Penn County, Indiana: 1986 -- Eleven-year-old Trudie Brice is strangled to death in her home two weeks before Christmas. The crime goes unsolved. Twenty years later, writer Ray Krouse is looking for material for his next book and is mysteriously drawn to the little girl's gravesite, setting in motion a long and trying two-year investigation to find her killer. Can Ray convince the killer to step forward and confess? Inspired by true events, THE PASSERBY has all the twists and turns of a cold case murder investigation, but with an entirely unique and powerful ending.

Fawn Wicken is a reserved and quiet young woman holding on to the darker side of her short life. Having suffered tragedy, she is reluctant to spread her wings. There is no doubt that she is loved by her parents, she is simply unwilling to become involved with the opposite sex. When her family and friends failed to reach her, she finally accepts the built-in sensor she had been ignoring for years - it was slowly drawing her out of her dark stupor and into the dawn of life. Compelled by this sixth sense, Fawn begins to listen intently to the inner voice - someone was watching - someone was waiting for her to turn around. The Passerby was no stranger, he was her guardian. Once she accepts this eye-opening experience as the freedom it is, the relationship between her and Ethan Tribony grows quickly. She follows a new path and experiences a love she never imagined. When their relationship suffers an unintentional setback it is not a tough decision for her ‒ it is this love she follows. Despite the feeling of uncertainty lurking within her bosom, Fawn boldly moves forward. Ethan needed her! Of this, she was certain.

Alongside the upsurge in violence that came with the downfall of the Oslo era in the early 2000s, a new wave of documentaries emerged that centered on Palestinians' and Mizrahim's (Jews of Middle Eastern origins) historical and lived experiences of pain and oppression across Israel-Palestine and beyond. The documentaries challenge the systemic removal of self-represented Palestinian and Mizrahi pain from mainstream media and the public realm dominated by Israel. . This book explores how Palestinians and Mizrahim perform their long endured pain on screen. Analysing key documentary films from the first decade of the 2000s, Shirly Bahar offers a nuanced reading of the cinematic documentary corpus emerging from Israel-Palestine, as well Palestinians' and Mizrahim's different and unequal yet interrelated forms of oppression and racialization under Israeli rule. While pain sets them apart, the documentary representations of pain of Palestinians and Mizrahim invite us to consider reconnection by focusing on the very relational nature of pain.

Jester Falls has always been an idyllic town. Perfect for a getaway. And what better place to stay than Magnolia House, the tourist trap's most popular bed and breakfast, run by the eccentric Channing family. Ruth Channing loves her family—at least what's left of it. She'd do anything to protect them. But it isn't until her brother picks up a mysterious woman on the side of Route 78 that Ruth realizes how many definitions the word anything can have. Everything about Ashley Parker rings false: her past, her profession, even her name. Most worryingly of all, her reluctance to leave. When guests start disappearing, it's clear there's more at stake than just the family business... a lot more.

As a fictional work, this novel is used by the author to describe what could have or may have happened in the events of Hurricane Katrina. Daniel, the main character, is left behind in New Orleans with this three brothers and mother who all live in a poor section of the city. Like many in the Big Easy, his family does not evacuate. In the novel, Daniel appears to be smarter than the rest of his family. During the night before Katrina makes landfall, Daniel has dreams. In these dreams, certain things are revealed to the main character that really frightens him. He believes that the dreams are unreal, but then he finds logic in them. These dreams tell Daniel about his home state and the truth about what really happened in New Orleans and Louisiana. Moreover, throughout the novel, Daniel finds himself afraid of the future and the possible outcome of Katrina. He also comes to realize that certain things in his state are not what they seem. Daniel then finds out certain themes in his home state and is not pleased.

This book presents an argument for egalitarian anarchism (understood as a moral theory) and sheds light on numerous debates in political philosophy. It argues that social anarchism is a coherent philosophical position that follows from a more plausible principle that constrains which moral theories are acceptable.

How We Fight: Ethics in War presents a substantial body of new work by some of the leading philosophers of war. The ten essays cover a range of topics concerned with both jus ad bellum (the morality of going to war) and jus in bello (the morality of fighting in war). Alongside explorations of classic in bello topics, such as the principle of non-combatant immunity and the distribution of risk between combatants and non-combatants, the volume also addresses ad bellum topics, such as pacifism and punitive justifications for war, and explores the relationship between ad bellum and in bello topics, or how the fighting of a war may affect our judgments concerning whether that war meets the ad bellum conditions. The essays take a keen interest in the micro-foundations of just war theory, and uphold the general assumption that the rules of war must be supported, if they are going to be supported at all, by the liability and non-liability of the individuals who are encompassed by those rules. Relatedly, the volume also contains work which is relevant to the moral justification of several moral doctrines used, either explicitly or implicitly, in just war theory: in the doctrine of double effect, in the generation of liability in basic self-defensive cases, and in the relationship between liability and the conditions which are normally appended to permissible self-defensive violence: imminence, necessity, and proportionality. The volume breaks new ground in all these areas.