Young Lena Bentheim is forced to flee Nazi Germany for Chicago in 1935, leaving her family and boyfriend behind. After learning English, she eventually finds a new life as a secretary in the Physics Department of the University of Chicago. She meets and marries another German refugee scientist and has a child. Then tragedy strikes, and Lena is forced to spy on the nuclear fission experiments at the U of Chicago. A novella set in the early years of the Manhattan Project, The Incidental Spy ...

Rome. Turmoil in the Eternal City. The pope has resigned and disappeared without a trace. Nobody knows if he is even still alive.At the same time, his closest confidants are being murdered in the most gruesome ways. As the conclave convenes to elect a successor to the Holy See, Vatican reporter Peter Adam begins to search for the missing pope. His search leads him to a mysterious underground religious fraternity, which has been working against the Church for centuries. Its members ...

Chicago filmmaker Ellie Foreman tackles her most dangerous case yet in this dark thriller. An Image of Death sees Ellie in the midst of producing another video documentary, financed by a successful Chicago real estate developer.But things take an unexpected turn one winter night when a mysterious package arrives on Ellie’s doorstep. Inside is a surveillance video apparently showing the murder of a young woman. Who was the victim, why was she murdered, and what is her connection to ...

Little Molly Messenger is kidnapped on a sunny June morning. Three days later she’s returned unharmed. Then the brakes go out on her mother's car. An accident? Except that her mother may have may have misappropriated three million dollars. Doubleback reunites PI Georgia Davis with video producer Ellie Foreman, who track leads from Chicago to Wisconsin to the Arizona border.Little Molly Messenger is kidnapped on a sunny June morning. Three days later she’s returned unharmed. Then t...

Step into a world of mystical wonders, where Spirit speaks and reality is richer, stranger, and more provocative. In this unforgettable memoir, told in short stories, intuitive Keno Powers shares riveting accounts of divine interventions, unbelievable synchronicities, otherworldly encounters, and life-changing revelations-interwoven with deeply personal trials of trauma, loss, and adversity.With poetic clarity and raw vulnerability, he gives voice to repressed childhood memories of...

In this fourth crime thriller of the Ellie Foreman series, the Chicago documentary filmmaker finds herself in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Returning from a video shoot at the Lodge, a newly renovated, upscale resort, Ellie befriends a woman who claims her ride abandoned her at a highway rest stop. But Ellie’s kindness is brutally cut short when a pickup truck pulls up, the rear window opens, and the woman is shot dead.Even with her history of sleuthing, Ellie is not eager to get involve...

This landmark volume presents the results of a comprehensive and coherent in-depth assessment of Ethiopian agriculture and draws lessons from it to generate actionable recommendations that will inform policy decisions and priority setting for agricultural transformation across Africa. Policy makers in Africa are faced with the challenges of ensuring food and nutrition security and the economic wellbeing of their rapidly growing populations while at the same time maintaining the integrity o...

Young Lena Bentheim is forced to flee Nazi Germany for Chicago in 1935, leaving her family and boyfriend behind. After learning English, she eventually finds a new life as a secretary in the Physics Department of the University of Chicago. She meets and marries another German refugee scientist and has a child. Then tragedy strikes, and Lena is forced to spy on the nuclear fission experiments at the U of Chicago. A novella set in the early years of the Manhattan Project, The Incidental Spy ...

AI Trends in the ERP Ecosystem — 2026 Edition provides a practical guide to how artificial intelligence is transforming Enterprise Resource Planning and the way organizations manage finance, people, operations, customers, supply chains, and business decisions.ERP systems are evolving from traditional systems of record into intelligent platforms capable of predicting outcomes, recommending actions, automating processes, identifying risks, and delivering real-time in...

This volume presents up-to-date insights into the ethical theories of Aristotle’s followers, beginning with his colleagues Theophrastus and Eudemus and covering a broad range of figures, topics and applications up to the Imperial Roman period.The ethical work of the Peripatetic school in antiquity included a number of authors who engaged with Aristotle’s own legacy as well as emerging Hellenistic schools of philosophy, particularly Stoicism and Epicureanism. Much of the evidence fo...

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Keno runners job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much strong...

Little Molly Messenger is kidnapped on a sunny June morning. Three days later she's returned, apparently unharmed. Molly's mother, Chris, is so grateful to have her daughter back that she's willing to overlook the odd circumstances.A few days later, the brakes go out on Chris's car.An accident? Maybe. Except that it turns out that Chris, the IT manager at a large Chicago bank, may have misappropriated three million dollars. Not convinced that his daughter is safe, Molly's f...