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Blood Memory
Margaret Coel
Berkley Hardcover, 2008
A new novel from the “master” (Tony Hillerman) of the Wind River mysteries. Catherine McLeod is an investigative reporter for the Journal , one of Denver’s major newspapers. Her recent coverage of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes filing a claim for twenty-seven million acres of their ancestral lands has made her the target for assassination. Her investigation uncovers a conspiracy involving her ex-husband’s wealthy family and state ...
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The Pigeon Wants a Puppy 25 reviews
Hyperion Book CH, 2008
The Pigeon Wants a Puppy
This was our first Mo Willems book and my great grandchildren loved it!
Funny, well drawn, and contains a great lesson, too. We'll be adding to our Mo Willems library.
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Calculus: Early Transcendentals 62 reviews
James Stewart
Brooks Cole, 2002
Perfect delivery, perfect condition
I got this in panic through overnight shipping, it was at my door at 10 the following morning. Perfect condition.
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Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late! 46 reviews
Hyperion Book CH, 2006
All the excuses kids can think of...
Mo Williems catches all the excuses kids can think of to avoid sleep. My 3 year old daughters typical excuses are 'I need a glass of water', 'I'm not sleepy at ALL' rubbing her eyes, even 'I have to clean the house'(taking a hint from my wife who has a habit of cleaning while I put the kids to bed.)
This book is hilarious because you can totally relate. I love how with each turning of the ...
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The Pigeon Loves Things That Go! 19 reviews
Mo Willems
Hyperion Book CH, 2005
A big hit with my toddler!
This book really makes my 2 1/2 year old giggle! I read it 3 times before she goes to bed & she reads it to me 3 times before bed. It's a lot of fun for her to imagine a pigeon on a bus, plane, etc. It's great for toddlers and preschoolers. She wants more pigeon books, now.
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Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan ... And the World3 reviews
Courtney Humphries
Collins, 2008
The fascinating history, biology, and anthropology of a bird and an eloquent, humorous, thoughtful book
An evolving animal takes whatever it can get and runs with it. For the rock dove, it was us, and our civilization. First kept for food some 3000 years ago, the pigeon has escaped the fate of the chicken or the cow, animals that wouldn't last long without us. The pigeon has made us and our creations its environment--feeding in our fields and at our hands, roosting on our buildings--just as a lion ...
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Winter Study (Anna Pigeon Mysteries)41 reviews
Nevada Barr
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2008
Nevada Barr's "Winter Study"
Anna Pigeon has a Winter Study (Anna Pigeon Mysteries)rather tumultous series of experiences in this book - more than "usual" but held interest and was a 'good read' --
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The Pigeon Has Feelings, Too!17 reviews
Mo Willems
Hyperion Book CH, 2005
More gold from the pigeon!
A short card book, but still sheer genius as you would expect. The Pigeon works his/her whole facial repertoire to great effect!
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Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!191 reviews
Hyperion Press, 2003
For all the family
I came across this book when my wife found it on the shelf in a local bookshop.
She read it and encouraged our son to stop dancing around the bookstands and concentrate and read it.
Although he prefers video games he loved it.
When I met up with them, he was so enthusiastic that he persuaded me to read it.
My daughter then loved it when she had stopped looking at 'her favourite ...
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Algebra & Trigonometry (7th Edition)10 reviews
Michael Sullivan
Prentice Hall, 2004
This is an excellent book - period
I am 55 years old and promised myself that when I became financially able I would relearn Algebra, Trigonometry, Geometry, Calculus I, II,III & IV and ODE skills from start to finish. I am now finished with Sullivan's book I have found the book easy to read and understand. The presenation of the material is well thought out and the abundance of practice problems invaluable. If you are serious ...
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The Invention of Everything Else12 reviews
Samantha Hunt
Houghton Mifflin, 2008
absolutely wondrous!
What a wise, marvelous book, passing easily between past, future, the possible and the not yet realized! The writing and science are often pure poetry. The novel tells the story of the eccentric and amazingly unrecognized inventor Tesla (now in his upper eighties and living with pigeons and a room full of scientific papers and detritus in the grand old New Yorker hotel in 1943), and a young ...
