Los Angeles, 1930s - The young woman looked like an angel as she gazed absently at the heavens through the telescope atop Mt. Wilson. But it was doubtful she saw anything. She appeared to have been dead for hours.She'd been posed, and lovingly, but why? That was Detective Theo Mathieu's first thought as he observed the victim.To find the answers, Mathieu would have to trace the victim's past from a small town in Arizona to the mansions of millionaires in Los Angeles, riskin...

In, Love and Politics Jeffery L. Nicholas argues that Eros is the final rejection of an alienated life, in which humans are prevented from developing their human powers; Eros, in contrast, is an overflowing of acting into new realities and new beauties, a world in which human beings extend their powers and senses.Nicholas uniquely interprets Alasdair MacIntyre’s Revolutionary Aristotelianism as a response to alienation defined as the divorce of fact from value. However, th...

Los Angeles 1930s. It was the last roundup for the gentleman in the three-piece suit, bobbing up and down in the moonlight like a rodeo cowboy on the back of a pumpjack. The metal horsehead pump was one of the smaller ones in the Inglewood Oil Field. Perhaps eight feet high at best.The victim's legs, torso, and right hand were strapped to the walking beam, leaving his left arm to flop around with the rocking horse motion. It was a bizarre sight in an equally bizarre landscape, fill...

A fairy tale adventure in another world, in another galaxy, set upon the island of Durigh. Where a young girl name luile is in dire need of saving her beloved father, and the only one with the power to save him is a being who is rumored to be of one of blasphemy. Ignoring all waring's, luile heads off with her best friend. Eilis, into a nightmare like no other. A pair of lambs who are later sought out by a ram, and a ewe.

Los Angeles 1930s. The victim’s short blonde hair was wet, and she was naked. From the blueish tint to her skin, it appeared she had drowned. At this distance from shore, she should have been under thirty feet of water, but the reservoir was empty, only a shallow pool remaining where she lay.She looked European, perhaps Germanic, with her prominent nose and high cheekbones. In her early thirties, she was young and fit with an athletic build and piercing blue eyes that now stared vac...

It is 1929 in Los Angeles when Officer Mathieu answers a domestic disturbance call at night in a poor black neighborhood. When no one answers the unlocked door, he enters to find a beautiful, white woman lying naked on the floor, the victim of two fatal gunshot wounds. Soon after, the officer makes a shocking discovery. The woman is the personal secretary to the most powerful man in Los Angeles.The police immediately suspect the black musician who owns the house. But when the woman...

Fundamentals of Weed Science, Sixth Edition, places weed management in the context of weed research and science, presenting the latest advances in the role, control, and potential uses of weed plants. This book uses an ecological framework to explore the role of responsible and effective weed control in agriculture from the emergence and genetic foundation of weeds to the latest means of control and environmental effects.Fully revised, updated, and expanded, Fundamentals of Weed Science no...

Los Angeles 1930. The man hanging on the cross at Mission San Fernando Rey definitely wasn’t the Savior. The best that could be said of him was that he was a corrupt financier, the worst a rapist and child molester who traded in political favors. Detective Mathieu had encountered him on his first case and despised him. Now as he stared up at his dead body, he knew he would have to find his killer. It was not a task he relished. The search would lead him through the underbelly of false gods...

100 fathoms below …The depth at which sunlight no longer penetrates the ocean.The US nuclear submarine USS Roanoke embarks on a classified spy mission into Soviet waters. Their goal: to find evidence of a new, faster, and deadlier Soviet submarine that could tip the balance of the Cold War. But the Roanoke crew isn’t alone. Something is on board with them. Something cunning and malevolent.Trapped in enemy territory and hun...

100 fathoms below …The depth at which sunlight no longer penetrates the ocean.The US nuclear submarine USS Roanoke embarks on a classified spy mission into Soviet waters. Their goal: to find evidence of a new, faster, and deadlier Soviet submarine that could tip the balance of the Cold War. But the Roanoke crew isn’t alone. Something is on board with them. Something cunning and malevolent.Trapped in enemy territory and hun...

Fall in love with this small-town love story about a widower sheriff and a divorced schoolteacher who are searching for second chances -- only to be threatened by long-held secrets of the past.Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles...

In 1922 Robert Allerton—described by the Chicago Tribune as the “richest bachelor in Chicago”—met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. Virtually inseparable from then on, they began publicly referring to one another as father and son within a couple years of meeting. In 1960, after nearly four decades together, and with Robert Allerton nearing ninety, they embarked on a daringly nonconformist move:...