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CSI: Classroom (Into Reading, Level V #85)
by James Hart Frank PedersenNIMAC-sourced textbook. The crime-scene investigation (CSI) team at Gonzalez School swings into action when a cold, lifeless body is discovered in Room 7. There are plenty of suspects, but only one guilty perpetrator. The CSI: Classroom team will need to use all their skills and experience to solve this cold-blooded crime.
CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationTM
by Jeff MariotteIt’s a hot, early autumn evening in the small resort town of Mount Charleston, NV, where six firefighters are battling a massive blaze that threatens expensive homes . . . a blaze that will cost them their lives. Initially, the police determine that the fire was human-started, and the state wants to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law with six counts of homicide. Now the team of Sin City’s finest criminologists, led by Catherine Willows, are assigned to work a crime scene far from the glittering lights and 24/7 spectacle of the Las Vegas Strip, and soon find much more than they bargained for. . . . Meanwhile, Ray Langston and Nick Stokes are called to a crime scene where a dog has taken a key piece of evidence—a severed human hand—under a suburban home’s crawl space. What’s even more disturbing is that it’s not the first severed hand that’s turned up lately—there have been four other incidents around Las Vegas over the past twelve months. . . .
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
by Donn CortezA terrifying turn of events pits the CSIs against a killer who ingeniously uses insects to commit murder--even modeling his attacks on their behavior. It's a race against time before the next victim turns up. Original.
CSI: Dark Sundays (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
by Donn CortezA lavish penthouse party on top of a Vegas hotel and casino plays host to a bizarre set-up to murder in which a security guard is trapped and killed in a private elevator—and the body soon vanishes . . . leading crime scene investigators Nick Stokes and Greg Sanders straight to an uncanny circus troupe with deadly connections to none other than the Russian mafia. In the meantime, Ray Langston and Catherine Willows are called to a psychiatric facility where two patients have just escaped after attacking an orderly. One of the escaped patients, an Iraq war veteran, managed to smuggle in a military-grade nerve gas, inducing realistic and shared three-dimensional illusions and hallucinations . . . and Ray and Catherine must race against time in order to find two very dangerous individuals now roaming freely on the streets of Las Vegas. . . .
CSI: Four Walls
by Keith R. A. DecandidoDetectives Mac Taylor, Danny Messer, Sheldon Hawkes, and Don Flack are called in to investigate a double homicide at a medium-security facility on Staten Island. Racial tensions turned the prison into a pressure cooker that finally boiled over in an all-too-lethal fashion, leaving two inmates dead. One of the killings is an open-and-shut case, complete with eyewitnesses; but the other, the murder of a former cop, defies easy answers. Initial investigation of the crime scene points to one cause of death, but the CSI team's scientific methods uncover something completely different -- and wholly unexpected. . . . On the other edge of the city, Stella Bonasera and Lindsay Monroe look into the murder of a young woman who worked at a popular Italian bakery in the Bronx. They find the perfect suspect almost immediately: a frequent customer who spent a lot of time flirting with the victim and who previously had been arrested for a violent crime. Yet Stella can't help but think that their perfect suspect is just a little too perfect for such a messy murder. . . . Nothing is as it seems as New York City's dedicated crime scene investigators piece together the clues and examine the evidence to discover the true killers in their midst.
CSI: Heart Attack (CSI: Miami #6)
by Donn CortezAs winter's hold deepens in the dark days of February, Miami's hotels fill to the bursting point. Cruise ships flock to the busiest port in the world as people desperate for warmer climates board these behemoths of the seas. People with too much time and money fill the clubs. In every other jurisdiction, as its citizens are driven indoors, there is a downturn in crime but not in Miami, as the members of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab can attest. Stretched to the breaking point, Lieutenant Caine is called to what appears to be a failed international terrorist incident: a botched arms-for-Afghani-heroin exchange. The scene is littered with bodies and blood droplets identified as being from one Abdus Sattar Pathan. Once before, Pathan managed to escape being charged in the murder of a Federal agent. This time Caine has him. Except Pathan has an iron-clad alibi: he was miles away, on stage doing his magic act. Horatio is convinced that Pathan and the international terrorist known as the Hare are one and the same. Can Caine prove it before the Hare puts his deadly plan into motion?
