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Pelican Bay Stories: First in Series Sampler

Author : Megan Matthews

Publisher : Megan Matthews

Page : 516 pages

File Size : 28,81 MB

Release : 2024-03-21

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Download 3 first-in-series books from USA TODAY Bestselling Author Megan Matthews for FREE! Grab this box set to experience life in the action-packed, hilarious small-town of Pelican Bay. Former SEALS, billionaires, and an orchard owner who just wants to pay the bills will keep you laughing. SECURITY RISK A humorous romantic suspense from USA TODAY Bestselling Author Megan Matthews! The past is never far behind you. I didn’t expect to find my new next-door neighbor breaking into her aunt’s home. Or the random henchmen harassing her about a pile of missing diamonds. Tabitha Thompson is on the run from an abusive ex-boyfriend, and I desperately want to help. As a former Navy SEAL, I have the skills to deal with any idiot dishing out black eyes. My desire to protect her goes way beyond casual. But Tabitha pulls back when I show her I’m interested. Is it my back luck with women, or will she distrust all men forever? When Tabitha’s lies, drama, and ex-boyfriend catch up with her and things turn violent, I’ll fight to keep us both alive. If you love military heroes, then grab a copy of Security Risk and snuggle up with this small-town romantic suspense comedy. FAMILY BUSINESS Family bonds are at stake in the first Pelican Bay billionaire romance from USA TODAY Bestselling author Megan Matthews. We’ve all heard the story. Rich jerk pays a hot chick to be his fake fiancé, and they fall madly in love. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen this time. When my cousin offered $2 million to a family friend, I thought he’d lost his mind. Then I met her. Mari Chambers hasn’t been in America for two years, but now she’s here and alone. Her Guatemala humanitarian project needs more funding, and my cousin’s offer is the payday she can’t refuse no matter his conditions. She’ll put up with anything to get her money, but I can’t sit back and watch her crumble. I also won’t let her fall in love with anyone besides me. Mari’s about to find out there’s more than one billionaire in this town. I’m not as flashy as my cousin, but I’ll flicker all the lights to get her attention. What will my cousin do when I steal his fake fiancé? Love a twist on a classic trope? Read how this fake fiancé story plays out by grabbing a copy of Family Business today! For fans of the Pelican Bay Security series. This is your chance to visit with more of your favorite characters. OUR FIRST HOLIDAY Bank balance: Zero Farm Bills: Due I’m going to lose the Halliday family farm. I promised to save the place when my father let me take over, but the buildings are crumbling around us. There’s no time to focus on anything but staying above water. We’re not ready for a guest in the unfinished bed-and-breakfast, but that doesn’t stop the town busybody from finding us a hesitant visitor. Let’s hope my adorable Alaskan Malamute puppy wins Ember’s heart. Maybe then she won’t notice the peeling wallpaper, squeaky steps, or the bill collectors knocking on the door. Right when I’m at my breaking point, Ember tells me her secret. One that will change everything. If she can only get me to listen. For fans of Pelican Bay and holiday romances. Grab this relaxed Christmas story from USA TODAY Bestselling author Megan Matthews.



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Author : Keramet Reiter

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 313 pages

File Size : 47,54 MB

Release : 2016-10-31

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0300224559

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How America’s prisons turned a “brutal and inhumane” practice into standard procedure Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day in featureless cells, with no visitors or human contact for years on end, and they are held entirely at administrators’ discretion. Keramet Reiter tells the history of one “supermax,” California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, whose extreme conditions recently sparked a statewide hunger strike by 30,000 prisoners. This book describes how Pelican Bay was created without legislative oversight, in fearful response to 1970s radicals; how easily prisoners slip into solitary; and the mental havoc and social costs of years and decades in isolation. The product of fifteen years of research in and about prisons, this book provides essential background to a subject now drawing national attention.



