New Releases by Jana

Jana is the author of Mormonism For Dummies (2025), Letterlocking (2025), Jana’s Journey (2024), The Mammals of Ancient Egypt (2024), Baskets and Beignets (2024).

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Mormonism For Dummies

release date: Apr 22, 2025
Mormonism For Dummies
Explore one of the fastest-growing religions in the world The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the first Christian faith to be developed in America, and today the Church is home to millions—both inside and outside the United States. Mormonism For Dummies, 2nd Edition is a valuable tool for individuals interested in learning more about the beliefs and practices of the widely-practiced Latter-day Saint faith. In this informative book, you''ll explore the different denominations of the Church, recent changes to the Church''s customs and practices''which also covers why the Church encourages a shift away from the term “Mormon” and more. Inside, you''ll: Discover the history and origins of the Church of Latter-Day Saints Understand the Church''s official stances on areas, including race, the status of women, and polygamy Examine subjects like religious fundamentalism and orthodoxy through the lens of practicing LDS members A must-read for anyone interested in the rituals, customs, beliefs, and politics of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, Mormonism For Dummies, 2nd Edition gives you the straightforward and unbiased info you need to understand this nuanced faith.

Letterlocking

release date: Apr 08, 2025
Letterlocking
The rich history of a centuries-old document security technology—folding and securing a letter into its own envelope for delivery—and a comprehensive guide to learning how to make your own locked letters. Before the invention of the gummed envelope in the 1830s, how did people secure their private letters? The answer is letterlocking—the ingenious process of securing a letter using a combination of folds, tucks, slits, or adhesives such as sealing wax, so that it becomes its own envelope. This almost entirely forgotten practice, used by historical figures ranging from Elizabeth I and her spies to Japanese samurai lords, was an everyday activity for centuries, across cultures, borders, and social classes. In Letterlocking, Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, experts who have pioneered the field over the last ten years, tell the fascinating story of letterlocking within epistolary history, drawing on real historical examples from all over the world. Fully illustrated with more than 300 images and diagrams, including a dictionary of sixty technical terms and concepts, Letterlocking describes the essential precepts of the practice and provides sources of practical support needed for beginner and advanced users of letterlocking. The authors also advocate for the understanding of letterlocking and for its inclusion in a range of intellectual and cultural research, from conservation science and archival databases to historical television shows. By the end of the book, readers will learn how to make locked letters, study letters that may have been locked, and categorize those letters using systems the authors developed while studying more than 250,000 historic letters. Letterlocking is accompanied by a website, freely accessible scholarly articles, and instructional videos and diagrams, as well as foldable tear-out sheets with instructions on how to fold and lock models of extant historical letters.

Jana’s Journey

release date: Aug 15, 2024
Jana’s Journey
"Jana''s Journey: From Seventy''s Shadows to Radiant Light" by Jana Whitton is a deeply personal and emotional memoir that chronicles the author''s tumultuous childhood and journey toward healing and self-discovery. Born in the 1970s, Jana''s early life was marked by severe trauma, including sexual abuse by her father and other men who should have been her protectors. These experiences left deep emotional scars and a sense of worthlessness that haunted her throughout her life. The book details how Jana''s mother, despite her best intentions, could not shield her from the horrors that unfolded within their family. The memoir describes the complexities of growing up in an unstable and abusive household, where Jana was often left to fend for herself and take on responsibilities far beyond her years. As Jana grew older, she found comfort and healing through various relationships, including a loving partnership with a woman who helped her reclaim her sense of self-worth and later a supportive marriage with a man who provided the love and security she had long craved. Through these relationships and her determination, Jana was able to overcome the darkness of her past and build a life filled with love, hope, and resilience. The memoir is not only a recounting of the adversities Jana faced but also a testament to her strength and the transformative power of love and forgiveness. It serves as an inspiration to others who have experienced similar traumas, offering a message of hope that it is possible to overcome even the most profound hardships and emerge into the light.

