Some friendships aren’t chosen—they’re forged to survive.Summer 1927. Jo’s mother is in prison, her stepfather’s temper has left more than one bruise, and every grown-up in her Midwestern city seems to be looking the other way. Sam is an orphan riding the rails, safer dressed as a boy than as the girl she is. They meet on a vacant-lot baseball field in caps and knickers, hiding who they are from the boys around them—and from the men who think girls are theirs to us...

Kenny Bowen is an ex-convict fresh out of prison because of a drug conviction; he goes home to live with his invalid mother, a strong-willed ex-nurse who lost her husband when her children were youngsters and ended up in an abusive relationship. He has two sisters. Rachel, the oldest, is hiding an interracial relationship. His baby sister is Susan. Having a prison record, its hard to go straight. Jerry, an old friend, introduces him to Carol, a high-class madam, who turns him into a prize ...

P.I. Chronicles – My Heart My Home is the first book of a three part series by new author Corey Jay Johnson. In this book, the author goes into detail about his life growing up in Baltimore, Maryland with his family and friends. Lance Corporal Corey is just arriving home after being honorably discharged from the US Marines. His last duty station was in the Philippines (P.I.) where he lived a life that only a young B Company Marine can understand and appreciate. Book one ends when Corey is ...

P.I. Chronicles – Brothers United is a story about the life of a Marine stationed in the Philippines. After graduating from boot camp training (Parris Island, SC) and Infantry School (Camp Pendleton, Ca.), Corey Johnson was sent to Subic Bay, Philippines (P.I.). He was excited and ready to serve his country. While stationed for several months at B Company Marine Barracks, this young Marine felt outside of his element. Standing posts on foreign soil and doing jungle patrols in a third world...

Courageous is a story loosely based on the life of Avon "Flubber" Johnson Sr. In this story a young man from the streets of Baltimore is raised by a single mother and a family of proud hard working Carolina folk who have a lot of Faith and Pride. As he begins to stray away from the public school system at an early age, Flubber finds himself very much attracted to the street life of robbing, stealing, and drug dealing. He recruits a group of life long friends who take the journey with him a...

P.I. Chronicles - is a vivid and candid memoir about the life of a Marine stationed in the Philippines. After graduating from boot camp training (Parris Island, SC) and Infantry School (Camp Pendleton, Ca.), Corey Johnson was sent to Subic Bay, Philippines (P.I.). He was excited and ready to serve his country as a US Marine. While stationed for several months at B Company Marine Barracks near Alongapo City, Philippines, this young Marine felt outside of his element. Standing foreign posts ...

Bordering no longer happens only at the borderline separating two sovereign states, but rather through a wide range of practices and decisions that occur in multiple locations within and beyond the state’s territory. Nevertheless, it is too simplistic to suggest that borders are everywhere, since this view fails to acknowledge that particular sites are significant nodes where border work is done. Similarly, border work is more likely to be done by particular people than others. This book i...

The seemingly mundane events of daily life create a complex knowledge base of lived experience to be explored. But how does one research common experiences and account for context, culture, and identity? A dilemma arises because experience is not just embedded in events, but also in the socially constructed meanings associated with those events.This book details the philosophical underpinnings, design features and implementation strategies of Collective Memory Work – a methodology ...

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Leisure Sciences journal, this book focuses on where it and leisure sciences (as a field) started and what the future might hold for both. The foremost scholars in our field dialogue, debate, critique, and reflect on leisure studies’ progress and future. Authors consider and write about the key issues and controversies of the field, developments we should be celebrating, and directions of study we should be pursing. Scholars also consider re...

This book uses the emerging and cutting-edge area of leisure research to highlight the importance of sexuality and sexual activity and its relevance to leisure studies. It brings to the fore some complex issues associated with this topic using a range of substantive, epistemological, theoretical and methodological approaches.Drawing on international scholarship, the book examines sexuality from multiple, and at times, competing directions, exploring the continuum of sex from work t...

Contributor spotlight interviews:Dr Kim Lopez: https://youtu.be/vEF71NM_jQcDr Jocelyn Scott: https://youtu.be/qfjcbgExEJ0Dr Brian Kumm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kchW0MDfw44&t=158s,Dr Luc Cousineau: https://youtu.be/IjRvRw3WjgYNow in its second edition, Fostering Social Justice through Qualitative Inquiry, addresses the methods of conducting qualitative research using a social justice paradigm. Qualitative researchers increasingly floc...

As the world grapples with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, on almost every news website, across social media, as well as in its (many) absences, leisure has taken on new significance in both managing and negotiating a global crisis.Leisure in the Time of Coronavirus: A Rapid Response, amidst the disruption, inconvenience, illness, fear, uncertainty, tragedy, and loss from COVID-19, generates discussions that enable leisure scholars to learn and to engage with wider debates abo...