The science museum field has made tremendous advances in understanding museum learning, but little has been done to consolidate and synethesize these findings to encourage widespread improvements in practice. By clearly presenting the most current knowledge of museum learning, In Principle, In Practice aims to promote effective programs and exhibitions, identify promising approaches for future research, and develop strategies for implementing and sustaining connections between res...

When the lingerie shop, The Corset, is trashed, everyone rolls their eyes, assuming that one of the owners left the shop unlocked and it was a crime of convenience.But then a campaign of harassment begins, and Maggie realizes that the owners, her friend Armani and her Aunt Loretta, are in danger of losing what they’ve worked for.Before Maggie can figure out who is threatening them, both women disappear.Now Maggie must race to discover who is holding a grudge. One of...

When crime reporter Jack Stern brings to Maggie Lee’s attention that someone she once helped has been arrested for being a porch pirate, she feels obligated to solve the mystery of the missing packages.Assisted by Rowdy, the teenage raccoon who believes herself to be a semi-professional thief, and Mike, the tough guy crow with a penchant for pilfering shiny things, Maggie tracks down the real robber. And inadvertently stumbles into a ring of ruthless criminals who aren’t just greed...

Having decided that her home-schooled nieces need friends who don’t bark, purr or oink, Maggie Lee has signed them up for the town’s soccer program.While the girls are out on the field, Maggie wanders the sidelines and inadvertently overhears a soccer mom plotting a murder.As surprising as that is, the real shock hits when the mob boss, Delveccio, assigns the murder contract to Maggie.Depending on the coaching of her menagerie of pets, Maggie has to figure out her g...

One of Maggie Lee’s biggest fears is getting thrown into the nut house. With a mentally unstable mother and her own ability to talk to animals (not to mention that she’s killed people) it’s not a stretch to believe it could happen.When she’s asked to go undercover as a patient at the same facility where her mother resides, it’s like Maggie’s worst nightmare is coming true. If she didn’t feel like she owed the person she’s trying to help, she’d never agree to be committ...

Maggie Lee is not an art aficionado. Half the time, she can’t even figure out what the drawings done by her nieces are supposed to be.But somehow, she finds herself caught in a case involving an art collector, a forger, a thief, and a certain sexy insurance investigator.Can she solve the mystery of the missing artwork or will she paint herself into a corner?

How do you solve a murder when the victim is still alive?Maggie Lee’s murder mentor (and almost lover) Patrick Mulligan wants her to find out who poisoned him before it’s too late. Keeping the man she loves alive would be hard enough if all she had to worry about was not getting caught, but nothing’s ever that simple.In between dealing with her strung out cat, searching for Patrick’s poisoner, meeting a deadline to deliver a mysterious gift for her mobster boss and keeping ...

Maggie Lee’s life is spiraling out of control. (What else is new, right?)Her family is pulling her in a dozen directions. Her pets are bickering incessantly. She’s got a job that she’s not quite sure she’s up to doing. And it kind of feels like everyone is conspiring to drive her nuts.

Maggie Lee has never been an enthusiastic fan of PMS.(Obviously you know that PMS stands for the Psychic Matchmaking Service developed by her friend Armani Vasquez.)When a couple matched by PMS mysteriously disappears, Armani enlists Maggie’s grudging help to find them.As she retraces the steps of the pair’s day-long date, Maggie investigates a myriad of mysteries that may have led to them going missing, all while dealing with exhaustive disruptions.Can Magg...

Maggie Lee never planned on becoming a hitwoman with a heart of gold. She just fell into it—literally --with a stop, drop and roll, while visiting her niece in the hospital.Delveccio, her mob boss, has always respected her rule about only killing bad people, which is why she wasn’t brought in for the Renoir job. Now that’s gone sideways, and the mobster has gone missing.Maggie’s going to need all the help she can get, to find Delveccio and bring him home to his bel...

Some jobs are more challenging than others.Take for example, Maggie’s latest assignment: assassinating a heartless, indiscriminate sniper. He deserves to die, but making that happen is tricky, especially considering that a certain red-headed police detective has been assigned to protect him.And that’s not the only job Maggie has.She’s struggling to find a way to communicate with her pets and care for her orphaned niece, while searching for information about her sist...

When her apartment building is blown to smithereens, bumbling hitwoman Maggie Lee is forced to move back into the Bed & Breakfast she grew up in.Living with her three meddling aunts is bad enough, but it just so happens that the B&B is also occupied by a U.S. Marshal, an FBI agent, her old friend Zeke who’s on a mysterious mission, and a woman who claims she can see dead people. These aren’t the kinds of roomies Maggie wants to spend time with, considering that in order to pay for ...