Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why — or even who Tobias Hawthorne ... more >
How Charles Dickens Secularized Christmas Forever – A short but provocative argument that A Christmas Carol, and Dickens’s general concern with what Ryan Britt refers to as the privileging of class over religion, helped establish Christmas as primarily a celebration of very human virtues. Parties over prayer is reinforced not just ... more >