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Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Sequence)
by Jonathan StroudThe tremendous climax of the Bartimaeus sequence. Three years on from the events in The Golem's Eye, the magicians' rule in London is teetering on a knife-edge, with strikes, riots and general unrest. The Prime Minister is largely controlled by two advisers, one of whom is 17-year-old Nathaniel. Meanwhile, living under a false identity, Kitty has been researching djinn; she has come to believe that the only way to destroy the magicians is with an alliance between djinn and ordinary people. Kitty seeks out Bartimaeus and embarks on a terrifying journey into the djinn's chaotic domain - the Other Place - which no human being has ever survived. But even as she does so, Makepeace engineers a dramatic coup d'etat. The outcome is a shattering of the magicians' control and all magical laws are turned upside down. Can Bartimaeus, Nathaniel and Kitty settle old scores to prevent the earth's destruction?
Public Anchovy #1: A Deep Dish Mystery (Deep Dish Mysteries #3)
by Mindy QuigleyPublic Anchovy #1 is the third book in Mindy Quigley's delectable Deep Dish Mystery series, set in a Wisconsin pizzeria.While Geneva Bay’s upper crust gets ready to party down at a Prohibition-themed fundraiser, pizza chef Delilah O’Leary is focused on seeing her struggling restaurant through the winter slow season. The temperature outside is plummeting, but Delilah’s love life might finally be heating up, as hunky police detective Calvin Capone seems poised to (finally) make a move.But Delilah’s hopes of perfecting a new “free-from” pizza recipe for a charity bash are dashed when a dead body crashes the party. Soon, Capone, Delilah, and her entire staff are trapped in an isolated mansion and embroiled in a dangerous game of cat and mouse.To catch an increasingly-desperate killer, Delilah will have to top all of her previous crime-solving accomplishments, and a few pizzas, too.
Public Enemies: The Host of America's Most Wanted Targets the Nation's Most Notorious Criminals
by John Walsh Philip LermanThe host of America's Most Wanted, John Walsh has formed a vital partnership with the public, the media, and law enforcement that has led to the capture of hundreds of the worst serial killers, kidnappers, pedophiles, and rapists of our time. In Public Enemies he reveals the cost -- the blood, sweat, and tears -- behind the relentless pursuit of hard justice, in such infamous cases as: Kyle Bell: A lifelong sexual predator whose madness culminated in the slaying of an eleven-year-old North Dakota girl. Bell was one of the only fugitives AMW had to capture twice -- and his case stirred more outrage than any other broadcast in AMW's history. Kathleen Soliah: This accused Symbionese Liberation Army terrorist disappeared in 1969 only to resurface twenty-five years later as suburban housewife and soccer mom Sara Jane Olson. Her arrest, following AMW's profile of Soliah and her former SLA partner James Kilgore, incited a stunning controversy. Rafael Resendez-Ramirez: aka The Railroad Killer. A sociopathic drifter, he rode the Texas rails, stopping only to rape and kill. His case was first brought to the public eye by AMW, and it was a secret call to the program's hot line that ultimately led to his surrender. In those and other gripping true-crime profiles, John Walsh exposes the behind-the-scenes drama of the groundbreaking show, and what actually unfolds between the crimes and the captures -- the vital leads from strangers, the dangerous manhunts, the developments cut from the AMW broadcasts, and the dogged investigations by authorities. He divulges stunning lapses in the judicial process that release monsters to the streets time and again. He takes readers inside the hearts and souls of the grieving families, and gives eyewitness accounts of the dramatic final moments when fugitives are finally taken down. An outspoken and unstoppable crusader, John Walsh ignites Public Enemies with righteous anger and gut-level emotion. But his heartfelt motto echoes throughout: I truly believe, with all my heart and soul, that together we can make a difference. It's a conviction Walsh offers as inspiration to the innocents affected by crime, and to all who feel powerless in the face of unfathomable evil.
