The Oxford Widows Murder Club is about secrets and what happens when they are and aren’t revealed. How did Earl, that nimble dancer and carver of wooden birds, wind up dead? How well did Valerie, pining for answers about her past and for some enlivening excitement, know him? How will Emma – who once sang in local country and western bands and is usually steady and practical – react when she finds out the idyllic childhood she thought she and Mable shared was, in fact, not at all as it seem...

I remember the first time I met John, or Johnny B as most folks referred to him - it was at his daughter, Melodys wedding rehearsal, where I was best man for my friend Jeff. John was dressed in his best attire - new blue work pants with suspenders, blue suit with a white shirt and a navy colored neck tie. He had difficulty finding shirts with a large enough neck, so instead of the top button holding his shirt collar together, the task was forfeited to the necktie. He and his wife Anne had ...

Out of money, with talent and motivation on hold, and no one willing to help him, artist Owen Llewellyn becomes stranded in a November ice storm at Wendy Overtons house in rural Vermont, that she has reluctantly left for the winter, to seek revival of her faltering career. They cope with their respective troubling situations while vents draw them to the resolution of other longstanding issues. He and she then face his departure and her return in the Spring, and what it means to their futur...

Ruby Johnson is a North End woman in 1950s Halifax. She was born in the same building she still lives in and enjoys her work as a waitress at the Zellers lunch counter. She doesn’t have much, but she doesn’t need much. Her life has not been easy. She grew up with a loving but unreliable father who spent time in the penitentiary. Her mother worked hard, but times were lean and Ruby went to work at fifteen to ensure the family could eat.Now, as an adult, Ruby has her friends, her gui...

What if nature held the answers to society's most complex questions? In "Nature Isn't Racist," Harvey Bruce Graham explores the fundamental laws of nature and how they shape human behavior, societal structures, and survival instincts. Drawing from history, science, and personal experience, Graham examines the role of population growth, migration, and cultural differences in shaping our world today.With thought-provoking insights and bold perspectives, this book cha...

This novel spanning over two hundred years is the story of one house and the amazing people who lived there on the high ground in Cumberland County. Along with tales of lost fortunes and lost loves, The Queen Anne House tells of people who came to Nova Scotia for a new start, to escape devastation or avoid prosecution.The saga begins in the 1770s and ends in the 1950s. For over two hundred years the house itself recounts the lives of the families who lived inside its walls...

A shattered soldier. An unexpected rescue. A second chance at redemption.At 27, Heather Hatfield returns to her coastal hometown in Nova Scotia, carrying the weight of a shattered career and an uncertain future. Her once-promising military service has come to an abrupt end, leaving her confidence in pieces and her sense of purpose adrift. Worse, she fears how her military discharge will read and how it might define her in ways she can’t control.Seeking sola...

The nervous system is made up of a large number of interacting elements. To understand how such a complex system functions requires the construction and analysis of computational models at many different levels. This book provides a step-by-step account of how to model the neuron and neural circuitry to understand the nervous system at all levels, from ion channels to networks. Starting with a simple model of the neuron as an electrical circuit, gradually more details are added to include ...

Elegiac and fierce, solemn and celebratory, the poems in Chanda Feldman’s Approaching the Fields consider family and history. From black sharecroppers and subsistence farmers along the Mississippi River to contemporary life in the suburbs, the rituals of home and work link racial experience, social lines, and economic striving, rooting memory and scene in the southern landscape. Love and violence echo through the collection, and Feldman’s beautifully crafted poems, often formal in...

Welcome to Cape Falls, a town with old-fashioned values.When Anna Myer's parents died in a car accident, David and Paul Steer took her in and cared for her. For years she nursed a crush for the two men, only to be rejected and pushed away.Crushed with the rejection and believing the Steer Brothers could never love her the way she wanted, Anna left Cape Falls.Three years passed since she left the men she loved. Anna returns with a new determination and she knows the ...

When seventeen year old April suffers some personal problems, her parents send her to the country to stay with her aunt and uncle in their very old house. No sooner does April arrive when a young man from the afterlife makes contact with her. Step by step he guides April in solving a 100 year old mystery, giving redemption to his spirit, and in the process, helping April to restore her own sanity. This is a novelette of approximately 15,000 words.

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?Looking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval—it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed.In this urgent book, Jane Goodall, one of the world's most famous naturalists, and Douglas Abrams, the internationally best...