When a sentient Realm asks you to be her protector, how can you say no? Shari Dawn, a Blank, appears to be just another teen, until a band of wandering Wisara visit Ronah, her home – a sentient, Shifting Island on the realm of Lissae. ​ Now her secret identity has been uncovered, Shari must learn how to control her powers, preparing to be tested in a prophecy passed down from the ancients, which will determine her role in the Realm’s future. ​ But sinister forces infect the dreams of Ronah’s people, and start to kill them off, one by one. With a team she didn’t want by her side, Shari must decide who lives and who dies. ​ The fate of the Realm is in her hands…

Sex Work in Popular Culture delves into provocative movies, TV shows, and documentaries about sex work produced in the last fifteen years – a period of debate and change around the meaning of sex work in North American society. From Oscar-winning films to viral YouTube videos, and from indie documentaries to hit series – many of which are made by women – the book reveals how sex work is being recognized as real work and an issue of human rights. Lauren Kirshner shares how popular culture has responded by producing the dynamic new figure of a sex worker who challenges tropes and promotes understanding of the key issues shaping sex work. The book draws on labour and feminist theory, film history, current news, and popular culture, all within the context of neoliberal capitalism and the rise of transactional intimate labour. Kirshner takes us from erotic dance clubs to porn sets, illuminating the professional lives of erotic dancers, massage parlour workers, webcam models, call girls, sex surrogates, and porn performers. Probing how progressive popular culture challenges stereotypes, Sex Work in Popular Culture tells the story of sex work as labour and how the screen can show us the world’s oldest profession in a new light.

In this world, different cultures enjoy different delicacies. On the Heels of the Hills is a fiction story based on both real and fictional events during the activity of picking grasshoppers, a delicacy enjoyed in Uganda and some other parts of the world. It tells us of what happened during the activity at a time before rural electrification changed the whole style of collecting the grasshoppers locally known as "nsenene" as you will read.

Something is watching them from the shadows… After a devastating betrayal, Shari longs for life to return to the way things were. But she has little time to dwell on normality. A devastating new foe rises, and former enemies become allies in the fight to save Lissae. Juggling school by day, and patrolling by night, it will only take one slip up to bring everything crashing down. Shari must battle her way to the heart of her problems… or die trying.

There's something hiding in the Dark. It's seeking Shari relentlessly and it's got only one thing planned for the Altoriae… When a spy impersonates Shari, Samuel is summoned home to chair the Dark Conclave. It's the most dangerous meeting in all the Realms; a place where blinking out of turn will lead to being eviscerated, and Shari, their number one enemy, accompanies Samuel under the guise of protecting him. While Shari is away, the mainlanders have declared war, and Jonathan alone must confront them. With trouble brewing on both sides of the gateway, how will Shari overcome the Darkest of Realms and keep Lissae intact at the same time? Cantash is the fourth book of the Lissae series.

Vivian Chumwell, a retired publisher, gets the shock of his life when a manuscript he is sent to edit turns his world on its head, forces him to re-examine his life and the lives of his parents, and brings him, for the first time in his life face to face with violence for which he is not prepared. When a ninety years old neighbour whom Chumwell believes is a one time murderer, dies, Chumwell leaves London to begin a new life of a very different kind.

A misplaced arrow could cause a war... Wracked with guilt, Shari must face the joining of two Shifting Islands with her sword at the ready. ​ But the search for the Guardian's next apprentice is still underway, fear strikes her heart. Not all the candidates are who they claim to be. And a fearsome new foe is out for revenge. ​ Can Shari lower her defences enough to let someone else in? Or will the decision cost her more than she's willing to give? ​ Rakemyst is the second book in the bold Lissae series of YA epic fantasy adventures. If you like kick-ass characters, sword-slicing action, and vivid magical realms, then you’ll love R. Lennard’s sensational sequel. Buy Rakemyst and fly into the sentient realm of Lissae today!