After years of prosecuting hard-core criminals, rising legal star Alan Bell took a private sector job in South Florida’s newest skyscraper. Suddenly, he suffered such bizarre medical symptoms, doctors suspected he’d been poisoned by the Mafia. Bell’s rapidly declining health forced him to flee his glamorous Miami life to a sterile “bubble” in the remote Arizona desert.As his career and marriage dissolved, Bell pursued medical treatments in a race against time, hoping to stay alive ...

He could have lived his life out in the shadows of impotence. He was an apartment house janitor and contact with others was always second-hand: the remnants of their lives in wastepaper baskets, suggestive letters dropped carelessly in balls, sometimes a crumpled, sexy photograph. His first impulse was to call the police. They were naked. So instead, he watched. And watched. And watched...

As the Great Depression lingers in the Missouri Ozarks, a young boy is about to deal with his own series of depressing events. Dusty Brodie's high-tempered father tends his illicit still, manufacturing potent moonshine that only makes the man that much meaner. Dusty's part-Cherokee grandmother experiences unsettling dreams that will make her fear for the safety of her sons and her grandchildren. Dusty's mother has secrets of her own.It's going to be a challenging year for the Brodi...

Abbee is a worker bee who finds flowers and collects pollen to make honey. She is good at her job, but she has one problem: Her wings don't buzz like other bees, so she can't communicate with them. Abbee and her friend, Gabbee, go out to find flowers, but Gabbee gets into a sticky situation. Abbee must go back to her hive for help. But how can she tell the other bees how to save Gabbee? Guess what? Abbee finds a way.This book shows how bees -- or people -- who are different can be ...

Egypt is the pinnacle of the ancient world, the apex of culture, power and wealth. But in the centres of power, conflict erupts; a novel heresy threatens to undo the pantheon of elder gods and plunge the country into chaos. A monotheistic pharaoh, Akhenaten, is plotting to usurp the old religion and promote Aten as the only god.But the old gods will not go quietly. As the battle for power rages, the empire is placed in peril; and the people of Egypt are torn betwee...

When finding another location, redesigning a structure, or removing troublesome ground at a project site are not practical options, prevailing ground conditions must be addressed. Improving the ground modifying its existing physical properties to enable effective, economic, and safe construction to achieve appropriate engineering performance is an

He could have lived his life out in the shadows of impotence. He was an apartment house janitor and contact with others was always second-hand: the remnants of their lives in wastepaper baskets, suggestive letters dropped carelessly in balls, sometimes a crumpled, sexy photograph. His first impulse was to call the police. They were naked. So instead, he watched. And watched. And watched...

"The expertly researched biography of the man who created and led the British intelligence organization best known for cracking the Nazi's codes." — Midwest Book ReviewSome of the individuals who played key roles in the success of Bletchley Park in reading the secret communications of Britain's enemies during the Second World War have become well-known figures. However, the man who created and led the organization based there, from its inception in 1919 un...

An immigrant woman and her son are accused of murder and witchcraft in this powerful true crime story of corruption in 1930s Detroit .In 1931, the tensions of the Great Depression took hold of Detroit at every level—even spilling over into the investigation of a mysterious murder at the Delray boardinghouse. Amid accusations of witchcraft, Hungarian immigrant Rose Veres and her son Bill were convicted of the brutal killing and suspected in a dozen ...

"A socialite bride, a $1 million inheritance, an older husband of questionable social rank, Yankees misbehaving on Southern soil . . . [A] web of intrigue" ( Our State).A news media frenzy hurled the quiet resort community of Pinehurst, North Carolina, into the national spotlight in 1935 when hotel magnate Ellsworth Statler's adopted daughter was discovered dead early one February morning weeks after her wedding day. A politically charged coroner's inquest...

“He promised to kill me when he got out. I believed him. If I wanted justice, I had to fight both him and the courts...maybe kill him first. If I didn’t do something, I was going to die.”This is not a manufactured dialogue from a thriller but the words of attorney Sharon Muse. They came after she survived an attempted kidnapping, rape, and murder at the hands of Larry Morrison, a former client. On April 7, 2006, Muse miraculously escaped from the sociopathic Morris...

Real crimes are stranger than fiction!Leopold and Loeb were two wealthy law students who could buy anything. But they wanted the one thing that no amount of money could buy: life.They wanted to create the Perfect Crime--to kidnap and murder a 14-year-old boy for the thrill of getting away with murder.The crime was so horrifying that even legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock took notice, and directed his version of the story: Rope. But the r...