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Photography club president Caleb loves football standout Christian Munez. He knows it's an old high school chestnut, but if being a cliche is wrong, he doesn't want to be right. They've been in school together since the fifth grade but having brothers on the same soccer team provides Caleb with a...

Stories about hungry vampires hunting for a meal of fresh blood have been around for thousands of years. This eBook can take young readers on a trip through time to learn about ancient and medieval lore about vampires. Then explore how vampire stories have changed over time until these bloodthirsty monsters became the lonesome and tortured creatures often seen in today's popular culture.

Heart-wrenching tragedies, a perilous uprising, and one impossible choice. As a professional pianist, it is only in music that Evelyn Bell allows herself to let go of reality. After the loss of her parents, Evey struggles with obsessive compulsive disorder and remains fixated on an echo of the past—until...

El Capitán Zap, Ultra Chica, Garbage Man, Seina, la Chica Satélite, el Joven Plástico de Burbujas, Abejandra… Pasen a conocer a los nuevos superhéroes, un grupo de paladines de la justicia cuyos sorprendentes poderes les permitirán rivalizar con los grandes personajes de los cómics y las películas....

No case is too small—or too strange—for the Lunghi family detective agency For the Lunghis of Bath, England, detecting is best discussed around the family dinner table; everyone gets a say. The various members of the Lunghi family are old and cantankerous, young and bolshie, responsible,...

Indianapolis social worker Adele Buffington’s caseload is unusually heavy: Solve a murder, find a missing mother and her young daughters, stay alive   Adele Buffington is working late when she’s startled by an intruder. The next day a man is found murdered. The note pinned to his jacket reads,...

“A smoothly written private**‐**eye story” and Edgar Award Finalist: Indianapolis PI Albert Samson stirs up a wealthy family’s secrets (The New York Times).   It’s a slow afternoon for Indianapolis private detective Albert Samson. He’s just awoken from an office doze when a new client...

Indianapolis’s least employed PI heads downstate in search of a missing woman in this mystery from the “funny and brilliant” Shamus Award–winning author (The Wall Street Journal).   Facing insolvency and imminent eviction, private detective Albert Samson finally catches a break. Elizabeth...

Indianapolis PI Albert Samson takes on a hospital, a pharmaceutical company, and the FBI in this “tough and clever” mystery (The New Republic).   After his slowest summer ever, struggling and desperate private eye Albert Samson places an ad in the local paper, offering his services at a bargain...

Indianapolis PI Albert Samson picks up three cases that land him on the city’s most wanted list in this mystery from the Shamus Award–winning author.   Albert Samson, Indy’s least successful PI, is working three cases at once: an ecoterrorist group threatens to bomb the city, an obnoxious poet...

“With complexity worthy of Ross Macdonald”, the award-winning author of Hard Line delivers a tightly crafted police procedural featuring Lt. Leroy Powder (Publishers Weekly).   Nineteen years in Night Cover plus five years running the Missing Persons Bureau in the Indianapolis PD has certainly...

A playwright needs PI Albert Samson to find a thieving Broadway producer in this “fast, funny and brilliant series” from the Shamus Award–winning author (The Wall Street Journal).   After a Florida vacation spent at the horse races—turning a measly profit of eighty-two cents before expenses—private...

A fake birth certificate leads Indianapolis PI Albert Samson to a woman who abandoned her child in this crime novel by a writer with “brains and style” (Los Angeles Times).   A short television spot about the life of the average private eye gives Albert Samson hope that his economic blues are...

This book examines the ways in which faculty and staff at the higher education level teach and communicate with their millennial students and colleagues. The contributors address how millennials' academic and non-academic interests and everyday performances within and outside of higher education influence...