With the James Madison University Hospital board of directors desperately seeking a new revenue stream, an egomaniacal surgeon attempts a reckless new procedure that promises to bring millions of dollars to the hospital and international fame to the physician. But the body of a lovely pharmaceutical representative has been found in a patient’s bed, threatening to ruin the hospital’s reputation and shatter its financial security. Lenny Moss, custodian and union rep for the hospital workers, is determined to solve the mystery and bring the killer to justice despite the frenzied work pace and inhuman hours he and his co-workers are enduring, as their jobs and one man's freedom hang in the balance.From the operating table to the pharmacist's desk, from the emergency room to the human resources office, Sheard's vividly drawn characters map out the anatomy of a crime with the discerning eyes of the finest clinician and the dogged determination of a master detective. Battling indifferent hospital policymakers every step of the way, the nurses, aides, critical care workers, secretaries, and morgue attendants of James Madison University Hospital prove that unity in the face of danger can defeat even the most cunning criminal.

Some Cuts Never Heal: A Lenny Moss Mystery

Literature & Fiction

Sheard, Timothy

Genre Fiction

Hard Ball Press

When a hot-tempered laundry worker is wrongly arrested for murdering a physician, angry hospital workers ask their union steward to set the man free. How can he do it? By tracking down the real killer.So Lenny Moss begins his first murder investigation, aided by his friends in dietary, nursing, laundry, housekeeping and medicine

This Won't Hurt A Bit: A Lenny Moss mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

In the midst of a brutal heatwave, the hospital workers at James Madison University Hospital are outraged by the death of a young woman from a botched abortion. They say the cold-blooded surgeon Dr. Odom is a murderer. But hospital bosses defend him, putting Lenny Moss in the middle of the most dangerous campaign of his career. As tempers flare and laundry workers pass out from the heat, a brutal murder sends Lenny down a dark path that threatens his job...and his life.

A Race Against Death: A Lenny Moss Mystery

After a midnight phone call pulls Lenny Moss into another murder investigation, the wily hospital custodian-shop steward must confront the darkest hour of his life when he realizes that even a life long friend may turn out to be his mortal enemy.

Slim To None: A Lenny Moss Mystery

The Secret War - Washington's First Invasion of Afghanistan

History

Bonosky, Philip

Middle East

A professional killer trolls the divorce courts looking for knock down, drag out divorces. He offers the spouse with the weakest morals and the most to lose a simple proposition: hire me to fake an accidental death for your mate and your troubles will be over. It’s a flawless business plan, with no competitors. There’s just one fly in the ointment.The killer hasn’t taken into account that the New York City Department of Health keeps death statistics. And a skeptical Doctor Nicholas Andreas, who likes to read the obituaries, becomes curious when he notes several accidental deaths of people in high profile divorces. Dr. Andreas’s investigation leads him into a dangerous cat and mouse game with the killer, who is not about to let a nosey physician spoil his business plan. Will the good doctor become yet another death statistic? Find out in the exciting new crime novel from the acclaimed crime writer Tim Sheard.

Love Dies

The nurses at James Madison Hospital are afraid… Too many of their patients are dying from unexpected cardiac arrests. The nurses fear that a serial killer could be roaming the hospital. But when they share their suspicions with the Director of Nursing, she orders them to keep their mouths shut or they will be fired. So the nurses turn for help to Lenny Moss – custodian, shop steward and...Detective!  But Lenny has problems of his own. His last murder investigation nearly killed him. The post traumatic stress from a brutal attack has our union champion turning away from his friends, his family and his passion for the fight for justice. Even the threat from a merciless hedge fund CEO to buy the hospital, turn it private and kick out the union hasn’t roused Lenny to join the struggle. Feeling beaten and hopeless, he just wants to be left alone to do his job.  Will the murderer keep on killing? Will Lenny turn his back on his friends and family and the union he's devoted his life to serving?   Find out in the exciting new Lenny Moss crime novel, No Place To Be Sick.

No Place To Be Sick: A Lenny Moss Mystery

These memories of my father, Rollo W. Woodward, are written to be read aloud in mixed groups. ‘Mixed’ means, as the narrative explains, women, children and men. Our local version of the western story-telling tradition – now faded away – was a clear and colorful backdrop to my youth in Cache Valley, a swath of Rocky Mountain beauty carved into northern Utah and southern Idaho. If not reading aloud, but only to yourself, you will be most comfortable if you bring along your story-listening frame of mind. The pace of my father’s stories falls in with the cadence of rural western speech – slow and rhythmic. Colloquialisms are crusty; the voice soft and rusty; the humor understated and wry. Endings circle back with a gentle punch, sometimes just a nudge. Repetition is comforting. Nostalgia is more than it first seems. Irony is hesitant. Factual accuracy is optional.

Remembering Rollo: Growing up in the Rocky Mountain West

Biographies & Memoirs

Woodward, Val Waddoups

Community & Culture

Lenny Moss and his friends at James Madison Hospital are in the fight of their lives. The new hospital president, Robert “Third Reich” Reichart, has turned the hospital into a for-profit facility and launched a campaign to decertify the union. If successful, the decertification drive will destroy the union and compromise patient care. Staffing levels will be slashed, and half the departments will be outsourced to private companies. In the midst of his struggle to save the union, Lenny learns that a troubled coworker has died under suspicious circumstances. Was it suicide…or murder? With the bosses threatening to close the hospital if their slash &amp; burn policies are not accepted, and with the police pressuring him to help with the investigation, Lenny faces his most difficult case. This time, it’s personal.

A Bitter Pill: A Lenny Moss Mystery (Volume 6)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

High School teacher Mecca Freeman has lost her faith. In people. In the future. In the promise of racial equality and understanding. But when she and her students witness the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11, she begins a spiritual journey of discovery that opens her eyes to America’s racist past. Mecca learns why her courageous mother Passion abandoned the fight for civil rights in Brooklyn and took her children out of the movement. And she finally understands the connection between the Twin Towers, symbols of American wealth and power, and the slave trade that led so many African slaves to their death and burial at the foot of the Towers.

Passion's Pride: Return to the Dawning

Wright-Lewis, Cathie

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