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Nothin Short of Dyin is the long awaited 14th book in the Garth Ryland mystery series. Called an exemplary series hero by Publishers Weekly, Ryland lives and works in the small town of Oakalla, Wisconsin (Lake Woebegone made sinister) where passions run high, secrets go deep, and nothing is ever quite...

Cold Rain is the 17th book in the Garth Ryland mystery series. Called an exemplary series hero by Publishers Weekly, Ryland lives and works in the small town of Oakalla, Wisconsin (Lake Woebegone made sinister) where passions run high, scars go deep, and the face of innocence wears a crooked grin....

much madness is the eighteenth and final book in the Garth Ryland mystery series, which has taken him from the graves of Navoe Cemetery to the wilds of Mitchells Woods to the cave of Matatomah to the edge of Wamplers pit, and in and out of the arms of some of Oakallas most beautiful, intriguing, and...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS (abridged list) CHAPTER I. 1837.—Our Parentage.CHAPTER II. 1837.—First Knowledge of the Sioux.—Hennepin and Du Luth.—Fort Snelling. CHAPTER III. 1837-1839.—The Language.—Its Growth.—System of Notation. CHAPTER...

Miss Peregrine y los niños peculiares es una enigmática historia sobre niños extraordinarios y monstruos oscuros; una fantasía escalofriante ilustrada con inquietantes fotografías de época que deleitará tanto a jóvenes como a adultos. De niño, Jacob formó un vínculo especial con...

Vuelven la magia, el misterio, los viajes en el tiempo y los personajes excéntricos que pueblan la imaginación de millones de lectores en el mundo. Tras haber vencido a la amenaza monstruosa que casi destruyó el mundo peculiar, Jacob Portman está de vuelta donde comenzó su historia, en...

Through example-driven recipes, with plenty of code, focused on the most vital features of the latest PostgreSQL version (9.4), both administrators and developers will follow short, specific guides to understand and leverage useful Postgre functionalities to create better and more efficient databases.

Written in the cookbook style, this book offers learning and techniques through recipes. It contains step-by-step instructions for administrators and developers to manage databases in PostgreSQL. The book is designed in such a way that you can read it chapter by chapter or refer to recipes in no particular...

In the Big Thicket, the unknown makes profound intrusions into what we call "reality." There are wonders in this region of East Texas and in Southwestern Louisiana‹"ghost lights," phantom Indians, howling ape-like "wild men," and fireballs that streak through the nighttime skies ‹that defy both our...

Laura Blair lives what she considers a single, boring life as an accountant. She decides to throw caution to the wind and finds herself torn between two handsome men with mysterious backgrounds. It turns out both men are hiding secrets from her and much of their relationships were built on lies. After...

They raped and murdered his mother and sister. Then they viciously killed his father and seriously wounded his Uncle Milo. Finally, believing all to be dead, the killers burned down the cabin with the bodies inside, but...they had missed one. Young Jonathan Doyle returning from a hunting trip...

Jacob Portman cresceu ouvindo as histórias fantásticas que o avô Abe contava. Na época da Segunda Guerra Mundial, o avô havia morado numa ilha remota, num casarão que funcionava como abrigo para crianças. Lá, Abe convivera com uma menina que levitava, uma garota que produzia fogo com as mãos,...

Sicily is the rarest flower of the great midland sea. Built up on the North in a series of beetling cliffs, the island slopes gently down through mountain chains and undulating plains to the golden Southern shore. An enormous triangle it is, spiny with lofty peaks—Ætna towers more than ten thousand...

Of the successful military leaders over the past recorded millenia, there are a few nuggets of military wisdom that are consistently repeated by the most successful military leaders in history, truisms that have been successfully demonstrated time and again. When one sees highly successful...