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Hearings
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Something for Nothing
A young economic professor's adventures in his quest for a tenure-track position and a well-balanced life. David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a small college in a small town miles from everything except Albany. His students have never read Freakonomics. He thinks he is getting the hang of teaching, but a smart and beautiful young woman in his Economics of Social Issues class is distractingly flirtatious. His research is stagnant, to put it kindly. His search for a tenure-track job looms dauntingly. (The previous visiting assistant professor of economics is no...
320 Down
Former FBI investigator, Dawn McCafferty arrives after a Californian Credit Union discovers 320 million dollars missing. Still haunted from killing a man in the line of duty Dawn left the FBI and her failing relationship to investigate fraud for the NCUA, never wanting to take another life. What she assumes will be another tedious case until the profile suggests the theft is personal and orchestrated by someone with a grudge. Where everyone else focuses on the missing money, she sees revenge. Tom Williams is trying to escape his past, already on the outs with the credit union from past allegations; he is biding time at a dead-end job waiting for his life to start over. On paper he doesn't se...
Congressional Record
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The Tangierman's Lament
Go where the story is--that’s one tenet of journalism Earl Swift has had little trouble living up to. In two decades of covering the commonwealth, Swift has hiked, canoed--even spelunked--a singular path through Virginia. He has also stopped and listened. This collection brings together some twenty Virginia tales wherein hardship is revealed as tragedy, and humor appears as uncanny, illuminating strangeness. The Pulitzer-nominated title story takes us to the Chesapeake island of Tangier, home to a Methodist enclave over two hundred years old, with an economy almost wholly dependent on the blue crab. The gradual exodus of the island’s young people and the dwindling crab hauls point to an ...
