Jeff Miller

FBI Special Agent Dagny Gray investigates after a thief's crimes, which started with the theft of a single pack of gum, escalate into double murder.

The Bubble Gum Thief

A Global History

Avocado

Special Agent Dagny Gray is a member of a small FBI team with unprecedented independence. To maintain their autonomy, the team must continue to solve big cases. To stay on the team, Dagny must keep her personal demons under control. When Father Diego Vega tells her that undocumented workers are vanishing from a small town gripped by immigration politics, Dagny thinks she s found her next case. But without bodies or proof of foul play, her boss won t let her take it. Defying his orders, Dagny risks her career to investigate with Father Vega. The families of the victims don t trust her. The local police won t help her, and the sheriff wants to stop her. Deep down, she worries that she s not going to find the missing men alive. But what she uncovers is more horrifying than anything she could have imagined. "

Borderline Insanity

"This is the true story of a lawyer and his partner who give up their corporate lives in London to run an ice cream shop and small inn in Wisconsin's north woods. It is a tale of starting over, slowing down, and ice cream"--

Notes from a Small Ice Cream Shop

Scoop

The avocado is arguably the most iconic food of the twenty-first century. In less than one-hundred years, it has gone from a little-known regional delicacy to global embrace and social media fame. This may seem like an astounding trajectory for a fruit that isn’t sweet, that gets bitter when it is cooked, and has perhaps the oddest texture of any fruit or vegetable. But it is precisely the avocado’s contradictions that have contributed to its ascent: the idea that this rich and delicious fruit is also healthy despite being fatty and energy-dense grants it unicorn status with modern eaters, especially millennials. Through lively anecdotes, colorful pictures, and delicious recipes, Jeff Miller explores the meteoric rise of the avocado, from its coevolution with the megaherbivores of the Pleistocene to its acceptance by the Spanish conquistadors in Mexico, to its current dominance of food consumers’ imaginations.

John Chris love for Ivy his wife is so immense that he would do anything to see her happy. When Ivy suggests that Dawkins, a friend move in with them John Chris couldn't try to resist much to the delight of Ivy. But soon enough John Chris realizes that Dawkins was much more than a friend to Ivy as Dawkins is able to do unimaginable things to Ivy some of which were inconceivable to John Chris.

A BBC Cuckold Humiliation

Watching My Wife And Her Trainer

Woodworking with Mind, Body, and Senses What's the secret to producing beautiful furniture that you and your family will treasure for generations? It starts with the fundamentals--those essential, yet often overlooked principles upon which all of your skills should be based. In The Foundations of Better Woodworking, craftsman, teacher and noted woodworking author Jeff Miller clearly lays out these basic concepts, helping you understand: How proper body position and mechanics improve your ability to cut precise joins, as well as add efficiency and safety. Just what it means to cut a line. How the wood works, so you can avoid such problems as tear out, splitting and warping--whether you use hand tools, machinery or both. How woodworking tools actually cut and work, so you learn to use them more easily, effectively and accurately. Follow the advice in this book and you'll build the foundation for making significant advances as a woodworker. Your time in the shop will be more rewarding, and your results more satisfying.

How to use your body, tools and materials to do your best work

The Foundations of Better Woodworking

A Woman's Relationship Survival Guide was written to assist women in learning how to better understand their behaviors and swirling emotions when under the influence of a relationship. The guide examines issues surrounding personal responsibility for choices we make and trails we take. Each chapter exposes several paths of opportunity and supports the strengthening and building of the inner self. Though life can become busy and relationships can be turbulent, we must stop at times to rethink just who we are, where we're headed, and what's really right for us as individuals. Besides, it's unfair to claim that our partner doesn't know or understand us if we don't really know or understand ourselves. The guide is not written to encourage role reversals. We should not mimic behaviors that we dislike the most in our partner while claiming to be a better person. The guide is not written to cheerlead the leaving of your partner at the rise of the slightest problem. Instead, the guide promotes healthy self-respect, self-reliance, and a reciprocal partnership. Happiness, contentment, stimulation, and security are signs of relationship stability. Daydreams of pepper spraying your partner to the point of satisfaction or frequent desires to slap the crap out of him are signs that you need to read deeper into this book (if, he's worth it).

The 9 Insights

The first oral history of the AFL covers two decades of the league, relying on the words of players, coaches, and owners to tell the tale, and profiling such football greats as Joe Namath, Bob Griese, Lamar Hunt, and Jack Kemp.

