INFIDELITY, SEX, LUST, ENVY, ADOPTION, ABORTION, LIES. While investigating the murder of a popular, small town family man, many secrets are unearthed about William Valentino's past that could have led to his death. As Detectives Scott and Miller, of Morris Hills Police Department, begin piecing together stories of his past, they learn that every suspect they have, including his own family, have a reason to want him dead. The detectives are quickly in over their heads when several more murders take place, including orphans at an adoption event and a police officer in the otherwise quiet town. This suspense thriller will keep you on your toes and have you wondering, are these murders connected? Who was William Valentino, really? And what on earth did he "throwaway?"

"Unlike public education, however, consumer culture deploys the resources of what the author calls technoideological coding, in which survival no longer designates "the fittest" but rather obsolete relics from the past, those left behind by innovations. These relics are throwaways, isolated groups of the population who litter the social landscape and require the moral attention of cleanup crews, the containing apparatus of police and prisons, the financial drain of "safety nets," and the immense bureaucracies of the state. In this coding, narratives of social change are class-as-lifestyle narratives, which locate race and gender as surviving relics of a rapidly disappearing past."--BOOK JACKET.

Tom Duvall is number two in Creo Vargas's vast criminal empire in Southern California. Vargas orders a clean sweep of a rival's crack den, but when Tom finds a crack mother nursing her newborn child in the den, he kills his crew to protect her and her child. Before the three of them can get away, two strangers appear--a tattooed blonde surfer and a muscle-bound professor. They have come for Tom. Carla Vega is far from her poor Mexico village. She stays in luxury hotels in Miami Beach and owns a corvette. She also lures young girls into a trade that she was forced into at age thirteen. Lila is just any other little girl, so why does Carla care about her so much that she will risk everything to run with her? Carla's handlers catch them before they can run. Three strangers suddenly appear and prevent her handlers from harming her and Lila, but these same strangers have come for Carla. Reed Elliott wakes up in a strange studio apartment. Was he drugged the previous night? Reed is happy with his life as a meth dealer in Vegas, but has that life led him to this strange apartment? Reed hears voices coming from an air duct of the apartment, voices from a young man named Tom and a young woman named Carla. The Throwaways: Broken Fever is a look at the end times through the eyes of three young adults who have all but rejected the love of Jesus Christ. They are brought to the campus, where they witness supernatural events, are taught about their own unique gifts, and experience God's true love, compassion, and long-suffering nature. They must choose a path, one that could lead to prison, destruction, freedom, or salvation. Whatever their choice, their lives will be changed forever.

School communities identified these children as the “throwaways”-children who often experienced bullying, abuse, foster care, juvenile detention, and special education services. In this book, children with learning differences engage in artmaking as sensemaking to deepen their understanding of what it means to live on the margins in U.S. public K-12 schools. Their artmaking calls upon educators, school leaders, and policymakers to actively engage in addressing the injustices many of the children faced in school. This book is revolutionary. For the first time, children with learning differences, teachers, staff, and school leaders come together and share how they understand the role artmaking as sensemaking plays in empowering disenfranchised populations. Together, they encourage school community members to examine pedagogical practices, eliminate exclusive policies, and promote social justice-oriented work in schools. Their artmaking inspires new ways of knowing and responding to the lived experiences of children with learning differences. They hope their work encourages school communities to make authentic connections to improve their learning, capacity to love others, and of most importantly, to value oneself. Authors’ first-tellings capture the human experience of navigating through oppressive educational systems. Authors urge us to consider what it means to be empathic and to engage in the lives of those we serve. Their truths remind us to that standing still should never be an option.

Two homicide cops come to Lisset Greene's studio to inform her that a man she knows only as a trafficker of boys has been murdered and has left his estate to her. The search for answers forces her into an uneasy alliance with the cops and forces her to confront the traumatic act that defines her. Lisset Greene, survivor, mother, artist, former nude dancer, has been described as volatile, passionate, and as slightly mad. And she does not like or trust cops. But when two boys in her care are shot, she, her daughter, two special friends, and the cops form an edgy partnership to find the shooters. She teams up with a female cop to find a terrified girl being hunted by crooked cops. Her daughter is kidnapped. Finding her depends on excavating information buried in the jumbled psyches of a pair of street people, and on working with Tucker in spite of the zigs and zags of their personal relationship. Finally, in a high dark place she must face the terrors of her past.

Four old friends. Three dead girls. Two prized brothers. One wild ride. George Engle has lived in the long shadow of his superstar twin brothers since they died in a freak accident when he was thirteen. Now, in the spring of 1986, George and his childhood friends are living lives they never wanted. It's easy to sleepwalk through insignificance, until a second freak accident jolts them awake—only it's no accident. One night, George regains consciousness just in time to watch an unfamiliar house explode, and finds evidence of the crime he didn't commit planted on his back seat. He narrowly eludes what may or may not be police and subsequently learns the explosion was a cover-up for three baffling execution-style murders. George was supposed to take the fall, and now the killers are hunting him. George and his friends reunite to probe the mysterious deaths, a murderous drug cartel, and their own self-deception. But in the process, they'll discover they can trust no one and nothing—not even their own memories. Fans of THE DROWNING GAME will love meeting Dekker's Uncle Curt and George, the attorney he introduces Petty to, as young men in the 1980s.

THROWAWAY (n.) 1. A disposable asset, used for a single mission; 2. A disavowed assassin, meant to die alongside their target. Abby Palmer and Dean Logan are two broken peopleÑAbby a vet with severe PTSD and Dean a burnout trying to escape the shadow of his infamous father when they are thrust into a modern-day MK-ULTRA conspiracy and discover they are both ULTRA's human experiments.

Abby Palmer and Dean Logan are two broken people with one thing in common: they're both victims of a brutal government mind control experiment„and they're the only two who escaped alive. When the program finds them again, they become the other's only chance to survive. The program gifted them both with abilities beyond a normal human's imagination„and as Dean and Abby realize what was done to them, they're determined to use those abilities to destroy the program and its sinister architect, Dr. Elizabeth Ostrander, once and for all. A brand new science-fiction spy thriller by the creative team of CAITLIN KITTREDGE and STEVEN SANDERS. Collects THROWAWAYS #1-4.

Homelessness is a national problem, that despite the best efforts of many nationally and worldwide continues to escalate. In Throwaways" we go behind the veil to look at homelessness from the inside out. It is a view only known to those that have lived it. By using stories that range from funny to sad to heart wrenching we get an up close and personal look at a world many of us think we no but very few of us actually do.

Kimiko is thrust front and center in the fight against the agents of ULTRA when both Abby and Dean are taken prisoner. Desperate to find and rescue Dean, Kimiko undertakes a risky procedure to restore Abby's full memory of Abby's time in the program that transformed her into a ruthless, nearly superhuman assassinÑ but in the process, Kimiko triggers the full extent of Abby's programming. Now, no one is safeÑespecially not Elizabeth Ostrander, the woman who turned Abby's life upside down in the first place.