Meet Zev Evans, the ex-cop, ex-war hero turned anxiety-ridden fixer with a plate in his head, a pharmacopeia in his pocket, a chaotic but keenly observant mind, and a fearsome set of skills. Given to reciting mantras to calm the wild horses in his head, the half-Jewish, half-Sicilian Zev debuts in a story that starts at a piano recital and ends on ......
Sam Saadoun, a closeted Jewish-Arab from Los Angeles, travels to Beijing to study. He is in pursuit of a romantic gay dream, desperate to escape the United States. When he arrives he is harassed by shadowy characters. All the while a disturbing murder mystery is unfolding in the halls of the university's most curious building.
Call of the Wild marks a turning point in the in naturalist litterature dealing with the exploration of heredity versus environmental influences. Set during the Klondike Gold Rush, the story tells the journey of Buck as a sled dog in Alaska as he becomes progressively feral in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive.
Strange things are happening to the black bear population in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The animal-parts market is highly organized, and its practitioners are ruthless and dangerous. Service finds himself chasing illusive poachers, and wrestling with the usual cast of eccentric and entertaining characters in the third Woods Cop Mystery series.
One of the strangest cases of Cherry Ames' absorbing career comes her way while working as a staff nurse at Hilton Hospital in her home town. A young man, victim of a car accident, is brought to Emergency with a broken leg. Shortly after he is admitted to the hospital, the doctors discover that "Bob Smith" has been suffering from amnesia for ......
In Army Nurse, Cherry has made the difficult decision facing all her classmates - should she enlist in the military or practice nursing on the homefront? She's graduated from Spencer and earned the right to put "RN" after her name, and as an Army nurse, she is now "Lieutenant Ames." The Army nurses are also soldiers, and endure a grueling basic ......
Cherrys natural curiosity leads her to discover a secret room in the reconstructed chAEoeteau now used as a girls boarding school. There she finds a formula that when reconstructed to its exact specifications produces a perfume that saves the school from bankruptcy.
While working as a camp nurse, Cherry follows a trail that ultimately leads to the true perpetrator of a series of robberies and exonerates a hard-working young man who had been under suspicion.
Cherry's job as nurse to the well-known historical novelist Martha Logan would be an exciting assignment for any young RN. And it is doubly exciting for Cherry, for when the author goes to England to do research for her next book, Cherry goes along as companion nurse.But the glamour of new acquaintances and the thrill of seeing famous historic ......
