In February 2015, a plane leaving Boston for Fort Lauderdale crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina. Eight months later, the detritus from the crash and some of the human remains have been scraped off the bottom of the ocean, thus beginning the crux of the various investigations. In addition to the gaggle of federal agencies that are trying to piece together what happened to flight 4273 mid-flight, taking one hundred ninety-seven passengers and crew to a watery grave, the aerospace company that manufactured the plane is also trying to sort through the rubble. Lansing Aerospace, in trying to defend itself against a massive class-action lawsuit and billions of dollars in victim’s compensation, hires a prestigious Boston legal firm to aid in derailing what would be the demise of the lauded company. Warren Dennihan and his partner Lisa Sheed are hired by the influential legal firm to delve into what caused the fateful crash in February, a monumental task if ever there was one. Are they working for the enemy? Were they hired to facilitate a cover-up? Is it even possible that two investigators, without any aerospace training, can solve such a quagmire? Or was that the plan all along? The sixth novel in the Warren Dennihan series takes Deni and his partner through the complexities and bureaucracy of Flight. It is a wild and bumpy ride.
The Season For Moths is a work of historical fiction that spans more than eight decades. Scott Wellinger's compilation of four short stories, The Season For Moths is composed of tangentially interconnected, sequential storylines, set in the years from the end of Prohibition -- 1933 -- to 2016. Each story is deeply rooted in the times in which they take place, transporting the reader through the news, fashion and music, set as the backdrop for each narrative. In story one, Anglossa Cuprina, fourteen-year-old Cuprina Blohmkowski discovers her isolated world in St. Albans, Vermont, to be the northern hub of bootlegging -- a major revenue center for organized crime. Barritt "Bear" Kendrick, under-boss for Frankie "The Kid" Cidonese who reported to none other than Al Capone, was charged with overseeing bootlegging from Canada, through Vermont, to all major cities in the Northeast. He and his crew set up their residency in Cuprina's hometown. It wasn't just the Great Depression, closed banks, poverty and being a Jew in a Catholic community that Blohmkowski had to overcome. Bear Kendrick also had her scent. In the second story, Gerry Hutchins, a recovering drug addict and alcoholic, lives a life of solidarity in the 1969. He lives in Toronto, Canada in anonymity among those in his support groups and chooses only having non-familiar relationships with his coworkers. Until SHE came along. Chrysiridia Rhipheus, the third story, takes place in the early nineteen-nineties. A young student from New Orleans is beginning her final year in at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. She is on a scholastic scholarship and cannot afford any distractions, else she loose her chance to continue on at Harvard as a graduate student. As the autumn leaves change, so too does Christina Bachet. Her future is hers to squander in a time when grunge and anarchy and rage against the system that oppresses the populous is so prevalent. In this remarkable book's denouement, winter has arrived in Lake Lure, North Carolina, where those in a senior-living community spend their remaining years. Knowing and caring for these residents is beyond difficult. It must be done at some remove in order not to be lured into a constant state of depression over the frequent and inevitable loss. Old people die. But when Nurse Logan begrudgingly begins to let them into her heart, it is beyond fathom what she discovers. Scott Wellinger's anthology of historical fiction is a departure from the norm and will take some readers to times and places they have never been. The Season For Moths explores times and places within the human soul, an introspection the reader will undoubtedly connect with, regardless of season in life.
A sub-company to the largest pharmaceutical corporation in the world, located in South Carolina, has fallen victim to a serial killer. Three are dead as they were working to successfully synthesize venoms into drugs that would cure virtually every major human ailment. Aids, cancer, heart disease, Parkinsons and Alzheimers, to name a few, would go away. Cured. The police have a suspect in custody, a Doctor and Professor of Herpetology and Toxicology at the institution conducting the research, and who led the projects. But the Doctor proclaims that she is innocent and is relying on her boyfriend and attorney to prove it. The attorney, Jacob Grantes, is forced to call upon an old friend from South Boston, MA, a private investigator that saved his life at one time. The search for the truth takes the investigator, Warren Dennihan, through the underbelly of Big Pharma, industrial espionage, and the mind of a serial killer. There is no end to the number of people who want to thwart these drugs, and kill using the very toxin that they want to stop. All of the answers lie in Venom.
