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Jeane K. Harvey
Jeane K. Harvey
Before freeways, smog, and congestion, there was a magical undeveloped land called the San Fernando Valley of California. It became a place where oranges, ranches, and movie stars grew in abundance. Jeane's father was one of Hollywood's most notable art directors and as likely to talk about Errol Flynn or Humphrey Bogart as about the children's grades. Be swept along in this family saga to a place forever gone-- but not forgotten.
James Logsdon
Jeane K. Harvey
Lost souls, caught between this world and the next...1789 - After a gruesome battle in which all are killed, the spirits of Spanish slave traders and their Indian victims roam Black Mountain, searching for a place of refuge. These events didn’t happen in some third world country halfway around the world, but on Black Mountain, across the street from my home.
James Logsdon
James Logsdon moved to the Republic of the Philippines to start a new life. The country's tropical beauty soothes the casual visitor, but below the exotic charms lay the raw conditions of never-ending risk. James soon found out that swindlers and thugs waited at every turn, their crimes handled by a justice system not unlike the Old West of the United States.
James Logsdon
James Logsdon retired from the Central Intelligence Agency and moved to the Republic of the Philippines to enjoy the country's rustic culture. However, life's ride led James to a remote island with a small provincial village. James soon learned that under the superficial innocence of the town lay the dark traits of humanity found in every gathering of mankind.
James Logsdon
Sweetlips is truly an accounting of the beauty and the beast. The beauty is man’s powerful attraction to the sea and the mysteries of its indifference to mankind’s efforts to tame it. The beast—which has been around since the human race came to be, since Corinth and Ephesus and Sodom and Gomorrah—
is man’s carnality.
Donna Foley Mabry
The stories shared with me about Lena, my husband’s mother, were extraordinary. I heard many of them over the years, tales told to me by her son and his father, accounts that were often shocking, sometimes heart-wrenching, and always fascinating.
However, I only met my mother-in-law Lena one time. She was visiting Detroit and wanted to know her only granddaughter, who was almost three at the time.
I invited her over. When my husband was told his mother was coming to visit, he arranged to be elsewhere.
She'd been described to me as beautiful in her youth, but she looked like any ordinary grandmother. I took that as a testament to the wild life she'd led.
She brought a quilt she’d made for my daughter–every stitch by hand. Melanie still has it, and since Lena's death, there’s a ghost story attached.
Lena burned her candle at both ends, lived her life the way she chose, and left it all too soon.
Her second son did not attend the funeral.
Donna Foley Mabry
In 1906, I was fourteen years old, and it was my wedding day. My older sister, Helen, came to my room, took me by the hand, and sat me down on the bed. She opened her mouth to say something, but then her face flushed. . . She squeezed my hand and looked back in my eyes. She said, “. . . Now, you’re going to be a married woman, and he will be the head of the house. When you go home tonight after your party, no matter what he wants to do to you, you have to let him do it. Do you understand?”
Donna Foley Mabry
Manhattan Stories, The Currans- Book 1. In 1861, in the small town of Manhattan, Kansas, the Curran girls have expectations of what their lives will be. D’Arcy, 12, wants to grow up and dominate her world. Suzanne, not yet 18, wants to marry her handsome lieutenant from Fort Riley. The Civil War begins, and Suzanne’s one night of passion sends everyone’s lives in an unexpected direction. To avoid scandal, both girls are sent to Detroit to live with family. They discover a burgeoning city, both ugly and beautiful, rough and cultured.
There, fate throws the girls undreamed-of twists, and D’Arcy makes a rash decision that
changes everything.
Donna Foley Mabry
Manhattan Stories, The Currans- Book 2.The Civil War ended, but the turmoil of D’Arcy Curran’s life did not. Rather than give up the nephew she raised from birth, D’Arcy, 16, kidnaps her sister Suzanne’s son. The only safe place for her and little Danny is home…Manhattan, Kansas. Once there, D’Arcy learns danger comes in many forms, and some are too close for comfort. She must take responsibility for the farm and is drawn to Royce Quinn, her foreman. Unfortunately, years earlier, he swore his love to Suzanne. When Suzanne comes home, D’Arcy fears she is there to take Danny away from her…and maybe Royce as well.
Donna Foley Mabry
Manhattan Series, The Currans- Book 3. On the Manhattan, Kansas frontier of the 1870s, D'Arcy Curran, her husband, and adopted son want to live in peace. Plans are waylaid when the man who killed D'Arcy's father returns from prison looking for revenge.