The Mammals of Ancient Egypt

release date: Jun 15, 2024
The Mammals of Ancient Egypt
Various attempts have been made to systematize the mammals depicted in Egyptian tomb paintings, inscriptions, carvings, figurines and other objects, and as mummies, but there are many discrepancies, variable spellings and names, including now obsolete Latin names, and mis-identifications. The Egyptian artists themselves sometimes used the wrong hieroglyph or drew some parts of animals incorrectly. Dale Osborn’s comprehensive reassessment, presented here in a facsimile reissue, catalogues around 100 separate species, ranging from hedgehogs to hippopotami, Anubis Baboons to Zebu cattle, that can be identified in Egyptian art from prehistoric, through Pre-Dynastic to Late Kingdom times. Profusely illustrated, the catalogue is arranged by Order, then species, each entry providing the relevant hieroglyph, a brief description of the animal, its natural habitat and distribution, and a narrative on its depiction in Egyptian art through time, by location, types of illustration or object, and context (tomb etc). Known errors and discrepancies, either in original scripts or classical and/or modern literature, are listed. Mammals are abundantly depicted in tomb paintings and inscriptions. Common scenes include hunts, processions, wild animals being led on chains, domesticated animals in household and working environments, and satirical scenes. Such scenes provide many insights into the lives of Egyptians and their relationships with animals, that are further enhanced by many decorative figurines and statues and, often poignantly, by the mummies of mostly small animals including cats and dogs.

Baskets and Beignets

release date: May 20, 2024
Baskets and Beignets
Worth dyeing for. Ten years ago, Ryan Comeaux was convicted of killing his girlfriend and was sentenced to life in prison. Now a witness has come forward who claims she was with Ryan the entire night and it’s not possible that he was the killer. But the local police assume she’s mistaken and aren’t interested in reopening what they view as an open-and-shut case. The witness, Kelsey Spalding, has her own reasons for wanting Ryan’s conviction overturned and hires Swamp Team 3 to prove him innocent. Fortune has solved cold cases before, but never one with so little evidence and so many suspects with not only strong motive but opportunity. Can she solve a decade-old murder, or will the real killer strike again to cover his tracks?

Happy Endings

release date: Apr 24, 2024
Happy Endings
At the intersection of humor, sexuality, and the chaos of modern relationships lies Happy Endings. Follow along in the real life stories of Jana Smith, a passionate author, as she explores the tumultuous yet quirky world of online dating, all while balancing divorce, single parenthood and a demanding career. With six months of dedicated effort, Jana has crafted her story that seamlessly weaves humor, struggles, and a quest for fulfillment. The narrative explores the dichotomy of honoring oneself while navigating the turbulent waters of the dating pool and post-divorced life. A professional by day, Jana throws caution to the wind at night, exploring and seeking her own sexual fantasies and fulfillment. She has reached the point in life where she no longer makes apologies for who she is and what she wants. Balancing her many responsibilities, Jana decides to squeeze in time for herself; into her already jam-packed schedule. She is determined to live life on her own terms and create her own story, her own happy endings. Through countless dates and sexual experiences, she shares her raw and honest details, creating an anticipation of wondering what... or who is next. Happy Endings is not just a story; it''s a celebration of her messy, humorous, and audacious pursuit of happiness.

Moral AI

release date: Feb 08, 2024
Moral AI
A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Can computers understand morality? Can they respect privacy? And what can we do to make AI safe and fair? The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today, there are self-driving cars on our streets, autonomous weapons in our armies, robot surgeons in our hospitals – and AI''s presence in our lives will only increase. Some see this as the dawn of a new era in innovation and ease; others are alarmed by its destructive potential. But one thing is clear: this is a technology like no other, one that raises profound questions about the very definitions of human intelligence and morality. In Moral AI, world-renowned researchers in moral psychology, philosophy, and artificial intelligence – Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Vincent Conitzer – tackle these thorny issues head-on. Writing lucidly and calmly, they lay out the recent advances in this still nascent field, peeling away the exaggeration and misleading arguments. Instead, they offer clear examinations of the moral concerns at the heart of AI programs, from racial equity to personal privacy, fake news to autonomous weaponry. Ultimately, they argue that artificial intelligence can be built and used safely and ethically, but that its potential cannot be achieved without careful reflection on the values we wish to imbue it with. This is an essential primer for any thinking person.