A massive restaurant fire in the North End of Boston takes down an entire city block. Office buildings. Apartments. The death toll staggering. The suspected cause is arson. While the police and fire department conduct their investigations, the insurance company holding the paper on the restaurant executes a parallel investigation using Lisa Sheed, a private investigator in a small but sought-after firm. Only Lisa’s investigation uncovers much more than possible insurance fraud. The fire investigation leads to another case. And another. While simultaneously dealing with multiple personal crises, Lisa finds herself sucked into an underbelly that threatens not only her life, but the lives of her wife and friends. No one is safe. Time is ticking. Her entire world is on her shoulders. She must find the strength within herself to conquer unimaginable fears, bureaucratic red-tape, and the evil that threatens everything. The Torch is a heartbreaking, suspenseful, and insightful novel with twists and turns rivaling anything in the genre. A complex and compelling page-turner from a master storyteller. Scott Wellinger is at the very top of his cr
Prison isn't someplace that anybody wants to be. As a New Hampshire criminal defense attorney, Jacob Grantes's job is to ensure his client's freedom. Charged with Vehicular Manslaughter, he finds himself incarcerated pending his trial. Grantes's friend and investigator from South Boston, Warren Dennihan, is searching for some piece of evidence that will mitigate the attorney's guilt. Only Grantes was blackout drunk. He cannot remember anything about the crash that night, he is of no help to the investigator, Deni. Grantes's only interest is to get back to his wife and young child. As the day of the trial draws near, as the investigation moves forward, increasingly less about the case makes any sense. What seemed originally to be a simple yet horrific drunk driving incident, turns out to be a cross-country search for the truth. Both the imprisoned attorney and Deni must brace themselves for another crash.
Columbia University law professor Linus Hampton has been accused of murdering his wife and New York socialite Ellen Hunt. The Hunt Family, one of the oldest and wealthiest families in the United States, use their own media conglomerate to expose Hampton daily in an effort to attain justice. Money must have been his motive. The prickly law professor stands to inherit hundreds of millions of dollars now that his wife is dead. Hampton must be sent to prison at all costs. Yet inexplicably, despite the onslaught by the Hunt Family, Hampton is acquitted at his murder trial. Double jeopardy applies, and while he cannot be retried in criminal court, the court of public opinion has a different verdict. Hampton is free to walk the streets of Manhattan even if he is branded a murderer. The only recourse for the Hunts is to use their considerable influence over the insurance company to tie up their only daughter’s estate. It would be repugnant for Hampton to profit from murdering his wife, inheriting a large portion of the family fortune. All the while, Hampton has proclaimed his innocence. Now acquitted, he is suing Capstone Insurance and Finance—the institution withholding his inherited fortune at the insistence of the Hunt Family—in an effort to claim what is rightfully his by law. With the civil trial looming, Hampton must be deposed to get to the truth once and for all. On the other side of this deposition is a new life, whatever the outcome. He will either be destitute and forced into an ignominious existence, or he will be hundreds of millions of dollars richer and free to do what he wants—wherever he wants to do it. What becomes of the law professor hangs in the balance.
Lara Myhre is a beautiful college senior and about to become the latest world musical sensation. Her abilities as a guitarist are only surpassed by the beauty of her voice. The world is about to fall in love with her. If she can be found. Once they realize she is missing, her parents alert both the Massachusetts State Police in Boston, but aren't taken seriously. College students go missing all of the time, they are told. They sometimes take a time-out or go away with friends. They will turn-up. Twenty-somethings don't always check in with their parents as often as they would prefer. Nor do their bodies often drift onto the shore of Gloucester. Warren Dennihan is a Boston Investigator hired by Lara's parents to find her, then to find out what happened to the world's favorite daughter once her body is found. The few clues left by the murderer lead to more bodies and more devastation in the wake of a birth-right. More lives short of their promise. More souls ebb out to oblivion.