Donna Foley Mabry
Donna Foley Mabry
Manhattan Series, The Currans-Book 4. After a romance that started when he was in high school, Dan Curran Quinn marries his longtime love, Kathleen O'Malley. They begin their lives together with a bright future, but a vengeful killer from Dan's past has other plans.
Donna Foley Mabry
Donna Foley Mabry
Manhattan Stories, The Currans-Book 5. Newly graduated from Manhattan high school, Meaghan has her life all planned out. She expects to study law at Kansas State and then to marry Arthur Franklin, her childhood sweetheart. Fate takes the future in its own hands and sends Meaghan on more than one dangerous journey. Before the storms pass, both her faith and her physical strength will be tested.
Donna Foley Mabry
Half-breed Everett Snipes discovers a newborn baby crying by the body of her dead mother. He recognizes the mother as the second wife of his cousin Wakiza, chief of the Village of Scouts. Everett rescues the infant and takes her to her family. She is named Kimimela. Throughout her life, this daughter and granddaughter of chiefs clings to the traditions of her people. She is Kansa … and will never forget it.
Donna Foley Mabry
When an unspeakable tragedy destroys Barbara Winters' life, she retreats into emotional isolation. Over two years pass before she decides to take a vacation alone to Hawk Lake at the top of Michigan’s lower peninsula. On a hike around the lake, she comes across a run-down building that once housed a nightclub. Barbara is both mystified and intrigued, and soon she meets a man who will change her life. She’s irresistibly drawn to him, but is he a ghost from the past, or is he real?
Donna Foley Mabry
From the day he was born, Steve Schmidt had to fight to survive, and he doesn't fight fair. Now, he's
the king of Las Vegas.
Leah Wallace, daughter of a well-connected casino owner, battles to
save her marriage and her husband’s life.
Ellis Marshall, born into violence in an Alabama shack, swears he’ll do anything for Steve, including murder.
Donna Foley Mabry
Theatre students Scarlett Mayse and Kelly Newkirk get more than acting lessons at the University of
Nevada at Las Vegas. In each of their four years at UNLV, they encounter a different murder mystery to be solved. Scarlett’s deductive abilities lead a Vegas homicide detective to encourage her to switch her major to criminology. Will she follow the lure of Shakespeare, jazz hands, and fan kicks or spend her life tracking down murderers?
Donna Foley Mabry
It’s 1930, and the Sierra Nevada Mountains are home to a town of renegade Mormons. On Nancy’s 18th birthday, her father tells her she must marry her cousin Abner. He’s already married to three other women, including her younger sister. Terrified, Nancy runs away and gets lost in the woods. She finds a seemingly deserted cabin and takes shelter. When she meets Jake, the owner, she must decide if he can be trusted.
Donna Foley Mabry
New York City heiress Jessica McCarthy desperately wants to be married and have a family. Rogue and scoundrel, handsome Zachary Belk has proposed. Despite family objections, she marries him. When the stock market crashes, both families are left penniless. Zachary seeks his fortune in another Manhattan, in Kansas. After he deserts Jessica and her baby there, she must learn to survive and support her family with only her faith and determination
to guide her.
Donna Foley Mabry
When Roxanne Russell’s mother dies, her father is away on a business trip. The young military widow leaves dozens of messages for her father but receives
no response. Looking for a copy of her mother’s obituary, Roxie reads an article in the newspaper and discovers her entire life is a web of lies. Seeking answers, she drives to her father’s birthplace—Manhattan, Kansas—and moves into her grandmother’s huge,150-year-old house. It’s been vacant for decades, but Roxie soon believes she’s not the only occupant.
Donna Foley Mabry
Devout Christians, Mary and David Gentry, fall victim to a series of crimes and mishaps in their comfortable, upper-middle class Michigan suburb. David convinces Mary to move to New Jordan, a walled, secluded, Christian community in Georgia. David and Mary are approved, but first they must surrender all their assets with the understanding that if they decide to leave, everything will be returned to them. However, Mary soon discovers no one ever leaves
New Jordan alive.
Donna Foley Mabry
Newly divorced Ellen has trouble sleeping, and her friend, Alexandra, tells her, “Get a dog.” A visit to the local shelter brings Skip into her life. The injured Golden Retriever is soon running things, arranging her romances, and teaching her to laugh again. When she begins to date, he disapproves the dentist and the salesman and threatens to bite the bartender. Will the handsome Vegas firefighter make Skip wag his tail? Anyone who ever loved a dog will laugh along with Skip, a most unusual canine.
