In Dark Arson (#16) set in Portland in 1975, Mike's neighborhood is victim to a series of mysterious arson cases, including a house he was renovating. When an old lady at the end of his block is killed in a fire, her daughter, a stunning redhead psychiatrist from Olympia, Washington, hires Mike to find the arsonist. His investigation leads to a famous bank robber of the 1930s and 40s, Eddie Bentz, who consulted on hundreds of bank robberies for various crooks and hid untold wealth in flophouses around the country. Mike teams up with Dan Ahrens, a Seattle detective and learns that past accomplices of Bentz are squeezing him to find out his hiding places. Fire chases Mike as he chases a man thought to have drowned in a 1962 escape from Alcatraz. Lots of twists and turns in this adult language and seduction situation novel.
DEADLY PLOTS OF GREED AND DUPLICITY June 1944: Allied forces in England are poised to launch Operation Overlord, the massive invasion of Nazi occupied France. In Normandy, French Resistance operatives Doris Cohen, alias Colette Blanchette, codename Sparrow, and Pierre Dufort, codename Hawk, implement an audacious plan to weaken Nazi forces on D-Day. March 2016: Henri Legrand, leader of French industrial giant Dufort Engineering, confronts tech CEO Mike Gold in his Silicon Valley office with an outlandish claim. He says that billionaire Pierre Dufort, now 95 years old, is Mike's real grandfather. Is it possible that Mike's sweet little Jewish Grandma Doris from Brooklyn, New York, was in the Resistance and had a French lover during World War II? To find out, Mike and Lisa Gold travel to Normandy to visit Pierre Dufort at his majestic ch teau. Over the course of three perilous days, murder engulfs Mike's newfound French family, and he and Lisa must unravel deadly plots of greed and duplicity.
Dr. Michael Likey recounts stories from when he was a television and media celebrity in Winnipeg, Canada in the 1980's and '90's. Filled with humorous anecdotes and tall tales of misadventure, this is not only an autobiographical account of Magic Mike Likey, but is also important for its historical significance, and also for Magic Mike's place in Winnipeg's so-called Golden Age of Television If you want to recapture the magic that was (and still is) Winnipeg, this is for you This collector's edition also contains more than 30 rare and collectible photographs
Suzanne Brockmann Presents a new series of category romance novellas set in Southern California, written by Jason T. Gaffney with Ed Gaffney. Short, spicy, and funny, the California Comedy series puts the comedy in rom-com. Attorney Mike Davis has just about everything he's ever wanted-a great job and a beautiful condo in LA. Basically, he's all set-except for the fact that romance disappeared from his life some years ago, and hasn't been heard from since. So when a work assignment brings him to the small mountain resort town of Dancing Elk, the home of his estranged childhood crush, Mike expects his nonexistent love-life to go from bad to awkward mess. Handyman and amateur photographer Jeremy Schofield grew up in sleepy Dancing Elk, and got used to being left behind when vacations ended and the visiting families went back home. As a child, Jeremy lived for the long, lazy summer days when his best friend Mike was in town. Mike was his match in so many ways-he'd even learned sign language to communicate with Jeremy, who is Deaf. But the year they turned seventeen, both Jeremy and Mike fell under the spell of the same boy, and at the end of that summer, when Mike left, he left for good. But now Mike's back, and he surprises Jeremy by asking for his help in repairing an important client's estate. When the two old friends work side-by-side, sparks fly and passion ignites as a kamikaze bat, a collapsing floor, a stray alpaca, and an elderly woman with the worst plumbing in California conspire to bring them back together. (34,000 words or 130 pages)
Within 24 hours of being released from prison, Franky Dalton was charged with rape and assault of a motel maid. Mike McCarthy has moved to Brisco, Montana to take a job as their District Attorney. The rape of Martina Campos will be his first big case at his new job. Why is he being sabotaged in his case by the one man who is supposed to be on his team?
Behind a remote lodge overlooking Crescent City California, stands a mysterious lookout tower used to signal the shoreline and ships at sea. The signals coordinate marijuana shipments. Mike seeks two women missing from the same area. Were they abducted by a drug cartel? Mike comes in contact with weird personalities, including a professional wrestler, a wide-eyed motel desk man, a blonde with a past who plays him for a sap, and an ex-Nazi who the US government has installed in a group exploring biological warfare, Operation Paperclip. He follows the husband of one of the missing women and discovers the remote lodge and lookout tower. He sneaks inside and eavesdrops on the group's nasty plan. He joins forces with the FBI to raid the lodge headquarters but ignores orders to stay back. Adult situations and language. Number 19 in the series set in Portland, Eugene, Bandon and Crescent City in 1978.
