Editore: Brand: Henry Holt n Co, 1991
ISBN 10: 0805013040 ISBN 13: 9780805013047
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Offers a systematic plan for managing the accounts of larger customers--applicable to all businesses, regardless of size or market--that ensures continuity of revenue and long-term steady growth.
Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co., 1999
ISBN 10: 0805059628 ISBN 13: 9780805059625
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. A dark, dystopian high-velocity thriller in the cult-classic tradition of Kerr's A Philosophical Investigation.July 2069: centennial of the Apollo 11 moon walk. What would Buzz Aldrin see if he were here? On Earth, plagues have destroyed the major food supplies, climatic changes have brought constant winter to the once-industrialized West, and a new and virulent virus--P2--has infected Earth's population, bringing radical change in economic, political, and social structures. P2 is curable--but only with an infusion of uninfected blood. Indeed, blood has become the currency of choice: It is banked, speculated in, traded, hoarded, but only by those wealthy enough (or healthy enough) to have a clean, uninfected supply. And the moon? It is now home to sex hotels and penal colonies. Home, too, to the "federal reserve" of blood banks--the most impregnable high-security installation in the world. It is the brainchild of one man--and he has every reason to destroy it. Acting on the most human of motives--revenge--he will take on the impossible. Unbeknownst to him, he will have help from a very strange source. Call it 2001 updated. Call it a chillingly convincing mix of prophecy and science. Call it Philip Kerr's best book yet. The Second Angel: 1999's prologue to 2069, a terrifying forecast of the future.
Editore: Brand: Henry Holt n Co, 1997
ISBN 10: 0805044027 ISBN 13: 9780805044027
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. A group of Jews, male and female, from Poland and Hungary who survived the concentration camps as teenagers and met together in Prague in 1945 recreates their nightmarish experiences and their saving faith in their own voices.
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Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2024
ISBN 10: 0805060545 ISBN 13: 9780805060546
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Explains the feelings and behaviors of the horse through an interpretation of its body signals, sounds, snorts, and neighs. 10,000 first printing.
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Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2000
ISBN 10: 0805057196 ISBN 13: 9780805057195
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Choi, Yangsook (illustratore). In Bali, as in many parts of the world, rice is more than just a staple food-rice is life!In Bali, life revolves around the planting and harvesting of rice. While eels slip through the mud and dragonflies flutter overhead, farmers plant seedlings in the wet rice field, or 'saweh.' Soon each plant is crowned with flowers, and tiny green kernels appear. Rain nourishes the kernels, which grow plump and sweet. The green plants turn golden and ripe, and everyone helps harvest the grain. When the harvest is finished, the farmers give thanks to the goddess of rice for a successful crop.From planting the seeds to harvesting the ripe grain, this beautiful, poetic book tells the story of rice and of the Balinese people, for whom rice is life.
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Editore: Brand: Henry Holt n Co (P), 1984
ISBN 10: 0812862252 ISBN 13: 9780812862256
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Good. Book by Williams, Pam, Morin, Rita.
Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2005
ISBN 10: 0805040242 ISBN 13: 9780805040241
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Berenzy, Alix (illustratore). First Edition. Ms. B stopped writing on the blackboard."For heaven's sakes!" she exclaimed, "What's the matter, Sammy?""WEEEAAP! WEEEEEAAP!" he shrieked . . .Learn all about guinea pigs with the kids in Ms. B's classSomething is wrong with Sammy, the beloved pet in Ms. B's class, and no one is sure what to do.Usually Sammy is happy in his cage, with his little house and his soft blue sock, but today is different. What could it be?Join Ms. B and the children as they try to figure out what is the matter with Sammy, and learn a little more about guinea pigs.
Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co., 2009
ISBN 10: 0805082921 ISBN 13: 9780805082920
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1. A groundbreaking book about how your personality type determines who you loveWhy do you fall in love with one person rather than another? In this fascinating and informative book, Helen Fisher, one of the worlds leading experts on romantic love, unlocks the hidden code of desire and attachment. Each of us, it turns out, primarily expresses one of four broad personality types-Explorer, Builder, Director, or Negotiator-and each of these types is governed by different chemical systems in the brain. Driven by this biology, we are attracted to partners who both mirror and complement our own personality type.Until now the search for love has been blind, but Fisher pulls back the curtain and reveals how we unconsciously go about finding the right match. Drawing on her unique study of 40,000 men and women, she explores each personality type in detail and shows you how to identify your own type. Then she explains why some types match up well, whereas others are problematic. (Note to Explorers: be prepared for a wild ride when you hitch your star to a fellow Explorer!) Ultimately, Fishers investigation into the complex nature of romance and attachment leads to astonishing new insights into the essence of dating, love, and marriage.Based on entirely new research-including a detailed questionnaire completed by seven million people in thirty-three countries-Why Him? Why Her? will change your understanding of why you love him (or her) and help you use natures chemistry to find and keep your life partner.
Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2004
ISBN 10: 0805071040 ISBN 13: 9780805071047
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Chrustowski, Rick (illustratore). First Edition. One spring day when the ground is a carpet of green, a pair of bluebirds arrives at their summer home. Inside their nest box the female weaves layers of coarse grass into a circle. Then she presses her body into the middle to make a cup.A season in the life of a bluebird familyIn a cozy nest of grass a female bluebird lays her eggs, blue as the summer sky. When they hatch, there are four tiny chicks to feed. From morning to night, the parent birds hunt for tasty insects to give to their hungry brood.The chicks grow quickly, and within a few weeks they have enough feathers to learn to fly. At first their wings are shaky and unsure, but soon the fledglings are fast enough to catch their own meals. Now the nearly grown chicks can help their parents raise a new brood of hungry babies-before the cold winter drives the family south.
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Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2005
ISBN 10: 0805076670 ISBN 13: 9780805076677
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Zoe's arms prickle. She turns, trying to take it all in. The ache inside returns. It is not for her. It is too much. A real room with real floors and walls. A room for sleeping, and reading and dancing and . . . in her imagination she has pictured the room, but she has never pictured herself in it.Can seventeen-year-old Zoe make it on her own?A room is not much. It is not arms holding you. Not a kiss on the forehead. Not a packed lunch or a remembered birthday. Just a room. But for seventeen-year-old Zoe, struggling to shed the suffocating responsibility of her alcoholic mother and the controlling guilt of her grandmother, a rented room on Lorelei Street is a fierce grab for control of her own future.Zoe rents a small room from Opal Keats, an eccentric old lady who has a difficult past of her own, but who chooses to live in the possibility of the future. Zoe tries to find that same possibility in her own future, promising that she will never go crawling back. But with all odds against her, can a seventeen-year-old who only slings hash to make ends meet make it on her own? Zoe struggles with this worry and the guilt of abandoning her mother as she goes to lengths that even she never dreamed she would in order to keep the room on Lorelei Street.
Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2001
ISBN 10: 0805067507 ISBN 13: 9780805067507
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. I knelt down by one of the grizzly's tracks. It was larger than my hand where his pads had pushed the mud out wide. I pressed my palm into the hollow of his track and stretched my fingers out to touch his claw marks one by one. My scalp tingled."Sure was a big one, wasn't he?"I spun around and something knocked me flat on my stomach. Before I could roll over, a heavy knee pinned my shoulder to the ground and a hard hand yanked my head back by the hair."It's me again, white boy," breathed Haggard in my ear. "Don't say you're not glad to see me." --From Daniel's Walk"Your daddy's in trouble, boy," said the Voice.Daniel's father is an experienced trapper who knows the Rocky Mountains. So what could have happened to him? Yet Daniel is haunted by the Voice and its message. He decides to leave his home in Missouri to search for his pa.But it is 1844 and the West is a wilderness. Trouble lurks all along the Oregon Trail, and trouble finds Daniel right away. One stormy night he sees a frightening, scar-faced man stealing horses--and the horse thief sees him, too. Daniel barely escapes being shot. He joins a wagon train headed west, but for him there is no safety in numbers. As surely as he knows that his father is in danger, he knows that the scar-faced man will try to kill him again.Slowly Daniel comes to understand that he and his father are not the only ones in danger. There are some who will prosper from the westward expansion, but many more-white and Indian alike-will suffer as their land and their lives are destroyed.
Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2010
ISBN 10: 0805089020 ISBN 13: 9780805089028
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Agell, Charlotte (illustratore). 1. Fourth grade is a year of changes, challenges, and ordinary joys for India McAllister. She lives in Maine with her artist mom and their dog, Tofu. Her father lives in the next town over with his new partner, Richard and their bird, Beatrice Strawberry. India - named for the ink, not the subcontinent - was adopted from China as a baby. Being the only Chinese girl in her small town fuels India's search for identity. India reports in her own words and drawings about life, adventures (many with her good friend Colby) and all things annoying as well as what makes her happy. First three on the happy list: Tofu, Bird, and Colby!The Accidental Adventures of India McAllister is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co., 2008
ISBN 10: 0805077928 ISBN 13: 9780805077926
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. The definitive account of Robert Kennedys exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for president-a revelatory history that is especially resonant nowAfter John F. Kennedys assassination, Robert Kennedy-formerly Jacks no-holds-barred political warrior-almost lost hope. He was haunted by his brothers murder, and by the nations seeming inabilities to solve its problems of race, poverty, and the war in Vietnam. Bobby sensed the countrys pain, and when he announced that he was running for president, the country united behind his hopes. Over the action-packed eighty-two days of his campaign, Americans were inspired by Kennedys promise to lead them toward a better time. And after an assassins bullet stopped this last great stirring public figure of the 1960s, crowds lined up along the countrys railroad tracks to say goodbye to Bobby.With new research, interviews, and an intimate sense of Kennedy, Thurston Clarke provides an absorbing historical narrative that goes right to the heart of Americas deepest despairs-and most fiercely held dreams-and tells us more than we had understood before about this complicated man and the heightened personal, racial, political, and national dramas of his times.
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Editore: Brand: Henry Holt n Co, 1995
ISBN 10: 0805037594 ISBN 13: 9780805037593
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Filmmakers often use dramatic license in playing with facts to enhance a story's drama, illuminate an overlooked perspective, or fuel historical debate. Here, 60 historical writers (including popular authors such as Stephen Jay Gould, Antonia Fraser, and Gore Vidal) look beneath the celluloid surface of classic movies to explore the relationship between film and reality, from prehistory ( Jurassic Park ) to modern times ( Dr. Strangelove, Malcolm X, Apocalypse Now ). Entries look at plot, costume design, technology, and character portrayals, examine the historical aftermath of events in the film, juxtapose film stills with historical paintings and photos, and suggest background reading for the historical period depicted in each film. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Editore: Brand: Henry Holt n Co, 1998
ISBN 10: 0805051104 ISBN 13: 9780805051100
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st. The suicide of the black sheep of the family at a wedding party in Cornwall, England, drives Chris Napier into his clan's dark past, where he discloses more than one skeleton, including child abuse and old-fashioned revenge. 25,000 first printing.
Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co., 2010
ISBN 10: 0805092307 ISBN 13: 9780805092301
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1. A sudden death, a never-mailed postcard, and a longburied secret set the stage for a luminous and heartbreakingly real novel about lost souls finding one anotherThe Darby-Jones boardinghouse in Ruby Falls, New York, is home to Mona Jones and her daughter, Oneida, two loners and self-declared outcasts who have formed a perfectly insular family unit: the two of them and the three eclectic boarders living in their house. But their small, quiet life is upended when Arthur Rook shows up in the middle of a nervous breakdown, devastated by the death of his wife, carrying a pink shoe box containing all his wife's mementos and keepsakes, and holding a postcard from sixteen years ago, addressed to Mona but never sent. Slowly the contents of the box begin to fit together to tell a story-one of a powerful friendship, a lost love, and a secret that, if revealed, could change everything that Mona, Oneida, and Arthur know to be true. Or maybe the stories the box tells and the truths it brings to life will teach everyone about love-how deeply it runs, how strong it makes us, and how even when all seems lost, how tightly it brings us together. With emotional accuracy and great energy, This Must Be the Place introduces memorable, charming characters that refuse to be forgotten.
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Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co., 2010
ISBN 10: 0805090819 ISBN 13: 9780805090819
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1. A world of possibilities opens up for Joy Harkness when she sets out on a journey thats going to show her the importance of friendship, love, and what makes a house a homeComing-of-age can happen at any age. Joy Harkness had built a university career and a safe life in New York, protected and insulated from the intrusions and involvements of other people. When offered a position at Amherst College, she impulsively leaves the city, and along with generations of material belongings, she packs her equally heavy emotional baggage. A tumbledown Victorian house proves an unlikely choice for a woman whose family heirlooms have been boxed away for years. Nevertheless, this white elephant becomes the home that changes Joy forever. As the restoration begins to take shape, so does her outlook on life, and the choices she makes over paint chips, wallpaper samples, and floorboards are reflected in her connection to the co-workers who become friends and friendships that deepen. A brilliant, quirky, town fixture of a handyman guides the renovation of the house and sparks Joys interest to encourage his personal and professional growth. Amid the half-wanted attention of the campuss single, middle-aged men, known as the Coyotes,and the legitimate dramas of her close-knit community, Joy learns that the key to the affection of family and friends is being worthy of it, and most important, that second chances are waiting to be discovered within us all.
Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2004
ISBN 10: 0805076573 ISBN 13: 9780805076578
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Celebrate Christmas with a song!A Christmas songbook illustrated with spectacularart from the Metropolitan MuseumA Treasury of Christmas Songs pairs twenty-five well-loved holiday classics with exquisite art from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Here are Christmas favorites for children of all ages to sing and play, such as "Deck the Halls," "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town," and "The First Noel." The music dates from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century and the songs express the many moods of the Christmas season, from solemn to festive. All of the songs have been imaginatively illustrated with treasures from the Metropolitan Museum. Throughout the book are insightful comments on the art and the songs. Selection includes a simple arrangement for musical accompaniment.
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Editore: Brand: Henry Holt n Co (P), 1988
ISBN 10: 0805007849 ISBN 13: 9780805007848
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Good. The poet Andrei Voznesensky, has become not only the leading Russian poet but a writer renown around the world and in his own country he is a legend.
Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2001
ISBN 10: 0805066772 ISBN 13: 9780805066777
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. A moving retelling of the Christmas story as seen through the eyes of one little cat"Everything was silent. It was as if all the animals held their breath. We looked at the baby, and the baby looked at us."A long time ago in a faraway land, a cat lived in a barn. He had to share it with the other animals: cows and goats, chickens and . . . mice! But that was all right; he was a good mouser.Then one wintry night the door flew open and in came a man and a woman to take shelter from the snow. Soon the cat heard the cry of a new baby. Visitors came to kneel before the family. In the crowded barn, every face was turned to the tiny infant.Through the eyes of one small cat, award-winning author/illustrator Michael Foreman retells the wondrous story of the first Christmas.
Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Company, 1996
ISBN 10: 0805046100 ISBN 13: 9780805046106
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. The creators of A Sea of Words now follow up with Harbors and High Seas, an invaluable tool for navigating the often uncharted terrain of the Aubrey-Maturin novels.
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Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co., 2011
ISBN 10: 0805093435 ISBN 13: 9780805093438
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. This warm and funny tale of an earnest preppy editor finding himself trapped behind the counter of a Brooklyn convenience store is about family, culture and identity in an age of discombobulation.It starts with a gift, when Ben Ryder Howe's wife, the daughter of Korean immigrants, decides to repay her parents' self-sacrifice by buying them a store. Howe, an editor at the rarefied Paris Review, agrees to go along. Things soon become a lot more complicated. After the business struggles, Howe finds himself living in the basement of his in-laws' Staten Island home, commuting to the Paris Review offices in George Plimpton's Upper East Side townhouse by day, and heading to Brooklyn at night to slice cold cuts and peddle lottery tickets. My Korean Deli follows the store's tumultuous life span, and along the way paints the portrait of an extremely unlikely partnership between characters with shoots across society, from the Brooklyn streets to Seoul to Puritan New England. Owning the deli becomes a transformative experience for everyone involved as they struggle to salvage the original gift-and the family-while sorting out issues of values, work, and identity.
Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2003
ISBN 10: 0805070974 ISBN 13: 9780805070972
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Dive into this lushly photographed book and discover all the things the ocean can be!"Salt and surf and sand and waves,The oceans these and more . . . "To the animals that live there, the ocean is much more than a huge blue body of water. For frisky sea lions, it is a fun-filled playground. For toothy sharks, it is a dentists office. And for hungry otters, its a cafeteria that serves their favorite food-shellfish.These playful verses and stunning photographs will take you on an exhilarating underwater tour. Jump in!.
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Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co., 2010
ISBN 10: 0805090916 ISBN 13: 9780805090918
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1. Quirke-the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist-is back, and he's determined to find his daughter's best friend, a well-connected young doctorApril Latimer has vanished. A junior doctor at a local hospital, she is something of a scandal in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin. Though her family is one of the most respected in the city, she is known for being independent-minded; her taste in men, for instance, is decidedly unconventional.Now April has disappeared, and her friend Phoebe Griffin suspects the worst. Frantic, Phoebe seeks out Quirke, her brilliant but erratic father, and asks him for help. Sober again after intensive treatment for alcoholism, Quirke enlists his old sparring partner, Detective Inspector Hackett, in the search for the missing young woman. In their separate ways the two men follow April's trail through some of the darker byways of the city to uncover crucial information on her whereabouts. And as Quirke becomes deeply involved in April's murky story, he encounters complicated and ugly truths about family savagery, Catholic ruthlessness, and race hatred.Both an absorbing crime novel and a brilliant portrait of the difficult and relentless love between a father and his daughter, this is Benjamin Black at his sparkling best.
