Dana A Dangerous Connection

Money, drugs, and a new plug, these brothers thought they had it all. Body and Bun was living life in the fast lane with their CMM clique until things spun out of control quickly. The men needed help to get their drug empire back on the right track and they found it from a total stranger, Dana.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The autonomic nervous system, which is responsible for the reactions of the body, is also responsible for the responses and recoveries from the challenges of daily living. #2 The autonomic nervous system is made up of three parts, each with its own set of protective actions. The earliest dorsal vagal system brings strategies of immobilization. The sympathetic system, next to arrive, adds fight and flight. The most recent ventral vagal system offers the ability for safety through connection and social engagement. #3 Neuroception, detection without awareness, describes the way the autonomic nervous system interfaces with the world. Reshaping the autonomic nervous system involves first making the implicit experience explicit by bringing perception to neuroception and then adding context through the lens of discernment. #4 Co-regulation is a biological imperative. It is essential to survival. The ability to self-regulate is built on ongoing experiences of co-regulation. With a reliable, regulating other, we engage in the rhythm of reciprocity and build experiences of safety in connection.

“As you turn the pages of this novel and get lost in Dana’s story, allow yourself to relive the horrors of slavery....Allow yourself to know the pain of our nation’s past.”—Tomi Adeyemi, New York Times bestseller and Hugo and Nebula award-winning author, from the new foreword This brand new package for young adults includes a redesigned interior for better readability, specially commissioned cover art by Carlos Fama, metallic stock cover, and spot gloss on cover elements “I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.” Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present. Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fiction’s oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. “Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and precise” (New York Times). “Reading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think it’s absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream.” —N. K. Jemisin

Winner of a 2021 South Central Modern Language Association Book Prize At the heart of America’s slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to twenty-first-century poetry employ gothic tools, such as ghosts and haunted houses, to portray the horrors of this nightmare. Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic thus reimagines the southern gothic, which has too often been simply equated with the macabre or grotesque and then dismissed as regional. Although literary critics have argued that the American gothic is driven by the nation’s history of racial injustice, what is missing in this critical conversation is the key role of property. Ford argues that out of all of slavery’s perils, the definition of people as property is the central impetus for haunting because it allows the perpetration of all other terrors. Property becomes the engine for the white accumulation of wealth and power fueled by the destruction of black personhood. Specters often linger, however, to claim title, and Ford argues that haunting can be a bid for property ownership. Through examining works by Harriet Jacobs, Hannah Crafts, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Sherley Anne Williams, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Natasha Trethewey, Ford reveals how writers can use the gothic to combat legal possession with spectral possession.

In Global Marine Science and Carlsberg Bo Poulsen examines the life and work of the renowned Danish marine scientist, Johannes Schmidt (1877-1933) who made landmark discoveries such as the breeding place of the Atlantic eel in the Sargasso Sea while working for Carlsberg.

Sarah Jennings wants nothing more than a quiet life-alone. Raised by an eccentric mother, their life on the road only taught her how to run away from hard times. But when she finds herself in an abusive relationship, this lesson serves her well. Now, back in her hometown, she's found a place she loves. She's a first grade teacher, and with few friends and less family around, she has what she wants, a quiet life under the radar where she can be free of her past and live quietly. Finally comfortable in her own skin, she's settled, and less fearful than she's ever been in her life. But it only takes one night and one act of violence for everything to change. Injured and afraid, Sarah wants to run again, but Mark Summors refuses to let her go. Just when Sarah thinks she can have Mark and the life he promises, her past comes back to haunt her. Mark Summors was born and raised in Santa Rosa. He married his high school sweetheart and never questioned his life, until he found his wife with another man. Now divorced, he wants something more. He's passionate about his job, he wants to protect people, and he devotes his life to it. This time he's protecting more than just another client, he's protecting his future; at least, Sarah Jennings will be his future, once he convinces her she loves him.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The autonomic nervous system is the automatic system in charge of the body’s basic housekeeping responsibilities, such as breathing and heart rate. It is organized around three building blocks that work in a certain order, and it comes with preset pathways. #2 The autonomic hierarchy is the order in which the three building blocks came into being. The ventral vagal building block, the newest of the three, provides a pathway to health and well-being. When something feels overwhelming, we move down a step to the next building block and the action taking of the sympathetic pathway. # 3 The three building blocks of the autonomic hierarchy are the world is unwelcoming, dark, and empty; the world is chaotic, unmanageable, and terrifying; and the world is welcoming, beautiful, and inviting of connection. #4 The second principle of Polyvagal Theory is the internal surveillance system, which is defined by the word neuroception. Neuroception refers to the awareness of signs of safety and danger, and it follows three streams of awareness: inside, outside, and between.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The autonomic nervous system is the automatic system in charge of the body’s basic housekeeping responsibilities, such as breathing and heart rate. It is organized around three building blocks that work in a certain order, and it comes with preset pathways. #2 The autonomic hierarchy is the order in which the three building blocks came into being. The ventral vagal building block, the newest of the three, provides a pathway to health and wellbeing. When something feels overwhelming, we move down a step to the next building block and the action taking of the sympathetic pathway. # 3 The three building blocks of the autonomic hierarchy are the world is unwelcoming, dark, and empty; the world is chaotic, unmanageable, and terrifying; and the world is welcoming, beautiful, and inviting of connection. #4 The second principle of Polyvagal Theory is the internal surveillance system, which is defined by the word neuroception. Neuroception refers to the awareness of signs of safety and danger, and it follows three streams of awareness: inside, outside, and between.