At Rosebud Academy, the spirits have their own haunting melodies. Up until a few weeks ago, eighteen-year-old Lissa Anderson drank, smoked, and partied hard. Now, though, she’s determined to be the straightest arrow at Rosebud, an elite summer program for classical musicians. But the unrestful spirits in the old school have other ideas. A spooky old dormitory, overprivileged students, and hours at the piano make the program into everything Lissa expected. What she didn’t expect is her quickly-budding romance with a cellist, a series of thefts related to scary stories, or the ghost determined to get Lissa’s attention. Dead men tell no tales, but dead girls do. This boxed set includes all three books in the Rosebud Academy trilogy: June's Blood, July's Flesh, and August's Bones. additional keywords: piano, pianist, classical music, academy, ghosts, haunting, gothic, mystery, horror, Colorado, forest, lake, storytelling, spirits

The arrival of European and Euro-American colonizers in the Americas brought not only physical attacks against Native American tribes, but also further attacks against the sovereignty of these Indian nations. Though the violent tales of the Trail of Tears, Black Hawk's War, and the Battle of Little Big Horn are taught far and wide, the political structure and development of Native American tribes, and the effect of American domination on Native American sovereignty, have been greatly neglected. This book contains a variety of primary source and other documents--traditional accounts, tribal constitutions, legal codes, business councils, rules and regulations, BIA agents reports, congressional discourse, intertribal compacts--written both by Natives from many different nations and some non-Natives, that reflect how indigenous peoples continued to exercise a significant measure of self-determination long after it was presumed to have been lost, surrendered, or vanquished. The documents are arranged chronologically, and Wilkins provides brief, introductory essays to each document, placing them within the proper context. Each introduction is followed by a brief list of suggestions for further reading. Covering a fascinating and relatively unknown period in Native American history, from the earliest examples of indigenous political writings to the formal constitutions crafted just before the American intervention of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, this anthology will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of the political development of indigenous peoples the world over.

A fascinating blend of poetry and science, Ben-Oni’s poems are precisely crafted, like a surgeon sewing a complicated stitch. The speaker of the collection falls ill, and takes comfort in exploring the idea of “Efes” which is “zero” in Modern Hebrew, using that nullification to be a means of transformation.