Bøger af Taylor James

What kind of person writes to a serial killer? What are the motivations behind the morbid curiosity? Between 1992 and 1994, Jeffrey Dahmer received hundreds of letters while living in prison. In 2022, for the first time, some of these letters were made public in Dear Dahmer: Letters to the Milwaukee Cannibal. More Letters to Mr. Dahmer is a direct follow-up to this book, showing even more examples of the kind of people trying to contact the notorious Milwaukee Cannibal. From kids to adults, pastors to hopeless romantics, dive deeper into the minds of the morbidly curious and see what kind of people would want to befriend Jeffrey Dahmer.

Are you captivated by the idea of growing your own lush, healthy plants but cringe at the thought of digging through soil? Or do you dream of a bountiful garden, but lack the necessary backyard space? Good/bad news - you don't need any of that! "Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Gardening and Growing Hydroponics at Home" is your magic carpet ride a whole new realm of gardening that promises profuse yields with minimal space and hassle! Get ready to embrace the revolutionary world of soilless gardening. This comprehensive guide simplifies hydroponics down to its core fundamentals, making it accessible to even the greenest of thumbs. Packed with proven techniques, professional yet easy-to-understand instructions, and illuminating images, this compelling handbook ensures you don't just grow plants - you master the art of growing them hydroponically! But why hydroponics? What benefits lie in this alien-sounding concept? Hydroponics is all about cultivating your beloved flora in a nutrient-infused water solution instead of conventional soil. The result? Faster growth, higher yields, and flourishing plants year-round, all within the comfort of your own home. 'Hydroponics for Beginners' takes you by the hand and guides you through each step. From choosing the right system to suit your needs and selecting compatible plant types, to creating an optimal growth environment and managing common pests and diseases - the book leaves no stone unturned. Even better, it elucidates complex concepts with engaging tips and tricks to ensure your hydroponic journey is smooth sailing. Dive headfirst into enlightening chapters that detail everything you need to cultivate your green utopia, including the elements of a hydroponic system, understanding the pH balance, the role of lighting, choosing the right medium, and the science behind the nutrient mix. The book's holistic approach empowers you to maneuver the hurdles of hydroponics with the prowess of a seasoned hydro gardener. This transformative guide provides more than just information; it equips you with the tools to create your sustainable, space-saving garden! Ideal for hobbyists, foodies who crave fresh, homegrown produce, or innovative gardeners seeking to expand their horticultural horizons, it's a garden-full of knowledge eagerly waiting to be unveiled. Why wrestle with weeds and wrangle with shovels when you can produce a verdant array of plants, vegetables, and herbs without soiling your hands? Embrace Hydroponics and dismantle the barriers of traditional gardening. Pick up 'Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Gardening and Growing Hydroponics at Home' and embark on your journey towards a rewarding, sustainable, and green-thumb future. It's time you step into the new era of gardening!

The Story: Emrick Mastaglia becomes the first woman head coach in the NBA when she takes over for her late father. A dream job becomes a reality. She was raised on pick and rolls and jump shots and is more than ready for the challenge. What she isn't ready for is the games behind the game. Her father never taught her about those. Now, she wishes he had. This job is way more complicated than just coaching. She is making history, but what will that history reveal? The Team: The Dallas Shooters. Owned by Robert Parasyn. He is actively seeking investors, the offer increasing from 10% to 40% seemingly overnight. What isn't he telling potential investors? Investor: Dillon Lennox is looking into the Shooters team on her father's behalf since he is currently in France at the Paris headquarters of Lennox Industries. Dillon sees Emrick as just another conquest until they actually sleep together. That changes everything for her. This time it's different; more than just fun and games. But Emrick knows the score and what kind of woman Dillon is and she's ready to move on. She's way too busy being under the microscope of public opinion to worry about what Dillon might think. The problem: Dillon digs into the books as part of the due diligence of investing in the team and soon becomes uneasy. It's not something she can point to and say this is off. But there is something wrong and it's hiding just out of sight. She wonders if Emrick is part of it. She wonders if Robert Parasyn is part of it. She wonders what the hell "it" is. She vows to find out, if only to ease her mind that the woman who occupies too much of her mind is not involved. What will she do if Emrick is involved in something nefarious? Will the team flounder or flourish under Emrick's rule? Will the public condemn her just because she's a woman, or will they rally behind her? Will they even give her a chance to find out? And is the team owner just using her as a marketing opportunity until he can get a 'real' coach in there next year? Read on to find the answers. There might be a couple of twists you're not prepared for-or maybe you are. Come find out

