In the heart of rural Missouri, former physicist-turned-preacher Evan Wycliff is no stranger to mystery - or pain.In the second installment of the Evan Wycliff mystery series, part-time preacher and reluctant investigator Evan Wycliff finds himself pulled into another web of secrets hidden beneath the quiet surface of rural Missouri. What begins as the disappearance of a troubled teenage mother and her infant quickly becomes something far darker. Melissa Benton van...

Intrigue on the white sands of the Indian Ocean. A lonely widower seeks escape in Kenya — what he finds is temptation, truth, and a second chance at life.Harry Gardner, a recently widowed American publisher in his late sixties, sets off on an uncharacteristic adventure to Kenya, lured by a charming travel arranger and the promise of leisure, comfort, and maybe a little illicit fun. With a soul weathered by grief and a life dulled by routine, Harry seeks escape—but ...

Milton Reynolds didn't invent the ballpoint pen. But he boasted, "I stole it fair and square." His mild-mannered, square-dealing son Jim wanted nothing to do with it.When a smooth-talking entrepreneur discovers a strange new pen in the final days of World War II, he becomes convinced it’s the next great consumer sensation. His son Jim—a Stanford-trained engineer who craves stability instead of chaos—is dragged into a whirlwind of outrageous deals, impossible promis...

Marriage, corruption, and rubber babes — Rollo Hemphill’s life just went from awkward to illegal.Rollo Hemphill thought he’d won the jackpot — married to the woman of his dreams and newly minted director of a suspiciously generous charity. But bliss turns to blunder when his assistant proves both too beautiful and too helpful, and his “philanthropic” work at the Keppelhoffer Foundation turns out to be a front for a baffling international scam involving erectile dys...

Intrigue on the white sands of the Indian Ocean. A lonely widower seeks escape in Kenya — what he finds is temptation, truth, and a second chance at life.Harry Gardner, a recently widowed American publisher in his late sixties, sets off on an uncharacteristic adventure to Kenya, lured by a charming travel arranger and the promise of leisure, comfort, and maybe a little illicit fun. With a soul weathered by grief and a life dulled by routine, Harry seeks escape—but ...

From the acclaimed author of 2020 Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorites Clifford's Spiral and Preacher Finds a Corpse. This special scholar's courseware edition of The Bonfire of the Vanderbilts includes the full text of the novel, along with the author's research whitepaper "Deconstructing the Scandalous Narrative of The Baptism," which appeared in the Fall 2016 issue of The Journal of Ar...

A thoughtful small-town mystery features reluctant preacher Evan Wycliff as he investigates the suspicious death of a lifelong friend amid secrets, corruption, and questions of faith.On a bitter February morning in rural Missouri, Evan Wycliff—a Harvard-educated theologian who returned home burdened by doubts about faith and purpose—is on his way to meet friends for a hunting outing when he stumbles upon the body of his lifelong friend, Bob Taggart. The apparent su...

Stop being fooled by misleading headlines, viral posts, and deceptive charts with this practical guide to media literacy.Every day we're bombarded with headlines, videos, memes, social media posts, and breaking news competing for our attention. Some inform. Some persuade. Others deliberately manipulate. In 11 Ways to Spot Fake News, Gerald Everett Jones reveals the hidden techniques that allow misinformation to spread faster than truth—and teaches readers ...

From the acclaimed author of 2020 Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorites Clifford's Spiral and Preacher Finds a Corpse.Youthful hacker-turned-slacker Rollo Hemphill can’t help failing ever upward in three previously published comic novels, combined in this ebook edition.In My Inflatable Friend, he devises a screwball scheme with a life-sized rubber doll to make his girlfriend jealous and stumbles into a ...

No job? Fresh out of school? Laid off? In the rapidly emerging gig economy, millions of workers will never have a job. But they can have a lifetime of profitable and satisfying assignments and projects. Written by an adept consultant who hasn’t had “permanent employment” since 9/11, this handy little book will help you survive - and thrive - as an independent contractor. Don’t wait for someone else to decide your future - here’s how to write your own story.

From the acclaimed author of 2020 Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorites Clifford's Spiral and Preacher Finds a Corpse. Christmas Karma is author Gerald Everett Jones's homage to Anne Tyler, whom he regards as his literary mother. It's about the travails of a dysfunctional family around the holidays, narrated by an angel who has a wicked sense of humor. Main character Willa Nawicki is bewildered by a series of curious karmic events that ...

From the acclaimed author of 2020 Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorites Clifford's Spiral and Preacher Finds a Corpse.This short book has six stories and one essay. The essay "Boychik Lit" is the think piece, offering Gerald Everett Jones's thoughts on the genre which he named. "Chemistry" expands on the self-evident premise that you can't tell teenagers anything. The narrator of "Not Quite After Lisette is a forty-some...