The Wild 10-year Saga of the Renegade American Football League in the Words of Those who Lived it

Going Long

For the past 25 years we have been conducting a research project into life and spirituality. What have emerged are the secrets of existence. These secrets open doors, reveal what has been missing, and transport you to the life and world that you've dreamed of finding. You've always had a hard time finding your place in this world haven't you, never knowing your true worth, never being satisfied that there is not a more significant content to life nor happy with the way others have treated you? You felt that you were made for something better, something special (Paramount, 2008). Welcome, you are about to enter another world, discover what you've spent your lifetime searching for and what you expected to happen, but never did. What do you make of being here on earth? Perhaps it is met for you to accomplish something significant (Redfield). Find out what it is!

The Secrets of Existence

Sonya Tucker-Poindexter

Amazing stories are shared throughout generations. Stories of miraculous healings, out-of-body experiences, spiritual voices and visions are nothing new in the faith community. When Pastor Tucker passes away, no one is more surprised by these revelations than his granddaughter. Hazel Grace, a college senior, mourns her grandfather. When she learns that his bible and last sermon, with a name she doesn't recognize is left for her, sadness turns to curiosity. She suspects there's a story to tell and she's supposed to find it. Zachary Stone is a down on his luck ghostwriter who could use a break. After growing up with a deadbeat drunk as a father, he doesn't believe in God, Christianity or anything else. Hazel is convinced Zachary's not the right person to tell her grandfather's story, but she wants to fulfill her grandfather's wish, and Zachary needs a paycheck. As they peel back the layers of Pastor Tucker's life, Hazel and Zachary start to find love and redemption, one amazing story at a time. Can Zachary escape his demons and find a path forward with Hazel or will the strain of past mistakes and doubts stand in their way?

A Heartwarming Tale of an Extraordinary Life, a Writer Whose Lost His Way, and the Journey to Find Love.

Grandpa's Last Gift

Nick Brokhausen

A lot of confusion, a lot of humor, a lot of broken dreams and broken promises, an occasional triumph. 1978—a chance meeting on a remote military airbase between two Green Berets involved in the same operation leads to a partnership that will last over forty years. Four years after that meeting, Nick Brokhausen and Jeff Miller leave the service within a few weeks of each other and begin an odyssey that takes them to dozens of countries on five continents. Along with a small coterie of fellow former Special Operations and intelligence community veterans like Penguini, Max, Reek, The Spider Woman and a score of others—some heroes and some villains—they undertake a variety of missions for the government, other governments, large multinational corporations mostly in the aerospace or resource development industries, and occasionally just for suffering individuals who cannot find help anywhere else. In the process they lay the groundwork for an entire new industry of private military contractors. Two men sadly just a bit ahead of their time. Every episode in this book actually happened. Not always precisely as described herein, but close. Changes have been made sometimes to make the narrative flow more smoothly, some to obfuscate events that might be flirting with classification issues… Names have been changed, not always to protect the innocent. But the underlying story is, for the most part, the reality as they lived it.

Tourists in the Heart of Darkness

Vagabonds

Bruce Palaniuk

Marvin Sparks

Growing Millionaire Kids proves that it's never too late to start investing. But, the sooner you get started, the sooner you will benefit from financial independence. The easy-to-follow steps in Growing Millionaire Kids are powerful tools for any investor. The principles in the book show that financial well-being need not be tied to employment or current family wealth.

Empowering Children and Families to Create Wealth and Financial Freedom

Growing Millionaire Kids

The accepted narrative in football-crazy Texas is that racial integral came to the state’s “national sport” in the mid-1960s, generally associated with Jerry LeVias’ celebrated arrival at SMU in Dallas. But the landmark achievement actually took place quietly almost a decade earlier only about an hour north of Dallas. In the town of Denton, two black football players from Dallas’ segregated public school system boldly walked on to play for what was then called North Texas State College—known today as the University of North Texas. Abner Haynes and Leon King didn’t know what to expect, and neither their dozen or so teammates on North Texas’ freshman team. The players’ arrival came only a few months after North Texas first welcomed a black undergraduate student in February 1956. The school worked its way through both that episode and the integration of its most public face—the football team—with no fanfare and without the hostility on campus that accompanied similar events at many other colleges and universities across the South. There were, though, tense situations when a racial integrated football team played road games in small, segregated Texas towns. Jeff Miller, a veteran Texas sports journalist, has visited with those who lived through it—from the mixed welcome that Haynes and King initially received from their white freshman brethren to those same teammates standing with them after the two blacks were denied service at eateries on the road to a squad that grew into a Bowl team. In The Game Changers, Miller ties the tale of what happened at North Texas beginning in 1956 to contrasting events that took place not far away that reverberated into national relevance. He also chronicles the continued racial integration of major college football in Texas throughout the 1960s. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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