Sharon Kanach Books

When retired police detective, turned PI, Kathy Mason, arrives on Mercer Island, fate steps in bringing her face to face with a nightmare she believed she had left behind in New York. Reluctantly she is drawn into the investigation of missing women. Memories of the tragedy which befell her sister Jessie spur her on. Billy, a devilishly handsome psychopath, visualizes his mother, who abandoned him, in every woman he lures. An abusive foster system has created a monster. Is there one murderer, or two? Each young victim has a family; each murder has Mercer Island shivering with fear.

What happens when beliefs are interwoven with personal revenge?After a terrorist attack on a café in London, Clint Maitland and Ben-Zion Mahmudi, both CIA agents, face Zaynab Kahn, widow of the terrorist. Having been brought in for questioning, Zaynab's interview begins a cat and mouse game of strike, retreat and revenge amongst the three of them.The hunt starts in London, progresses to South Africa, and then explodes in the horn of Africa. Zaynab is determined to lead Islamic militant extremist groups to attack the western world. Clint is equally determined to stop her. But at what personal cost to both of them?

On the legacy of Xenakis’ innovations in music notation for contemporary composersTrained in mechanical engineering, Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) transformed mathematical models into architectonic musical entities.In the late 1970s Xenakis developed a digital apparatus that rendered waveforms drawn on a tablet as musical compositions. The device was called UPIC, or Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu, named for the French contemporary music research institute that Xenakis had helped found a decade earlier. The device proved to be an essential tool for the development of contemporary music―a version of the software is still used by today’s composers.Featuring archival materials, this book examines the origins of Xenakis’ UPIC. It also serves as a compositional tool: embedded QR codes allow readers to create their own sound-images from UPIC compositions.