Emerald City Confidential

Emerald City Confidential
Author: Jared millican
Publisher: Southern Fried Publishing
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2023-11-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"Dorothy Gale the current mayor of the Emerald City and wealthy socialite’s daughter has been murdered. Walter Diggs a former palace guard turned private detective is hired to investigate and uncover what the tin men didn’t find. What he does find will shake Oz to its very core. Drugs, sex, murder, corruption, and deception. The dark side of Oz you never knew about but always wanted to."

Ark City Confidential

Ark City Confidential
Author: H.B. Berlow
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2017-01-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1509211845

Baron Witherspoon, a disfigured WWI vet, now a beat cop in a small Kansas burg, is on a collision course with Jake Hickey, a volatile Chicago gangster. While Baron wants merely to provide residents with a safe place to live and escape the memory of the horrors of war, Jake is looking to recapture the glory of Prohibition. Forced to hide out in Arkansas City, Baron’s town, Jake’s impatient nature drives him to put together his own gang. The local crime outfit is wary of Jake’s dealings and lack of cooperation. Baron has his own suspicions but can’t prove anything. A mutual acquaintance from the past, a dead war hero, holds a secret that raises the stakes even higher. Baron has too much to lose, but the town’s future is in the balance.

Crescent City Confidential

Crescent City Confidential
Author: Aurora Rey
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2017-02-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1626397651

Best-selling mystery writer Sam Torres loves jetting around the world, researching her next plot, and enjoying local culture, cuisine, and women. Her next stop: the Big Easy. Tess Arceneaux is a New Orleans native who likes life simple and uncomplicated. That includes shucking oysters for wealthy tourists and singing at the neighborhood bar—no pretense and no pressure. When Sam saunters in looking for company in addition to dinner, she sets her sights on Tess. Although Tess is hardly inclined to get involved with a woman who’s just passing through, Sam proves very persuasive. But when casual dates hint at something more, strange and sinister things ensue. Someone doesn’t want them together and will go to extreme lengths to make her point. Will looming danger bring them closer or drive them apart for good?

Shadows of the Emerald City

Shadows of the Emerald City
Author: James W. Schnarr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2009-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780973483710

No other story has touched as many hearts and endeared itself into the American Fabric as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum. But Like all fairy tales, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has one foot planted in the fantastic and another foot planted firmly in blood. Explore the darker side of Oz...the parts too terrifying or obscene to be told as bedtime stories. 19 tales from some of today's hottest Indie writers peel back the emerald layers of the Land of Oz and reveal the pink, bloody flesh beneath. Shadows DO fall in the Emerald city, and where they are their darkest you will find the true terror of Oz.

Easy Mac OS X Lion

Easy Mac OS X Lion
Author: Kate Binder
Publisher: Que Publishing
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2011
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0789748150

SEE IT DONE. DO IT YOURSELF. It's that Easy! Easy Mac OS X Lion teaches you the fundamentals of working with the Mac operating system as well as how to use many of the applications that come with your Mac. Fully illustrated steps with simple instructions guide you through each task, building the skills you need to master Mac OS X Lion with ease. No need to feel intimidated--we'll hold your hand every step of the way. * Locate, purchase, and download applications using the Mac App Store * Use Spotlight to instantly locate any file * Chat with your friends online using audio and video * Buy music online * Use iPhoto to take control of your photo collection * Share calendars with coworkers, family, and friends * Use LaunchPad to start and organize any applications on your Mac * Make your email organize itself * Burn custom music CDs and video DVDs * Customize your desktop and icons * Set up your own wireless network to share files, printers, and Internet access

Film Noir Guide

Film Noir Guide
Author: Michael F. Keaney
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2015-05-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786491558

More than 700 films from the classic period of film noir (1940 to 1959) are presented in this exhaustive reference book--such films as The Accused, Among the Living, The Asphalt Jungle, Baby Face Nelson, Bait, The Beat Generation, Crossfire, Dark Passage, I Walk Alone, The Las Vegas Story, The Naked City, Strangers on a Train, White Heat, and The Window. For each film, the following information is provided: the title, release date, main performers, screenwriter(s), director(s), type of noir, thematic content, a rating based on the five-star system, and a plot synopsis that does not reveal the ending.

Imperial Life in the Emerald City

Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Author: Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2006-09-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307265927

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • National Book Award Finalist • This "eyewitness history of the first order ... should be read by anyone who wants to understand how things went so badly wrong in Iraq” (The New York Times Book Review). The Green Zone, Baghdad, Iraq, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new, democratic Iraq. Staffed by idealistic aides chosen primarily for their views on issues such as abortion and capital punishment, the CPA spent the crucial first year of occupation pursuing goals that had little to do with the immediate needs of a postwar nation: flat taxes instead of electricity and deregulated health care instead of emergency medical supplies. In this acclaimed firsthand account, the former Baghdad bureau chief of The Washington Post gives us an intimate portrait of life inside this Oz-like bubble, which continued unaffected by the growing mayhem outside. This is a quietly devastating tale of imperial folly, and the definitive history of those early days when things went irrevocably wrong in Iraq.

Barnyard Confidential

Barnyard Confidential
Author: Melinda Keefe
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-08-19
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1610586719

A light-hearted A-to-Z encyclopedia of farm lore, Barnyard Confidential covers everything you need to know about living in the country, from courting to dealing with manure, root picking to rat catching, winter chores to tractor restoration, hay mows to outhouses—anything and everything related to farm life. Entries from well-known country authors like E. B. White, Gwen Petersen, Roger Welsch, and Patricia Penton Leimbach range from funny definitions to full stories and are illustrated throughout with a charming mix of fun, nostalgic, black-and-white photos and illustrations. These stories are both humorous and practical and will remind you why you often have a love-hate relationship with rural living. Before you move to the country (or even if you already live there), learn all the secrets to success from Barnyard Confidential. Featured authors include the following:Eric Sloane, Roger Welsch, Gwen Petersen, Ben Logan, Jim Heynen, Bob Artley, Marjorie Myers Douglas, Hamlin Garland, E. B. White, Jerry Stelmok, Louis Bromfield, Bob Becker, William Hazlett Upson, Patricia Penton Leimbach, Jerry L. Twedt, Michael Perry, Willa Cather, Jerry Apps, Josh Billings, Michael Dregni, Jared Van Wagenen Jr., Hugh Orchard, Dorothy Canfield, Virginia Bell Dabney, Tom Anderson, Ronald Jager, Margret Aldrich, Bill Vossler, and Gordon Green.

DC Confidential

DC Confidential
Author: David Schoenbrod
Publisher: Encounter Books
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2017-03-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1594039127

You think you know why our government in Washington is broken, but you really don't. You think it's broken because politicians curry favor with special interests and activists of the Left or Right. There's something to that and it helps explain why these politicians can't find common ground, but it misses the root cause. A half century ago, elected officials in Congress and the White House figured out a new system for enacting laws and spending programs--one that lets them take credit for promising good news while avoiding blame for government producing bad results. With five key tricks, politicians of both parties now avoid accounting to us for what government actually does to us. While you understand that these politicians seem to pull rabbits out of hats, hardly anyone sees the sleight of hand by which they get away with their tricks. Otherwise, their tricks wouldn't work. DC Confidential exposes the sleights of hand. Once they are brought to light, we can stop the tricks, fix our broken government, and make Washington work for us once again. The book explains the necessary reform and lays out an action plan to put it in place. Stopping the tricks would be a constructive, inclusive response to the anger that Americans from across the political spectrum feel toward what should be our government.