Donna Foley Mabry
Jason, the long-tailed cat, and his lookalike sister, Sandy, have their paws full looking after their human, Alexandra. When they move to Las Vegas, the kitties soon realize their new neighbor is a predator and has set his sights on Alex. Jason organizes a clever defense that includes the assistance of a slithering friend. When the threat escalates, Jason and Sandy must use every trick and claw at their disposal to save their girl.
Donna Foley Mabry
Las Vegas paparazzo Barney Pynes, middle-aged, balding, and cultivating a paunch, is most comfortable when he, and his camera, are the predator. That changes when a presidential candidate visiting Las Vegas becomes his latest prey, and Barney finds he's the one staring down death. Forced to seek shelter from an old enemy with a soft heart, Barney lures casino owner Alexandra Merritt back into his scandalous and unscrupulous life.
Donna Foley Mabry
Gramma was a showgirl, and under her direction, child prodigy Kaleigh McKenna hones her many talents. She takes teenaged Kaleigh to Hollywood. With the aid of Gramma's old friends in show business, Kaleigh lands a contract at Warner Brothers Studios among stars like Bette Davis and Errol Flynn. Everything changes on December 7, 1941. Kaleigh gives her heart to the United Service Organization (USO). She’s soon entertaining American soldiers and sailors on dangerous fronts from North Africa to the South Pacific.
Donna Foley Mabry
1947
After serving during WWII as a WAC armorer, Molly Evers partners with Army buddy Jake Kent to open a private investigator’s office. Romantically involved with a Detroit police detective and sometimes working with the Detroit mob, she walks a tightrope that won’t give her room for a wrong move.
Follow Molly as she recounts her most memorable cases of 1947, including one she solves with help from Humphrey Bogart himself
Donna Foley Mabry
1948
After closing the memorable cases of 1947, private investigator Molly Evers finds that the end of one year and the beginning of the next doesn’t mean a break in the line of desperate clients.
This year she finds they're her personal friends, some rolling in dough and others not knowing where their next meal is coming from. The year 1948 brings travel, murder, and mobsters as Molly solves cases from Vegas to Detroit to Hollywood and back again.
Donna Foley Mabry
1949
Intrigue. Danger. Drama. All in a day’s work for Detroit detective Molly Evers and her partner Jake Kent. Follow their case files of 1949, from one that breaks Molly's heart and sets her on a path of revenge, to the last that draws her back to Hollywood and the biggest leading man in town.
Donna Foley Mabry
In this collection, Donna Foley Mabry brings us a novella, a selection of seven short stories, and reminiscences of growing up in Detroit.
In "Killer Coffee," four retired women gather daily on their patios in the 55-plus community where nothing exciting ever happens. They pass the time plotting imaginary murders. An unforeseen tragedy turns their murders into the real thing and reveals the one woman among them who might be capable of actually committing the crime.
In “The Trade,” an aging actress will do anything to look younger.
In “Trinkets,” a young woman discovers that the one material thing she treasures most isn’t at all what she expected.
In “The Estate Sale,” an older man examines his life and marriage and ponders his future.
Fans who have asked Donna to write her own memoirs will be thrilled to read the collection of her blog postings that reveal more about how she became the person she is today.
Donna Foley Mabry
In the twilight of his career, basketball superstar Andre Jeffers meets very young and very beautiful Sierra Wentworth. For the first time in his life, he is not the one in control. She and her greedy mother maneuver him into leaving his family and marrying her. Once Sierra has what she wants, his fame, his money, and his son, she divorces him, but Andre is not going to be disposed of so easily.
Sierra is found slaughtered in the boutique Andre bought her. The ex-husband is the prime suspect, but not the only one. Under the guidance of his experienced partner, newly promoted Las Vegas Detective Sam Howard begins his very first homicide investigation and discovers there were several people who had a reason to want her dead, including her own mother.
Donna Foley Mabry
Emma is nine on the day they meet, hot-headed and wild-haired. Akecheta is twelve, and already the man of his house. He saves her life and tells her she belongs to him.
As they grow up together on the frontier surrounding Manhattan, Kansas, he teaches her how to fish, hunt, and how to survive in a land where bears, snakes, accidents, and even nature itself can steal away your life in an instant. She teaches him how to trust and how to share the burdens of his shameful past.
