Wild Goose Dilemmas
Author : Jeffrey M. Black
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Barnacle goose
ISBN :
Wild Goose Chase
Author : Terri Thayer
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 2010-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0738717878
Book Description
A computer techie by trade, Dewey Pellicano would rather swallow needles than be pinned down to a life of quilting. But when her mother passes away, Dewey must exchange code for calico as the new proprietress of Quilter Paradiso. Between learning the business and dealing with a conniving employee who is also her sister-in-law, Dewey is ready to snap. During a national quilt show, quilting celebrity Claire Armstrong offers to buy the shop. But before Dewey can accept, she finds the famous quilter lying dead on the floor—a bloody rotary cutter at her side. When hunky homicide detective Buster Healy enters the scene, romance flourishes...until another murder takes place. Can Dewey thread together the pieces to this murderous pattern before the killer strikes again? Wild Goose Chase is the first book in the Quilting Mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Dewey Pellicano.
The Puzzler's Dilemma
Author : Derrick Niederman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1101560878
Book Description
Calling all puzzlers... From mathematics to word puzzles, from logic to lateral thinking, veteran puzzle maker Derrick Niederman delights in tackling the trickiest brainteasers in a new way. Among the old chestnuts he cracks wide open are the following classics: Knights and knaves The monk and the mountain The dominoes and the chessboard The unexpected hanging The Tower of Hanoi Using real-world analogies, infectious humor, and a fresh approach, this deceptively simple volume will challenge, amuse, enlighten, and surprise even the most experienced puzzle solver.
The Cryptographer’s Dilemma
Author : Johnnie Alexander
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1643529536
Book Description
A Code Developer Uncovers a Japanese Spy Ring Full of intrigue, adventure, and romance, this new series celebrates the unsung heroes—the heroines of WWII. FBI cryptographer Eloise Marshall is grieving the death of her brother, who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor, when she is assigned to investigate a seemingly innocent letter about dolls. Agent Phillip Clayton is ready to enlist and head oversees when asked to work one more FBI job. A case of coded defense coordinates related to dolls should be easy, but not so when the Japanese Consulate gets involved, hearts get entangled, and Phillip goes missing. Can Eloise risk loving and losing again?
The Barnacle Goose
Author : Jeffrey M. Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,33 MB
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1472911563
Book Description
The Barnacle Goose, a distinctive, handsome black-and-white bird, gets its name from a mediaeval myth that the birds hatched from barnacles – how else to explain their sudden appearance each autumn in northern Britain? We now know, of course, that the birds migrate from Arctic Russia, Norway and Svalbard to winter throughout northern Europe. This book represents a culmination of more than 25 years of Barnacle Goose research. It represents the story of one of Europe's most celebrated long-term behavioral studies, detailing the lives of these social and sociable birds. Chapters include sections on pair formation and bonding, family and population dynamics, brood parasitism, food and feeding, size and shape in different populations, life cycle, survivorship, dispersal, migration, and conservation, with particular regard to climate change. It is a rigorous and thorough examination of the lives of these birds, in fine Poyser tradition.
The Magnolia Dilemma
Author : C.L. Bauer
Publisher : C.L. Bauer
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1957015004
Book Description
"Dev, if I went missing how long would you look for me?" "Forever, Lily, forever." It all began as just a little landscaping. Lily Pierce dreams of magnolias blooming next to her front porch. But Lily digs up a mystery in her own yard. That darn tree may never get planted! Devlin Pierce is beginning to worry about his post-it note loving, list making wife. She discovers an adventure around every corner. This one is a little too close to home. When the mystery is planted in Dev's past and could threaten his family's future, he calls upon his old friends to reunite for another mission--to look over the woman who just can't walk away from a good mystery. For her husband, it's becoming a major dilemma, but he'll do anything for the woman he loves. The welcome mat is out for danger, and a mystery is knocking on Lily's door. Again! This Lily List Mysteries features the over organized florist, Lily Pierce, her straight arrow husband, his band of brothers, and a few other colorful characters along the way. There's humor, romance, a little terror, and enough post-it notes and lists to go around.
