Garrett

Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the Twenty-21st Century is a multi-authored, collaboratively conceived book of essays that tackles key challenges facing scholars studying music of the United States in the early twenty-first century. This book encourages scholars in music circles and beyond to explore the intersections between social responsibility, community engagement, and academic practices through the simple

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An accidental casualty of battle--or murder? August 1937, the Japanese have invaded northern Shanghai, and a fierce battle rages across the city, but the International Settlement is an island of safety. When an American seaman is found shot on the edge of the urban battleground, mere feet from the boundary, Doug Bainbridge is assigned to investigate for the navy. But what seems a case of foolhardy drunken daredevil sightseeing gone wrong becomes much...

Bestselling author and clinical psychologist James Malter immediately attracts police suspicion when his terminally ill patients suddenly begin suiciding and harming others. His guilt seems even more likely when the seemingly innocent victims are found to be related to his sister's acquitted killer many years earlier. With mounting casualties and a shadow threatening to derail his past and sully his career, Malter's quest to uncover the truth will...

In seventeenth-century England, loving the wrong person could put you in a hangman's noose...Noah Bancroft, banished and rejected after being caught in a compromising position, hopes for a fresh start in the new colonies, where no one knows his sins. But his bright future gets derailed when he can't keep his eyes off a handsome young native man named Jimmy Hawkey.After escaping from a cruel master, Noah finds refuge in a community of young men like...

He rescued her from a raging river, risking his own life against blizzard-like conditions. He drove her to his home over treacherous icy roads to render treatment for exposure. But when Nancy Barnett revived, she thought Wayne Crocker had kidnapped her, and Wayne doesn't have the words or the way to persuade her otherwise. Trapped together with no telephone or electricity, Wayne must keep Nancy from making an accusation that could imprison him until...

Unleash Your Inner Wit!Do you wish you could hold your own in witty banter among friends? Do you want to be quicker and cleverer with comebacks in everyday conversations? Wouldn't it be delightful to cultivate that untouchable, amusing charm that the wittiest wordsmiths exude? In How to Be Witty, humor connoisseur Kiran breaks down the science and art behind history's wittiest comedic minds. From playful jabs to saucy observational humor, you'll learn...

At 3.00 a.m. on 18th July, 2014, Mal Garrett and his wife Liz were awakened in Paris by a phone call with the sort of news no one ever wishes to receive: Liz's sister Jill and Jill's husband Roger, from whom they had parted only two days before after a delightful river cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam, had been on their way home to Australia on flight MH17, when it was blasted out of the skies over Ukraine. In the days, months, and years ahead,...

The Dreamwielder Chronicles continue with an enthralling fantasy of a young queen's struggle to rule an empire-and harness the magic within her... In the shadow of Emperor Guderian's fallen empire, young Queen Makarria finds her throne-and her life-in grave danger. The Old World Republic has come, demanding that Queen Makarria bring order to the struggling Five Kingdoms by forming a new empire, one she would rule as the Old World's puppet. When Makarria...

An effervescent history of beer brewing in the American capital city. Imagine the jubilation of thirsty citizens in 1796 when the Washington Brewery-the city's first brewery-opened. Yet the English-style ales produced by the early breweries in the capital and in nearby Arlington and Alexandria sat heavy on the tongue in the oppressive Potomac summers. By the 1850s, an influx of German immigrants gave a frosty reprieve to their new home in the form...

It's time to reclaim your throne. Too long, Queen, have you forgotten about your royal heritage which you packed up and hid away a while ago. Too long have you been moving passively through your life in a monotone fashion. Too long have you disregarded who you truly are. Confident Is She is your call to action! Your Queendom shall languish no more. You are not your past, your doubts, your mistakes, the disappointment, nor the abuse you've endured....