Jan Jones: 20 books

BUYING PROPERTY? BUILDING A HOME? READ THIS FIRST! This engaging and practical guide will teach you How To Design Your Dream Home (In 25 Years or Less)! Learn how to save time and money, avoid common mistakes, choose the best location, plan your space and layout efficiently, design custom storage...

The third story in the Penny Plain mystery series by Jan Jones. Picturesque Salthaven is being targeted with graffiti - especially the Seagull Brewery, owned by the family of Penny Plain's son's girlfriend. Meanwhile Penny's close friend, investigative journalist Leo Williams, is on the hunt for a...

It is the run-up to Christmas, and Leo and Penny are investigating the mystery of a Christmas gift left in a 'safe place' as mentioned on the back of a WW2 wedding photo. Meanwhile, Leo's son Daniel has come to stay for the festive season, there have been a spate of petty thefts in Salthaven, snow...

Penny Plain's odd jigsaw puzzle doesn't baffle only her. New journalist in town Leo Williams is strangely interested in it too. Like the jigsaw itself, there is more to Leo than meets the eye, but it takes a mystery at an Art Deco gallery to fit the pieces of his riddle together.

A pub with an odd menu, a missing 1950s test plane, the Salthaven WI Village Show, an unlikely development on the Enterprise Park, and Penny's eldest daughter behaving out of character. It can only be a Penny Plain Mystery ...

L'enfant du chantage, Marie Ferrarella Son petit garçon... enlevé ! En découvrant le lit vide de Vinny, son fils de deux ans, Dakota Armstrong voit ses pires craintes se réaliser : les hommes qu'elle fuit et s'efforce de semer depuis des mois ont fini par retrouver sa trace, et s'en sont...

Negotiating the Complexities of Qualitative Research in Higher Education illuminates the complex nature of qualitative research, while attending to issues of application. This text addresses the fundamentals of research through discussion of strategies, ethical issues, and challenges in higher education....

A comprehensive, integrated, and accessible textbook presenting core neuroscientific topics from a computational perspective, tracing a path from cells and circuits to behavior and cognition. This textbook presents a wide range of subjects in neuroscience from a computational perspective. It...

Thrills. Chills. Shadows and superstitions. Things that go bump in the night. Macabre Sanctuary boasts suspenseful fiction designed to elicit goosebumps and raise heartrates. Learn the lore of a haunted island. Grapple with the undead while robbing graves Halloween night. Endure...

An anthology of traditional and contemporary western short stories where the characters are lain bare. Feel the pain of a young Japanese girl who comes home from an internment camp after World War II and learns it’s easier to go with the flow than to fight the current. Struggle with...

“For I was hungry and you fed me; I was thirsty and you gave me water…When you did it to these my brothers you were doing it to me…” While sitting in church with her family, Sadie hears this scripture. On the way home from church on this bitterly cold and snowy night, Sadie sees a fire in...

Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...

These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl. Sprawl is not only an ongoing focus of specialized magazines like Dwell; indeed, Time magazine has cited “recycling the suburbs” as the second of “Ten Ideas Changing...