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A Pigeon and a Boy: A Novel9 reviews
Meir Shalev
Schocken, 2007
Pure Poetry
A friend from Israel notified me that this book had just been translated from the Hebrew, a friend I trust with literary choices. I will forever be in her debt. This is a moving story, actually two stories. The boy with the pigeon, known as Baby is introduced to the training and "dispatching" of homing pigeons by the Palmach during Israels' fight for independence. The love the boy has for the ...
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Elementary Statistics Update (9th Edition) (Triola Series)6 reviews
Mario F. Triola
Addison Wesley, 2004
It 's the only reason I passed Elementary Statistics
I had to teach myself statistics the first time around and this book deserves sole credit for my passing grade. Furthermore, I was able to use this book to teach my classmates and everyone passed the course, a first with that professor. I used the book as tutor at more than one school, as well. Highly recommended!
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Liberty Falling (Anna Pigeon Mysteries)60 reviews
Nevada Barr
Avon, 2000
This reader is satisfied
I had read all the earlier and some of the subsequent Anna Pigeon books, and this was the book I was waiting for -- not so much for the mystery as for the subplot.
FINally Anna and Molly have scenes together in person (although Molly is comatose in the first one). FINally, a complicated, face-to-face denouement in the awkward triangle involving Anna and Molly and Frederick the Fed. (F the F ...
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Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!, The74 reviews
Hyperion Book CH, 2004
kindergarten favorite!
Mo Willems has done it again. This is a very fun book for small children. My kindergarten students love all of Mo Willems books but, this is one of their all time favorites.
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Track of the Cat (An Anna Pigeon Novel)42 reviews
Nevada Barr
Berkley, 2003
Auspicious beginning for a fine series.
TRACK OF THE CAT by Nevada Barr introduces the reader to an outstanding series and a fascinating protagonist, Anna Pigeon.
The series manages a delicate balance between personal history and the working elements of a mystery. As the story progresses the reader also learns about the awesome landscape of the Texas hill county and the dangerous occupation of a national park ranger.
Each ...
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Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Compact Edition (3rd Edition)4 reviews
Edgar V. Roberts, Henry E. Jacobs
Prentice Hall, 2005
a dense book
I had to write a review after seeing the only other review for this book. It sounded like some kid who had to take a class he didn't want to and blaimed the book for it. This is a great book. It's super dense, it contains a great deal of analysis of the various components of writing with illustrative examples (short stories) by a wide variety of contemporary and classic authors. This is a ...
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Wringer258 reviews
Jerry Spinelli
HarperTeen, 2004
A child's first complex experience with animal rights
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
Spinelli, in his usual unique prose that captures the essence and fears of childhood, tackles the troubling subject of animal rights (in the form of a city-wide pigeon shoot and the ten-year-old boys' job to wring the necks of the downed birds), as well as the subject of growing up. Palmer, horrified at a young age by the city's tradition, lives in fear of the day when ...
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Ill Wind (An Anna Pigeon Novel)29 reviews
Nevada Barr
Berkley, 2004
Breath of Death
Winds always blow across the barren landscape of Mesa Verde National Park, but Anna Pigeon finds them deadly with the murder and the death of a child. One of the great mysteries of the southwest are the Anasazi who left behind beautiful pottery and tiny fragments of their once flourishing civilization.
Nevada Barr captures the marvelous wind cut features of the park in her third Anna Pigeon ...
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A Superior Death (An Anna Pigeon Novel)41 reviews
Nevada Barr
Berkley, 2003
Underwater Terror
If you have a major fear of water, don't go near Nevada Barr's A SUPERIOR DEATH. The seconded of the Anna Pigeon takes you to the murky bottom of Lake Superior in a thriller guaranteed to rattle your bones. Anna has been transferred from the dry Texas hill county to a little known national park on the shores of our largest fresh water lake with murder following her.
The park people are ...
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