Describes the history, geology, facilities, and trails of eleven national parks, including the Grand Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns, and the Petrified Forest, and includes information on local mammals, birds, reptiles, flowers, and trees

An expanded edition of the indispensable reference book includes alphabetized entries, synonyms grouped by meaning, illustrative examples, and same-page groupings of synonyms, idioms, and more

Product Description: The death of the Count de Chalusse, the theft of his will and two million francs, the false accusation of Marguerite de Chalusse, make up a mystery which is solved only after some extraordinary adventuresNotice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www...read more

Product Description: The first story is set in 1894 and has Holmes returning in London and explaining the period from 1891–94, a period called "The Great Hiatus" by Sherlockian enthusiasts. Also of note is Watson's statement in the last story of the cycle that Holmes has retired, and forbids him to publish any more stories...read more

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

When a Russian diplomat is killed in Washington, D.C., by a Mafia hit man, FBI supervisor William Cowley contacts his Moscow counterpart, Dimitri Danilov, and together they face the newest organized crime family, one powerful enough to get away with anything. Reprint. PW.

The Queens are intrigued when a grisly murder mars a small towns Christmas. Its Christmas in Chicago, and Detective Richard Queen is enjoying a busmans holiday at a conference on gangland violencebut his son, amateur sleuth Ellery, is bored silly. Until, that is, Ellery reads of an unusual killing in rural Arroyo, West Virginia. A schoolmaster has been found beheaded and crucified. Ellery hustles his father into his roadster and heads east, since there is nothing hed like better for Christmas than a juicy, gruesome puzzle. When the Queens arrive in Arroyo, they learn that the victim was an eccentric atheist, but not the sort to make enemies. What initially looks to be the work of a sadistic cult turns out to be something far more sinister. In the months ahead, more victims will turn up all over the worldall killed in the same horrifying manner. It will take several bodies before Ellery divines the clue that unlocks the mystery of the Christmas crucifixion.

Product Description: Excerpt from Sketches of Western Adventure: Containing an Account of the Most Interesting Incidents Connected With the Settlement of the West, From 1755 to 1794Incidents attending the desertion of a young white man from a party of Indians, Adventures of John Merril, Ward, Calvin and Kenton, Ward, Baker and Kenton, May, Johnston, Flinn and Skyles, Captain William Hubbell...read more

Product Description: [MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.] [Read by Scott Harrison] Ellery and his father, the irascible Inspector Queen, are trapped in a mountain retreat by a raging forest fire with an odd assortment of characters, and a dangerous killer as well! At the isolated mountain lodge, trouble comes in twos...read more

Fervently pursuing the life of an artist, a young music student leaves behind her small midwestern town and comes to know the elation and heartache of a life in the creative world

While vacationing in Istanbul, English novelist Charles Latimer decides to investigate the intriguing past of one of Europe's most sinister criminals, the notorious Dimitrios, a search that will lead him into a shadowy web of espionage, drugs, intrigue, and assassination. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Product Description: Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte leaves his familiar outback environment for Melbourne and a nearby mountain resort on special assignment for Military Intelligence. Although out of his element among city people, Bony displays his characteristic skills to interpret some puzzling clues and catch a murderer - providing the ingredients for another fascinating Arthur Upfield mystery...read more

Product Description: 'An incandescent vision, a wildness of imagination, sensiblity to sound and colour and form ... human passion, love, sorrow and anger.' Thus Myles Dillon describes the enduring qualities of the literature of early Ireland. In Early Irish Literature, he summarizes the historical, mythological and poetic legacy of ancient and medieval Ireland, spanning more than a millennium, selecting the most important tales and poems of early Ireland and rendering them in a vibrant English translation...read more