A brand-new town. A legendary aunt. A poker game gone horribly wrong.After twenty-seven years of marriage, Georgie Taylor is starting over with little more than a suitcase, a bruised heart, her Jack Russell terrier Biscuit, and absolutely no plan.Her temporary solution? Move in with her unforgettable Aunt Lottie in the picturesque seaside town of Pacific Grove, California.It should be the perfect place to heal.Morning walks on the beach. Fre...

First published in 1995, I Am Because We Are has been recognized as a major, canon-defining anthology and adopted as a text in a wide variety of college and university courses. Bringing together writings by prominent Black thinkers from Africa, the Caribbean, and North America, Fred Lee Hord and Jonathan Scott Lee made the case for a tradition of “relational humanism” distinct from the philosophical preoccupations of the West.Over the past twenty years, however, new schola...

In June 2018 Leeds United made an appointment that shocked the footballing world. Despite being stuck in the second tier of English football and tagged the Championship's perennial chokers, they attracted one of the most revered coaches in world football. What followed captivated the hearts and minds of Leeds United's legion of passionate supporters worldwide. Marcelo Bielsa has crafted a team in his image, a team that plays in an almost bewildering attacking style with fluidity across the...

Mimi Capurro is a private investigator. She does stakeouts, cheating spouses, and the occasional murder.Trade shows are not her thing.But favors get called in, friends need help, and somehow Mimi ends up spending a perfectly good weekend in San Francisco surrounded by artisan vendors, gift buyers, and one very dead body clutching a voodoo doll with a needle in it.Now she's got a booth full of suspects, a surveillance job quietly going sideways, and Nick showing up a...

Welcome to Ravenwood Inn—where checking in is easy, but checking out? That's another story entirely.Meet Della Graves: historian, reluctant innkeeper, and now the proud owner of Ravenwood Inn—a Victorian monstrosity with more secrets than a politician's tax returns. She thought "faulty wiring" would be her biggest problem, but that was before she met Eddie, the spectral fedora-wearing wise guy who's been haunting the halls since 1927.When a dead body shows up in her hallway...

King Klopp: Rebuilding the Liverpool Dynasty is the story behind Jurgen Klopp's success at Liverpool. Since Klopp's appointment as head coach in October 2015, the club has grown exponentially, swiftly becoming the dominant force in English and European football. But how was the team's rebirth achieved in just a few short years? Experienced football scout and opposition analyst Lee Scott takes an in-depth look at the tactical concepts underpinning Liverpool's success - revealing wh...

Ah, the smell of Christmas and murder are in the air. And the private investigators of Gotcha Detective Agency are on the case.Mimi has picked up a skip trace, and while staking out the fugitive's girlfriend's house, hoping he'll pop in, Mimi sees activity in the house next door.What happens next no one could have expected. And where it leads is even crazier.In a story of twists and turns, this murder mystery is a little different than the trouble Charles and Mimi usua...

Spring has sprung, but private detective Mimi Capurro is still avoiding the proposal she received from homicide detective Nick Christianson during Christmas. With her business booming and a lack of investigators, Mimi can't focus on anything else. But when her mother brings a new case to the Gotcha Detective Agency, Mimi is forced to prioritize.Lydia's dear friend was found dead in her car, and despite the police ruling it a suicide, Lydia and the victim's husband believe there's m...

Kate's finally buried all the skeletons of her past, or so she thinks. Things have changed since Chief Benoit took the helm, and Kate's life is about to get turned around in a big way. Peculiar Police Department is getting a new officer, and Kate's getting a new partner.Will anyone be ready for this? Will Kate survive having a partner?Their first big case involves a missing person, the second one of the day. Only the second case isn't so cut and dried and now they are hopin...

Flying Tiger: Chennault of China by Robert Lee Scott, Jr. tells the story of a rebel whose concepts as to the use of air power often clashed with the orthodox and standardized teachings of the military schools of his time.

Something stinks in Peculiar, Texas, and it's not just the dead cop Sergeant Zane Gwilly found shortly before midnight.Kate Darby misses patrolling the streets of Peculiar, Texas, but she has unfinished business. And she can't have the cops knowing what she's doing.What do the death of a drug dealer and (two months later) a cop have in common? That's what Kate and Zane need to find out.

Well, Bless Her Queen of HeartsBook Two in The Aunt Lottie FilesSome women collect jewelry. Vivian Sinclair collected secrets.Everyone in Pacific Grove knows Vivian. She's impossible to miss behind the wheel of her immaculate candy apple red 1957 Thunderbird, turning heads from Cannery Row to Lover's Point. Elegant, charming, and just mysterious enough to keep the rumor mill humming, Vivian is this year's reigning Queen of Hearts and hostess of the annual ch...