A beautiful, sexy Creole temptress from New Orleans, LA, moves to Memphis, TN to care for her dying mother and search for a fresh start. What begins as a journey toward healing quickly pulls her into a dangerous world she never expected.Struggling to survive in the blues city, she becomes entangled in a powerful web of corruption, greed, and ambition. As she fights to rebuild her life, she is forced to confront painful truths about trust, desire, loyalty, and the cost of survival. ...

Libby, Aria and Benjamin have been best friends since they were babies. But now Aria has moved to a new house and Libby, who uses a wheelchair, doesnt get invited to Arias birthday party because the house has barriers. Hurt feelings followThen the kids meet Everett, an adult wheelchair athlete, who tells them how the disability rights movement gained successes through years of public demonstrations and pressing for laws. Everett shows them a picture from the 70s showing people with disabil...

Moonlight Wonder captures a childs imagination one autumn morning. In the quiet, dark, and undisturbed minutes before dawn, the childs fascination with the moonlight sets his mind wondering, Where did it come from? Did it travel very far? Does the big bang theory explain it all? Through his knowledge of science, his imagination, and his faith, this young child arrives at a delightful understanding of moonlight.

The Strawberry Promise is a delightful story about little Isabellas family tradition of picking strawberries each June and making strawberry jam. At four years old, Isabella could not wait for her mother, grandmother, and two aunts to meet at the Pickn Patch, pick quarts of strawberries, and bring them home to make strawberry jam together. Hearing about the threat of rain, Isabella worries that the strawberry picking and jamming will be cancelled. Children and adults will enjoy reading abo...

Rediscover a hidden chapter of New York City's history with the republication of Springs and Wells of Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City, at the End of the Nineteenth Century by James Reuel Smith. This extraordinary work, originally published in 1938 by the New-York Historical Society, captures the fading pastoral beauty of Manhattan and the Bronx through the lens of an amateur historian and passionate photographer. Between 1897 and 1903, Smith cycled across the city, meticulo...

This little book is quite different from other children’s books. I have combined fact with fiction. The story takes us back to the 1950’s, and focuses on two young boys living on a farm in outback Australia.This is a story of things that really do go bump in the night. Of a mountain lake and its magical voices, scary voices, amplified by the great thunderhead storms that form above the lake. And the journey six brave young boys undertake to experience these magical voices for thems...

Michel Foucault’s 1969 essay “What is an Author?” sidesteps the stormy arguments surrounding “intentional fallacy” and the “death of the author,” offering an entirely different way of looking at texts. Foucault points out that all texts are written but not all are discussed as having “authors”. So what is special about “authored” texts? And what makes an “author” different to other kinds of text-producers? From its deceptively simple titular question, Foucault’s essay offers a complex argu...

A young man’s shadowed destiny leads him to the past… where he could change our world forever.Thomas McCadden is caught in a time not his own, swept away by forces he struggles to understand. HIs encounter with the diabolical Traveller, Wulfram, left Thomas Bound by Fey power to a slave boy. His tenuous acceptance in both the Seelie Court and King Oswy’s hall in Bebbanburg is being eroded by whispers and lies spread by Wulfram’s agents.Yet Thomas’ task rema...

The story begun in Wilding: Book One of the Traveller’s Path, continues!A young man’s shadowed destiny leads him to the past... where he could change our world forever….Seventh century Northumbria is a long way from home for Thomas McCadden, a young man from the present day. Having discovered he is a Fey Traveller with wild and untamed powers, Thomas must now deal with an even more unexpected surprise: his father has returned to his life.Th...

Butler’s 1990 work shook the foundations of feminist theory and changed the conversation about gender. While many thinkers already accepted that “gender” was a category constructed by society defined by one’s genitalia, Butler went further and argued that gender is performative—it exists only in the acts that express it. Society determines that wearing makeup is “feminine”—but some men wear makeup. Are they “women”? Following Butler’s argument, they are if they say they are. Butler frees g...

As recently as the 1920s, the lack of great female writers was often considered evidence of women’s inferiority. Virginia Woolf disagreed. Her 1929 essay argues that creativity is impossible without privacy and freedom from financial worries, and throughout history, women have had neither therefore, no tradition of great female writing existed. Woolf’s focus on the everyday suppression of women was a turning point in feminism, marking a realization that gaining legal and voting rights was ...

Jacques Derrida’s Structure, Sign, and Play is one of the most controversial and influential philosophical texts of the 20th century. Delivered at a conference on structuralism at Johns Hopkins, the lecture took aim at the critical and philosophical fashions of the time and radically proposing a world in which meaning cannot be pinned down or traced to an origin, but instead is continuously shifting, fleeting, and open to play. Hailed by many as a watershed in philosophy and liter...