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The case of the puzzling possum (I Can Read Level 2 Ser. #3)
By Cynthia Rylant. 2001
Mr. Riley, a possum who owns a music store, calls animal detectives Bunny and Jack about a trombone that keeps…
disappearing and reappearing in the shop's window. Bunny uses her brains and Jack spies clues to solve the case. Beginning chapter book. For grades K-3. 2001Inspector Hopper (I Can Read Bks.)
By Doug Cushman. 2000
Rising water
By P. J Petersen. 2002
Kevin is assigned community service--for car theft--at an animal rescue center. During a flood, he accompanies volunteers Tracy and her…
brother, Luke, on a mission to feed a trapped dog. The group runs into trouble when they encounter armed burglars looting a house. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2002A will to survive
By Franklin W Dixon. 2002
Strange happenings at the Shorewood Nature Center cause Joe and Frank to go undercover to investigate. Someone wants the center…
shut down, but the Hardy boys get in the way, putting themselves at risk. The boys need to find out what's going on. American Action Fund. For grades 4-7. 1999The cruelest month (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #3)
By Louise Penny. 2008
Popular Three Pines resident Madeleine Favreau dies of fright while attending a séance at the old Hadley house. Chief Inspector…
Armand Gamache learns that a dose of diet pills played a part in the death--but Madeleine wasn't dieting. Meanwhile Armand deals with trouble in his ranks. Some strong language. Agatha Award. 2007.A fatal grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #2)
By Louise Penny. 2007
Quebec. Much-disliked businesswoman and writer CC de Poitiers is electrocuted in the middle of a frozen lake during a curling…
tournament in the village of Three Pines. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, from Still Life, arrives from Montreal and discovers links to another unsolved crime. Some strong language. 2006.Bury your dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #6)
By Louise Penny. 2010
Chief Inspector Gamache, on leave in Quebec City, helps investigate the murder of an archaeologist who was searching for the…
remains of Samuel de Champlain. Meanwhile Gamache sends his colleague Jean-Guy Beauvoir to Three Pines to revisit the case described in The Brutal Telling. Some strong language. 2010.Still life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #1)
By Louise Penny. 2010
Shortly after elderly Jane Neal finally agrees to participate in the art show to be held in her small village…
outside of Montreal, she is killed by an arrow through the heart. As Chief Inspector Gamache investigates, he wonders if her unusual artwork provides a clue to her murder. 2005.A rule against murder (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #4)
By Louise Penny. 2009
Armand Gamache, chief inspector of Quebec homicide, and his wife Reine-Marie vacation at an inn outside of Montreal. When a…
member of the Morrow family, attending a reunion at the same inn, is murdered, Gamache investigates and uncovers secrets among the staff and guests. Some strong language. 2008.A fatal grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #2)
By Louise Penny. 2011
Quebec. Much-disliked businesswoman and writer CC de Poitiers is electrocuted in the middle of a frozen lake during a curling…
tournament in the village of Three Pines. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, from Still Life, arrives from Montreal and discovers links to another unsolved crime. Some strong language. 2006.Still life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #1)
By Louise Penny. 2008
Shortly after elderly Jane Neal finally agrees to participate in the art show to be held in her small village…
outside of Montreal, she is killed by an arrow through the heart. As Chief Inspector Gamache investigates, he wonders if her unusual artwork provides a clue to her murder. 2006Frozen tundra (Sam Skarda mysteries #03)
By Rick Shefchik. 2010
Ex-Minneapolis police detective Sam Skarda is hired by the president of the Green Bay Packers to investigate an insider plot…
designed to sell the publicly-owned Packers to a private buyer. Adult. Some descriptions of sex. Strong language. ViolenceTyphoon: A Novel
By Charles Cumming. 2009
A brilliant young MI6 operative loses a prominent defector who disappears from a Hong Kong safe house in 1997. A…
