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Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. She is a lawyer, not a cop, and it is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the Board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption. But a corruption case eventually crosses her desk. A previously disbarred lawyer is back in business with a new identity. He now goes by the name Greg Myers, and he claims...
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This concise, thorough, and easy-to-use guide gives readers all the information they need to enjoy the Whistler area's incredible range of year-round recreational opportunities. It features detailed descriptions of camping, hiking, paddling, and other summer activities, along with winter sports such as skiing, snowboarding, and snowshoeing. Detailed trail maps are provided for each location. Destination highlights, informative sidebars, and author...
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• An anatomically perfect human jaw of diamond-hard quartz crystal is uncovered at an Ohio burial mound. Soon after, its three vendors are found dead.
• A new drug suspected of South American origin surfaces in Buffalo, NY. Its unprecedented psychotropic effects include the momentary activation of ESP.
• Blind, speechless, emaciated street people start appearing in many parts of the world. An urban legend-cycle attaches to them, as well as...
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The normally quiet life in a small, rural town is ripped apart by a series of strange and violent deaths. The sight of brutally dismembered bodies is becoming disturbingly commonplace in a place where this sort of crime was once unthinkable. All the townspeople know is that a dangerous predator keeps striking from the shadows and that no one is safe from its insatiable appetites. There have been a few sightings, but no one can really describe what...
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“The Bird Whistler” is a timeless story, based on true events, of a young man coming of age during WWII, who stands up to the injustice around him by hiding Jewish children and becoming deeply involved in the Resistance. Simultaneously, the story tells of a Jewish couple and their newborn baby escaping the war in 1943. Along the way, betrayal causes them to lose their baby son, not knowing whether he is alive. The book is a tribute to all the...
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Ben's niece Joan suddenly arrives for a visit, before Harvey can find the loot! Harvey finds his old friend Ben living like a hermit afraid to spend the money he embezzled but Harvey is sure he has it and that it must be hidden somewhere in this old house. When he is sure Ben is asleep Harvey lets him self out, slips quietly down the hall to the stairs. The fire is still throwing a good light as he moves around the room searching systematically checking...
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The woman's husband is disappointed enough to get a whistleresque idea while atop a mule going down the Grand Canyon! Steve was in his glory. Never in his wildest dreams had he ever believed a thing like this could come to pass. Here they were, just the two of them at Carol Crandall’s special table at the Top of The Mark in San Francisco. Through the huge plate glass window he could see the shining city stretching away to the east. Everything sparkled...
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Visiting hours were over and the Jeffrey Long museum in San Francisco was quiet. In the private office of the owner Jeffrey sat at his desk staring at the note in his hand; a note that was damp with his own perspiration. The hands trembled, as there was a tight nervous feeling in the pit of his stomach, symptoms of terror. It had all started three months ago when Jeffrey Long had received the first envelope when in Cairo. Then followed days and weeks...
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A Macabre Musical Mystery. When a restless ghost's incessant playing of bawdy tunes on her phantom tin whistle drives the elderly Benedictine Sisters to distraction, a Franciscan friar is summoned to use his spiritual gift of Insight and bring blessed harmony back to Kylemore Abbey. Featuring a guest appearance by the spirit of shepherdess Bina McLoughlin, the Queen of Connemara. The Father Declan Supernatural Mysteries are a series of standalone...
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From the author of To the Finland Station and The Triple Thinkers comes a collection of five-extraordinary plays. Collected together in one volume, these selected plays by Edmund Wilson includes such works as Cyprian's Prayer, The Crime in the Whispering Room, This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches, Beppo and Beth, and The Little Blue Light.
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The setting for murder can be anywhere. Perhaps it seems more at home in a dark alley or on an isolated dark road or yet in the dingy backroom of a cheap honky-tonk. But once murder is in the mind of someone and the dark plan evolved, the setting can be anywhere. It can even take place in a well lighted, well appointed apartment in the expensive part of the city where laughter is mixed with the pleasant talk of four people.
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Canol Madreth is a small, remote and mountainous country at the centre of Gyronlandt. It is governed directly by an elected parliament, the Heindral, and indirectly by the stern and sombre tenets of the Church of Ishrythan.
Then, one fateful day, ominous clouds gather over Canol Madreth, and, mysteriously affected by whatever brought them, the impetuous Brother Cassraw is transformed into a fiery religious demagogue. The stability of the whole of...
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At the age of fifteen, Charlie left his home in Bendigo and signed on as a drover with Nat Buchanan. Two years later he was a key man on one of Australia's greatest cattle drives — the Durack family's two-year journey from Cooper's Creek, Queensland — to the Kimberley.
Stumbling on Charlie's largely unknown story, and filling in the gaps with fiction, the author has created a novel unique in Australian literature. An unprecedented adventure, and...
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A beautifully illustrated art history and cultural biography, The Street of Wonderful Possibilities focuses on one of the most influential artistic quarters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—London's Tite Street, where a staggering amount of talent thrived, including James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde and John Singer Sargent.
For Wilde, the street was full of 'wonderful possibilities', while for Whistler it was 'the birthplace...
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COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE:
• The most comprehensive selection of hotel reviews.
• In depth information on the nuts and bolts about traveling to and around Vancouver and Victoria and beyond.
TOURISM TRENDS:
• As of June 11, 2022 Canada has paused mandatory random testing for fully vaccinated passengers at Canadian airports (though mandatory random testing at land border points of entry continues for the time being). Pre-entry tests are not required...
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The untold story of the artistic battle between James Abbot MacNeill Whistler and John Ruskin over Whistler's controversial, groundbreaking “Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket”.
In November 1878, America's greatest painter sued England's greatest critic for a bad review. The painter won—but ruined himself in the process. The painter: James Abbot MacNeill Whistler, whose combination of incredible talent, unflagging energy, and relentless...
20) The judge's list
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In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later and approaching 40, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered 20 years earlier,...
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