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81) The master key
Author
Series
Publisher
Pushkin Vertigo
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The K Apartments for Ladies are occupied by over a hundred unmarried women, once young and lively, now grown and old - and in some cases, evil. Their residence conceals a secret, a secret connecting the unsolved kidnapping in 1951 of four-year-old George Kraft to the clandestine burial of a child's body in the basement bath-house. So, when news comes that the building must be moved to make way for a road-building project, more than one tenant waits...
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
""Wagoner's words are a living link to the world, enacting it so vitally that they feel like natural facts."--The Seattle TimesIn his twenty-fourth book of poetry, David Wagoner reflects on youth, love, regret, and expectation versus reality. Here a master writes at top form, back-dropped by life's curious moments and imagining Jesus as an untidy roommate or considering our final destination in "Beginner's Guide to Death.""After the Point of No Return"After...
83) Haunted homicide
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Pengiun Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Avery Morgan has had a harrowing first week on the job as manager of the Portage Path Woman's Club. Not only is she in charge of a grand old home with a mountain of maintenance problems and scheduling nightmares--thanks to a recent fire in the Marigold meeting room--but she's also got Muriel Sadler to deal with. Muriel is the current president of the club, the one "nay" vote when the rest of the board voted "aye" to hiring Avery. After a morning...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Down-and-out in the Great Depression, Gwynne Dacres moves into a seedy-and-sinister boardinghouse, where she exposes deadly secrets in this classic mystery by Mabel Seeley. After losing her copywriting job, young Gwynne Dacres seeks a place to live when she stumbles upon Mrs. Garr's old boardinghouse. Despite the gruff landlady and an assortment of shifty tenants, Gwynne rents a room for herself. She spends her first few nights at 593 Trent Street...
86) Hems & homicide
Author
Series
Apron shop mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Iris Buckley is sew ready for a change. After the death of her beloved grandfather, Iris decides to stay in her Maine hometown to help out her widowed grandmother, Anne, and bring her online hand-made apron designs to real-time retail life. Her and Anne's shop, Ruffles & Bows, is set to include all the latest and vintage linen fashions, a studio for sewing groups and classes, and a friendly orange cat. The only thing that they were not planning to...
Publisher
Cool Springs Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Have you dreamed of living a more sustainable lifestyle? Or even getting off the grid completely? You don't need 100 acres and a giant solar array to do it. All it takes are some useful projects to get you started. And that is exactly what you will find in Step-by-Step Projects for Self-Sufficiency. Stuffed with 47 complete DIY projects you can build or create, this book will show you how to become more self-sufficient in many ways, including...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Insects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do it, and what can we learn from them? In How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls, David Hu takes readers on an accessible, wondrous journey into the world of animal motion. From basement labs at MIT to the rain forests of Panama, Hu shows how animals have adapted and evolved to traverse their environments, taking advantage...
91) Thrown
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
""Thrown is Kerry Howley's masterful debut. A work of rigorous nonfiction that's sure to be branded experimental, but that's as involving and page-turning as any book I've read in a while." -Gary Shteyngart "Who can explain what draws a young brilliant writer-and a woman no less-to be mesmerized by the sight of a young man being pummeled in the ring? But out of this passion-maybe obsession-comes a great American story about overlooked heroes, the...
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Series
U.S. Geological Survey professional paper volume 1317
Publisher
Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Author
Series
Water-resources investigations volume 76-95
Publisher
U.S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Author
Series
U.S. Geological Survey bulletin volume 1651
Publisher
Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Author
Series
Data series) volume 898
Publisher
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"More than 50 assignments, ideas, and prompts to expand your world and help you make outstanding new things to put into it Curator Sarah Urist Green left her office in the basement of an art museum to travel and visit a diverse range of artists, asking them to share prompts that relate to their own ways of working. The result is You Are an Artist, a journey of creation through which you'll invent imaginary friends, sort books, declare a cause, construct...