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10 best books like Five Complete Hercule Poirot Novels: ABC Murders / Cards on the Table / Death on the Nile / Murder on the Orient Express / Thirteen at Dinner (Agatha Christie): Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes, Murder for Christmas, Kipling: A Selection of His Stories and Poems Volume I, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II, Rod Serling's Twilight Zone, The Scoop and Behind the Screen, Kubla Khan: The Emperor of Everything, Brief Histories of Everyday Objects, The Animal Review: The Genius, Mediocrity, and Breathtaking Stupidity That Is Nature, The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science

AuthorLangston Hughes
ISBN1402718454
Sterling proudly announces an exciting and vibrant addition to Poetry for Young People: The first African-American themed book in the series, featuring the poems of the extraordinary Langston Hughes. Edited by the two leading experts on Hughes’s work, and illustrated by the brilliant Benny Andrews,...
AuthorThomas Godfrey
ISBN0445406755
Although the themes of Christmas and crime might seem to be diametrically opposed, the Yuletide season has always brought out the best in mystery writers, who find endless inspiration in the trappings of the holiday. A stocking stuffed with 26 entertaining stories, this anthology samples the delicious...
AuthorRudyard Kipling
ISBN0385042450
The very first stories to awaken the story center in my baby brain...
Before I could read, my father would read aloud "The Cat That Walked By Himself" with all its magical, repetitious language, including that awesome beginning: "Hear and attend and listen..." I remember tracing that mysterious...
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
ISBN0553212427
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.

Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan...
AuthorWalter B. Gibson
ISBN0517413183
The Twilight Zone was a television series produced in the 1960s that presented unforgettable tales of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Rod Serling, an award-winning writer of television dramas, was the creator and host--and wrote more than 90 of the 156 episodes.

The series has since...
AuthorJulian Symons
ISBN0575032251
"The Scoop" first appeared as a serial in the Listener in 1931.
"Behind the Screen" first appeared as a serial in the Listener in 1930.
The two serials were first published in book form in the UK by Victor Gollancz Ltd in 1983 and in the US by Harper & Row in 1984.

It was another foggy...
AuthorKathleen Krull
ISBN0670011142
Always cast in a supporting role in the many books about Marco Polo, the great Kubla Khan now takes center stage in a splendid picture-book biography. He is a wonderful subject-a man who liked to live large, building the imperial city of Beijing from scratch, siring a hundred children, throwing birthday...
AuthorAndy Warner
ISBN1250078652
Hilarious, entertaining, and illustrated histories behind some of life's most common and underappreciated objects - from the paperclip and the toothbrush to the sports bra and roller skates

In the tradition of A Cartoon History of the Universe and, most recent, Randall Munroe's What If?...
AuthorJacob Lentz
ISBN1608190250
Ever since our ancestors first set eyes on a woolly mammoth and agreed that it needed hunting, human beings have been making judgments about animals. The king cobra: That's an A-plus animal. The garden snail? D-minus. On a good day.
In Animal Review, Jacob Lentz and Steve Nash give authoritative...
AuthorMarc Aronson
ISBN1426311087
Growing up in South Dakota, Adrienne Mayor was the quiet girl who never raised her hand in class. Instead, she loved to wander the prairie seeking wonders and filling her mind with stories.

When she found herself in Athens, Greece, she plunged into reading the original versions of ancient myths--especially...
AuthorSarah Andrews
Rivers, oceans, streams, lakes—it doesn't matter what shape it takes, Em Hansen is terrified of the water. She hasn't shared her phobia with her new husband, Fritz, and when his best friend, Tiny, organizes a month-long, private, white-water rafting trip through the Grand Canyon as a wedding gift,...
AuthorJessica Stern
ISBN0060505338
For four years, Jessica Stern interviewed extremist members of three religions around the world: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Traveling extensively—to refugee camps in Lebanon, to religious schools in Pakistan, to prisons in Amman, Asqelon, and Pensacola—she discovered that the Islamic...
AuthorAndrew M. Greeley
ISBN0892961805
This book is very slow to get going. Greeley spends most of the first 96 pages introducing the players, bringing the murder on-stage on page 65 and Blackie Ryan, his main character, in (briefly) on page 78. Blackie doesn’t take center stage until page 97. That’s far too late for both. Later novels...
AuthorNgaio Marsh
ISBN0006512283
Portrait of a murder...

Superintendent Roderick Alleyn's old school chum-- whom his wife Troy longs to paint-- is now President of Ng'ombwana, a brand-new African republic. This handsome, charismatic dictator has enemies of every stripe: from ruddy-faced ex-colonists to new rivals,...
AuthorStuart Palmer
ISBN0553259342
Miss Withers needs recovery time after her trip to Catalina where she bore some responsibility in identifying the guilty. So what happens after she boards a ship to England? Someone disappears from the railing. Did she go into the water voluntarily? Was she pushed/pulled in?

Then when in London,...
AuthorTom Williams
ISBN1845135261
A major new biography of the writer who, more than any other, has defined modern crime fiction What we know of Raymond Chandler is shrouded in secrets and half-truths as deceptive as anything in his magisterial novel The Long Goodbye. Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters...
AuthorJessica Fletcher
ISBN0451234731
While on vacation in Italy, Jessica joins a tour that takes her to where lesser-known Italian masterworks are displayed-and where a pair of young Italian gunmen steal a painting off a church wall, killing an off-duty policeman in the process. Agreeing to help identify the crooks at a later date should...
AuthorAline Alexander Newman
ISBN1426318634
We know cats are beautiful, secretive, and independent ... but even the most loyal cat owners are often baffled by their own pet's behavior. With veterinarian expert Dr. Gary Weitzman as guide, this fun book helps kids understand what cats are trying to communicate by their body language and behavior....
AuthorGraeme Base
Bertie the Badger's Grandpa is a retired conjurer living in a retirement home for magicians and the like. One day Bertie comes to visit and see the magic show only to find that the residents have had their magic things stolen. Bertie's on the case, and goes to speak to each of them. Who stole the special magic...
AuthorCynthia Levinson
ISBN1561459453
Many of the political issues we struggle with today have their roots in the US Constitution.
Husband-and-wife team Cynthia and Sanford Levinson take readers back to the creation of this historic document and discuss how contemporary problems were first introduced--then they offer possible...
AuthorFrancesca Gould
ISBN1585427578
Weird and gross facts about history, the human body, and the natural world are presented in short entries. As is typical with these sorts of books, I think some of the info was a little exaggerated.

I do like that the author educates readers about the gross (and cruel) origin of the hormone replacement...
AuthorPatrick Dillon
ISBN0763669903
Aspiring architects will be in their element! Explore this illustrated narrative history of buildings for young readers, an amazing construction in itself.

We spend most of our lives in buildings. We make our homes in them. We go to school in them. We work in them. But why and how did people start...
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