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Jonathan Stone

Read this "high-octane thriller" that "calls to mind...Jeffery Deaver and Alfred Hitchcock" and questions everything that you have ever saved on your phone (Mystery Scene Magazine).In a crowded coffee shop, Zack Yellin swaps identical-looking cell phones with the businessman next to him. It's an honest mistake-and a deadly one. Because the "businessman" is actually a professional-and highly volatile-hit man named Joey Richter, and his phone is filled with ...

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Jonathan Stone

A darkly comic tale of faith, fraud, and forgiveness behind bars.Welcome to Otisville, America's only Jewish prison, where fraudsters, forgers, and tax evaders find community and solace. Led by a rabbi serving time, the inmates of the 'minyan' grapple with right and wrong amidst the challenges of prison life. But when a celebrity inmate arrives, shaking up the status quo, and a poetry professor finds herself in danger, the minyan must decide whether to uphold their...

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Jonathan Stone

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Julian Palmer Thrillers

Young, beautiful, police detective Julian Palmer is growing up. Just a few years out of the New York Police Academy, she's earning her stripes fast. Julian has solved high profile murder cases, and been promoted to Lieutenant upstate Troy, New York. But her latest case has her baffled. She's tracking the killer of a respected husband and father. With no suspects, a family hungry for answers, and the press breathing down her neck, Julian is desperate and in over her head.That's when ...

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Jonathan Stone

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Julian Palmer Thrillers

Female NYPD trainee Julian Palmer has come to a frigid corner of Upstate New York to work alongside legendary police chief Winston "Bear" Edwards-to help solve the brutal murder of a young waitress, and perhaps learn a thing or two along the way.Julian knows that Edwards, an Old School cop if there ever were one, isn't happy about a female rookie assisting him-or the strange local psychic they've called in to help. Still, she's a bit in awe of the old Bear-he has, after all, solved ...

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Jonathan Stone

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Julian Palmer Thrillers

Detective Julian Palmer is taking a break from homicide-or so she thinks. Signing on to assist in a simple insurance investigation, she soon finds herself enmeshed in something far more elaborate. It's a bizarre case, one that leads her from a dead investment banker with a mysterious briefcase, to a renegade inventor in the New Mexico desert, and ultimately, to the investing frenzy of Wall Street in the late 1990's. It also leads her to an unexpected romance with Tom Hartley-a man as lonel...

As our divided political climate attests, rational deliberation has failed to persuade people to rally around issues of public health, race and gender-based violence, climate threats, and political demagoguery. In response, scholars are increasingly turning to sensation for new frameworks to understand our situated, bodily responses to rapidly changing environments. Sensory Rhetorics puts rhetoric into conversation with sensory studies writ large.This volume illuminates an...

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Perry Stone, Jonathan Stone

The Last Days Are Here. How Will You Protect, Prepare, and Empower Your Family?Are you raising children in an increasingly dangerous, deceptive, and apocalyptic world? Do you wonder how to protect the next generation from spiritual darkness, cultural collapse, and the schemes of the enemy? Have you felt the weight of raising your household while watching society unravel before your eyes?But God hasn’t left you without a plan! Scripture offers clear answers ...

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Jonathan Stone

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Christopher Lane

When retired police detective Joe Heller is called in to investigate what might be Antarctica’s first murder, he quickly discovers that winter at McMurdo Station comes with a unique set of challenges: darkness, isolation, and the eccentric behavior of the research facility’s 157 inhabitants. But a difficult investigation turns much tougher when all communication with the outside world is suddenly cut off.While Heller works diligently to reconstruct the scene of the crime, evidence ...

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Mystery Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, Jan Burke, Laura Lippman, Libby Fischer Hellmann, C. E. Lawrence, Joseph Finder, James O. Born, S. W. Hubbard, Joseph Goodrich, R. T. Lawton, Tom Rob Smith, Mary Anne Kelly, Tony Broadbent, Steve Berry, Angela Gerst, Catherine Mambretti, Stephen Ross, Charles Todd, Jonathan Stone, Katherine Neville, R. L. Stine, Karin Slaughter, Brad Meltzer

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various narrators, William Dufris, Karen White, Simon Vance, Malcolm Hillgartner, Scott Brick, John McLain, Kirby Heyborne, Joe Barrett, Donald Corren, Bernadette Dunne, R. C. Bray, Robert Fass, Kathe Mazur, Stephen Bowlby, Adam Verner, Gildart Jackson, Hillary Huber, Jo Anna Perrin, Richard Powers

There's nothing more mysterious than a locked box. Whether it's a literal strongbox, an empty coffin, the inner workings of a scientist's mind, or an underground prison cell, there are those who will use any means necessary to unlock the secrets of The Mystery Box.With this anthology, bestselling author Brad Meltzer introduces twenty-one original stories from today's most prominent mystery writers. In Laura Lippman's "Waco 1982," a young reporter stuck with a seemingly mun...

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Jonathan Caleb Stone

Eli Navarro once preached with total certainty that God was a refuge in every storm. Then he lost his wife and daughter on a single rain-soaked night, and the certainty went with them.He flees to a mountain village called Ashford Hollow, looking for nothing but silence. Instead he finds Caleb, an old chapel-keeper carrying a grief of his own; Grace, a young woman whose darkness mirrors his; and a single Hebrew word, tsalmaveth — the shadow of death — that will not let him ...

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Jonathan Stone

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Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture: Aesthetics and Anxiety in the 1890s rewrites the story of early modernist literature and culture by drawing out the tensions underlying its simultaneous engagement with Decadence and Symbolism, the unsustainable combination of this world and the other. With a broadly framed literary and cultural approach, Jonathan Stone examinesa shift in perspective that explodes the notion of reality and showcases the uneasy...

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Jonathan Stone

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Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts

Russian literature is most celebrated for its Romantic and modernist poetry and 19th-century novels. While literary traditions of varying sorts have been part of Slavic and Russian culture for over a millennium, it is only since the 18th century that they came to resemble literature from the West.The Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature contains a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 100 cross-reference...