CSI: Miami) (CSI: Miami #8)
by Jeff MariotteA young man is killed in Miami's Bicentennial Park. Two shots -- one a through-and-through -- and on his body a quantity of coke is found. It would be easy to mark down his killing as gang related or a drug deal gone bad. While the simplest explanation may be the best, it does not follow that it is always true. There is something about the angles of the bullets that killed him that are off...and why take his gun and money, and leave the drugs? And who would have the skill to carry all of this out without leaving a path in the grass? A serial bomber has been spreading terror across the western states. The FBI has been on his trail for years, but always one day too late, leaving frustrated agents to sweep through bombed sites, looking for leads. A search of an Albuquerque motel and its Dumpsters has led the agent-in-charge to Miami, hoping this time he will not need the services of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab. A bomb set in a house kills a doctor and all of his family. If this is the same bomber, he has changed his pattern. Why? Does he feel more comfortable here in Miami? Lieutenant Horatio Caine is going to find him, and make sure the only comfort the bomber finds is offered by the state -- in jail.
CSI: Nevada Rose
by Jerome PreislerMeet the little known and even less understood heroes of police work in Las Vegas -- the forensic investigators. Led by veteran Gil Grissom, the remarkable team assigned to the Criminalistics Bureau's graveyard shift -- including Catherine Willows, Warrick Brown, Nick Stokes, Sara Sidle, and Greg Sanders -- must combine cutting-edge scientific methods and old-fashioned detective savvy as they work to untangle the evidence behind the yellow police tape. FULL SYNOPSIS TO COME
CSI: New York: Four Walls (CSI: New York #4)
by Keith R. DeCandidoDetectives Mac Taylor, Danny Messer, Sheldon Hawkes, and Don Flack are called in to investigate a double homicide at a medium-security facility on Staten Island. Racial tensions turned the prison into a pressure cooker that finally boiled over in an all-too-lethal fashion, leaving two inmates dead. One of the killings is an open-and-shut case, complete with eyewitnesses; but the other, the murder of a former cop, defies easy answers. Initial investigation of the crime scene points to one cause of death, but the CSI team's scientific methods uncover something completely different -- and wholly unexpected.... On the other edge of the city, Stella Bonasera and Lindsay Monroe look into the murder of a young woman who worked at a popular Italian bakery in the Bronx. They find the perfect suspect almost immediately: a frequent customer who spent a lot of time flirting with the victim and who previously had been arrested for a violent crime. Yet Stella can't help but think that their perfect suspect is just a little too perfect for such a messy murder.... Nothing is as it seems as New York City's dedicated crime scene investigators piece together the clues and examine the evidence to discover the true killers in their midst.
CSI: Right to Die
by Jeff MariotteA young man is killed in Miami's Bicentennial Park. Two shots -- one a through-and-through -- and on his body a quantity of coke is found. It would be easy to mark down his killing as gang related or a drug deal gone bad. While the simplest explanation may be the best, it does not follow that it is always true. There is something about the angles of the bullets that killed him that are off...and why take his gun and money, and leave the drugs? And who would have the skill to carry all of this out without leaving a path in the grass? A serial bomber has been spreading terror across the western states. The FBI has been on his trail for years, but always one day too late, leaving frustrated agents to sweep through bombed sites, looking for leads. A search of an Albuquerque motel and its Dumpsters has led the agent-in-charge to Miami, hoping this time he will not need the services of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab. A bomb set in a house kills a doctor and all of his family. If this is the same bomber, he has changed his pattern. Why? Does he feel more comfortable here in Miami? Lieutenant Horatio Caine is going to find him, and make sure the only comfort the bomber finds is offered by the state -- in jail.
