Keller, Julia

Thirteen-year-old Rachel Browning understands that her father will be different after being injured in the Iraq War, but no one is prepared for the impact that his traumatic brain injury and other wounds have on the entire family.

Two years after the universal surveillance system, Intercept, was destroyed, eighteen-year-old Violet Crowley opens a private detective agency and becomes obsessed with her first case; a death written off as suicide.

"In a radiant world of endless summer, the Intercept keeps the peace. Violet Crowley, the sixteen-year-old daughter of New Earth's Founding Father, has spent her life in comfort and safety. Her days are easy thanks to the Intercept, a crime-prevention device that monitors emotion. But when her long-time crush, Danny Mayhew, gets into a dangerous altercation on Old Earth, Violet launches a secret investigation to find out what he's hiding. An investigation that will lead her to question everything she's ever known about Danny, her father, and the power of the Intercept"--OCLC.

"From the small towns of Appalachia they came, the young men who joined the fight for liberty in World War II. Now they are elderly, and some of them--like Harmon Strayer, father of prosecutor Bell Elkins's former law school classmate--suffer from Alzheimer's. When Harmon dies in an Alzheimer's care facility from what appear to be natural causes, Bell confronts a mystery that brims with questions about memory, grief and the lethal cost of burying the past. During a winter of record snow and cold, Bell and the people of Acker's Gap, West Virginia, face isolation and hardship--and the threat from a killer who preys upon the old and the sick and the helpless"--Provided by publisher.

Teenager Carla Elkins witnesses a triple homicide that might be drug related, but helping her mother Bell Elkins, the Raythume County, West Virginia, prosecuting attorney, could put her life in danger, even as it helps to repair their relationship.

"Phone calls before dawn from the sheriff are rarely good news. When Bell Elkins picks up the phone she already knows she won't like what she's about to hear, but she's still not prepared for this: Lucinda Trimble's body has been found at the bottom of Bitter River-- and she was dead before her body ever hit the water"--Jacket flap.

A comprehensive account of creation and development of the first working machine gun in 1862 by Richard Jordan Gatling, the weapon Gatling hoped would shorten or eliminate war that actually opened a path toward modern gunnery.

Thirteen-year-old Rachel Browning understands that her father will be different after being injured in the Iraq War, but no one is prepared for the impact that his traumatic brain injury and other wounds have on the entire family.

A comprehensive account of creation and development of the first working machine gun in 1862 by Richard Jordan Gatling, the weapon Gatling hoped would shorten or eliminate war that actually opened a path toward modern gunnery.