Columbia University law professor Linus Hampton has been accused of murdering his wife and New York socialite Ellen Hunt. The Hunt Family, one of the oldest and wealthiest families in the United States, use their own media conglomerate to expose Hampton daily in an effort to attain justice. Money must have been his motive. The prickly law professor stands to inherit hundreds of millions of dollars now that his wife is dead. Hampton must be sent to prison at all costs. Yet inexplicably, despite the onslaught by the Hunt Family, Hampton is acquitted at his murder trial. Double jeopardy applies, and while he cannot be retried in criminal court, the court of public opinion has a different verdict. Hampton is free to walk the streets of Manhattan even if he is branded a murderer. The only recourse for the Hunts is to use their considerable influence over the insurance company to tie up their only daughter’s estate. It would be repugnant for Hampton to profit from murdering his wife, inheriting a large portion of the family fortune. All the while, Hampton has proclaimed his innocence. Now acquitted, he is suing Capstone Insurance and Finance—the institution withholding his inherited fortune at the insistence of the Hunt Family—in an effort to claim what is rightfully his by law. With the civil trial looming, Hampton must be deposed to get to the truth once and for all. On the other side of this deposition is a new life, whatever the outcome. He will either be destitute and forced into an ignominious existence, or he will be hundreds of millions of dollars richer and free to do what he wants—wherever he wants to do it. What becomes of the law professor hangs in the balance.
Henry Devlin was born and raised in a troubled home just outside of Boston, Massachusetts. The love of his life, Katerine Bradar, lived at the bottom of the same street. He'd admired her from near and afar, yet life events kept them apart. Kat would go on to pursue a legal career on the opposite side of the country, while Henry's life and legal trajectory went in a different direction. Worlds apart, will the two ever reconnect? Or will they settle into other lives, other relationships? Will they continue to fight fate for what is meant to be, or will they rekindle a lost love that will last a lifetime? Follow Henry and Kat as they journey through lives spent together and apart, as life lives them, as time and love slowly slip away. As they find their true love and Use It Up.
Chrono is an anthology of the first three novels in the Warren Dennihan series. The story is told in chronological order, not in the order they were written. Take the journey with Deni while he was a Massachusetts State Police Detective in Sinn, when he was a private investigator with a burgeoning New Hampshire law firm in CRASH, and when he helps out his friend in Charleston South Carolina in Venom.
Chrono is an anthology of the first three novels in the Warren Dennihan series. The story is told in chronological order, not in the order they were written. Take the journey with Deni while he was a Massachusetts State Police Detective in Sinn, when he was a private investigator with a burgeoning New Hampshire law firm in CRASH, and when he helps out his friend in Charleston South Carolina in Venom.
A massive restaurant fire in the North End of Boston takes down an entire city block. Office buildings. Apartments. The death toll staggering. The suspected cause is arson. While the police and fire department conduct their investigations, the insurance company holding the paper on the restaurant executes a parallel investigation using Lisa Sheed, a private investigator in a small but sought-after firm. Only Lisa’s investigation uncovers much more than possible insurance fraud. The fire investigation leads to another case. And another. While simultaneously dealing with multiple personal crises, Lisa finds herself sucked into an underbelly that threatens not only her life, but the lives of her wife and friends. No one is safe. Time is ticking. Her entire world is on her shoulders. She must find the strength within herself to conquer unimaginable fears, bureaucratic red-tape, and the evil that threatens everything. The Torch is a heartbreaking, suspenseful, and insightful novel with twists and turns rivaling anything in the genre. A complex and compelling page-turner from a master storyteller. Scott Wellinger is at the very top of his cr
Lara Myhre is a beautiful college senior and about to become the latest world musical sensation. Her abilities as a guitarist are only surpassed by the beauty of her voice. The world is about to fall in love with her. If she can be found. Once they realize she is missing, her parents alert both the Massachusetts State Police in Boston, but aren't taken seriously. College students go missing all of the time, they are told. They sometimes take a time-out or go away with friends. They will turn-up. Twenty-somethings don't always check in with their parents as often as they would prefer. Nor do their bodies often drift onto the shore of Gloucester. Warren Dennihan is a Boston Investigator hired by Lara's parents to find her, then to find out what happened to the world's favorite daughter once her body is found. The few clues left by the murderer lead to more bodies and more devastation in the wake of a birth-right. More lives short of their promise. More souls ebb out to oblivion.
