Author Lee Johnson describes Mixing Memory and Desire: How History Shaped the Foods of the Caribbean as ‘a food book with a large side dish of history.’It is not a cookbook – there are no recipes – or a forbidding history text filled with events and dates, but a primer for all readers of how the Caribbean’s turbulent history led to its distinctive cuisine. It is told in an entertaining and readable style, infused with appropriate poetic and song lyric extracts, and garnish...

Whilst on a business trip to Shanghai, Peter Newton buys a beautifully carved jewelry box from an old junk shop in the crowded city. It is a gift for his girlfriend back home in New York. The box turns out to contain within, a daguerreotype - the original form of photography - of four persons, one of whom, he discovers to his shock, is him. He has never seen the others before. This is the beginning of a bizarre change in his life as he, his girlfriend and all who are associated w...

Author Lee Johnson describes Mixing Memory and Desire: How History Shaped the Foods of the Caribbean as ‘a food book with a large side dish of history.’It is not a cookbook – there are no recipes – or a forbidding history text filled with events and dates, but a primer for all readers of how the Caribbean’s turbulent history led to its distinctive cuisine. It is told in an entertaining and readable style, infused with appropriate poetic and song lyric extracts, and garnish...

Little introduction needs to be made of Hermes Trismegistus, also known as "The Master of Masters" or "The Thrice Greatest Intelligencer". After his death, he was deified by the Egyptians and gained the named Thoth, and the Greeks, as Hermes. In this small collection of his works are The Divine Pymander, "Aureus" or The Golden Tractate and The Book of Revelation of Hermes. This forms a solid basis for the Hermetic Teachings.

In his philosophic verse, Woodsworth identifies the history of poetry and geometrical thought as the two chief treasures of the mind and as main sources of his poetic inspiration. He assigns transcendental value to geometry and indicates that he attempts to apply its proportions to the laws of nature. In this book, Professor Johnson demonstrates how Wordsworth also employed geometrical patterns in the metrical construction of his verse and how the character of those patterns can be related...

Acclaimed author Keith Lee Johnson evokes the dark and deadly world of 1950s New Orleans in this third novel from his popular series featuring street-savvy Johnnie Wise. Unafraid to use her assets, young Johnnie has wiled her way into the lives of several dangerous men. She also happens to be connected to three murders. Now that her enemies are closing in from all sides, it seems her luck may run out.

As recommended by Pandora Sykes on the High Low Show podcast'I read The Most Dangerous Place on Earth in two chilling gulps. It's a phenomenal first book.'Anthony Doerr, New York times bestselling author of All the Light We Cannot See'You might not think that anyone in this School sees you but I do. I mean sees you really.'Aged thirteen, Tristan Bloch writes a love note to Calista B...

Johnnie Wise was just fifteen years old when her mother sold her virginity to an unscrupulous white insurance man named Earl Shamus. Stunningly beautiful, with long naturally wavy black hair, she possessed the voluptuous body of a thirty-year-old woman. Her skin was the color of brown sugar. Johnnie had heard about Earl Shamus and his escapades among the poor black women in New Orleans. But what she didn’t know was that Shamus had quietly made several of the girls in their neighborhood his...

A young social worker with a lonely past… A small Minnesota town's favorite son…An allegation...Unprotected is the story of Amanda Danscher, a young child protection social worker with a past she is trying to forget. She quickly becomes embroiled in a case against former state champion hockey player and favorite son, Chuck Thomas, who will do anything to buck the system rather than work with it—including whatever it takes to get Amanda out of his way. Luckily Amanda reconnects with Jacob, ...

Alison Timberlane's escape from a string of violent deaths, and an abusive husband led her to a new life in a new place with a new name. The lock on her heart is not easily opened when love tries to penetrate in the person of a young ex-soldier. When her past catches up, his secrets push her over the edge and back into danger.Fleeing to what she believes is her only refuge, Alison creates her own prison, and unravels the horrible carnage behind her. She is in no condition to attemp...

When a widow with a grown daughter decides to further her education, she's thrown into a world of unexpected possibilities. Pursued by a younger professor, and an egocentric doctor, she is torn by the striking opposites who disrupt her life.One seems too good to be true; the other is too closed to be understood. It seems easier to forget them both, but it isn't that simple.

Keeping children safe isn't just a job for Terrance County Social Worker Leah Danco. After she's taken care of the children of the county, she heads home to help keep her drug-dealing brother out of jail, her paranoid mother out of the psychiatric ward, and herself away from the constant draw of the whiskey bottle. There is simply no energy left to think about letting a man in her life. Leah's resistance doesn't stop Detective Pete Kemper from trying. The life of every party, Kemp has char...