A professional translator and amateur detective travels to Barcelona to find a missing man in this mystery hailed as a "high-spirited comic adventure" ( The New York Times).American but with an Irish passport, the itinerant translator Cassandra Reilly is living in London when she receives an unexpected phone call. The voice on the other end belongs to Frankie Stevens, a San Francisco transplant with an unusual request. Her husband, Ben, has gone missing—pre...

Seattle printing collective owner Pam Nilsen is on the case when a member of the group turns up dead before a controversial mergerPam Nilsen and her twin sister, Penny, inherited Best Printing four years ago when their parents died in a car crash. Unwilling to sell their family legacy, the sisters turned it into a collective run by a cadre of activists whose arguments over the business can be just as impassioned as their support for progressive causes. But internal ...

This rare, rediscovered collection of over 100 original hand-drawn pin-up illustrations provides insight into how Dorothy Kahn, a largely uncredited female illustrator, helped shape the visual identity of one of the most iconic American brands—Frederick's of Hollywood—during its golden era.Step into the glamorous world of the golden age of Frederick's of Hollywood through the exquisite illustrations of Dorothy Kahn, one of the brand's most prolific pin-up artists fr...

When a teenage runaway is murdered and her best friend goes missing, Pam Nilsen must dig into the seedy underbellies of Seattle and Portland to discover the truthPam Nilsen, co-owner of Seattle collective Best Printing, is still recovering from the heartbreak of her first real girlfriend leaving town when she decides to take two young prostitutes under her wing. The girls, age fourteen, are already coarsened by the worlds of sex, drugs, and crime. When one turns up ...

Cassandra Reilly is embroiled in a case of international intrigue and murder as two factions battle over a crumbling resortLondon-based lesbian translator and part-time sleuth Cassandra Reilly is on the move again. Her latest trip is to China, via Eastern Europe, where, upon receiving a call about a murder in a run-down Transylvanian health spa, she suddenly finds herself embroiled in a murky and wholly unusual investigation. The woman accused of the murder, Gladys ...

Join traveling translator Cassandra Reilly as she solves a new mystery in Lambda Literary Award winner Barbara Wilson's comic series about the London-based, Irish-American sleuth with "a mind like a steel trap, a literate, uplifting voice, and a wicked sense of humor" (Library Journal). In Not the Real Jupiter Cassandra is translating two manuscripts from Spanish. One of them is a collection of stories of speculative fiction by her old friend, the Uruguayan writer Luisa Montiflores. When e...

Mentor Away Bullying is a series of free video lessons created over time by a career teaching couple. Having taught for ~30 years in variety settings—including California, Africa, China, the Middle East, India and SE Asia—one thing became clear: the problem of schoolyard bullying is as widespread as it is stubbornly resistant to remedy.Mentor Away Bullying (©2018) is designed toward individual remediation (i.e. the restoration or re-discovery of a kinder nature that has somewhere di...

Cassandra Reilly, the Irish-American translator and amateur sleuth, shares a flat in London with her long-time friend, retired bassoonist Nicky Gibbons. Their lives are disrupted when Cassandra attends a lecture on the beguines, laywomen who lived in sisterhood in thirteenth-century Belgium. The beguines were the subject of a popular historical mystery series by Stella Terwicker who died ten years before, but whose literary estate is still creating problems for those who knew her, includin...

Its amazing the fun you can have with children with a little planning, some materials from the dollar store, and a healthy dose of imagination.No School?? Enjoy a Fun “Theme” Day gives you help with all three. Youll find more than two dozen themes that elementary-aged children would enjoy.The best part is that they (and you) will also have fun enjoying the themes, which include lunch ideas, physical activity, snacks, games, and more.For instance, a theme of round ca...

All four mysteries starring the lesbian translator, globetrotter, and amateur sleuth —including Gaudí Afternoon —from the Lambda Literary Award–winning author ."[Cassandra Reilly] has a restless nature, a facility for languages, and a lively curiosity about foreign cultures. Toss in her offbeat sense of humor and you have a terrific road pal." — The New York Times Book Review"[Cassandra R...

A collection of nine madcap stories following the wayfaring translator and amateur sleuth Cassandra Reilly around the globe in search of her next great mysteryLesbian translator and part-time detective Cassandra Reilly has two thrilling investigations under her belt: the case of a missing person in Barcelona and that of a dead spa-owner in Transylvania. In this humorous and engrossing collection, Cassandra is hard at work in some of the world's most picturesque loca...

When an antipornography activist dies after a provocative speech, Pam Nilsen dives headlong into Seattle's feminist community to uncover a murdererThe Seattle Conference on Sexuality is a lightning rod for controversy, with big politics and even bigger personalities descending on the city to discuss issues ranging from pornography to violence against women. Loie Marsh is one such personality, an outspoken critic of porn slated to speak on a panel about the subject. ...