A sub-company to the largest pharmaceutical corporation in the world, located in South Carolina, has fallen victim to a serial killer. Three are dead as they were working to successfully synthesize venoms into drugs that would cure virtually every major human ailment. Aids, cancer, heart disease, Parkinsons and Alzheimers, to name a few, would go away. Cured. The police have a suspect in custody, a Doctor and Professor of Herpetology and Toxicology at the institution conducting the research, and who led the projects. But the Doctor proclaims that she is innocent and is relying on her boyfriend and attorney to prove it. The attorney, Jacob Grantes, is forced to call upon an old friend from South Boston, MA, a private investigator that saved his life at one time. The search for the truth takes the investigator, Warren Dennihan, through the underbelly of Big Pharma, industrial espionage, and the mind of a serial killer. There is no end to the number of people who want to thwart these drugs, and kill using the very toxin that they want to stop. All of the answers lie in Venom.
ABOUT THE BOOK "The world of the Tipping Point is a place where the unexpected becomes expected, where radical change is more than possibility." Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference is an irreverent, fresh look at why some things become trends and others don't. We are all familiar with and a part of trends, fads, and cultural shifts, but often we don't understand them. It's easy to understand why specific things happen in our own lives, but most of us just stare off into space and shake our heads when we happen to think about why some shirt is in style or why a neighborhood is getting more dangerous. We don't know because there are too many moving parts to think about. In this book, Gladwell zooms in on the relatively microscopic people, aspects, and conditions that spread those trends. He uses the overarching metaphor of an epidemic as a visualization of how ideas spread. Do you know why suddenly some video of a little kid is everywhere on the Internet, or why Harry Potter became the most popular book in the world? Malcolm Gladwell thinks he does. For most of us, trends and ideas are just things that happen around us. Much of what Gladwell is doing makes causes and effects that are too big to think about more human and personal. In that way, he gives us something to grab hold of. It's as if he is taking massive spreadsheets and computer models of information and explaining them to you at a cocktail party over a martini. It works and he makes a lot of sense. Sitting there reading it over you'll think, "Yeah, of course. I already knew that' which is always the mark of a good explanation. Of course, it's impossible to ever know for sure why one fad happens and another doesn't make it out of the gate, but by the end of the book Gladwell has drilled down into the minutiae and created a compelling breakdown on how it generally works. We all understand things that we've never put into words quite succinctly. Gladwell is doing exactly that in this book. The strength of his pop science is that he gives concrete names to nebulous causes that create our world. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK "The Tipping Point grew out of an article I wrote as a freelancer for Tina Brown at the New Yorker, who ran the piece and then - to my surprise and delight - hired me. Thank you, Tina." Malcolm Gladwell is a prolific writer who lives in New York. His books and articles generate a lot of conversation and debate because they dig into highly contentious and often unanswerable issues. He is a special contributor to The New Yorker magazine, where he writes about things like the science of cool hunting, race and sports, physical genius, the concept of moral hazard and health care, and the difference between puzzles and mysteries. He has published several popular books, including Blink and Outliers. His articles and books are often called pop science because he takes research, rearranges it, and uses it to draw new conclusions about why things happen in our world. Most often his topics are questions that can't be definitively answered or investigations of concepts that are unresolved while being somehow both common and mysterious. His writing is widely read and his breakdown of the "tipping point" concept has been widely referenced and utilized throughout marketing circles... The revolutionary part of this chapter is that he actually pins down the right size of a group to make it the most productive. He takes a deep look at Gore, a fabric innovation company. The company is divided into 150 or so person teams that are separated...
In Crying for a Vision, British-born poet, musician and performance artist Steve Scott offers a challenge to artists and a manifesto for the arts. This new edition includes an introduction and study guide, four newly-collected essays and an interview with the author. Steve Scott is the author of Like a House on Fire: Renewal of the Arts in a Post-modern Culture and The Boundaries. "Steve Scott is a rare individual who combines a deep love and understanding of Scripture with a passion for the arts." -Steve Turner, author of Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded Hipster. "Steve Scott links a number of fields of inquiry that are usually perceived as unrelated. In doing so he hopes to open wider possibilities for Christians in the arts, who may perhaps be relieved to find that, in many ways, they were right all along." -Rupert Loydell, author of The Museum of Light. Cover art by Michael Redmond
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