Public Enemy
by Will StaegerWhen quasi-retired CIA operative W. Cooper's routine of debauchery is interrupted by a request for his help in fencing millions of dollars in gold artifacts, Cooper doesn't see a downside--until, that is, everyone connected to the artifacts begins dying. Crackerjack intelligence analyst Julie Laramie, meanwhile, is sent to a meeting with a former head of the CIA, who tells her the first case of a suicide bombing by an American citizen has occurred within the continental United States. A deadly filovirus was dispersed . . . and the "suicide sleeper" was not alone. Laramie is told to form her own civilian "counterterror unit"--and for the role of operative, she has no choice but to call in Cooper. As the army of suicide sleepers and their leader are identified, Cooper must call upon the old-school skills he's tried for so many years to forget . . . and by the time he's dispatched for his most dangerous assignment yet, it may be too late for his mission to matter.
Public Enemy #1
by Kiki SwinsonNational bestselling author Kiki Swinson amps up the action and suspense with unpredictable characters, breakneck twists, and a gut-punch portrait of Southern surviving—and dying. Now the odds are straight-up killer when a private eye gets in way over her head . . . Too much to prove . . . A former journalist with a knack for unraveling dirty secrets, Khloé Mercer figures if she's going to risk her life, she might as well make big money as a private investigator. But this reckless newbie needs a major case to make her name—and really show she can handle Norfolk, Virginia&’s toughest streets . . . Too much to hide . . . When a narcotics detective's widow needs someone to investigate her disgraced husband's so-called suicide, Khloé jumps at the lucrative fee—and the clues that the Norfolk Police Department is rotten from top to bottom. And with formidable backup from her ex-felon uncle, she turns the city upside-down to uncover the truth . . . Too late to run . . . But Khloé&’s cage-rattling tactics and high-wire strategies threaten both the cops and the city's brutal underworld alike. Now, with her life in the crosshairs and no one she can trust, she'll find that building a reputation comes with a price she may not survive to pay . . .
Public Enemy Number Two (Diamond Brothers #2)
by Anthony HorowitzFramed for a jewel robbery, quick-thinking thirteen-year-old Nick Diamond finds himself sharing a prison cell with Johnny Powers, juvenile delinquent and Public Enemy Number One. Suddenly, Nick is Public Enemy Number Two! His only chance at breaking out of jail is his older--and much dimmer--brother Tim. He's possibly the world's worst private detective, but Nick has no choice. Can Nick break out of jail, defeat Ma Powers and her gang, recover a stolen vase from an underwater hideout, and defuse a ticking time-bomb all while keeping his older brother from wrecking everything? The heat is on in this explosive Diamond Brother mystery! .
Public Ghost Number One (Ghosts of London #2)
by Nic SaintWhen Harry McCabre is called upon to rid an apartment of its ghostly occupants, she never expected to be drawn into a murder case dating back thirty-five years. And neither did she expect to run into her ex-boyfriend, Scotland Yard Inspector Darian Watley. Soon, Harry, her associate Jarrett Zephyr-Thornton, and Darian find themselves wading knee-deep in ectoplasm and the infamous Brunskill Manor Massacre, where an entire family was murdered on Christmas Eve 1981, the killers never found. When next she discovers a startling secret from Darian’s past, Harry quickly turns from ghost hunter into ghost hunted, as the killers add her to their list of potential victims, eager to finish what they started thirty-five years ago. And this time they won’t stop until their wicked work is done.
Public Murders
by Bill GrangerMaj Kirsten's was a public murder. Good-looking, blonde, Swedish, a tourist, she was found stabbed to death and mutilated in one of Chicago's public parks. That got the headlines, put the pressure on the police as politicians and elected officials demanded an equally public solution. They got it of course: a wino, sleeping rough, arrested and charged. The publicwas reassured. Till the next killing - young, blonde, good-looking, mutilated. And the next - the most public of all. Chicago, sweltering in a heatwave, had become a city hot with fear, crying out for relief. That was when Karen Kovac, young, blonde, good-looking, a police officer, was sent out onto the sweating, heat-soaked streets. A decoy to entice a maniac.
