...

They did not want to be any part of this but the law wants them to. It is fate or something darker that fate. And they cannot fight it, fighting it means jail time and that is not an acceptable option. And when they land, they happen to unleash their worst nightmare. They should have saved his life, but they did not. Sally and his friends tried to kill the one person who is going to make their lives a living hell. And there is no escaping him. Just when they think he cannot reach them, he ...

Someone is killing the students and Daniel is getting framed. As twisted as it looks, it is bound to get more twisted when he realized that the people he is asking help from are dropping dead. And people are starting to ask questions. Questions he needs to answer fast. It could be anybody and whoever is doing it is not stopping. He is somewhat of a serial killer, who is out to kill students. All the while the real murderer is working hard to make it look like Daniel did it. Daniel has to f...

In the near future, 'father' takes two boys to cut some fire wood. The highway they ride the wagon on is empty of cars, but the have to be careful because the world is still a very dangerous place.

Behind Whispering Pines is the prelude to Finding Gloria, a 250 page inspirational memoir by Marianne Curtis.In Behind Whispering Pines, the author discovers her adoptive mother is in the local hospital without her knowledge. Estranged from her once physically abusive mother, Curtis pays her a visit for the first time in over two years. The woman who once beat and starved her; said she was ugly and useless, was now suffering from dementia and waiting for placement in a nursing home...

The heartwarming story of a rescued shelter dog, told in his own words. Follow Buddy's growth from a troubled dog with behavioral problems to a treasured part of the family, illustrating the love and patience needed when rescuing some shelter animals to help them find their inner angels.

I discovered that I liked girls one afternoon that summer. I was on my way home after mowing a couple of yards, when I ran into two older girls from my elementary school. I could tell that they were far wiser than I was. They were very pretty and I was impressed, because they were both smoking cigarettes. I thought that was very cool. They actually stopped and started a conversation with me. That had never happened before.

Something bad happened in the woods all those years ago. What was it? Who's responsible? And most importantly, who will pay the price?Memories can be elusive. Some, deadly. Even the false ones.

Sarah has spent the last few weeks wondering what’s going on between her and Robert. They got close during their class project, but then he had to rush off and she hasn’t seen him since. She’s starting to think that she’s wasting her time. That is, until she gets a phone call from him saying that his father wants to meet her. In the blink of an eye everything changes and suddenly things start getting serious. But when Rob’s father makes it clear that she will never be family, what will she...

Loving - it is the seaLove can be sweet and bright as the sun sparkling on the waves, but under its surface lurk betrayal and despair in bottomless darkness.From innocent crush to losing a loved one, Matters of the Heart follows the ebb and flow of love and relationships through sweet and sour, and light and dark.______________collection of 30 poems