Maggie Killian weathers bad luck, ex-boyfriends, and murder as she travels between Wyoming and Texas."Irresistible." Robert Dugoni, Author of My Sister's Grave

One unexpected and hotly fought-over little boy, two dead bodies, and a series of home vandalisms throw Texas attorney turned island chanteuse Katie Connell into a tizzy. Juggling all of this, Bloody Mary cravings, baggage, and the bad guys too, she waffles between the jumbie house that brought her back from the brink and the man she believes is the love of her life. Leaving Annalise is Volume 2 in the Katie & Annalise series. To catch Katie's first adventure, check out Volume 1, Saving Grace. Watch for Volume 3--Finding Harmony--coming in February 2014. If you like Sandra Brown or Janet Evanovich, you will love Pamela Fagan Hutchins. An attorney and native Texan, Pamela lived in the U.S. Virgin Islands for nearly ten years. She refuses to admit to taking notes for this novel during that time. #2 in the Katie & Annalise series. Catch #1, Saving Grace, and #3, Finding Harmony. Accolades for Leaving Annalise and the Katie & Annalise Series: 2011 Winner of the Houston Writers Guild Novel Contest 2010 Winner of the Writers League of Texas Romance Contest 2012 Winner of the Houston Writers Guild Ghost Story Contest [Saving Grace is] a riveting drama with plenty of twists and turns for an exciting read, highly recommended. Small Press Bookwatch an exciting tale that combines twisting investigative and legal subplots with a character seeking redemption an exhilarating mystery with a touch of voodoo. Midwest Book Review MBR Bookwatch [Saving Grace is] a lively romantic mystery that will likely leave readers eagerly awaiting a sequel. Kirkus Reviews Katie is the first character I have absolutely fallen in love with since Stephanie Plum! Stephanie Swindell, bookstore owner Could not put [Leaving Annalise] down and did not want it to end! Rebecca Weiss, attorney and reader As much as I loved Saving Grace, I love Leaving Annalise even more. Rhonda Erb, editor Living through Katie was at times nerve-wracking, embarrassing, exciting, frightening, but most of all, it was really funny. Heidi D., librarian e-book and audio versions also available.

The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it. Immigration and inequality, globalization and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate change--these are sources of great anxiety across the world, from New Delhi and Dakar to Paris and Washington, DC. The resources to address these challenges are there--what we lack are ideas that will help us jump the wall of disagreement and distrust that divides us. If we succeed, history will remember our era with gratitude; if we fail, the potential losses are incalculable. In this revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo take on this challenge, building on cutting-edge research in economics explained with lucidity and grace. Original, provocative, and urgent, Good Economics for Hard Times makes a persuasive case for an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.

Set in 1970s Wyoming, this suspenseful box set includes the first three complete mysteries in the thrilling bestselling Patrick Flint mystery series, from a Silver Falchion Best Mystery winning and USA Today bestselling author, in on large, bound volume. Switchback: When Patrick Flint's daughter goes missing on a mountain vacation, the adventurous young doctor will have just one shot to get her back. Snake Oil: When Patrick Flint goes after a murderer on the Wind River Reservation, he puts everything - and everyone - he cares about on the line. Sawbones: When a killer threatens his family before their testimony in a capital murder trial, Patrick Flint will do anything to keep them safe. Each of the novels is also available in an individual paperback. "Best book I've read in a long time!" - Kiersten Marquet, author of Reluctant Promises "Pamela Fagan Hutchins writes with the authority of a woman who knows this Wyoming world. She weaves the story with both nail-biting suspense and a healthy dose of humor. You won't want to miss it." -- Danielle Girard, USA TODAY bestselling author of White Out. "Hutchins is a talented storyteller who knows the people, and the land on which they live." -- Reavis Z. Wortham, two time winner of The Spur and author of Hawke's Prey "Starts at a gallop and had me holding on with both hands until the riveting finish. This book is highly atmospheric and nearly crackling with suspense. Highly recommend!" -- Libby Kirsch, Emmy award winning reporter and author of the Janet Black Mystery Series

Her first year away is turning out to be near perfect, but one weekend of giving in to heated passion will change everything. Eighteen year old Harper has grown up under her career-Marine father’s thumb. Ready to live life her own way and experience things she’s only ever heard of from the jarheads in her father’s unit, she’s on her way to college at San Diego State University. She finds herself being torn in two as she quickly falls in love with Brandon, who becomes her boyfriend—and her roommate’s brother Chase. Covered in tattoos, known for fighting in the Underground and ridiculously muscled...they’re exactly what she was always warned to stay away from, but just what she needs.

Reeve LeClaire is a college student, dammit, not Daryl Wayne Flint's victim. Not anymore-not when Reeve is finally recovering a life of her own after four years of captivity. Flint is safely locked up in Olshaker Psychiatric Hospital, where he belongs. He is walking the grounds of the forensic unit, performing his strange but apparently harmless rituals. It seems that he is still suffering the effects of the head injury he suffered in the car crash that freed Reeve seven years ago. Post-concussive syndrome, they call it. For all that Flint seems like a model patient, he has long been planning his next move. When the moment arrives, he gets clean away from the hospital before the alarm even sounds. And Reeve is shocked out of her new life by her worst nightmare: Her kidnapper has escaped. Less than 24 hours later, Flint kills someone from his past--and Reeve's blocked memories jolt back into consciousness. As much as she would like to forget him, she knows this criminal better than anyone else. When Flint evades capture, baffling authorities and leaving a bloody trail from the psychiatric lock-up to the forests of Washington state, Reeve suddenly realizes that she is the only one who can stop him. Reeve is an irresistibly brave and believable heroine in Carla Norton's heart-stopping new thriller, What Doesn't Kill Her, about a young woman who learns to fight back.

Identifies some 1,700 works about African Americans. Entries include full bibliographic information as well as Library of Congress call numbers and location in 11 major university libraries. Entries are arranged by subjects such as art, civil rights, folk tales, history, legal status, medicine, music, race relations, and regional studies. First published in 1970 by the Library of Congress.