decade later, he is back to tie up loose ends, and thwart a plot to destabilize China. Adult. Descriptions of sex. Strong language. ViolenceWindcatcher (Avon Camelot Book, An)
By Avi. 1991
This tale offers a potent brew of mystery and adventure in this tale of an 11-year-old boy involved in a…
search for a centuries old shipwreck. The setting is among the Thimble Islands located off the coast of Connecticut thought to be the hiding spot of Captain Kidd's treasure. For grades 2-4Asesino de espías
By L Ronald Hubbard. 2013
El marinero Americano Kurt Reid es un tipo impetuoso: tan duro y energico como Benicio del Toro. Falsamente acusado de…
asesinato, Reid cambia de barco en Shangai. . . y desembarca en una telarana de intrigas, traiciones y asesinatos. Atraido a un letal juego de espias, tendra que aprender rapido las reglas, porque con jugadores como la sexy agente rusa Varinka Savischna el juego es tan seductor como siniestro.Em Grande Perigo - O Guia do Escritor para Criar Suspense
By Ken Pelham, João Wolf. 2015
Aprenda as dicas, truques e técnicas para criar e manter o suspense na ficção. Por que alguns romances prendem tanto…
o leitor, que é impossível parar de virar as páginas uma após a outra, enquanto outros fazem o leitor se arrastar por elas? O que esses livros tem de especial? Em uma palavra: suspense. O escritor chama você, prende você e depois o solta. Mas como? Não é por acidente. Aprenda as dicas, truques e técnicas para criar suspense na ficção, e até mesmo na não-ficção. Neste conciso guia, você irá aprender o que faz o suspense acontecer, por que gostamos dele, e como saber utilizá-lo em seus escritos. Gênero: Educação e Referência Gênero Secundário: Mistério, Thriller e Suspense Idioma Original: Inglês Número de Palavras: 11,770 Informações: Eu possuo oito livros disponíveis online para venda no formato de ebooks e também como livros de bolso, e dois mais ainda no forno. Meu primeiro romance, o thriller de suspense Brigands Key, foi publicado comercialmente em 2012 e já teve mais de 7,000 exemplares vendidos ou baixados. Este livro, Em Grande Perigo, foi publicado no verão de 2014. Com frequencia eu dou palestras sobre o tema de como criar e manter o suspense. Trecho do livro: Suspense... Mas que Diabos É Isso? Todo mundo tem uma ideia do que seja o suspense, mas o que é isso exatamente? O que causa o suspense? E, mais importante para os escritores, como podemos usá-lo a nosso favor? Pra começar, o dicionário Merriam-Webster nos dá uma definição. Suspense (substantivo): um sentimento ou estado de nervosismo ou excitação causado pela imaginação do que irá acontecer. É até bem simples. Mas não significa muita coisa, realmente. É correto dizer que o suspense é uma forma de incerteza. Além disso, o suspense está vinculado ao medo. Apesar de não serem a mesma coisa, existeThe Suicide Squad
By Richard Curtis. 1975
Dave Bolt doesn't know what the Racers' star quarterback has to do with the game no gambler would touch, but…
it smells like a mighty fishy fix. When Jimmy Quinn doesn't show for a meeting and has disappeared, Bolt suspects more than a thrown game. Quinn's books show a few shady deals, but nothing too suspicious. Now Bolt has a dead gambler on his hands, and what he wants to know is...is Quinn next on the list or a cold-blooded killer? No one ever said the sports business was a cup of tea and Dave Bolt takes his coffee strong, bitter and black.Native Tongue
By Suzette Haden Elgin, Susan Squier. 1984
Called "fascinating" by the New York Times upon its first publication in 1984, Native Tongue won wide critical praise and…
cult status, and has often been compared to the futurist fiction of Margaret Atwood. Set in the twenty-second century, the novel tells of a world where women are once again property, denied civil rights and banned from public life. Earth's wealth depends on interplanetary commerce with alien races, and linguists ---a small, clannish group of families ---have become the ruling elite by controlling all interplanetary communication. Their women are used to breed perfect translators for all the galaxies' languages.Nazareth Chornyak, the most talented linguist of the family, is exhausted by her constant work translating for trade organizations, supervising the children's language education, running the compound, and caring for the elderly men. She longs to retire to the Barren House, where women past childbearing age knit, chat, and wait to die. What Nazareth comes to discover is that a slow revolution is going on in the Barren Houses: there, word by word, women are creating a language of their own to free them from men's control."Native Tongue brings to life not only the possibility of a women's language, but a rationale for one,"--Village Voice"Elgin takes up more than linguistics, of course--everything from religion to sex...the story is absolutely compelling."