Galway is a lanky attorney-turned-handyman, desirous of being truly good at his new work. Letitia is a childless widow -- petite, bowed, and fearless. Letitia remembers a day when fellow student, Harold Wilson, climbed from an upstairs classroom window down a drainpipe. He was so nimble. "That was grand." she tells Galway. "Just Grand."Now Harold Wilson has been found dead in his storm cellar and Letitia can't let it go.Separated by more than a generation, Galway Evans and ...

When a federal penitentiary, ‘Hellhole,’ was built in Yuma, the native Quechans discovered a way in which they could succeed in the world of the white man; they put their uncanny tracking abilities to use catching and returning prison fugitives. Immune to the searing heat, cunning, and tenacious, the Indians moved like wraiths pursuing dangerous criminals.Of all the Quechans, perhaps the greatest tracker was Ho-Nas Good. He was tall and powerfully strong, and in his youth, saw noth...

When a former high school classmate dies, three "sixty-something" widows are determined to prove that the cause was nothing less than foul play. Certain that they know the culprit, the ladies turn the lives of everyone around them upside down in their hilarious quest for justice.In this cozy mystery authors L. Barnett Evans and C.V. Rhodes offers readers a belly full of laughs!

When Evan Pugh became the first president of Pennsylvania’s Farmers’ High School—later to be known as The Pennsylvania State University—the small campus was in disrepair and in dire need of leadership. Pugh was young, barely into his 30s, but he was energetic, educated, and visionary. During his tenure as president he molded the school into a model institution of its kind: America’s first scientifically based agricultural college.In this volume, Roger Williams gives Pugh his first ...

Berkeley and Paul are excited about attending their first gay rodeo in Denver, Colorado. Even after a tiring fourteen-hour trip from London, the bright lights and prospect of meeting some horny cowboys instinctively draws them to Lower Downtown, where things aren’t exactly what Berkeley had expected. Whilst Paul revels in throwing himself at every available man in any bar or at any rodeo event, Berkeley has different expectations. Beyond his wildest hopes and dreams, Berkeley meets Nantan,...

Warren Felt Evans (1817–1889) converted to Methodism while at Dartmouth College, became a minister, and spent his Methodist years as a spiritual seeker. His two extant journals, edited and annotated by Catherine L. Albanese, appear in print for the first time and reveal the inner journey of a leading American spiritual pilgrim at a critical period in his religious search. A voracious reader, he recorded accounts of intense religious experience in his journals. He moved from the Oberlin per...

MaddoxBetween my badge, my daughter, and my hometown, I've got a busy life. It's a mostly happy one, but late at night, when the house is quiet, I still see her face. McKenna may have left me and this town behind a decade ago, but a century wouldn't be long enough to get over her.There's only one thing worse than never seeing her again. If she came back, the secret I've been keeping would destroy lives—mine included. As long as she stays gone, everyone is s...

When amateur sleuths Hattie Collier, Bea Bell, and Connie Palmer win a trip to Las Vegas, they decide that crime solving can take a holiday. It's fun in the sun for the adventurous widows, and Hattie's cantankerous mother-in-law, Miss Fanny, until the devil's playground proves too much for Hattie. She decides that her two friends already have one foot in hell and now her mother-in-law is hitting the casinos on the Vegas strip like a pro. What is a God-fearing grandmother to do? Launching a...

He did it. She'll prove it. A fiery rock star and a ruthless businessman battle to expose each other's secrets.The only family the Painted Daisies singer and harpist Fiadh Kane has left in this world is her band. When their leader―her best friend who stood by her through the worst―is killed, she's determined to find who did it and make him pay.Fiadh is convinced the band's new label owner knows more about the murder than he's shared. She plans to reveal Ash...

She vowed never to forgive him…Once upon a time, Adria Rojas had it all―a budding romance, her music, and a whole family. Then, in one year, her bandmate was murdered, her sister vanished, and the man she trusted humiliated her beyond forgiveness. Now, the only way she keeps her head above water is by losing herself in her drums.One stupid mistake led to the nightmare Ronan Hawk has spent years trying to rectify. Just when he's given up on ever making thing...

What if you could stay calm and content no matter what the world throws at you?Your days are full, yet something essential feels missing. You chase the next accomplishment, the next purchase, the next distraction, and the peace you're looking for stays just out of reach. Negative thoughts circle back the moment life gets hard, and difficult times seem to arrive far more often than calm ones.You've wondered whether real, lasting contentment is even possibl...

Lions rule the savanna kingdom and are taught to hate hyenas, who compete for the same resources. Then Mya the Lion and Asia the Hyena both get caught by a trapper and have to work together to escape. When they return home, they have to deal with protests and a face-off between their two species, and Mya has to make a tough decision: Should she rest easy in her lion power or speak up for her new hyena friend?The authors of this story are part of an innovative program run by Reach I...