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Everywhere you look, physical play—what some might call “roughhousing”—is being marginalized. Gym classes are getting shorter. Recess periods are being eliminated. Some new schools don’t even have playgrounds. Is it any wonder children retreat to “virtual horseplay” via video games? But...

Barren is a powerful and frankly honest novel about life with mental illness. At twenty-six, Everett Little tries to kill himself in a public park, failing by the slimmest of margins, only to wind up fighting for his life against a demonic force. But when this demonic force begins to infiltrate his...

Being crazy is all fun and games…until someone dies! A young woman is dead… Found lying in the middle of a country road… An innocent young girl… No one knows who she is… A relatively simple investigation for Nick Behr, even considering the mental condition...

New Orleans is known as the “Big Easy”, which is a perfect place for former FBI agent Jennifer Blade and Dr. Steve Sanders to drop out of life – almost literally. Jennifer is legally dead and in witness protection after bringing down a major drug cartel. Steve is content to simply love Jennifer,...

A geological faultline runs down the east coast of America through Manhattan at 125th street. Illegal drilling for gas takes place along this faultline and sets off events man cannot stop. In this sequel to Dragon's Orb, winner of BEST MYSTERY 2014 - BEACH BOOK FESTIVAL, PARIS BOOK FESTIVAL and FEATHERED...

Working class revolution in the twenty-first century? The second chapter in a spellbinding series about changing the world we live in. Britain is in the grips of a new revolution, with Valeri Kovalenko among a group of ordinary workers who’ve seized their own homes. But their uprising is...

Pieter has an unwanted magic sword in his life.He and his friends were given superpower-granting soul armors and charged with defending the world from a pending evil legion invasion. Only the invasion doesn’t seem terribly pending, and the defending seems pretty hopeless. And time consuming....

24 Extremely Short Halloween Stories for your Briefest Moments From a Hillary Clinton stripper to mythical beast-women in the harsh Scandinavian tundra and from an unusual band of steadfast teddy bears to the last man in zombie-occupied Chicago, fill your briefest moments with pulse-pounding...

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...

This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States. The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research...

A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day. "An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...

Worlds of Hungarian Writing responds to the rapidly growing interest in Hungarian authors throughout the English-speaking world. Addressing an international audience, the essays in the collection highlight the intercultural contexts that have molded the conventions, genres and institutions of Hungarian...

They're coming for you. In 1968, a young and ambitious film maker created an iconic cinematic masterpiece and changed the industry forever. 50 years later, a group of hardy writers converged in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to celebrate the 50th anniversary of George Romero's classic, Night of the...

For decades, scholars have repeatedly found the inequity of gender representations in informational and entertainment media. Beginning with the seminal work by Gaye Tuchman and colleagues, we have repeatedly seen a systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in media. Examining the...