DOVELAND is a story of World War I and its impact on a bird community. A bevy of wild pigeons, doves, and grouse migrate from France to their beloved homeland in Belgium. Soon, the survival of their young becomes threatened by their formidable predator, the hawks. The fearful birds plan an early departure, but their plans are thwarted by the unexpected invasion of Belgium. When DOVELAND is destroyed, there are only two survivors: a turtle dove named Clovis, and a grouse named Homer. As the history of the war unfolds, these two fledglings join the allies to help defend their country the only way they know how - through communication. Secretly dwelling in the forests alongside the allies, France and Great Britain, they intercept and destroy messages sent by enemy carrier pigeons. The story covers the years 1914-1919, and envisions values of loyalty, valor, and friendship as seen through the eyes of a bird as he witnesses a war that exceeds human endurance. Views: 33
Two women have gone missing. Their only connection is me, Beason Camp. Four years ago, my wife left our daughter and I. Now my lover has gone missing and her husband has tasked me with the job of finding her. The case will require all of my experience as a detective, army ranger, and ex-police officer. The trail will take me to drug kingpins,old enemies, family friends, and the Dixie Mafia. Views: 33
In this hilarious series Girlz Rock!, young independent readers (7+) will relate to the fun, ordeals, disasters and friendships that girls share in their daily lives.In Netball Showdown while Rachel is helping Ellie to shoot with her new netball, two boys grab the ball and race off. So the challenge for the ball is on. Will this be the end of Ellie's netball days or will she become a star of a different kind? Views: 33
How do people and goods get in and out of Gaza? Do Gazans ever have fun? Is the Strip beautiful? And do TV reports actually reflect ordinary life inside the world’s largest open-air prison? Meet Me in Gaza reveals the pleasures and pains, hopes and frustrations of Gazans going about their daily lives, witnessed and recounted by award-winning writer Louisa Waugh. Interspersed with fascinating historical, cultural and geographical detail, this is an evocative portrait of a Mediterranean land and its people. Views: 33
Hired to kill a sensational story, a modern-day shamus discovers a murder The rumors start flying almost as soon as Karen Beydon leaps out her window. The newspapers provide myriad theories as to what led this beautiful heiress to hurl herself out of a seventh-floor dorm room, suggesting everything from drug addiction and murder to depression over a love affair gone sour. The tawdry details of Karen's sad last days sell plenty of papers but do nothing to console her family. And when a California millionaire wants the press muzzled, he hires B. F. Cage. Although his business card says public relations, Cage is a tough-talking private investigator in the classic mold. Before he can put Karen's story to bed, he needs to know what really happened that day in her dorm, and finding the answer will lead him into a side of the California underworld he never believed existed. Views: 33
Since the doors of the first subway train opened in 1904, New Yorkers and tourists alike have been fascinated, amused, amazed, repelled and bewildered by the world-within-a-world that lies beneath the city.Now, as the subway celebrates its centennial anniversary, the creator of The New York Times's award-winning "Tunnel Vision" column leads us on an extended tour of this storied subterranean land, revealing:* Its inhabitants: the Tango Man, the traveling magician, Mayor Bloomberg* Its wildlife: the subway-riding pigeons, the Fulton Street cat, the blind mules* Its customs, taboos and secret histories: door blocking, leg spreading, pole hugging, even, yes, token sucking* Its government: the sheriff of Grand Central, the Ethel Merman of the shuttle, the motorman who drove the last No. 1 train beneath the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001* Tips for the first-time traveler: how to get a seat, how to get a date, the fine art of "pre-walking" Views: 33
Fashionable London holds nothing for wealthy merchant's niece, Lalamani Finchurch. Except perhaps for an earl with a twisted hand and a charming smile. Why, for all the fortune hunters she has fended off since returning from India, is the one man who seems to likeable so against marrying for money?Philip has inherited an earldom that his only two choices are to marry for money or to abandon Society altogether and return to his work as an engineer. Which is no choice at all, until a tiny woman with beautiful eyes and a fine mind dances with him on his last night in London.When they meet again in a small country village, they join forces to uncover larceny and deceit, to rescue Lalamani's aunt from poverty, and to discover that pride is a poor reason to refuse a love for a lifetime. Views: 32
Alice Jordan's dentist husband has just run off with his hygienist and she is desperate for a job. Because Alice has done some volunteer work for the symphony, she manages to talk herself into a job as a commissioned ad rep for a Seattle classical music station. The station was kept alive by its wealthy owner for many years, but her heirs are fighting about the future of the station. KLEG is so mismanaged that Aliceís predecessor Joe Costello hadnít even bothered to resign. He just disappeared and no one, including his unhappy wife, found it odd that he just drifted away. Cryptic messages had been left on his answering machine and his few accounts had been neglected. A week into the job, Joeís body is found inside a convertible sofa in a storage area. Alice finds that Joeís death by misadventure is only the beginning of the mystery.From Library JournalThe rather sleazy quarters of a Seattle classical music station provide the focus for the latest concoction from the author of Death in a Deck Chair (Ivy, 1987). When Alice Jordan, recently deserted by her husband, lands a job at KLEG, she discovers a body in the back room. Easy reading.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus ReviewsBeck takes a break from her overgalvanized Jane da Silva series (Cold Smoked, 1995, etc.) for a plunge into the even more frenetic world of KLEG-AM, Seattle's dying also-ran classical radio station. New advertising account executive Alice Jordan, who's cadged the job from Caroline Payne Parker, the station's much-married co-owner and nominal manager, arrives on the scene to discover that the program director is a militant vinyl Luddite, the receptionist a megalomaniac, the evening announcer a has-been romeo, the overnight announcer (Teresa, Queen of the Night'') an audiotaped misterioso nobody's ever laid eyes on, and the other owner, Caroline's brother Franklin, a resentful hothead who's ready to sell the whole kit and caboodle to the first psycho who comes up with half a million dollars. About the only person around with any business sense is ad sales manager Ed Costello, and he's dead--folded up in a Murphy bed, presumably by somebody who didn't take kindly to his experiments in prostitution and blackmail. So Alice, whose main qualification for amateur sleuthing is that she's not nuts--weepy and neurotic, maybe, but not nuts''--ends up solving the murder, though, in keeping with the zany spirit of the enterprise, that's far from her intention. A tightly wound farce whose dim view of the station dweebs and ditzes is pursued with comical consistency to the very last line. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Views: 32
Jessie, Troy, and the rest of the crew from Downriver have returned to the Grand Canyon for adventure down the Colorado River. In the year since they last were together, each has changed; each feels more mature. But how will they interact now that they are facing new challenges--challenges greater than anything they've had to deal with at home?For Troy, it is a chance to prove he can be a team player, someone worthy of friendship and love. For Jessie, the river is the ultimate test. Does she have what it takes to row down the mighty Colorado? The only way to find out is to get into the raft and set off to face the thundering rapids and the powerful emotions that the river unleashes.From the Paperback edition. Views: 32
In the future two boys are finding their parents dead. In the present Anna holds a book that asks strange questions. In the past Noah looks for answers to rearrange the dice. 'The chips are falling and if the dice don't roll in favour, the fantasy of reality begins to fall apart.' Views: 32
