A mythical monster and a body on a beach---combine to stir things up in otherwise tranquil Anishanabe County. In this third installment of the mystery series---An Artistic Death---the jogging deputy sheriff is once more called upon to solve a mystery and dispense justice.
Computer complications, a case of kidnapping, and a malignant memory roil a rural resort village. Is it only a matter of time before corpses start showing up? This is the fourth book in a mystery series, featuring the jogging deputy sheriff of Anisanabe County.
The bucolic calm of a resort community is shattered by a horrendous multiple murder. A deputy sheriff, who stumbles upon the grisly crime scene, is aided in his investigation by only scant physical evidence and a single surviving witness--the family pet. In addition, the sleuth's personal life is troubled by an incipient romance, a vexatious political race, and a probable link between a past inquiry and the recent killings. With a dogged persistence, though, the deputy is able to uncover a sinister motive of blackmail and revenge, and solves the mystery of The Turner Tragedy. The Turner Tragedy is a sequel to the first installment in this mystery series, The Dunbar Curse.
Patricia Mueller and her children are slowly being poisoned. Circumstances suggest that Patricia's husband is the culprit. The Protagonist, employed as a deputy sheriff, is thrust into the unfamiliar role of an investigator. Reluctant to accept the mounting evidence against his neighbor, he doggedly pursues other avenues of inquiry. In the process of solving this mystery, the deputy becomes involved with an aggravated assault, a corpse, a rural cemetery, and long-suppressed secrets.
You'll find within this eclectic compilation a detective tale, a Western, a fishing yarn, a fable of friendship, a temporal tweak, a sports saga, some science fiction, a few Twilight Zone wannabes, and excursions into the beyond (but nothing scary, I assure you).
A warrior wins the hand of a princess with a bounty of foreskins; a skeleton bestows life to a corpse; a throne is endangered by revenge for incestuous rape; a sundial's shadow reverses on command; a demon attacks a family; priests part the waters of a river; a donkey converses with a soothsayer; a king hires a witch to contact a dead advisor; a sacred star plummets to Earth; an ancient race of giants is exterminated; a neglected widow seduces her father-in-law and becomes pregnant; a strongman poses a sticky riddle; thousands meet death for a mispronunciation; the dismemberment of a murdered mistress signals war; a woman drives a peg through the skull of a sleeping general; soldiers perish in atmospheric conflagrations; a holy man summons beasts to slaughter children; a prince is slain in mid-air-believe it or not, these incidents are available in a single book: the Bible. The Lesser-Read Bible is a collection of esoteric scripture, with commentary and related information, divided into twelve chapters: History, Repetition and Inconsistency, Laws and Curses, Murder and Mutilation, Sex, Women, Sneaky People, Tough Guys, Hard Times, Also-Rans, the Occult, and Celestial Phenomena. Warning: Portions may seem disturbing or inflammatory.
Whether you're a recreational jogger or a competitive road racer, or you're thinking of taking up running, you'd be well advised to read this volume of essays and advice by a former cross-country and track-and-field coach who has raced every distance from five kilometers to fifty miles. The author lays out the history of the pastime-as well as advances in technology, scientific research, and training strategies-in an often amusing fashion. This is both a "how-to" and "why-to" manual, which just might find a special place in your library and your heart.
Short stories seem the perfect literature for the twenty-first century, because people on-the-go can only spare snippets of time to read for pleasure. Here are twenty-four of my best tales, written during a thirty-five-year span. They are of varying genres, and most can be finished within fifteen minutes. Enjoy.
Whether you're a novice golfer or a hacker hoping to shave a few strokes off your game, this is the book for you. The author (a former twenty-plus handicapper) compiled and followed advice from knowledgeable players and now owns a single-digit index. If you want to learn how to play smarter and make better decisions on the course, read What Makes Brucie Golf? It contains tips which can help you on tee boxes, the rough, fairways, greens, bunkers, and all sorts of tricky situations. You'll learn about green-reading, golf etiquette, commonly encountered regulations, and how to get more enjoyment from every round you play.