When he graduates from high school, an aunt send him to university in the other Manhattan, in New York. Emma continues her schooling at home, becoming one of the first women to study animal husbandry at Kansas State University.
At first, Akecheta is dazzled by New York. He explores the grand library, the museums, and the theatres. When a friend takes him to back-room poker games in the Bowery, he learns that Manhattan, New York, may be more deadly than the wilds of Kansas, and in the elegant drawing rooms of city mansions, he finds that the most dangerous thing of all may not be a grizzly or the armed loser of a card game, but a beautiful, wealthy, well-connected blonde.
Donna Foley Mabry
Donna Foley Mabry
Donna Foley Mabry
Las Vegas casino owner, Alberto Minnelli, has everything a man could want; wealth, power, family, friends, and a woman he loves. The only thing he needs that he can’t buy, is time. He finds there are still three people on his "to do" list -- his nephew, Michael Bart, whom he raised as a son, his beautiful, young, talented Director of Entertainment, Alexandra Merritt, and Dr. Zachary Peters. Before it’s too late, Alberto wants to care for two of them, and he intends
to kill the third.
Donna Foley Mabry
Donna Foley Mabry
Donna Foley Mabry
When Alexandra Merritt inherits a Las Vegas casino worth three hundred million dollars her life is turned upside down. While trying to learn every phase of the operation, she has to contend with a wild variety of Vegas visitors. There are egomaniac movie stars, ambitious stand-up comics, thieves, coked-up athletes, and a gorgeous blonde named Nikki with two things on her mind: becoming a movie star and murdering everyone who gets in her way. When Nikki sets her sights on Alex, the feisty redhead learns the life she has to save is her own.
Donna Foley Mabry
Donna Foley Mabry
Donna Foley Mabry
From their childhood home in a small Tennessee town to the stages of Las Vegas, ambitious Earleen Jameson guides the career of Special, her talented and beautiful granddaughter. Earleen will do ANYTHING to make Special a star. Unknowingly helping Earleen is Alexandra Merritt, owner of the Las Vegas Desert Flower Hotel and Casino. "Alex" has a habit of taking in strays, both animal and human. After she befriends the Jameson women, she begins to suspect she might be sheltering a killer.
Donna Foley Mabry
Donna Foley Mabry
It’s National Finals Rodeo week in Las Vegas, and even more people than usual are traveling to Sin City in hopes of fulfilling their dreams. There’s country music star Sonny Monroe, Ferlin and Patsy who want to be married by an Elvis impersonator, and Lil’bit Meade who wants to win the barrel racing title. Arrivals winds up dead, and casino owner Alexandra Merritt and homicide detective Mike Simmons must solve the case before the suspects all leave town. It'll be a rough ride in Vegas.
Donna Foley Mabry
Entertainer Robert Clarkson wakes up in a strange bedroom with a bullet wound in his back and no memory of how it got there. His awkward investigation uncovers a younger brother assumed to have died in the Iraq War. Now his brother is back with something the most powerful people in the world will kill to retrieve. When Robert involves his employer, Alexandra Merritt, owner of the Las Vegas Desert Flower Casino, she takes matters into her own hands. Alex has connections of her own who don’t frighten easily.
Donna Foley Mabry
In hopes of bringing high rollers back to Downtown, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman plans to build a high-rise, glittering casino. He invests everything and raises the rest of the money from old friends he once defended in court. If Oscar's plan doesn’t succeed, he stands to lose more than his life savings. On opening day, things go wrong, and those responsible wind up dead. Detectives Sam Howard and Jessica Chalmers
begin to wonder…
Is the Mayor a possible victim, or is he the prime suspect?
Donna Foley Mabry
Donna Foley Mabry
Out of work and almost out of money, actor/dancer/singer Shana Alana loses her most prized possession. In her frenzied efforts to retrieve it, she finds she will do anything, including murder.
With the help of her best friend, Jeanne Harper, Shana finally lands a part in a show at the Las Vegas Getaway Hotel and Casino. Good luck seems to come in a landslide, but the depression that dogged her all her adult life refuses to leave. When she’s cast in a leading part in eccentric director Hank Azar’s new film, her career kicks into high gear. She’s even mentioned as a possible Oscar winner.
In spite of Jeanne’s warning about dating actors, Shana falls in love with her handsome leading man. She soon finds that Jeanne speaks from the wise perspective of experience.
Out of control, she sinks in a downward spiral and finds she’s lost more than her heart and a material possession. She’s also lost her sense of who she is and maybe lost her mind.
