A brilliant forensic entomologist returns to her small North Carolina hometown after her aunt's suspicious death—and discovers a family she never knew existed, a string of brutal murders, and secrets someone will kill to protect.Tegan McFarland, who specializes in insect evidence, is pulled in to investigate as the bodies pile up. Every clue seems to point in a different direction. Old family feuds, hidden fortunes, and long-buried secrets collide until Tegan reali...

They Call It Pacific, first published in 1943, is an eye-witness story of the war in the Pacific from December 1941 to late 1942. Author Clark Lee, foreign correspondent with the Associated Press, reported on the U.S. Army and Navy in the fight against the Japanese, and the book contains with extensive accounts of the battle for the Philippines on Bataan and Corregidor, interviews with soldiers including General Douglas MacArthur, talks with Japanese prisoners, and descrip...

He was the last person to have heard from her alive...His alluring new patient with an odd ailment who was murdered.Was he at the scene when she was killed?Dr. Matthew Paine resents being suspected by the stoic detective who shows up in his office to question him. The young physician struggles against getting drawn into the investigation.But when he is targeted and his carefully crafted world of peaceful sol...

"I love being DeafBlind and would not change it for the world."This collection of essays from one of the country's leading voices on issues facing the signing community appears at a time of troubling trends and exciting new developments. Through his lucid and accessible prose, John Lee Clark delves into questions ranging from why hearing parents of Deaf children don't sign to how written American Sign Language will change the course of Deaf literature. As a second-generation DeafBl...

This celebration of short stories, poems, and essays gives us a glimpse into the Deaf signing community, something that literature by hearing authors featuring deaf characters has rarely done. Between these covers, a Deaf couple fights over their son's language use, an Australian woman joins the community as an adult, a Deaf woman's body is fished out a dumpster, and a British Deaf poet wants to keep "zombies"—hearing people—out. The range of perspectives is astonishing, including opposing...

A revelatory collection of essays on the DeafBlind experience and the untapped potential of a new tactile language.Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave birth to an unprecedented language and way of life based on physical connection.In a series of paradigm-shifting essays, Clark reports on seismic...

They lied about everything**.**He won't stop until he gets to the truth.Twenty-two years ago they said it was a murder-suicide. They lied. It was just murder. They assassinated his parents as a warning, and now Detective Warren Danbury will stop at nothing to uncover who annihilated his family – and destroyed their reputation.As young physician Matthew Paine assists his close friend Danbury to tenaciously r...

YOU CAN'T RUN FROM MEMeet Anthony Stone. He considers himself a lover. A killer. His trade is killing. Anthony Stone is drawn closer to a woman called Laura, a woman he doesn't even know. Anthony fell in love at first sight but is soon rejected the first time. He is convinced he can win her heart. Anthony digs deeper into her life when he discovers another man involved. After stalking her round the clock, he slowly learns the truth about her and pa...

Clark Lee was born in Oakland, California, but came to East Orange, New Jersey, at an early age. After graduating from Rutgers, where he was distinguished both as one of the most unconventional dressers on the campus and as a third baseman, he went to work for AP's Newark Bureau. His AP duties then took him to Mexico City, Honolulu, Tokyo, and thence to wandering over the Orient. After nearly three years in Shanghai, Lee was on his way home for a vacation, and was in Manila when the invasi...

This is a book that will show you the skills that Wall Street firms look for when they hire people. In this book I will show you 8 must have skills you need to get a job on Wall Street. Having a college degree is not enough, you need to have specialized skills. If you can master any one of these 8 skills your chance for getting that job are much higher. Having worked on Wall Street for over 15 years and having been part of many interviews I can tell you first hand which skills are in deman...

**A floating body. Puzzling clues. When the hunt nearly lands him in the morgue, can a dedicated physician stop a cunning killer?Peak, NC. Dr. Matthew Paine lives by a high moral code. Struggling to cope with his girlfriend overseas, he agrees to continue consulting for the local P.D. to keep the weight of her absence at bay. But when he arrives at a fresh murder scene, he's shocked to find a woman's frozen corpse tossed into a heated pool to confuse the investigation.Frust...

**Winner of the 2023 Minnesota Book Award for PoetryLonglisted for the 2023 National Book Award for PoetryA stunning debut from an award-winning DeafBlind poet, “How to Communicate is a masterpiece” (Kaveh Akbar).**Formally restless and relentlessly instructive, How to Communicate is a dynamic journey through language, community, and the unfolding of an identity. Poet John Lee Clark pivots from inventive forms inspired by the Braille slate to sensuo...