Download or read book The Precocious Parrot Caper written by Georgette Livingston and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penelope Davis has agreed to take care of a friend's parrot while he's in the hospital, but the parrot has escaped from the cage and is waging war with Penelope's fifteen cats. Jennifer Gray saves the parrot from the cats (or vice versa), and takes the bird back to the parsonage. But Scaramouch (Scamp) is no ordinary parrot, and he has an interesting tale to tell of treachery and treasure. At first Jennifer ignores his chattering, but she soon decides that the bird may indeed know a secret. And that secret turns out to be both very, very valuable, and very, very deadly.
Download or read book Mystery Women Volume Three Revised written by Colleen Barnett and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the heroines. What incredible choices there are today in mystery series! This three-volume encyclopedia of women characters in the mystery novel is like a gigantic menu. Like a menu, the descriptions of the items that are provided are subjective. Volume 3 of Mystery Women as currently updated adds an additional 42 sleuths to the 500 plus who were covered in the initial Volume 3. These are more recently discovered sleuths who were introduced during the period from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. This more than doubles the number of sleuths introduced in the 1980s (298 of whom were covered in Volume 2) and easily exceeded the 347 series (and some outstanding individuals) described in Volume 1, which covered a 130-year period from 1860-1979. It also includes updates on those individuals covered in the first edition; changes in status, short reviews of books published since the first edition through December 31, 2008.
Download or read book The Tenacious Terrier Caper written by Georgette Livingston and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tenacious Terrier Caper is the eighth book in the Jennifer Gray Veterinarian Mystery Series. The other seven books, The Unlucky Collie Caper, The Dog Named Elvis Caper, The Deadly Dog-Bone Caper, The Black Cat Caper, The Telltale Turkey Caper, The Precocious Parrot Caper, The Mischievous Monkey Caper, and The Potbellied Pig Caper are also available.
Download or read book The Chattering Chimp Caper written by Georgette Livingston and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Peaches, a chimpanzee, is kidnapped, the whole town enters the hunt to find her before her life can be traded for the recipe for the Cromwell Sisters' homemade elixer.
Download or read book The White Elephant Caper written by Georgette Livingston and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calico is holding a six-day spectacular over Labor Day, but there's more than just festivities going on in this sleepy little Nebraska town. First of all, there's the sudden appearance of counterfeit money, and the equally sudden appearance of Paul Bishop, a handsome blond-haired man with a beautiful dog named Casey. Next, there's the picture that veterinarian Jennifer Gray bought from Elmer Dodd that he is trying to buy back at a much higher price. Attracted to a possible counterfeiter, and the owner of a painting in great demand, Jennifer doesn't exactly know what is going on...but she is determined to find out!
Download or read book A Deadly Change of Course Plan B written by Gina Cresse and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mystery in a storage depot featuring Devonie Lace of California who buys up the contents of expired units. One unit yields a rifle and a great deal of cash, and that is when her troubles begin.
Download or read book Murder Flies Left Seat written by Jackie Lewin and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Beckmann, using such resources as her journalistic background, twin sixteen-year-old sons, and her weekly tennis group, sets out to make sense of a puzzling airplane accident.
Download or read book Goodbye Charli written by Diane Petit and published by Thomas Bouregy. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hear Me Die written by E. L. Larkin and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goodbye Charli third Time Lucky written by Diane Petit and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Kathryn Bogert lookin in Gertrude Trent's freezer, she expects to find the body of Gertrude's beloved dog, Winston. Instead she finds the body of Gertrude's favorite tenant.
Download or read book The Dog Named Elvis Caper written by Georgette Livingston and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two little boys are missing, and a ransom note has arrived. The FBI sends a team of experts, but Jennifer has another idea. Why not enlist the services of Elvis, the biggest and best tracking dog in the county? The lovable Saint Bernard (who fancies himself a bloodhound) may be a bit past his prime, but he and Jennifer embark on an unforgettable adventure that turns out to be the boys' only hope for survival. And as the situation becomes increasingly dangerous, Jennifer's own life may depend on the courage of her canine partner.