The Next Chapter

release date: Oct 24, 2023
The Next Chapter
NATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and country music superstar Jana Kramer reveals how she said goodbye, started again, moved on, and trusted God after her marriage came to a sudden end. The Next Chapter is Jana Kramer’s intimate and moving account about setting her life back on the right path after her sudden divorce. Chronicling the year that follows, Jana relives personal stories of early traumas and past relationships, and with raw honesty she shares topics dear to her heart and music, including hearing God, loving oneself, navigating setbacks, female friendships, grief, and motherhood. As she grapples with questions such as: Am I doing this right? Is this the truest truth? Is there more to life than this? she finds and tells a story of freedom and redemption. Relatable to anyone who has walked a road of change, heartbreak, or grief, readers will be encouraged by the wisdom Jana finds in that distinct and critical transition from chaos to clarity, as she plants seeds for her future to begin the next chapter of her life. Personal and profound, The Next Chapter is about being truly alone for the first time, and the road traveled from heartbreak, pain, and anger to forgiveness, confidence, and peace.

Hearts of Darkness

release date: Oct 10, 2023
Hearts of Darkness
For fans of Mindhunter, Criminal Minds, and My Favorite Murder, a riveting memoir of a trailblazing woman’s life hunting down serial killers as one of the first female profilers of the FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit and the real-life model for Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs. “Jana Monroe is the single most influential woman to ever serve in the FBI.” —Joe Navarro, bestselling author of What Every BODY Is Saying Jana Monroe was no ordinary cop. One of the first analysts—and, at the time, the only female agent—in the world-renowned FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit at Quantico, she consulted on more than 850 homicide cases, including infamous serial killers Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Edmund Kemper, and Aileen Wuornos. Monroe was also the model for Clarice Starling in the movie version of The Silence of the Lambs; she even helped train Jodie Foster for her Oscar-winning role. Monroe’s later years found her dealing with the aftermath of Columbine, heading up the FBI’s post-9/11 investigation in Las Vegas, and much more. In Hearts of Darkness, Monroe steps out from the shadows to tell the story of her astonishing life in shaping law enforcement and intelligence analysis. Monroe explores the cases that have stayed with her, breaking down victimology, offering new insight into the minds of serial killers, and discussing the psychological toll of the job and the obstacles she faced as a woman in the male-dominated Bureau. This is a gripping, sometimes gruesome, and always remarkable memoir of an unparalleled life and career spent chasing the monsters among us.

Mystere Parish: Family Inheritance Complete Collection

release date: Sep 25, 2023
Mystere Parish: Family Inheritance Complete Collection
In this thrilling collection from New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon, three long-lost sisters return home to Mystere Parish to claim their inheritance…and need the help of three brave heroes to keep the bayou from also claiming their lives. The Accused After working as a cop in New Orleans, Carter Trahan is back in Mystere Parish, where his latest assignment is to make sure Alaina LeBeau lives in her childhood home for two weeks to comply with her mother’s will. But someone—or something—is stalking the beautiful defense lawyer, and soon their red hot attraction will threaten whatever is lurking in the bayou. The Betrayed One day on the job and contractor Zach Sargent is ready to believe the dilapidated old LeBeau mansion is haunted. Some intruder—earthly or not—is threatening the youngest LeBeau sister, back to claim her inheritance. Both have returned home in need of answers to troubling questions about the LeBeau family past. But Zach can’t let his attraction to her stop his search…or else a decades-old evil will claim a new victim. The Reunion Bodyguard Tyler Duhan has heard—and dismissed—the gossip about the haunted old LeBeau mansion and its "cursed" heiresses. Now the middle sibling—headstrong Joelle—has arrived to comply with her mother''s will and reunite with her long-lost sisters. As her protector, it’s his job to keep her safe. But he can''t deny his feelings for the southern beauty. Even though falling for Joelle could be a fatal mistake—for them both. Also available from Jana DeLeon: Mystere Parish Book 1: The Reckoning Book 2: The Vanishing Book 3: The Awakening

How to Kill an Earworm

release date: Apr 18, 2023
How to Kill an Earworm
Discover why you were always afraid of a monster under your childhood bed, why people truly believe in their “lucky” lotto numbers, and more with hundreds of quick facts, research-based explanations, and challenging quiz questions on everything from the psychology of our ancient ancestors to the dark side of the world of psychology. Did you know: -The fear of losing your cell phone is real…and there’s even a name for it. -The way you kiss might actually be based in science? -That gaslighting actually has a psychological “cousin” known as “moonwalking”? Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior, which means there’s a lot of ground to cover. But this isn’t your average “intro to psychology” book. Instead, How to Kill an Earworm is here to help you learn those little-known trivia facts you really want to know. This must-have guide features hundreds of fun facts and challenging quiz questions about psychology, covering everything from influential historical figures who impacted the study of psychology as we know it today to learning psychological principles you might not realize are at work right now in your everyday life. Did you know about the dark side of daylight savings time? What about the way kids’ cereal boxes are intentionally designed to manipulate the child’s emotions? From “zombie behaviors” to the “doorway effect”, it’s time to dive into over 500 psychological facts you definitely didn’t know before picking up this book!

