You're living the life of your dreams.You have a highly challenging job at the sharp end of town, with a pay packet and benefits to match; a loving family who understand the need for travel and are grateful for what time they do have with you.Then you get sick. Very sick. Brain cancer sick.As it turns out, you're one of the fortunate ones. You come out the other side after a protracted fight with your disease. But you emerge as a different person – a better person. ...

Ancient legends tell of an almost forgotten civilization possessing flying fighting machines, vast armies, and a source of limitless free energy called Vril.In the middle of the twentieth century two rival submarines from warring nations in our world raced to find the lost continent of Atlantis and the source of Vril. One nation aimed to secure world domination, the other sought to preserve world freedom.Neither submarine was seen again until the present day when one of them ...

What began that night shocked Duke University and Durham, North Carolina.And it continues to captivate the nation: the Duke lacrosse team members' alleged rape of an African-American stripper and the unraveling of the case against them.In this ever-deepening American tragedy, Stuart Taylor Jr. and KC Johnson argue, law enforcement, a campaigning prosecutor, biased journalists, and left-leaning academics repeatedly refused to pursue the truth while scapegoats...

Ancient African Futures provides a creative and critical account of the history and form(s) of systemic constellations practice (SCP) applying a decolonial lens, emphasizing the profound significance of Zulu epistemology on its origins.The volume opens with an autoethnographic account of the author’s African diasporan / European identity and its bearing within the SCP profession. It offers a summary introduction to SCP as a discrete modality of Western psychotherapy, commo...

In this sequel to Taylor’s lyrical series debut, Agony Hill, Detective Frank Warren and his formerly CIA-connected neighbor Alice Bellows return to investigate the death of a diplomat.It's November of 1965 and the second weekend of Vermont's regular deer season when Vermont State Police detective Franklin Warren is called out to what looks like an accidental shooting at The Ridge Club, an exclusive men's hunting and fishing club for congressmen, diplomats,...

"With its evocative Dublin setting, lyrical prose, tough but sympathetic heroine, and a killer twist in the plot, Sarah Stewart Taylor's The Mountains Wild should top everyone's must-read lists this year!" — New York Times bestselling author Deborah CrombieIn a series debut for fans of Tana French and Kate Atkinson, set in Dublin and New York, homicide detective Maggie D'arcy finally tackles the case that changed the course of her life.

At the battle of Gettysburg, a twenty year old Confederate officer, Major John Stewart Hard, raised his sword to signal the 7th SC infantry, the lead regiment directing the advance of Longstreet's Corps. Marching in disciplined order, they entered into a violent maelstrom of the battle's second day, in which thousands upon thousands of Blue and Gray soldiers would lose their lives. Somewhere behind the advancing line of Confederates, a man by the name of Aleck stood by, perhaps holding the...

This powerful and reflective book explores the losses encountered during social research—of people, communities and environments—collectively referred to as The Lost. Drawing on the contributors’ varied research experiences, it gives voice to lives marked by marginalisation, trauma or quiet disappearance. Stories emerge from women who didn’t survive domestic abuse to those displaced by ‘natural’ disasters, or affected by homelessness. Through deeply personal and ethical reflections, each c...

Set in rural Vermont in the volatile 1960s, Agony Hill is the first novel in a new historical series full of vivid New England atmosphere and the deeply drawn characters that are Sarah Stewart Taylor's trademark.In the hot summer of 1965, Bostonian Franklin Warren arrives in Bethany, Vermont, to take a position as a detective with the state police. Warren's new home is on the verge of monumental change; the interstates under construction will bring new peo...

In Retracing the Keowee Trail, the author tells the story of the Cherokee Path that connected the low country of colonial Carolina with the mountain homeland of the Cherokee Nation. The Keowee Trail was a busy trading route for a burgeoning deerskin trade. Along this same path, epidemic disease made its way inexorably from the colony toward Cherokee society, reducing their population by more than half. Along this path, warfare was waged in both directions, by Cherokee war parties determine...

A bright star. A lowly manger. Shepherds keeping watch over their flocks. Everyone knows at least something about the first Christmas. But there's more to the story than what can be contained on a greeting card. Investigating the social, cultural, and political background to the New Testament narratives, this prequel to The Final Days of Jesus: The Most Important Week of the Most Important Person Who Ever Lived explores the real meaning of Christ's birth in a fresh and compelling ...

Austin is a loveable old car. He's also a wreck! When the old stone wall collapses Austin is sent to Butcher's scrapyard to be CRUSHED! The animals living inside him are made homeless. Will they find the man who loves old cars in time to rescue Austin? Or will Marmaduke the tomcat makes a meal of them? Will Hannibal the scrapyard guard dog chew Austin's tyres to shreds? Will the man who loves old cars cars find Austin before he's squished inside the crusher's greedy jaws?