The Virtues of Pennyroyal is the tale of Bernard Mason, a con artist and amateur musician whose debts force him to quit London on a trade ship bound for the anonymous safety of colonial Massachusetts. He surfaces in the burgeoning village of Barnstable, where he quickly ingratiates himself with the devout but naive locals. Over time, Bernard becomes an influential member of the village, marrying into one of the founding families. His son Isaac is a musical prodigy whose abilities assure Be...

The Temptress Academy is a thrilling adventure set in a corrupt music industry, where Cher Sarkisian and Christina Aguilera co-own a renowned academy dedicated to protecting artists. When Christina is kidnapped, Cher embarks on a high-stakes quest to find her, following a series of riddles that lead her from Los Angeles to Sicily and Hawaii. Alongside a diverse team of musicians competing for the Cleopatra award, Cher uncovers deadly conspiracies involving the Mafia, cyber...

Talking of Dirty Laundry, Dates and “Noguchi” …Laugh Out Loud: A Collection of Funny PoemsIf you are determined to stay cool, and positive and survive the negativity of the news and people around you, then this is the book for you, read it and allow yourself to feel healthy emotional changes from the inside out to relieve stress, feel motivated, and find the bright side in any situation fast.Excerpt from Dirty Laundry:“She hung it out there on the line—as if nobody ...

Over the past decades, geological survey organizations have digitized their data handling and holdings, unlocking vast amounts of data and information for computer processing. They have undertaken 3-D modeling alongside, and in some cases instead of, conventional geological mapping and begun delivering both data and interpretations to increasingly diverse stakeholder communities. Applied Multidimensional Geological Modeling provides a citable central source that documents the curr...

The novel begins on 20 December 2007, the twenty-first birthday of musician, illusionist, escapologist and entertainer, Andrew Miller, showbiz name, Captain Romano. It starts in Regent's Park half way through a show when Captain Romano is in his dressing room having a rest after the first half of the circus and thinking about seeing his girlfriend and fiancee Jennifer Keating for a drink later after the show. When he is preparing to go into his dressing room for a private rest he is interr...

A strange and unexpected happening during the party of my eleventh birthday led to a doctors appointment the following day, which in turn was unraveled and led to further happenings throughout my life. Before that time in my life, everything was quiet, and I had self-confidence in myself and ambitions for my future. My life with family and friends was a simple pleasure. Although in recent years there has been a rise in the publics understanding and toleration of the epileptic, I still beli...

This is part 2 of the novel which explains my idea as a historian of the seventeenth century period just how a successful Gunpowder Plot attacking the Houses of Parliament changed English history completely. It explains how English history was completely altered when the King James I was killed as he came to reopen Parliament on November 5th 1605 and how the death of the king and the partial destruction of Parliament led to increasing confusion throughout England and a partial uprising of ...

This is a novel that explains my idea as a historian of the seventeenth-century period just how a successful Gunpowder Plot attacking the Houses of Parliament changed English history completely. It explains how English history was completely altered when the King James I was killed as he came to reopen parliament on November 5, 1605, and how the death of the king and the partial destruction of parliament led to increasing confusion throughout England and a partial uprising of Catholics in ...

This book is based on actual cases carried by members in a course for public health workers given at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It identifies and discusses what is meant by casework, the idea of movement, empathy, avoiding self-involvement, not disarming the client, purposiveness in interviewing, and what it means to be a caseworker.Originally published in 1957.A UNC Press Enduring Edition — UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technol...

As little as two decades ago, deliberately injecting botulinum toxin into patients would have seemed foolhardy at best and criminal at worst. The increased clinical use of botulinum toxins has expanded the body of knowledge available on the structure and function of these proteins. This knowledge can be applied to topics as varied as therapies base

An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream.Black Mask was the apotheosis of noir. It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by Carroll John Daly appeared. It was the slum in which such American literary titans like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler got their start, and it was the home of stories with titles lik...

An eccentric boarding-house denizen winds up dead; his presumed killer, a fellow boarder, has vanished. The baffling case unfolds through the testimony of witnesses, who are themselves suspects.