Kenneth McKellar may have been born in Reconstruction-era Alabama, but for most of his life, he was a Tennessean through and through. After graduating from the University of Alabama with bachelor’s, master’s, and law degrees, McKellar traveled to Memphis for what he expected to be a brief visit with his brothers. That visit was the genesis of a lifelong career and permanent home in West Tennessee. After successfully practicing law in Memphis, Kenneth McKellar kicked off his political caree...

FIVE DECADES. A DOZEN STRETCHES BEHIND BARS. ONE SENTENCE WITH NO END DATE.Bang Bang Ray Hill is a true crime legend in the making; a British gangster memoir from a man who lived every page of it.Growing up hard on the wrong side of the tracks in 1950s London, Ray became a career criminal by his teens: an armed robber, a bare-knuckle prize-fighter, and an enforcer trusted by some of Britain's most feared criminal firms.He crossed paths with...

From the moment she holds her baby niece, Rose is on a mission. Terrified that her baby niece will fall victim to the sexual abuse rampant in the family, Rose tells us in her own warm, funny, down-to-earth voice, how she reluctantly agrees to join a therapy group, hoping she can find out how to prevent disaster and see that baby Jenny grows up unharmed. In the group, she meets new friends who will become like family: Josie, who “sees” the future; Tammy, with a suspicious bruise on her neck...

I think that anyone who has an interest in traditional archival research will find this a thoughtful and valuable guide to the many different elements of the research process. --Theory and Methods "His research advice is systematic and thorough and could easily serve for other researchers than sociobiographers. In eighty-eight pages, Hill has managed to pack not only this sound research advice but a critique of archival practices and a six-page bibliography. The book is certainly worth a r...

As the story goes, Holisticadia was known to be one of the largest planets in the galaxy. It thrived and was loved by many. Armed with impenetrable planetary defenses, Holisticadia never lost a battle! Multiple factions vie to be the first to enslave Holisticadia and take their inhabitants' captive. Today, Holisticadia is plagued with endless battles that have become to difficult for them to sustain victory. Ironically, Holisticadia suffers from pollution derived from the production of mas...

There is now considerable preclinical evidence that glutamate acting via the NMDA receptor is involved in the transmission of nociceptive information and in the triggering mechanisms for hyperalgesia and allodynia. This evidence allows rational development of a new class of analgesic drugs that act as antagonists of the NMDA receptor, supported by emerging evidence with existing excitatory amino acid antagonists. L

Two Christmas romance novellas sure to bring holiday cheer, from two bestselling authors.Rockin' Around That Christmas Tree by Essence –bestselling author Donna HillDenise has always been the faithful wife and dutiful mother for the twenty-plus years she's been married to Edward. But now, she's ready to live a few dreams of her own. When Denise drops the bomb at Thanksgi...

Rochelle Alers' "Stand-in Bride"Savannah wedding planner Katherine Langdon agrees to coordinate the "wedding of the season" between a spoiled debutante and her French fiance for one reason--the gorgeous father of the bride. Now she hopes that the wedding won't be the only occasion worth remembering...Gwynne Forster's "Learning to Love"Working for the United Nations has given Sharon Braxton a passion for other cultures--and for a Nigerian prince. What can stand in the w...

**PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate.A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years**At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, m...

Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book and for The Globe 100 Books in 2013."In the creation of David Slaney, Lisa Moore brings us an unforgettable character, embodying the exuberance and energy of misspent youth. Caught is a propulsive and harrowing read."—Patrick deWitt, author of The Sisters BrothersInternationally acclaimed author Lisa Moore offers us a...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES • From the internationally bestselling authors of the Illuminae Filescomes a new science fiction epic . . .The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the academy would touch . . .A cocky diplomat with a black belt ...

Secrets of Whitewater Creek was previously published as Deadly Secrets.Whoever said small towns have no secrets didn't know about this one...Born and bred on the land, Jordan Windcroft is tough. She's had to be. Her life revolves around running her property almost single–handedly on next to no money, and waiting out her four years of probation – a rap that she took for one of her closest friends.But there's an end to her problems i...