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Born with the appearance and intellect of an old man, Benjamin Button suffers through a childhood marked with mistreatment and misunderstanding. Despite his condition, he manages to lead an ambitious, out-of-order life, getting younger and younger as the years add up around him. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The proceedings of the 2019 TECAA Reunion Conference under the theme, New Approach + New Ideas = Supporting Progress inspired great hopes of finding solutions to intractable problems faced by the Twi community at home and in the diaspora. The event was an auspicious soul-searching forum for the Twi East community, which aspires to sustainable socioeconomic development. The conference outcomes are evidently 'small steps in a thousand-mile journ...

Their luck may be tough, but their love is much tougher. It just might not be enough to save their lives. Newly released from prison and haunted by his time inside - and the injustice that put him away in the first place - ex-con Nathan Baldwin knows his life is too complicated for love and romance. Yes it was self-defense, but the world sees him as a murderer. But the longer he works at Shakedown, the more he realizes he doesn't care what th...

In the late hours of July 22, 1991, Detective Patrick "Pat" Kennedy of the Milwaukee Police Department was asked to respond to a possible homicide. Little did he know that he would soon be delving into the dark mind of one of America's most notorious serial killers, the "Milwaukee Cannibal" Jeffrey Dahmer. As the media clamored for details, Kennedy spent the next six weeks, sixteen hours a day, locked in an interrogation room with Dahmer. Th...

Former homicide cop turned private investigator Cass Raines gets the job done in this Chicago-set novel from award-winning author Tracy Clark.

When a barista competition comes to town, Torte's favorite pastry chef finds herself sleuthing once again--in the next installment of Ellie Alexander's beloved Bakeshop Mystery Series, Mocha, She Wrote!>The prestigious competition draws coffee aficionados from up and down the coast to Ashland. The winner will not only claim to be best-in-brew, but also be awarded a hefty cash prize. Andy's nervous about his chances, but Jules is confident that...

One mother. One daughter. One haunted town. Niamh Widow. Divorcee. Mother. Retired ghost hunter. Something has just unleashed dozens of 200-year-old ghosts on my hometown. And my seventeen-year-old daughter wants to be the one to solve the mystery. Isn't that just great? Little does she know that a ghost killed her dad. Which is why I really, really don't want either of us to go near them ever again. But, of course, she's my daught...

Lauren Kaye, reporter for The Daily Gleaner, checked in to the exclusive, post-WWII, Long Island resort, assigned to write her first Sunday feature story, while surreptitiously tasked to investigate a fatal scuba accident. Her suspicions deepen when her own diving equipment mysteriously malfunctions. Robert Mallory, her mentor, calls in his friend, police captain Danny O'Brien, who reluctantly accepts Lauren's help to untangle the perplexing e...

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Una leona entre las personas pone en manos de los lectores una historia, la de la propia autora, marcada desde la infancia por la lucha, el esfuerzo constante y la superación de los múltiples obstáculos que la vida y la sociedad fueron poniendo en su camino. Estamos, en defi nitiva, ante un relato de supervivencia, cuyo principal objetivo, como indica la propia escritora, es servir como ejemplo a quien pueda leerlo, en especial a sus hijos, pa...

Time travel. While saying this word, many kinds of fantasies are in our minds. Time travel in many ways. The journey towards the past will vary as the journey towards the future. What I took in it was a change of time going back to a certain time. Only God has the power to move time backwards. What if such a God gives us the opportunity to change a mistake we have made? What if that too gives ten chances? How do we use it? In this, Arjun get...

There are two things Lana Lewis avoids like the plague: relationships and holidays. Although she's famous for her epic Halloween parties, family holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas bring back bad memories she would prefer to forget. Unfortunately, the marketing consultant her company just hired, Ian Sherman, is determined to convert the self-proclaimed Thanksgiving Scrooge into a holiday lover - and a relationship person. Can Ian convin...

Leya Tremayne left for her tropical vacation with plans to let loose. Sexy stranger Marcus would be perfect for a one-night stand - but little does she know, Marcus is a bear shifter on a mission to find his fated mate, and destiny just landed in his lap… He's looking for his mate. She just wants to have fun. Sweet and curvy, Leya Tremayne is tired of being a shoulder to cry on for the men in her life. Determined to shed her image, she goes...

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Sociology and Hip Hop: An Anthology provides students with a carefully curated selection of articles that explore human behavior and society through a variety of scholarly lenses crafted by hip hop-influenced academics. The anthology acknowledges the influence of hip hop on pop culture through music, fashion, dance, art, and more, and demonstrates how sociologists can better explain their work and research through hip hop.The anthology is orga...

Sociology and Hip Hop: An Anthology provides students with a carefully curated selection of articles that explore human behavior and society through a variety of scholarly lenses crafted by hip hop-influenced academics. The anthology acknowledges the influence of hip hop on pop culture through music, fashion, dance, art, and more, and demonstrates how sociologists can better explain their work and research through hip hop.The anthology is orga...

Decolonizing Human Behavior in the Social Environment: A Reader for an Anti-Oppressive Approach challenges the socialization of preservice social workers by examining the complex features of individuals, families, groups, and societies and how they present themselves within the context of the multiple and simultaneous influences on behavior, cognitions, and emotions.This text is divided into three distinct units. Unit I development at the indi...