Herodotus Award winner for Best Historical Mystery“Kris Nelscott can lay claim to the strongest series of detective novels now being written by an American author.” —SalonWho is Smokey Dalton?Private Investigator Smokey Dalton works for Memphis, Tennessee’s black community. He has almost no interaction with the white hierarchy, even though they exist only blocks away. So he’s surprised the day a white woman wal...

Eleven-year-old Sally Jane Hesslop loves her Dad, her hamster Melvin, and her best friend Katie. Her four-year-old brother Robbie she's not so sure about. She tries to love him, but Robbie eats dirt and wakes Sally up every morning by hitting her on the head with a rubber spatula. Robbie's a hard person to love.But that's okay. Who needs little brothers when you have a fluffy orange hamster like Melvin? Melvin's got Super-Secret-Agent training, a T-Shirt of Invisibility, and his be...

Lost in a fantasy world, Nikki has only logic and science to help her find her way home.When Nikki Murrow failed her first High School debating match she did what anyone would do. She hid in a closet. She found comfort hiding among the mops and cleaning supplies, but she also found two imps – tiny creatures from a magical kingdom who lead her on a strange journey into the Realm of Reason.There is Fuzz, a grumpy imp with a fondness for breaking the rules. And Athena, a model of impi...

Starting over at fifty might be hard, but it shouldn’t be deadly…Still recovering from an injury that might have permanently derailed her career as an international war correspondent, Kate Tessler is living in her childhood bedroom and pondering her second act when another case lands in her lap. Kate’s father and his coffee group are worried. Their friend Larry married a younger woman who now insists he has dementia and won’t let any of his friends visit. They’re c...

A billionaire cowboy. A hidden fortune. An attorney with a longtime crush. Sprinkle in some Christmas magic and let the fun begin.Texas rancher Josh Tomlinson never wanted fame or fortune, but overnight his family’s lottery win makes them billionaires; and strangers to one another. When he turns to family friend and sharp new attorney Carly Garza for help, he’s stunned. The tomboy he once knew is now a gorgeous, no-nonsense lawyer… and com...

Lost in a fantasy world, Nikki has only logic and science to help her find her way home.Logic to the Rescue is designed to teach kids critical thinking. A combination of fiction and non-fiction, it weaves examples of logical fallacies into a fictional sword-and-sorcery fantasy. Simple examples for testing a hypothesis and setting up experiments in chemistry, physics, and biology are integrated into the plot. The Logic to the Rescue series is a useful addition to a home library for ...

Left as a newborn to die in a dumpster, she has no name.Tossed from state-run orphanages to a string of foster homes, she has no family.Growing up hard, fast and street smart, she’s accomplished in hand to hand combat and accurate with a gun. With no money for college, she enlisted in the US Marine Corps out of high school and was quickly plucked from her unit when her sharp shooting and intellectual skills outshined her male counterparts.With no known past, she is ...

Leading Charismatic Pastor Offers a Bold New Strategy for Spiritual WarfareKris Vallotton, a pastor at Bethel Church in Redding, California, and the cofounder of its School of Supernatural Ministry, knows his way around the spiritual battlefield. For years he was tormented by a host of demonic assaults, though he didn't know the problems were spiritual. Confused, overwhelmed, he actually contemplated suicide--until the Lord delivered him.Since that time, Kris has spent his ...

Kris Ottman Neville (1925–1980) was an American science fiction writer from California. At the top of his career, he virtually abandoned writing science fiction to pursue a career in chemistry, becoming a leading expert in epoxy resins. His writing remains some of the best of the era. Included in this volume are 9 classic stories:HUNT THE HUNTERFRESH AIR FIENDEARTH ALERT!SHE KNEW HE WAS COMINGMORAL EQUIVALENTGENERAL MAX SHORTERVOYAGE TO FAR ...

This is an excellent collection of three short stories with gay themes from well-known erotic author Kris Andersson. The stories include: While the Wife's Away: When the boss suggests an evening meeting at his home and makes it quite clear that his wife is away for the night, you can guarantee that there will be more than statistics and spread sheets on the agenda - and by the end of the night a new sort of business partnership has been created... Masters and Servants: It's hard losing you...

The Gostynin Shul - A Yiddish history mysteryDr. Joanna Adelman leads a quiet life. She takes walks with her seeing-eye dog, Delilah, and tries to survive her Grandmother's cooking. Her work as a Yiddish translator adds small details to the story of Jewish immigration to Boston, but has never been the most exciting of careers. Until the Zielinski documents. They arrive in her office one morning – a jumble of handwritten pages in a cardboard box. Suddenly Joanna finds herself fendin...

Lost in a fantasy world, Nikki has only logic and science to help her find her way home.After losing the Wisconsin State Debate Championship Nikki Murrow hides in a closet, only to find two imps there from the Realm of Reason. They have traveled to her school to find a scholar who will save them from the dark forces of superstition and ignorance. The imps decide that Nikki is the scholar who will save them.The Logic to the Rescue series is designed to teach...