Public Murders
by Bill GrangerThe heat this long Chicago summer was so intense that the pavement itself seemed to steam. It drove everyone from the streets, day and night. That's why the breeze wafting over Grant Park seemed particularly inviting to the attractive blonde. She didn't know it was an invitation to her own savage murder, exactly eight minutes away.She was to be the first victim, but not the last. And as more butchered bodies turned up in public places, Detective Karen Kovac took the deadliest risk possible for any cop--man or woman. She offered herself as bait to a brutal, unknown killer.
Public Secrets: A Novel
by Nora RobertsEmma. Beautiful, intelligent, radiantly talented, she lives in a star-studded world of wealth and privilege. But she is about to discover that fame is no protection at all when someone wants you dead....All she has to do is close her eyes and she remembers the day Brian McAvoy swept into her life. A frightened toddler, she didn't know then that she was his illegitimate daughter or that he was pop music's rising new star. All she knew was that with Brian, his bandmates, and his new wife, she felt safe. And when her baby brother arrived, Emma thought she was the luckiest girl in the world...until the night a botched kidnapping attempt shattered all their lives...and destroyed Emma's happiness.Yet now, even though Emma is still haunted by flashes of memory from that fateful night, she has survived. She's carved out a thrilling career and even dared to fall rapturously in love. But the man who will become her husband isn't all that he seems. And Emma is about to awaken to the chilling knowledge that the darkest secret of all is the one buried in her mind--a secret that someone may kill to keep.From the Paperback edition.
Public Trust
by Sarah GregoryTRIAL AND ERROR. Beautiful, brainy Texas attorney Sharon Hays thought she knew her way around the labyrinth of the law and the crooked corridors of power. She also thought she could trust her sense as well as her senses when she said yes to a man. Now she was finding out how wrong she might be. She had to take the word of a savage rapist-killer that the D.A. had put the wrong man on death row. She had to take on the top candidate for governor of the Lone Star State in a cutthroat courtroom contest and a campaign of primal terror. And she had to fight losing her head in the arms of a lawyer lover who might be too good to be true. Sharon Hays was in a game of high-power politics and high-voltage passion, where the guilty held all the cards--and to be innocent was to ante up your life. ...
Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror
by James HynesA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the YearCombining the wit of David Lodge with Poe's delicious sense of the macabre, these are three witty, spooky novellas of satire set in academia—a world where Derrida rules, love is a "complicated ideological position," and poetic justice is served with an ideological twist.
Publish and be Murdered: A Jack Troutbeck/robert Amiss Mystery (large Print 16pt) (Robert Amiss/Baroness Jack Troutbeck Mysteries #8)
by Ruth Dudley EdwardsRobert Amiss, lapsed civil servant, is approached by Lord Papworth, owner of the Wrangler, to step in as business manager for the august journal and do something about its steady drain on his lordship's finances. The magazine's editor, Willie Lambie Crump, and his staff are firmly mired in the 1950s, technologically speaking; ideologically, the journal has always been strongly conservative. Prodded by Baroness "Jack" Troutbeck, his rather menacing guardian angel, Amiss takes on the job and soon has his hands full trying to further the journal's progress toward the latter half of the 20th century without unduly upsetting the staff. When the political editor, Henry Potbury, is found dead under odd circumstances and Crump is murdered, Amiss discovers once again that trying to keep a job can be a lethal occupation.
Puccini's Ghosts: A Novel (Isis Cassettes Ser.)
by Morag JossFor one woman, no matter what has happened through the decades, the music will always linger Burnhead is an inconspicuous town on the Scottish coast, but for Lila Du Cann, it is the setting for an opera that will change her life forever. When Lila returns to Burnhead to bury her father, she thinks back to 1960, when she fell in love for the first time. Her parents are in a failing marriage. Lila&’s mother, Fleur, splits time between two hobbies: arguing with her husband about life and money and retreating to her music room to listen to Puccini&’s Turandot. Lila&’s family, however, is thrown a lifeline when her charismatic and flamboyant uncle arrives from London with a hare-brained idea: an amateur staging of Turandot. With Fleur in the title role and Lila as the slave girl Liu, the production&’s most intriguing casting is George&’s handsome young student Joe Foscari as the tenor lead, Prince Calaf. Lila quickly falls for him and hopes that he feels the same about her. As opening night looms, secrets are exposed, high hopes are torn apart, and Lila&’s painful coming-of-age brings with it devastating lifelong consequences.
