INDUSTRIAL FOOD TYCOON SHALE GIMMEL ISinterrupted at a university board of governors meeting with news that his mistress is engaging in extra-curricular activities of her own. A young dishwasher at one of Shale's properties is beset by unrelenting racial prejudice. A well-heeled stockbroker feels the economic strain of hismodern, materialistic existence. A transplantedPennsylvania millennial in her search for social justice learns the cruel realities of working in the inner city. Their lives come together in this explosive debut novel that takes a satirical bite out of contemporary, caste-obsessed New Orleans.

Brings Wick's 2013 and 2014 follow--up episodes together under one cover for the first time. It is 1951 and Florida state representative Bernie Papy is pulling all the strings. Trumbull is using his Miami Herald column to expose Papy. "The Companion Episodes" tells a gripping story of danger, corruption, backroom deals, and Trumbull's relentless search for the truth.

In Religions and Trade a number of international scholars investigate the ways in which eastern and western religions were formed and transformed from the perspective of "trade." Trade changes religions. Religions expand through the help of trade infrastructures, and religions extend and enrich the trade relations with cultural and religious "commodities" which they contribute to the “market place” of human culture and religion. This leads to the inclusion, demarcation and densification as well as the amalgamation of religious traditions. In an attempt to find new pathways into the world of religious dynamics, this collection of essays focuses on four elements or “commodities” of religious interchange: topologies of religious space, religious symbol systems, religious knowledge, and religious-ethical ways of life. Contributors include: Christoph Auffarth, Izak Cornelius, Georgios Halkias, Geoffrey Herman, Livia Kohn, Al Makin, Jason Neelis, Volker Rabens, Abhishek Singh Amar, Loren Stuckenbruck, Joan Goodnick Westenholz, Peter Wick, Michael Willis, and Sylvia Winkelmann.

Young Peter Wick finds himself transported through time and space to the Train of Aemulo on a journey with an unimaginable destination.