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  • Police Chief

    by John Ball ...
    Series Book 1 - Chief Jack Tallon
    NIGHT STALKERDrug addicts, prostitutes, street gangs and shoot-outs. Police Sergeant Jack Tallon had had enough; he wanted out. He traded his L.A. beat for the quiet, wide-open spaces of Whitewater, Washington.And trouble followed. A few short days after his installment as Chief of Police, Tallon faced the toughest crisis of his career—suspicion and hostility from the very people he was hired to ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • Journal of a tour in Marocco and the Great Atlas

    Exploring the Mysteries of Morocco and the Great Atlas

    by John Ball, Joseph Dalton Hooker ...
    Embark on a mesmerizing journey through the collective landscapes and societies chronicled in the 'Journal of a Tour in Marocco and the Great Atlas.' This anthology brings together a diverse range of literary styles that capture the essence of exploration and discovery during a pivotal time in history. Through descriptive narratives and vivid portrayals, the collection unveils the intricate ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mathematical Thermodynamics of Complex Fluids

    Cetraro, Italy 2015

    by Eduard Feireisl, John M. Ball, Felix Otto ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The main goal of this book is to provide an overview of the state of the art in the mathematical modeling of complex fluids, with particular emphasis on its thermodynamical aspects. The central topics of the text, the modeling, analysis and numerical simulation of complex fluids, are of great interest and importance both for the understanding of various aspects of fluid dynamics and for its ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Mark One: The Dummy

    by John Ball ...
    Ed Nesbitt has a problem.Nesbitt is the author of dozens of phenomenally successful suspense novels starring that lethal super-agent of the West, Mark Day, master of karate and aikido, and irresistible womanizer. Everyone loves his books—"So realistic," they say; "Day is so true-to-life." The problem is: he's too realistic. Everyone thinks Nesbitt is Mark Day. Even the enemy. And the enemy means ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • The Winds of Mitamura

    by John Ball ...
    In this haunting novel, John Ball returns to the setting he evoked so beautifully in his earlier success, Miss One Thousand Spring Blossoms. Set against the exquisite landscape of rural Japan, The Winds of Mitamura weaves an engrossing contemporary story of how people from radically different backgrounds seek in individual ways for respect, mutual understanding, and love.Peter Storm, an assistant ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • Then Came Violence

    by John Ball ...
    Series Book 6 - A Virgil Tibbs Mystery
    Virgil Tibbs, the cool, highly-competent black detective of the Pasedena Police Department, returns one day to his bachelor apartment to find that it has been expertly stripped to the bare walls—not a thing remains to show that he has ever lived there. At headquarters he is given a cryptic note from Police Chief McGowan, sending him to a certain address in the better section of Pasedena. When he ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • Five Pieces of Jade

    by John Ball ...
    Series Book 4 - A Virgil Tibbs Mystery
    The body of an elderly Chinese importer of rare jade lies on the carpet of a quietly expensive house in Pasadena, California. In a rough semicircle around his head rest four pieces of jade; protruding from the heart is a fifth—the Ya-Chang ritual knife.Who murdered the importer? Was it Yumeko, the beautiful half-black, half-Japanese girl who lived with him? Johnny Wu, a rich Chinese-American? ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • Trouble for Tallon

    by John Ball ...
    Series Book 2 - Chief Jack Tallon
    A CASE OF PIOUS MURDER?When a City Councilman is killed, the citizens of Whitewater, Washington demand an immediate solution to the town's first unsolved murder in decades.Police Chief Jack Tallon's only clue implicates Dharmaville, a controversial religious cult led by an inscrutable swami. Was it a case of holy homicide?Tallon's bizarre investigation unearths a slew of skeletons in Whitewater's ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • Living Well, Running Hard

    Lessons Learned from Living with Parkinson’S Disease

    by John Ball ...
    In 1983, John Ball was almost at a midpoint in his lifea time to assess the first half before he carried on with the second. It was then that he had to deal with the diagnosis of Parkinsons disease, just before he turned forty years old. In this memoir, Ball narrates his story of how he has lived with Parkinsons disease and how he has worked to create a better life for others struggling with ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Singapore

    by John Ball ...
    Series Book 7 - A Virgil Tibbs Mystery
    When Madame Motamboru, widow of the assassinated President of Bakara, is framed for murder in Singapore, she requests that her old friend Virgil Tibbs take part in the investigation. Because of U.S. interests in the area, Tibbs is cleared for passage.Upon arrival, Tibbs finds that the police there are convinced of Madame Motamboru's guilt. All the evidence says that only she could have shot the ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • The Eyes of Buddha

    by John ball ...
    Series Book 5 - A Virgil Tibbs Mystery
    A partially decomposed body of a young woman is discovered in a park in Pasadena, California. The woman was strangled but not sexually assaulted. The police suspect she might be a missing heiress who disappeared over a year ago, but dental records prove them wrong. But who is she? And is there a link between the heiress and this corpse? The celebrated black detective Virgil Tibbs re-shapes the ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • Rescue Mission

    by John Ball ...
    "The guy certainly knows his airplanes well and he held my interest very tightly as he developed the story."—RICHARD BACH, author of Stranger to the Ground and BiplaneThe hurricane warnings were up in the Caribbean when Herb Stallings brought his crippled Constellation in for a landing on Tres Santos. The Connie wasn't safe to fly farther, and the nearest parts for repairing it were in Miami. ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD