The past always has a way of catching up with you. Charisma Canton was born and raised in the heart of Baltimore, where she learns that a moment's pleasure can sometimes lead to a life of pain. Against her better judgment, she has a one-night stand that changes her life forever. Turning over the family business to her cousin, she leaves behind her past. Charisma moves to Miami, where she meets Mr. Manny Manifesto aka Mr. Baseball. Manny is coming off his best season ever, bringing with him...

Perhaps no other moment in history crystallized the fears of slave owners in the South like the August 21-22, 1831, slave insurrection led by Nat Turner in Southampton, Virginia. The Confessions of Nat Turner details Turner’s life and the events surrounding that armed revolt, which left more than fifty men, women, and children dead and that culminated in Turner’s execution. Interviewed by Thomas R. Gray while in prison for his crimes, Turner begins his story with his earliest chil...

Nat Turner was an African American slave who lead a rebellion of slaves and 'free blacks' in Southampton County Virginia in 1831. The rebellion was brief but bloody, and resulted in the deaths of over 50 white people - deemed all the more shocking at the time as they were mostly from the rich landowning class. The state's response to the rebellion was swift and brutal, ultimately capturing and executing all of the rebels, but also unleashing mobs and militias who killed over 200 me...

The full story of Aston House in the Second World War has never been told before.Its activities were top secret and as important to the Allied war effort as those of Bletchley Park, but in a different way. Situated near Stevenage, Aston House was one of many British country houses requisitioned during the Second World War by the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Born out of Bletchley Park, where it began life as SIS Section 'D' (for Destruction), Station 12's...

Our experiences of the city are dependent on our gender, race, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation. It was already clear before the pandemic that cities around the world were divided and becoming increasingly unequal. The pandemic has torn back the curtain on many of these pre-existing inequalities.Contributions to this volume engage directly with different urban communities around the world. They give voice to those who experience poverty, discrimination and marginalisatio...

This collection features 20 dazzling and diverse tales about thieves by some of the best short story writers in the world today. From an audacious intergalactic heist and a daring tightrope walk across New York, to a pirate ship in the Caribbean and a trip through time to visit Leonardo da Vinci, the rogues and robbers in these tales will tantalise, disturb, move you or make you laugh out loud.

The civil-war-ravaged streets of Terra Primus are a hazardous place for a sixteen-year-old, but Joel is determined to make it to Arcadia to reconnect with his father’s legacy. Starving, injured, and hunted by his father’s nemesis—a striker scout—Joel makes an unlikely friend in a magnificent canine maximus. Learning to trust and rely on each other’s loyalty and strength, they must navigate a world of ruin and treachery where every turn could mean capture by the Union police. What follows i...

When the Imperial Twins, a behemoth military starship carrying 270 fighter aircraft and over 100,000 soldiers, goes missing, a team of experts are called upon to investigate.The lead team from the Lithion Starship Crash Investigation Unit—Nevin, Lake, Birk, and an artificial intelligent android, Krakish—leave the safety of their home world to travel to Grovsia, the right hand of the Galactic Federation. There, they soon discover there has been a cataclysmic detonation of h...

After years on the run, Joel, Max, and Sam have settled into a peaceful existence on Arcadia. Now, their idyllic life is thrown into disarray when they are asked to join Striker Force Raptor on a MOSAR mission to the planet Hikaru. The objective: find a missing prisoner transport starship and rescue any survivors. For Joel, it’s a chance to put his parents’ killers in jail for life. For Sam, it’s an opportunity to find her missing father.But Hikaru proves to be a perilous environme...

For years, a monolithic Timberwolf-class starship has been hidden, but now it’s about to reappear. Together with his girlfriend Sam and the rest of the Striker Force Raptor team, Joel has been assigned to retrieve this ghost ship and return it to its rightful owners.But what seems like an exhilarating adventure takes a dangerous turn amid chance encounters with black holes and hidden planets. When the team find the crew of the ghost ship dead with no discernible cause, they must fi...

Diverse perspectives on Lincoln's assassination, its aftermath, and its place in national memory from some of today's leading Lincoln scholars.The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most significant events in US history. It continues to attract the interest of scholars, writers, and armchair historians, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. Now leading scholars of Lincoln and his murder offer in one volume their ...

Today…Dang Long did not say a word, he still coldly walked up step by step. Today…Whoever dares to stand in my way… must die! Puck!Teng Long raised his right hand in the air to catch something flying. “Long! Get the sword!”Phung Duong said and then threw the object that she was still holding tightly in her lap towards Dang Long.She and he agreed with each other in advance?No! She just wanted to bring Dang Long's memento with her. Unexpectedly...