Mystery Tribune / Issue No21

Mystery Tribune / Issue No21

Author: Nick Petrie

Publisher: Mystery Tribune

Published: 2024-01-19

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13:

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Issue No21 features: A new "Lewis" novella by Nick Petrie A curated collection of short fiction including stories by Reed Farrel Coleman, Art Taylor, Alan Orloff, Sharon Hunt, Albert Kanach, and Jeff Markowitz. Essays, Interviews and Reviews by Heather Levy, Zakariah Johnson, and Dale Davis. Art and Photography by Arturo Arvizu, Kseniia Nikitina, and Bade Fuwa. This issue also features a preview of the new graphic novel "Where The Body Was" by award-winning duo Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. NY Times Bestselling author Reed Farrel Coleman has called Mystery Tribune “a cut above” and mystery grand masters Lawrence Block and Max Allan Collins have praised it for its “solid fiction” and “the most elegant design”. An elegantly crafted quarterly issue, printed on uncoated paper and with a beautiful layout designed for optimal reading experience, our Issue No21 issue will make a perfect companion or gift for avid mystery readers and fans of literary crime fiction.


Two by Two

Two by Two

Author: Nicholas Sparks

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 1455520705

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In this New York Times bestseller, a single father discovers the true nature of unconditional love when a new chance at happiness turns his world upside down. At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive, and an expansive home in Charlotte. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is at the center of it. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear . . . and no one is more surprised than Russ when every aspect of the life he has taken for granted is turned upside down. In a matter of months, Russ finds himself without a job or a wife, caring for his young daughter while struggling to adapt to a new and baffling reality. Throwing himself into the wilderness of single parenting, Russ embarks on a journey at once terrifying and rewarding -- one that will test his abilities and his emotional resources beyond anything he's ever imagined. When a chance encounter with an old flame tempts him to take a chance on love again, he will navigate this new opportunity with trepidation and wonder. But with the loyal support of his parents, the wisdom of his older sister, Marge, and in the hard-won lessons of fatherhood, Russ will finally come to understand the true nature of unconditional love -- that it is a treasure to be bestowed, not earned.


Accidental Birds of the Carolinas

Accidental Birds of the Carolinas

Author: Marjorie Hudson

Publisher:

Published: 2011-05-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9781935708308

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Like birds blown off course, the characters in these stories need a place to roost-somewhere to settle long enough to repair their ragged hearts-and they find it near the banks of the mythical Sissipahaw River. In the centerpiece story, an eighteenth-century Eno Indian tells of the fiery fate of his adopted father, English explorer John Lawson. In the surrounding stories, the age-old conflicts between newcomer and old-timer play out as twenty-first century retirees, carnies, runaways, heartbroken women, and farmers stumble into new lives and new insights in Ambler County, North Carolina. "Hudson's prose is pure as birdsong," says novelist Doris Betts. "These fine stories of change and discovery are a field guide to the human species in transition."


Robert B. Parker's The Bitterest Pill

Robert B. Parker's The Bitterest Pill

Author: Reed Farrel Coleman

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-09-10

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0399574980

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The opioid epidemic has reached Paradise, and Police Chief Jesse Stone must rush to stop the devastation in the latest thriller in Robert B. Parker's New York Times-bestselling series. When a popular high school cheerleader dies of a suspected heroin overdose, it becomes clear that the opioid epidemic has spread even to the idyllic town of Paradise. It will be up to police chief Jesse Stone to unravel the supply chain and unmask the criminals behind it, and the investigation has a clear epicenter: Paradise High School. Home of the town's best and brightest future leaders and its most vulnerable down-and-out teens, it's a rich and bottomless market for dealers out of Boston looking to expand into the suburbs. But when it comes to drugs, the very people Jesse is trying to protect are often those with the most to lose. As he digs deeper into the case, he finds himself battling self-interested administrators, reluctant teachers, distrustful schoolkids, and overprotective parents . . . and at the end of the line are the true bad guys, the ones with a lucrative business they'd kill to protect.


Double Fold

Double Fold

Author: Nicholson Baker

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2002-08-13

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1400033047

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The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age. With meticulous detective work and Baker’s well-known explanatory power, Double Fold reveals a secret history of microfilm lobbyists, former CIA agents, and warehouses where priceless archives are destroyed with a machine called a guillotine. Baker argues passionately for preservation, even cashing in his own retirement account to save one important archive–all twenty tons of it. Written the brilliant narrative style that Nicholson Baker fans have come to expect, Double Fold is a persuasive and often devastating book that may turn out to be The Jungle of the American library system.


Ralph Rucci

Ralph Rucci

Author: Valerie Steele

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0300122780

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Rijkgeïllustreerde monografie over leven en werk van de eerste Amerikaanse modeontwerper (1957- ) sinds de jaren dertig die in Parijs zijn haute couture mocht presenteren.


The Problem with Survey Research

The Problem with Survey Research

Author: George Beam

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-08

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1351476254

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The Problem with Survey Research makes a case against survey research as a primary source of reliable information. George Beam argues that all survey research instruments, all types of asking-including polls, face-to-face interviews, and focus groups-produce unreliable and potentially inaccurate results. Because those who rely on survey research only see answers to questions, it is impossible for them, or anyone else, to evaluate the results. They cannot know if the answers correspond to respondents' actual behaviors (objective phenomena) or to their true beliefs and opinions (subjective phenomena). Reliable information can only be acquired by observation, experimentation, multiple sources of data, formal model building and testing, document analysis, and comparison. In fifteen chapters divided into six parts-Ubiquity of Survey Research, The Problem, Asking Instruments, Asking Settings, Askers, and Proper Methods and Research Designs-The Problem with Survey Research demonstrates how asking instruments, settings in which asking and answering take place, and survey researchers themselves skew results and thereby make answers unreliable. The last two chapters and appendices examine observation, other methods of data collection and research designs that may produce accurate or correct information, and shows how reliance on survey research can be overcome, and must be.


Ugly to Start with

Ugly to Start with

Author: John Michael Cummings

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781935978084

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Chronicles the life of Jason Stevens, his parents, and brothers in and around Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, through twelve previously published short stories.


Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

Author: Sunil Yapa

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2016-01-14

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1408707381

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A TIME Magazine Best Book of 2016 An Amazon Best Book of 2016 A heart-stopping debut about protest and riot . . . 1999. Victor, homeless after a family tragedy, finds himself pounding the streets of Seattle with little meaning or purpose. He is the estranged son of the police chief of the city, and today his father is in charge of one of the largest protests in the history of Western democracy. But in a matter of hours reality will become a nightmare. Hordes of protesters - from all sections of society - will test the patience of the city's police force, and lives will be altered forever: two armed police officers will struggle to keep calm amid the threat of violence; a protester with a murderous past will make an unforgivable mistake; and a delegate from Sri Lanka will do whatever it takes to make it through the crowd to a meeting - a meeting that could dramatically change the fate of his country. In amongst the fray, Victor and his father are heading for a collision too. Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, set during the World Trade Organization protests, is a deeply charged novel showcasing a distinct and exciting new literary voice.


Research Handbook on Empirical Studies in Intellectual Property Law

Research Handbook on Empirical Studies in Intellectual Property Law

Author: Estelle Derclaye

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-07-01

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1802206213

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This comprehensive Research Handbook explores empirical legal studies of intellectual property law. It covers research from four continents and offers unique conclusions to aid in the creation and understanding of policies and legislation.