New Releases by Ryan Kelly

Max Gamer is an awesome Aspie who uses his special abilities to become a superhero. The authors don''t consider Asperger''s a disorder. Instead, they see it as a potential gift that can include some amazing skills. While some define it by deficits, this book focuses on strengths that give these individuals the resilience and confidence they need to rise to their potential.

Ryan was encouraged to write a short story for children as part of his Year 10 studies.

Riley, a shy straight-A student, struggles to balance her first year of college with new friends, a reunion with her estranged sister, and a secret virtual relationship that begins to consume her time, attention, and energy.

I Dream of Comets and Shooting Stars is a beautiful collection of poems and short stories about dreams, the realm of the imagination and the beauty and dangers that they can bring. In this book you will find stories of lost love, dreams unpursued, yet also the beauty of the imagination, and the victory of a fledgling soul.

Abstract: This activist ethnographic study analyzes the language and literacy practices within an after-school program designed to promote meaningful interactions between immigrant middle school students and their urban, low-income peers. These collaborations occurred when students engaged in pedagogical activities intended to heighten their awareness of themselves, their language and learning potential, and their capacity to resist situations and labels that limit their opportunities for social and academic success. Using a theoretical framework that supplements Cultural Historical Activity Theory with theories of social space and social practice, the study focuses on the agency displayed by and the interpersonal connections that developed between the young people as they worked to co-construct social maps of their school and to author and act in a multilingual video against gossip.

The notion that "what was meant" is relevant to interpreting "what was said" is a truism for most people, but a scandal for most aesthetic, literary, and rhetorical scholars. Despite many critical purges of over the decades, however, the repressed term "intention" has returned in the form of debates about human subjectivity, agency, and voice. The likely reason for this persistence is that the connection between utterer''s meaning and utterance meaning cannot be severed without doing away with the prospect of human communication. The challenge for rhetorical critics, therefore, is to find a way to articulate the proper role of intention in interpretation. This analysis makes use of a healthy scholarly debate that has been sustained by literary and aesthetic critics so as to formulate an answer for rhetorical theory. By dividing the question of intention and by reconfiguring positions known as Hypothetical Intentionalism and Modest Actual Intentionalism, a perspective from which a critic may interrogate the question of intention is offered. Rather than contend that critics must always look to the author''s intention, this perspective holds that investigating the author''s intention is permissible and respectable as a critical option.

The name Octagon is a perfect metaphor for the life shared on these pages. A multi-sided closed figure bound by straight lines. This book offers the opportunity to look inside the Octagon. To see for yourself that much of the behavior that homosexuals partake in, is the result of the biases and prejudices in our society. Hiding a life is an awesome task, most often accomplished with duplicity and lies, which in turn makes a part of that life invisible. In the beginning stages Ryan realizes that his sexual preference is unchangable, yet he struggles to fit in, to be just like everyone else. As time goes on he realizes that he still has sexual needs, and in satisfing those needs, he often finds himself in precarious and sometimes dangereous situations. After years of anonymous sexual encounters and alcohol abuse he makes the decision to change his life. In the end he has to make the biggest decision in his life. Gay or Straight?

Many years after the tragic loss of his father, a young man who has become the presumptive head of his family is moving out so he can pursue his own destiny. He and each member of his family face a crossroad. Sean feels he must leave or he will always be living his life for his mother in his father''s image. His sister, a woman unmoved by sentiment, is faced with shouldering the responsibility of caring for their mother and dealing with the various illnesses she has used, in addition to her brutal work schedule, to control her children. Anger over lost memories threatens to engulf the younger brother, and the mother is forced to realize she must learn to adjust or she will die in the shadow of the past. Sharply drawn characters drive this moving family drama.

Lucifer''s quest takes him to the Japanese afterworld of Izanami, and to the terrible House of Windowless Rooms, in search of his lost wings. Leaving his immortality and power at the door, he walks into a labyrinth of traps and treachery where the only thing more dangerous than failure is success.