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Red queen / by Gómez-Jurado, Juan,author.; Caistor, Nick,translator.; translation of:Gómez-Jurado, Juan.Reina roja.English.;
"Introducing Antonia Scott-the most compelling and original detective since Lisbeth Salander-in Juan Gómez-Jurado's Red Queen, the #1 international award-winning bestseller & thriller that has taken the world by storm. Antonia Scott-the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother-has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to continue her work or even leave her apartment. Jon Gutierrez, a police officer in Bilbao-disgraced, suspended, and about to face criminal charges-is offered a chance to salvage his career by a secretive organization that works in the shadows to direct criminal investigations of a highly sensitive nature. All he has to do is succeed where many others have failed: Convince a recalcitrant Antonia to come out of her self-imposed retirement, protecting her and helping her investigate a new, terrifying case. The case is a macabre, ritualistic murder-a teen-aged boy from a wealthy family whose body was found without a drop of blood left in it. But the murder is just the start. A high-ranking executive and daughter of one of the richest men in Spain is kidnapped, a crime which is tied to the previous murder. Behind them both is a hidden mastermind with even more sinister plans. And the only person with a chance to see the connections, solve the crimes and successfully match wits with the killer before tragedy strikes again ... is Antonia Scott"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Forensic scientists; Kidnapping; Murder; Police; Recluses; Secret societies; Women detectives;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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Anxious people / by Backman, Fredrik,1981-author.; Smith, Neil(Neil Andrew),translator.;
"This is a story about a hostage drama. But more than that, it’s a story about idiots. That’s why, from the very outset, I need to say that it is always very easy to declare people idiots, but only if you forget that it is also almost always idiotically difficult to be human. Anxious People is an unreasonably riotous comedy about a hostage drama during an open house that all begins when a failed bank robber locks himself in with six strangers who have come to view the apartment. In captivity we meet Roger and Anna-Lena, a recently retired couple who are on a manic hunt for fixer-uppers because they don’t know how to fix their own marriage. They have the distinction of shopping at every Ikea in Sweden—and those are some of the most romantic moments they ever shared. Then there is Zara, a wealthy director of a bank who has never cared for poor people or their problems (and isn’t shy about saying so). But when tragedy strikes in her life, she becomes addicted to visiting real-estate open houses to see how the middle-classes live – and possibly to find a suitable place to commit suicide. Julia and Danijela are a young lesbian couple with a newborn baby who can’t agree on anything. Their opposite and idiosyncratic home preferences are making them increasingly anxious about their chances of spending a lifetime together. And Estelle, an eighty year-old woman who has lived long enough to be unimpressed by some bank robber waving a gun in her face. Despite the story she tells them all, Estelle hasn’t really come to the apartment to view it for her daughter, and her husband really isn’t outside parking the car. As police surround the premises and television channels are broadcasting live, the pressure of an increasingly tense situation mounts, causing each person to reveal more and more about themselves to each other. Before long, the robber must decide which is the more terrifying prospect: going out to face the police, or staying in the apartment with this group of impossible people. In the end, the hostages are released, but when the police storm the apartment to capture the robber, it is...empty. In a series of interviews afterwards, the witnesses all tell their version of what happened that day, whereupon it becomes clear to the police that one person is lying, and that none of the others are telling the whole truth. This is a story about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and a group of very anxious people who experience the same events in wildly different ways."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Bank robberies; Thieves; Hostage negotiations; Witnesses; Small cities; Bank robberies.; Hostage negotiations.; Small cities.; Thieves.; Witnesses.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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This same sky : a collection of poems from around the world / by Nye, Naomi Shihab;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.A poetry anthology in which 129 poets from sixty-eight different countries celebrate the natural world and its human and animal inhabitants.
Subjects: Children's poetry; Children's poetry; Poetry;
© 1996., Aladdin Paperbacks,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The secret lives of birds / by Gingras, Pierre,1947-; Feldstein, Peter,1962-;
Includes bibliography (p. 171-172) and index.
Subjects: Birds; Birds;
© c1997., Key Porter Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Do you still love me? / by Burg, Sarah Emmanuelle.; Burg, Sarah Emmanuelle.Oskar und Karotte.English.;
Subjects: Love; Quarreling; Rabbits; Family life;
© c2010., NorthSouth,
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Relaxations : big tools for little warriors / by Duch, Mamen.; Nieto Guridi, Raúl,1970-;
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Subjects: Meditation for children; Hatha yoga for children;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Christmas crafts Scandinavian style / by Stenkl�v, Tone Merete.; Morken, Miriam Nilsen.; Barnholt, Hege.;
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Subjects: Christmas decorations; Handicraft;
© c2012., Stackpole Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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55 Christmas balls to knit : colorful festive ornaments, tree decorations, centerpieces, wreaths, window dressings / by Nerjordet, Arne,1963-; Zachrison, Carlos,1970-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141) and Internet addresses (p. [142].LSC
Subjects: Knitting; Christmas decorations.; Decorative balls.;
© 2011., Trafalgar Square,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Symbols and allegories in art / by Battistini, Matilde; Sartarelli, Stephen,1954-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 382-383 and indexes.
Subjects: Symbolism in art; Art, European;
© c2005., J. Paul Getty Museum,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The little old lady who broke all the rules / by Ingelman-Sundberg, C.; Bradbury, Rod,translator.; Ingelman-Sundberg, C.Kaffe med ran.English.;
Subjects: Humorous stories.; Older people;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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