Sex or lunch, what would you do, six days in a row? If you dont find the baby soon, will she freeze to death? It appears to be a single gunshot wound directly under the chin; should we assume suicide or possibly foul play? It appears the grandfather had a heart attack and fell through the glass storm window. Do we remove the body before the young grandkids show up? Its against rules but we cant allow the childrens last memory of grandpa to be crumpled and bleeding. Is that a gun in his han...

Far too often, we hear jokes and immediately forget them. This compilation of jokes is a collection from the past fifty years. Some jokes will make you laugh out loud, while others will produce a smile from ear to ear at a later time. Most were told by friends over a cold beer, while others were picked up on the run. Once we would start telling jokes, it was like turning on a water spigot. The jokes kept coming. Humor is a vital piece of life. Enjoy your reading and try to remember the rea...

This collection represents an engagement with American history, technology, and cultures. Murphy’s poetry ranges from fairly straightforward narrations of events to experimental pieces using a variety of American-speaking subjects and several angles of vision on cultural creations—Elvis Presley, Holly Golightly, and Elmore James, to name just a few. Formal choices include the interlocking movements of the sestina and the rondau, the ebb and flow of loose blank verse, and the syncopated var...

In 1977, Diane Hartwell is eight months into nursing and still startled when anyone calls her "the nurse."At County General, she learns quickly that skill is only part of the job. Patients deteriorate without warning. Physicians protect their authority. Exhausted staff miss what matters. And sometimes Diane knows something is wrong before there is any clinical evidence to explain why.Guided by seasoned nurses, challenged by medicine's rigid hierarchy, and sustained by an un...

A hidden gem and a new voice in the LGBTQ fiction genre!ABOUT THE BOOK: Love-cursed journalist, Quinn Harris, has a terrible talent for being at the wrong place at the right time. When a chance reunion brings him face to face with a flame from his past the sparks quickly turn to ice as evidence of foul play arises! He soon learns that it's no coincidence his high school crush disappeared years ago, without a trace. It's also no coincidence that his...

In The Heroic Earth, David T. Murphy argues that geopolitical ideas were most dynamic and significant in Germany not during the Nazi era (1933-45) but in the democratic culture of the Weimar republic (1919-33). By helping to condition the German population to geopolitical ideas, which emphasized revision of the Versailles settlement and enlarging Germany’s living space, geopolitics helped contribute to Nazi imperialism. From the defeat of Germany in 1918 until the rise of National...

As astonishing as it is true, you no longer need you wish or dream about the things you've always wanted and deserved in life. For as surely as a never-ending stream of air is sent for you to breathe...so may you enjoy wealth, happiness, health, love--a life full of luxuries...beautiful country homes ...travel to far off exotic places...expensive cars...rare and priceless works of art--all this and more, once you learn the secret of projecting "mind rays."

Octavia Vargus had everything she wanted at Rowan House, Skye’s most exclusive pleasure house, except the one thing she craved. Longing for the freedom to explore both sides of her nature, she leaves Rowan House and her mistress, for a new start in Italy with her partner Bridget Murray.Vivian Abiola is a connection to a past Octavia would like to forget, and a love she never expected to see again. After Octavia’s past relationship with Vivian is exposed, Octavia and Bridget explore...

Moulin Rouge meets The Greatest Showman in this romance between a vaudeville star and a showbiz tycoon who find love at the turn of the twentieth century—framed by mischievous commentary of a contemporary young historian.It’s 1897, and a new fashion for thin threatens to end the career of proudly fat vaudeville performer Evelyn Cross. Enter Thomas Gallier, the man behind the new palace of entertainment promising to be the apex of New York City’s t...

Desert animals special features help them survive in the heat and cold of their bone dry homes. Read all about the amazing adaptations of desert animals.

A New York Times BestsellerA prominent senator assesses the destructive ideas that have seized the American spirit—and shows how the hidden alignments in our politics can free us from their hold.Today, the United States is in a crisis, and it’s not just a political one: over fifty years, the pursuit of profit has undermined virtue and individual character, while too many of us have become convinced that happiness results from actin...

When a garbage man in California is found skinned alive, secret agents Remo and Chiun figure it's dirty business. When the same man starts showing up in the company of a prominent female scientist, they know something's really rotten.But when they find out that the new face belongs to an old foe - a deadly enemy they killed themselves - they know trouble's heading right for their laps, and they've got to move fast to keep from landing down in the dumps . . . for good.Remo a...