Crime and Justice, Volume 51

Author : Michael Tonry

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 469 pages

File Size : 21,62 MB

Release : 2023-01-04

Category : Law

ISBN : 022682506X

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Volume 51 is a thematic volume on Prisons and Prisoners. Since 1979, the Crime and Justice series has presented a review of the latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. The series explores a full range of issues concerning crime, its causes, and its cures. In both the review and the occasional thematic volumes, Crime and Justice offers an interdisciplinary approach to address core issues in criminology. Volume 51 of Crime and Justice is the first to reprise a predecessor, Prisons (Volume 26, 1999), edited by series editor Michael Tonry and the late Joan Petersilia. In Prisons and Prisoners, editors Michael Tonry and Sandra Bucerius revisit the subject for several reasons. In 1999, most scholarly research concerned developments in Britain and the United States and was published in English. Much of that was sociological, focused on inmate subcultures, or psychological, focused on how prisoners coped with and adapted to prison life. Some, principally by economists and statisticians, sought to measure the crime-preventive effects of imprisonment generally and the deterrent effects of punishments of greater and lesser severity. In 2022, serious scholarly research on prisoners, prisons, and the effects of imprisonment has been published and is underway in many countries. That greater cosmopolitanism is reflected in the pages of this volume. Several essays concern developments in places other than Britain and the United States. Several are primarily comparative and cover developments in many countries. Those primarily concerned with American research draw on work done elsewhere. The subjects of prison research have also changed. Work on inmate subcultures and coping and adaptation has largely fallen by the wayside. Little is being done on imprisonment’s crime-preventive effects, largely because they are at best modest and often perverse. An essay in Volume 50 of Crime and Justice, examining the 116 studies then published on the effects of imprisonment on subsequent offending, concluded that serving a prison term makes ex-prisoners on average more, not less, likely to reoffend. In 1999, little research had been done on the effects of imprisonment on prisoners’ families, children, or communities, or even—except for recidivism— on ex-prisoners’ later lives: family life, employment, housing, physical and mental health, or achievement of a conventional, law-abiding life. The first comprehensive survey of what was then known was published in the earlier Crime and Justice: Prisons volume. An enormous literature has since emerged, as essays in this volume demonstrate. Comparatively little work had been done by 1999 on the distinctive prison experiences of women and members of non-White minority groups. That too has changed, as several of the essays make clear. What is not clear is the future of imprisonment. Through more contemporary and global lenses, the essays featured in this volume not only reframe where we are in 2022 but offer informed insights into where we might be heading.



Issues for Debate in American Public Policy

Author : CQ Researcher,

Publisher : CQ Press

Page : 433 pages

File Size : 15,52 MB

Release : 2016-05-24

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1506352596

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This collection of non-partisan reports written by award-winning CQ Researcher journalists focuses on provocative current policy issues. As an annual publication that comes together just months before it goes to press, the volume is all new and as up-to-date as possible. And because it’s CQ Researcher, the policy reports are expertly researched and written, showing all sides of an issue. Chapters follow a consistent organization—exploring three issue questions, then offering background, current context, and a look ahead—and feature a pro/con debate box. All issues include a chronology, bibliography, photos, charts, and figures. All selections are brand new and explore some of today’s most significant American public policy issues, including the marijuana industry, air pollution and climate change, racial conflict, housing discrimination, campus sexual assault, transgender rights, reforming veteran’s health care, and immigrant detention.



Dream Singers

Author : Anthony Shafton

Publisher : Turner Publishing Company

Page : 201 pages

File Size : 34,78 MB

Release : 2010-03-08

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 0470653345

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Advance Praise for Dream-Singers "You will find a great storehouse of folk and literary treasures in this ambitious book that speaks to anyone who has ever thought about his or her dreams. It's a wonderful adventure and I highly recommend it."-Clarence Major, author of Configurations and Juba to Jive Acclaim for Dream Reader also by Anthony Shafton "A book so unique in its combination of scholarship, clarity, and down-to-earth feeling about dreams that I find it hard to fully express the excitement and satisfaction I felt on reading it."-Montague Ullman, M.D., Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Author of Working with Dreams and Dream Telepathy "Breathtaking . . . the single most complete and thorough analysis of contemporary dream theories yet written . . . Shafton has a keen sense for what people most want to know about dreams, and an admirable ability to explain difficult concepts without oversimplifying them."-Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D., Past President, The Association for the Study of Dreams, Author of The Wilderness of Dreams



Locked in Silence

Author : Sloane Kennedy

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 266 pages

File Size : 50,25 MB

Release : 2017-09-15

Category :

