Author: Steven F. Havill
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1615950818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
"Havill...quietly continues a project virtually unique in detective fiction: anchoring his tales of crime and punishment as closely as possible in the rhythms of small-town friends, routines, and calamities." --Kirkus Reviews Rolling stone Wesley Crocker seems a harmless enough free spirit when Posadas County Undersheriff Bill Gastner offers him a lift on the road and spots him a free dinner. Crocker beds down for the night with his gear on the high-school athletic field. By morning, 13-year-old Maria Ibarra is found under the high-school football bleachers a few feet away and Crocker goes straight to jail. His account of how he passed the night is full of enough holes to keep him locked down, but meanwhile a background check on Maria raises troubling questions about her life....
Privileged to Kill
Author: Steven F. Havill
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1615950818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
"Havill...quietly continues a project virtually unique in detective fiction: anchoring his tales of crime and punishment as closely as possible in the rhythms of small-town friends, routines, and calamities." --Kirkus Reviews Rolling stone Wesley Crocker seems a harmless enough free spirit when Posadas County Undersheriff Bill Gastner offers him a lift on the road and spots him a free dinner. Crocker beds down for the night with his gear on the high-school athletic field. By morning, 13-year-old Maria Ibarra is found under the high-school football bleachers a few feet away and Crocker goes straight to jail. His account of how he passed the night is full of enough holes to keep him locked down, but meanwhile a background check on Maria raises troubling questions about her life....
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1615950818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
"Havill...quietly continues a project virtually unique in detective fiction: anchoring his tales of crime and punishment as closely as possible in the rhythms of small-town friends, routines, and calamities." --Kirkus Reviews Rolling stone Wesley Crocker seems a harmless enough free spirit when Posadas County Undersheriff Bill Gastner offers him a lift on the road and spots him a free dinner. Crocker beds down for the night with his gear on the high-school athletic field. By morning, 13-year-old Maria Ibarra is found under the high-school football bleachers a few feet away and Crocker goes straight to jail. His account of how he passed the night is full of enough holes to keep him locked down, but meanwhile a background check on Maria raises troubling questions about her life....
A Privilege to Die
Author: Thanassis Cambanis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439143609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Cambanis explains why Hezbollah has emerged as the most dangerous, apocalyptic, uncompromising enemy for Israel yet.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439143609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Cambanis explains why Hezbollah has emerged as the most dangerous, apocalyptic, uncompromising enemy for Israel yet.
Privilege
Author: Kate Brian
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416967591
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
After Ariana Osgood is arrested for mudering Thomas Pearson, she spends two years in jail plotting her escape to return to the glamorous life she left behind.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416967591
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
After Ariana Osgood is arrested for mudering Thomas Pearson, she spends two years in jail plotting her escape to return to the glamorous life she left behind.
Privileged Information
Author: Stephen White
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786013562
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
THE FIRST ALAN GREGORY THRILLER! A successful psychologist in Boulder, Colorado, Alan Gregory has a bright future -- until police find one of his female patients dead. In her apartment, they discover a diary describing her sexual obsession with Gregory and his willing involvement. Obligated to keep his patient records confidential -- even from the police -- Alan faces disgrace and ruin unless he reveals what he knows about her fantasies and his own innocence. But when more of his patients die and Alan becomes the prime suspect, he is desperate to clear his name. Unable to turn to anyone for help, he begins the painful search for the explanation on his own -- and soon discovers the terrible truth. Now, only he knows how to stop the killing...if he doesn't wind up dead himself.
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786013562
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
THE FIRST ALAN GREGORY THRILLER! A successful psychologist in Boulder, Colorado, Alan Gregory has a bright future -- until police find one of his female patients dead. In her apartment, they discover a diary describing her sexual obsession with Gregory and his willing involvement. Obligated to keep his patient records confidential -- even from the police -- Alan faces disgrace and ruin unless he reveals what he knows about her fantasies and his own innocence. But when more of his patients die and Alan becomes the prime suspect, he is desperate to clear his name. Unable to turn to anyone for help, he begins the painful search for the explanation on his own -- and soon discovers the terrible truth. Now, only he knows how to stop the killing...if he doesn't wind up dead himself.
