Rachel has no trouble believing in spirits. It's the living she has a tough time believing in. The man she's in love with? Taken. The job she loved? Gone. Her neighbours? They're taping religious tracts to her door. Then a rebellious teenager Wiccan accidentally summons the area's ancestral Viking spirits -- who promptly bring their thousand-year war to the remote Newfoundland fishing village. If Rachel's going to have any hope of sending the spirits to their peace, she'll have to stop drooling over unattainable men and trust her 93-year-old neighbour to help her stand against the spirits before their supernatural war engulfs them all.

“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.” — Jane Austen When the spirited Miss Elizabeth Bennet overhears Mr. Darcy’s harsh rebuke of her elder sister, she’s driven to seek revenge. Taking fate into her own hands, Elizabeth embarks on a daring mission of subterfuge and cunning, determined to make the proud and brooding Mr. Darcy fall in love with her. But as their heated battle of wills intensifies, Elizabeth realizes that carrying through with her scheme is easier said than done. Will Elizabeth get what she wishes for and make Mr. Darcy fall in love with her, or is she playing a dangerous game? One in which she risks losing the last thing in the world she wants to gamble—her heart. “Her Spirits Rising to Playfulness” - A captivating tale of love and vengeance colliding that will keep you guessing until the end.

Rachel has no trouble believing in spirits. It's the living she has a tough time believing in. This COMPLETE SERIES omnibus contains the six novellas of the SPIRIT CALLER series.

Spotlighting Asian Americans on both sides of the motion picture camera, Countervisions examines the aesthetics, material circumstances, and politics of a broad spectrum of films released in the last thirty years. This anthology focuses in particular on the growing presence of Asian Americans as makers of independent films and cross-over successes. Essays of film criticism and interviews with film makers emphasize matters of cultural agency--that is, the practices through which Asian American actors, directors, and audience members have shaped their own cinematic images. One of the anthology's key contributions is to trace the evolution of Asian American independent film practice over thirty years. Essays on the Japanese American internment and historical memory, essays on films by women and queer artists, and the reflections of individual film makers discuss independent productions as subverting or opposing the conventions of commercial cinema. But Countervisions also resists simplistic readings of "mainstream" film representations of Asian Americans and enumerations of negative images. Writing about Hollywood stars Anna May Wong and Nancy Kwan, director Wayne Wang, and erotic films, several contributors probe into the complex and ambivalent responses of Asian American audiences to stereotypical roles and commerical success. Taken together, the spirited, illuminating essays in this collection offer an unprecedented examination of a flourishing cultural production. Author note: Darrell Y. Hamamoto is Associate Professor in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Nervous Laughter: Television Situation Comedy and Liberal Democratic Ideology, Monitored Peril: Asian Americans and the Poltics of Television Representation, and New American Destinies: a Reader in Contemporary Asian and Latino Immigration. Sandra Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

This text examines American norms of masculinity and their role in the law, with essays from legal academics, literary scholars, and judges. Together, these papers reinvigorate the law-and-literature movement by bringing a range of methodological and disciplinary perspectives to bear on the complex interactions of masculinity with both law and literature - ultimately shedding light on all three.