The science museum field has made tremendous advances in understanding museum learning, but little has been done to consolidate and synethesize these findings to encourage widespread improvements in practice. By clearly presenting the most current knowledge of museum learning, In Principle, In Practice aims to promote effective programs and exhibitions, identify promising approaches for future research, and develop strategies for implementing and sustaining connections between res...

When the lingerie shop, The Corset, is trashed, everyone rolls their eyes, assuming that one of the owners left the shop unlocked and it was a crime of convenience.But then a campaign of harassment begins, and Maggie realizes that the owners, her friend Armani and her Aunt Loretta, are in danger of losing what they’ve worked for.Before Maggie can figure out who is threatening them, both women disappear.Now Maggie must race to discover who is holding a grudge. One of...

Having decided that her home-schooled nieces need friends who don’t bark, purr or oink, Maggie Lee has signed them up for the town’s soccer program.While the girls are out on the field, Maggie wanders the sidelines and inadvertently overhears a soccer mom plotting a murder.As surprising as that is, the real shock hits when the mob boss, Delveccio, assigns the murder contract to Maggie.Depending on the coaching of her menagerie of pets, Maggie has to figure out her g...

When crime reporter Jack Stern brings to Maggie Lee’s attention that someone she once helped has been arrested for being a porch pirate, she feels obligated to solve the mystery of the missing packages.Assisted by Rowdy, the teenage raccoon who believes herself to be a semi-professional thief, and Mike, the tough guy crow with a penchant for pilfering shiny things, Maggie tracks down the real robber. And inadvertently stumbles into a ring of ruthless criminals who aren’t just greed...

While investigating the disappearance of a psychic matchmaker, Detective Brian Griswald meets dog trainer Stephanie Browne, a beautiful woman who can be just as prickly as the rescue mutts she works with.Like her dogs, Stephanie’s not quick to trust, which is why she rejects the charming detective when he tries to pursue a relationship with her, but when Brian is dragged into a case involving Stephanie’s beloved dogs, the two must work together to find the truth.Solving the...

One of Maggie Lee’s biggest fears is getting thrown into the nut house. With a mentally unstable mother and her own ability to talk to animals (not to mention that she’s killed people) it’s not a stretch to believe it could happen.When she’s asked to go undercover as a patient at the same facility where her mother resides, it’s like Maggie’s worst nightmare is coming true. If she didn’t feel like she owed the person she’s trying to help, she’d never agree to be committ...

Her son has dropped out of college, her husband is still missing and presumed dead, and Kiki Long is struggling to get the hang of her job as the crime scene reporter in her small town in the foothills of North Carolina.Things only get more complicated when, on the one-year anniversary of her husband’s disappearance, she wanders around her neighbor’s pasture in the middle of the night. Slightly inebriated, she witnesses a moonlit crime…that nobody else believes happened, despite th...

Maggie Lee will do anything to protect her family…including participating in an exorcism.When her niece is threatened by an evil spirit, Maggie and her menagerie (with the help of friends Armani and RV) must find a missing skull and rob a graveyard. As if that isn't enough, they must also go on a quest to collect a list of magical ingredients (including pumpkin spice coffee, because everyone knows that’s some magical stuff right there).God is being snarkier...

Everybody knows that bumbling assassin Maggie Lee isn’t in the best of physical shape, but that is about to change.Not because she’s caught the fitness bug, but because it’s a job requirement. (A job she tried to refuse, but there were mentions of debts, threats, and other untoward stuff so she couldn’t really say no.)So now Maggie is in training. She’s got the shirt to prove it and everything. The one that says, “Dead Last Finish, Beats Did Not Finish, Which Greatly Trumps...

Some jobs are more challenging than others.Take for example, Maggie’s latest assignment: assassinating a heartless, indiscriminate sniper. He deserves to die, but making that happen is tricky, especially considering that a certain red-headed police detective has been assigned to protect him.And that’s not the only job Maggie has.She’s struggling to find a way to communicate with her pets and care for her orphaned niece, while searching for information about her sist...

So many men….so little help.Maladroit hitwoman Maggie Lee has never been one to ask for help. But now she’s found out that her niece, Katie, will soon be discharged from the hospital - making Maggie her guardian not just in name - and her semi-psychic friend Armani Vasquez has been kidnapped. Suddenly Maggie could really use some help.While her crazy, but lovable, aunts are ready to help out with Katie, none of the men in her life are willing (or able) to lend a hand to sav...

Maggie Lee has never been an enthusiastic fan of PMS.(Obviously you know that PMS stands for the Psychic Matchmaking Service developed by her friend Armani Vasquez.)When a couple matched by PMS mysteriously disappears, Armani enlists Maggie’s grudging help to find them.As she retraces the steps of the pair’s day-long date, Maggie investigates a myriad of mysteries that may have led to them going missing, all while dealing with exhaustive disruptions.Can Magg...