The author of Party Chicks & Other Works is back with her biggest and best collection of quirky fiction yet. In Cream Tortes, an over-eating widow is too big a dish for her adult children. McKelvy takes the reader on a riotous tour of All 48 States in a hilarious memoir of cheap childhood vacations. In time for the election, there's The Senator and his politically embarrassing family. And there's more.

29-year-old Hope Reed didn't pull the trigger. But a simple choice landed her behind bars, and now she is literally fighting for her life. After her car broke down, Hope accepted a ride from two neighbourhood thugs. Later they were pulled over and arrested for a deadly convenience store robbery - and Hope was arrested too. Brendon Reed stood by his wife after her arrest. He took out a second mortgage on their house and wiped out the family's savings for her defence, but now years have passed and Hope's chances of acquittal are beginning to look grim.

"Roz Bailey's trio of fabulous 30-something Manhattanites are still the eponymous "Party Girls" in this "Sex and the City"-style urban romp."--"Publishers Weekly."

The cliche is that prostitution is the oldest profession. Isn't it time that the subject received a full reference treatment? This major 2-volume set is the first to treat in an inclusive reference what is usually considered a societal failing and the underside of sexuality and economic survival. The A-to-Z encyclopedia offers wide-ranging entries related to prostitution and the sex industry, past and present, both worldwide (mostly in the West) and in the United States. The topic of prostitution has high-interest appeal across disciplines, and the narrative entries illuminate literature, art, law, medicine, economics, politics, women's studies, religion, sociology, sexuality, film, popular culture, public health, nonfiction, American and world history, business, gender, media, education, crime, race, technology, performing arts, family, social work, social mores, pornography, the military, tourism, child labor, and more. It is targeted to the general reader, who will gain useful insight into the human race through time via its sex industry and prostitution. An introduction overviews the scope of prostitution from the earliest historical records, including the Bible. User-friendly lists that are alphabetically and topically arranged help the reader find entries of interest, as does the comprehensive index. A chronology proffers significant dates related to the topic. Each entry is signed and has suggestions for further reading. Sample entries: Abolition; Actresses; Augustine, Saint; Barr, Candy; Bible; Camp Followers; Chamberlain-Kahn Bill of 1918; Child Prostitution; Clothing, Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866, and 1869; Crime; Debby Doesn't Do It for Free; Dickens, Charles; Devadasi; Entrapment; Fallen Woman Trope; Feminism; Films, Cult; Five Points; Free Love; Geisha; Globalization; Guidebooks; Hip-Hop; HIV/AIDS and the Prostitution Rights Movement; Human Rights; Incest; Internet; Jack the Ripper; Kama Sutra; League of Nations; Lulu; Male Stripping; Mann Act; Mayhew, Henry; Memoirs; Migration and Mobility; Nazi Germany; Poetry; Purity Movements; R&R; Religion; Salvation Army; Scapegoating; Slang; Storyville; Temporary Marriage; Unions; Venice; Window Prostitution.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️“Persistently riveting. Masterful.” ~KIRKUS REVIEWS⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Detective Lei Texeira flees hazy memories of a dark past, but nothing gets in the way of solving her cases in Hawaii! Binge read this box set of USA Today bestselling books and discover you can't read just one! Bone Hook: Body retrieval in ninety feet of water challenges Lei as she pursues the murderer of a marine biologist around the reefs and through the ocean surrounding Maui, even as Stevens battles demons of his own. Red Rain: Lei reopens a cold case and chases a child killer through the jungles of Hana on Maui as her husband, Stevens, is deployed to alligator-infested wilderness in Honduras. Will they be able to survive the forces pulling them apart? Bitter Feast: The farm-to-table movement on Maui is the backdrop to murder in a fancy restaurant. Stevens and his team tackle a convoluted case with many suspects while Lei meets her biggest challenge yet...motherhood. “Neal’s writing is persistently riveting...Masterly.” Kirkus Reviews Grab this fast paced box set with a twist of romance, and take a trip to Hawaii with the series that’s sold more than a million copies!

The public has always had a fascination with true crime, from the Victorian era to the present day. Wenzell Brown, who worked with troubled teenagers in New York, turned their stories into fodder for his books.