B Owen: 36 books
Dangerous and Unseemly
The Concordia Wells Mysteries, #1
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
LIBRARY JOURNAL'S AWARD-WINNING SELF-e MYSTERY OF 2015!
An unseemly lesson…in murder.
The year is 1896, and college professor Concordia Wells has her hands full: teaching classes, acting as live-in chaperone to a cottage of lively female students, and directing the student play, Macbeth.
But...
Unseemly Pursuits
The Concordia Wells Mysteries, #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
A deadly secret that won't stay buried…
It is the fall of 1896, and Miss Concordia Wells is hip-deep in the usual tumult of a lady professor's life: classes, clubs, student pranks, and the unending drama generated by the girls she lives with on campus. Complicating this normality is the new...
Unseemly Ambition
The Concordia Wells Mysteries, #3
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
A murder…a missing boy…a secret society’s bold and deadly plot…
It is 1898, and Professor Concordia Wells has come to expect the hectic routine of classes, clubs, teas, and the inevitable student pranks at the women’s college. If only she could avoid the cantankerous dean, Randolph...
Beloved and Unseemly
The Concordia Wells Mysteries, #5
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A stolen blueprint, a dead body, and wedding bells….
Change is in the air at Hartford Women's College in the fall of 1898. Renowned inventor Peter Sanbourne—working on Project Blue Arrow for the Navy—heads the school's new engineering program, and literature professor Concordia Wells...
Never Sleep
Chronicles of a Lady Detective, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
An old flame…an assassin’s bullet…the event of the season….
November 1885
Although Penelope Hamilton Wynch doesn’t especially miss her estranged husband, she does yearn for the excitement of the old days, when they worked together on assignments from the Pinkerton Agency....
The Mystery of Schroon Lake Inn
Chronicles of a Lady Detective, #2
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Missing jewels...a haunted inn...a long-held secret...
Penelope Hamilton Wynch, one of the few female operatives employed at the Pinkerton Agency in 1886, is sent to the Adirondacks to investigate the mysterious happenings at Schroon Lake Inn, newly renovated to cater to New York City's upper...
The Case of the Runaway Girl
Chronicles of a Lady Detective, #3
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Lady detective Penelope Hamilton must navigate a labyrinth of 1880s politics, high society, and murder.
On a January night in 1887, trouble comes knocking at Pinkerton detective Penelope Hamilton's door in the form of a sulky young runaway. The girl turns out to be the grandniece of an influential...
Unseemly Honeymoon
The Concordia Wells Mysteries, #6
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
When a killer crashes the honeymoon, three’s a crowd…
It’s the summer of 1899, and Professor Concordia Wells—now Mrs. David Bradley—eagerly anticipates their honeymoon in the Hamptons. She has one errand along the way, to visit a former student seeking advice. About a love interest,...
Into the Fire
A Season of Navy Football, Fortitude, and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
For most college football players, practice is the most difficult part of their day, and for many of them, playing for the NFL is the goal. At the United States Naval Academy, the twenty-one hours a day the players spend off the field are at least as demanding as the three that they spend on the field,...
Unseemly Haste
A Concordia Wells Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Murder aboard the Overland Limited…
It is the summer of 1898. Professor Concordia Wells is eager to accompany her friend, Pinkerton detective Penelope Hamilton, on a cross-country train trip to San Francisco. Breathless vistas and exciting locales will be a welcome change from a fiancé impatient...
by Donald B. Owen
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This book has over 650 limericks, best described this way...Perchance, might you find time to peruse / my book of lim-ricks while on your cruise? / Most are clean…none obscene. / Most are gentle…none mean… / and all are intended to amuse. The word “limerick” is purposely spelled incorrectly...
Unseemly Fate
The Concordia Wells Mysteries, #7
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Beware of rich men bearing gifts…
It's the fall of 1899 and the new Mrs. David Bradley—formerly Professor Concordia Wells of Hartford Women's College—is chafing against the hum-drum routine of domestic life.
The routine is disrupted soon enough when the long-hated but wealthy patriarch...
Proportional Western Europe
The Failure of Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This is a history of political parties in ten nations (with the sections on France and Germany limited to specific period), and a critique of the existing literature that emphasizes the importance of electoral rules as determinative of political party systems.
by Richard P. McKeon, David B. Owen
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Well before the current age of discourse, deconstruction, and multiculturalism, Richard McKeon propounded a philosophy of pluralism showing how "facts" and "values" are dependent on diverse ways of reading texts. This book is a transcription of an entire course, including both...