Jac Pencuri has been a busker, magician, and thief for most of his life. After growing up on the streets of Sydney, Australia, he’s made his way to Victoria, BC, living on his stolen tugboat, Scrimshaw. Jac performs regularly at the inner harbour with his apprentice, Chidi, and on the side, running cons and picking the pockets of rich tourists. But his settled if somewhat shady existence is upended when an old patron-turned-nemesis, Australian billionaire Foster Roth, comes to Victoria in his magnificent mega-yacht Trio. Roth has come to the city to exhibit a collection of rare children’s books at Craigdarroch Castle, including a copy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland illustrated by Salvador Dalí and signed by the artist. Jac steals the frontispiece of the book out of its supposedly impregnable display case from under an array of cameras and the noses of security personnel—an apparently impossible crime. When Roth brings in another old nemesis of Jac’s, retired police investigator Albert Vargas, to hunt down the thief, Jac finds himself on the run. He's trying to stay one step ahead of Roth, Vargas, and the Victoria Police, and sadly unable to properly pursue his unexpected attraction to the pretty au pair of a wealthy couple he intended to rob. But magic is the art of misdirection. All is not as it appears, and more than one kind of sleight of hand is at play . . .

Did Detective Jack DeAngelis actually commit a series of increasingly violent crimes or is he clairvoyant? Why are his nightmares being brought into reality? Jack DeAngelis combines his detective skills with the psychological insights of Daniel Cooper, a psychiatrist who he consults about his freightening dreams.

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, You can't catch me, Because I'm too slick! The daughter of a prominent businessman and a former Miss Argentina, fourteen-year-old Jordyn Alvarez's ideal world falls apart in one violent act. After having everything stolen by greedy relatives and months of crying herself to sleep each night, she's finally rescued from an orphanage by the black sheep of the family—Uncle Iggy, an international jewel thief. Years later, in the wake of her beloved uncle's death, Jordyn finds herself alone again. Using her extensive training, she takes over Iggy's illegal operation, surpassing even his success. But when an Interpol agent is determined to trap the pretty cat burglar, will Jordyn be able to avoid his snare? Or will circumstances drastically change her life once more? ***While Jack Be Nimble is part of the Heels, Rhymes, & Nursery Crimes multi-author series (most books available on limited sites), it is related to the Trident Security series, with the events taking place eight years before Jordyn gets her HEA in Absolving His Sins.

“One of the best writers today.”—Johnny Olsen / “A master storyteller.”—Betty Richard FROM USA TODAY & MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY ONLY JACK COULD GET CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. AND END UP LEADING IT. When Jack—just Jack—infiltrates a brutal Russian mercenary group, he gets caught up in their plans to remove the military leadership in Moscow. As the stunning events play out on international television, and the world watches in shock, the CIA is desperate to learn what exactly is going on. And why Jack is leading the charge. An intricate, brutal plan is unfolding live for the world to see, but changing the leadership in Moscow is only the beginning. And if Jack can’t figure out what is going on, and transmit what he finds back to Langley, the balance of power in Europe, and possibly beyond, could irreversibly shift. In Jack Be Nimble, award-winning USA Today and multi-million-copy bestselling author J. Robert Kennedy delivers the next installment of his hit new series, heavy on action, suspense, intrigue, and humor, certain to keep fans of modern spy thrillers burning through the pages. If you’re a fan of Kane, Hunt, Bourne, or Bond, you’ll love Jack. Just Jack. Get your copy of Jack Be Nimble today, and see what happens when Jack makes friends with the wrong people… WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT J. ROBERT KENNEDY: ★★★★★ “Non-stop action that is impossible to put down.” ★★★★★ “The action sequences are particularly well-written and exciting, without being overblown.” ★★★★★ “I love how the author explains what’s needed but doesn’t just ramble on in narrative.” ★★★★★ “The events in this adventure are so real and so heart pounding you can’t put it down. Mr. Kennedy is by far my favorite writer.”

They know when he will kill again... but not who he will kill A killer is loose on the streets of Mildenheath, and his barbaric crimes seem a little too familiar... As the body count begins to rise, DS Wendy Knight and DCI Jack Culverhouse start to realise that the killer is emulating the gruesome, grisly murders of the world's most famous and elusive serial killer: Jack the Ripper. With Culverhouse struggling to come to terms with his ex-wife's dramatic return after she disappeared eight and a half years earlier and Knight trying to cope with the trauma she’s suffered following devastating events of two previous cases, the race is on to stop the killer before he completes his final kill and retreats back into the darkness. They know he's going to kill again, but they don't know where or who his next victim will be. And what's worse, they don't know who he is either...

A warm, witty tell-all and history of American regional theater, from one of our best-loved directors For Jack O'Brien, there's nothing like a first encounter with a great performer, nothing like the sound of an audience bursting into applause. In short, there's nothing like the theater. Following a fairly normal Midwestern childhood, O'Brien hoped to make his mark by writing lyrics for Broadway but was instead pulled into the growing American regional theater movement by the likes of John Houseman, Helen Hayes, Ellis Rabb, and Eva Le Gallienne. He didn't intend to become a director, or to direct some of the most brilliant—and sometimes maddening—personalities of the age, but in a charming, hilarious, and unexpected way, that's what happened. O'Brien has had a long, successful career on Broadway and as artistic director of San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, but the history of the movement that shaped him has been overlooked. In the middle of the last century, some extraordinary people forged a link in the chain connecting European influences such as the Moscow Art Theatre and Great Britain's National Theatre with the flourishing American theater of today. O'Brien was there to see and record it all, in beautifully vivid detail. Funny, exuberant, unfailingly honest, Jack Be Nimble is the tale of those missing heroes, performances, and cultural battles. It is also the irresistible story of one of our best-loved theater directors, growing into his passion and discovering what he is capable of.

Combining nursery rhymes and learning centers helps students develop and improve a variety of literacy skills such as oral language development, phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.

An adaptation of a nusery rhyme

Will Jack make a gold medal-winning jump over the candlestick?

Bridging the gap between humour and poetry, this collection of 64 reimagined nursery rhymes will conjure up memories of verses learned in childhood. Each of the author’s new rhymes is built upon elements of a Mother Goose original. Familiar characters make their appearance but their relatable experience is freshly conceived, for example: • Humpty Dumpty equivocates, by sitting on a fence, and avoids falling off a wall; • Betty Blue, without a benefactor to replace her lost shoe, adapts, with the aid of a crutch, to life with only one shoe; and • The Three Little Kittens are upset, not from the loss of their mittens but because their mother’s milk has run dry and she fails to arrange for a new supply. Some modern twists are added as the reimagined nursery rhymes focus on subjects of contemporary interest and concern, such as the law, business, electronic communications, air travel and politics, none of which drew the attention of Mother Goose. This collection is a follow-up to the author’s previous collection of light verse, titled Signs of the Times through Reimagined Nursery Rhymes. Between the two books, the author has reconceived over 130 of Mother Goose’s original nursery rhymes, approaching the full complement of her contribution to children’s literature.