Your Search Results

      • Peace studies & conflict resolution
        May 2015

        The Politics of Disarmament and Rearmament in Afghanistan

        by Deedee Derksen

        This report examines why internationally funded programs to disarm, demobilize, and reintegrate militias since 2001 have not made Afghanistan more secure and why its society has instead become more militarized. Supported by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) as part of its broader program of study on the intersection of political, economic, and conflict dynamics in Afghanistan, the report is based on some 250 interviews with Afghan and Western officials, tribal leaders, villagers, Afghan National Security Force and militia commanders, and insurgent commanders and fighters, conducted primarily between 2011 and 2014.

      • Mystery
        2013

        Catered to Death

        A Midlife Crisis Mystery

        by Marlo Hollinger

        DeeDee and Steve Pearson enjoy that rare thing––a happy marriage.  The only fly in their marital bliss is the fact that they are approaching retirement age with only one pension (Steve’s).  DeeDee hopes to remedy their financial situation by starting her own business––a catering company.  Her first job is at Eden Academy, a private school staffed by teachers who loathe one another and a principal who is strongly lacking in principles, especially when it comes to his female employees.  When this lothario winds up dead after DeeDee’s luncheon, and her first paycheck is put on what looks like permanent hold, DeeDee decides to find out who murdered the man so that she can be assured that her first catering job will be “paid in full.” As she investigates all the faculty and staff at Eden, she soon discovers that any one of them could have finished off their boss.  Will DeeDee solve the murder and get her paycheck?  Or will she end up “catered to death”?

      • Crime & mystery
        2011

        Bingoed

        An Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mystery

        by Patricia Rockwell

        Why would spry senior Bob Weiderley suddenly fall into a coma after winning a game of Bingo?  After all, he was the most physically fit of all the men at the Happy Haven Assisted Living Facility—able to bend over to tie his own shoes and use the stairs rather than the elevator.  It was just very suspicious.  That’s why Essie Cobb and her friends and fellow residents--Opal, Marjorie, and Fay--decided to investigate.  Was it possible that someone was out to get the friendly old gentleman?  Maybe it was Violet, Happy Haven’s manager, trying to cover up her shady past.  Or Sue, the activities director, whose behavior was strange to say the least.  Maybe it was one of the three women who sat at Bob’s regular table in the dining room.  Or the mysterious man who had recently sent Bob a startling letter.  Essie Cobb is determined to find out—and she’s not going to let her age (90), her weak bladder, or her various infirmities hold her back.  Welcome to Happy Haven.  If you thought most elderly residents of assisted living facilities spent their days sitting in the sun watching television, you haven’t met senior sleuth Essie Cobb and her three detecting buddies.  These four elderly ladies have curiosity and drive unusual for women in their 80’s and 90’s.   They may not be able to get around as fast as youngsters in their 60’s, or navigate the Interstate or Interweb (or whatever that computer thing is called), but they can solve a mystery.  And they’re starting with this one.

      • Diets & dieting
        March 2012

        200 Plus Weight Loss Tips

        by Jane Thurnell-Read

      • January 2015

        Poetics Journal Digital Archive

        by Edited by Lyn Hejinian, edited by Barrett Watten

        A complete archive of the ten issues Poetics Journal

      Subscribe to our

      newsletter