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How to survive as a shark
By Michael Graves, Kristen Foote. 2017
Ahoy, me mateys! Upset your Mom swam away after you were born? Cry me an ocean. You've got me to…
show you the ropes! Well, at least until I get a craving for baby shark. Swim along and I'll teach you how to hunt using all six senses (a whole sense more than a human), why you can never stop moving (blimey, no--not even to sleep!), and what your most dangerous threat is (here's a hint: those sneaky landlubbers don't even live in our waters!). Aye, me hearties, learning How to survive as a shark is not as easy as it sounds! How to survive as a shark provides a unique take on fish science that will entertain and educate in and out of the classroom. Full of opportunities for extended learning, this book includes fun facts hidden throughout the hilarious illustrated story-- and after, a glossary of important terms and some real photos of great white sharks. If you've ever wondered how to think and swim like a shark, and you like to laugh while you learn, this book is for y For grades K-3AuSable alligators
By Johnathan Rand, Rand Johnson. 2005
Dinosaurs in your backyard: The Coolest, Scariest Creatures Ever Found in the USA!
By Alan Barnard, Hugh Brewster. 2009
Presents facts learned from fossilized evidence of dinosaur species that roamed the North American continent millions of years ago, like…
the Stegosaurus of Colorado. Discusses size, eating habits, head crests, skull shapes, tail clubs, raptor claws, and dinosaur descendants. For grades 3-6. 2009Come, tell me how you live
By Agatha Christie Mallowan. 2000
Famous mystery writer draws on travels with her archaeologist husband to offer a glimpse of the Arab world between world…
wars. Records excavations, encounters, and observations of customs and people in a book she calls "full of everyday doings and happenings." 2000 introduction by David Pryce-Jones. 1946Aero and Officer Mike: police partners
By Joan Russell, Joan Plummer Russell. 2001
Describes how policeman Mike and his German shepherd K-9 partner, Aero, work, train, and play together. Explains how the dog's…
special skills--sense of smell, speed, and strength--help Officer Mike perform his duties. For grades K-3. 2001A personal devil: A Magdalene la Batarde Mystery (Magdaline la Batarde Ser. #No. 2)
By Roberta Gellis. 2001
London, 1139. Beautiful brothel-keeper Magdalene la Bâtarde enlists the help of her admirer, Sir Bellamy, when blind prostitute Sabina, one…
of Magdalene's former employees, needs assistance. Sabina's lover, Master Mainard the saddle maker, has been accused of murdering his nagging wife. Some descriptions of sex. 2001Cat crimes for the holidays (Cat Crimes Ser. #5)
By Martin Greenberg, Ed Gorman. 1997
Nineteen original mysteries, each involving a cat at the scene of the crime or as a feline sleuth. Various holidays…
throughout the year provide the settings for these stories, which include "How the July Fourth Cat Saved the Day and Ruined the Night" and "To Grandmother's House We Go."The cruellest month: With the Assistance of Jane Austen's Letters
By Hazel Holt. 2009
Sheila Malory finds herself at Oxford's New Bodleian library, digging into the past of a decidedly unpleasant librarian who was…
found dead under collapsed bookshelves. This librarian had numerous enemies, so Sheila turns to the victim's old diary from World War II for some answers. Some strong language. 1991The murderer in ruins (Inspector Frank Stave #01)
By Cay Rademacher, Peter Millar. 2015
Hamburg, 1947. Career policeman Frank Stave worries about his missing son, even as he works with colleague Maschke from the…
vice squad and Lt. MacDonald of the British military to track down a killer. Translated from the original 2011 German edition. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex. 2015The forger (Inspector Frank Stave #03)
By Cay Rademacher. 2020
Hamburg, 1948. During a routine operation, Chief Inspector Frank Stave is shot. After he recovers, he transfers from the office…
combatting the black market. But then the women clearing rubble discover works of art from the Weimar period--next to a corpse. Translated from original 2013 German edition. Some violence and some strong language. 2018Dishonour in Camp 133 (The Sergeant Neumann Mysteries #2)
By Wayne Arthurson. 2021
Sergeant Neumann and the inmates of Camp 133 are back! Even thousands of miles from the front lines, locked into…
