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Celebrating Indigenous Picture Books-- IBBY's 'From Sea to Sea to Sea" 2021
Celebrating Indigenous Picture Books-- IBBY's 'From Sea to Sea to Sea" 2021
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"After his snowmobile breaks down halfway across the sea ice on a trip back from a fishing camp, Serapio Ittusardjuat recounts the traditional skills and knowledge he leaned on to stay alive. This harrowing first-person account of four nights spent on the open sea ice--with few supplies and no water--shows young readers the determination and strength necessary to survive in the harsh Arctic climate, even when the worst occurs."--Provided by publisher....
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This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1889 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. It was between 1876 and 1881, while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, that he began writing short stories, and his first piece was published in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal before he was 20. In 1887, Conan Doyle's first significant...
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A classic murder mystery, set in England in the 1990's.Lady Baldwin pulls out all the stops to ensure that her weekend party will be unforgettable. It turns out it will be, but for the wrong reason.With a mansion full of guests and staff, who all have a reason to kill, it's a guessing game to discover who did it.This is a really fun read that also details the lives of the rich and those who serve them. See if you can solve the crime.
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Some people need killing, but Derwood Flynn is retired and doesn't do that sort of thing anymore. He wants a quiet life, rebuilding the broken relationship with his teenage daughter. When a hurricane ravages the landscape and washes a murder victim from the failing dam of a local lake, Derwood teams with vivacious DA Maggie Kidd to uncover a decades-old conspiracy of death and deception. Set in small town rural North Carolina, The Body in the Dam...
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When journalist Alan Rudberg investigates his father's suspicious death, he encounters a conspiracy of silence. Law officers in the rural North Florida community treat his passing as an accident. When Rudberg learns that his father was investigating a six-decade-old civil rights slaying, the conspiracy deepens, for that probe was also shuttered, and the man responsible is on the president's short list for the US Supreme Court. Rudberg's quest to learn...
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An island republic goes to insane lengths to canonize its most famous resident Juanita di Perli was a young woman when she decided to live the rest of her life on a table-top. She called it God's will, but for the order of nuns that sprang up around her, Juanita's devotion was a curse. For decades they did the bidding of the holy grouch, and the entire island of San Juan el Pirata sighed with relief when she died. Twenty years later, the islanders...
67) Murder of Ravens
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The ancient Indian art of tracking is his greatest strength...
And also his biggest weakness.
Fish and Wildlife State Trooper Gabriel Hawke believes he's chasing poachers.
However, he comes upon a wildlife biologist standing over a body that is wearing a wolf tracking collar.
He uses master tracker skills taught to him by his Nez Perce grandfather to follow clues on the mountain. Paper trails and the whisper of rumors in the rural community where...
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Inspector Cockrill mysteries volume 3
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A family patriarch is murdered on the eve of signing a new will Sir Richard's family has spent years waiting for him to die, but despite his weak heart, the old man simply refuses to cooperate. In the meantime, he makes their lives miserable by changing his will every few months, depending on which of his strange brood he favors that moment. Now he calls them together to announce his most diabolical revision yet: complete disinheritance of all the...
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This omnibus edition contains the first three books in the Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventure series. Join chaotic 1920s reporter and accidental sleuth Freddy Pilkington-Soames on his adventures in this series of light-hearted mysteries! A CASE OF BLACKMAIL IN BELGRAVIA (Book 1) It's 1929, and Ticky Maltravers is the toast of London high society, adored by everyone-or so it seems, until somebody poisons him over dinner. Now it turns out that numerous...
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"A charming mystery." - Publishers Weekly on book one in the Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery series
It's springtime in rural Manitoba, and the snow has finally left the exotic animal farm when an ostrich finds and swallows a shiny object. (Because this is what ostriches do.) Cue veterinarian and amateur sleuth Dr. Peter Bannerman, who surgically removes the object, which looks like an ancient Viking artifact. Soon after, people around are horrified by...
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A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes is a book for those who want to improve their thinking. It is a practical and enjoyable book that tells in a short-easy-to-read way about what we all can learn from Sherlock Holmes. Peter Bevelin has distilled Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes into bite-sized principles and key quotes. This book will appeal to both Sherlock fans as well as those who want to think better. It contains useful and timeless methods...
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In one of his earliest cases, Ellery Queen confronts a murder in blue blood America's master of deduction, Ellery Queen, has made his name by combining dazzling feats of pure reason with the old-fashioned legwork that comes with being the son of a New York cop. Before he became the nation's most famous sleuth, he was just an untested talenta bookworm who thought he might put his genius to work solving crimes. Young Queen made his bones on the Khalkis...
73) Tour de Force
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Inspector Cockrill's dull vacation is jolted by a Mediterranean murder From the moment he steps on the plane, Inspector Cockrill loathes his fellow travelers. They are typical tour group bores: the dullards of England whom he had hoped to escape by going to Italy. He gives up on the trip immediately, burying his nose in a mystery novel to ensure that no one tries to become his friend. But not long after the group makes landfall at the craggy isle...
74) Calamity Town
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Looking for trouble, Ellery Queen descends on a small town At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville. The Depression has abated, and for the first time in years the city is booming. There is hope in Wrightsville, but Ellery Queen has come looking for death. The mystery author is hoping for fodder for a novel, and he senses the corruption that lurks beneath the apple pie façade....
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But were the hauntings at the Elizabethan manor house of Bly a vision of the walking dead, perhaps, rather than delusions of her tormented mind? Or could it be that a criminal conspiracy is to blame for the psychic phenomena? In the company of Dr. Watson, the indefatigable Holmes will track down the perpetrators through the occult underworld of Victorian London.
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The monotony of thick smog-shrouded London is broken by a sudden visit from Holmes's brother Mycroft. He has come about some missing, secret submarine plans. Seven of the ten pages - three are still missing - were found with Arthur Cadogan West's body. He was a young clerk in a government office at Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, whose body was found next to the Underground tracks near the Aldgate tube station, his head crushed. He had little money with...
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It begins with a narrator who is very similar to our Hastings. The first interaction between our narrator and Poirot is very interesting. It is really funy to think that our narrator took Poirot for an hairdresser.
The novel is full of twist and turns and it can be enjoyed by following the proper clues. Agatha Christie never leaves her reader in the dark, she provides nearly all possible clues. And the solution completely depends on your
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Previously published in the print anthology Three Blind Mice and Other Stories. The patrons and residents of the newly opened guesthouse Monkswell Manor find themselves trapped by a snowstorm and threatened by a psychotic killer. With a finite cast of characters in this "locked room" mystery, it is not long before suspicions are voiced, and, under growing pressure, even newlyweds Molly and Giles each start to suspect the other of being a killer.
79) Stewardship
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Discusses the part that indigenous peoples have played in taking care of the land and using it responsibly.
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It has been three years since Sherlock Holmes fell to his death after a showdown with his brilliant enemy Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. Believing his friend to be dead, Doctor John Watson has moved on with his life. That is, until he discovers Sherlock Holmes alive and in disguise one afternoon in a London shop. A whole new series of adventures awaits Holmes and Watson, and the consulting detective must use the science of deduction to solve new mysteries,...
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