CSI: Salón de clases (¡Arriba la Lectura!, Level W #85)
by James Hart Frank PedersenEl equipo de investigación de la escena del crimen (CSI) de la Escuela González entra en acción cuando aparece un cuerpo frío y sin vida en el Salón 7. Hay muchos sospechosos, pero un único culpable. El equipo CSI: Salón de clases deberá usar todas sus destrezas y su experiencia para resolver este crimen a sangre fría. NIMAC-sourced textbook
CSI: Shock Treatment
by CoxWhat happens when a reality TV series gets a true dose of reality? A staged prank for a hit scare show has gone horribly wrong with an actor now dead and production halted indefinitely. As the graveyard shift of Sin City's best crime scene investigators--including Catherine Willows, Ray Langston, Nick Stokes, Sara Sidle, and Greg Sanders-- digs deeper behind the scenes, more questions than answers pile up: Was the botched prank's set-up simply a case of carelessness on the producers' part resulting in a tragic accident, or did someone really orchestrate an elaborate scheme for revenge and murder?
CSI: Skin Deep
by PreislerA retired judge has been found brutally murdered on the outskirts of Las Vegas, complete with a macabre yet masterfully intricate tattoo on his face . . . the third seemingly random victim of the mysterious kidnapper dubbed by law enforcement as the "Tattoo Man." The judge wasn't the first person to have been abducted, drugged, and permanently altered with tattoos and body modification . . . but he was the first to wind up dead. At the same time, several other deceased are turning up all over Sin City with their body art mercilessly removed--and the timing would seem to suggest to those in authority that all of these crimes are somehow related. But Las Vegas's top crime scene investigators--Catherine Willows, Ray Langston, Nick Stokes, Sara Sidle, and Greg Sanders--aren't jumping to any conclusions, as they attempt to connect the dots by entering the secretive and tight-knit body art community--one that is intensely wary of outsiders. . . .
CSI: The Burning Season
by Jeff MariotteIt's a hot, early autumn evening in the small resort town of Mount Charleston, NV, where six firefighters are battling a massive blaze that threatens expensive homes . . . a blaze that will cost them their lives. Initially, the police determine that the fire was human-started, and the state wants to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law with six counts of homicide. Now the team of Sin City's finest criminologists, led by Catherine Willows, are assigned to work a crime scene far from the glittering lights and 24/7 spectacle of the Las Vegas Strip, and soon find much more than they bargained for. . . . Meanwhile, Ray Langston and Nick Stokes are called to a crime scene where a dog has taken a key piece of evidence--a severed human hand--under a suburban home's crawl space. What's even more disturbing is that it's not the first severed hand that's turned up lately--there have been four other incidents around Las Vegas over the past twelve months. . . .
CSI: The Killing Jar
by Donn CortezA teenager is found dead in his motel room, the cause of death: millipede poison...Now crime scene investigator Gil Grissom must aid CSI's Nick Stokes and Riley Adams against a serial killer whose knowledge of entomology rivals his own -- a brutal murderer who is not only using insects as the tools of destruction, but actually modeling the attacks after their behavior.... In the meantime, CSIs Catherine Willows and Greg Sanders must investigate a bizarre death, where the victim had gotten mixed up with two very different groups of people -- one involved in using and dealing crystal meth, the other an avant-garde group of artists -- a collision of subcultures where everyone is a suspect and nothing is as it seems....
CTAP - Chasseurs de Trésors Assistés par le Paranormal: Le Retour du Reich
by Robert A WebsterDes batailles tumultueuses sous l'océan aux vastes étendues immobiles de l'espace, ce thriller paranormal captivant vous envoûtera. Churchill Potts est le puissant Gardien d'un portail terrestre. Avec l'aide de deux guides psychiques, il découvre les trésors cachés par des âmes perdues au cours de leur vie et les transmet à leurs descendants vivants. Lorsque l'esprit démoniaque du despote le plus infâme du vingtième siècle entre en contact avec l'équipe CTAP, celle-ci doit non seulement déceler le lien entre Adolf Hitler et l'actuel Président des États-Unis, mais aussi découvrir la raison de la présence d'un guide spirituel à la Maison-Blanche. L'équipe CTAP doit résoudre ces mystères avant que le fragile équilibre entre le monde des vivants et le plan céleste ne se brise. En cas d'échec, le décret d'Hitler pour un règne millénaire de son Reich pourrait se réaliser.
