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It is 1884, and when a fellow landlady finds her lodger poisoned, Mrs Hudson turns to Sherlock Holmes.
The police suspect the landlady of murder, but Mrs Hudson insists that her friend is innocent. Upon investigating, the companions discover that the lodger, a civil servant recently returned from India, was living in almost complete seclusion, and that his last act was to scrawl a mysterious message on a scrap of paper. The riddles pile up as aged...
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The history of modern-day old clothes recycling begins with a thing called shoddy. Starting in the early 1800s, shoddy was the name given to a new material made from reclaimed wool, and to one of the earliest forms of industrial recycling. Old rags and leftover fabric clippings were ground to bits by a machine known as "the devil" and then re-used. Usually undisclosed, shoddy—also known as reworked wool—became suit jackets, army blankets, mattress...
4) Bad Blood
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Trouble never takes a vacation in Bad Blood, the seventh installment in the epic Goddess with a Blade series by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Dane.
After spending the last two years locked in one deadly struggle after the next, Rowan Summerwaite deserves delicious meals, excellent sex and uninterrupted sleep on high-quality linens. But when two separate investigations converge in unexpected ways and a new threat to the Treaty blows into...
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Digimon Adventure 2020 volume 11
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The six Chosen Ones who had finally gathered split up again into two teams in order to find the Holy Digimon. As Yamato's team attempts to cross the desert, they encounter some dust devils.
6) Mustang Wild
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No smooth-talking man is going to outwit her!
With the deed to her land and a kid brother to protect, mustanger Skylar Daines shouldn't have tangled with the likes of Tucker Morgan. But his stolen kiss scatters her senses and, quicker than a whirling dust devil, they're wed!
To her relief, Tucker's keen to fix the marital slipup-;and then he tells her the deed she holds belongs to him, and him alone. Maybe she shouldn't rush to have their marriage...
7) Hey Gary
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A collection of dumb things the writer texted to his friend, Gary. Gary did not listen to any of these suggestions. You probably did not even read them. That's Gary for you. It is a dust devil of absurdist ideas and configurations. This could be the kind of book you need to read if you are waiting for the volcano to erupt. Author Jeffrey Campbell read some of this book and gave this blurb that's good enough to be on the cover, "Yeah. I think this...
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Having spent 5 years learning his trade in County Cricket, Monty Panesar established himself with England in 2006, quickly becoming a national hero, with his trademark black turban, wide eyes and eager fielding. Monty was a different type of spinner to those which had gone before, here was someone who was not afraid to 'give it some air' and attack batsmen. For a time, he was considered the savior of English spin bowling. His commitment and enthusiasm...
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Table of Contents1) Desperados for México or, South With The Wind2) My Señor Will Be Very Angry! Or Another Mexico Welcome3) Sunset on Playa Paraíso or, A Gringo Gets His Gecko4) Slide Mountain Hazard or, Fire in the Sky5) ShowTime at Sun 'N Fun or, A Splotch In the Ol' Logbook6) Beto Makes His Point or, No Time For Polite Conversation7) Revenge of the Electra Flyer or, Cowboys Go Flying8) The Comandante Gets His Gringo or, Busted… on an Easter...
10) Wacky weather
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Random House
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[2023]
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With a little help from Thing One and Thing Two, the Cat in the Hat travels the planet and beyond to introduce beginning readers to 17 strange but true weather events, among them waterspouts, dust devils, ball lightning, snow donuts, fire whirls, red sprites, sundogs, ice tsunamis, clouds shaped like UFOs and cinnamon rolls, diamond rain, metallic snow, and a storm so wide three Earths could fit INSIDE it!
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Random House Books for Young Readers
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[2023]
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"With a little help from Thing One and Thing Two, the Cat in the Hat travels the planet--and beyond--to introduce beginning readers to 17 strange but true weather events, among them waterspouts, dust devils, ball lightning, snow donuts, fire whirls, red sprites, sundogs, ice tsunamis, clouds shaped like UFOs and cinnamon rolls, diamond rain, metallic snow, and a storm so wide three Earths could fit INSIDE it! Perfect for nurturing a love of science...
12) Devils And Dust
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"You bring death," the voice said, and Hell follows with you." Relentless bounty hunter Jack Keller returns in Devils and Dust, the long-awaited fourth installment of the critically acclaimed series from award-nominated author J. D. Rhoades. Keller's been in exile, living a quiet life in the desert, since his disappearance after the cataclysmic events of 2008's award-winning Safe and Sound. Now his old friend and former employer Angela has tracked...
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"Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era-tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft-even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals. Eire observes how levitating saints and flying witches...