Books with author Tom Miller

Critically acclaimed author Tom Miller reveals the making and marketing of one Panama hat, from the straw fields of Ecuador’s coastal lowland to a hat shop in Southern California. Along the way, the hat becomes a literary device allowing Miller to give us his impressions from the tributaries of the Amazon to the mountainsides of the Andes. The Panama Hat Trail is at once a study in global economics and a lively travelogue.

Carrie Justice is a therapist who works with troubled prisoners. Suffering from bipolar disorder herself, she assists prisoners with various forms of mental illness. The Skinner is a serial killer, leaving mutilated bodies throughout the city. He targets Carrie in a deadly game of Cat and Mouse. Carrie must use her psychological training to find the killer before she falls victim to his Brutality.

WARNING: This book contains extreme scenes of graphic violence Jax Masters isn’t like most bounty hunters. Wearing her top hat and leather duster, she travels the southwest, living among the criminal underground taking out the worst of society. Her ultimate goal: to find the men who murdered her father. She has plenty of tricks up her sleeve and she will use all of them to bring her father’s killers to justice. As bodies pile up in her path, she leaves a trail of blood until she reaches her blood bounty.

In the classic tradition of George and Martha, Elephant and Piggie, and Frog and Toad comes Moo Moo and Mr. Quackers in their debut, Moo Moo in a Tutu.A cow who wants to be a ballerina? Are you for real? This is a hilarious, one-of-a-kind friendship story between an adventurous cow and a very loyal duck that will have you quacking up all the way through and applauding for more.

One marked boy, a scale-plated adventure. Jaron is a rider of the kelpra, unpredictable beasts (don’t turn your back, never fall off) trained for elite racing in the city of Tiara. He will ride those dangerous animals but wants nothing to do with the Raken and their huge flying dragons, commonly known as firedrakes, when they arrive to guard the city. He has good reason. It may have been a wild ‘drake that razed his home village to the ground over a year ago but Jaron still bears the scars both inside and out. Then the Raken Lord himself, a man with a jaw hard enough to scrape stone and a temperament to match – notices Jaron’s mother. Jaron is determined to protect her, even if she doesn’t think she needs it. All this, and he’s busy trying to get ready for the biggest, most dangerous ride of his young career. But what he hoped to be a racing triumph turns into a disaster and forces Jaron closer to the Raken. His path is set on a journey born of fire where Jaron must try to put his past behind him – even as he learns of a terrible secret that will change his life forever. Can Jaron muster the courage to touch the sky as he is forced to embark on a scale-plated adventure and discover more about this thing the Raken call the Rillion? For lovers of all things dragon.

The scale-plated adventure continues...Jaron now has a firedrake of his own, but trust him to have a dragon different to the other riders. Jaron's spirited blue doesn't always behave himself, and some people in Rakenar are not happy with a throwback to the wild dragons of old living in their midst. Head of the queue is severe Lord Carna, the man who has re-kindled his relationship with Jaron’s mother, Rella, and isn’t backward in showing his disapproval of the boy’s choice of mount. As Jaron tries to get his blue accepted, he learns more about this strange magic called the Rillion he is cursed with. The boy can't bring himself to tell his friends he has the same power that drove their former leader mad. What with this magic and the scars he bears, both inside and out, Jaron is a boy of many secrets - but sometimes it's best to trust your friends, even if you are afraid of what they'll think. Especially when evil is lurking, and this time it’s hidden deep within Rakenar itself…

Three members of Mather Air Force Base's security force return from Lake Tahoe after locating a stolen nuclear device planted in a casino by a deep-cover, ex-Cold War Soviet spy. Disarmed with the help of two agents from a clandestine National Security Agency team, the bomb is safely back at the base.The steady routine of guarding a military installation is no sooner back to normal when Lieutenant Colonel Bart Winfield, code-named Tupelo in the elite circle of global clandestine operatives, is surprised by a visit from Mary Benson, lead agent of a task force urgently searching for two other missing nuclear weapons—as well as the ultra-secret Black Star System.The three members of the Mather team and Bart's wife—a former OSI agent—are whisked away by helicopter to the West Coast Headquarters of the National Security Agency for a meeting with a hidden agenda and faced with a life-changing decision that involves ex-Spetsnaz smugglers and a shadowy rogue spy ring.They have little time to prepare before they are sent undercover in Seawind Bay, a sleepy coastal village with a checkered past, where secrets from a by-gone era mix with the contemporary high-tech computer world. Threats come at them from all directions and they must sort out who among the townspeople they can trust.When two of their members are kidnapped, they work feveriously to rescue them. The puzzle of how a building with the word Druid carved in stone above a door fits into a spider web of government corruption and international terrorism is mixed with an unusually high number of deaths from seemingly unrelated accidents.