CU@8
by Cindy VineSeus filhos realmente vão sair de casa? Fenella Fisher e Suki Rabinowitz são mães solteiras de meia-idade cujos filhos saíram de casa e começaram suas próprias vidas e carreiras. Mas o filho de Suki, Josh, que é um viciado em cocaína, supostamente teve um filho em uma visita ao Reino Unido; e a filha de Fenella, Kirsty, acaba de ser largada e se sente infeliz. Fenella e Suki decidem que precisam intervir para ajudar seus filhos e armar um plano para resolver a bagunça de Josh e encontrar um homem adequado para Kirsty, com algumas consequências hilárias. Depois de entrevistar possíveis maridos para Kirsty no Restaurante/Bar Waves, elas descobrem que um homem bom é bem difícil de encontrar. Uma leitura divertida e leve.
CUADERNOS (EBOOK)
by Juan Jose SebreliCuadernos rescata un género poco habitual en la literatura argentina: el cuaderno de notas de un escritor. Sebreli reúne en él los temas más diversos. Con lucidez y osadía consigna singularidades y excepciones, pinta personajes extraños de conductas extremas, reconstruye lugares insólitos, devela ceremonias sociales, descifra mitos, evoca épocas pasadas, recupera "a la manera proustiana" escenas olvidadas y cuenta anécdotas que nunca son superficiales ni gratuitas: historias en apariencia banales pero sociológicamente significativas. El libro agrega a las cualidades características del autor como analista de lo cotidiano otros rasgos inéditos: su extraordinario sentido del humor, por ejemplo, condición que permite, entre otras, una lectura hedónica y lúdica, muy por encima de lo meramente explicativo o informativo.
CUARTO VIOLETA, EL (EBOOK)
by Silvia PlagerDurante el velorio de su marido Julia descubre una carta que él había pedido le entregaran poco tiempo después de haberla abandonado para irse con una mujer de la edad de su hija. Alterada por la revelación amorosa que nunca llegó a sus manos, Julia pasa del rencor a la culpa, sentimiento que se repetirá cuando se produzcan las muertes en el "círculo cultural" al que asiste desde su reencuentro con Amanda, ex compañera de secundaria, directora de un grupo que practica las artes de la numerología, astrología, tarot, espiritismo, lectura del aura... Para completar su experiencia esotérica, Julia decide viajar a Islandia a esparcir las cenizas de Jorge en el glaciar Snaefellsj kull, uno de los centros energéticos más poderosos de la Tierra. "Convertirme en viuda me lanzó a rastrear algo o alguien que yo vislumbraba al acecho. Y se me cruzó la loca idea de que si estaba atenta lo vería, oiría, olería, tocaría. Mis sentidos no iban a equivocarse", dice la protagonista de este viaje iniciático al pasado. Pero se le impone el futuro, inquietante, imprevisible, aunque anticipado en las visiones que le permiten seguir las huellas de dos crímenes. En la bruma del paisaje volcánico, Julia intuye que las últimas ilusiones pueden ser más poderosas que las primeras.
CUENTOS DE LO IMPOSIBLE
by Carlos PascualEn Cuentos de lo imposible Carlos Pascual vuelve a la Historia, recreándola y jugando con ella. En Cuentos de lo imposible, Carlos Pascual se adscribe a la sencilla, pero intrigante y misteriosa pregunta que ronda siempre a la Historia: "¿Y si...?" Los hechos y los personajes históricos, así como las circunstancias que los rodearon y las hipotéticas causas que pudieran haberlas cambiado, torciendo así el curso de la Historia ?como dice el lugar común?, han despertado siempre la curiosidad de los que, en su momento, se hacen llamar contemporáneos. "¿Y si Edipo no hubiese asesinado a su padre?", "¿y si Napoleón hubiese escapado de Santa Helena?", son algunas de las preguntas que en estos cuentos Carlos Pascual se atreve a resolver con soltura, humor y talento.
