A Ruby Steele Cozy Mystery Bundle: On the Rocks (Book 1), Extra Dirty (Book 2), Full Bodied (Book 3), and Straight Up (Book 4)

A Ruby Steele Cozy Mystery Bundle: On the Rocks (Book 1), Extra Dirty (Book 2), Full Bodied (Book 3), and Straight Up (Book 4)
Author: Mia Gold
Publisher: Mia Gold
Total Pages: 1000
Release: 2022-04-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1094375799

A bundle of books #1 (ON THE ROCKS), #2 (EXTRA DIRTY), #3 (FULL BODIED), and #4 (STRAIGHT UP) in Mia Gold’s Ruby Steele cozy mystery series. This bundle offers books one, two, three, and four in one convenient file, with over 150,000 words of reading. Ruby Steele, 30, beautiful, fit, seems just like any other ex-pat hiding out in the Bahamas and playing local bartender. But unruly patrons find out the hard way: Ruby is a mixed-martial-arts pro, and not one you’d want to cross. In fact, Ruby would be a champion if she hadn’t been forced to walk away and hide out in the Bahamas. Because Ruby knows too much. She knows where the bodies are buried. And she knows when it’s time to get out of town. But what Ruby doesn’t know is why there is a dead tourist in the dumpster behind her seedy bar. Or why, she, of all people, had to find it. Or why this guy was out at 3am when he had a pretty fiancé waiting in a hotel room a mile away. Or why the local cops are pinning her. Or why she’s gonna be forced into a choice: find the killer, or do hard time herself. For Ruby, good choices have never been her strong point. And this one’s definitely not going to be good… Welcome to the Bahamian world of Ruby Steele, replete with her local dive bar, her wily pet monkey, her major drinking problem, her (way) too many fights, her inability to get herself out of trouble, and her fists made of stone. Ruby’s life is a complete wreck. But there’s one thing she’s good at: capturing your heart. The RUBY STEELE cozy mystery series is a page-turning mystery/thriller series, one that will linger with you long after the last page is read.

A Ruby Steele Cozy Mystery Bundle: Full Bodied (Book 3) and Straight Up (Book 4)

A Ruby Steele Cozy Mystery Bundle: Full Bodied (Book 3) and Straight Up (Book 4)
Author: Mia Gold
Publisher: Mia Gold
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2022-04-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1094375780

A bundle of books #3 (FULL BODIED) and #4 (STRAIGHT UP) in Mia Gold’s Ruby Steele cozy mystery series. This bundle offers books three and four in one convenient file, with over 150,000 words of reading. In FULL BODIED (Book #3), Ruby’s known for making friend in bad places. And her newest friend, a bouncer at the brothel next door, is no exception. When he comes to her with a sob story, she can’t turn away. When that story turns to a body he found this morning, Ruby sits up straighter. When it turns out that body belonged to a trafficked teenaged girl, Ruby’s sense of justice is lit. Ruby’s gotta solve this one, for her own need to set wrongs right. Problem is, the cops don’t care, and this case will surely take her to some bad places, and up against some bad people. That may just include a billionaire with his own private yacht—and his own private army. It’s not like Ruby doesn’t have an army of her own coming after her. The last thing Ruby needs right now is a two-front war. But it looks like that’s exactly what she’s going to get. No one said Ruby’s judgement was good. Then again, if it was, she wouldn’t be hiding out in the Bahamas, tending bar, with a monkey on her shoulder and an enemy list a mile long. In STRAIGHT UP (Book #4), when a 40th birthday bash for a rich wife gets way out of hand, she wakes up with her best friend’s husband sleeping beside her—dead. Looking at life in a Bahamian jail for murder, she turns to Ruby for the help she desperately needs. Ruby knows what it feels like to be setup. She also knows what it’s like to be played. Is this woman telling the truth? Which one of her rich, envious friends wanted her dead? Or was it someone else completely? But Ruby has a bad habit of helping other people when barely able to handle troubles of her own: Senator Wishbourne’s briefcase is still missing, the pressure is building, and Ruby’s running out of time. And this time won’t be any different. Welcome to the Bahamian world of Ruby Steele, replete with her local dive bar, her wily pet monkey, her major drinking problem, her (way) too many fights, her inability to get herself out of trouble, and her fists made of stone. Ruby’s life is a complete wreck. But there’s one thing she’s good at: capturing your heart. THE RUBY STEELE MYSTERY SERIES is a page-turning mystery/thriller series, one that will linger with you long after the last page is read.

