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One night at sea. One body. One girl who can't stop asking questions.When eighteen-year-old Jamie Rodriguez boards the luxury cruise ship Regency Marvel, she's expecting sun, ports, and a week off from real life. What she gets is a dead dancer on Deck 7, a captain determined to call it an accident, and a crew full of people who know more than they're saying.As the ship pushes deeper into the Bermuda Triangle, Jamie and her best friend Sam Liu pull at a thread that leads somewhere far darker than a shipboard romance gone wrong — into a financial conspiracy spanning three continents, two unexplained deaths, and a cover-up that reaches all the way to the bridge.The ocean keeps its secrets. Jamie Rodriguez doesn't.The Bermuda Triangle Incident is the second book in the Jamie Rodriguez Mystery series.

A Novel of the Fight for America's Land-Grant UniversitiesHe was a blacksmith's son from rural Vermont.He changed the course of American education.In 1810, Justin Morrill was born into a world where opportunity belonged to the few. College was for ministers and the wealthy. Farmers, mechanics, and laborers were expected to work—not to study.But Morrill believed the republic could be more than that.From the heat of his father's forge to the halls of Congress, The Republic of Knowledge tells the gripping story of how one self-educated shopkeeper reshaped the nation's future. Facing constitutional attacks, political sabotage, and a presidential veto, Morrill spent years fighting to pass a radical idea: that public land should fund public colleges—institutions dedicated not to Latin and theology, but to agriculture, engineering, and the practical sciences that would build a modern nation.When the Morrill Act finally passed in 1862—amid the chaos of the Civil War—it launched a quiet revolution. The "e;land-grant"e; colleges it created would feed a growing country, power industrial expansion, open doors to working-class students, and, over time, extend opportunity to Black Americans and Native communities long excluded from higher education.But the story does not end with victory.Spanning more than a century—from Kansas farm experiments to tribal colleges in Montana to modern budget crises—The Republic of Knowledge traces the enduring question at the heart of American democracy:Who is education for?Sweeping, deeply researched, and written with the urgency of a nation still debating its future, this is the story of the unfinished American promise—and the men and women who continue the fight to keep knowledge in the hands of the many, not the few.

ABOVE MY PAY GRADEA legacy of silence. A valley of secrets. A debt that has finally come due.On a warm October evening in a glass-walled Los Angeles art gallery, billionaire Franklin Marshall collapses and dies in front of two hundred elite witnesses. The cause: a rare, fast-acting toxin delivered through a single, brined oyster. Marshall, a man who built empires by controlling the supply, was weeks away from making a confession that would have dismantled the lives of the most powerful men in Washington—starting with Senator Theodore Whitmore.Jamie Rodriguez, a sixteen-year-old high school journalist with a homemade press badge and a relentless drive for the truth, is the first on the scene. What she discovers is not just a murder, but a thirty-year cover-up of an environmental crime that has poisoned a community.Joined by Sam Liu, whose mother has spent six years working inside Marshall's empire to document the truth, Jamie follows a paper trail that leads from the glittering heights of Bel Air to a fog-wrapped cabin in Humboldt County. There, they find the man who knows where the bodies are buried—and the memo that proves the contamination was no accident.As the clock ticks down to a backroom political deal designed to bury the evidence forever, Jamie and Sam must decide how much they are willing to risk to give a voice to twelve hundred people who have been told for twenty years that their sickness was a coincidence.In a world where justice is often considered above one's pay grade, two girls are about to prove that the truth has no price tag.