CUORE D'ORO: Serie della Famiglia Macpherson (Serie della Famiglia Macpherson)
by Jan Coffey May McGoldrickCUORE D'ORO Trilogia dei Fratelli Macpherson Dalle coste selvagge delle isole occidentali della Scozia, ai campi insanguinati della Francia, fino alle corti scintillanti d'Europa, la serie Macpherson segue la lotta di una famiglia per l'indipendenza scozzese contro il re Tudor, Henry VIII. RITO DELLA PASSIONE Al torneo di due re, Elizabeth Boleyn ha attirato non solo gli occhi di Henry Tudor, ma anche quelli del guerriero scozzese Ambrose Macpherson, la cui audace offerta potrebbe essere la sua unica salvezza... RICERCA DELL'AMORE Ambrose Macpherson è profondamente attratto dalla figlia di un diplomatico inglese. Il fatto che l'odiato re inglese la stia inseguendo rende Elizabeth un premio ancora più ambito. Ma dopo aver assistito a un atto di tradimento che potrebbe rovesciare la corona, Elizabeth scompare. Ambrose sa che il destino non gli darà tregua finché non la ritroverà... Autore di bestseller USA Today Vincitore del premio Holt Medallion come miglior romanzo storico
CURAS VILLEROS (EBOOK)
by Silvina Premat" Padre Pepe?", preguntó un hombre parado en la vereda de una oscura calle del barrio de Barracas. " Rajá de acá! Cuando todo esto de la droga deje de estar en la TV vas a ser boleta." Era el 20 de abril de 2009 y el destinatario de la amenaza fue José María Di Paola, sacerdote católico de 46 años y líder del equipo de curas villeros de la Capital. La difusión de esa advertencia mafiosa instaló en los medios de comunicación al grupo de sacerdotes que viven en las villas miseria de la ciudad de Buenos Aires y que se proclaman herederos de los precursores Mugica, Ricciardelli, Botán, Vernazza y De la Sierra, entre otros. Hombres que, ante la pobreza extrema, hicieron y hacen el cristianismo con lo que tienen al alcance de su mano y respondiendo a enormes desafíos, siempre cambiantes. En ocho meses de investigación, Silvina Premat entrevistó a diecisiete de esos curas a quienes todos en las villas llaman "padre". Esta crónica es el fruto de haber compartido su cotidianidad, su lucha denodada por sacar a chicos y grandes del flagelo del "paco", de la delincuencia y la precariedad educativa, laboral y sanitaria ofreciéndoles un nuevo sentido a sus vidas, desde lo material pero fundamentalmente desde lo espiritual. Son historias muy duras, escalofriantes, pero también las hay de grandes satisfacciones. Nadie saldrá indemne de la lectura de Curas villeros, un libro destinado a sacudir corazones celebrando las proezas y alegrías posibles aun en las circunstancias más extremas.
CURE
by Kali MetisStunned by her brother's apparent suicide, LUNA AUBER, discovers that he has not only left her the key's to his apartment but also trip to Sweden. Per his instructions, LUNA is to explore their unexpected heritage of the Birke, an iconic female Viking warrior. Following her beloved brother's lead, LUNA will soon discover that the terrible shakes he suffered from were misdiagnosed. The shaking was in fact the early stages of his transformation. Her brother was a shapeshifter. A lycanthrope. And her own shaking has just begun.LUNA will be forced to make a choice that could either transform or destroy the world as she knows it.
CURSED
by Carol Higgins ClarkSet in the Hamptons, New York City and Los Angeles, Cursedwill keep readers turning the pages as they accompany Regan Reilly on her return to her old stomping grounds.
CUYANO ALBOROTADOR (EBOOK)
by Jose Garcia HamiltonCuyano alborotador devuelve a Domingo Faustino Sarmiento toda la entrañable humanidad que la historia escolar le había negado. A través de una narración verídica y apasionante, José Ignacio García Hamilton exhibe facetas inéditas de su biografiado: el niño resentido porque su familia venida a menos no puede brindarle educación; el fecundo periodista exiliado que se enamora en Santiago de Chile de una mujer casada; el vehemente político que impulsa a Mitre a ahorcar a los caudillos e imponer la civilización a sangre y fuego; el fracasado mandatario que se aleja derrotado de su patria y tres años después regresa de los Estados Unidos como presidente. Las alternativas de un hombre duro pero de lágrima fácil, belicoso e irascible pero también tierno y vulnerable, van configurando a un atrayente personaje de temperamento agresivo y pasión civilizadora. Un individuo, en suma, que intentó cambiar la cultura de su suelo a fuerza de coraje y educación, en un periplo vital que atrapa y conmueve desde la primera página hasta la última.