Editore: Brand: Henry Holt n Co (P), 1996
ISBN 10: 0805044965 ISBN 13: 9780805044966
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Simply presented for the lay reader--and yet thorough enough for the student or practitioner--this lavishly illustrated volume draws from the traditional wisdom of both East and West to create an effective and safe healing program to treat depression, anxiety, frustration, apathy, and a wide variety of other ailments via the use of essential oils. 100 color photos & illustrations.
Editore: Brand: Henry Holt n Co, 1994
ISBN 10: 0805034811 ISBN 13: 9780805034813
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. The irrepressible author of The Good Samaritan Strikes Again offers his own inimitable approach to the subject of situational ethics, discussing leadership qualities, the use of lies, and his theory of convergence. 150,000 first printing. $125,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co., 2007
ISBN 10: 0805080619 ISBN 13: 9780805080612
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Detective John Cardinal is on the hunt for an ingenious killer even as he mourns his own wifes tragic death in this thriller of heart-stopping suspense Autumn has arrived in Algonquin Bay, and with it an unusual spate of suicides. The most shocking victim yet is Detective John Cardinals wife, who has finally succumbed to her battle with manic depression. As Cardinal takes time to grieve, his partner, Lise Delorme, handles an unsavory assignment: a young girl appears in a series of unspeakable photos being traded online, and background elements indicate she lives in Algonquin Bay. Delorme is desperate to find the girl before she suffers more abuse. When Cardinal receives a string of hateful anonymous notes about his wifes death, he begins to suspect homicide. His colleagues believe he is too distraught to think clearly, and hes forced to investigate alone. In doing so, he comes up against a brand of killer neither he-nor the reader-has ever seen before. In his most masterful and thrilling novel yet, Giles Blunt confirms his reputation as a rising international star in crime fiction, and positions Detective John Cardinal among the finest characters in the genre.
Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co., 2004
ISBN 10: 0805072136 ISBN 13: 9780805072136
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. A close-up on one of American history's most magical events, JFK's inaugural week, and the creation of the speech that inspired a generation and brought hope to a nation"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." On the January morning when John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency and stood to speak those words, America was divided, its citizens torn by fears of war. Kennedy's speech-called the finest since Lincoln at Gettysburg and the most memorable of any twentieth-century American politician-did more than reassure: it changed lives, marking the start of a brief, optimistic era of struggle against "tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself."Ask Not is a beautifully detailed account of the week leading up to the inaugural which stands as one of the most moving spectacles in the history of American politics. At the heart of the narrative is Kennedy's quest to create a speech that would distill American dreams and empower a new generation. Thurston Clarke's portrait of JFK during what intimates called his happiest days is balanced, revealing the President at his most dazzlingly charismatic-and cunningly pragmatic. As the snow covers Washington in a blanket of white, as statesmen and celebrities arrive for candlelit festivities, the perfectionist Kennedy pushes himself to the limit, to find the words that would capture what he most truly believed and which would far outlast his own life. For everyone who seeks to understand the fascination with all things Kennedy, the answer can be found in Ask Not.
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Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2013
ISBN 10: 0805093044 ISBN 13: 9780805093049
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Slack, Michael (illustratore). Fly along with Elecopter as she soars above the savannah, patrolling the skies with her fire-hose nose at the ready. The other animals are safe with Elecopter on the scene-Elecopter is a hero for all! Preschoolers are in for a treat in this chant-along companion to Monkey Truck.
Editore: Brand: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2013
ISBN 10: 0805096779 ISBN 13: 9780805096774
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. London, 2218 A.D. Seventeen-year-old Zee is an intern empath. She's focused on her job, poised for a great career-until one day an attractive patient undoes her hard-earned calm. As an empath, she cannot afford such distractions, but neither can she stay away from David, even when she discovers he's one of a mysterious alien race. As London comes under attack by anarchist bombings, and as Zee struggles to get a handle on her unusually strong psychic abilities, David starts pulling away. Although Zee's sure he's attracted to her, David has secrets he cannot share. But it's too late for Zee. In Neptune's Tears by Susan Waggoner, she's losing her heart to the gray-eyed alien boy, and she's determined to follow him-no matter how far it may take her.
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