Best Selling Books by Joanna Campbell

Originally published: Woodbury, Minn.: Midnight Ink, 2010, as number 3 in the series with the author's name given as Joanna Campbell-Slan.

Book #3 in a delightful new series. Set in 1986, Joanna Campbell Slan's latest cozy mystery-Tuesday Trash and Trouble--features a down-on-her-luck divorcée whose passion for solving crimes lands her in the arms of a secretive cowboy--and the cross-hairs of a vengeful killer. The year is 1986, the place is...pitiful. It's Decatur, Illinois, known for high unemployment, striking unions, the pervasive stink of soybean processing, and seven railroad crossings at one intersection. A wrong turn along life's marital highway has left Catherine "Cragan" Collins stuck in Decatur. With a mountain of post-divorce bills to pay, Cragan takes a job selling high-priced newspaper advertising. If she's lucky, her commissions will cover the cost of her grandmother's stay in a nearby retirement home. After the divorce, Cragan swears off men, but she's a sucker for a guy in a nice suit. She falls hard for a man who publicly snubs her. On the rebound, she accepts an invitation from Ross Gentry, a quiet hunk who favors pearl snaps and cowboy boots. Cragan reasons that her heart is safe, because she and Ross come from two different worlds. But one night in his arms might be enough to prove her wrong. Without warning, everything blows up in Cragan's face. Her boss threatens to take away her accounts, a friend's little sister is kidnapped, and an overnight guest is shot. Cragan's best friend, Pru, is accused of attempted murder. After all, Pru's gun was used in the crime. Cragan calls an emergency meeting of the Friday Night Mystery Club. These mystery-loving career women are a group of smart cookies. Can their combined talents prove that Pru is innocent? And will they find an answer in time to save Cragan from the wrath of a vengeful shooter? It takes a club to solve a mystery!

Before Thoroughbred, Ashleigh Griffen lived at Edgardale, her family's farm in Kentucky. Nothing could be more perfect than life on the farm with her family, her favorite horses, and her best friend, Mona. Ashleigh loves helping with the horses -- and dreaming of becoming a jockey someday... A dream renewed... When one of her favorite horses is injured, Ashleigh Griffen isn't herself anymore. She stays indoors, refusing to ride or spend much time with her favorite horse, Stardust. Her parents don't know what to do. The Griffens' next-door neighbors have just the thing -- a Thoroughbred racing camp for kids interested in a career in racing. Ashleigh doesn't want to go, but her parents enroll her anyway. Will the camp renew Ashleigh's passion for horses and her dream of becoming a jockey?

Workbook with anecdotes to improve one's life.

While on a trip to her grandfather's home on the picturesque Treasure Coast of Florida, empty-nester Cara Mia Delgatto impulsively snaps up an abandoned building, only to discover it's already occupied by a fresh corpse. While a murder investigation swirls around her, and she works to open a store specializing in recycled and repurposed decor items, she bumps into an old boyfriend who claims to still love her, but whose affection just might be a ploy to save himself from a murder plea.

Cindy Burke and her family search for a new jockey for their thoroughbred horse, Glory, as he faces the biggest race of his career. Original.

Can Samantha ride Fleet Goddess to victory? When Ashleigh's horse, Wonder, gives birth to a beautiful foal, Ashleigh is thrilled. She's raising Wonder's colt, racing as an apprentice jockey, and she's even looking out for young Samantha McLean. Samantha moved to Townsend Acres with her father after her mother died in a riding accident. When Ashleigh buys a filly named Fleet Goddess, Samantha helps train the horse. Samantha loves horses, but since her mother's death, her father has forbidden her to ride. Then Ashleigh is injured, and Fleet Goddess can't train. Samantha is desperate to take over. Is there any way she can convince her father to let her risk riding again?

This unique book is an interactive guide to feeling good for working moms the world over".Bless This Mess" is a rich patchwork quilt of stories of women from all walks of life, paired with journaling prompts to help readers find their own ways through life's complex journeys.

