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Lady Anne Ashburn and her father are at Seaford, a seaside resort, recovering from her mother's death. When the earl is called to Parliament in London, Anne becomes bored and explores nearby Singing Cave. Her maid is telling her tales of smugglers and the ghost who haunts the cave when they discover the body of a dead woman. By the time authorities go there, the body is gone, and no one believes Lady Anne. When her own attempts to discover the woman's identity are hindered by the local magistrate's disparaging remarks, she reaches out to Lord Ware. Lucien, Viscount Ware, and his fellow agent Andrew Sherbourne are engaged in a secret inquiry for the Crown, hunting for a kidnapped young woman whose father is being forced to spy for France to keep her alive. Lucien would have gone to Seaford just to see Anne, but he and Sherbourne find it an odd coincidence that she has found a young woman...and they are looking for one.What Lucien learns in Seaford nearly gets him killed and leads him and Lady Anne back to London. Another murder, a bounty on Lucien's head, a perilous ride in the park, an ambush, a mysterious note, and a very slippery French spy keep Lucien and Lady Anne busy searching for answers-and determined to catch a traitorous murderer before he gets away.

Niendra Goisien is a special investigator for the Gyllethian Queen, Betelial Tim-Amre. As a Witch, she has magics that aid her in her endeavors, but the murder of the magnate Soro Divver draws her into a mystery that leads to her death. Five-hundred years later she returns as a revenant to find out not only who killed her, but the very reason the capital of Gylleth, Ramashur, reduced to an undead infested necropolis. Can she solve this mystery before she is killed again?

His naval career cost him an eye and a leg. Becoming a viscount could cost him his life.

Vancouver, 1886, Amy MacDonald, a curious, intelligent school teacher, discovers a body while swimming. Murder is tolerated in Vancouver in those days, but her swimming is scandalous.

Darcy Moreland, local TV investigator, sees a crowd gathering in front of the vacant Thompsons furniture store. Darcy's investigation unearths corruption in both city and state entities.

Follow the journey of a Santa Fe artist as she maneuvers through life's ups and downs.

Antal Varga, a Budapest violinist, is 78 years old when a young American stranger places a yellowed music sheet into his hands. With shock he recognizes his own teenage handwriting, for he himself wrote this piece in 1945, when his city was under siege. Desperate to talk with this American woman, Varga enlists his grandson Kristóf to translate; and he finds that the woman, Lisa, shares his family's painful heritage. Now his grandson and this young American press him for the story behind the music, and especially behind its shattered ending. For decades he's hidden this story of war, love, jealousy, and loss. Can he bear to tell it now? Can they bear to hear it? Cautiously Varga, Kristóf, and Lisa open the music and its hard secrets, hoping that although pain has extended over generations, perhaps love will extend further still.

Surgeon Jesse Randall serves with Marching Hospital Eight, of Wellington's army in Spain. He loves Elinore Mason, daughter of a ne'er-do-well officer. Can Jesse keep her safe from Major Bones, a terrible lecher?

The abduction of a Timorese friend's fiancé draws FBI Agent Sara Carter into the investigation of the murder of two youths that could ignite a gang war, or portend a more mysterious threat.

Sheriff Ulysses Walker, up for re-election, faces opposition from corrupt officials and criminals who use bribery, extortion and murder to achieve their ends. At stake is the water and culture of Northern New Mexico.

When the bones of a woman are dug up on a beach in Dorset whose are they? How do they connect with Nessa Halloran's present life as memories of her English post-war childhood emerge to haunt her?

Nearly two decades of living with and writing about life with chronic illness compiled and distilled into often moving, sometimes funny, always poignant and useful essays by Trevis L Gleason.

When two women come to Rosedale Investigations to report their husbands missing, the team wonders if it's the same man. He's gone on the run to escape a killer.

Mercedes Harrigan doubts death by "natural causes" explanation when she finds a corpse in her vintage apartment complex, will she expose the truth or wind up in a Harrigan Mortuary casket?

Patsy Ann was the friendliest dog on the docks in 1930s Juneau, Alaska, but she refused tobelong to anyone. Still, the whole town adopted the hearing-impaired terrier, naming her "Official BoatGreeter."

When a ghost from the past turns his fellow agent's world upside down, Viscount Ware will stop at nothing to save his friend from the hangman's noose.

"I loved this book-the thrill, romance, and danger of fishing in Alaska, and recipes that celebrate the region's bounty. Cheers to these courageous women for showing us what we can do." - Christine Keff, award-winning chef of the Flying Fish Restaurant, Seattle"This cookbook is an extraordinary brew of suprer-tasty recipes, fashion tips, cool art, photos, great fishing stories, and a cocktail or two mixed in. Surely "Fishes & Dishes" will become a culinary classic." - Ray Troll, author-illustrator of "Ray Troll's Shocking Fish Tales"A generation ago, the women featured in this book might have been celebrated as pioneers. In today's world, they are simply living their dreams and challenging one of the last frontiers - the male-dominated commercial fishing grounds of Alaska. They have worked every job, from captian to cook, and nearly every northern fishery, even the Beriing Sea king crab grounds made infamous by TV's "Deadliest Catch." Their tantalizing recipes for a full day of meals include Corn Cakes with Shrimp, Avocado and Tomato; Salmon Dumplings with Coconut Curry Suace; Thai Clam Chorder; Halibut Cheeks Picatta; Linguine with Mussels and Cider, Bacon, and Shallot Cream Sauce; and Crab, Shiso, and Avocado Tempura Salad. An don't forget to try one of their libations from the Northland, a Dark and Stormy - dark rum and ginger beer, over ice, with a lemon twist.