Swamp Spirits

release date: Aug 08, 2022
Swamp Spirits
Ghost of a chance? Fortune is thrilled when Ben Harrison, her former CIA partner, and his fiancée, Cassidy, decide to leave DC and move to the Louisiana bayous. They’ve already secured jobs and are only lacking a place to live, so everyone is excited when they quickly find a home. There’s only one problem—the house has a reputation. It’s haunted. Fortune doesn’t believe in ghosts, but when Cassidy starts seeing a woman in white inside her house and can’t determine how she’s entering or exiting, Fortune knows she’s got to figure out what’s going on before things get worse. As Swamp Team 3 takes on the “spirited” case, they dive into a decades-old mystery of love, money, voodoo curses, and a missing woman. But can they get answers before Ben and Cassidy give up the ghost and go back to DC?

The Benefits of Friends

release date: Aug 02, 2022
The Benefits of Friends
In 2011, Jana Mathews’s career took a surprising turn. What began as an effort for a newly minted college professor to get to know her students turned into an invitation to be initiated into a National Panhellenic Conference sorority and serve as its faculty advisor. For the next seven years, Mathews attended sorority and fraternity chapter meetings, Greek Week competitions, leadership retreats, and mixers and formals. She also counseled young men and women through mental health crises, experiences of sexual violence, and drug and alcohol abuse. Combining her personal observations with ethnographic field analysis and research culled from the fields of sociology, economics, and cognitive psychology, this thought-provoking book examines how white Greek letter organizations help reshape the conceptual boundaries of society’s most foundational relationship categories—including friend, romantic partner, and family. Mathews illuminates how organizations manipulate campus sex ratios to foster hookup culture, broker romantic relationships, transfer intimacy to straight same-sex friends, and create fictive family units that hoard social and economic opportunity for their members. In their idealized form, sororities and fraternities function as familial surrogates that tether their members together in economically and socially productive ways. In their most warped manifestations, however, these fictive familial bonds reinforce insularity, entrench privilege, and—at times—threaten physical safety.

Dramas of Dignity

release date: Jun 09, 2022
Dramas of Dignity
Costas explores the hidden underworld of Berlin''s Potsdamer Platz, where cleaners seek dignity through work yet find it elusive. This book will appeal to anyone interested in taking a behind-the-scenes look at the working lives of cleaners who largely remain invisible yet cater to most of us.

Flame and Fortune

release date: Mar 28, 2022
Flame and Fortune
No smoke without a fire. It’s New Year’s in Sinful, and the competition for the New Year’s Queen is heating up as the warring churches go head-to-head. Fortune Redding is not the sequined dress kind of woman, but reluctantly agrees to partake in the debacle so that Ida Belle and Gertie can best their nemesis, Celia, who’s put up former Sinful mean girl RJ Rogers. RJ and her friend Brock Benoit left plenty of devastation in their wake when they fled Sinful after high school. So when they return and Brock is found dead, there’s no shortage of suspects. Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie know all too well what it’s like to live under suspicion of a crime with no resolution. When good people become the targets of gossip, they know they have to rush to unravel the tangled lives of RJ and Brock and expose a killer before the wrong person’s reputation is ruined. Or worse—they’re arrested for a crime they didn’t commit.

Using online technologies for informal learning by future teachers of English

release date: Jan 01, 2022
Using online technologies for informal learning by future teachers of English
This monograph aims to introduce the theme of informal learning. It consists of the theoretical part and the results of research conducted at the Faculty of Education, Palacký University in Olomouc among its master''s students – future English teachers and the students of other 3 universities. It attempts to find out how often and how the students use online platforms, applications, websites and social networks in their informal learning and formal education. It describes the differences and similarities between the students'' use of online technology for their own supervised and unguided learning and for the purposes of their formal studies. Comparisons in the use of online technology are made with regards to the students'' gender and form of studies. The third part consists of the qualitative part of research focused on how future teachers of English have been approaching online technologies throughout their lives, primarily for the sake of informal education. In semi-structured interviews, teacher candidates who study primary and lower-secondary education at the Faculty of Education of Palacký University in Olomouc shared their history of using online applications and web pages from their young school age up to the present time. Differences and similarities between the two groups of students are explored, as well as the potential influence of their specific histories with online technologies on how they plan to utilize these in their future careers.

