Two killings, 500 miles apart, seem unconnected. A girl's body is discovered in a doorway in London, and another body is found in Dundee, Scotland. When the Scottish body mysteriously vanishes from the mortuary, Police Scotland washes their hands of the investigation. Given that the murdered girl in Scotland had recently traveled from London, DCI Steve Burt is assigned both cases. As Steve and his team delve deeper, they must battle political greed, a ruthless killer, and major corruption....

A Metropolitan Police detective about to be dismissed is given a second chance by his old boss, who is now a police commander. He's given a new unit to run and two misfit detectives to assist him. All three know their status is temporary.Their first case together is an impossible double murder. Each murder is identical. Both victims are expertly shot in the head from long range, but the post-mortems reveal no bullets were used in the shootings. The CSI teams calculate that in both c...

In the town of Kelly Hill, Halloween is full of costumes, candy, and glowing pumpkins. But this year is different. A magical Jack-O-Lantern named Jax comes to life with a special gift, he loves to dance. With the help of his new friend Dave, Jax brings joy, light, and excitement to every Halloween activity.When trouble appears and villains try to ruin the celebration, Jax uses his dancing magic to save the day. This heartwarming story shows how being different can be powerful, and ...

In the glowing village of Dragonville, three little dragons are about to experience something magical for the very first time. Fizz, Blaze, and Ember have heard stories about Halloween, but they have never been old enough to join the celebration. This year is different. Their first Halloween is full of laughter, surprises, and dragon-sized fun.

There is a well of untapped potential inside you, just waiting to be unleashed. Everyone has superpowers when they are a child. We tend to lose them as we grow up, but they're always there, right below the surface, ready for us to reactivate them and fully manifest our human potential. Learn to reclaim your own superhero birthright with The Five Lost Superpowers. As you grew up, you were taught to dampen the natural strength of your Curiosity, Resilience, Authenticity, Compassion, and Play...

The classic account of growing up gay in America."The best little boy in the world never had wet dreams or masturbated; he always topped his class, honored mom and dad, deferred to elders and excelled in sports . . . . The best little boy in the world was . . . the model IBM exec . . . The best little boy in the world was a closet case who 'never read anything about homosexuality.' . . . John Reid comes out slowly, hilariously, brilliantly. One reads this utterly honest account with...

Amy Whitelaw is a police officer considering her future. A career police woman wondering whether she made the right decision to join the police. University educated but street wise she is wondering whether her promotions will continue to the point where she can reform what she regards as an asleep police service. What of another life? What of a personal life? A killer appears on the streets of Sydney. Dubbed by the media as the Street Cleaner This killer is only punishing the guilty , the ...

Nearly thirty years ago W.S. MacNutt published the first general history of the Atlantic provinces before Confederation. An outstanding scholarly achievement, that history inspired much of the enormous growth of research and writing on Atlantic Canada in the succeeding decades. Now a new effort is required, to convey the state of our knowledge in the 1990s. Many of the themes important to today's historians, notably those relating to social class, gender, and ethnicity, have been fully dev...

Viola Florence Barnes was one of the most prominent women historians in the United States from the 1920s to the 1950s. Born in 1885, Barnes was educated at Yale University and began teaching at Mount Holyoke College in 1919. She was an instrumental member of the 'imperial school' of historians, who interpreted North American colonial history within a British imperial framework. Specializing in New England and Canada's Maritime provinces, her best-known book was The Dominion of New Engl...

Written in the tradition of Mel Bay's original Modern Guitar Method, Grade 1.Combines ease of learning with outstanding music selections.Provides music theory essential to understanding the book's performance demands.Tablature was not used in this book, except in specific situations, in order to encourage the development of standard music notation reading skills.With the large number of extended range electric basses being used today, an effort was made to include n...

Most American Indian reservations are islands of poverty in a sea of wealth, but they do not have to remain that way. To extract themselves from poverty, Native Americans will have to build on their rich cultural history including familiarity with markets and integrate themselves into modern economies by creating institutions that reward productivity and entrepreneurship and that establish tribal governments that are capable of providing a stable rule of law. The chapters in this volume do...

The frontier fighter who rose to the presidency and reshaped a nation.Original copies of the first, 1817, edition of this work are so rare that even the Library of Congress does not have an undamaged copy. Consequently scholars and students of Jackson have had to rely on later, incomplete or bowdlerized editions. It is therefore all the more valuable to have Owsley’s critical restoration of the original edition, complete with its useful maps.The wo...