A search for a missing 26-year-old sends Aniruddha Jha and Joyita Roy—Ronny & Jo—into the underbelly of IT businesses in Washington, D.C., and the private lives of vulnerable Indian tech workers. With deception and lies at every turn, there’s more than one disturbing reason for the young man’s disappearance, and the stakes are raised with a deadly encounter on the Capital Beltway. Someone is out to terminate Ronny and Jo’s search. CRIMSON FALL is the first book in the exciting new series: RONNY & JO MYSTERIES. Tech multimillionaire couple Ronny & Jo thought they had their hands full with startup mentoring, kickboxing, and managing an NGO until they figured out a new life skill: solving mysteries. This vocation sees them driving around Washington, D.C.'s national capital region, chasing crooks and killers lurking within the Indian community. A tech startup mentor, keyboardist for a D.C.-area band, and prolific home chef, fifty-year-old Ronny, who sold his Cloud startup company in 2016, is the reluctant strategist dragged by Jo into investigations. The power bank driving the duo's sleuthing, fifty-year-old Jo advocates sustainable building design, kickboxes regularly, and runs forty miles every week. As they square off against adversaries in Washington, D.C.’s Indian community, Ronny & Jo are aided by ethical hacker Ben; cabbie Naz; building concierge Santana; D.C. insider Peyton; and Loki, or Professor Lokanathan, guru of all things arcane. Detective Nicole Oduwole of the Arlington PD brings the authority of the police into play. Jo’s father Dr. Debjit Roy, a retired orthopedic surgeon, offers words of caution and encouragement in equal measure, while his younger brother, the retired Colonel Ranjit Roy of the Indian army, can be called upon for matters of security and surveillance.

"A search for a missing 26-year-old sends Indian tech millionaires Ronny and Jo probing the underbelly of Indian American IT businesses in the Washington, D.C. area and delving into the private lives of vulnerable desi tech workers. With deception and lies at every turn, there’s more than one disturbing reason for the young man’s disappearance, and the stakes are raised with a deadly encounter on the Capital Beltway. Someone wants to bring Ronny and Jo’s search to a dead end"--Back cover.

Long ago the world fell into twilight, when the great empires of old consumed each other in sorcerous cataclysms. In the south the Star Towers fell, swallowed by the sea, while the black glaciers descended upon the northern holdfasts, entombing the cities of Min-Ceruth in ice and sorcery. Then from the ancient empire of Menekar the paladins of Ama came, putting every surviving sorcerer to the sword and cleansing their taint from the land for the radiant glory of their lord. The pulse of magic slowed, fading like the heartbeat of a dying man. But after a thousand years it has begun to quicken again. In a small fishing village a boy with strange powers comes of age . . . A young queen rises in the west, fanning the long-smoldering embers of magic into a blaze once more . . . Something of great importance is stolen - or freed - from the mysterious Empire of Swords and Flowers . . . And the immortals who survived the ancient cataclysms bestir themselves, casting about for why the world is suddenly changing . . .

This book is for higher education faculty and staff who wish to deepen their approach to mentoring all students, but it is especially concerned with “outsider” students – those who come from groups that were long excluded from higher education, and who have been marginalized and minoritized by society and academia. Mentoring is difficult work for an abundance of reasons, and – given higher education’s troubled history of exclusion, as well as a contemporary context fraught with social and power imbalances – it can be especially challenging when the mentorship takes place across dimensions of difference such as social class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, or ability. Mutuality, Mystery, and Mentorship in Higher Education examines the seemingly spontaneous and serendipitous connection between mentor and protégé, and points to a new vision of mentorship based on a deep sense of reciprocity between the two. Hinsdale proposes that if more mentors take a responsive, decolonizing approach to their work across difference, then the promise of social and class mobility through education might be realized for more of our students and the tide might begin to turn toward an increasingly inclusive, intellectually open academy.

The silent film era was known in part for its cliffhanger serials and air of suspense that kept audiences returning to theaters week after week. Icons such as Douglas Fairbanks, Laurel and Hardy, Lon Chaney and Harry Houdini were among those who graced the dark and shadowy screen. This reference guide to silent films with mystery and detective content lists more than 1,500 titles in one of entertainment's most popular and enduring genres. While most of the films examined are from North America, mystery films from around the world are included.