The Goddaughter's Revenge

The Goddaughter's Revenge

Author: Melodie Campbell

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1459804872

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When Gina Gallo discovers that someone has been switching real gems for fakes in the jewelry of some of her best customers, she takes matters into her own hands.


The Penguin Lady

The Penguin Lady

Author: Carol A. Cole

Publisher: Arbordale Pub

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781607185369

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Penelope Parker lives with penguins from all over the Southern Hemisphere. Do the penguin antics prove too much for her to handle? Children count and then compare and contrast ten different penguin species as they learn geography. Includes "For Creative Minds" section.


Shirley

Shirley

Author: Susan Scarf Merrell

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0147516196

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ELIZABETH MOSS AND MICHAEL STUHLBARG! “Susan Scarf Merrell brilliantly weaves events from Shirley Jackson’s life into a hypnotic story line”* in this darkly thrilling novel about the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery. Two imposing literary figures are at the heart of this captivating novel: celebrated author Shirley Jackson and her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, a literary critic and professor at Bennington College. When a young graduate student and his pregnant wife—Fred and Rose Nemser—move into Shirley and Stanley’s home in the fall of 1964, they quickly fall under the magnetic spell of their brilliant and unconventional hosts. While Fred becomes preoccupied with his teaching schedule, Rose forms an unlikely, turbulent friendship with the troubled and unpredictable Shirley. Fascinated by the Hymans’ volatile marriage and inexplicable drawn to the darkly enigmatic author, Rose nonetheless senses something amiss—something to do with nightly unanswered phone calls and inscrutable accounts of a long-missing female student. Chillingly atmospheric and evocative of Jackson’s own classic stories, Shirley is an elegant thriller with one of America’s greatest horror writers at its heart. *The Washington Post


Ecosystem Functioning

Ecosystem Functioning

Author: Kurt Jax

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-09-16

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0521879531

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A new and integrative analysis of the concept of ecosystem functioning, providing guidance for its application in conservation practice.


The Acharnians

The Acharnians

Author: Aristophanes

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 1625580681

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Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta.


Perspectives on Biodiversity

Perspectives on Biodiversity

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1999-10-01

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 030906581X

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Resource-management decisions, especially in the area of protecting and maintaining biodiversity, are usually incremental, limited in time by the ability to forecast conditions and human needs, and the result of tradeoffs between conservation and other management goals. The individual decisions may not have a major effect but can have a cumulative major effect. Perspectives on Biodiversity reviews current understanding of the value of biodiversity and the methods that are useful in assessing that value in particular circumstances. It recommends and details a list of components-including diversity of species, genetic variability within and among species, distribution of species across the ecosystem, the aesthetic satisfaction derived from diversity, and the duty to preserve and protect biodiversity. The book also recommends that more information about the role of biodiversity in sustaining natural resources be gathered and summarized in ways useful to managers. Acknowledging that decisions about biodiversity are necessarily qualitative and change over time because of the nonmarket nature of so many of the values, the committee recommends periodic reviews of management decisions.


Bahama Heat

Bahama Heat

Author: Barry Estabrook

Publisher: St Martins Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780312062972

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Determined to save his impoverished Bahamian mission school, Reverend Miles Farnsworth uses the shipment of cocaine accidently delivered to him to make a quick buck, and he becomes inadvertantly drawn into the world of drug lords and hired killers