Donna Foley Mabry
Donna Foley Mabry
President Tim Connors is slipping badly in the polls and doesn’t stand a chance of being re-elected. Chief of Staff Arthur Locke blames the First Lady, abrasive feminist Congresswoman Rachel Connors.
Locke thinks he has the solution. Wouldn’t it be easier to re-elect a handsome, grieving widower?
When his plan to assassinate the President’s wife goes terribly wrong, Locke sets in motion a chain of events that could allow him eventually to place himself in the presidency.
Hired assassin Vincent Chambers tells Locke, “Killing a president is easy. Getting away with it is the hard part.”
SOON BOCK MOON
SOON BOCK MOON
Born and raised in the post-Korean War era, Soon Bock Moon's beginning was written for her. She was challenged not only by the hardships of war in her backyard but also by a major physical setback as a polio survivor.
Soon excelled academically, where she won a scholarship to an American University. Upon completion of a Master's Degree, she enjoyed a very successful professional career in a state government for over forty years and championed the rights of people with disabilities.
Despite being a non-native English speaker, Soon blossomed at the young age of 70 by embarking on an uncharted journey as an author. Given her innate sense of humor, she is now writing her own ending.
Iris Hattersley
A newborn baby boy is left at a fire station with a note pinned to his blanket, which reads: "My name is Jimmy."
Jimmy grows up with loving adoptive parents and siblings.
After surviving a tour in Vietnam, he joins the Kern County Sheriff's Office, first as a deputy sheriff, and then is promoted to homicide detective, where he is faced with horrific crimes and scenes of murder victims. One will affect him in a more personal way than he could possibly have imagined.
Iris Hattersley
Life is full of surprises, twists, and turns for a woman who was born in Needles, California, and raised on the U.S. Navy Base at China Lake in the Mojave Desert. Coincidences and decisions lead to many exciting adventures and careers for Iris Patricia Reid Hattersley — one of the first women sworn in as a Deputy U.S. Marshal and as a Special Agent for the
Department of Defense.
Soon Bock Moon
At the tender age of 70, Soon Bock Moon finally accomplished her life-long dream of becoming a writer and continues her series, Write Your Own Ending, with her fourth installment of hilarious and relatable anecdotes. Imagine That! is a collection of true stories from the author's life as a "late bloomer."
It's never too late to enjoy the sweet harvest of being a late bloomer. Looking back though, Soon realizes that she was blooming all along.
Soon Bock Moon
Continuing her vignette series about her life, Soon Bock Moon presents more misadventures--perhaps a little misremembered--in Some-Timer's Almanac. This book is the next in the series containing Don't Walk Fast and Pearl, Naturally. It showcases short memoirs from Soon's life as a poor disabled girl growing up in post-war Korea up until her exciting retirement from a long career in public service, championing the disabled.
Soon Bock Moon
Soon presents honest descriptions of key situations in her life, and she does it all with a sense of humor. She may write about growing up in poverty in post-war Korea or being environmentally conscious in Las Vegas by trying to collect rain water. This is a fresh look at real life in America.
Soon Bock Moon
Marianne was born a little person. She was unwanted and left at a Korean orphanage. With unflagging courage, Marianne faces more than her share of hardships, but with the love of her adoptive American parents and the companionship of a dear friend who is a mixed-race individual, she overcomes many obstacles.
Soon Bock Moon
This is a montage of over 30 real life short stories. Born in war-torn South Korea, Soon emigrated to the US in her mid 20's with just one suitcase and $200 in her purse. She encountered surprises that range from poignant to hilarious. Like a pearl, she grew into a unique multi-layered thing of beauty that began so many years ago, inauspiciously, from a tiny grain of sand.
ROBERT LEE MURPHY
Eagle Talons won the 2015 Bronze Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction for Younger Readers.
Bear Claws won the 2016 Silver Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction for Younger Readers.
Bear Claws also received first place in fiction for 2016 from the Wyoming State Historical Society.
Golden Spike was awarded the 2018 Silver Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction for Younger Readers.
Robert Lee Murphy
Robert Murphy is an award winning author of the Iron Horse Chronicles. In Eagle Talons, Will Braddock doesn't want to be forced into an unwanted blacksmith apprenticeship. The newly orphaned fourteen-year-old embarks upon a quest to determine his own destiny. He heads west to seek work on the first transcontinental railroad.
