Death Is The Pits

When scholar Terry Williams arrives in Iverness, Scotland, to complete her research on a woman burned at the stake for "congress with the Devil" in the seventeenth century, she finds the city in an uproar over the very recent murder of a young "Wiccan" woman. By the author of The Poison Tree. Reprint.

Love is a gamble. As floor supervisor at the Casablanca Casino, Dallas Daniels can deal with trouble, even if it comes from her demanding boss. But Fate rolls snake eyes for her when the boss ends up dead and she's the main suspect. Pit manager Greg Holland knows Dallas didn't kill anyone. But he soon has troubles of his own when the casino manager is murdered and Greg leaps to the top of the suspect list. As the body count increases, Dallas and Greg join forces to catch a murderer. To prove their innocence, they'll stake everything: their jobs, their hearts, even their lives, all the while knowing that love may be the biggest gamble of all--if they survive.

A missing wife. A kingdom in danger. What can a royal scribe who has never held a weapon do? Come on a journey to the great city of Ur in this thriller set in the cradle of civilization. Royal scribe Nemur is returning home after a failed mission to the governor of a neighboring city. He is looking forward to seeing his pregnant wife and resting for a few days before the king sends him on a new arduous task of seeking support for a kingdom under threat.But the house is empty. His wife is missing.What begins as a desperate search for answers is about to plunge Nemur into a diabolical conspiracy, and the man who has spent his years with reed pens and clay tablets must now confront terrifying forces to not only secure justice for his wife but also to save his own life and the entire kingdom. Note: This may be read as a standalone as part of the Whispers of Atlantis series.

Describes the origin of the La Brea tar pits, discusses the prehistoric life that has been found in them, and tells how scientists have explored them and studied what they have found there.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

It's only a matter of time before a cosmic disaster spells the end of the Earth. But how concerned should we about about any of these catastrophic scenarios? And if they do post a danger, can anything be done to stop them?

Israeli youth voyages to Poland are one of the most popular and influential forms of transmission of Holocaust memory in Israeli society. Through intensive participant observation, group discussions, student diaries, and questionnaires, the author demonstrates how the State shapes Poland into a living deathscape of Diaspora Jewry. In the course of the voyage, students undergo a rite de passage, in which they are transformed into victims, victorious survivors, and finally witnesses of the witnesses. By viewing, touching, and smelling Holocaust-period ruins and remains, by accompanying the survivors on the sites of their suffering and survival, crying together and performing commemorative ceremonies at the death sites, students from a wide variety of family backgrounds become carriers of Shoah memory. They come to see the State and its defense as the romanticized answer to the Shoah. These voyages are a bureaucratic response to uncertainty and fluidity of identity in an increasingly globalized and fragmented society. This study adds a measured and compassionate ethical voice to ideological debates surrounding educational and cultural forms of encountering the past in contemporary Israel, and raises further questions about the representation of the Holocaust after the demise of the last living witnesses.