Crabgrass in Bill Norbert’s front yard early one spring was the first indication that he no longer was in residence on Brimberry Lane. The exemplary neighbor was just gone, and no one seemed to know—or care enough to inquire—why he was gone or where he had gone. Now, five years later, the curiosity of his next-door neighbor’s cat reveals that Norbert has returned to his home as a corpse. The discovery sets up an intrigue that both ignites and unites the suburban neighbors on Brimberry Lane as the murder draws them into a political plot connected to the local election days away in the nearby city center. The circa 2007 events unfolding on Brimberry Lane draw on all life forces of the neighborhood, led by three four-legged sleuths, housecats Mittens, Spunky and Prissy who live on the street with retiree Melady Golden.

With Genealogy as Found in Early Dutch Church Records, State and Government Documents, Together with Sketches of Colonial Times, Old Log Cabin Days, Indian Wars, Pioneer Hardships, Social Customs, Dress and Mode of Living of the Early Forefathers

The Handbook of Social Justice in Loss and Grief is a scholarly work of social criticism, richly grounded in personal experience, evocative case studies, and current multicultural and sociocultural theories and research. It is also consistently practical and reflective, challenging readers to think through responses to ethically complex scenarios in which social justice is undermined by radically uneven opportunity structures, hierarchies of voice and privilege, personal and professional power, and unconscious assumptions, at the very junctures when people are most vulnerable—at points of serious illness, confrontation with end-of-life decision making, and in the throes of grief and bereavement. Harris and Bordere give the reader an active and engaged take on the field, enticing readers to interrogate their own assumptions and practices while increasing, chapter after chapter, their cultural literacy regarding important groups and contexts. The Handbook of Social Justice in Loss and Grief deeply and uniquely addresses a hot topic in the helping professions and social sciences and does so with uncommon readability.