Robert Lee Murphy
Robert Lee Murphy
In Bear Claws, The Iron Horse Chronicles--Book 2, fifteen-year-old Will Braddock continues as a hunter for his uncle's survey team as the transcontinental railroad crosses Wyoming in 1868. But Paddy O'Hannigan's vendetta grows more sinister, and Will is forced to use all his skills to save Ulysses S. Grant when Paddy attempts to blow up the presidential candidate's train.
Robert Lee Murphy
Robert Lee Murphy
Robert Lee Murphy
The driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Summit in Utah on May 10, 1869, almost didn’t happen. None of the history books mention this crucial event. Only five people were aware of the incident. Will Braddock knew. He was one of those five.
Robert Lee Murphy
Robert Lee Murphy
Robert Lee Murphy
Bozeman Paymaster is the story of how in the nation's drive to advance Manifest Destiny it blundered into distressing reverses. On a bone-chilling day in December 1866, Captain William Fetterman led eighty men into the army's worst defeat at the hands of the Indians until Custer's Last Stand. Despite the virtually constant Indian attacks at Fort Phil Kearny, a youthful paymaster clerk and a beautiful young schoolteacher fall in love. Their future is torn asunder when the United States abandons the forts protecting the Bozeman Trail, the shortest route to the
Montana goldfields.
Pat Dowling
Mark Hale, a first-term Congressman from Southern California, is a victim of a restaurant bomber during his first week in office. With assistance from the DC police and the FBI, he attempts to help to discover the identity of and arrest the bomber.
Daryl Reed
Do you believe that sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can never hurt you?
Then Scott would like to have a word with you.
Maybe you might get mentioned in his diary...
A Killer's Diary.
Daryl Reed
Five men were born in the mid-fifties in a small back water, dirt poor border town. One wears a sheriff’s badge, but is known to look the other way. The second, becomes a man of the cloth, who can’t overcome his ties. The third, rules the entire town through fear and intimidation. The fourth is in prison for the death of the fifth.
Border Town has an abundance of poverty, bootlegging, prostitution, smuggling of people and drugs.
All of it controlled by one man—and he needs to be killed.
Robert Turtle
Horse-like beasts Westwind and Nama hope to start a family. They're smarter than big herbivores have any need to be and see themselves as the product of impersonal forces rather than the willful creatures of a purposeful deity.
Robert Turtle
Robert Turtle
Trekking On is the sequel to the eco-fiction fantasy Beasts of the Open Space. Prehistoric herbivores Nama and Westwind are together again after a time of crisis and separation. Their former way of life has been swept away, and they set off with their daughter Acacia and her pal Shadow to seek new opportunities in new places.
Robert Turtle
Robert Turtle
Beast Gur and his mate Briza become deeply involved in the affairs of the River Kingdom of the water primates. It's a dangerous move, for water primates are taught early that war will be the stage for their finest deeds. Beasts aren't interested in living by a warrior code, so the fate of the two species' mutual civilization hangs in the balance.
Robert Turtle
Robert Turtle
Robert Turtle
Entropy and Air Conditioning explains the operation of an air conditioning system starting from the familiar variables pressure, volume, and temperature. Internal energy is related to the agents of change work and heat by the first law of thermodynamics. Arguments from calculus are simplified through the use of numerical integration by means of BASIC computer programs, which are listed. The approach is historical, and an impractical air cycle air conditioner is compared to a two-phase system, which is approximated by a Carnot cycle for analysis. The roles of the state variables entropy and enthalpy receive detailed attention. The contributions of the pioneers Carnot, Clausius, Gibbs, and Boltzmann are highlighted.
Dave Price
Robert Turtle
Robert Turtle
Over the past years, the Red Dragonfly has become a good friend who returns to our pond to listen to my stories, reflect, and to share advice. The poems in this book are dedicated to the lessons learned from the advice shared in that friendship. We celebrate May 2nd each year as our National Good Advice Day.
Dave Price
Robert Turtle
Dave Price
THE GIFT OF CELEBRATING THE REUNIONS OF FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND MEMORIES
M.A.R. Unger
"Winner of the 2024 Global Books Bronze Medal for Mysteries-Female Sleuths."
Murder, greed, and intrigue plague the world’s last real showgirl production, Spectacular, in Las Vegas’s Amalfi Resort and Casino. Tessa Sanders, an expert in AI security systems, is a member of the resort owner’s elite guards. Police enlist her help after a bomb is discovered in a dressing room and a murder is committed in the showroom. Soon afterward, the Amalfi gives a 60-day notice of closure. While showgirls must put away their extraordinary costumes forever and come to grips with the end of an era, Tessa must catch a killer.
