Dystopia, from the Greek dus and topos “bad place,” is a revelatory genre and concept that has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity at the start of the twenty-first century. This book addresses approaches to the study of dystopia from the academic fields of theology and religious studies. Following a co-written chapter where Scott Donahue-Martens and Brandon Simonson argue that dystopia can be understood as demythologized apocalyptic, ten unique contributions each engage a work of pop...

What happens when a sentient library starts collecting stories from across the multiverse?The T.A.L.E.S. Library is alive, hungry for stories, and has been secretly dispatching librarians across dimensions to hunt down the tales it craves most. These seven stories have one thing in common—they all called out to be found.From botanical witches with dating disasters to dragon hoards in interdimensional caves, from shadow magic gone wrong to ghost trains carry...

Theology and Wes Craven explores the religious themes in the movies, television shows, and other works of the man who redefined the horror genre with such landmark and notorious films as The Last House on the Left (1972), The Hills Have Eyes (1977), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), The People Under the Stairs (1991), and Scream (1996). This volume provides a retrospective for his entire career, and then spotlights his most theologically intriguing works...

Animals are intentional masterpieces of a loving Creator. They were formed by God with purpose, beauty, and a unique place in His world. In The Grace for Animals, Stephen McCrary invites you to explore Scripture with fresh eyes and a tender heart, revealing God's grace toward the animals we share this world with.Blending biblical insight, personal experiences, and spiritual reflection, this book reminds us that animals are not just part of creation-they are expressions of...

What price would you pay to keep everyone safe?Queen Siobhan of the elves knows that there's only one way to save the world: together. The problem? The elves fled to the Otherworld centuries ago to avoid war. Convincing them they need to join one will be no easy feat. Visions plague her as she ponders how best to sway her people. Can she put things into motion before it's too late, or will the world itself suffer the consequences of their inaction?Queen...

At seven years old, Howard McCrary heard a voice between two plum trees that told him he would help bring world peace.He didn't understand it then. He spent the next forty-six years trying to.That journey took him from a steel-mill town in Youngstown, Ohio, to stages beside Michael Jackson, a Grammy nomination, royal audiences, and a Buddhist monastery in Thailand — and through two broken marriages and a battle with alcohol that nearly cost him everything t...

Tony and quaint Lake Ridge, Michigan, is in the news, but for all the wrong reasons. Seventeen-year-old Drew McMichaels, their "Star Everything," literally dropped dead in the most surreal and public way possible. Now the town is mourning. His classmates are mourning. His best friends, though, are struggling. They're struggling because they know that Drew was not the perfect guy the town and the national media are painting him to be. But how do you stomp on the grave of a dead teenager? Ho...

30 extraordinary black women—including Michelle Obama, Soledad O'Brien, Shonda Rhimes and others—share their personal stories in this inspiring volume.Whether in the White House or on the courts of Wimbledon, in Hollywood or on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, these trailblazing black women have influenced the social, cultural, and political landscape of this country, and even the world. Speaking in their unique voices, luminaries such as Patti LaBelle, Ve...

Walden III: A Scholarly Novel About College Reform is a hybrid text about college reform that marries fiction with academic scholarship. In this book, Peter Simms, an associate professor of social psychology at fictional Marsden College in Ohio, visits Walden III College in order to learn how the experimental Brooklyn college achieves high retention and graduation rates of poor and unprepared students. The president of Walden III is the rich and mysterious Bryce Davis, the freshma...

This publication, published by SamEnrico, covers How to Start a Courgette Growing Business (Beginners Guide)

A devastating plague, the missing cure, and a healer who didn't plan for love…I'm Faelynn, a healer and servant of the fae God. I'd sworn off every fae male who set his sights on me … until him. Dreythis was … unexpected. He has the answers to the questions I face, and resisting his pull on our journey will be no easy feat.The fae in my city are sick with a mysterious plague, and my healer magic has done little to help. With so many dying, I never expected ...

2025 Southwest Books of the YearIn a voice that is jubilant, irreverent, sometimes scouring, sometimes heartfelt, and always unmistakably her own, Amber McCrary remaps the deserts of Arizona through the blue corn story of a young Diné woman figuring out love and life with an O’odham man. Reflecting experiences of Indigenous joy, pain, and family, these shapeshifting poems celebrate the love between two Native partners, a love that flourishes alongside the traumas t...