Extra Dirty (A Ruby Steele Mystery—Book 2)

Extra Dirty (A Ruby Steele Mystery—Book 2)
Author: Mia Gold
Publisher: Mia Gold
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2021-03-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1094372811

EXTRA DIRTY is book #2 in the Ruby Steele Mystery, which begins with ON THE ROCKS (Book #1). Ruby Steele, 30, beautiful, fit, seems just like any other ex-pat hiding out in the Bahamas and playing local bartender. But unruly patrons find out the hard way: Ruby is a mixed-martial-arts pro, and not one you’d want to cross. A 40-something female tourist seeks out Ruby, desperate for her help. She was out partying all night with her friend, both of them drinking way too much and doing things they don’t want their husbands to know about. The problem is, as of 12 hours ago, her friend is missing. Their husbands can’t know. The cops can’t know. She needs Ruby’s help. And she’s running out of time. Ruby, though, has enough problems of her own. Shadowy figures from her old life are getting close. Way too close. Can Ruby really pay detective and take on someone else’s problems? Who is this woman, anyway? And what isn’t she telling her? Ruby can’t keep away from a bad decision. And this time, it looks like, there won’t be any exception…. Welcome to the Bahamian world of Ruby Steele, replete with her local dive bar, her wily pet monkey, her major drinking problem, her (way) too many fights, her inability to get herself out of trouble, and her fists made of stone. Ruby’s life is a complete wreck. But there’s one thing she’s good at: capturing your heart. EXTRA DIRTY (A RUBY STEELE MYSTERY) is book #2 in a page-turning mystery/thriller series, one that will linger with you long after the last page is read. Book #3 (FULL-BODIED) in the series is also available.

On the Rocks (A Ruby Steele Mystery—Book 1)

On the Rocks (A Ruby Steele Mystery—Book 1)
Author: Mia Gold
Publisher: Mia Gold
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020-12-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1094372803

“Fabulous heroine! Thoroughly enjoyable. Twists keep you engaged as you turn the last pages. Ready for more adventures with Ruby. May have to catch my breath first!” – Reader Review for On the Rocks ON THE ROCKS is the debut novel in a brand-new series by bestselling mystery author Mia Gold, whose books have received over 3,000 five-star reviews and ratings. Ruby Steele, 30, former champion fighter and MMA pro, is hiding from her past in the Bahamas, playing bartender while she figures out her life. Ruby desperately wants to get away from a life of violence—but when a dead tourist is discovered in the dumpster behind her seedy bar, she gets roped in. His fiancé desperately wants Ruby’s help in finding the murderer—and with the local cops pinning it on her, solving this case might just be Ruby’s only way out. A page-turning and harrowing crime thriller featuring a brilliant and tortured martial arts pro, the RUBY STEELE series is a riveting mystery, packed with non-stop action, suspense, twists and turns, revelations, and driven by a breakneck pace that will keep you flipping pages late into the night. Books #2, #3, and #4—EXTRA DIRTY, FULL BODIED, and STRAIGHT UP— are now also available.

The Help

The Help
Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2011
Genre: African American women
ISBN: 0425245136

Original publication and copyright date: 2009.

Sucker Punch (A Holly Hands Mystery—Book #2)

Sucker Punch (A Holly Hands Mystery—Book #2)
Author: Mia Gold
Publisher: Mia Gold
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2021-02-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 109437217X