Puck detective (Puck #Volumen 3)
by Lisbeth WernerVuelve la estudiante, deportista, capitana y detective Puck en una nueva edición actualizada ilustrada por Montse Martín. Ya conoces a Puck... siempre dispuesta a resolver un buen misterio. El nuevo curso va a poner a prueba sus dotes detectivescas, porque el internado Egeborg anda más revuelto que nunca: ladrones, sustos a media noche y... algún que otro secreto.
Puck en apuros (Puck #Volumen 5)
by Lisbeth WernerVuelve la estudiante, deportista, capitana y detective Puck en una nueva edición actualizada ilustrada por Montse Martín. La primavera llega cargada de emociones al internado Egeborg: paseos a caballo, secretos, nuevos amigos... y algún que otro peligro. Puck se atreve con todo, pero ¿qué pasará cuando unos cazadores furtivos acampen cerca del colegio y una fiera se escape del circo?
Puck en el cine (Puck #Volumen 6)
by Lisbeth WernerVuelve la estudiante, deportista, capitana y detective Puck en una nueva edición actualizada ilustrada por Montse Martín. ¡Últimas noticias! ¡El internado Egeborg podría cerrar sus puertas para siempre! Convertida en una intrépida reportera del nuevo periódico escolar, Puck buscará el modo de salvar su querido colegio... sin imaginar que ella misma está a punto de saltar a la primera página.
Puck en la nieve (Puck #Volumen 4)
by Lisbeth WernerVuelve la estudiante, deportista, capitana y detective Puck en una nueva edición actualizada ilustrada por Montse Martín. Puck y sus amigas se disponen a disfrutar de los meses de invierno: nieve, esquí, patinaje... Sin embargo, a pesar del frío, la cosa está que arde en el internado de Egeborg. ¿Conseguirán Puck y sus compañeros detener al pirómano que acaba de colarse en el colegio?
Puck triunfa (Puck #Volumen 2)
by Lisbeth WernerVuelve la estudiante, deportista, capitana y detective Puck en una nueva edición actualizada ilustrada por Montse Martín. La vida en el internado mixto Egeborg va viento en popa para Puck. El barco que capitanea el padre de su amiga Navío pronto atracará en el puerto cercano y todos irán a visitarlo. ¡La diversión está servida! Y también el misterio...
Pudd'nhead Wilson: And Those Extraordinary Twins
by Mark TwainA Southern town scandalized by the murder of its most prominent citizen uncovers a mystery even more shocking in this ironic suspense story from a great American master Afraid for her infant son&’s life, a slave switches the boy with her master&’s child. A young New York lawyer fascinated by palmistry and fingerprint analysis moves below the Mason–Dixon line, makes a bad joke, and is immediately and forever branded a &“pudd&’nhead.&” Two Italian noblemen pay a visit to Dawson&’s Landing, Missouri, and become prime suspects in the murder of a local judge. From these disparate plot strands, Mark Twain fashions a humorous and entertaining tale with all the elements of the traditional murder mystery: a case of mistaken identity, a gruesome crime, a sinister villain, an eccentric detective, a climactic courtroom showdown, and an ingenious solution. But beneath this potboiler&’s pomp and circumstance lurks a clear-eyed and savagely compelling indictment of slavery and its poisonous effects on American society. Twain&’s last novel set in the antebellum South, Pudd&’nhead Wilson offers his clearest and most provocative condemnation of racial prejudice. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Puddin' on the Blitz
by Tamar MyersAlthough the culinary fare at Magdalena Yoder's new restaurant, Asian Sensations - a unique combination of Asian and Amish cuisine - is not to everyone's taste, the good citizens of Hernia are unanimously agreed that the desserts concocted by the restaurant chef, Barbara Hostetler, are to die for. Not literally however. When a guest at the PennDutch Inn drops dead shortly after consuming a slice of Barbara's delicious Blitz torte, Magdalena finds herself arrested for murder. Did someone deliberately set her up? In order to clear her name and protect her nearest and dearest, Magdalena must identify a ruthless killer - before they strike again.
