Brewing heiress Jocelyn Russet begins her Odyssey as erotic love and adventure collide with secret histories in book one of the five-part TABOU saga.

With the allusive leaps and improvisational chops of a jazz soloist, Yusef Komunyakaa is our great poet of connectivity--the secret blood that links slave and master, explorer and native, stranger and brother. In Taboo he examines the role of blacks in Western history, and how these roles are portrayed in art and literature. In taut, meticulously crafted three-line stanzas, Rubens paints his wife looking longingly at a black servant; Aphra Behn writes Oroonoko "as if she'd rehearsed it/for years in her spleen"; and in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson is "still/at his neo-classical desk/musing, but we know his mind/is brushing aside abstractions/so his hands can touch flesh." Taboo is the powerful first book in a new trilogy by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work never ceases to challenge and delight his readers.

Book 1 of a 3 part series Dr. Laura Snider knew escaping her abuser was the only way she and her unborn child would survive. With the help of one of her patients, she goes into hiding. Only to cross paths with three more dangerous men. Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is your friend… -A Polyamorus Romance- Story excerpt : “Gio was my little shadow when we were kids. He was always chasing after me, following my lead. He even picked up a few of my nasty habits along the way." He cocked his head towards me. " I looked after him, even more after the death of our older brother. What's mine became his." My eyes widened. What exactly does that mean? Hopefully, it was a play on words; I thought silently. Toni continued, "I've never been the type to be jealous. If I love something, is it wrong for me to want the other people I love to enjoy it too?" Book 2: Deviant Taboo - Keith's Story- will also fill in each character's back history and missing pieces of book 1 Book 3: Sand Storm - Ebony's sister story of surviving human trafficking ( stand alone) Writer's style- Written in a conversational format (casual and informal doesn't follow most standards of formal English nor does it rely on specific grammar rules and structure. It's a more natural freestyle of writing). *Story Contains adult situations, dark themes, and violence*

Modern day Earth woman Kyra Summers is kidnapped by a seven-foot tall, thickly muscled warrior claiming to be her Sacred Mate. Life on his home planet Tryston takes some getting used to, as the laws of the world cater to erotic hedonism and leave females at the sexual subjugation of the barbarians who claim them. Enjoy Kyra's spicy escapades as she adjusts to life and love in another dimension.

This book provides the history and genealogy of an increasingly important subject: liminality. Coming to the fore in recent years in social and political theory and extending beyond is original use as developed within anthropology, liminality has come to denote spaces and moments in which the taken-for-granted order of the world ceases to exist and novel forms emerge, often in unpredictable ways. Liminality and the Modern offers a comprehensive introduction to this concept, discussing its development and laying out a conceptual and experiential framework for thinking about change in terms of liminality. Applying this framework to questions surrounding the implosion of ’non-spaces’, the analysis of major historical periods and the study of political revolution, the book also explores its possible uses in social science research and its implications for our understanding of the uncertainty and contingency of the liquid structures of modern society. Shedding new light on a concept central to social thought, as well as its capacity for pushing social and political theory in new directions, this book will be of interest to scholars across the social sciences and philosophy working in fields such as social, political and anthropological theory, cultural studies, social and cultural geography, and historical anthropology and sociology.

This second volume of A History of East African Theatre focuses on central East Africa; on Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The first chapter is concerned with francophone theatres, comparatively studying work coming out of Burundi and Rwanda alongside a focus on French language theatre in Djibouti. The chapter is particularly concerned to explore how French and Belgian cultural policies impacted theatre during the colonial period and how the French ideas of Francafrique and promotion of elite, French language art have continued to resonate in the post-colonial present. Chapters Two and Three look comparatively at the rich theatre histories of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and are divided between a study of British East African colonial impact and an analysis of the post-colonial period illustrating how divergent political thought and societal make-up led to exponential differentiation in national theatres. The final chapter, on Theatre for Development and related social action theatre, covers the whole East African region, offering the first ever historicised analysis of this mode of theatre making which, since the 1980s, has come to dominate funding and opportunity in performance arts.