ISBN : 9781976149948

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I've spent years hoping someone would finally hear me. It's easier not to try anymore... Ten years after leaving his small Minnesota hometown in his rearview mirror for what Nolan Grainger was sure would be the last time, life has decided to throw the talented musician a curveball and send him back to the town he lived in but was never really home. At twenty-eight, Nolan has traveled the world as a successful concert violinist with some of the best symphonies in the country. But success breeds envy, and when Nolan's benefactor and lover decides Nolan has flown high enough, he cruelly clips Nolan's wings. The betrayal and ensuing scandal leaves the violinist's career in shambles and with barely enough money to start fresh somewhere beyond his vindictive ex's powerful reach. But just as he's ready to get his life back on track, Nolan gets the call he's been dreading. After a stroke leaves his father a partial invalid, duty-bound Nolan returns to Pelican Bay and a life he's spent years trying to forget. When he's forced to use the last of his own money to keep from losing the family home, desperation has him turning to the one man he'd hoped never to see again... Even if I could speak, there wouldn't be anyone there to listen... Pelican Bay's golden boy, Dallas Kent, had the quintessential perfect life. Smart, gorgeous, and popular, the baseball phenom was well on his way to a life filled with fame and fortune. But more importantly, he had a one-way ticket out of Pelican Bay and far away from the family who used love as currency and whose high expectations were the law of the land. But a stormy night, sharp highway curve and one bad decision changed everything, leaving Dallas with nothing. Because the accident that took his parents, his future and his crown as the boy who could do no wrong, also stole his voice. Despised for the horrific wreck that ended the lives of two of Pelican Bay's most respected residents, Dallas has retreated to a secluded stretch of land where he's found refuge in a menagerie of unwanted animals that don't care that he once had the world at his feet or that he'll never speak again. But when the quiet, bookish boy he wasn't allowed to notice in school suddenly reappears ten years later at Dallas's wildlife rehab center in desperate need of a job, Dallas is thrust back into a world he's worked hard to escape. Dallas's silence was supposed to send Nolan scurrying, but what if Nolan ends up being the one person who finally hears him? Will two men who've been fleeing from the past finally come home to Pelican Bay for good or will the silence drive them apart forever?



Prime Time Prisons on U.S. TV

Author : Bill Yousman

Publisher : Peter Lang

Page : 212 pages

File Size : 41,68 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Art

ISBN : 9781433104770

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In the current era of rampant incarceration and an ever-expanding prison-industrial complex, this crucial book breaks down the distorted and sensationalistic version of imprisonment found on U.S. television. Examining local and national television news, broadcast network crime dramas, and the cable television prison drama Oz, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the stories and images of incarceration most widely seen by viewers in the U.S. and around the world. The textual analysis is augmented by interviews with individuals who have spent time in U.S. prisons and jails; their insights provide important context while encouraging readers to critically reflect on their own responses to television images of imprisonment. Appropriate for both undergraduates and postgraduates, Prime Time Prisons on U.S. TV is useful for courses in media criticism, media literacy, popular culture, television studies, and criminology.



Brown Pelican

Author : Rien Fertel

Publisher : LSU Press

Page : 83 pages

File Size : 37,92 MB

Release : 2022-09-07

Category : Nature

ISBN : 0807178799

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In this compelling book, Rien Fertel tells the story of humanity’s complicated and often brutal relationship with the brown pelican over the past century. This beloved bird with the mythically bottomless belly—to say nothing of its prodigious pouch—has been deemed a living fossil and the most dinosaur-like of creatures. The pelican adorns the Louisiana state flag, serves as a religious icon of sacrifice, and stars in the famous parting shot of Jurassic Park, but, most significantly, spotlights our tenuous connection with the environment in which it flies, feeds, and roosts—the coastal United States. In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt inaugurated the first national wildlife refuge at Pelican Island, Florida, in order to rescue the brown pelican, among other species, from the plume trade. Despite such protections, the ubiquity of synthetic “agents of death,” most notably DDT, in the mid-twentieth century sent the brown pelican to the list of endangered species. By the mid-1960s, not one viable pelican nest remained in all of Louisiana. Authorities declared the state bird locally extinct. Conservation efforts—including an outlandish but well-planned birdnapping—saved the brown pelican, generating one of the great success stories in animal preservation. However, the brown pelican is once again under threat, particularly along Louisiana’s coast, due to land loss and rising seas. For centuries, artists and writers have portrayed the pelican as a bird that pierces its breast to feed its young, symbolizing saintly piety. Today, the brown pelican gives itself in other ways, sacrificed both by and for the environment as a bellwether bird—an indicator species portending potential disasters that await. Brown Pelican combines history and first-person narrative to complicate, deconstruct, and reassemble our vision of the bird, the natural world, and ourselves.



The Publishers Weekly

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Publisher :

Page : 1018 pages

File Size : 18,88 MB

Release : 1994

Category : American literature

ISBN :

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The Green Wall

Author : D. J. Vodicka

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 154 pages

File Size : 50,1 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1440140596

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"The career of Donald "D.J." Vodicka encompassed the rapid expansion of the prison system. For sixteen years, he was a prison guard in California's highest security prisons, serving meals to gang leaders, serial killers in lockdown cells, and patrolling exercise yards filled with violent felons while unarmed and outnumbered 1000-2. He was a decorated veteran officer. He became the sole "whistle-blower" to uncover a group of rogue prison guards who called themselves "The Green Wall". " -- Back cover.