Kayla Jeffries, home bakery owner and Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), once more finds herself involved in a murder case when her boyfriend, restaurateur Jason Banks, is suspected of killing his longtime nemesis.

A daily, mile by mile, journal of one man''s journey with his twenty- two Malamutes, across the vastness and cold of Alaska''s north country. The cold and loneliness of the vastness of Alaska with on the companionship of his faithful dogs.

Our Alaskan Winter continues the story of husband and wife Bud and Connie Helmericks' adventures in the Arctic. That winter they lived a nomadic life with the Eskimos, hunting caribou inland and then sea mammals out on the ice in the spring.

One can only hope never to face the life-threatening dangers and distinctly Alaskan annoyances that Mary Ames warns about in this how-to-stay-alive reference that is both useful and entertaining. You'll learn: What to do if your bush pilot keels over at the controls; How to avoid starving in the wilderness by listening to ravens; How to ford a river, cross thin ice, and make snow shoes; HOw to start your frozen car at 40 below zero and thaw your plumbing; Defensive measures for avalanches, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods, and tsunamis; Lessons for dealing with wildlife, bad bugs, resident human critters, and bureaucrats.

Whimsical verse in the tradition of Ogden Nash is paired with rare photographs of wild animals and birds of the north in this unusual book that can be enjoyed on two levels by youngsters and adults. The delightful images of wild critters at "work" and "play" from Tom Walker, a widely published writer and one of Alaska''s premier wilderness photgraphers, and humorous verse from Tim Jones, an accomplished writer and editor, will please all who vernture into these pages.

It is 1983, and the anti-war movement Target Seattle is preparing for a trip to Tashkent, Seattle's Sister City in Uzbekistan. Betsy Bell's husband, Don, is the chair of the executive committee of Target Seattle, and co-leader of the trip. Travelling with three thousand copies of a peace petition, as well as her seventeen-year-old daughter and thirty others, Betsy sees first-hand the risks of travelling as an American to the USSR. She also sees the heart-warming stories of people-to-people connections across political boundaries. Upon returning to the US, Betsy pushes to find her own voice in a world where a wife's goals are subservient to her husband's. As tensions between the US and USSR are only increasing, Betsy travels to Washington, DC. She speaks to elected officials and the United Nations in favor of open borders, even as conflicting aspirations and careers become a point of contention in her marriage. With honesty and poise, Betsy chronicles a history of a time when ordinary citizens were transformed into agents of peace

At twenty-four, Connie and her young husband, Harmon "Bud" Helmericks, setout from Fairbanks, Alaska in a homemade canoe. Paddling down theTanana and into the great Yukon River, they leave their known worldbehind. Five months later, they portage a hundred miles across muskegand icing ponds to the Kuskokwim River where they battle shifting iceinto the little town of Bethel near the Bering Sea. Along the journeythey encounter Native villages and isolated settlements, learning fromexperience and the kindness of strangers. Connie's honest and lyricalvoice depicts a changing Alaska and its endangered people during apivotal moment in history.

Romantic history-filled names have long fired the imagination of every reader and visitor to the Northland. In Alaska-Yukon Place Names, author James W. Phillips takes the vacationing tourist, historian, and armchair traveler through the most memorable places in the Alaska-Yukon region. Since the most poular routes north to Alaska and the Yukon are the Marine Highway and the Alaska Highway through Canada, the entries of Alaska-Yukon Place Names include ghost towns, islands, waterways mountains and glaciers in northern British Columbia. Whether more interested in the scenery, the historic past or the fabulous yarns connected with the area, you will be delighted by the colorful towns of Alaska and the Yukon: Poorman, Shaman's Village, Chicken and Eek, and will have no trouble imagining the mettle of those pioneers who traveled Moose Pass, shot Sqauaw Rapids or panned in Pure Gold Creek.This alphabetically arranged dictionary detaisl the origins and meanings o fnames for cities, towns and a representative sampling of remote native (both Eskimo and Indian) villages in the state of Alaska and the Yukon Territory. In addition it includes the name sources of many geogaphical features that are of historical significanceTo heighten undersanding of the region, its history, and its developmant, many less prominent place names are included because they explain the flora and fauna (Fireweed Creek, Ptarmigan, Whale and Walrus islands), geology and topography (Platinum, Silver City,Pingaluk River). and exploration and settlement ( Bering Sea, Masaspina and Murir glaciers, Cook Inlet, Mount Vancouver, Sixtymile River, Hydaburg, Watson Lake).