Reclusive investigator Megan French is lured from isolation by a mysterious client who wants her to investigate the infamous Hate House. Too late, she discovers Hate House isn't a job, it's a trap. Gaslighted and manipulated, French is caught in an elaborate revenge plot seeking to unbalance her mind before framing her for a horrible crime. As French unravels the plan, she uncovers a wider world of the ultra wealthy who treat people as nothing more than pieces on a game board.

Blues Hall of Fame Inductee—Named a "Classic of Blues Literature" by the Blues Foundation, 2019This remarkable book recovers three invaluable perspectives, long thought to have been lost, on the culture and music of the Mississippi Delta.In 1941 and ’42 African American schol-ars from Fisk University—among them the noted composer and musicologist John W. Work III, sociologist Lewis Wade Jones, and graduate student Samuel C. Adams Jr.—joined folklorist Alan ...

Social history of the native peoples of the American South, bridging prehistory and historyThe past 20 years have witnessed a change in the study of the prehistory and history of the native peoples of the American South. This paradigm shift is the bridging of prehistory and history to fashion a seamless social history that includes not only the 16th-century Late Mississippian period and the 18th-century colonial period but also the largely forgotten--and critically...

Batman is one of the most recognized and popular pop culture icons. Appearing on the page of Detective Comics #27 in 1939, the character has inspired numerous characters, franchises, and spin-offs over his 80+ year history. The character has displayed versatility, appearing in stories from multiple genres, including science fiction, noir, and fantasy and mediums far beyond his comic book origins. While there are volumes analyzing Batman through literary, philosophical, and psychological le...

"The fruitarian Feast and diet " is a book specially written to serve as a guide for people planning to walk the path of a plant-based Lifestyle.This book gives details about the health benefits of fruits to the body system.This book is categorized into ten chapters with each carrying sub topic likeAn introduction to FruitarianismDrinks suitable for a fruitarianAthletes and fruitsFruitarian diet and ...

Set in Alabama over a period of fifty years beginning in the late 1940s, this exquisite collection of fifteen short stories provides snapshots into the lives of different characters. The link between the stories is Billy, AKA William Vernon Johnson. Though they can be read as stand-alone stories, the collection chronicles the life of young Billy from a young boy to a man enjoying his role as a grandfather. Billy/William narrates several stories, but many of the stories are told in the thir...

Echoes of a dynamic history still linger in Springfield, Missouri. The town square was the scene of a Civil War battle, a Wild Bill Hickok shootout and a tragic 1906 lynching. From the phantom landlord of Jefferson Avenue to the spectral bride of Grove Park Bridge, meet figures from the town's past that continue to mystify its present. Pore over reports of supernatural activity at Drury College and the Landers Theater and investigate a bounty of bizarre, sensational rumors from the surroun...

This Mysterious very Strange story begins in Middlesex County, Virginia U.S.A. on the Pianka National Indian Reservation located on the banks of the beautiful pristine Piankatank River. A young full blooded Indian boy Mordecai (Pintail) Jacy is born and raised by very strict Indian parents to read and study early in life. In doing so Mordecai becomes very interested in law related subjects; especially those involving investigation topics and procedures. Mordecai when born and following Tri...

This Unusual Cold War Story begins in the late fall in Middlesex County, Virginia United States of America. Sixty year old retired Indian Legendary Chief Investigator Mordecai Pintail Jacy is sitting in his beloved old family log home located on the Pianka National Indian Reservation. As he and his wife Elly chat they receive a visit from two Central Intelligence Agency Officers (CIA). These CIA Officers deliver a Secret Letter that requests Pintail come out of retirement and oversee a ver...

The Voice Within: Lessons from Life's Seasons by John Jones is a deeply reflective memoir that takes readers on a journey through the seasons of life. From the challenges of growing up in the Rockwell Gardens housing projects to the quiet wisdom discovered in the later stages of life, this book explores the powerful lessons learned through both hardship and triumph.Jones shares personal anecdotes from pivotal moments his father's decision to act on love, the day he reinvented himse...

This book describes how a key signal/image processing algorithm – that of the fast Hartley transform (FHT) or, via a simple conversion routine between their outputs, of the real‑data version of the ubiquitous fast Fourier transform (FFT) – might best be formulated to facilitate computationally-efficient solutions. The author discusses this for both 1-D (such as required, for example, for the spectrum analysis of audio signals) and m‑D (such as required, for example, for the compression of ...

December 24, 1975. Two innocent handymen are summoned to 112 Ocean Avenue to fix a boathouse door. Little do they know that the Lutz Family is living through a nightmare in the main house...and now they will be sharing that nightmare. In the next few hours, Owen Blake and Randy Hallowell will encounter inexplicable events, malevolent spirits, and a force beyond understanding. If they survive, it will change them...forever. Now: Experience the previously untold story of what happened at the...