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One year ago, Ash Turner was taken into the swamp, shot in the back of the head, and left for dead. No longer dead, Ash is now stuck in New Orleans. As the only surviving witness to the “disappearance” of local pillar-of-the-community and suspected crime boss, James Derouen, Detective Marand...

A Part-Time Dragon. Thara Gold’s rent is due and she needs a new job. Right now, though, she hopes she can make it home before her Episode starts. She doesn’t want to turn into a dragon on the bus. A Rookie Dragon Hunter. After 6 months living with his mother, Marcus Nelson is...

Strange things happen when Dillon opens doors. A cold, lifeless universe waits in the bathroom. A hideous creature that looks nothing like a puppy lurks in his closet. He doesn’t remember what was in his toy box, but he still has nightmares. In his job as night manager at the Buffalo Burger...

This thoroughly revised and updated Fourth Edition of a time-honored text provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the field of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDS) for elemental microanalysis, electron backscatter diffraction analysis (EBSD)...

Body snatchers and grave robbers were the stuff of Victorian lore, but two real-life culprits took the crimes out of shadowy cemeteries and into criminal court. William Burke and William Hare aided Scottish surgeons competing for anatomical breakthroughs by experimenting on human corpses. As the duo...

This unique book provides a new and well-motivated introduction to calculus and analysis, historically significant fundamental areas of mathematics that are widely used in many disciplines. It begins with familiar elementary high school geometry and algebra, and develops important concepts such as...

Frontier Justice highlights eighteen crimes and subsequent punishments of the most interesting, controversial, and unusual executions from an era when hangings and shootings were a legal means of capital punishment. Chapters include: the bungled hanging of Tom Ketchum who was beheaded by the noose;...

California was the mining center of the West for half a century. Wherever precious minerals were found, road agents appeared to “mine the roads” of treasure being shipped out and payrolls being shipped in. The first recorded robbery of a stagecoach occurred in 1856, and the last in 1913. Over...

If your life is a roller-coaster ride and you just can’t get ahead and if there is a lack of peace and joy and victory is eluding you, then this book, Gaining the Victory, is a must-read. Within the pages of this book, God has given me the road to victory for every believer. You will find how to...

With the growing awareness of many critics of risk society, the culture of fear and the dangerous rising levels of unhealthy fear around individual, group, and public insecurities, three keen observers of the human condition have joined experiences, theories, and ideas to create a fresh vision for...

This book seeks to find expression in how the author looks at heroism, heroes, heroines, and the eternal reaching of the human spirit. This collection delves into mythologies, superheroes, historical warriors, and fantasy/sci-fi mythos stories. Enjoy all that you read and hope it inspires you.

[Nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for YA Fiction] After a double murder shakes a suburban town, a boy's life becomes the center of a chain-reaction of events that affects everyone around him. Luther McRae, an introverted family product of a busy mother, an overworked father and an autistic...

Dr. Geoffrey Fuller, a well known psychiatrist heads the Psychiatric Centre in Boston. He and his wife Elizabeth, who is a radio talk show host in Boston, live in a seaside home south of the city. During one of his daily walks on the beach, he discovers a diary whose owner he cannot identify. Although...

Rose Bainbridge, gunwitch, would prefer her return to New Venezia were more discreet. Instead, she’s sailing into the busy port town aboard a known pirate vessel, in the company of the enigmatic orphan Janett Laxton, with the mutilated body of Lord Bernard Fuller in a coffin of ice. The assassin...