Author: Sharon Fiffer
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429973803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In this dynamite series debut, Sharon Fiffer has introduced an engaging and enterprising heroine in Jane Wheel. Recently laid off from her advertising job, separated from her husband Charley, and colliding head-on with a midlife crisis, Jane is trying to make ends meet as an antique "picker" foraging for killer stuff at suburban Chicago's estate sales and auctions, garage sales and flea markets.t Before long she's addicted to the hunt, spending her Friday nights with the classified ads and a street map, outlining her weekend plan of attack. Jane knows that finding the real treasures is all about being in the right place at the right time. But just as she's settling in to her new routine, Jane finds herself in just the wrong place and at quite the wrong time: stumbling over her neighbor Sandy's dead body. Soon she's the prime suspect. After all, everyone on the block seems to have seen her kissing Sandy's husband at a recent dinner party. Leaning on her best friend Tim, a flower shop owner and fellow junk hound, as well as Evanston police detective Bruce Oh, Jane has no choice but to hunt for the truth. Hopefully her knack for uncovering valuables in the least likely of places will extend to discovering clues as well. Like the vintage postcards, Bakelite buttons, and Fulper lamps that she dreams of finding, to Jane the truth just might be priceless. Sharon Fiffer's mystery debut is a fabulously entertaining read and an intriguing puzzle featuring a heroine that's a dynamic mix of Miss Marple, Kinsey Millhone, and Leigh and Leslie Keno.
Killer Stuff
Author: Sharon Fiffer
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429973803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In this dynamite series debut, Sharon Fiffer has introduced an engaging and enterprising heroine in Jane Wheel. Recently laid off from her advertising job, separated from her husband Charley, and colliding head-on with a midlife crisis, Jane is trying to make ends meet as an antique "picker" foraging for killer stuff at suburban Chicago's estate sales and auctions, garage sales and flea markets.t Before long she's addicted to the hunt, spending her Friday nights with the classified ads and a street map, outlining her weekend plan of attack. Jane knows that finding the real treasures is all about being in the right place at the right time. But just as she's settling in to her new routine, Jane finds herself in just the wrong place and at quite the wrong time: stumbling over her neighbor Sandy's dead body. Soon she's the prime suspect. After all, everyone on the block seems to have seen her kissing Sandy's husband at a recent dinner party. Leaning on her best friend Tim, a flower shop owner and fellow junk hound, as well as Evanston police detective Bruce Oh, Jane has no choice but to hunt for the truth. Hopefully her knack for uncovering valuables in the least likely of places will extend to discovering clues as well. Like the vintage postcards, Bakelite buttons, and Fulper lamps that she dreams of finding, to Jane the truth just might be priceless. Sharon Fiffer's mystery debut is a fabulously entertaining read and an intriguing puzzle featuring a heroine that's a dynamic mix of Miss Marple, Kinsey Millhone, and Leigh and Leslie Keno.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429973803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In this dynamite series debut, Sharon Fiffer has introduced an engaging and enterprising heroine in Jane Wheel. Recently laid off from her advertising job, separated from her husband Charley, and colliding head-on with a midlife crisis, Jane is trying to make ends meet as an antique "picker" foraging for killer stuff at suburban Chicago's estate sales and auctions, garage sales and flea markets.t Before long she's addicted to the hunt, spending her Friday nights with the classified ads and a street map, outlining her weekend plan of attack. Jane knows that finding the real treasures is all about being in the right place at the right time. But just as she's settling in to her new routine, Jane finds herself in just the wrong place and at quite the wrong time: stumbling over her neighbor Sandy's dead body. Soon she's the prime suspect. After all, everyone on the block seems to have seen her kissing Sandy's husband at a recent dinner party. Leaning on her best friend Tim, a flower shop owner and fellow junk hound, as well as Evanston police detective Bruce Oh, Jane has no choice but to hunt for the truth. Hopefully her knack for uncovering valuables in the least likely of places will extend to discovering clues as well. Like the vintage postcards, Bakelite buttons, and Fulper lamps that she dreams of finding, to Jane the truth just might be priceless. Sharon Fiffer's mystery debut is a fabulously entertaining read and an intriguing puzzle featuring a heroine that's a dynamic mix of Miss Marple, Kinsey Millhone, and Leigh and Leslie Keno.
Dead Guy's Stuff
Author: Sharon Fiffer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312278229
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
In a follow-up to "Killer Stuff, " Fiffer's auspicious debut, antique "picker"Jane Wheel uncovers a gruesome memento of murder at a suburban Chicago estatesale.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312278229
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
In a follow-up to "Killer Stuff, " Fiffer's auspicious debut, antique "picker"Jane Wheel uncovers a gruesome memento of murder at a suburban Chicago estatesale.
