From the open waters of Lake Superior to the quiet of the Apostle Islands; from the Raspberry Island anchorage to the dock at Presque Isle Point on Stockton Island and across to the Singing Sand Beach; from Junior's Restaurant to Maggie's on Manypenny; from the hair snakes at Rocky Island to the agates on the beach on Cat Island; from the caves and "howls" of Devil's Island to the solitude of York Island beach; from the vagaries of the practice of law to the Ultimate Resolution. At age 42,...

Another Jake Kingsley Apostle Islands mystery! A body is found on Stockton Island! The victim is a friend of retired Minneapolis trial lawyer Jake Kingsley and his colleague, Professor Charles Stanton. Who killed her and why? Their investigation leads through the high societies of Duluth, Minnesota and Lake Superior's Apostle Islands. Big money and greed, scorned love and pure cussedness are among the motives driving the various suspects. Sabotage and danger threaten to stop Jake and Charl...

The historic Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is the scene of deception and controversy surrounding the Hermit Island Casino, an Indian Gaming Casino owned by the Chequamegon Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, when a discovery is made that could change the Islands forever.Retired lawyer and sailor, Jake Kingsley, and his friends Professor Charles Stanton and the Hansons agree to help Band members Pete Cadotte and Mary Pelletier to come to the aid of the Casino. They encounter unexpec...

Duluth, Minnesota came under national attention when a local judge was being tried in his own courthouse for the murder of a local Duluth police officer!Some of Duluth's "finest" citizens put Judge James Digby "Digger" Moss in the predicament of his life. In fact, his life depended on what he and his closest confidants could do, despite the police and even the district court of which he was a respected member! Circumstances pit Digger Moss against his own court and the law enforceme...

Twenty-seven-year old Minneapolis divorce lawyer Molly Parker Graham has had a fascination with The Painting nearly all her life. She suddenly finds herself a Gold Star widow, her life turned upside down by Taliban machine gun fire that took her Army Ranger husband and a miscarriage that took their unborn son. Uncertain whether she can go on living or even wants to, she seeks respite and convalescence at her family's one hundred-year-old lakeshore lodge in the north woods of northwestern W...

Forty-four year old Jake Kingsley is a Minneapolis trial lawyer who became dissatisfied with the practice of law or at least the way some lawyers practiced it, and "retired" early to live aboard a sailboat in the Apostles Islands of Lake Superior. Occasionally handling a case for friends or relatives the way he thought they should be handled has kept the creditors at bay.While at a mid-summer costume party in Bayfield, a woman is murdered a few feet from where Jake is standing with ...

Nearly a decade later, leading change pioneers in the field have realigned to bring you the second edition of the Change Champion's Fieldguide.This thoroughly revised and updated edition of the Change Champion's Field Guide is filled with the information, tools, and strategies needed to implement a best practice change or leadership development initiative where everyone wins. In forty-five chapters, the guide's contributors, widely acknowledged as the "change champions" and leaders...

This, the fifth and final volume in the Trinity Tales series, completes a cycle that began with tales from the 1960s. It invites readers to step into the world of Trinity College as it was in the first decade of this century through the reflections of students who attended the university during those years.Within its pages lie the stories of twenty-eight graduates from a mix of diverse backgrounds whose experiences may dispel the myths of what it means to be a 'Trinity student'. Th...

Unabridged, 4 hoursRead by TBDDave Ramsey's New York Times-bestselling guide to better living through financial security, now completely revised and updated.

Volumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides the stories behind approximately 1,700 more of the greatest song recordings in the history of the music industry, from 1890 to today. In this masterful survey, all genres of popular music are covered, from pop, rock, soul, and country to jazz, blues, classic vocals, hip-hop, folk, gospel, and ethnic/world music. Collectors will find detailed discographical data—recording dates, record numbers, Billboard ...

From John Philip Sousa to Green Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 1 and 2 covers the vast scope of its subject with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. Approximately 1,000 key song recordings from 1889 to the present are explored in full, unveiling the stories behind the songs, the recordings, the performers, and the songwriters.Beginning the journey in the era of Victorian parlor...

Rich Fritzky poses five questions to forty-five individuals who have devoted much, if not all of their lives, to Abraham Lincoln. The individuals reveal what led them to him in the first place, the attribute or ‘fixed mark’ that sealed their belonging to him, the conversations that they would most have liked to have had with him, the words of his that they were most moved by, and the why and how of his, maybe just maybe, helping save the soul of the Republic yet again in our own time. Amon...