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When tragedy strikes her police officer lover, Dora Ellison is forced to become a reluctant investigator and what an investigator she is! Childhood trauma has left her with a violent streak she turns toward bullies and criminals. Her investigation of a murder that wasn't a murder reveals a multi-layered dark web of local corruption that leads to danger & violence she is uniquely equipped to battle.

Ponder, if you will ... Why are tennis balls fuzzy? How come birds don't tip over when they sleep on telephone wires? What makes yawning contagious? Why, oh why, do roosters have to crow so early in the morning? Pop-culture guru David Feldman demystifies these topics and so much more in When Do...

Ray Drucker is shot in the face while sitting in his car in a drugstore parking lot, and his wife has hired Dora to find his killer. Dora quickly learns that his murder is connected to another, five years earlier. As the bodies pile up, Dora and Missy find that the killings are connected to a dark and violent web of white supremacists. The victims were all members of a club with a barely hidden racist agenda.

There are plenty of books that profess to tell you the meaning of life. But where can you go to find answers to the little mysteries of life that drive you nuts until you find their solution? Imponderables are questions that cannot be answered by numbers or measurements or standard reference books, and Feldman has devoted his life to the eradication of all imponderables.

Ever wonder where houseflies go in the winter, why dogs walk in circles before lying down, or how they keep raisins from falling to the bottom of cereal boxes? David Feldman answers these and many more of life's seemingly silly mysteries that don't mean much until you start thinking about them!

Who would murder people with special needs? A performance of a troupe of young people with disabilities is backing one of their own, the beloved singer Julian Lockhart. As he is about to sing his penultimate note, he pauses … and a crack is heard, blood spurts from his neck, and he falls to the stage. Pandemonium and panic ensue. The boy’s father hires Geller investigations, and Dora Ellison and Missy Winters set out to find his killer.

Founded 100 years ago by the inventor of dynamite, the Nobel Prize is the world's most celebrated and controversial honor. It grants its winners instant celebrity and acclaim for "service to mankind", despite accusations that it is too trendy, arbitrary, and narrow-minded. In examining both its fame and notoriety, Burton Feldman opens up the Nobel institution and process: how it originated, how it works, and how it is influenced by outside pressures (political, moral, personal, and academic).

Some of America's best comedians, comedy writers, authors, journalists and professors come together for long form conversation.

The inimitable David Feldman provides all the answers to life's most perplexing Imponderables with this sixth book in the wildly successful series...

A beloved husband and father disappears and is soon found murdered in an alleyway known as a haven for drug abusers. His family is devastated. When Dora and Missy investigate, they find themselves the targets of a dark criminal syndicate and its murderous assassin. Can Dora and Missy survive long enough to stop a vicious murderer before anyone else is killed?

Murder by Disease! Someone is infecting patients at the Beach City Medical Center with the world's most deadly diseases, and it's up to Dora and Missy to stay alive long enough to stop them. This suspense-filled dark medical mystery thriller will keep listeners up at night wondering how many more innocent people have to die agonizing, gruesome deaths before Dora and Missy bring the killer to justice? And what will become of Beach City Medical Center, the barrier island's only hospital?

A woman is murdered, her body torn apart with a high-powered automatic rifle. A second murder is committed, and Dora learns that both victims are transgender. Who would commit such brutal murders and why? Can Dora and Missy survive long enough to stop the killer before more innocent people die or they themselves are killed?

Starting where resiliency studies leave off, two psychologists explore the science of remarkable accomplishment in the wake of trauma, revealing the surprising principles that allow people to transform their lives and achieve extraordinary things. Over four billion people worldwide will survive...

Enter the world of Artificial Intelligence. Twelve sci-fi stories featuring androids, cyborgs, and other AI intelligence are within this anthology. Whether AI furthers the advances of society or horrifically brings them crashing down, these characters must navigate alongside technology through their daily lives. Featuring 12 stories by the following authors: John Barackman, David Grimes, Adele Liles, Richard Zaric, Caroline Crews, Diana Parrilla, Barend Nieuwstraten III, Rose McClary, Gray Stanback, Kiera Kearsey, and Alisa Darbinyan.

Ponder, if you will ... Do snakes sneeze? Why didn't the three musketeers carry muskets? What happens to the holes that are punched out of looseleaf paper? Why don't people smile in old photos? Pop culture guru David Feldman demystifies these questions and much more in How Does Aspirin Find a...

Dave Feldman hosts the Feldman Protocol, a long form, in-person podcast largely covering science, nutrition, and technology – with a lot of personal stories, interests and pop culture mixed in.

Engaging and informative, this book skillfully examines what usually goes wrong on the road to entrepreneurship, revealing what business owners regret and what you can do to address these issues. Along the way, it provides an overview of the personality traits and qualities that make success in entrepreneurship more likely, and also explores how the weight of wearing the entrepreneurial hat can affect you.

The modern-day Jonah at the center of Joshua Max Feldman's brilliantly conceived retelling of the book of Jonah is a young Manhattan lawyer named Jonah Jacobstein. He's a lucky man: healthy and handsome, with two beautiful women ready to spend the rest of their lives with him and an enormously successful career that gets more promising by the minute. He's celebrating a deal that will surely make him partner when a bizarre, unexpected biblical vision at a party changes everything. Hard as he tries to forget what he saw, this disturbing sign is only the first of many Jonah will witness, and before long his life is unrecognizable.

While there are countless ways one can spend their time being creative, there are only a few that truly bring us back to our roots, back to a time long before cell phones and airplanes. Do you find it hard to pick a time to sit down and be creative, or that you get random spurts of energy at odd times of the day and don't know what to do with them? Having a creative hobby is perfect for anyone who answers "yes" to the above questions.

Empire City tells the story of the dreams that inspired the changes in the landscape and the problems that eluded solution. Author David Scobey paints a remarkable panorama of New York's uneven development, a city-building process careening between obsessive calculation and speculative excess. Envisioning a new kind of national civilization, “bourgeois urbanists” attempted to make New York the nation's pre-eminent city.