Killer Koalas from Outer Space and Lots of Other Very Bad Stuff that Will Make Your Brain Explode!
Author: Andy Griffiths
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 146682767X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Surprise, absurdity, and laugh-out-loud humor are the hallmarks of award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author Andy Griffiths's books for kids--and this time, he has a few bad things on his mind... Following in the footsteps of The Cat on the Mat is Flat and The Big Fat Cow That Goes Kapow, Andy Griffiths turns the silliness up a few notches in this collection of stories for 8-to-12-year-olds featuring a vast array of very ridiculous and very bad things: zombie kittens, rocket-stealing ants, and of course, killer koalas from outer space! This very silly book filled with very bad things will make even very reluctant readers laugh very, very hard--maybe until their brains explode! * "Hilarious collection of rude, lewd and crude poems, jokes and cautionary tales." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 146682767X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Surprise, absurdity, and laugh-out-loud humor are the hallmarks of award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author Andy Griffiths's books for kids--and this time, he has a few bad things on his mind... Following in the footsteps of The Cat on the Mat is Flat and The Big Fat Cow That Goes Kapow, Andy Griffiths turns the silliness up a few notches in this collection of stories for 8-to-12-year-olds featuring a vast array of very ridiculous and very bad things: zombie kittens, rocket-stealing ants, and of course, killer koalas from outer space! This very silly book filled with very bad things will make even very reluctant readers laugh very, very hard--maybe until their brains explode! * "Hilarious collection of rude, lewd and crude poems, jokes and cautionary tales." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
The Killer in Me
Author: Margot Harrison
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 148472836X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Hasn't he lived long enough? Why not? I could take him like a thief in the night. This is how the Thief thinks. He serves death, the vacuum, the unknown. He's always waiting. Always there. Seventeen-year-old Nina Barrows knows all about the Thief. She's intimately familiar with his hunting methods: how he stalks and kills at random, how he disposes of his victims' bodies in an abandoned mine in the deepest, most desolate part of a desert. Now, for the first time, Nina has the chance to do something about the serial killer that no one else knows exists. With the help of her former best friend, Warren, she tracks the Thief two thousand miles, to his home turf-the deserts of New Mexico. But the man she meets there seems nothing like the brutal sociopath with whom she's had a disturbing connection her whole life. To anyone else, Dylan Shadwell is exactly what he appears to be: a young veteran committed to his girlfriend and her young daughter. As Nina spends more time with him, she begins to doubt the truth she once held as certain: Dylan Shadwell is the Thief. She even starts to wonder . . . what if there is no Thief? From debut author Margot Harrison comes a brilliantly twisted psychological thriller that asks which is more terrifying: the possibility that your nightmares are real . . . or the possibility that they begin and end with you?
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 148472836X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Hasn't he lived long enough? Why not? I could take him like a thief in the night. This is how the Thief thinks. He serves death, the vacuum, the unknown. He's always waiting. Always there. Seventeen-year-old Nina Barrows knows all about the Thief. She's intimately familiar with his hunting methods: how he stalks and kills at random, how he disposes of his victims' bodies in an abandoned mine in the deepest, most desolate part of a desert. Now, for the first time, Nina has the chance to do something about the serial killer that no one else knows exists. With the help of her former best friend, Warren, she tracks the Thief two thousand miles, to his home turf-the deserts of New Mexico. But the man she meets there seems nothing like the brutal sociopath with whom she's had a disturbing connection her whole life. To anyone else, Dylan Shadwell is exactly what he appears to be: a young veteran committed to his girlfriend and her young daughter. As Nina spends more time with him, she begins to doubt the truth she once held as certain: Dylan Shadwell is the Thief. She even starts to wonder . . . what if there is no Thief? From debut author Margot Harrison comes a brilliantly twisted psychological thriller that asks which is more terrifying: the possibility that your nightmares are real . . . or the possibility that they begin and end with you?
Elements Unlimited - Volume A
Author: Brian Swingle
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300565527
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Book 1 in a series of 20 books about life on a farm and although you would think the farm life was boring a lot more goes on in the mind then one might usually recognize
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300565527
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Book 1 in a series of 20 books about life on a farm and although you would think the farm life was boring a lot more goes on in the mind then one might usually recognize
Killer Cruise
Author: Laura Levine
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 0758252587
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
While teaching on a swanky cruise, wordsmith Jaine Austen soon discovers that her all-expenses-paid trip to the Mexican Riviera comes with a high price when she is faced with blackmail, a sleazy British dancer, eccentric passengers, and murder.
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 0758252587
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
While teaching on a swanky cruise, wordsmith Jaine Austen soon discovers that her all-expenses-paid trip to the Mexican Riviera comes with a high price when she is faced with blackmail, a sleazy British dancer, eccentric passengers, and murder.