M.A.R. Unger
Matti James Mysteries, Book 1. Forensic facial reconstruction artist Matti James moves to Las Vegas. After police discover the rest of the skeleton in the most unlikely of places, Matti is hired to put a face to the victim and learns that killers don’t want their victims identified. To complicate matters, when Matti talks to the skulls while she works, sometimes they talk back.
M.A.R. Unger
Matti James Mysteries, Book 2. A flash flood slams the body of a murdered female against a chain link fence near Matti home. Will Matti’s forensic artistry and sleuthing tie the killing to neighbors who are members of the Russian Mob . . . or to someone even more dangerous?
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Matti James Mysteries, Book 3. Las Vegas headliner Layla Bourne hires Matti to find out who is threatening her life. The problem? Layla reportedly burned to death in a plane crash two weeks earlier. Perhaps Matti’s forensic reconstruction will uncover an inconvenient truth that’s to die for.
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M.A.R. Unger
Matti James Mysteries, Book 4. As the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster nears, anti-nuke activists swing into deadly action. Discovery of a radioactive skull puts Matti on the police payroll again. Her work helps identify the skull as that of a physicist with ties to Chernobyl. Now she fears activists plan a modern-day apocalypse to teach the world Chernobyl's victims were not expendable.
M.A.R. Unger
M.A.R. Unger
Matti James Mysteries, Book 5. Matti’s neighbor, former child star Cathy Britton, may not be a drama queen or losing her mind. Perhaps someone is trying to kill her. As Matti discovers, the answer may have been hidden all along in Cathy’s yard.
M.A.R. Unger
Matti James Mysteries, Book 6. Hired to forensically reconstruct faces from the remains of three WWII Allied soldiers in the UK. These soldiers had been shot execution style and left
in a shallow grave in England,
not on the European Continent.
As these victims talk to Matti,
they provide clues to
a darker truth.
M.A.R. Unger
In her Las Vegas apartment, detective Jenna Simms finds stolen diamonds, hidden there by a murdered cop. Worse, a snitch turns up dead in her living room. Jenna is plunged into a world of glamour and danger as she’s assigned to follow a major suspect from Vegas to Miami and on to Key West. Nothing and no one are what they seem.
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M.A.R. Unger
FBI-trained criminal profiler, Dr. Tom Jessup finds himself working two cases: a serial killer in the Southwest and a local murderer targeting ex-Marines near Las Vegas. While the FBI and police increase manpower on the serial killer case, Jessup fears the next local target might be one of his PTSD patients, an Afghanistan War vet who served with
two other victims.
M.A.R. Unger
M.A.R. Unger
"Winner of the 2024 Global Books Gold Medal for International Mysteries."
AND
"Selected by BiblioBoard Library to be in all Nevada libraries as part of its Indie Project 2024."
Kat Crawley, an Arctic cultural expert, is with a film crew in Canada’s Northwest Territories. On location at sea, she witnesses a horrific murder that mirrors an Inuit mermaid myth. At first, Kat is ridiculed for making the connection. Soon, an Inuit man is trailing her. Kat must learn to separate myth from reality before she shares
the mermaid’s fate.
M.A.R. Unger
M.A.R. Unger
Poetry speaks through concise words and images, some of which touch us deeply. As I once wrote: "No chills ran up my spine when I read Wordsworth, but once or twice old Yeats, he knew my mind." Delve into my thoughts in Pages from a Life.
Brenda C. Poulos
Brenda C. Poulos
Can the unforgivable really be forgiven?
Meg Reynolds is a good neighbor, a congenial co-worker, a loving wife and mother. But when she accidentally hits a little girl crossing the street on the morning of September ninth, it tests the very fiber of her moral character.
Unable to face what she has done, Meg hides the truth behind a protective curtain of lies and deceit, frustrating the efforts of Sheriff Tom Braxton and Captain Carl Winchester.
Torn between the urge to protect his wife and his desire to do the “right thing,” Renn Reynolds seeks the comfort of alcohol after eight years of sobriety.
Jessie’s parents Jack and Rachel Carter are devastated by the death of their precious daughter. Will they seek freedom in forgiveness?
Susan Dubin
Brenda C. Poulos
Voces Feminarum is Latin for "Voices of the Women." There are more than eighty references to women in the New Testament, but less than half mention the women by name. Who were these women? What were their thoughts and feelings.? After reading their stories as related in the Bible, this book will capture their thoughts and feelings as imagined in poems. Illustrations from some classic works of art accompany each story.
Elizabeth Williams-Medhus
When the author’s children suggested she write the stories of her life, her mind traversed countries, homes, people and decades, trying to make order of a lifetime of experiences.
Thoughts bubbled up. Barely able to keep up with the overwhelming changes of events currently happening throughout the world today, she found it exhausting and admitted though we cannot predict tomorrows, we can remember our yesterdays.
A memory trapped in a time warp has its rewards. It is a second chance to finish what you had started, to share recollections with friends and family. The stories in this book may be jumbled, but they are the facts of Elizabeth Williams’ life.
Elizabeth Williams-Medhus
This is the history of my family, spanning several generations.
Joseph Melics got caught up in the fervor of emigrating to seek a better life for his young family. Leaving his pregnant wife and his daughter, he left with their blessing. It was a dangerous risk. It would be his last chance knowing that there would soon be another war. Leaving everything he knew and loved, he immigrated to Canada with $25 in his pocket. Two years later he was reunited with wife, Elizabeth and daughter Margaret. He never had the opportunity to see his youngest daughter, Sari who died in infancy. Another war was looming. It was now or never.
Elizabeth Williams-Medhus
Joe and his friends, Gene and Frankie, lived profitable yet questionable life styles as small-time crooks. Joe was more ambitious. He was not satisfied being a common crook, and wanted to rise in the ranks of the mob. He was obsessed with the likes of Rocky Coppino, an official member of the Mafia, and what he stood for...truth, trust, and loyalty. The trio tragically crossed paths with Rocky. Now indebted to the mob for their territorial transgression, it was payback time. With services rendered, the debt was paid, but Joe no longer trusted Rocky... Is a trigger about to be pulled? If so, whose finger is on the trigger?
Elizabeth Williams-Medhus
First and foremost, it is a love story of two people with "past lives"-marriages, children, and yes, "baggage." A poignant and amazing account of a woman's journey through the difficult transition from devoted wife to widow.
Beth may have stumbled, but she didn't give up.
She struggled with each difficult day, learning about herself, healing from the wounds of her devastating loss, until she came to realize that she was finally able to open her heart and accept the changes that new love brought to her life. Widows, widowers, women, and men who have made this journey of love and loss will love this book.
Elizabeth Williams-Medhus
Whenever you are in a slump, to whom do you turn to tell your worries too? A pet! How often have you been fascinated while observing creatures in the wild, or entranced by something that may slither or crawl, or watch hawks soaring the skies? I bet for those few moments your woes are forgotten.Between the pages of this book are short stories based on fact that will run the gamut of every emotion possible: laughter, anger, fear, love and sorrow, and possibly remind the reader to spontaneously blurt out to anyone who will listen, “Well, I have a story! Let me tell you what happened to me.”
Sharron Grodzinsky
There are 2.4 million people incarcerated in the US today. What would you do if your loved one was one of them? “Waiting on the Outside” is one mother’s story of her son’s journey to federal incarceration and his affiliation with a white supremacist prison gang. This book looks at damaged family relationships, and the effects of incarceration on the inmate and their family. It begins with her first visit to prison and her son’s devastating life choices.
Sharron Grodzinsky
Sharron Grodzinsky
A girl is found hanging nude in a mansion on Coronado Island. Sergeant Matt Monahan and his partner, Wendy Song, are tasked to find out what happened. Was she murdered or was it suicide? The trail to find out what happened leads them to much more than they bargained for including a dangerous terrorist cell and the elite Navy SEALs. From a body found in a sea cave in La Jolla to the Diablo Nuclear Power Plant in northern California, Sergeant Monahan and Officer Song discover a series of clues leading them to question everyone's motives and fear for their own lives in the process.
Sharron Grodzinsky
Sharron Grodzinsky
Sharron Grodzinsky
Javier Salazar and his little sister, Ana, flee the gangs in Honduras, setting out on a journey they may not survive. Their travels lead them through Mexico riding La Bestia, the "Death Train". They are befriended by other migrants on the same path they are on and encounter horrific experiences. Will they survive and reach their mother in America? The journey will certainly change them in ways they don't expect. If they make it, will America be the land of promise they hope for? They can only find out if they survive La Bestia and the perilous journey.