Africans and Globalization: Linguistic, Literary, and Technological Contents and Discontents considers the substance and dissatisfactions of globalization on Africa and its Diaspora. Although variously framed across disciplines, globalization has generally entailed non-milieu bound interactions, which alters the existence of its participants. The concerns about the impact of globalization have been raised in relation to Africa and have related to the helpful and deleterious effects. Increa...

Through these true stories, I wanted to tell a reality that is not often told, or realized by the general public.Nursing is a very demanding job, no matter what field you work in. Most nurses are hard-working, conscientious, and display empathy when most people would not be able to. Sadly, some nurses are not up to the task, I must admit, which often results in negligence. Often people – our patients – suffer because of this.This book tells several true stories about nurses...

Sierra Sellers has never had a problem finding a date, but when her mother's meddling ways result in her being set up with the intensely sexy Luke McCoy, owner of Club Destiny, Sierra learns she can't fight temptation. When he unleashes her deepest, darkest fantasies, she finds herself in a position she doesn't want to get out of.Luke McCoy has run fast and hard from the demons that chase him. The hot, fierce need that pushed him beyond the boundaries he hadn't realized he'd erecte...

F****our speculative stories of disasters, dystopias and destroyed civilisationsJohn Christopher is probably best known for his seminal science ficion novel The Death of Grass and his ‘Tripods’ trilogy for young adults, which was adapted for BBC TV and became a cult classic. Alongside John Wyndham, he was one of the foremost exponents of ‘disaster fiction’, and these four fantastic productions all centre around post-apocalyptic themes – from deadly disease...

Playful, formal, satirical and tender, the poems in The Fabulanarchist Luxury Uprising are wildly wide-ranging. Jack Houston whisks the reader through meditations on family life, the teachings of Lucretius, the sexual potential of Captain Barnacles, and dreams of a socialist utopia, managing to be both deeply weird and touching.In his debut pamphlet, Houston draws out and scrutinises the mundanities of life, showing how they can form part of something much bigger. His poem...

A young woman’s birthday party is disturbed by the vision of a homeless man sleeping under an arrangement of mocking fruit...A late-night text conversation goes awry when a forwarded link to a live feed of gathering walruses doesn’t have its intended effect...A woman hopes a pending announcement to her in-laws will finally give her husband the attention he craves...The stories shortlisted for the 2020 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University demonstr...

From New York Times bestselling author Nicole Edwards comes the tantalizing follow-up to Temptation.Ever wonder what life is like after the happily ever after?For two very complex, very alpha men, life after love isn't necessarily an easy thing to embrace. Although Sierra Sellers is, and will always be, the lifeline between Luke McCoy and Cole Ackerley, everyday life proves to be the true test of the bond the three of them have forged. No one ever said lif...

As the Club Destiny series heats up, New York Times bestselling author Nicole Edwards delivers a steamy, erotic tale of lust and seduction.Ashleigh Thomas might have made the biggest mistake of her life. Uprooting life as she knew it, moving back to Dallas to be closer to her family, she finds herself much closer to the one man who she had never been able to say no to. Attempting to hide the fact that she moonlights as an erotic romance author, she quickly finds herself in...

McKenna Thorne, owner of Sensations, Inc.—an online magazine geared toward libidinous carnality and erotic lifestyles—is intimately familiar with the lifestyle that Club Destiny is famous for. As a journalist, she's interested in understanding just what makes the swinger's club so popular. When she comes face-to-face with Tag Murphy, the sophisticated, sexy attorney representing the club and its owners, she finds a new reason to be curious. It only takes one encounter for McKenna to realiz...

Fans of the Club Destiny series will clamor for this steamy novella—a follow-up to Conviction that focuses solely on the heat between Samantha and Logan.Samantha still vividly remembers those nights so long ago when Logan introduced her to the ecstasy of a m├®nage. Now that Logan's brother has up and fallen in love, Sam wonders whether she'll ever get the chance to do it all over again.Logan knows his wife fantasizes about another threesome and longs to give her ev...

Captivated offers a glimpse into the lives of Lucie Werner and Kane Steele, first seen in book two of the Club Destiny series—Temptation.Lucie Werner's life has never followed the path she envisioned for herself, and five years ago it veered off course yet again—this time after one erotic night of passion with the man she'd been captivated by since the day they'd met. Only Kane doesn't remember that night, and until recently, he didn't know that what they'd shared...

Samantha Kielty only thought she knew who she was and what she was made of. Until she was offered a position that would take her from her small office in San Antonio to that of her company's larger, more upscale headquarters in Dallas, Sam hadn't seen anything. Her new boss was not only intensely sexy, he was also about to show her things she had only read in books.Logan McCoy's life was steady going until he set his sights on his new vice president of project operations. The woman...