Download or read book Sophie s World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Download or read book Angry Lead Skies written by Glen Cook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series far ahead of its time, now back in print Anyone else would have learned by now: when trouble comes knocking, don't open the door. But there's a reason why Garrett's still in the P.I. business after all these years-he's not one to learn his lessons. Maybe that's why he lets himself get roped into being a bodyguard for Kip Prose, an obnoxious kid being threatened by creatures that can't quite be described. But before Kip Prose has a chance to explain what he's done to get on the hit list of some nameless nasties, the precocious Prose is abducted, and the chase begins...
Download or read book Murder on Cape Cod written by Maddie Day and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in a New Series! A Cape Cod shop owner and her book club must find a crafty killer in this charming new series fromthe Agatha-nominated author of the Country Store Mystery series. Summer is busy season for Mackenzie “Mac” Almeida’s bicycle shop, nestled in the quaint, seaside hamlet of Westham, Massachusetts. She’s expecting an influx of tourists at Mac’s Bikes; instead she discovers the body of Jake Lacey. Mac can’t imagine anyone stabbing the down-on-his-luck handyman. However, the authorities seem to think Mac is a strong suspect after she was spotted arguing with Jake just hours before his death. Mac knows she didn’t do it, but she does recognize the weapon—her brother Derrick’s fishing knife. Mac’s only experience with murder investigations is limited to the cozy mysteries she reads with her local book group, the Cozy Capers. So to clear her name—and maybe her brother’s too—Mac will have to summon help from her Cozy Capers co-investigators and a library’s worth of detectives’ tips and tricks. For a small town, Westham is teeming with possible killers, and this is one mystery where Mac is hoping for anything but a surprise ending...
Download or read book Complete Poetical Works written by Thomas Hood and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Still Life written by Sarah Winman and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK* *A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK* “[A] winsome, large-hearted novel ... [Still Life] pulses from the page.” —Entertainment Weekly Set between World War II and the 1980s, Still Life is a beautiful, big-hearted story of strangers brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Tin Man and When God Was a Rabbit. In the wine-cellar of a Tuscan villa, as the Allies advance and bombs fall around them, two people meet and share an extraordinary evening: Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier from London's East End; Evelyn Skinner is a worldly older art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to rescue paintings from the ruins and relive her memories of the time she encountered E.M. Forster and had her heart stolen by an Italian maid in a particular Florentine room with a view. Evelyn's talk of truth and beauty plants a seed in Ulysses's mind that night, one that will shape the trajectory of his life—and the lives of those who love him—for the next four decades. Moving from war-ravaged Tuscany to the boozy confines of The Stoat and Parrot pub in London and the piazzas of post-war Florence, Still Life is both sweeping and intimate, mischievous and deeply felt. It is a novel about beauty, love and fate, about the things that make life worth living, and the things we're prepared to die for.
Download or read book The Anatomy of Dreams written by Chloe Benjamin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the award-winning debut novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists, a “majestic collision of sci-fi thriller and love story” (Bustle) about a young woman struggling with questions of love, trust, and ethics as the line between dreams and reality dangerously blurs. When Sylvie Patterson, a bookish student at a Northern California boarding school, falls in love with a spirited, elusive classmate named Gabe, they embark on an experiment that changes their lives. Their headmaster, Dr. Adrian Keller, is a charismatic medical researcher who has staked his career on the therapeutic potential of lucid dreaming: by teaching his patients to become conscious during sleep, he believes he can relieve stress and trauma. Over the next six years, Sylvie and Gabe become consumed by Keller’s work, following him across the country. But when an opportunity brings the trio to the Midwest, Sylvie and Gabe stumble into a tangled relationship with their mysterious neighbors—and Sylvie begins to doubt the ethics of Keller’s research. As she navigates the hazy, permeable boundaries between what is real and what isn’t, who can be trusted and who cannot, Sylvie also faces surprising developments in herself—an unexpected infatuation, growing paranoia, and a new sense of rebellion. With stirring, elegant prose, “Chloe Benjamin has crafted an eerie, compelling first novel which, like the lingering effects of a vivid dream, resonates long past its finish” (Karen Brown, The Longings of Wayward Girls).
