Around Every Corner of Connecticut celebrates the abundance of beautiful destinations and exciting seasonal (and year-round) activities here in Connecticut. And, we’re not just talking about the well-known state parks, attractions, and museums. Connecticut boasts so much beauty, creativity, and opportunity. Take a friendly llama for a hike or spy a majestic bald eagle sitting in a tree, on the banks of the Connecticut River. Maybe a sleigh ride through a snowy pasture is more your speed. There are incredible trails: the Barn Trail, Wine Trail, and Chocolate Trail for starters. Did you know that we even have a Dinosaur Trail? Using her experience as a travel reporter in the state for more than twenty years, Sarah Cody takes you to her favorite spots. A look at each destination includes provides additional, valuable, and sometimes little know information and tips. Coupled by beautiful photographs, the book is a unique and spirited look at Connecticut, full of New England charm, and brimming with activities. Around Every Corner of Connecticut provides activities and locations for people of all abilities and all ages. There are so many incredible places to explore!

C.T. Ferguson puts Baltimore’s worst criminals away. All the while, an unexpected enemy bides his time . . . This omnibus collects books 7-9 of the riveting C.T. Ferguson crime novels. C.T. is a smart and established private investigator, but even he can’t anticipate every enemy. Inside Cut (#7): College hoops star Calvin Murray leads his team into the tournament. His mother hires C.T. because she fears her son has fallen in with the wrong people. She’s right. But the problem goes way beyond basketball, and it just might swallow up Calvin and C.T. both. The Next Girl (#8): Pretty blonde girls are disappearing across Maryland. C.T. agrees to help Ashleigh’s distraught parents. Then the missing girls start turning up dead. Ashleigh wasn’t the first to go missing. And she won’t be the last. In the Blood (#9): C.T. is shot and left for dead. Will he live to solve his own attempted murder? The crime leaves two big questions. Who did it? And why? The answers will shake the Ferguson family to its foundation. If you like gripping mysteries, snappy dialogue, and cyber intrigue, you'll love this collection of three C.T. Ferguson crime novels. Keywords: private investigator, private detective, crime thriller, crime fiction, hard-boiled, noir, mystery, mystery series, murder mystery, box set, collection, omnibus

Insiders' Guide to Connecticut is the essential source for in-depth travel information for visitors and locals to the Nutmeg State. Written by a local (and true insider), Insiders' Guide to Connecticut offers a personal and practical perspective of the state that makes it a must-have guide for travelers as well as residents looking to rediscover their home state.

This thriller by an ex-FBI agent about a Supreme Court nominee and a high-level cover-up is “a must-read” (Harlan Coben). FBI agent Puller Monk and his Special Inquiries (SPIN) squad figure their latest assignment—a background check on the 1st African American female Supreme Court nominee—will be a routine investigation. But when verifying information about Federal Judge Brenda Thompson, it becomes clear that she’s lying about a 3-week gap in her past that occurred between college and law school. Her old roommate could provide answers, but she’s missing. Soon, Monk has a dead body on his hands, and he and Special Agent Lisa Sands are plunged into a maelstrom of deceit, corruption, and murder that reaches the highest levels of government. Monk is determined to blow the lid off a massive cover-up, but he may not be able to contain the fallout as the truth starts to emerge. Amid escalating violence, the FBI agent orchestrates a sting that will force a killer from the shadows—a cunning adversary who has his own plan for taking out Monk. With “engaging characters [and] a racing plot” (Houston Chronicle), this suspenseful read offers both an authentic portrayal of the world of national security and a high-tension story of corruption and murder. “The author, a former FBI agent, writes like a pro, and this is one of those thrillers you genuinely wish wouldn’t end” (Booklist, starred review).

In CT Suite the doctor and anthropologist Barry F. Saunders provides an ethnographic account of how a particular diagnostic technology, the computed tomographic (CT) scanner, shapes social relations and intellectual activities in and beyond the CT suite, the unit within the diagnostic radiology department of a large teaching hospital where CT images are made and interpreted. Focusing on how expertise is performed and how CT images are made into diagnostic evidence, he concentrates not on the function of CT images for patients but on the function of the images for medical professionals going about their routines. Yet Saunders offers more than insider ethnography. He links diagnostic work to practices and conventions from outside medicine and from earlier historical moments. In dialogue with science and technology studies, he makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the visual cultures of medicine. Saunders’s analyses are informed by strands of cultural history and theory including art historical critiques of realist representation, Walter Benjamin’s concerns about violence in “mechanical reproduction,” and tropes of detective fiction such as intrigue, the case, and the culprit. Saunders analyzes the diagnostic “gaze” of medical personnel reading images at the viewbox, the two-dimensional images or slices of the human body rendered by the scanner, methods of archiving images, and the use of scans as pedagogical tools in clinical conferences. Bringing cloistered diagnostic practices into public view, he reveals the customs and the social and professional hierarchies that are formulated and negotiated around the weighty presence of the CT scanner. At the same time, by returning throughout to the nineteenth-century ideas of detection and scientific authority that inform contemporary medical diagnosis, Saunders highlights the specters of the past in what appears to be a preeminently modern machine.