"I want you to look into this for me. Find the Witch. Find the girl." But the only trace of Raeesha was a single hair, on a pillow inside a chalked circle surrounded by magical implements. The Witch, too, was missing, and the guards assigned to her were lying dead, in a room spattered with blood. There seemed no way of learning who was behind the disappearances, or the mysterious plagues which assaulted the city, a rain of fire, and a rain of blood. (Volume 2 of A Foreign Shore). Second place winner of the 2016/2017 Reader Views Literary Awards, category fantasy. See the video: https:...

Examining issues of power, gender, and religion in the ancient world, Perpetua's Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire is a graphic history set in Roman Africa in 203 CE that tells the story of the Christian martyr Perpetua.

The Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis, also known as The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, is the first extant diary authored by a Christian woman. Vibia Perpetua was a young mother who lived in Roman Africa and, at the age of twenty-two, chose to publicly proclaim her Christian faith. She died as a...

The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam tells the darkly humorous story of the French colonial state's failed efforts to impose its vision of modernity upon the colonial city of Hanoi, Vietnam.