When one of Springfield Connecticut's favorite ladies is discovered to be an escaped convict, Paula Holliday is hired to find out which of her neighbors is a fugitive from the law and why the long-kept secret has finally come out.
From the author of Pushing Up Daisies and Dead Head. Are they really bitches? That depends who you ask. Four friends await the arrival of a fifth at a Cape Cod bungalow they share annually for an all-girls weekend. But this time the fifth woman doesn't show. Instead she sends a note that she's run off with one of their men. Fun, flirty and filled with Harris' trademark snappy dialogue and quirky characters forced to reevaluate their marriages, their friendships and their memories, The Bitches of Brooklyn has been called "a cross between Pretty Little Liars and Sex in the City.
Anthony and Agatha Award-nominated Rosemary Harris is back with her fourth Dirty Business mystery, Slugfest, set at a legendary Northeast flower show where more than the plants are dying. When Paula Holliday agrees to act as exhibit manager for a reclusive artist she’s expecting a laidback weekend picking up gardening tips. She doesn’t expect to be knee-deep in horticultural sabotage, beheaded gnomes, homicide, and something called The Javits Curse. Then an overeager attendee is found floating in the river and Paula realizes she accidentally holds a clue to his murder—that’s when the garden gloves come off and this flower show turns into a real Slugfest! This time out Paula is joined by a colorful cast that includes Rolanda “Fort” Knox, a no-nonsense security guard; Guy Anzalone, Brooklyn's Tumbled Stone King; Jamal Harrington, a high school kid with a black belt and a green thumb; JC Kaufman, a feisty lady who hates leaving home without her weapon of choice; and a slick marketing guy hawking the hottest new product at the show, a foolproof pest repellant that people are dying to get their hands on. With limited means and her ragtag crew, Paula must solve her toughest mystery yet and root out a killer before she finds herself pushing up daisies.
While visiting the Titans Hotel with her friend Lucy, Paula Holliday takes the opportunity to write an article on a rare flower on display at the hotel, but her trip goes awry when Lucy is detained and a would-be suitor turns up dead.
From promoting the idea to teachers and administrators to aligning specific games to state and national education standards, this book will help you build a strong collection that speaks to enhanced learning and social development and is just plain fun.
James Harris (1709-80) was an author of philosophical treatises and an enthusiastic amateur musician who directed the concerts and music festivals at Salisbury for nearly fifty years. His family and social circle had close connections with London's music-making: his brother was a witness toHandel's will, and his correspondents sent him lively reports on all aspects of musical life in the capital-opera, oratorio, concerts, but also about the leading performers, music copyists, and instrument makers. In 1761 Harris became a member of Parliament and thereafter divided his time betweenLondon and Salisbury. His letters and diaries provide an unrivalled record of concert- and theatre-going in London, including exchanges of letters with David Garrick about a production at Drury Lane. As his children grew up an engaging family correspondence emerged. We learn of his daughters'involvement in concerts and amateur theatrical productions; his son, who pursued a diplomatic career, reported on operas, concerts, and plays in the court of Frederick the Great and Catherine the Great. Now, for the first time, it is possible to enjoy in full the lively first-hand descriptions fromHarris's family papers, which contribute fascinating insights into contemporary eighteenth-century musical and theatrical life.
The Ten Tenets of Business Success is written from a basis of over twenty years' personal experience of coaching directors of small and medium-sized enterprises, many of whom started their businesses from scratch or inherited family businesses and were determined to make them grow and change. This is not a report of findings from an academic study of entrepreneurs, but observations based on the characteristics those people displayed and their responses to facilitation of their personal development. This book examines the recognizable features and traits of entrepreneurial thinking and then follows with chapters on each of ten tenets (or principles) inherent in business effectiveness. These should provide the entrepreneur with an easy-to-read set of guidelines for ongoing success.
The last book in the trilogy which began with The moon in the cloud and followed by The shadow on the sun which continue the adventures of Reuben and Thamar, now Prince and Princess of Canaan. Their happiness is marred by one great sorrow - their afflicted son, Sadhi. Deaf and dumb, tyrannical in his frustration, he is sent back to Kemi where Thamar believes he can be cured. But Sadhi arrives at King Merenkere's Court at a time of great upheaval; and the Royal Architect, Hekhti, Reuben and that profoundly wise old cat, Cefalu, are called upon to face their greatest trials yet - trials that can only be resolved by sacrifice.
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