This story takes place in the late summer of 1947. Vienna Police Inspector Karl Marach is investigating Die Spinne, an escape route out of Germany and Austria for Nazi war criminals. Pammy is Marbachs wife. She is an American doctor who was widowed when her first husband was killed in the Pacific in the early days after Peal Harbor. Pammy enlisted in the British Army because female doctors werent accepted into the US Army, a situation that didnt end until near the end of the war. Soon afte...

Unyielding Dreams - Navigating Life's Tests To Achieve Your Ultimate Vision is an inspiring book that is a beacon for dreamers, visionaries, and anyone overwhelmed by life's challenges. It's a guide to help you realize that your dreams aren't mere fantasies; they can become your reality. Using engaging metaphors and real-life examples, the book illustrates how waiting for success can lead to frustration and failure, emphasizing the importance of taking control of your dest...

Poison Flower, the seventh novel in Thomas Perry's celebrated Jane Whitefield series, opens as Jane spirits James Shelby, a man unjustly convicted of his wife's murder, out of the heavily guarded criminal court building in downtown Los Angeles. But the price of Shelby's freedom is high. Within minutes, men posing as police officers kidnap Jane and, when she tries to escape, shoot her.Jane's captors are employees of the man who really killed Shelby's wife. He believes he wo...

Rescue artist Jane Whitefield leads a deadly crime syndicate on a frantic chase with only one winner in this gripping thriller.Jane Whitefield helps people disappear.Fleeing desperate situations, Jane's clients come to her for new identities, new lives where they won't be found. And when people need Jane's services, they come to the old house in rural New York where she was raised.It's there Jane finds Sara, a young woman in serious trouble. Sara's boyfriend found out...

In a fit of drunken bitterness a young hay trusser, Michael Henchard, sells his wife Susan to Mr Newson, a sailor, at a country fair. The transaction also includes their daughter Elizabeth Jane. When sober the next day, he regrets his action but looks for them in vain and is eventually told they may have emigrated. Eighteen years later Henchard is the Mayor of Casterbridge and the people of the town believe him to be a widower. In recent times he has had an affair with a young woman in Jer...

From Publishers Weekly:"Standouts include Dennis Lehane's gilt-edged chiller, 'A Bostonian (in Cambridge),' in which a wealthy collector of letters of abandonment falls prey to wily blackmailers, and Joe R. Lansdale's 'The Skull Collector,' a gangster yarn featuring gun-toting female grave robbers. Overshadowing everything, though, is Lee Goldberg's 'Lost Shows,' a delightful shocker about a fanatical collector of short-lived and unaired TV shows who has t...

In Worlds of Gender ten prominent scholars consider the research on gender and archaeology that has been conducted around the world. The authors discuss the archaeological evidence for gender distinctions from Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Australia, Europe, Mesoamerica, North America, and South America. Although some regions of the world have only been studied sporadically, this volume brings together the totality of the evidence to make it possible to compare sexual roles and i...

I am on a mission to bring awareness, understanding, and a humbling toward those who suffer from all forms of mental illness by exposing psychiatric procedures, where they may be reviewed and changed for the better. My mission includes how important honesty and communication is between us and our psychiatrists, especially when prescription medication is prescribed. I know God created medication for our healing and coping on this Earth. Communication and conversation between family members ...

This is the second of three novels in which the central character is Karl Marbach. This story begins on the first Saturday in August of 1945, three months after the end of the war in Europe. Stephan Kaasformer SS Major Stephan Kaasis walking the Ringstrasse, the great circular boulevard of Vienna, Austria. Vienna is a Soviet-occupied city. There are only token numbers of American, British, and French soldiers in the city, but newspapers are announcing the imminent arrival of troops from al...

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In Of Two Minds, noted hypertext novelist and writing teacher Michael Joyce explores the new technologies, mediums, and modalities for teaching and writing, ranging from interactive multimedia to virtual reality. As author of Afternoon: A Story, which the New York Times Book Review termed "the most widely read, quoted, and critiqued of all hypertext narratives," and co-developer of Storyspace, an innovative hypertext software acclaimed for offering new kinds of artistic expression, he is u...

British Anthropologist Thomas A. Joyce was among the first to write about the daily lives and religious practices of pre-Spanish Mexican and Mayan civilizations. He led annual expeditions into the lush jungles of the Yucatan, to help discover and document Mexican and Mayan sites between the Tropic of Cancer and the northern strip of British Honduras, now Belize. Joyce witnessed firsthand the discovery of some of the greatest Mayan sites that attract millions of visitors worldwide.