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Series
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Death and tennis meet in one of impossible crime master John Dickson Carr's most memorable cases.
John Dickson Carr is famous for his puzzling "impossible crime" plots in which corpses are discovered in scenarios that seem to lack any logical explanation. Among all of Carr's ingenious crime scenes, the present case is one of the best known: a dead man is found strangled in the middle of a clay tennis court...Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Is this what middle school is all about? Being stuck in the middle? Twelve-year-old Mia feels like everything and everyone is changing--and she is caught in the middle. Stuck between old friends and new friends...between feeling like a kid and growing up...
3) Creative beaded jewelry: 33 exquisite designs inspired by the Arts of China, Japan, India and Tibet
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the decorative arts, temple carvings and textiles of China, Japan, India and Tibet--Creative Beaded Jewelry celebrates the art of the East with stunning beaded jewelry in various shapes, sizes and materials. The designs in this book draw their inspiration from many different sources ranging from Japanese kimono fabrics to carved Chinese wall panels and lacquerwares to old Tibetan coins--all part of the ancient artistic heritage of Eastern...
Author
Publisher
Harper Horizon
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
The engaging, uplifting antidote to traditional ADHD books (which, let's be honest, if you have ADHD you'd never read anyway).
You live in a world that wasn't designed for you. A world where you're expected to sit still, stay quiet, and focus. Because of the way your brain is wired, you can feel like you're failing at life. But you are not failing. You are awesome.
Award-winning content creators Kim and Penn Holderness
...6) Busy garage
Publisher
Campbell Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Push, pull and slide the tabs to fix the car at the Busy Garage! Help the mechanics check the wires, test the lights and wash the car to get it ready for the road.
Author
Publisher
Harper Horizon
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Michael Rich, dubbed the 'Mediatrician' thanks to his acclaimed work as a pediatrician, child health researcher, and children's media specialist, offers a science-backed approach to give parents the confidence they need to raise a child well (and to raise a well child) in the digital age." --
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"How are astronauts going to explore Mars? Previous space suits have been bulky and cumbersome-- but maybe we can fix that with new designs. Learn how engineer Dava Newman plans to create a new space suit that will enable us to explore the Red Planet in comfort and style"--
Author
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Countless global brands, including Rolex, BMW, Louis Vuitton, and the New York Yankees, still use logos that were designed over 100 years ago. Yet there has never been a monograph devoted to the origins of logo design. In the second half of the 19th century, the trademark replaced traditional symbols such as the family coat of arms as a promotional and identifying symbol for companies. At first, the designs were often still figurative; only gradually...
Author
Publisher
Yitzchak Borowsky
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"She was liberated from hell on Earth. But will she ever be free from Auschwitz? Poland, 1943. Dark skies and barbed wire fences were all Bluma saw as she stepped down from the train onto the main platform of Auschwitz-Birkenau. After surviving the Wehrmacht's decimation of her hometown, Bluma and what remained of her family were finally put on the long, harsh train ride through inhuman conditions that seemed to last an eternity. Then the freight...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An in-depth and unified exploration of genius in the arts and sciences through the life and works of five seminal intellectual and cultural figures: Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Ludwig von Beethoven, and Albert Einstein. Who among us hasn't read Hamlet, listened to the Fifth Symphony, gazed at the Mona Lisa, or marveled at the three laws of physics and the Theory of Relativity and been struck with the same simple question:...
14) More please!
Author
Publisher
Aurora Elephant Music
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Caspar Babypants, aka Chris Ballew from The Presidents of the United States of America, unleashes his second album. Each of the twenty tracks featured here are filled with fun and humor that both kids and their parents can enjoy.
Author
Publisher
Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Quest 2 is the all-in-one system that truly sets you free to roam in VR. With no wires or cables to limit your experience, simply put on the headset, draw out your play space, and jump into fully-immersive, imagination-defying worlds. A super-fast processor and high-resolution display help to keep your experience smooth and seamless, even as high speed action unfolds around you. 3D positional audio, hand tracking and haptic feedback make virtual...