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"The Vipers run this town and everyone in it. They make deals as sordid as their business--and they have no mercy. They're a mafia family only an idiot would mess with, so of course my estranged, abusive father did just that. Then he sold me off to them to cover his debts. Now, t...

Set during the height of the Bosnian War in 1993, a group of Bosnian soldiers are advancing on Serb territory under the cover of a foggy night. At daybreak, the fog lifts, and the Serbs open fire. Soon there is only one Bosnian survivor because he was able to dive into a trench i...

A boy arrives - breathless and aghast - at his police station, to report the discovery of a horribly maimed body. The village misfit, was seen at the edge of the woods nearby. The next morning a bank in the nearby town is robbed at gunpoint. The gunman takes a hostage and flees. ...

"It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last--revenge for t...

Temperance Brennan is a highly skilled forensic anthropologist in Washington, DC. FBI Agent Seeley Booth calls on her to assist with investigations when the standard methods of identifying a body are useless, when the remains are badly decomposed, burned or destroyed beyond recog...

"London, 1929. In the darkness before dawn, a railway porter, unloading a special train from Yorkshire, discovers a man's body, shot and placed in a sack. There are no means of identification to be found and as Scotland Yard hits a dead end, they call on the inimitable Kate Shack...

Man's civilization is cast in ruin when a runaway planet speeds between the Earth and the Moon, unleashing cosmic destruction. Two thousand years later, Earth is reborn from the ashes with a savage landscape, strange creatures and a primitive sense of justice. But one man fights ...

"This adorable board book encourages toddlers to mimic the bedtime behaviors of animals both familiar and exotic. Make believe you're a big brown bear dozing in your den. Cuddle with your sleeping cubs until it's spring again. This adorable board book encourages toddlers to mimic...

Detective Sergeant Den Cooper is called in to investigate the murder of a local herdsman whose body was discovered in one of the buildings of a picturesque English farm that harbors dark secrets

This insightful catalogue examines anew the full range of Alice Neel's (1900-1984) celebrated paintings of people, still life, and cityscapes. Featuring around seventy paintings spanning the entire length of her career, this handsome book accompanies a major retrospective of her ...

The Musgrave ritual: Sherlock Holmes shows his knowledge of trigonometry and cracks a 250-year-old code in the Musgrave Ritual. The legendary detective also reveals what the missing butler saw and where he is to be found, and also discovers an object of great historical importanc...

"Finding a dead body is not normal. But Ava is not a normal teenager. In this chilling debut mystery, only the obsessive spirit of youth can save a sleepy town from the savagery within. Fourteen-year-old Ava Bonney is unlike other children. She has an obsessive interest in the ra...

"Everyone is treated to a story from Tłichǫ Elder Joe Lazare Zoe of Gameti, Northwest Territories. His inspiring story reminds us that everyone is needed in the great circle of life, and that everyone has gifts to share. Joe's story was originally shared with renowned Tłichǫ De...

Seven stories, interspersed with seven poems, of Mowgli who is brought up in a wolf den and instructed by the animals in the laws and legends of the jungle.

"The colonisation of the world by European powers led to the production of a wealth of images of the colonised cultures and peoples. Images of North American Indians play an important role in our visual culture. This publication illuminates how they are represented, as well as th...

Arriving at a Brooklyn drug den to rescue her brother, Tina, with her brother nowhere to be found, discovers the body of a PI who has been shot to death and his gun is missing from its holster and must decide if she's willing to risk her life to uncover the truth.

"New York, 1880. Elizabeth van den Broek is the only female reporter at the Herald, the city's most popular newspaper. Then she and her bohemian friend Carlotta Ackerman find a woman's body wrapped like a mummy in a freshly dug hole in Central Park--the intended site of an obelis...

"Do you ever really know who your friends are? Bonded by divorce, Mona Sterling and Kate have become fast friends. But while Mona has hit the divorce settlement jackpot, Kate has to support herself and her five-year-old daughter with her burgeoning new career as an art consultant...

"Haunted by his memories of the Great War, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force. When Sam is summoned to investigate a grisly murder, he is stunned at the sight of the body: he's seen...