***Anthony and Agatha Award-nominee for Best First Novel***Two days before Christmas, Jonathan Gray, M. D., Chief Deputy Coroner for Orleans Parish, receives shocking news. Robby O'Malley-Jonathan's mentor for nearly forty years-has died under mysterious circumstances. Within hours after Robby's death, Gray takes the oath of office as Coroner and participates in autopsies of an elderly couple murdered in their Garden District home. After mass on Christmas morning, ...

On a frosty Sunday morning in February, Dr. Jonathan Gray, Coroner of Orleans Parish, faces a gruesome sight. A dead man splayed against the circular steel and cut-glass blocks of the city's AIDS memorial in Washington Square Park has strange symbols carved into his forehead and chest. A coded note-a cipher-has been placed under one hand. The body mutilation and note are hallmarks of a serial killer dubbed by the news media as the "Mardi Gras Sweeper," because he strikes during Carnival se...

Warrior Husband shatters the clichés of marriage advice—it's a raw, unfiltered wake-up call for men ready to fight for their marriage and become the man she can't live without.Written by Michael Riggs, Men's Self-Improvement Coach, Author of 'Warrior King,'and Host of The Warrior Kings PodcastIn Warrior Husband, Michael Riggs, renowned men's self-improvement coach, cuts through the noise of feel-good clichés to deliver raw, unfiltered truths...

Unlock Your Inner Warrior King: A 7-Level Journey to Masculinity & Self-ImprovementDiscover the secrets to unlocking your full potential as a man in this transformative guide by renowned men's self-help coach, Michael Riggs. Dive into the depths of masculinity, manliness, and the warrior spirit within you through a comprehensive seven-level course designed to empower, inspire, and guide you on your journey to self-improvement.In "Warrior Ki...

Of the successful military leaders over the past recorded millenia, there are a few nuggets of military wisdom that are consistently repeated by the most successful military leaders in history, truisms that have been successfully demonstrated time and again.When one sees highly successful military leaders utilize the identical same principles, though separated by continents, culture, and millennia, it would appear that one who proposes to take up the art of war as a vocation would ...

Expression in Contested Public Spaces: Free Speech and Civic Engagement addresses how people express themselves and their differences, in ways that amplify the many voices central to the mission of democracy. This book investigates in what ways and in what discursive forms people interrupt the status quo or unjust practices to advance positive social change. The chapters feature research activity, engaged scholarship, and creative expression to boldly frame the issues of free spee...

Combining the best lessons from legends in the real estate industry, this book shares leadership insights from Trammell Crow, Charles Fraser, James Graaskamp, Gerald Hines, James Rouse, Don Terner, Robert Venturi, Denise Brown, Steve Siegel, and Sam Zell.

Many believe that Jesus was the wisest man to ever live and walk this earth. What would He do about the problems facing the world's governments and the economies of nations? What did He have to say about taxes? Was it limited to the oft repeated phrase, "...render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's?" Does the Bible, the book Jesus lived His life by, have answers and solutions to the world's fiscal crises? Is it possible to survive economically no matter what nations, even our own, do...

The collected BBC radio productions of the major works of Oscar Wilde, plus bonus play by Neil BartlettLoved for his flamboyant personality, sparkling wit and brilliant epigrams, Oscar Wilde was a comic genius and a literary icon.This collection reflects the many facets of his dazzling talent. Here are dramatisations of his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a Gothic tale of a gilded aristocrat who makes a dangerous pact, as well as four scint...

A collection of acclaimed radio retellings of Greek and Roman mythsAndrew Rissik's powerful, uncompromising reimaginings of classic tales from Roman and Greek history were hailed as masterpieces when they first aired on BBC radio. Told in contemporary speech, they revitalised the ancient myths, making them fresh, relevant and accessible to a modern-day audience. This collection brings them together on audio for the first time, with stellar casts including M...

Sixteen all-new stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by George R. R. Martin and Gardner DozoisFrom pulp adventures such as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Carson of Venus to classic short stories such as Ray Bradbury’s “The Long Rain” to visionary novels such as C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra, the planet Venus has loomed almost as large in the imaginations of science fiction writers as Mars. But while the Red Planet conjured up in Golden Age scien...

Bist du bereit für eine aufregende Reise in fremde Welten? Möchtest du dich von fantastischen Geschichten verzaubern zu lassen? Dann ist diese Leseproben-Sammlung genau das Richtige für dich!Markus Heitz nimmt dich in seinem neuen Dark-Fiction-Roman »Die schwarze Königin« mit in eine Welt der Vampire, Intrigen, Alchemie, Freundschaft und des okkulten Wissens. Erfahre die Wahrheit über Vlad Dracul und Barbara von Cilli, ihren gemeinsamen Kampf im Spätmittelalter geg...