The Story: Tee Reed is a very successful businesswoman. She has an MBA from the Cox School of Business at SMU in Dallas. She owns a gay bar plus a building in the entertainment district that encompasses a high-end restaurant, a private club, a ballroom where the annual GLBT ball is held, a spa, and her corporate offices. She meets a lawyer, Carly Matthews, who is successful in her own right at the most prestigious law firm in Dallas. They immediately feel a connection. Tee is the only one who sees past the obvious and into Carly's innermost desires and then proceeds to fulfill them. She is everything Carly has always wanted. And then life happens. Miscommunication happens along with a sexual harassment lawsuit involving both of them. It's the start of the wedge between them that seems to be splitting them apart. Even as they struggle with their lost love, life complicates things in the form of wanting to do the right thing for a client versus doing what the boss says for Carly. Tee concentrates on buying a new bar in the San Antonio River Walk district to keep her mind off Carly. Can they ever get past the past and move forward or are they finished? Excerpt: Once inside Carly's apartment, Tee immediately pinned Carly against the door. Her mouth was hot and demanding as she kissed her. The kiss was rough and bruising with need, while her hands tore at her shirt, pushing it up to expose her flimsy lace bra. Tee sucked her way down her neck, nipping and kissing every inch of the way. She leaned back just enough to pull the top over Carly's head and flick the clasp on her bra. She impatiently swept the garments down her arms and flung them to the floor. With nothing between them, Tee captured her breasts, twisting and pulling at nipples that were already hard as rocks. She looked into Carly's eyes and saw the answering need, the hidden need, the need she never acknowledged. It sent a raging rush streaking through her.

Alana Dudek is sexy and fit and pitches for the Houston Titans Women's Professional Softball team. However, being the best and the brightest of her WPSL draft class doesn't guarantee a happily-ever-after. While her career is on the rise, Alana strikes out in the game of love when her girlfriend denounces her as incapable of love before leaving her. Micky Akers, a community college softball coach, is also the latest applicant for the assistant coaching job with the Houston Titans. Micky, as fate will have it, is the only woman to ever have deeply touched Alana. Their one night stand after the National Collegiate Championship left a mark on them both. Or did it? Will that one night come back to haunt them? This is a season not to be missed.

Scarlett Knick is in a happy and loving marriage to her high school sweetheart, Travis Knick, or so she thought. When she begins to suspect he is having an affair--with her best friend--Scarlett is forced to face the dark secrets that'd been kept from her. Moving forward after a betrayal of this magnitude seems impossible, but Scarlett is more determined than ever to take back her happiness and find her inner peace.Falling in love after the betrayal wasn't in her plans, but when tragedy strikes, Scarlett is forced to pick up the shattered pieces again. Will she survive the familiarity of nursing a broken heart back to life? With a million reasons to crack and let the pain take her under, can Scarlett fight back up to the surface stronger than a nineties trend?The Lips I Used to Call Home is a story about heartbreak, self-healing, and accepting the love you deserve after the unimaginable comes true. With a little help from cheap wine, deep soul-searching, and pulling on her strengths, Scarlett attempts to truly find love within herself.

Summer J. Robinson, Taylor James, and Sierra Moody, three Black women creative writers and authors have decided to publish their undergraduate senior capstone projects to share with the world. The stories explore themes of the criminal injustice system, family sacrifice, traveling abroad, connecting across the diaspora, facing our fears, and more. After each story, the author shares her craft essay where she explains the process of both coming up with the story idea and piecing it all together.

Kenzie Dark: Trained as a symphony pianist-makes her living as a professional poker player. It's not about the poker. It's what she does because it allows her to be her own boss, make her own rules, and do as she pleases. No one is in charge of her but her. Who wouldn't want a job like that? Right? No one can take away what she wants ever again. Shaun Tyler: Marketing at the Aria hotel and casino. Her latest project is the branding of the Aria's poker room. It involves a TV program filmed within the casino and finding a professional player to front for them. When Kenzie meets Shaun she is instantly attracted to her. Compelled might be a better descriptor. And why not? Shaun is beautiful and sweet, and she pulls at Kenzie's heart. But Shaun wants her to front for the Aria casino and that goes against every instinct Kenzie has. She can't do it. Self-preservation is paramount. She can't do it, not even for love. Can she?

