Author : Joey Santore
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2022-05-10
Category :
ISBN : 9780999896075
Botanist, illustrator, and explorer, Joey Santore, created an insightful, captivating, and often humorous collection of drawings depicting the world around him; naturescapes, plant and animal illustrations, portraits, and political commentaries of an American story. This illustrated book of drawings represents one man's eye of time captured in artistic snapshots and contemplative interpretations.
Author : Matt Ritter
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 2018-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780999896006
California Plants is an essential resource for outdoor enthusiasts. With his vibrant photographs and lively writing, Matt Ritter takes the reader on a journey through the Golden State's iconic landscapes and abundant plant life. This definitive guide features more than 500 species, along with detailed descriptions, fascinating natural history stories, and handy tree and wildflower color identification charts.
Author : Philip R. Simon
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,79 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1595829202
Crime Does Not Pay is an American comic book series published between 1942 and 1955 by Lev Gleason Publications. Edited and chiefly written by Charles Biro, the title launched the crime comics genre and was the first "true crime" comic book series.
Author : Lee Child
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 11,66 MB
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1789091330
FEATURING A BRAND-NEW JACK REACHER STORY! A collection of seventeen brand-new crime stories from bestselling authors Lee Child, Jeffrey Deaver, Stella Duffy, and more. Includes three stories longlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards. KILLER SECRETS FEATURING A BRAND NEW JACK REACHER STORY Open the files on an anthology of seventeen new crime stories to probe the brutal and complex hearts of criminals, and unravel the strangest of mysteries. Watch as a secretive group of intelligence community officers trace Jack Reacher through Heathrow in Lee Child's "Smile". In Mary Hoffman's "Fallen Woman", a journalist on the trail of a secretive drug lord gets caught up in the violent suicide of a young woman in Siena. And in Jeffery Deaver's "Connecting the Dots", detectives follow the trail of clues in the brutal killing of a homeless man, wherever it may lead... Invisible Blood is a gripping collection exploring the compulsions of the criminal mind. SEVENTEEN STORIES FROM TODAY'S FINEST CRIME WRITERS Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Denise Mina, R.J. Ellory, Christopher Fowler, Stella Duffy, Ken Bruen, Lauren Henderson, James Grady, Jason Starr, Mary Hoffman, Cathi Unsworth, Bill Beverly, Lavie Tidhar, Johana Gustawsson, A K Benedict, John Harvey
Author : Matt Ritter
Publisher : Pacific Street Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 16,92 MB
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780999896013
This educational and interactive picture book immerses the reader in the strange and interwoven lifecycles of a tropical fig tree in the rainforest, and the tiny insects and colorful creatures that call it home. Following the growth of a seed dropped into the canopy of a rainforest tree by a flying toucan, Something Wonderful teaches the interdependence of rainforest ecology in an easy-to-follow, captivating story. Flip the beautifully illustrated pages and experience the journey of the fig seedling making roots and leaves, growing strong, eventually replacing the giant tree that was its host, making figs, attracting pollinators, and developing its life-giving seeds.Something Wonderful happens next. The delectable fig fruit is hungrily eaten by a passing toucan who, upon flight, aimlessly drops a seed from its poop into the treetops below, beginning the fig's lifecycle once again. Discover additional scientific information about the pollination process, insects, and animals found in the story in an illustrated section at the end of the book. Readers can play a "seek and find" game of locating the elusive red-eyed tree frog on each page of the story. Take a journey, from the tiny to the grand, while making your way through the tropical rainforest on the path to uncover Something Wonderful...
Author : Martin Cruz Smith
Publisher : Pocket Books
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982132140
The “gripping, romantic, and dazzlingly original” (Cosmopolitan) Arkady Renko book that started it all: the #1 bestseller Gorky Park, an espionage classic that begins the series, by Martin Cruz Smith, “the master of the international thriller” (The New York Times). It begins with a triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and the New York City police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fur dealer. Meanwhile, Renko is falling in love with a beautiful, headstrong dissident for whom he may risk everything. “Brilliant...there are enough enigmas within enigmas within enigmas to reel the mind” (The New Yorker) in this wonderfully textured, vivid look behind the Iron Curtain. “Once one gets going, one doesn’t want to stop...The action is gritty, the plot complicated, and the overriding quality is intelligence” (The Washington Post). The first in a classic series, Gorky Park “reminds you just how satisfying a smoothly turned thriller can be” (The New York Times Book Review).