Swamp Sweets

release date: Oct 04, 2021
Swamp Sweets
Just Desserts? It’s November in Sinful and everyone is gearing up for Thanksgiving. But when Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie bag a body on their turkey hunting trip, the quiet enjoyment of fall is over. No one really knew Miles Broussard well, and as he’d recently sold the building his business was in to retire in another state, no one could explain how he’d ended up murdered and dumped in the bayou. Ally Lemarque has been waiting her entire life to open her bakery, and that day finally arrived when she purchased the building from Miles. But when she visits the site late at night and interrupts an intruder, she comes away with a crack on her head and concerns about why someone would break into an empty building. Fortune doesn’t think for a minute that Miles’s murder and the attack on Ally are unrelated. And Swamp Team 3 won’t rest until they’re sure Ally is safe.

Mystere Parish Complete Collection

release date: May 10, 2021
Mystere Parish Complete Collection
From New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon, secrets simmer along the bayou in Mystere Parish, Louisiana, where three law enforcement heroes are determined to find answers for the women who need their help… The Reckoning In a tiny bayou town with far too many wicked secrets, the sudden disappearance of a six-year-old girl is a mystery Sheriff Holt Chamberlain is determined to solve. But teaming up with Alexandria Bastin is a complication he didn’t expect. And as he gets dangerously close to the truth, he’ll do anything to protect her from the evil that surrounds them—an evil that might hold the key to sending a little girl home.… The Vanishing Certain death awaits any outsider who enters Cache, a mythical city said to disappear when intruders threaten. But P.I. Max Duhon won’t let the Cajun superstition stop him from going there. He’ll do anything to help sexy Colette Guidry and close this missing person’s case, even admit how attracted he is to his client. Before long, it seems they may have come too close to Cache and its eerie secrets—and dangerously close to each other. The Awakening It could be a mythical creature wreaking havoc on a Mystere hotel…or a malicious vandal. It’s detective Tanner LeDoux’s first case and—much to his chagrin—the hotel belongs to Josie Bettencourt, once the most popular girl in town and his unrequited love. He has a chance to be the strong, sexy hero who protects her and her hotel from mounting danger. But he knows, without a doubt, whatever lurks in Honey Island Swamp means to keep Josie from him forever… Mystere Parish Book 1: The Reckoning Book 2: The Vanishing Book 3: The Awakening Mystere Parish: Family Inheritance Book 1: The Accused Book 2: The Betrayed Book 3: The Reunion

Interpreting Chinese Philosophy

release date: May 06, 2021
Interpreting Chinese Philosophy
Understanding Chinese philosophy requires knowledge of the referential framework prevailing in Chinese intellectual traditions. But Chinese philosophical texts are frequently approached through the lens of Western paradigms. Analysing the most common misconceptions surrounding Western Sinology, Jana Rošker alerts us to unseen dangers and introduces us to a new more effective way of reading Chinese philosophy. Acknowledging that different cultures produce different reference points, Rošker explains what happens when we use rational analysis, a major feature of the European intellectual tradition, to read Chinese philosophy. We rely on impossible comparisons, arrive at prejudiced assumptions and fail to arrive at the truth, the consequence of applying a different methodology to the process of perceiving, understanding and interpreting reality. Instead of transferring concepts and categories from Western sinology onto socio-cultural Chinese contexts, Rošker constructs a new methodology of reading, understanding and interpreting Chinese philosophy. She opens our eyes to the basic problems of Western paradigms, encourages intercultural approaches and allows us to master a more autochthonous understanding of Chinese philosophy.

Vivid

release date: May 04, 2021
Vivid
A call from a Baltimore reporter catapults a mother down memory lane in an unconventional coming-of-age story that poses the question: Who are you when your back is against the wall? Sheri Calloway turns a job layoff into an opportunity to finally free herself from the weight of the stifling, generational family trauma which has long hovered over the town of Spruce Junction, North Carolina. She and her three children board a train to embark on a new life in Baltimore, Maryland to “make better moves”. Sheri is enthralled by everything Baltimore has to offer. She finds joy in walks around the Inner Harbor and gazing upon the picturesque city views from her office building’s conference room window. But Sheri eventually learns that things are not always as they seem when she inadvertently comes face-to-face with a drug crisis that has Baltimore firmly in its grip. When a series of unusual ailments befall Sheri’s children, she realizes she must push past self-doubts and fear to awaken the power within. Sheri connects with a group of concerned parents, led by a larger-than-life widowed mother of four, to take on unethical medical researchers and casually indifferent politicians. Inspired by actual events, Vivid is a story that spans time and space while illustrating how interconnected our journeys are and how it is never too late to become your own champion.

Louisiana Longshot

release date: Apr 26, 2021
Louisiana Longshot
It was a hell of a long shot.... CIA assassin Fortune Redding is about to undertake her most difficult mission ever-in Sinful, Louisiana. With a leak at the CIA and a price placed on her head by one of the world''s largest arms dealers, Fortune has to go off-grid, but she never expected to be this far out of her element. Posing as a former beauty queen turned librarian in a small bayou town seems worse than death to Fortune, but she''s determined to fly below the radar until her boss finds the leak and puts the arms dealer out of play. Unfortunately, she hasn''t even unpacked a suitcase before her newly inherited dog digs up a human bone in her backyard. Thrust into the middle of a bayou murder mystery, Fortune teams up with a couple of seemingly sweet old ladies whose looks completely belie their hold on the little town. To top things off, the handsome local deputy is asking her too many questions. If she''s not careful, this investigation might blow her cover and get her killed. Armed with her considerable skills and a group of elderly ladies the locals dub The Geritol Mafia, Fortune has no choice but to solve the murder before it''s too late.

Fortune Funhouse

release date: Feb 08, 2021
Fortune Funhouse
Death is a roller coaster. The traveling carnival has made its stop in Sinful and everyone is ready for thrilling rides, challenging games, and most importantly, funnel cake. But when a man is murdered in the funhouse and Emmaline LeBlanc is knocked unconscious so the killer can escape, the good times are over. Carter is beside himself wanting to hunt down the man responsible for putting his mother in the hospital, but he can’t investigate when he’s related to one of the victims. Palmer Reed was well known as a boy by most everyone in Sinful for being a sneak, a liar, and sometimes a thief. As an adult, he continued his reign of underachieving and mostly making people angry wherever he went. Now he’s a state police detective and is assigned to the case, but Fortune knows that to get Carter the answers he needs, Swamp Team 3 has to take on the investigation. As they dig deep into the confusion and lies that surround the murder, they uncover a secret that could devastate Carter and Emmaline, but Fortune is determined to discover the truth…whatever that may be.

The Accused

release date: Feb 08, 2021
The Accused
Don''t miss this classic gothic tale from New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon After working as a cop in New Orleans, Carter Trahan is back in Mystere Parish, where his latest assignment seems like a joke: making sure Alaina LeBeau lives in her childhood home for two weeks to comply with her mother''''s will. But soon the sexy sheriff isn''''t laughing. Someone—or something—is stalking the beautiful defense lawyer, turning her once-grand mansion into a house of horrors. But as he searches for the truth, Carter must face ghosts of his own past lurking in the bayou. Most troubling of all is his unprofessional attraction to the woman he''''s protecting, as Alaina''''s allure haunts him as no specter ever could…. Previously published. For fans of thrillers with: New Orleans Bayou haunted mansion stalker hidden past Mystere Parish Book 1: The Reckoning Book 2: The Vanishing Book 3: The Awakening Mystere Parish: Family Inheritance Book 1: The Accused Book 2: The Betrayed Book 3: The Reunion