The Modern Dilemma
Author : Leon Surette
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 40,19 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 077353363X
Book Description
Leon Surette's new study of T. S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens, The Modern Dilemma, challenges the received view that Stevens' poetry expresses a Humanist world view, and - more surprisingly - documents Eliot's early Humanist phase when Eliot and his bride shared Bertrand Russell's tiny London flat, and later rented a country house together (1914-17). Eliot's poetry of that time - up to The Waste Land is seen to reflect his Humanist phase, closed by his conversion, poetically documented in Ash Wednesday. Where Eliot's poetry is dominated by cultural, religious and philosophical angst, Stevens' is bright, witty, and playful - and commonly dismissed as superficial. The Modern Dilemma challenges this view, demonstrating the seriousness of Stevens' life-long engagement with the modern dilemma of disbelief, and also that, like Eliot, he rejected the Humanist resolution, characterized by Russell in "The Free Man's Worship" as man worshiping "at the shrine that his own hands have built." The study proceeds by juxtaposing the two poets' responses in poetry and prose to the same texts and events: Marianne Moore's poetry; the Great War; Humanists and anti-Humanists; the Franco-Mexican Humanist, Ramon Fernandez; Pure Poetry; and finally the gathering war clouds in the late 'thirties. The strategy is to put the two men in juxtaposition so as to highlight the differences and similarities of their responses to the same issues or the same works. Among the issues under examination is the nature and status of poetry, religious belief or disbelief, and political engagement or the lack thereof.
The Book of Things
Author : Russell Sullivan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 2016-05-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1514496364
Book Description
Have you ever stood corrected? Was it difficult? Was it uncomfortable? The Book of Things was written to correct a mistake and then sets out to make mistakes about everything! Clear your head and open your mind. This book is a book of non science, making it nonsense. Can you make sense of that? The Book Of Things places matter at its center and using science taught to a minor attempts to illustrate a way that may matter to some, a way where simple science can be extrapolated into something larger than itself. The Book Of Things also considers success and failure, that needle in a haystack at its center, not posing the questions why or what if but applauding those who asked them. An addendum to an appendice that is potentially fatal for some and inescapable for the writer, The Book Of Things arrived not as planned but as a result of happenstance. It is hoped that others who may share in the books in jokes will find not a serendipitous belonging but an eventuality of happenstance allowing them to share in that which inspires books and readers. Creativity. It is our creativity that has enabled much, and provided the wild geese that tease and titillate us providing endeavor that a smith once considered vital to enriching our lives. The Book Of Things draws upon the legacy of those such as that smith and others in different fields whose creativity shaped the world we live in today. It is about giving back, returning that creative impetus and adding impetuous zest. This is the intrinsic nature of the writer a lover of the words of so many others and wanting to share at least some of the results of that passion with others.
The Daisy Dilemma
Author : Don Rico
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 2019-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
HELP SEND THIS SPY TO CAMP! A lot of people wanted Buzz Cardigan. Some of them wanted him dead. Some just plain wanted him—period. The trouble was he couldn’t tell which was which without a scorecard—and he didn’t know who was keeping score. Cardigan’s reputation as “The Man from Pansy" was solidly established, whether he liked it or not. The gay world was his oyster, and he was perhaps the world’s prize patsy. So he was obviously the agent to find one lost man in a world of losers.... Jebediah Oregon was a top-rank scientist, with knowledge vital to the world’s future and a daisy for a trademark. He was missing. Cardigan had to find him before the enemy did—and his only clue was one lone petal.... Follow Buzz Cardigan in action against the no-holds-barred backdrop of Hipsville, U.S.A. Our guarantee: a laugh—or a scream—on every page... as the worst fiends try to lure him to a camp from which he'll never return.
A Certain Dilemma
Author : Nicholas Ralph Morgan
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 23,58 MB
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1450277276
Book Description
It has been six years since millionaire entrepreneur Greg Harrison was murdered at the hands of the vengeful Susannah Crawford. Although Gavin Harrison still misses his brother terribly, he is thankful when he hears that Susannah has been silenced foreverkilled in the process of trying to murder him. But just when he thinks life has finally returned to normal, Tor Heglandthe medic who took charge of Susannahs lifeless bodyis brutally murdered himself. Suddenly, questions arise, and the Harrison family is once again unwillingly thrust into utter pandemonium. As hidden forces attempt to destroy Gavins empire, the family grapples with fears that Susannah is still alive and is determined to exact her ruthless revenge in any way possible. The mere possibility that she might be still breathing nudges the family to call upon Detective Martinez and the Norwegian police to investigate further. As the Harrisons try to determine the identity of their enemy, the police produce evidence that convinces everyone but the family that Susannah is really dead. A Certain Dilemma is a gripping thriller that uncovers a vengeful plot like no other and illustrates that nothing but love has the power to conquer all.