SUCKER PUNCH is book #2 in the Holly Hands Mystery series, which begins with KNOCKOUT (Book #1). Fans of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum and Jana DeLeon's Miss Fortune will find a new character to love in Holly Hands! Holly Hands. 29. Single mom. Disgraced, former boxing pro. Repo woman. Things seem like they may be looking up for Holly—until she is called into for her biggest job yet: to repo a mega-yacht. It seems like an absurd task, made more absurd by the mega party she encounters on board. Yet Holly is up for anything. But that doesn’t include dealing with a dead body. Or for having to solve yet another crime to keep herself out of jail. Luckily, Holly has Lucky by her side—a neglected pit bull she found on the wrong side of a job, who refuses to leave her side—and who, like her, has nowhere to go but up. Together, maybe they can crawl their way out of the urban hell of their bad slice of Baltimore, where coming home at night is even more dangerous than going to work. Maybe Holly can manage to get her young daughter the medical treatment she desperately needs, and manage to get her out of her dangerous public school and into the private school of her dreams. Just maybe, she can fall in love with that private school Dad from the other side of town and start a whole new life. Or maybe not. Life has never been easy for Holly. And if the past few days are any indication, it’s about to get a whole lot worse. SUCKER PUNCH (A HOLLY HANDS MYSTERY) is book #2 in a riveting new mystery series, a page-turning thriller that grabs you from page one and does not let go. Get ready to find yourself reading all night, bleary-eyed, and falling madly in love with a new character who will fight her way into your heart. Book #3 in the series (BELOW THE BELT) is now also available.

The Advocate

The Advocate
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2001-08-14
Genre:
ISBN:

The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.

SLAY

SLAY
Author: Brittney Morris
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2019-09-24
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1534445420

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019! “Gripping and timely.” —People “The YA debut we’re most excited for this year.” —Entertainment Weekly “A book that knocks you off your feet while dropping the kind of knowledge that’ll keep you down for the count. Prepare to BE slain.” —Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin and Odd One Out Ready Player One meets The Hate U Give in this dynamite debut novel that follows a fierce teen game developer as she battles a real-life troll intent on ruining the Black Panther–inspired video game she created and the safe community it represents for Black gamers. By day, seventeen-year-old Kiera Johnson is an honors student, a math tutor, and one of the only Black kids at Jefferson Academy. But at home, she joins hundreds of thousands of Black gamers who duel worldwide as Nubian personas in the secret multiplayer online role-playing card game, SLAY. No one knows Kiera is the game developer, not her friends, her family, not even her boyfriend, Malcolm, who believes video games are partially responsible for the “downfall of the Black man.” But when a teen in Kansas City is murdered over a dispute in the SLAY world, news of the game reaches mainstream media, and SLAY is labeled a racist, exclusionist, violent hub for thugs and criminals. Even worse, an anonymous troll infiltrates the game, threatening to sue Kiera for “anti-white discrimination.” Driven to save the only world in which she can be herself, Kiera must preserve her secret identity and harness what it means to be unapologetically Black in a world intimidated by Blackness. But can she protect her game without losing herself in the process?

Public Relations

Public Relations
Author: Edward L. Bernays
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2013-07-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0806189827

Public relations as described in this volume is, among other things, society’s solution to problems of maladjustment that plague an overcomplex world. All of us, individuals or organizations, depend for survival and growth on adjustment to our publics. Publicist Edward L. Bernays offers here the kind of advice individuals and a variety of organizations sought from him on a professional basis during more than four decades. With such knowledge, every intelligent person can carry on his or her activities more effectively. This book provides know-why as well know-how. Bernays explains the underlying philosophy of public relations and the PR methods and practices to be applied in specific cases. He presents broad approaches and solutions as they were successfully carried out in his long professional career. Public relations is not publicity, press agentry, promotion, advertising, or a bag of tricks, but a continuing process of social integration. It is a field of adjusting private and public interest. Everyone engaged in any public activity, and every student of human behavior and society, will find in this book a challenge and opportunity to further both the public interest and their own interest.

Investigating Iwo

Investigating Iwo
Author: Breanne Robertson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2019
Genre: Flags
ISBN: 9781732003071

"Investigating Iwo encourages us to explore the connection between American visual culture and World War II, particularly how the image inspired Marines, servicemembers, and civilians to carry on with the war and to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure victory over the Axis Powers. Chapters shed light on the processes through which history becomes memory and gains meaning over time. The contributors ask only that we be willing to take a closer look, to remain open to new perspectives that can deepen our understanding of familiar topics related to the flag raising, including Rosenthal's famous picture, that continue to mean so much to us today"--