Jaden Hawke is a young professional softball player who has just been signed by the Dallas Metros team. She graduated from Michigan where she led her team to two straight US Championships. She pitched for the USA Olympic team where they took the gold medal. While at the Olympics in Japan she met and became romantically involved with Senator Paxton's daughter, Kendall. Jaden is given a contract by the Dallas Metros professional team because of Coach Georgia Tate's support, even though her affair with Kendall Paxton is well known across the country. Jaden still has violent nightmares about the night when she had to rescue Kendall from drug dealers, and while on a team trip to that city she ends up having one. The team photographer and Web site administrator, Sloane Ellison, witnesses the nightmare and it's aftermath. She helps Jaden deal with it, from holding her while she's sick, to holding her while she sleeps. They are falling fast for each other. The night they play in Portland the police come to the locker room and take Jaden to the police station for questioning. Kendall Paxton was murdered the previous night while the team was in Los Angeles. Sloane stays behind to arrange bail and a lawyer for her and to lend much needed support. The team questions the advisability of releasing Jaden from her contract due to the conduct clause. Meanwhile, the police in California are working the murder case but the evidence doesn't add up. Is someone trying to frame her for the crime or was she simply very good at misdirection? Who would know more about Kendall Paxton and her habits than Jaden Hawke? The more personal question is can Jaden and Sloane begin a relationship under such stressful times? And will it survive if Jaden is convicted of murder?

What would you do if you stumbled upon a dead guy? How about if the dead guy were on your property? How about if you tripped over him and broke something? Would you freak out? Throw up? Panic? Faint? All of the above? See how Sydney Yellow Dalton reacts when it happens to her. All she wanted was the morning paper. What she got was her entire world turned upside down. Read along as she describes her life after discovering The Dead Guy. Buckle up people, it's going to be a bumpy ride!

In 1917 Dazzle painting, also known as Dazzle camouflage, was conceived and developed by the celebrated marine artist and then naval commander Norman Wilkinson. Dazzle rejected concealment in favour of disruption. It seeks to break up a ship¿s silhouette with brightly contrasting geometric designs to make a vessel¿s speed and direction incredibly difficult to discern, and thus confuse and deceive German U-boat torpedo-men. Wilkinson¿s scheme led to several thousand ships mainly from Europe, USA and Canada going to sea as the largest painted modernist ¿canvases¿ in the world covered in abstract, clashing, decorative and geometric designs in a myriad of colours. Wilkinson, however, was a conservative rather than an avant-garde artist and this new book explores what really influenced him in terms of developing Dazzle. It traces the development of the Dazzle aesthetic from theory into practice and beyond. It looks at the impact that Dazzle was to have on the modern art movements of Cubism, Futurism and Vorticism, especially in the work of Edward Wadsworth and Wilkinson and his hand-picked Dazzle Section artists. Through an examination of original archival documents, it offers some fresh perspectives into the origins, principles, development and implementation of Dazzle painting, and the competing camouflage schemes. It also examines the claims and counter-claims, and the bitter protracted battle, between Wilkinson and his rival John Graham Kerr for the lucrative ¿Royal Commission Award to Inventors¿. Dazzle camouflage was adopted internationally by the major navies, evolving into the more defined ¿disruptive¿ camouflage, right through to the Second World War and beyond. In the inter-war and post-war periods Dazzle: Disguise and Disruption in War and Art shows how the scheme influenced art, architecture, dance, design, fashion, music hall and theatrical performances and even the exterior appearance of cars. It also features a visual tribute to the vessels that have been painted with brilliant bold patterns inspired by Dazzle to coincide with the First World War commemorations including those by Sir Peter Blake and Tobias Rehberger. The book concludes with an assessment of whether Dazzle painting actually worked and highlights the commodification of Dazzle in fashion and through the sale of a wide range of gifts, prints and merchandise.