"Topically relevant and chock-full of side stories."-Library Journal4.8 out of 5 Stars on Amazon4.3 out of 5 Stars on GoodreadsA Halloween charity crop planned by Kiki Lowenstein is chopped short when her employee is attacked by a knife-wielding assailant. There's blood on someone's hands--but whose? A very pregnant Kiki connects the dots and quickly discovers that she has been clueless far too long. Closely held secrets point to a web of deception, one that has Kiki tied in knots. But the spunky scrapbooker refuses to lie down and die. While Kiki whittles down her suspect list, she's stabbed in the back by someone she trusted. Will our intrepid crafter survive the unkindest cut of all?Joanna Campbell Slan is a national best-selling author. Her work has appeared internationally in the Chicken Soup for the Soul books and has been seen on television. She has won the Silver Anvil Award and the Daphne du Maurier Award. Her first novel was a finalist for the Agatha Award. A former high school pom-pom girl, Joanna believes the world would be a better place if we all had a bigger cheering section.

Ashleigh tries to save a horse named Lightning from an abusive owner.

(Previously published as TEAR DOWN AND DIE: Book #1 in the Cara Mia Delgatto Mystery Series ) At sixteen while on vacation in Florida, Cara Mia Delgatto lost her heart to Cooper Rivers. But her interfering parents didn't approve. They moved Cara away from the Sunshine State and cut off all communication between the two young lovers. In an act of rebellion, Cara makes a nearly fatal mistake--and almost destroys both her family and their business. To make up for her rash behavior, Cara spends the next twenty years of her life being "a good girl," working in her family restaurant. When her parents die within six months of each other, Cara decides to take a road trip and visit her son at University of Miami. On a whim, she buys a vacant building in Florida and opens a trash-to-treasure décor store. She believes with all her heart in second chances...but then Cooper Rivers walks back into her life. Can Cara and Cooper rekindle the love they felt that magic summer so long ago?

Maura and Kevin both are determined to win first prize in the annual horse show and their love turns to rivalry.

Parker Townsend and Christina Reece meet Lyssa, the daughter of a Montana rancer, who is winning the Olympic trials. Christina befriends Lyssa, but Parker is jealous. Will Parker let Lyssa ruin his shot at the Olympics?

Wonder's Pride is ready to race again, but not everyone wants him to run. Samantha, the colt's groom, must make sure that nothing happens to him.

After Diana leaves the boarding school, Caitlin steps in to take her place as Jed's girlfriend, but she is haunted by her part in Diana's sudden departure.

The manager's personal wealth is one of the central building blocks of agency theory, which considers wealth to be an especially important source of individual utility. The managers' financial position, or the portion of their financial well-being that is not dependent on the firm, is also introduced in the original formulation of upper echelons theory. However, despite the importance of executive personal wealth to both theories, it is rarely mentioned, and even more scarcely studied. My research builds on and extends agency and upper echelons theories by focusing on executive personal wealth, defined here as the portion of executive net worth that is not attached to current employment at the firm (i.e., not contingent on current or future earnings). As such, this research provides an initial answer to the following research question: how does the average personal wealth of the top management team as well as within-team differences in wealth influence firm strategic choices with respect to risk? Specifically, I argue that external wealth alters how managers view firm decisions regarding risk; thus, I hypothesize that average top management team (TMT) wealth is negatively related to firm unrelated diversification, positively related to R & D investments, and positively related to firm risk. Next, I propose that two types of within-group diversity? TMT wealth diversity and TMT pay dispersion? attenuate the effect of average TMT wealth on these firm outcomes. I test my hypotheses on a panel dataset of over 700 firms/TMTs from the S & P1500 over 2002?2008 using panel tobit and fixed effect models, and conduct multiple robustness checks. Empirical results strongly and consistently support the hypothesized main effects of wealth. However, the results regarding the moderating effect of within-group diversity are weak, as the majority of the moderation hypotheses are not supported. The main conclusion is that wealthier TMTs are less risk averse with respect to firm strategic decisions, which manifests in greater R & D spending, lower unrelated diversification, and higher overall firm risk. Theoretical and empirical implications as well as suggestions for future research are discussed.