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A Jaded Affair

A Casey Miller Mystery

By: John Prophet

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Casey Miller and Lexie Wentworth's vacation on Cape Cod is rudely interrupted by their discovery of a body in a cranberry bog. Their reputations in Elm Grove have preceded them. Soon, they are visited by an intruder who issues a stern, life-threatening warning to stay out of the case. They learn that all is not well at the art gallery where Lexie has been hired to work for the summer. Casey's summer workplace, too, is shrouded in a mystery that has unexpected consequences. Casey's and Lexie's curiosity and persistence are their strengths, but their weakness as well. Again, they find themselves facing death, manipulated by people they initially trust, and run headlong into a vicious plot of revenge.

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0595354149

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9780595354146

Body in the Salt Marsh Boatyard

A Casey Miller Mystery

By: John M. Prophet

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Body in the Salt Marsh Boatyard

A Casey Miller Mystery

By: John M. Prophet

Casey Miller discovers the body of a man in the boatyard across the street from his house. In a seemingly unrelated event, his cousin, Freddy, is kidnapped. Because of their traumatic experience in the matter of the Salt Marsh Winery case, Casey, and his best friend, Lexie Wentworth, are reluctant to get involved. But, Casey and Lexie can't resist following Barry Nelson, a local limousine driver, who shows up at Freddy's house with a weird-looking stranger. From there, they are faced with making a fateful decision. Should they avoid getting in deeper or should they continue to satisfy their curiosity? When they make the decision, there is no turning back. They are targeted for death as they get caught in a bizarre web of murder, illegal adoption, and kidnapping. In this gripping story, Casey and Lexie return to one of their old haunts, the Parks mansion, and make a startling discovery. None of their previous adventures tested their wits and courage as this one.

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0595309917

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9780595309917

The Ghosts of Langley

Into the CIA's Heart of Darkness

By: John Prados

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The Ghosts of Langley

Into the CIA's Heart of Darkness

By: John Prados

The Ghosts of Langley offers a detail-rich, often relentless litany of CIA scandals and mini-scandals. . . [and a] prayer that the CIA learn from and publicly admit its mistakes, rather than perpetuate them in an atmosphere of denial and impunity." —The Washington Post From the writer Kai Bird calls a "wonderfully accessible historian," the first major history of the CIA in a decade, published to tie in with the seventieth anniversary of the agency's founding During his first visit to Langley, the CIA's Virginia headquarters, President Donald Trump told those gathered, "I am so behind you . . . there's nobody I respect more, " hinting that he was going to put more CIA operations officers into the field so the CIA could smite its enemies ever more forcefully. But while Trump was making these promises, behind the scenes the CIA was still reeling from blowback from the very tactics that Trump touted—including secret overseas prisons and torture—that it had resorted to a decade earlier during President George W. Bush's war on terror. Under the latest regime it seemed that the CIA was doomed to repeat its past failures rather than put its house in order. The Ghosts of Langley is a provocative and panoramic new history of the Central Intelligence Agency that relates the agency's current predicament to its founding and earlier years, telling the story of the agency through the eyes of key figures in CIA history, including some of its most troubling covert actions around the world. It reveals how the agency, over seven decades, has resisted government accountability, going rogue in a series of highly questionable ventures that reach their apotheosis with the secret overseas prisons and torture programs of the war on terror. Drawing on mountains of newly declassified documents, the celebrated historian of national intelligence John Prados throws fresh light on classic agency operations from Poland to Hungary, from Indonesia to Iran-Contra, and from the Bay of Pigs to Guantánamo Bay. The halls of Langley, Prados persuasively argues, echo with the footsteps of past spymasters, to the extent that it resembles a haunted house. Indeed, every day that the militarization of the CIA increases, the agency drifts further away from classic arts of espionage and intelligence analysis—and its original mission, while pushing dangerously beyond accountability. The Ghosts of Langley will be essential reading for anyone who cares about the next phase of American history—and the CIA's evolution—as its past informs its future and a president of impulsive character prods the agency toward new scandals and failures.

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429

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The New Press

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1620970899

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9781620970898

Advances in Membrane Biochemistry and Bioenergetics

By: Chong H. Kim,Henry Tedeschi,Joyce J. Diwan,John C. Salerno

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Advances in Membrane Biochemistry and Bioenergetics

