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The most dangerous happenings at the mystery discussion group, held at Time and Again Bookstore every Tuesday night, are the arguments between the members about the finer points of the mystery genre. History professor Ryan Stevens dozes happily during the loud disagreements. Being a closet reader...

Planning to write a paper for Smithsonian Magazine on the cultural significance of string figures, such as Cat's Cradle, librarian and unemployed paleopathologist Dr. Megan Clark has a wonderful idea that will help her with her research. She will organize a convention and invite all the members of...

Enrique Armijo, archaeologist, and in his own mind, the world's authority on the Folsom Man culture, is spying on a ritual performed by the so-called Skin People in the crater of Capulin Mountain, an extinct volcano in northern New Mexico. He doesn't expect to be murdered. He certainly doesn't expect...

Crawford County, Texas, hadn't  had a deliberate homicide in 80 years, and Sheriff Charles Matthews liked that statistic just fine, particularly since his department wasn't generously endowed with manpower. He had one deputy who took pride in how far he could spit tobacco and another one who...

Helkin Stormblade was in charge of the day to day operations of Ironhold Mountain. He knew all of the dwarves who lived there. When a gem is stolen that was hidden deep under the mountain, he must race against time to return it to the city before the king dies.

Rhys North awakens to find that his village has fallen prey to a dark curse. All life and colour has been sapped from the land, and every single inhabitant of Longford has perished during the night; all except Rhys. Amidst the ruin Rhys comes upon a mysterious stranger named Arlas: the leader...

This is the story of Innis Corbett, a young man born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, into a Highlander community whose inhabitants are held by ties of memory and blood. As a child Innis went with his parents to live in Boston. After his father was killed in a car accident, Innis was raised by his mother,...

Sangre del Unico begins The Solomon Chronicles series of historical fiction novels. The story begins in the year 1392 and traces the rise of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon to the united throne of Spain. With the help from an unlikely group of dedicated servants of the Prophecy of Solomon,...

1986 is the year everything blew apart …  Twelve-year-old tomboy Cassie lives a pretty boring life in small-town Black Creek, Arkansas, until her mom and dad divorce, throwing her into poverty and shattering her sheltered life. Then the rich, elderly Henson sisters take pity on her,...

450 East, a wonderful blend of fictional history and mystery, begins over two hundred years ago in what was then the western territories of the new nation. The events that followed the siege of Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1812, resulted in far more than the conquest of the Miami Indian nation; it set...

Liz Allister is ambitious. She wants to buy a fast car, move to the Far East, make a movie, write country songs and address the U.N. on the status of young girls. In the endless corridors and dark corners of her eccentric house, Liz learns that the world has even more in store for her than even she...

This concise introduction to the concepts of viscoelasticity focuses on stress analysis. Three detailed individual sections present examples of stress-related problems. In addition, it explains procedures for model fitting to measured values of complex modulus or compliance. The text begins with an...

Do you know who you are—really? Evelyn is a 17 year old high school student living in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has never been popular—always the social enigma, in spite of her stellar academic and athletic abilities. It’s not because she hasn't tried. Something else is up, and it all comes...