Author: Gerald Hausman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781617202018
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Andy and his best friend George, an Amazonian parrot, live on an island off the Gulf coast of Florida. When Andy's father gets hurt on a Fish and Game mission to catch a poacher, Andy and George go deep into the backwaters to uncover a lethal secret.

Author: Robert Arthur
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780679811718
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Hot on the trail of seven talking parrots that have seemingly vanished into thin air, the Three Investigators are in more trouble than ever. Danger lurks at every turn as they search for the birds, each of whom can quote part of a coded message from a mysterious dead man.

Author: Earl Derr Biggers
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1448213126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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A mysterious millionaire with a penchant for strange pets takes a flyer on a string of pearls and finds that death is the broker. Charlie Chan embarks on an incognito journey across the desert to find the answer to a question – a question posed by a dead parrot who spoke in Chinese . . . Chan dons a disguise and goes undercover to solve a complex triple intrigue of fake identity, kidnapping and murder.

Author: David Cesarani
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113474420X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 578

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The Final Solution clarifies the key questions surrounding the attempt by the Nazis to exterminate the Jews. Drawing on important new research, these authoritative essays focus on the preconditions and antecedents for the 'Final Solution' and examine the immediate origins of the genocidal decision. Contributors also examine the responses of peoples and governments in Germany, occupied Europe, the USA and among Jews worldwide. The controversial conversions of this study challenge many of our accepted ideas about the period.

Author: Robert Arthur
Publisher: Kosmos
ISBN: 3440147886
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 144

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Every true "The Three Investigators"-Fan dreams about following the adventures of Jupiter, Pete and Bob in the original American edition. "The Three Investigators and the Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot", finally available for your reading device! Jupiter, Pete and Bob discover that a mysterious Englishman has died, leaving seven parrots. All of them can talk – one even stutters – and all have been trained to utter cryptic messages. A sinister man is so desperate to get hold of the parrots that he is threatening everyone who stands in his way. What was the Englishman trying to say through his birds? Why does the sinister man want them? The Three Investigators are determined to find out – before somebody gets hurt!

Author: Bridget Stutchbury
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
ISBN: 1443400998
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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A Yale-educated professor of biology and a GG finalist for Silence of the Songbirds, Bridget Stutchbury roams forests studying the social lives and sexual antics of birds, sharing with us the curious reasons for their strange behaviour, bright colouring and elaborate songs. Are birds truly faithful to their mates? Stutchbury explains the science behind the surprisingly sophisticated and often amusing habits of birds, drawing on examples from around the world. In The Bird Detective, the author explains why some birds readily “divorce,” why parents don’t treat their sons and daughters equally, why females sneak in quick sex with neighbouring males and why some adults forgo breeding altogether. Stutchbury writes about the territorial nature of birds and describes their nesting habits, revealing why some species prefer to live in over-crowded groups. Perhaps most important, she illuminates how climate change and other pressures of the modern world are forcing birds to change their habits as they fight for their very survival.

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062113437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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A quiet English village is plagued by a fiendish serial killer in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic thriller, Murder is Easy. Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton’s wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood and that her local doctor is next in line. But within hours, Miss Pinkerton has been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke is inclined to think so—until he reads in the Times of the unexpected demise of Wychwood’s Dr. Humbleby.…

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1667623028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239

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One of Perry Mason's trademarks is his ability, in court, to switch the physical evidence in a case. He generally does this with guns or bullets, and it confuses the jury, to his client's advantage. In this case, Perry offers a coroner's inquest two parrots, one of which swore like a muleskinner and was found near the body of a millionaire hermit who had been murdered.

Author: Robert Arthur
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780394864020
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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In searching for a lost parrot who recites Shakespeare with a stutter, Jupiter Jones' firm of young detectives becomes involved with a missing masterpiece.

Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1538704609
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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From the world's #1 bestselling author comes a thrilling new standalone novel where a detective duo of sisters finds themselves in the crosshairs of a dangerous and lawless group. Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There she makes two important discoveries: her father stopped being an accountant and had opened up a private detective agency, and she has a teenage half sister named Baby. Baby brings in a client to the detective agency, a young man who claims he was abducted. During the course of the investigation, Rhonda and Baby become entangled in a dangerous case involving a group of overprivileged young adults who break laws for fun, their psychopath ringleader, and an ex-assassin victim who decides to hunt them down for revenge.