Author : Nora Roberts
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 2978 pages
File Size : 15,8 MB
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101562056
A compelling collection of five romantic suspense novels from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. THE VILLA Ordered to work with Tyler MacMillan to facilitate the merger of their families' two wineries, PR executive Sophia Giambelli is torn between a powerful attraction and a professional rivalry. But when acts of sabotage threaten everything, Sophia’s quest for dominance becomes a fight for survival... MIDNIGHT BAYOU When Declan Fitzgerald begins the daunting task of restoring Mant Hall, alluring Angelina Simone is a welcome distraction from the mansion's mysterious happenings. But her surprising connection to the old house is about to uncover a secret that's been buried for a hundred years... THREE FATES Malachi, Gideon, and Rebecca Sullivan are determined to recover their great-great-grandfather’s treasure. Their quest will take them from their home in Ireland to Helsinki, Prague, and New York where they will meet a brilliant scholar who will aid them in their hunt—and an ambitious woman who will do anything to stop them... BIRTHRIGHT When news of five-thousand-year-old human bones draws archaeologist Callie Dunbrook out of her sabbatical, she finds herself in a whirlwind of adventure, danger, and romance with her irritating—but irresistible—ex-husband, Jake... NORTHERN LIGHTS Nate Burke accepted the job as Chief of Police in a tiny, remote Alaskan town with the hopes of starting over. But his new love with pilot Meg Galloway is soon put at risk when he attempts to close an unsolved murder case...
Author : Dick Wood
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 16,72 MB
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1621155447
The celebrated pre-Code Crime Does Not Pay comics are finally collected into a series of unflinching and uncensored deluxe hardcovers! The infamous Crime Does Not Pay stories, focusing on criminal scum, nefarious mobsters, and urban legends, madeCrime Does Not Pay one of the most popular comics of the 1940s. This series was a favorite target of censors and is partially responsible for the creation of the stifling Comics Code Authority! Revered, influential, and very hard to find, Crime Does Not Pay issues #26 to #29 are collected for your enjoyment and education!
Author : Nora Roberts
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593438604
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes an unforgettable tale of luck and love in which the fortunes of three siblings depend on a simple twist of fate. When the RMS Lusitania sank in 1915, one survivor became a changed man, giving up his life as a petty thief. But the man still kept the small silver statue he lifted, saving it as a reminder of his past and a family heirloom for future generations. A century later, that priceless heirloom—one of a long-separated set of three—has been stolen again. Malachi, Gideon, and Rebecca Sullivan are determined to recover their great-great-grandfather’s treasure, reunite the Three Fates, and make their fortune. Their quest will take them from their home in Ireland to Helsinki, Prague, and New York, where they will meet a brilliant scholar who will aid them in their hunt—and an ambitious woman who will stop at nothing to acquire the Fates....
Author : Noah Charney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313366365
Through the use of case examples and careful examination, this book presents the first interdisciplinary essay collection on the study of art crime, and its effect on all aspects of the art world. Contributors discuss art crime subcategories, including vandalism, iconoclasm, forgery, fraud, peace-time theft, war looting, archaeological looting, smuggling, submarine looting, and ransom. The contributors offer insightful analyses coupled with specific practical suggestions to implement in the future to prevent and address art crime. This work is of critical importance to anyone involved in the art world, its trade, study, and security. Art crime has received relatively little attention from those who study art to those who prosecute crimes. Indeed, the general public is not well-aware of the various forms of art crime and its impact on society at large, to say nothing of museums, history, and cultural affairs. And yet it involves a multi-billion dollar legitimate industry, with a conservatively-estimated $6 billion annual criminal profit. Information about and analysis of art crime is critical to the wide variety of fields involved in the art trade and art preservation, from museums to academia, from auction houses to galleries, from insurance to art law, from policing to security. Since the Second World War, art crime has evolved from a relatively innocuous crime, into the third highest-grossing annual criminal trade worldwide, run primarily by organized crime syndicates, and therefore funding their other enterprises, from the drug and arms trades to terrorism. It is no longer merely the art that is at stake.