A Little Book of Slime
Author: Clint Twist
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770850064
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An entertaining guide to the world's slimiest stuff.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770850064
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An entertaining guide to the world's slimiest stuff.
The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
Author: Harold Schechter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439138850
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Bestselling true-crime writer Harold Schechter, a leading authority on serial killers, and coauthor David Everitt offer a guided tour through the bizarre and blood-chilling world of serial murder. Through hundreds of detailed entries that span the entire spectrum -- the shocking crimes, the infamous perpetrators, and much more -- they examine all angles of a gruesome cultural phenomenon that grips our imagination. From Art (both by and about serial killers) to Zeitgeist (how killers past and present embody their times)...from Groupies (even the most sadistic killer can claim devoted fans) to Marriage (the perfect domestic disguise for demented killers)...from Homebodies (psychos who slay in the comfort of their homes) to Plumbing (how clogged drains have undone the most discreet killer), THE A TO Z ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SERIAL KILLERS is the ultimate reference for anyone compelled by the personalities and pathologies behind the most disturbing of crimes.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439138850
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Bestselling true-crime writer Harold Schechter, a leading authority on serial killers, and coauthor David Everitt offer a guided tour through the bizarre and blood-chilling world of serial murder. Through hundreds of detailed entries that span the entire spectrum -- the shocking crimes, the infamous perpetrators, and much more -- they examine all angles of a gruesome cultural phenomenon that grips our imagination. From Art (both by and about serial killers) to Zeitgeist (how killers past and present embody their times)...from Groupies (even the most sadistic killer can claim devoted fans) to Marriage (the perfect domestic disguise for demented killers)...from Homebodies (psychos who slay in the comfort of their homes) to Plumbing (how clogged drains have undone the most discreet killer), THE A TO Z ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SERIAL KILLERS is the ultimate reference for anyone compelled by the personalities and pathologies behind the most disturbing of crimes.
Killer Instinct
Author: Jane Hamsher
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0767900758
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fresh out of film school, aspiring producer Jane Hamsher and her partner Don Murphy stumbled onto a screenplay by a geeky filmmaker-wannabe named Quentin Tarantino. For $10,000, Jane and Don optioned Natural Born Killers and set off on a two-year roller coaster ride no classroom could have prepared them for. With an outrageous cast of real-life characters including Oliver Stone, Woody Harrelson, Robert Downey, Jr., and Juliette Lewis--along with a slew of film-crew leeches and behind-the-scenes studio pitbulls--Killer Instinct rivals the most mesmerizing, gut-wrenching movie scenes. A wild joyride like no other, Hamsher's tale provides a fresh, insider's perspective on stardom and the real balance of power in Hollywood.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0767900758
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fresh out of film school, aspiring producer Jane Hamsher and her partner Don Murphy stumbled onto a screenplay by a geeky filmmaker-wannabe named Quentin Tarantino. For $10,000, Jane and Don optioned Natural Born Killers and set off on a two-year roller coaster ride no classroom could have prepared them for. With an outrageous cast of real-life characters including Oliver Stone, Woody Harrelson, Robert Downey, Jr., and Juliette Lewis--along with a slew of film-crew leeches and behind-the-scenes studio pitbulls--Killer Instinct rivals the most mesmerizing, gut-wrenching movie scenes. A wild joyride like no other, Hamsher's tale provides a fresh, insider's perspective on stardom and the real balance of power in Hollywood.
Killer Looks
Author: Tawna Fenske
Publisher: Tawna Fenske
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
They’re hitmen. Trained assassins. If they nail this job, there’s a payoff. Possibly cookies. But first, the bad stuff. Dante’s done with hitman life, but there’s one last job to do. A favor to the Duke of Dovlano targeting brutal gun runners. Dante calls on comrades, Matteo—brilliant, brooding, lethal—and charming Sebastian “The Dentist” LaDouceur. Each has skills he’s honed to take out threats at all costs. They’ve also got soft spots for family, lost loves, baby farm animals, and iambic pentameter. But when the job falls apart, their carefully laid plans go up in smoke. Can three killers with a conscience stick together, or is it every man for himself?
Publisher: Tawna Fenske
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
They’re hitmen. Trained assassins. If they nail this job, there’s a payoff. Possibly cookies. But first, the bad stuff. Dante’s done with hitman life, but there’s one last job to do. A favor to the Duke of Dovlano targeting brutal gun runners. Dante calls on comrades, Matteo—brilliant, brooding, lethal—and charming Sebastian “The Dentist” LaDouceur. Each has skills he’s honed to take out threats at all costs. They’ve also got soft spots for family, lost loves, baby farm animals, and iambic pentameter. But when the job falls apart, their carefully laid plans go up in smoke. Can three killers with a conscience stick together, or is it every man for himself?