A corpse is found in a golf course bathroom, and the jogging deputy sheriff of Anishanabe County is called upon to discover the identity of the dead man and the reason for his murder, in this fifth installment of the mystery series.
A fatal car accident in the dead of night reveals an unidentified corpse and a gun with a silencer. What's more, the address of a high school teacher, who is also a summer deputy, is found on the body. This leads the sheriff to believe his employee was the target of a hired gunman. But who wants the deputy killed and why? A brutal homicide, a disappearing cadaver, a sensational trial, and a series of alleged attacks disturb the peace of Anishanabe County in this sixth and final installment of a mystery series.
While it's obvious that Gabe Beck is a killer, it's unclear how he goes about his business. Are his methods supernatural? Is Gabe himself more than human? For certain, the good citizens of Eden, Arizona, (circa 1880) have nothing to fear from the stranger in their midst. But the same can't be said for the Choctaw Kid and his ilk. Can Gabe keep the townsfolk from harm? Will he finally find the redemption he seeks? Can the love of a woman save him? How high will the body-count go? These and other questions will be answered in The Angel of Death.
Worlds of If is the sequel to Bad is Coming, in which a score of twenty-first-century human beings have been involuntarily transplanted to a planet beyond Earth's solar system.
Widely praised as a founder of modern semiotics and of the pragmatist tradition in philosophy, Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) spent over forty years developing a philosophical system that addresses the fundamental problems of Western metaphysics, epistemology, and value theory. Although never formally completed, what emerges from Peirce’s writings is a distinctive system, through an innovative semiotic or theory of signs and cognition, that combines with a robustly realist metaphysics that emphasizes the mind-independence of laws and other universals. Peirce’s Empiricism: Its Roots and Its Originality explains this marriage of empiricism with realism by tracing the roots of Peirce’s thought in the history of Western philosophy, with particular attention paid to his predecessors in the empiricist and the common sense traditions. By purging modern empiricism of its nominalistic metaphysics and its Cartesian assumptions about mind and knowledge, and by combining it with insights from sources as diverse as Duns Scotus and Charles Darwin, Peirce reinvents the idea that all our knowledge depends on sense perception while reaffirming the place of philosophy as a foundational field of inquiry. In Peirce’s Empiricism, Aaron Bruce Wilson defends an interpretation of Peirce’s philosophical work as forming a systematic whole, and develops the connections between Peirce, Reid, and the British empiricists. Wilson provides focused analyses of Peirce’s accounts of experience, habit, perception, semeiosis, truth, and ultimate ends. This book will be of great value to students and scholars with interests in Peirce, American philosophy more broadly, modern philosophy, and semiotics.
In the not-too-distant future, C-students are still running the world—and have blithely driven it to the brink of wholesale disaster. Fortunately, a brilliant scientist has hatched a scheme to prevent the annihilation of humankind. Unfortunately, this man dwells in another dimension. Can he somehow put his plan into action and save Earth? Find out in Whateley Island.
The terror continues in the fear-fraught twelfth volume of Vampirella Archives! This collection revisits some of the finest tales of horror hostess Vampirella ever seen in the Warren Publishing library, plus a delightfully devilish selection of the era's best horror and science fiction stories. With space pirates, mermaids, bloodsuckers, and renegade wizards running amok within these pages, fearless readers will thrill to the creative talents of such horror luminaries as Archie Goodwin, Bruce Jones, Jose Gonzalez, Bill DuBay, and many more. This edition of Vampirella Archives collects Vampirella Magazine #80-88, and features a wealth of bonus materials from a bygone era, including the "Feary Tales" feature on urban legends, the monthly "Scarlet Letters" column, "Vampi's Vault" of creator biographies and literary reviews, and intact vintage advertisements.
The death of a baby - either near the time of birth or earlier in the pregnancy - and the impact upon the family members requires special insights and care. In the past this unique loss has often gone unacknowledged with parents being encouraged to forge
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