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  • Children's Services Today

    A Practical Guide for Librarians

    Series series Practical Guides for Librarians
    Here, one of America’s foremost experts in public library services to children cover the basics of library services for children. Jeanette Larson highlights best practices and "toolkits" that provide tools and resources to quickly implement programs and services. She includes model programs, checklists and forms, and ready-to-use examples of programs, with an emphasis on programs that are ... Read more

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  • Love at First Sight

    Winnifred Winnie Emmons, while working at the local diner, is about to cross paths with a man whose life has been turned upside down by the tragic death of his wife and mother of his four children. Little does he know that the precision with which this young woman can clean, cook, can, and garden will one day influence the lives of his little darlings. Love at First Sight is a compilation of ... Read more

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  • Disability and Social Change

    A Progressive Canadian Approach

    This edited collection uses a critical theory perspective and draws on expertise from a range of contemporary policy and practice areas. Contributors include people with disabilities, family members, researchers, academics and practitioners. This book is an ideal text for students of social work, human services, child and youth care and disability studies. Chapters include first-person accounts ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Montana Noir

    Series series Akashic Noir
    Eric Heidle's "Ace in the Hole" nominated for a 2018 Edgar Award for Best Short Story!A Parade magazine pick, included in "Books We Love" section"What could be a more unlikely breeding ground for noir fiction than Montana, whose wide-open landscapes seem the polar opposite of the mean streets of Los Angeles? Yet certain noir standbys prove both malleable and fertile in these 14 new stories...If ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Transmedia Creatures

    Frankenstein’s Afterlives

    On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures presents studies of Frankenstein by international scholars from converging disciplines such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television studies, English and digital humanities. These innovative contributions investigate the afterlives of a novel taught in a disparate array of courses - ... Read more

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    Series series Akashic Noir
    Crime fiction set in Iran—including a finalist for the Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story." Tehran Noir is not only a solid crime collection, but an illuminating look into day-to-day life in the Middle East, with religious and political implications galore, as well as racial tensions bubbling just beneath the surface. . . . The stories in Tehran Noir aren't always easy to read, but they are ... Read more

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  • Mother Finds a Body

    Series series Femmes Fatales
    This encore performance by the author of The G-String Murders is simply "one of the greatest mysteries ever written" ( Philadelphia Daily News).It's supposed to be a quiet honeymoon getaway for celebrated stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and Biff Brannigan, ex-comic and ex-Casanova of the Burly Q circuit, settled as they are in a cozy trailer built for two. If you don't count Gypsy's overbearing mother, a ... Read more

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  • Murders in Volume 2

    Series Book 3 - Henry Gamadge
    From Agatha Christie's favorite American author—an amateur detective examines the mysterious reappearance of a woman who vanished 100 years ago.One hundred years earlier, a beautiful guest had disappeared from the wealthy Vauregard household, along with the second volume in a set of the collected works of Byron. Improbably enough, both guest and book seem to have reappeared, with neither having ... Read more

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  • Singapore Noir

    Series series Akashic Noir
    The dark side of The Lion City is explored in a thrilling anthology that gives "plenty of new and unfamiliar voices a chance to shine" ( San Francisco Book Review).The island city-state of Singapore harbors unique customs and traditions largely unknown to the West. A booming economy and embrace of conformity overshadow its gambling dens, red-light districts, and a collective passion for ghostly ... Read more

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  • The Scientology Murders

    A Dead Detective Novel

    "Many readers will enjoy the peek inside the organization's hierarchy. Also enjoyable is the spirited romance between Doyle and Vicky Stanopolis, his partner in more ways than one. And the surprise ending is a wowser."--Mystery Scene Magazine"Heffernan's style harks back to traditional hard-boiled mysteries...The Scientology Murders isn't likely to make the church's recommended reading list, but ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • D.C. Noir

    Series series Akashic Noir
    Sixteen stories of capital crimes and misdemeanors—the basis for the film directed by George Pelecanos, producer and writer of The Wire.Mystery sensation Pelecanos pens the lead story and edits this groundbreaking collection of stories detailing the seedy underside of the nation's capital. This is not an anthology of ill-conceived and inauthentic political thrillers. Instead, in D.C. Noir, pimps, ... Read more

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  • Habitual Offenders

    A True Tale of Nuns, Prostitutes, and Murderers in Seventeenth-Century Italy

    "An enthralling amalgam of sex, violence, and scholarship. At the center of the story are the abduction and murder of two reformed prostitute nuns" (Frederick Hammond, Music and Spectacle in Baroque Rome).In April 1644, two nuns fled Bologna's convent for reformed prostitutes. A perfunctory archiepiscopal investigation went nowhere, and the nuns were quickly forgotten. By June of the next year, ... Read more

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