On a bustling Friday morning in April 1887, George D. Whitcomb began to auction off lots in a newly laid-out town he called Glendora. Starting out as a dusty train stop on the Atchison,Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, the town of Glendora sprang to life as one of the Los Angeles region's vibrant hubs of the citrus industry and remained so well into the twentieth century. Local historian Ryan Lee Price recounts on these pages some of the characters and events that shaped Glendora's formative ye...

The queer recluse, the shambling farmer, the clannish hill folk—white rural populations have long disturbed the American imagination, alternately revered as moral, healthy, and hardworking, and feared as antisocial or socially uncouth. In Peculiar Places, Ryan Lee Cartwright examines the deep archive of these contrary formations, mapping racialized queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity across the rural twentieth-century United States.Sensationalized ...

When another hulk of a man with a micro-chip appears it really does mean Double Trouble!Tom Bracks is back in the thrird book in the series, and this time he needs to track down an exact double of himself who is causing mass destruction and killing innocent people.A product of the CIA, Tom has the latest scientific development - a micro-chip that compensates for his damaged brain cells and was inserted to keep him alive.Relations between th...

After Dark Box Set – 4 Short Novellas What would you do if your dreams became REAL?Jeremy Patten discovers he has a unique power. When others sleep Jeremy is able to enter their dreams, a world where those around him are asleep, and Jeremy is conscious of the world and events around him. He is able to use his power to bring realism to the dream world he enters, seek out and help solve the mysteries around him.The Story Begins In the first book of this series, 'The Story Beg...

Can Jeremy Patten use his After Dark skills to solve a longstanding mystery that has haunted several families?Jeremy discovers he has a unique power. When others sleep Jeremy is able to enter their dreams. In the second book in this series, ‘Chicago Fire’ Jeremy uses his power to help solve the great Chicago Fire mystery that has haunted families in Chicago for years. Why would three local well to do business men suddenly disappear and were they really motivated to...

Man overboard? Did businessman Terry Butcher fall, commit suicide or was he murdered?In this who dunnit Jeremy Patten uses his unusual and unique skills to help Police find the real cause of death. At night when others fall asleep Jeremy is able to enter a world, a dream world. As those around him wander in their dreams Jeremy is conscious of the dark world he has entered. He is able to be both summoned and summon those he seeks out to bring realism to the dream world he has entere...

In this authoritative but light-hearted account of beers gone by, archaeologist Tate Paulette brings the famous "land between the rivers" back to life in vivid detail. We meet not only the beers of ancient Mesopotamia, but also the people who brewed them and drank them, the places where these people lived and worked, the taverns and temples and tombs where they did their drinking, the stories they told about beer, their preferred styles of drinking, their brewing equipment and drinking par...

After leaving her cheating fiancé at the altar, all Gabrielle wants is a day alone to reflect on the mistakes she’s made. But when her car breaks down in the small town of Baldwin’s Shore, a day turns into a week, and perhaps—if the goddesses of fate smile kindly—a little longer. But someone from her past has a different plan.Sheriff’s deputy Colt Haines isn’t looking for love, and he definitely isn’t looking for a flighty blonde to move into his spare room and complicate his life....

He lives by routine. She lives on instinct. But when a killer returns to finish the job, Axel and Erika must work together in this edge-of-your-seat romantic thriller.Always be prepared—that's Axel Steele's motto. While his brothers were busy throwing punches and taking risks, Ax was the quiet one, the planner, the one who kept everything from falling apart. A former special-ops Marine with a need for control, Ax lives by routine . . . until the day he finds a woma...

We were almost forever . . .Gretchen: It's been three years since the kiss. The one I can't seem to forget. Judging by the girl on his arm, Connor Vining has no such problem. I guess I misunderstood the look in his eyes that night. I guess his best friend's kid sister was never really in the running for Love of His Life.But I'm not a kid anymore. I've graduated college and I'm about to fly interstate, in hopes of meeting my birth m...

I am a walking, talking disaster.Sometimes it feels like every step I take leads to a mistake that is painful or embarrassing, or painful and embarrassing, and it's pretty remarkable that natural selection hasn't taken me out yet.The point is, I have a lot of experience in cleaning up my own messes. Even with all that practice, though, inheriting my dad's failing laser tag business might be a little much.Saving Galactic Guild Arena won't be...

I never expected to fall for a puckboy.I certainly never expected to fall for Axel Finnegan, star of the Rush.But the hockey player charmed his way into my life, made himself indispensable, and now I was all in for my filthy puckboy. Except . . . my life had other plans.My ex was back, my parents were a freaking nightmare, and Axel's career was taking off, bringing with it a level of fans and puck bunnies that were increasingly uncomfortable for my small-town heart....