When the President of the United States appoints Admiral Tom Wilson to dismantle a corrupt and powerful international organization known as OPHIDIAN, Wilson's adult daughter is kidnapped. Shocked to discover that, thirty-four years earlier, he sent the people behind OPHIDIAN to prison for the attempted murder of his sister-in-law, he fears OPHIDIAN is going to even the score'OPHIDIAN will kill his daughter.
HARDCOVER EDITION Thirty-five-year old Kate Flanagan, a junior detective, doesn't understand the indescribable forces pulling her into this murder case, but soon discovers that the spirit of the victim has entered her body. Haunting and suspenseful, "Death Spirits" tells of the shocking murder of a beloved school teacher and turns a small North Dakota village upside down as suspicion, accusations, and more murders fuel fear and distrust. "Death Spirits," a piercing mystery, is about a logical mind confronting the illogical idea that a murder victim's spirit lives on. It is a about what happens to the people of a small town who fear that a murderer may be one of them. Fully developed characters and strong visual images draw readers into the story with edge-of-your-seat suspense that builds to the spine-tingling end where the murderer is revealed..but not before fraying your nerves, and making you wonder what "Death Spirits" may be lurking around your corner!
SOFTCOVER EDITION: In the beginning, Neville Price is a successful New York City bank executive with a wonderful family. He has everything going his way.Nine months later, he is a drunk, living in flop houses and sleeping in doorways.What happened? How did he get there?This is that story. This is the Gin Ride.
SOFTCOVER EDITION In this second book of this exciting mystery series, a New York-based women's powerhouse magazine hires Paige Harrington, international free-lance journalist, to write a story about Jenny Ross, a young genius PhD in computer science, who has created thinking robots. The day before their initial interview, Jenny Ross is murdered. Paige feels compelled to tell Jenny's story. As she begins to probe the deep veil of secrecy that surrounds Praetorian, the private investor who gambled millions on Jenny's brainchild, she discovers evil and power that appear unstoppable. Others disappear. More are murdered. Government agents ask her to risk her life to help save her friend and destroy Praetorian.
In this third book of this exciting mystery series, Paige Harrington, renowned free-lance journalist, gets caught up in an international money laundering scheme when two bankers are murdered and her best friend's life is threatened. Paige discovers some of the most powerful people in the United States including members of the CIA, senior Pentagon personnel, and White House aides want the illegal flows of money to continue no matter the cost and consequence. Paige's life and liberty are threatened while the web of relationships among the interesting cast of characters grows in complexity and intensity, and she begins to uncover information that will send many distinguished corporate, legal and government leaders to jail.
HARDCOVER EDITION What connects a gay man, a murdered stripper, and a hazardous fertilizer plant? When international journalist, Paige Harrington, is told her life-long friend, Wally Adams, the leading opponent of the plant, has committed suicide, she suspects murder. A friend gives her one of Wally's personal files containing a dozen news clippings about a murdered stripper known as Peppermint and an oblique reference to ownership of the fertilizer plant, but nothing factually linking Wally, Peppermint, and the fertilizer plant. But she knows Wally and she knows the file is so accident. To find the connection, she goes to work as a stripper and begins to uncover disturbing information. Friends disappear; she is betrayed, and her life is in danger. Someone is risking everything to keep her from the truth.
A novel of high-powered political, corporate and family intrigue. all revolving around a leading presidential candidate's illegitimate daughter, who disappeared thirty-seven years ago. Some want her found; many, including powerful politicians, do not.
Since time immemorial, the Indigenous Peoples of Canada have been stewards of the land. And yet, they experience the highest levels of poverty in Canada. According to Statistics Canada, 44 percent of Indigenous Peoples lived in poverty in 2020. How is this disparate level of poverty possible? To answer that, author Christopher Joseph Great-Sky (McLeod) says we must start with the Canadian constitution. Section 125: Tax-Exemption of Indians and Indian Bands is a critical examination of the Canadian government, constitution, and tax laws, and their impact on the Indigenous Peoples of Canada. Great-Sky provides a thorough analysis of section 125 of the constitution and the sections 87, 89, and 90 of the Indian Act, the primary law the federal government uses to administer Indigenous status, local First Nations governments, and the management of reserve land. This breakdown of legal documents and laws clearly illustrates Canada’s systemic racism and hypocrisy. Great-Sky asks: If Indigenous Peoples are tax exempt by federal laws, why are we still paying taxes? Why is no court willing to recognize these exemptions? While relations between the federal government and Indigenous Peoples are complex, Section 125 shows that positive change is possible. From lawyers to judges, law schools to the court system, anyone can take action. Judicial reform is the catalyst to move Indigenous Peoples from poverty to prosperity and finally achieve true reconciliation and healing.
Taking a multifaceted approach to attitudes toward race through popular culture and the American superhero, All New, All Different? explores a topic that until now has only received more discrete examination. Considering Marvel, DC, and lesser-known texts and heroes, this illuminating work charts eighty years of evolution in the portrayal of race in comics as well as in film and on television. Beginning with World War II, the authors trace the vexed depictions in early superhero stories, considering both Asian villains and nonwhite sidekicks. While the emergence of Black Panther, Black Lightning, Luke Cage, Storm, and other heroes in the 1960s and 1970s reflected a cultural revolution, the book reveals how nonwhite superheroes nonetheless remained grounded in outdated assumptions. Multiculturalism encouraged further diversity, with 1980s superteams, the minority-run company Milestone’s new characters in the 1990s, and the arrival of Ms. Marvel, a Pakistani-American heroine, and a new Latinx Spider-Man in the 2000s. Concluding with contemporary efforts to make both a profit and a positive impact on society, All New, All Different? enriches our understanding of the complex issues of racial representation in American popular culture.
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