Queen of the Mission transports readers to San Francisco’s Mission District in 1984, where a community of drag performers, cab drivers, and lovers fight to keep their dreams alive against a backdrop of prejudice, murder, and the looming AIDS crisis.At the heart of the story is UltraSheen—the dazzling star of a new drag revue—whose rise to fame collides with the twisted schemes of Dr. Lindstrom, a deranged academic obsessed with punishing queer culture. As Casey Johnson, th...

The Queen of Mystery takes readers deep into San Francisco’s Castro District during the mid-1980s, a time of glittering nightlife shadowed by danger and loss.UltraSheen, the radiant drag performer and beloved community icon, finds herself at the center of a storm when a series of shocking murders shakes the queer community. As Casey Johnson, the cab driver turned reluctant investigator, navigates a world of smoky clubs, back-alley secrets, and underground drag shows, he uncovers th...

Unlock Your Potential with "The Time is Now: How to Get Ready for the Opportunity"Are you ready to transform your approach to seizing opportunities and unlock your full potential for success?If so, then "The Time is Now: How to Get Ready for the Opportunity" is the book you've been waiting for!In this comprehensive guide, you'll discover a treasure trove of strategies, mindsets, and actionable insights that will empower you to:Cultivate a growth mindse...

Maybe it just came upon them one day or one night when they were alone in bed, lost in memories saturated by regrets, sorrows, worries and troubles; lost in that mind of slight-confusion where they had reached the hundredth sheep and lost count. Maybe at this moment, they breathed in the darkness and it became their's. Like a broken switch that becomes a forever-attached dirty ornament on an unused shelf, it became part of them, part of their insides and it began to eat; feeding on them fr...

Your organisation has forgotten how to build. This book shows you how to remember.Your best developers are updating LinkedIn. Your AI strategy is an unread PDF. Your governance committees are where ideas go to die. And somewhere, a teenager with a laptop ships in a weekend what your enterprise can't deliver in a year.AI has changed everything. What once required teams and months now takes individuals and days-if you have the capability to do it.Most...

Easter is coming! Rescue, healing, wholeness, death and Resurrection...Salvation!But what does salvation mean, how does it work, who is it for, and what has it got to do with Jesus, whoever he is?Churches around the world read stories of salvation from the Hebrew Scriptures in the lead up to Easter, and connect them to stories of Jesus, especially his murder and the Resurrection.Inevitably, some kinds of people get saved, and others get left out. Someone is ...

The moon was full, and the stars were shining brightly through the haze of this night. Speed strained his eyes. In the mist, there stood a shapely woman, on a cliff's edge. She called out someone's name. In each hand, she held a tiny black book with their blood speckled pages flipping in the wind."Christine! Emma! Christine!" she called, "I'm coming, my babies!" and she leaped over the cliff's edge, taking the books into the emptiness below. Along with her screams she flew, and the ...

The Last Days of the Barbary Coast plunges readers into the gritty, intoxicating world of San Francisco in the early 1980s—a city teetering between freedom and destruction. Through the eyes of Casey Johnson, a cab driver turned reluctant chronicler, we witness a community alive with drag shows, drugs, danger, and desire.From the glitz of UltraSheen, the city’s dazzling drag queen star, to the sinister presence of the RedHair Killer, the novel explores the undercurrents of a culture...

The "Complete Allotment Guide - Volume 1" is the first in a series of books teaching you everything you need to know to get started growing fruit and vegetables. Whether you have an allotment, a smallholding or a vegetable garden at home, you will learn how to start growing in the ground and in containers.This step-by-step guide starts from first principles, teaching you everything from how to choose an allotment to clearing weeds, coping with the weather and how to set your vegeta...

"Growing Garlic - A Complete Guide To Growing, Harvesting and Using Garlic" is for anyone who wants to learn how to grow their own delicious garlic at home. This popular plant has been worshipped as a god, used as currency and is very popular as a healing herb and culinary ingredient.Being such a popular plant, people like to grow it at home. Despite it being relatively easy to grow, it can be difficult to get it to mature successfully. Many people lose their crop and never manage ...

A vertical garden can run the gamut from a simple arrangement of flowers in a large container on a deck to an elaborate display of strawberries and geraniums amid climbing peas and vines of small squash growing up a backyard fence. Any upright structure that can support vegetables, fruits, herbs, or flowers, whether these plants are in containers or in the ground, can be used in vertical gardening. Although vertical gardening is of particular interest to apartment dwellers and to city resi...

Nothing compares to the taste of homegrown tomatoes picked fresh from the vine! Master gardener Jason Johns shares his love for and knowledge of growing this popular, savory fruit so that even novices can produce a bumper crop of their favorite varieties. This in-depth guide teaches you how to: select the best seeds and seedlings; grow tomatoes in beds, containers, or greenhouses; nurture your plants so they produce an abundant crop; choose companion plants; prevent pests and diseases; sto...