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"Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original. For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective can...
Something is wrong in Seaside. The little boy Carly baby-sits has a weird rash. Betty Robbins can't breath without an oxygen tank. And she has blisters alsomst to awful to look at. Carly thinks she knows what's going on. She also knows no one will believe her.
Take my advice: Twin sisters Esther and Pauline were inseparable as children, teenagers, and adults until they both became advice columnists. Esther writing as Ann Landers, and Pauline for "Dear Abby." The competition for readers, success and fame led to a public, decades-long fe...
Describes stories of people who did not allow allow their physical disabilities get in the way of their success as an athlete.
Describes how water patrol members help surfers during bad situations in the ocean. Includes information on various rescuers.
Discusses what causes volcanic eruptions, the three main types of volcanoes, early myths about volcanoes, and the environmental impact of eruptions. Also takes a comprehensive look at the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington State.
Discusses the history of Hmong people before, during, and after the Vietnam War, and the adaptation and transition for those who moved for a life in the United States.
Summoned to Tina Barr's apartment to investigate a possible assault, Assistant D.A. Alex Cooper finds a terrified and uncooperative victim, but when a murder complicates the case, Alex follows a trail to the wealthy, eccentric Hunt family.
This true story tells the tale of two mothers, Sarah Barlow and Linda Wells who find out the unthinkable when they realize that their eighteen month old sons are discovered to have been switched at birth.
When Assistant District Attorney Alex Cooper is summoned to Tina Barr's apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side, she finds a neighbor convinced that the young woman was assaulted. But the terrified victim, a conservator of rare books and maps, refuses to cooperate with investiga...
When Assistant District Attorney Alex Cooper is summoned to Tina Barr's apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side, she finds a neighbor convinced that the young woman was assaulted. But the terrified victim, a conservator of rare books and maps, refuses to cooperate with invest...
A heart-wrenching yet tender tale of two women whose boundless devotion to each other is continually challenged in nineteenth century America.