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  Twenty Years a Detective in the...

  Clifton R. Wooldridge

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  Twenty years in the Chicago police told by the detective who made the arrests - the confidence men, the panel houses, the gambling rooms and the badger game explained in working detail. Wooldridge claimed over twenty thousand arrests and wrote the book partly as a warning to visitors. This edition carries all 48 of the original in-text illustrations, restored and coloured.

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  2 + Banana = No

  Craig R. Taylor

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  Tomorrow should have been Craig and Olya's first wedding anniversary together, but instead, they remain apart due to delays from the Home Office Visa Department. They met over two years ago on a dating site, building a relationship filled with travel, laughter, and unforgettable moments. Craig proposed before Olya had to return to Russia due to illness in late 2024, and they married a year ago in Batumi, Georgia. Their visa application was submitted in September 2025. After months of waiting, they received a refusal based on a simple mathematical error reading Craig's bank statements—an error later confirmed by both Craig and his bank. Now facing an appeal process that could take 12–18 months whilst Olya's city is getting bombed, their relationship is tested by distance, stress, and uncertainty. 
   
  the challenge to the Home Office has been taken as far as dare as the Home Secretary. Happy anniversary, my darling. I love you, Olya—always. But apparently… 2+banana = No.

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  A Slip of the Pen - From their...

  Amy Levy

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  Amy Levy was born in London, England in 1861, the second of seven in a fairly wealthy Anglo-Jewish family. The children read and participated in secular literary activities and became firmly integrated into Victorian life. 
  Her education was at Brighton High School, Brighton, before studies at Newnham College, Cambridge; she was the first Jewish student when she arrived in 1879, but left after four terms. 
  Amy’s writing career began early; her poem ‘Ida Grey’ appeared when she was only fourteen. Her acclaimed short stories ‘Cohen of Trinity’ and ‘Wise in Their Generation,’ were published by Oscar Wilde in his magazine ‘Women's World’. 
  Her poetic writings reveal feminist concerns; ‘Xantippe and Other Verses’, from 1881 includes a poem in the voice of Socrates's wife. ‘A Minor Poet and Other Verse’ from 1884 comprises of dramatic monologues and lyric poems. 
  In 1886, Amy began a series of essays on Jewish culture and literature for the Jewish Chronicle, including ‘The Ghetto at Florence’, ‘The Jew in Fiction’, ‘Jewish Humour’ and ‘Jewish Children’. 
  That same year while travelling in Florence she met the writer Vernon Lee. It is generally assumed they fell in love and this inspired the poem ‘To Vernon Lee’. 
  Her first novel ‘Romance of a Shop’, written in 1888 is based on four sisters who experience the pleasures and hardships of running a London business during the 1880s. This was followed by Reuben Sachs (also 1888) and concerned with Jewish identity and mores in the England of her time and was somewhat controversial. 
  Her final book of poems, ‘A London Plane-Tree’ from 1889, shows the beginnings of the influence of French symbolism. 
  Despite many friendships and an active life, Amy suffered for many years with serious depressions and this, together with her growing deafness, led her to commit suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide on September 10th, 1889. She was 27.

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  The Leadership Detour - How the...

  Dr. Tammi Fleming

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  The Leadership Detour is a deeply personal and powerful memoir-meets-leadership guide by Dr. Tammi Fleming. Blending lived experience with professional insight, she shares her unexpected journey from early career success to profound personal transformation. Through heartfelt storytelling and coaching wisdom, she explores the essential leadership shifts-from technical expertise to emotional intelligence, from performance to presence, and from chasing titles to building a legacy. 
  Drawing from her upbringing in New Orleans, her work across the federal, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors, and her experiences mentoring and coaching emerging leaders, Dr. Fleming reframes leadership as a journey of becoming-one shaped not by perfection, but by resilience, reflection, and realignment. 
  The Leadership Detour offers inspiration, encouragement, and a roadmap for professionals navigating transitions, leadership plateaus, or the quiet call to lead with greater authenticity and purpose.

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  How to be a Detective

  Old King James Brady

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  Step inside the rough-and-ready world of 1890s New York sleuthing with Old King Brady’s plainspoken master class in detection—brought to life by narrator Jason Michael Mann. Part handbook, part casebook, this lively guide lays out the essential qualities of a first-rate detective—courage, honesty, people-reading, languages, perseverance, disguise craft, cool judgment, and above all, common sense—then proves each lesson with true-to-life adventures. Follow pupils Sam Kean and Dave Doyle through stakeouts, stings, and split-second takedowns: a safe-room robbery at the Eagle Steamship Line, a daring chase that nabs a bank defaulter bound for Montreal, a ballroom jewel thief unmasked by razor-sharp shadowing, and green-goods swindlers trapped by smart makeups and cooler heads. Along the way, Brady drills into the arts of shadowing, building disguises that actually work, weighing evidence over appearances, handling informants, and keeping your wits—and your temper—when criminals push a drink across the table. Witty, practical, and packed with period grit, this is a timeless toolkit for aspiring detectives, crime writers, and true-crime fans who want the real methods behind the myths.

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  Becoming - from chaos to...

  Tracie Bork

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  By age 25, Tracie Bork is a rising scientist and half of a power couple who throws lavish faculty parties. But beneath the perfect surface lurks the chaos she’s tried to control since childhood—and alarming physical symptoms she’d rather dismiss. Each year, she works more fiendishly than the one before as the complications to her health compound and become more mysterious until finally, she hits a wall, body, mind, and soul.  In a series of honest inquiries and reflections, Bork chronicles her journey as a patient, academic, former military brat, and woman in search of faith. She explores the inexplicable connection between early trauma and a damaged nervous system—which incites a cascade of drug and food reactions that bring her to the brink of death—and the cost of using control to feel safe in the world that’s let her down. One part coming-of-age story and another part medical thriller, the stories in Becoming unfold everywhere from Kodiak, Alaska, to Kyoto, Japan, and ultimately reveal the healing that’s possible if we can quiet our analytical mind and open up to divine assistance. This memoir will baffle, educate, and validate anyone struggling with a mysterious illness or chronic high stress, inspiring them to face their fears, let go of the coping strategies that hold them back, and live spiritually awakened.

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