"The Nature of Things" The Mike Kelley Gallery invited three artists to celebrate "The Nature of Things". In a world currently filled with uncertainties the attention to 'all things Nature' allows us a freedom of, and connection to the differences in our world. Each day we are called on to make choices about how to live, to be. A showing-up for the not so simple phenomena of the physical world, landscapes, animals, plants; the not so easy human condition man-made structures, social rules; and the never superficial inherent beauty of things-their sense of magic. Each with a language of its own when perception gets a hold on our soul, and we can't look away from what they demand of us. Art has a way of saving "things" from extinction, even if it's just a simple, easy, depth of a new color, sound, distraction from-there is nothing so compelling when it comes to an artistic view. Gallery A: Lillian Abel, "Energy" Gallery B: Tracey Weiss, "Metamorphosis" Gallery C: Karrie Ross, "Balance & Flow" Gallery A: Lillian Abel "Energy" My work depicts Nature, however, it is made in my studio from memory, impulse and emotions. They are abstracted by the palette knife, searching for hidden worlds and images in the paint that reveal on the picture plane. They need to be uncovered, stroked, massaged and moved onto the surface, brought up from where they are hiding; surprising me with their ability to come forth when called by my hand. Revealing the recognized of our 'world sight' as unrecognizable, opening the eye of the witness to the experienced memory of the coalescence of fierceness and delicacy in the wilderness. Beginning from the darkness, moving to find hidden worlds that lay just beyond the edge of our awareness, calling the unexplored knowledge of the unseen. Gallery B: Tracey Weiss "Metamorphosis" is an investigation into the innate cycle of nature, as well as our own society. Seasons, life cycles, survival of the fittest: these are all terms we come to know as relating to wildlife, ecology, and the natural world around us. These terms also play an important role in our man-made world of industry, advancement, and even sociology. While 35mm slides left the mainstream in the late 1970s as every household's record of their summer vacation, slide film had an extended life in the art world and academia. Artists' portfolios were captured in slides well into the late 1990's and even into the early 21st century for some. Since the digital film has taken over, slide portfolios and slide libraries have been collecting dust in artist studios and educational institutions everywhere. In the work in "Metamorphosis", viewers are invited to view these miniature, framed images as objects unto themselves, evolving from an outdated photography medium to a new sculpture medium. Gallery C: Karrie Ross "Balance & Flow" continues the questions for how exposure to higher vibrations, deep thinking, and taking actions are able to twist perception and create the ability to make conscious choices affecting personal growth. Art is a powerful influencer. Art that encourages choice creates a kinetic pull in such a way that it takes the action of 'walking away' from it to realize something changed and a safe place using space/time experiences now exists. "Balance & Flow" presents the experience of the "letting go" in her abstract paintings, paired with the introspection of her 3D figurative installation on the 5 Elements- together offering choices and reflection of 'what is' and 'what's next'-as a rock is to a stream, intentionally balancing conflict-allowing a sense of magic, inherent beauty.
Life With Mike is a true story about living with, caring for, and loving a man with Down's syndrome. Mike Williams Douthit lived with Down's Syndrome for 55 years. During the last 17 years he was blessed to be cared for by the devoted mother he deserved, author Angie Douthit, the father he had always longed for, Brad Douthit, and the sisters and brothers he had constantly hoped for, Whitney, Kaylee, Mackenzie, and Zeke. This story focuses on how a person with Down's syndrome can so effortlessly change and bless so many lives in a humorous, tender, and heartfelt way. Mike inspired the author and her family to view life with a novel and fresh perspective... with unconditional family love and a hug for one and all. Author Angie Douthit wrote this touching story to help herself move through the grieving process after Mike's death. She is inspired by her family and by God. Douthit works as a National Board Certified third-grade teacher. She is currently working on her master's degree as a reading specialist. Douthit grew up in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, and now resides in Miami, Oklahoma, where serving Christ and taking care of her family is her greatest passions. Publisher's website: http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/LifeWithMike.html
Known for his later work as the writer of bestsellers such as Jaws II and for classic TV shows such as The Fugitive, Hank Searls began his career toiling in the pages of Dime Detective and other Popular Publications detective magazines penning tales of P.I. Mike Blair, a Sam Spade-esque detective based in San Francisco. The edition collects all seven Blair stories, along with an introduction by Searls himself.