Pudding Up With Murder
by Julia BuckleySecret chef Lilah Drake has a killer casserole to deal with in the latest Undercover Dish mystery from the author of Cheddar Off Dead....Customers trust Lilah Drake to keep her mouthwatering meals under wraps, but when a millionaire meets his untimely end, some sinister secrets become the main course. . . . Spring is right around the corner, and with the warmer temperatures come plenty of food requests from Lilah Drake's covered-dish clients. Lilah pulls out all the stops with a sweet new casserole for the birthday party of Marcus Cantwell, a wealthy curmudgeon who has some angry ex-wives and more than a few enemies. When he's found facedown in Lilah's casserole, it's anyone's guess as to who might have wanted the old man dead. A possible new heir to Marcus’s fortune adds some unexpected spice to the investigation, but Lilah fears that the old adage is true, and "the proof is in the pudding." INCLUDES RECIPES!
Puddlejumpers
by Mark Jean Christopher C. CarlsonErnie Banks, named for the legendary Chicago Cub shortstop, is a troubled, thirteen-year-old juvenile delinquent. Abandoned on the doorstep of the Lakeside Home for Boys when he was three years old, he's now considered a "lifer", a permanent ward of the state. His only proof that he once belonged to somebody is a vintage Ernie Banks baseball card, a crystal acorn he wears on a string around his neck, and a strange spiral birthmark on the bottom of his right foot. As a last reprieve before being sent to a juvenile detention facility, Ernie is allowed to spend three weeks on a working farm. When Ernie arrives at the home of Russ Frazier, he learns that the widower's baby was kidnapped years before. The single piece of evidence was a red quilt found in a puddle in the nearby woods. Fascinated by the town's famous "Quilt Baby" kidnapping, Ernie is determined to solve the case. He teams up with Joey, a local tomboy, to investigate clues that lead them on a dangerous journey into a forbidden world of dark secrets, magic puddles, and the cavernous underground kingdom of the "Puddlejumpers" -- eleven-inch tall water creatures with whom Ernie has a mysterious connection. When destiny summons, Ernie must find the courage to save the "Puddlejumpers" from the Most Dark and lead them in battle against their mortal enemies. Only then can he find his way home.
Puddlejumpers
by Mark Jean Christopher CarlsonErnie Banks, named for the legendary Chicago Cubs shortstop, is a troubled, thirteen-year-old juvenile delinquent. Abandoned on the doorstep of the Lakeside Home for Boys when he was three years old, he's now considered a "lifer," a permanent ward of the state. As a last reprieve before being sent to a juvenile detention facility, Ernie is allowed to spend three weeks on a working farm. When Ernie arrives at the home of Russ Frazier, he learns that the widower's baby was kidnapped years before, leaving behind a red quilt as the single piece of evidence.
Puerto Vallarta Squeeze
by Robert James WallerNovelist Danny Pastor liked what he found in lazily beautiful Puerto Vallarta, Mexico: Luz Maria, a woman he was crazy about; cantinas that played his kind of music; and la dolce vita, the sweet life. That was the problem. Danny needed to write, and he was up against a blank wall, not turning out a word while his money ran low and his nerves went wild." "Then he was in the right place, or the wrong one, to be the sole witness when a shooter gunned down an American naval officer. At a cafe table with Luz, Danny Pastor saw it all, and saw the possibility of a story, a surefire, prizewinning account that could restore his pride and make him famous. And when the killer approached him, the only other Anglo around, and asked for a ride across the border, Danny, bold with tequila, said yes." "Now in a Ford Bronco named Vito, two men and one woman begin a hair-raising run for the border. Their journey will take them to places they didn't anticipate, to things they never thought would happen, to feelings that reach deep and change everything - in a story that will kindle a spirit of adventure in everyone.