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Murder on K Street: a Capital crimes novel (Capital Crimes Ser. #Vol. 23)
Par Margaret Truman. 2007
U.S. senator Lyle Simmons discovers his wife Jeannette murdered in their Washington, D.C., mansion. Retired assistant U.S. attorney Phil Rotondi,…
who once dated Jeannette and who has been Lyle's friend since college, helps him. As police investigate the politician's dealings, additional deaths occur. Some violence and some strong language. 2007Who was first?: discovering the Americas
Par Russell Freedman. 2007
Contends that Columbus was among the last of foreign explorers to reach the Americas and was preceded by Chinese explorers,…
Vikings, and Irish monks. Examines archaeological and DNA evidence on the origins of Native Americans that challenges the Bering Strait land bridge theory. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2007Restitution
Par Lee Vance. 2007
Wall Street businessman Peter Tyler becomes the main suspect after his wife is murdered during a home robbery. Tyler flees…
and searches for his friend, Russian business tycoon Andrei Zhilina, who might help Tyler clear his name. Strong language. 2007The tenderness of wolves
Par Stef Penney. 2007
Canadian wilderness, 1860s. The day her adopted seventeen-year-old son Francis disappears, Mrs. Ross discovers her neighbor's murdered corpse. The community…
suspects Francis of the crime. Mrs. Ross leaves her husband and sets out with half-Indian William Parker to find the teen. Some violence. Costa Book of the Year. 2006The last cattle drive: a novel
Par Robert Day. 2007
Mid-twentieth century. To avoid trucking charges, cattleman Spangler Tukle attempts to drive 250 steers over highways, parking lots, and cloverleafs…
to the Kansas City stockyards. Aiding him are his wife Opal, aging ranch hand Jed, schoolteacher Leo, and Leo's persistent girlfriend Heather. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1977The wonder years: helping your baby and young child successfully negotiate the major developmental milestones
Par Tanya Remer Altmann, American Academy Of Pediatrics. 2006
Month-by-month guide to the physical, mental, emotional, and social development of children from newborn to age five. Provides instructions, activities,…
games, and tips for parents to help children master such skills as grasping, walking, communicating, and toilet training. Includes information on possible concerns and when to consult a pediatrician. 2006Lawn boy
Par Gary Paulsen. 2007
A twelve-year-old boy decides to put his unusual birthday gift--his late grandfather's riding mower--to use by cutting his neighbors' lawns…
for money. Soon business is booming and he has his own employees, his own stockbroker, and sponsorship of a prizefighter. For grades 5-8. 2007Darcy & Elizabeth: nights and days at Pemberley : Pride and prejudice continues
Par Linda Berdoll. 2006
Derbyshire, England; 1815. Following Fitzwilliam Darcy's successful rescue of his sister in France in Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife (BR…
17461), Darcy returns home to his wife Elizabeth and newborn twins. The return of Darcy's nemesis George Wickham mars his contentment. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2006The Bible: a biography (Books that changed the world)
Par Karen Armstrong. 2007
Religious historian examines the transformation of the Bible's two testaments from oral history to written scripture. Explains changes in biblical…
interpretation by Christian and Jewish religious leaders and discusses the challenges to the Bible's accuracy in the scientific age. 2007The last noel
Par Heather Graham. 2007
Craig Devon joins two crooks who abandon him, wounded, during a robbery gone wrong on Christmas Eve. When their car…
gets stuck in a blizzard, the robbers hold the O'Boyle family hostage. Kat O'Boyle escapes and encounters Craig, her ex-lover, before she hides. Some violence and some strong language. 2007Light a penny candle
Par Maeve Binchy. 1983
From the time in 1940 when shy, ten-year-old Elizabeth White is evacuated from wartime London and plunged into a large…
and contentious family in the Irish village of Kilgarret, she and Aisling O'Connor are destined to be the best of friends. This novel follows their lives together and apart over the decades. 1983Coal black horse: A Novel
Par Robert Olmstead. 2007
1863. Fourteen-year-old Robey Childs is sent by his clairvoyant mother to find his father, who is fighting in the Civil…
War. Robey, riding a stallion, encounters refugees, runaway slaves, deserters, and battle scavengers. At Gettysburg Robey finds his dying father and rescues an abused girl. Violence and strong language. 2007Account of the author's journey to the Farallon Islands, twenty-seven miles from San Francisco, a renowned refuge of great white…
sharks. Casey, an editor, relates joining scientists Peter Pyle and Scot Anderson as they study the predators in their natural habitat. She describes shark attacks and the archipelago's beauty. Some strong language. 2005Little heathens: hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression
Par Mildred Armstrong Kalish. 2007
Retired English professor's memoir of her childhood in 1930s rural Iowa, a time Kalish describes as "quite a romp." Recalls…
years of deprivation and hard work mitigated by simple rewards. Discusses daily life and the influence of religion and literature, and describes family members whose lessons shaped her upbringing. 2007Leonardo's horse
Par Jean Fritz, Hudson Talbott. 2001
The story behind the American Horse at the Frederik Meijer Gardens. An artistic idea envisioned but never finished by Leonardo…
da Vinci, the horse was subsequently completed by a pair of American artists in 1999. One bronzed statue remains in Milan, Italy, and the other resides in Grand Rapids. A 2002 Michigan Notable book. For grades 3-6. 2001. Award winnerBalance: in search of the lost sense
Par Scott McCredie. 2007
Journalist posits that balance is one of humankind's primary senses. Chronicles the evolution of equilibrium in humans, medical experiments isolating…
its importance, and case studies about people who have lost it. Offers techniques to slow a loss of balance due to age or physical illness. 2007Morris and Buddy: the story of the first seeing eye dog
Par Becky Hall. 2007
Account of twenty-year-old Morris Frank, who, blinded in a boxing accident, traveled from Tennessee to Switzerland in 1928 to become…
the first American owner of a seeing-eye dog, whom he named Buddy. Discusses training processes and Morris's mission to bring canine guides to the United States. For grades 3-6. 2007Born for adventure
Par Kathleen Karr. 2007
1887. Sixteen-year-old Tom Ormsby joins African explorer Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, who was kidnapped in the…
Congo. Tom enters a jungle world filled with wonders and perils--slavers, warring tribes, and colonial masters--and leaves a different young man. For junior and senior high readers. 2007My Maggie
Par Richard King. 2010
Chicago sportscaster's tribute to Maggie, his wife of thirty-two years. He recalls her fears, courage, and ultimate zest for living…
while battling childhood hearing loss, progressive blindness, melanoma, breast cancer, and the ovarian cancer that killed her at age fifty-three. 2007The spring cleaning murders (Ellie Haskell Mystery Ser. #No. 8)
Par Dorothy Cannell. 1999
Ellie Haskell, housewife extraordinaire, seeks a new maid after her beloved Roxie quits. But when Gertrude Large, a member of…
Roxie's local charwomen's association, is murdered, Ellie turns to sleuthing. Aided by her husband and various cleaning products, Ellie tackles Gertrude's former clients to tidy up--and snoop around--their homes. 1998