Product Description: “Adrenaline-pumping . . . [A] polished action mystery . . . [with] dazzling Arctic sights and historical trail markers laid down by the author in smooth, uncluttered prose.”—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book ReviewNow in Grove Press paperback for the first time, Murder on the Iditarod Trail is a gripping mystery set during Alaska’s world-famous Iditarod: a grueling eleven-hundred-mile dogsled race across hazardous Arctic terrain...read more

Product Description: New from the multiple award-winning author of The Refuge, whose "grasp of storytelling and strong characterization matches her with Sue Grafton."(Colorado Springs Gazette)Maxie McNabb and her miniature dachshund, Stretch, are just back from their latest adventure when a murder shatters the quiet in their hometown of Homer, Alaska...read more

On a cruise down Alaska's Inner Passage, sergeant Alex Jensen, an Alaska state trooper, and his girlfriend, Jessie Arnold, find their pleasure marred by the murder of a crew member and the wealth of suspects they discover on board."

When dog-sled racer Jessie Arnold learns that a fellow racer has been abducted, she sets out into the Alaskan wilderness to find the girl before it's too late. Reprint.

Discovering a prospector's diary from the 1800s while vacationing in the Yukon, Jim Hampton inadvertently triggers a series of events that culminates in his being falsely charged with the assassination of a controversial ex-Senator. Reprint. K. LJ.

Unearthing an old skeleton while rebuilding her Alaskan home, musher Jessie Arnold learns that the bones might belong to the victim of a notorious serial killer from decades earlier, but in the wake of another woman's disappearance, she begins to suspect that danger has returned to her wild woods community. Reprint.

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Jessie Arnold's peaceful life training her sled dogs in the Alaska wilderness is threatened when a mysterious and deadly fire ravages a popular local pub and a troubled old friend arrives seeking refuge from her abusive husband.

Foregoing her sled dog training after knee surgery, a bored Jessie Arnold goes to help in an Iditarod booth at the Alaska State Fair, but when the event is overshadowed by a murder and the disappearance of her lead dog, she finds herself targeted by a killer. Reprint.

Advised by her state trooper boyfriend Alex Jenson to flee to an island sanctuary to escape a stalker, Jessie Arnold, along with her faithful dog, realizes she is not alone on the island and becomes trapped in a deadly game of cat and mouse with a killer

After a fire destroys her home, musher Jessie Arnold volunteers to drive her friend's Winnebago back from Idaho, and while on the road, she picks up a teenage runaway who plunges her and her faithful lead dog, Tank, into the dangerous wildness where a psychotic killer will stop at nothing to quench his thirst for murder. Reprint.

Champion musher Jessie Arnold has been out of racing for a number of years, ever since she incurred a devastating knee injury. Now she's ready to get back into shape for this year's Iditarod. While taking her team on a practice run down a local trail she takes a snowy bump that's never been there before. It turns out to be a snow-shrouded body. Now, Jessie and her boyfriend, Alaska State Trooper Alex Jensen, are back chasing criminals. And the hunt is on for the killer of a supposed earthquake victim-whose death turns out to actually be a murder.

Product Description: Maxie McNabb and her miniature dachshund, Stretch, are in Hawaii to help Maxie's friend Karen Bailey pack up her house. But after a prowler tries to break in and someone sabotages the plumbing, Maxie suspects that Karen is hiding something...

Heading for New Mexico in her mini-Winnebago, Maxie McNabb and her dog, Stretch, find their cross-country odyssey interrupted by the attempted suicide of a local woman despondent over the infidelity of her middle-aged husband.

Preparing for some much-needed Alaska-style R&R with her miniature dachshund Stretch, Maxie McNabb receives a frantic call for help that sends her flying to Hawaii to assist her injured old friend, Karen Bailey, in packing up her house, a job that is soon complicated by a mysterious prowler, telephone sabotage, and her old friend's secrets. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: Zigzagging the country in a mini-Winnie means endless adventure-and Maxie McNabb is always up for something new. So she and her dog, Stretch, head for the heat of New Mexico, where Maxie plans to learn how to weave. But everything changes for the sleepy town when a local woman attempts suicide...read more

Invited to a housewarming party at her friends' recently acquired old lighthouse on the Alaskan Inside Passage, sled dog racer Jessie Arnold is delighted to spend the weekend with friends restoring the old building until a guest ends up dead and an unknown killer cuts off all radio and telephone communications. Reprint.

Invited to a housewarming party at her friends' recently acquired old lighthouse on the Alaskan Inside Passage, sled dog racer Jessie Arnold is delighted to spend the weekend with old friends helping restore the old building, until a guest ends up dead and an unknown killer cuts off all radio and telephone communications.

Cruising across America in her new Winnebago, with her dachshund at her side, retiree Maxie McNabb must put her wanderlust aside to investigate a burglary at her friend's Colorado home, but the closer she gets to the answer to the puzzle, the more her life is in danger. Reprint.

Product Description: No author on the crime fiction scene brings the beauty, mystery, majesty, and danger of the Alaskan frontier more vibrantly alive than critically acclaimed award winner Sue Henry. Now she takes us due north once more to this rugged land that famed "musher" and sometime sleuth Jessie Arnold calls home -- a breathtaking world where the summers are brief and winters, like death, are cold and long...read more

After a fire destroys her home, Jessie Arnold volunteers to drive her friend's Winnebago back from Idaho, and while on the road, she picks up a teenage runaway who plunges her and her dog, Tank, into the wilderness where a psychotic killer lurks.

Hone your group work skills to make sessions even more meaningful!Social Work with Groups: Mining the Gold examines a wide array of varieties of social group work practice, from corrections through empowerment and international issues. It explores ways to deal with youth violence (following the shootings at Columbine High School), issues of social exclusion, empowerment practice, groups in correctional settings, group work practice with seniors, gender diversity, multicultural groups, teleconferencing groups, and education for social work group practice. Every chapter author who contributed to this timely and important volume reflects the “gold” to be mined in the use of groups in social work. Linda Hutton shares her first-hand experience of working with chronically paranoid schizophrenic clients who are also chemically addicted. Marshall Rubin and Carol J. Hinote explore ways of working creatively with different populations--Rubin confronts the use of structured program designs and Hinote describes the challenge of being a woman worker with a group of mentally ill men. Paul Abels and Sonia Leib Abels examine the use of narratives in social work with groups. Beverly Ryan and Patty Crawford discuss the creation of support groups for elderly people dealing with loss, and Jean East, Susan Manning, and Ruth J. Parsons explore ways for group work to advance the social work empowerment agenda.Social Work with Groups also explores case studies of: a school-based project to prevent violence a European group work plan to fight social exclusion in a multicultural environment a prison-based group work program ways to use gender diversity to enrich the group experienceSocial Work with Groups brings you insightful commentary from the people who are developing cutting-edge programs and expanding the boundaries of group work. No social worker who wants to function most effectively in a group setting should be without it! (view table of contents)