Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the TitanicA covert operation with catastrophic global consequences collides with fate in this ingeniously inventive novel of conspiracy, subterfuge, and murder unfurling against a factual, tragic, and heart-stopping moment in history.THE TITANIC SECRETApril 1912: Shortly after midnight on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin, ...

A Husband by Proxy by Jack Steele

Poor Pig is the story of a portly pig who needed some help from his friends on the farm. I suppose you have read about portly little pigs. Well, this is a story about a portly little pig who laid down for a nap but could not get up because he had eaten so much. This is a true story because pigs sometimes do this.This book is published in loving memory of the author and illustrator, Jack Steele.

In the hard country beyond the last railhead, water means life—or death.When men begin dying along a lonely stretch of desert known as Poison Springs, word spreads fast and truth travels slow. The water is foul, the land unforgiving, and the men who control it are willing to kill to keep their secret buried.One man rides into that wasteland asking the wrong questions.What he finds is a silent range littered with warning signs no one dares to read, a handful of despe...

On the wide open prairie there is nowhere to hide—and no place to run.When a lone rider crosses paths with two desperate gunmen in the tall grass, the quiet plains explode in gunfire. One man rides for justice. The others ride to make sure he never leaves alive.But the prairie has a way of deciding who survives.Outnumbered and surrounded, the rider must trust his horse, his courage, and the cold steel in his hand. Because once the shooting starts, only the fastest g...

Reflexivity has become a common term in IR scholarship with a variety of uses and meanings. Yet for such an important concept and referent, understandings of reflexivity have been more assumed rather than developed by those who use it, from realists and constructivists to feminists and post-structuralists.This volume seeks to provide the first overview of reflexivity in international relations theory, offering students and scholars a text that :provides a comprehensiv...

A Collector's Edition of 47 Storybooks About Inheritance gathers tales in which property, lineage, kinship, and heredity shape private desire and public consequence. Moving among domestic realism, sensation fiction, romance, adventure, juvenile narrative, comedy, and speculative or didactic prose, the volume places contested wills, family secrets, social rank, and biological inheritance in revealing dialogue. Its breadth makes inheritance not merely a plot device but a cultural question. T...