a Canadian prisoner-of-war camp at the base of the Canadian Rockies, death isn't far away. For August Neumann, head of Camp Civil Security and decorated German war hero, this is the reality. Chef Schlipal has been found dead in Mess #3, a knife in his back. Now it's up to Neumann to find out what would drive the men of the camp, brothers-in-arms, to turn on each other. He's learned, of course, that beneath the veneer of duty and honour, the camp is anything but civil. When the trail of clues ends at the edge of the prison yard, Neumann must consider the crime bigger than the camp. Is someone getting out of the prison? If so, can he follow? If he can't, he might have to live with the dishonour of Camp 133.The school for whatnots
By Margaret Peterson Haddix. 2022
"No matter what anyone tells you, I'm real. That's what the note says that Max finds under his keyboard. He…
knows that his best friend, Josie, wrote it. He'd know her handwriting anywhere. But why she wrote it--and what it means--remains a mystery. Ever since they met in kindergarten, Max and Josie have been inseparable. Until the summer after fifth grade, when Josie disappears, leaving only a note, and whispering something about "whatnot rules." But why would Max ever think that Josie wasn't real? And what are whatnots? As Max sets to uncover what happened to Josie--and what she is or isn't--little does he know that she's fighting to find him again, too. But there are forces trying to keep Max and Josie from ever seeing each other again. Because Josie wasn't supposed to be real." -- Provided by publisherJim Ugly
By Sid Fleischman, Jos. A. Smith. 1992
1894. Twelve-year-old Jake Bannock assumes that he is an orphan after he sees his actor-father's coffin lowered into the ground…
at Blow- fly, Nevada. If one discounts the rumor that Sam Bannock had con- cealed a cache of diamonds, Jake's only inheritance is his father's part-wolf mongrel dog. His father called the dog Amigo; Jake calls him Jim Ugly. Together they set out to learn the truth about Sam's supposed demise--and the diamonds. For grades 4-7. 1992Arf: a Bowser and Birdie novel (Bowser And Birdie)
By Spencer Quinn. 2016
When Birdie Gaux's house is broken into, her dog Bowser wants to find the man with the limeade aftershave and…
the cat responsible, but nobody seems to know what the culprits were looking for. Sequel to Woof (BR 20862). For grades 3-6. 2016Woof: a Bowser and Birdie novel
By Spencer Quinn. 2015
Following the adoption of Bowser, a mutt, eleven-year-old Birdie Gaux and her grandmother get home to Grammy's bait-and-tackle shop in…
the bayou to discover that their prize stuffed marlin has been stolen. Bowser decides to investigate, and things quickly become complicated and dangerous. For grades 3-6. 2015The golden ghost (A Stepping Stone Book Series)
By Marion Dane Bauer. 2011
Delsie and her friend Todd ride their bikes to an old cement mill, where they discover that someone is staying…
in one of the abandoned houses nearby--and Delsie encounters a golden ghost dog. For grades 2-4. 2011A nose for justice: a novel
By Rita Mae Brown. 2010
Mags Rogers leaves her Wall Street job behind and moves to the Nevada ranch of her wealthy great-aunt Jeep. When…
a skeleton is found in the barn, Mags's dachshund Baxter and Jeep's shepherd-mix King join the investigation. Meanwhile a water-rights war leads to sabotage and more dead bodies. 2010Les cahiers noirs de l'aliéniste: 2, Le sang des prairies (GF (Alire (Firme)))
By Jacques Côté. 2010
"Fort Edmonton, 5 mai 1885.Trois mois après avoir joint les rangs du 65e bataillon de Montréal, le capitaine Georges Villeneuve,…
assisté du lieutenant Bruno Lafontaine et du docteur Paré, entend la déposition sous serment de François Lépine, un interprète métis qui a survécu au massacre de Lac-à-la-Grenouille." -- 4e de couvInspector Hopper (I Can Read Bks.)
By Doug Cushman. 2000
The figure of the detective: a literary history and analysis
By Charles Brownson. 2014
"This book begins with a history of the detective genre, coextensive with the novel itself, identifying the attitudes and institutions…
needed for the genre to emerge in its mature form around 1880. The theory of the genre is laid out along with its central theme of the getting and deployment of knowledge. Sherlock Holmes, the English Classic stories and their inheritors are examined in light of this theme and the balance of two forms of knowledge used in fictional detection--cool or rational, and warm or emotional. The evolution of the genre formula is driven by changes in the social climate in which it is embedded. These changes explain the decay of the English Classic and its replacement by noir, hardboiled and spy stories, to end in the cul-de-sac of the thriller and the nostalgic Neo-Classic. Possible new forms of the detective story are suggested." -- Provided by publisher