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Book store owner and coffee slinger, Clark Thomas, finds himself involved in another murder investigation. This time in a double murder at the popular Tidal Creek Brew House in Myrtle Beach's Market Common. What seems like an open and shut case for the police turns into something much larger when Clark discovers a secret scheme hatched by one victim. In the middle of it all is a group of tight-knit women who live together in a Market Commo...

Cora Mae Stewart's world collapses when Sherman destroys the Georgia cotton mill where she works and has her arrested for treason and sent North. Faced with impossible choices, she does what she must to keep a little girl safe in an inhospitable land. Convinced he won't survive the war, Union Sergeant Ethan Howard determines to make his death count for something. But Cora Mae gives him a reason to live. Trouble is, he's just arrested her on ...

Learn to use the Wolfram Language's capabilities for data science and organization in order to unlock the full potential for real-world applications. Professor Seth J. Chandler, an award winning, 30-year user of the Wolfram Language guides intermediate users from data in the wild to data that can feed the full range of Wolfram Language functionality. It's both a conceptual and practical approach, filled with annotated examples that draw data f...

Are you tired of Christmas as usual? Do you long to connect with God in a deeper way this Christmas? Has it felt like you've been going through the motions and all of your traditions are lacking meaning? When December 26th hits, do you feel like you've missed the significance of the season, and you're bemoaning the fact that it will be a whole year before you can try again? Through the pages of Fulfilled you'll experience: Connection over cons...

Raped at a young age, a hurting and disillusioned teenager runs away from her broken family in search of anything that might stop the nightmares. In less than two days on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, Brook Bello is kidnapped, beaten into submission, forced into drug addiction, and indoctrinated into the horrific world of human trafficking. Brook's mental health is in now decline and thoughts of suicide take over.From out of the hellish dar...

What do Web3, Crypto, and Blockchain really mean for business today?Like the dot-com bust before it, the crypto moment of the early 2020s seemed to rise and fall in a manic instant. Billionaires were minted one week and jail time was handed out the next. But in the aftermath, the promise of the technology remains. Blockchain and crypto aren't for speculators anymore--they're the basis of the rising decentralized internet called Web3 that could...

The story, which highlights the friendship that forms between a Porcupine and a Salamander, provides a touching entry point for discussing issues of diversity and difference in our communities. The illustration style is beautiful, imaginative, surreal, and unique.The illustrator has an especially broad platform for publicizing the book (16.6K followers on Instagram).Given the author’s and illustrator’s international connections, the book wil...

Written by Clifton B. Kruse, Jr., a well-known expert in the fields of estate planning and elder law, this updated edition of Third-Party and Self-Created Trusts explains the effect that governmental legislation has had on trust law and guides you through the maze of federal laws that affect planning for the elderly and disabled. Focusing on the effect of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 on trusts for older and disabled Americans,...

Minister of the only congregation in North Dakota to take a position of solidarity with the Water Protector movement at Standing Rock, outside of Standing Rock itself. For those striving for meaningful allyship, A Fire at the Center offers diverse allies and accomplices a narrative to lean into and against as we seek to understand our role in mutual liberation.

Site-specific sculptures in dialogue with pre-Columbian works, from a midcareer American artist known for his use of natural materialsThis catalog follows the 2022 exhibition of works by US-born, Mexico-based sculptor Alma Allen (born 1970) in Diego Rivera's iconic Museo Anahuacalli in Mexico City. Through 26 newly commissioned sculptures installed among the volcanic architecture and grounds of the museum, this volume delves into Allen's ongoi...

A laugh-out-loud YA debut that examines the realities of small-town queer life and celebrates the transformative power of drag—perfect for fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race and Pumpkin.Peter Thompkins needs a public image overhaul. After a tense confrontation with one of the few other queer kids in his small-town high school, rumors about him are becoming more elaborate by the day. Meanwhile, his best friend Alan (aka teen drag queen Aggie Culture) i...

Earth was invaded. Earth was conquered. And humanity was summarily subjugated, as 400, 000, 000 people were culled. The terrifying part was this only took the Peacekeepers a second. There wasn't even a chance for us to fight back. So, in the blink of an eye, questions like whether or not we're alone in the universe or if we're at the top of the food chain were answered. We were not. Not by a long shot. Despite the mass murder, the Peacekee...

A meditation on the burden and joy of inheritance, and the strange power of the objects and keepsakes that connect us 'This is how I became interested in things. In their strange pull and power, in the ways they hold on to us and we to them.' After her father dies of cancer, Gemma Nisbet is inundated with keepsakes connected to his life by family and friends. As she becomes attuned to the ways certain items can evoke specific memories or mom...

Emily Clark has most of the elements of a good life. She has a loving family, a large house, and lots of money. She also struggles with living with her own chronic illness, and her mother's dementia. For the most part, things are good, and life follows a predictable, comfortable pattern. Then she receives a note that says: "Give me my money bitch or else." Her comfortable, happy life, starts to unravel, as threats from an unknown source escala...

Jack discovers the soul of his lost lover in the vessel of another and embarks on a new journey in reflection to his memories, which would become buried in blood by the end.