By: Chong H. Kim,Henry Tedeschi,Joyce J. Diwan,John C. Salerno

This book is formulated from the papers presented at the International Symposium on "Membrane Biochemistry and Bioenergetics," held at the Rensselaerville Institute, Rensselaerville, New York, August 1986, in honor of Tsoo E. King on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of reconstitution of arespiratory chain system by Professor David Keilin and Tsoo E. King. Professor Tsoo E. King, to whom this volume is dedicated, has made enormous contributions to the field of isolation and reconstitution of membrane proteins and has continued to explore the frontiers of bioener getics. In particular, his persistent proposals on the existence of ubiquinone binding proteins from conceptualization to experimentation eventually convinced many scientists to study these proteins further . Professor King's preparation of reconstitutively active succinate dehydrogenase opened a new avenue in the fie1d of membrane bioenergetics, and his work has been greatly appreciated. The purpose of the symposium was to bring together scientists from diverse disciplines related to membrane bioenergetics to discuss the recent developments in the field. This symposium, initiated by the Capital District Bioenergetics Group, was attended by 100 scientists, 80 of whom presented their recent discoveries. The symposium was arranged in a sequence of platform lectures, poster presentations and discussion sessions so that all the participants had opportunities to discuss the subjects presented. Most of the participants contributed a chapter to this volume. We would like to express our regret to many other scientists including Professor King's friends, colleagues and students who could not attend due to various reasons.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1468486403

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9781468486407

Body in the Salt Marsh

A Casey Miller Mystery

By: John M. Prophet

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Body in the Salt Marsh

A Casey Miller Mystery

By: John M. Prophet

Casey Miller and his friend, Lexie Wentworth, two teenagers who appeared in a previous book, Mystery at Salt Marsh Bridge, are at it again. They become suspicious of the behavior of their substitute art teacher and when they pursue that, they find he is linked to an art theft ring. Later, they discover two cases, one filled with stolen paintings and the other a million dollars. They then find the body of a person who drowned in a storm and floated into the salt marsh near Lexie's house. As in their previous adventure, in Mystery at Salt Marsh Bridge, Casey and Lexie are caught in dangerous, life-threatening situations. At the same time, Casey is riddled with guilt and sadness about not having helped a good friend who has run away from home. They are shocked when another good friend is killed in a fiery boat crash for reasons they find out to their regret. Again, Casey and Lexie, with courage, persistence, and avid curiosity solve another mystery. Who knows what the next challenge will be?

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0595212549

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9780595212545

Mystery at the Salt Marsh Winery

A Casey Miller Mystery

By: John Prophet

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Mystery at the Salt Marsh Winery

A Casey Miller Mystery

By: John Prophet

Casey Miller and Lexie Wentworth visit Cornelius Williamson, elderly owner of the world-famous Salt Marsh Winery, for a history project for school. During the interviews, Casey and Lexie are introduced to some odd characters who work for him. A perplexing puzzle unfolds as they find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy to take control of the old man's estate. They find that they are being used by the man they trust to carry out another nefarious scheme involving the world's oldest wine pot. After Casey survives a savage beating, the thrilling drama ends in a tragedy that will change Casey's and Lexie's life forever.

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0595265987

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9780595265985

The Night Casey Was Born

The True Story Behind the Great American Ballad "Casey at the Bat"

By: John Evangelist Walsh

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The Night Casey Was Born

The True Story Behind the Great American Ballad "Casey at the Bat"

By: John Evangelist Walsh

The acclaimed biographer offers a social history of the poem that helped America fall in love with baseball—a lively story that “hits it out of the park” (The Baltimore Sun). The sport that came to be known as America’s Pastime was still in its infancy when a journalist for the San Francisco Examiner wrote a ballad extolling the drama and excitement of the game. Ernest L. Thayer’s Casey at the Bat made its first appearance in the Examiner on June 3, 1888. But the immortal tale of Mighty Casey was destined to become an American phenomenon when star of the New York stage DeWolf Hopper first read it to a rapt audience at Wallack’s Theater later that year. For the first time, John Evangelist Walsh tells the story behind the poem and its young journalist author, its unlikely journey from California to New York, and the wave of baseball mania that made it one of the most famous poems in the country. The Night Casey was Born is a portrait of America in the earliest years of its love affair with baseball.

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ABRAMS

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1468301438

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9781468301434

Reflections

By: John Dennis,Suzanne M. Griffin

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Reflections

By: John Dennis,Suzanne M. Griffin

This anthology of contemporary fiction and nonfiction is designed to engage students in the reading process, promote critical understanding and analysis of subject matter, and encourage reflection on themes as they pertain to the readers themselves.

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A Jaded Affair

A Jaded Affair

Body in the Salt Marsh Boatyard

Body in the Salt Marsh Boatyard

The Ghosts of Langley

The Ghosts of Langley

Advances in Membrane Biochemistry and Bioenergetics

Advances in Membrane Biochemistry and Bioenergetics

Body in the Salt Marsh

Body in the Salt Marsh

Mystery at the Salt Marsh Winery

Mystery at the Salt Marsh Winery

The Night Casey Was Born

The Night Casey Was Born

Reflections

Reflections

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