--Women's Review of BooksSuzette Haden Elgin is author of twelve science fiction novels and is widely know for her best-selling series The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense and for The Grandmother Principles. She is director of the Ozark Center for Language Studies and is professor emerita of linguistics at San Diego State University.Susan Squier is Julia Brill professor of English and Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University.Mountain Rampage
By Scott Graham. 2015
"Graham's clever tale is tailor-made for those who prefer their mysteries under blue skies..."-KIRKUS"Description and dialogue balance to bring both…
the rounded characters and the Rocky Mountain setting alive in this tale of danger, death, and intrigue...Scott Graham has created a satisfying and suspenseful adventure."-FOREWORD REVIEWS"Filled with murder and mayhem, jealousy and good detective work-set against a stunning Colorado backdrop-Mountain Rampage is an exciting, non-stop read. I look forward to more good tales from this talented author."-ANNE HILLERMAN, New York Times bestselling author of Spider Woman's Daughter"In Mountain Rampage, Scott Graham delivers taut writing, solid plot twists, a cast of interesting characters, and an appealing protagonist both men and women will love. Get ready for a leave-you-breathless high country southwestern adventure."-MICHAEL MCGARRITY, New York Times bestselling author of Hard Country and Backlands"Move over Nevada Barr-clean prose and confident storytelling combine to make Scott Graham's second Chuck Bender/National Park Mystery Series novel a must-read for fans of Western outdoor fiction and for mystery lovers everywhere."-CHUCK GREAVES, author of Hush Money, Green-Eyed Lady, and The Last Heir"In archaeologist Chuck Bender, Scott Graham has created a flawed, all-too-human, and memorable investigator who had me rooting for him to the end."-MARGARET COEL, author of Night of the White BuffaloIn the riveting second installment of the National Park Mystery Series, archaeologist Chuck Bender finds himself and his young wife and stepdaughters in the crosshairs of an unknown killer when he defends his brother-in-law from false accusations of murder in the brutal slaying of a resort worker in Rocky Mountain National Park.Scott Graham is author of Canyon Sacrifice: A National Park Mystery and Extreme Kids, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award. He is an avid outdoorsman and amateur archaeologist who enjoys hunting, rock climbing, skiing, backpacking, mountaineering, river rafting, and whitewater kayaking with his wife, an emergency physician, and their two sons. Graham lives in Durango, Colorado.Alphabet
By Kathy Page. 2014
"Simply an epiphany."-Kirkus, starred reviewSimon Austen has the names people have called him tattooed all over his body. Waste of…
Space. Bastard. A Threat to Women. Murderer. Facing a lifetime behind bars and subjected to new therapies for sexual reprogramming, Simon finds himself plunged into a terrifying process of self-reconstruction. But how much, in the end, can a man really change? Darkly compelling and deeply moving, Alphabet is a psychological exploration of one man's uncertain and often-harrowing journey towards rehabilitation."Intense, revealing, challenging and above all riveting ... I kept saying to myself, how could she know this?"-Erwin James, convicted murderer, author of A Life Inside: A Prisoner's Notebook"Sometimes novelists go too far-and sometimes they manage to demonstrate that too far is the place they needed to go."-Time Out UKPraise for Kathy Page"Her unforgettable prose is moody, shape-shifting, provocative and always as compelling as a strong light at the end of a road you hesitate to walk down...but will."- Amy Bloom, author of Where the God of Love Hangs Out"Marvellously well-crafted ... I can't remember the last time I was so compelled, impressed and unsettled by the emotional world of a novel."- Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet