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A Fearsome Moonlight Black
The Bone Detective, A Dave Beckett Novel
2022
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Dave Beckett is a wide-eyed young man when he joins the police department in a small town in Southern California. His naivete allows him to believe in his world, a vision where the cops are the good guys championing the rights of the wronged. He learns quickly that crime is not black and white, and the bad guys aren't always the ones committing the crimes. This is the story of a victim turned predator, a young man who grows up too fast and becomes an apt pupil in the pursuit of criminals o...
The Blind Devotion of Imogene
The Misadventures of Imogene Taylor
2024
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In 1973, Imogene Taylor is seventy-five years old, on parole for murder, and works at a store that sells dented canned goods. Twelve years earlier, she went to prison for killing her love-of-her-life-husband, Wayne. She called it an accident. The judge and jury called it murder. Imogene's parole agent is constantly on her case, looking to send her back to prison.During her time in prison, Imogene had to vent her angst at someone and sent the sitting Presidents (during the ten years...
2025
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At eighty years old, Harvey Usher lives a quiet, reclusive life, still grieving the loss of his beloved wife, Sylvia. But when a stunning redhead named Rita shows up, claiming to be his wife of two years, Harvey's carefully constructed world begins to crumble.As Harvey struggles to expose Rita's deception, dark figures from his past emerge from the shadows, forcing him to confront the violent secrets he's kept buried for five decades. With the help of his elderly neighbor Esther an...
A Lonesome Blood-Red Sun
The Bone Detective, A Dave Beckett Novel
2023
EN
Dave Beckett, a homicide detective who doesn't color within the lines, is regulated to the lowest job in the division and is known by his peers as The Bone Dick. He handles all "bag of bone" cases found in San Bernardino County's twenty thousand square miles, at present, count 256 pending unsolved. It's a boring, mundane job...until it isn't. In A Lonesome Blood-red Sun, Beckett is called to a house far out in the desert where a dog has brought a bone to the back door. Beckett inv...
Imogene's Grand Fiasco
The Misadventures of Imogene Taylor
2025
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Seventy-five-year-old Imogene Taylor just wants to smoke her Marlboros and watch the world go by from her divan. But fate has other plans.Standing between chaos and salvation is one tough-as-nails grandmother with a .380 in her purse and a voice in her head named Ange offering questionable advice. But even Imogene's quick wit and steady trigger finger may not be enough when the fireworks start flying and blood begins spilling on the streets of West Valley.IMOGENE'S GRAND FI...
David Goes Voyaging
Restored Classics to Go Edition
2026
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David Goes Voyaging is a lively, boyish record of a twelve-year-old's extraordinary months aboard the scientific ship Arcturus, where wonder and discovery shape every day. Traveling with his mother and surrounded by naturalists, artists, and sailors, David Putnam celebrates his birthday on the Equator, learns the practical work of exploration, and sees the natural world with a child's unguarded curiosity. From his first sight of the ship at Colon and the passage through the Panama Canal to...
2017
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These poems go into everyday life problems and how some overcome and some who had enough remove themselves from society. As you read through these poems, itll take you through lifes disturbances and the places that they exist. Some you can control, and some you cannot. You just have to wonder how we manage to reach our aspirations and dreams.
2014
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Polymers have played a critical role in the rational design and application of drug delivery systems that increase the efficacy and reduce the toxicity of new and conventional therapeutics. Beginning with an introduction to the fundamentals of drug delivery, Engineering Polymer Systems for Improved Drug Delivery explores traditional drug delivery techniques as well as emerging advanced drug delivery techniques. By reviewing many types of polymeric drug delivery systems, and includ...
2013
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First Published in 1994. Hopkins and Putnam hold a questioning and healthily sceptical attitude towards the theory and practice of adventure education, something they claim has received insufficient reflection by practitioners on the nature of the process of adventure education. This title outlines their claims that a clear and simple exposition of principles and, consequently, practice has not been well enough informed. Written to stimulate debate, the critical stance that prompted the au...
Old Before Their Time
A Scientific Life Investigating How Maltreatment Harms Children and the Adults They Become
- Narrated by
- David Stifel
Unabridged
9 hours 47 min
2026
EN
Old Before Their Time is the deeply personal story of a thirty-five-year scientific investigation of the effects of childhood sexual abuse on child development and adult outcomes. The startling conclusion is that early childhood trauma accelerates biological aging of the body and the mind.The listener will gain a comprehensive perspective on the many ways in which maltreatment embeds itself in a child's mind, body, and behavior and is expressed across generations. It concl...
An Introduction to Language Attrition
Linguistic, Social, and Cognitive Perspectives
2025
EN
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This introductory text brings together diverse perspectives and research streams on language attrition – forgetting or loss of language proficiency that can take place in one’s first or additional language, for different reasons, and at different life stages.Offering a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview, Michael T. Putnam and David Natvig define key concepts and the contemporary debates in the field, discussing a variety of structural/grammatical, societal, and psychological/c...
Pragmatism as a Way of Life
The Lasting Legacy of William James and John Dewey
2017
EN
Throughout his diverse and highly influential career, Hilary Putnam was famous for changing his mind. As a pragmatist he treated philosophical “positions” as experiments in deliberate living. His aim was not to fix on one position but to attempt to do justice to the depth and complexity of reality. In this new collection, he and Ruth Anna Putnam argue that key elements of the classical pragmatism of William James and John Dewey provide a framework for the most progressive and forward-looki...











