Justice is a great thing when someone has been wronged or violated. We want those guilty held accountable for the crime they have committed. In this book you will read true stories of real case files of Detective Ron Wallace. The stories are real but the names of the victim's and suspect have been changed to protect their identity. The street names have also been changed. Some of the cases in this book will touch your heart and then be filled with excitement. The book has been formatted into a case file format like a real case file. I have tried to bring my experiences as a Police Detective to book form and give the reader a feel of being a Detective. I hope this book may inspire readers to make sure that if someone they know or themselves become more diligent in keeping peace.

A Hard Life is a story about a Missouri family and their disasters brought on by our country's tragic nineteenth century Civil War. Ben Branch Walker was seven years old in 1864, near the end of the great war that divided our nation. At his family home in Stoddard County, Missouri, he was made to stand and watch as his innocent father was hung by a group of union soldiers led by Captain James Asbury of the U.S. Army. Soon thereafter, Branch's older brother, Jon David, rescued Branch from the union camp and committed a murder that would haunt him to his dying day, and forever change the Walker family's future. Missouri's civil war history is filled with terrible events and stories, but none illustrates the tragedies more than this tale aptly titled, "A Hard Life."

The year is 1875 and Fordham Fox is a young gambler setting out on his quest to win enough money to purchase a horse farm for himself and his accompanying best friend Bill Garrity. Fordham was raised on a similar type farm in Kentucky where his Osage Indian grandfather had taught him how to play cards. Gray Fox, Fordham's grandfather, had also bestowed a secret gift on Fordham that practically guaranteed him success in all games of chance. His grandfather had also warned Fordham that the gift had a dark side, which, unfortunately, the young gambler would soon experience. Aboard the Robert E. Lee, a gambling riverboat, Fordham becomes infatuated with a sixteen year-old beauty from Illinois, accompanied by her philandering mother and her aging precocious aunt. Tragedies occur aboard the Robert E. Lee that forever alters Fordham's dreams, severs his Kentucky family ties for years, and sets him on a relentless course of retaliation against the men who had wronged him. Fordham's prowess with a Colt Peacemaker, and a large Bowie knife with an inscription, Krima Eleusis, are further gifts his Osage grandfather had bestowed upon him. men in the practically lawless nineteenth century Arkansas Territory. He has to accept a new name, a new family, and he is forced to make a new best friend

Betsy Andrews' sweeping, energetic, book-length poem pounds the pavement of the New Jersey Turnpike, driving through America - past landfills and wetlands and weapons labs - under the towering shadows of engines, oil, and war. With a disarmingly unique voice that evokes the tradition of Pound and Eliot, Whitman and Williams and Ginsberg, Andrews creates a pastiche of landscape, consciousness, history, and politics in this American age.

"Who are we?" is the question at the core of these fascinating essays from one of the nation's leading intellectual historians. With old identities increasingly destabilized throughout the world the result of demographic migration, declining empires, and the quickening integration of the global capitalist economy and its attendant communications systems David A. Hollinger argues that the problem of group solidarity is emerging as one of the central challenges of the twenty-first century. Building on many of the topics in his highly acclaimed earlier work, these essays treat a number of contentious issues, many of them deeply embedded in America's past and present political polarization. Essays include "Amalgamation and Hypodescent," "Enough Already: Universities Do Not Need More Christianity," "Cultural Relativism," "Why Are Jews Preeminent in Science and Scholarship: The Veblen Thesis Reconsidered," and "The One Drop Rule and the One Hate Rule." Hollinger is at his best in his judicious approach to America's controversial history of race, ethnicity, and religion, and he offers his own thoughtful prescriptions as Americans and others throughout the world struggle with the pressing questions of identity and solidarity."

Bird Skin Coat is brimming with startling moments of beauty found within a rusty and decayed landscape. With wild lyrical images of ascent and descent - doves and dives, sparrows and slugs, attics and cellars - this collection reflects Sorby's keen eye for blending images. As they shuttle between the Upper Midwest and the Pacific Northwest, these poems explore how the radical instability of the world is also the source of its energy. The woman he hit is still 42. She notes with wonder how her parka fits her perfectly the way a dove's skin holds the whole bird together. 'Fate is not a thing with feathers, it's old, bald, and blind, a pope who can't decipher the man's name, David Pratt, as he scrawls it on scratch paper' - excerpt from ""Bird Skin Coat"" [copyright]. The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.

"Reactor "gives voice to beloved and ruined American landscapes through extended meditations of an urban mystical wanderer.

Wallace’s poems cover the range of human experience: music, religion, sex, art, childhood, adolescence, nuclear war, illness, and death. But it’s in his wit and good humor, against undercurrents of sorrow and grief that best characterize his poetry: part Emily Dickinson, and part Harpo Marx; part Woody Allen, and part Robert Frost.