The Apparition in the Kitchen

release date: Nov 22, 2020
The Apparition in the Kitchen
Things at the beautiful, historic Granger-Teague home are quite pleasant. The family has finally begun building itself back up, following a series of crises. Following the death of Faye, Jerry’s beloved wife and best friend since childhood, things had been difficult. With help from friends and family, he began putting his life back together. And there were three people who had his back no matter what. There’s Anne Granger, his daughter-in-law. She’s the one who picked him up and got him going again. She’s an angel, as far as Jerry is concerned. He loves her in what many consider an unhealthy way. She means so much to Jerry; he doesn’t think anyone will ever understand. There’s Marilyn Beales. He worked with her at the high school for years. She was the counselor. Having gone to school to study mental conditions and such, turned out to be right helpful once she started dating Jerry. She had known his wife, and understood his anguish. Marilyn is good to Jerry. They love one another, but have no intention to marry. They give each other what the other needs in many ways. Then, there’s Faye. Despite the fact she has been dead for almost a decade, Faye and Jerry still have a quite active relationship. She is still seen frequently in the family home. She keeps an eye on things, keeps people in line, and torments the cat. She continues to show her devotion to the man she cheered on and supported all of her life; her husband. Faye had never left his side. Yes, things in Jerry’s life are certainly looking up, but not without a hitch. There’s never a dull moment in Jerry’s life! But, he has it made. He has his beloved daughter-in-law, the beautiful high school counselor, and his deceased but not departed wife ... the apparition in the kitchen.

Disciplining Foucault

release date: Oct 07, 2020
Disciplining Foucault
In this book, the author attempts to integrate previous work on Foucault with feminist theory. She expands discussion of feminism and sexual liberation, charts the impact of Foucault on humanistic studies, and picks up an aspect of the mothering theme, the question of new reproductive technologies.

In Camps

release date: Jun 02, 2020
In Camps
After the US war in Vietnam, close to 800,000 Vietnamese left the country by boat, survived, and sought refuge throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific. This is the story of what happened in the camps. In Camps raises key questions that remain all too relevant today: Who is a refugee? Who determines this status? And how does it change over time? From Guam to Malaysia and the Philippines to Hong Kong, In Camps is the first major work on Vietnamese refugee policy to pay close attention to host territories and to explore Vietnamese activism in the camps and the diaspora. This book explains how Vietnamese were transformed from de facto refugees to individual asylum seekers to repatriates. Ambitiously covering people on the ground—local governments, teachers, and corrections officers—as well as powerful players such as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the US government, Jana Lipman shows that the local politics of first asylum sites often drove international refugee policy. Unsettling most accounts of Southeast Asian migration to the US, In Camps instead emphasizes the contingencies inherent in refugee policy and experiences.

Bullets and Beads

release date: May 03, 2020
Bullets and Beads
Let the good times roll? It’s Mardi Gras time and Fortune is looking forward to seeing the spectacle firsthand, but when a visitor to Sinful is murdered during the celebration there, Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie can’t help but wonder what happened. As they start looking into the woman and the family in Sinful she came to visit, their investigation sends them to New Orleans, right at the height of the Mardi Gras celebration. But instead of relaxing a little and enjoying the festivities, Fortune can’t shake the feeling that she’s being watched. When she catches sight of her father in the Mardi Gras crowd, she knows why. Unfortunately, her father’s presence in Louisiana has brought with it a host of terrorists, all with only one thing in mind—locate and terminate Dwight Redding. Can Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie manage to evade the killers long enough to figure out why Dwight has returned from the dead? And will knowing the answer make things worse or better?

Enne lõppu

release date: Jan 01, 2020

Scary Fairy in Wicked Wood

release date: Dec 16, 2019
Scary Fairy in Wicked Wood
Between Winnie the Pooh and The Wind in the Willows comes Scary Fairy in Wicked Wood, but with its own sweet and original ideas. Have you ever met a fairy that romps about, disturbs the peace, corrupts the young and swears? Watch out, here comes Scary Fairy! Banished by her grandmother after breaking one of her beloved china tea cups, she landed at the whim of Southern Wind in Wicked Wood. The animals of Wicked Wood have no idea how dramatically she will change their lives. This is a highly imaginative and funny book, full of amusing characters and remarkably original events.

Swamp Santa

release date: Oct 21, 2019
Swamp Santa
It’s Christmas in Sinful and Fortune is set to participate in all the local hoopla. A Christmas gala, caroling, and a sleigh ride are on the agenda. Murder is not. But when someone bumps off Santa, Fortune is aware a killer is lurking among the holiday cheer. But with no client and no reason to interfere with a police investigation, it looks as if Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie will have to sit this one out. Big and Little Hebert might be criminals, but they prefer no competition in their territory, especially someone brazen enough to kill a man at the Christmas gala. When they hire Fortune to investigate the man’s death, she gets her Christmas wish and Swamp Team 3 sets out to solve their final case of the year.
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