The Morality of the Laws of War
Author: MARCELA PRIETO. RUDOLPHY
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192855476
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The Morality of the Laws of War examines the modern landscape of the ethics of war. Rudolphy assesses the conflicting theories on the legality of just and unjust combatants. While doing this, she proposes an alternative morality of war proceeding from the inescapable fact that regulating war is always a significant moral compromise.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192855476
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The Morality of the Laws of War examines the modern landscape of the ethics of war. Rudolphy assesses the conflicting theories on the legality of just and unjust combatants. While doing this, she proposes an alternative morality of war proceeding from the inescapable fact that regulating war is always a significant moral compromise.
Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States from 1887-[1911], Contained in the American State Reports, Volumes 1 to [140], Inclusive, and of the Notes to the Cases Reported Therein: Abandonment to Youthful employees
Author: Edmund Samson Green
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1656
Book Description
The Powder Mage Trilogy
Author: Brian McClellan
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316456713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1599
Book Description
In a world where mages control gunpowder and bullets, a brilliant general must defend his country from both war and insurrection. Check out the complete Powder Mage Trilogy in this omnibus edition, a series that Brandon Sanderson called "Just plain awesome!" In Promise of Blood: Field Marshal Tamas' coup against his king sent corrupt aristocrats to the guillotine and brought bread to the starving. But it also provoked war with the Nine Nations, internal attacks by royalist fanatics. Stretched to his limit, Tamas is relying heavily on his few remaining powder mages, including the embittered Taniel, a brilliant marksman who also happens to be his estranged son, and Adamat, a retired police inspector whose loyalty is being tested by blackmail. In The Crimson Campaign: Drastically outnumbered and pursued by the enemy's best, Tamas must lead his men on a reckless march through northern Kez to safety, and back over the mountains so that he can defend his country from an angry god, Kresimir. In The Autumn Republic: Field Marshal Tamas returns to his beloved country to find that for the first time in history, the capital city of Adro lies in the hands of a foreign invader. His son is missing, his allies are indistinguishable from his foes, and reinforcements are several weeks away.
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316456713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1599
Book Description
In a world where mages control gunpowder and bullets, a brilliant general must defend his country from both war and insurrection. Check out the complete Powder Mage Trilogy in this omnibus edition, a series that Brandon Sanderson called "Just plain awesome!" In Promise of Blood: Field Marshal Tamas' coup against his king sent corrupt aristocrats to the guillotine and brought bread to the starving. But it also provoked war with the Nine Nations, internal attacks by royalist fanatics. Stretched to his limit, Tamas is relying heavily on his few remaining powder mages, including the embittered Taniel, a brilliant marksman who also happens to be his estranged son, and Adamat, a retired police inspector whose loyalty is being tested by blackmail. In The Crimson Campaign: Drastically outnumbered and pursued by the enemy's best, Tamas must lead his men on a reckless march through northern Kez to safety, and back over the mountains so that he can defend his country from an angry god, Kresimir. In The Autumn Republic: Field Marshal Tamas returns to his beloved country to find that for the first time in history, the capital city of Adro lies in the hands of a foreign invader. His son is missing, his allies are indistinguishable from his foes, and reinforcements are several weeks away.
United States Reports
Author: United States. Supreme Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
Book Description
Matters of Life and Death
Author: John B. Cobb
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664251697
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Discusses animal rights and the protection of the environment, suicide, abortion, and sexuality from an ethical standpoint rooted in the Protestant tradition
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664251697
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Discusses animal rights and the protection of the environment, suicide, abortion, and sexuality from an ethical standpoint rooted in the Protestant tradition
Designing Network Security
Author: Merike Kaeo
Publisher: Cisco Press
ISBN: 9781587051173
Category : Computer networks
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
bull; Gain a comprehensive view of network security issues and concepts, then master specific implementations based on your network needs bull; Learn how to use new and legacy Cisco Systems equipment to secure your networks bull; Understand how to design and build security services while also learning the legal and network accessibility impact of those services
Publisher: Cisco Press
ISBN: 9781587051173
Category : Computer networks
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
bull; Gain a comprehensive view of network security issues and concepts, then master specific implementations based on your network needs bull; Learn how to use new and legacy Cisco Systems equipment to secure your networks bull; Understand how to design and build security services while also learning the legal and network accessibility impact of those services