Author: Livia Day
Publisher: Tansy Rayner Roberts
ISBN: 0645451967
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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Glamorous cult movie director Prue Scythe went missing at a film festival in Sydney, and was never found… until her dead body turned up on a miniature goat farm in rural Tasmania, fifteen years later. Where has she been all this time? Why was she wearing a drop dead gorgeous red evening gown when she died? Who stole her scarf? Once again, the Fashionably Late boutique is entangled with a local murder. It’s up to Sam Sullivan and her friends to investigate, to ensure the wrong person isn’t blamed for this crime of fashion. A cozy mystery featuring frocks, handsome farmers, tiny goats and freshly baked scones, from the author of A Trifle Dead, and Dyed & Buried.

Author: Babette Cole
Publisher: Red Fox
ISBN: 9780099659112
Category : Children's stories - Pictorial works
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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'Bald and wrinkly' Grandma and Grandad recall to their grandmother their entire lives which have been more colourful and bizarre than anyone could possibly imagine. Adventurous babies, outrageous school children, disastrous and experienced teenagers who grow up to be a stunt man film star. . . But despite the hazards they have survived, they expect one day to just drop down dead like everyone else. But their story doesn`t stop there, because once dead, they could be recylced as anything. . .

Author: Hillary Miller
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810133903
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 447

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Winner, 2017 American Theater and Drama Society John W. Frick Book Award Winner, 2017 ASTR Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theater History Hillary Miller’s Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York offers a fascinating and comprehensive exploration of how the city’s financial crisis shaped theater and performance practices in this turbulent decade and beyond. New York City’s performing arts community suffered greatly from a severe reduction in grants in the mid-1970s. A scholar and playwright, Miller skillfully synthesizes economics, urban planning, tourism, and immigration to create a map of the interconnected urban landscape and to contextualize the struggle for resources. She reviews how numerous theater professionals, including Ellen Stewart of La MaMa E.T.C. and Julie Bovasso, Vinnette Carroll, and Joseph Papp of The Public Theater, developed innovative responses to survive the crisis. Combining theater history and close readings of productions, each of Miller’s chapters is a case study focusing on a company, a production, or an element of New York’s theater infrastructure. Her expansive survey visits Broadway, Off-, Off-Off-, Coney Island, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, community theater, and other locations to bring into focus the large-scale changes wrought by the financial realignments of the day. Nuanced, multifaceted, and engaging, Miller’s lively account of the financial crisis and resulting transformation of the performing arts community offers an essential chronicle of the decade and demonstrates its importance in understanding our present moment.

Author: R.L. Stine
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062694308
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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Read the books behind Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy! Morgan Marks is the new girl—and nobody can stop talking about her. She’s popular, smart, and beautiful. Everyone wants to be her friend. But her past is veiled in mystery, and no one knows where exactly she came from. Now Shadyside Homecoming is just around the corner. And Morgan’s dark secrets are about to be dug up for all the world to see. R.L. Stine's Fear Street trilogy is: You May Now Kill the Bride (Return to Fear Street, Book 1) The Wrong Girl (Return to Fear Street, Book 2) Drop Dead Gorgeous (Return to Fear Street, Book 3)

Author: Sheila Webster Boneham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781410456342
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Animal photographer Janet McPhail becomes a suspect when an animal handler drops dead at a dog show, but when she begins to investigate the crime on her own she finds herself in danger of becoming the next victim.

Author: James Howe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442452390
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Snooping around the mysteriously abandoned Dew Drop Inn, Sebastian Barth and his best friends, David Lepinsky and Corrie Wingate, are startled to come upon what they are certain is a dead body. Sebastian is the first to put into words what they all believe: A murder has been committed. When they return with the police, however, the body is gone! "A homeless man sleeping off a drink," is the police chief's explanation. But Sebastian and his friends are not ready to believe that. They are sure the body they saw was dead, not unconscious. As the three undertake their own further investigation, more and more questions arise: Who was the man? Was he alone? And most important of all, is there a connection between the man they saw and one or more of the homeless people Corrie's father, a minister, is trying to help? The answers to the questions do not come until the three have made a number of discoveries, some of them more horrifying than they had expected. Dew Drop Dead is the fourth mystery in the Sebastian Barth series. Using rural Connecticut as a background, this tension-filled story is told with a unique blend of humor and seriousness, as it unravels a challenging puzzle and explores a difficult social problem.

Author: Nancy Martin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110121998X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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Blondes may have more fun, but not at the hands of these mistresses of mystery... They’re beautiful blondes with style, money, and men falling at their feet. But now these perfect women are becoming perfect victims. In Drop-Dead Blonde, four of today’s top mystery authors spin four all-new tales of fair-haired sirens, secrets, and seduction.

Author: A. J. Jacobs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439110158
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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From the bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically and The Know-It-All comes the true and truly hilarious story of one person’s quest to become the healthiest man in the world. Hospitalized with a freak case of tropical pneumonia, goaded by his wife telling him, “I don’t want to be a widow at forty-five,” and ashamed of a middle-aged body best described as “a python that swallowed a goat,” A.J. Jacobs felt compelled to change his ways and get healthy. And he didn’t want only to lose weight, or finish a triathlon, or lower his cholesterol. His ambitions were far greater: maximal health from head to toe. The task was epic. He consulted an army of experts— sleep consultants and sex clinicians, nutritionists and dermatologists. He subjected himself to dozens of different workouts—from Strollercize classes to Finger Fitness sessions, from bouldering with cavemen to a treadmill desk. And he took in a cartload of diets: raw foods, veganism, high protein, calorie restriction, extreme chewing, and dozens more. He bought gadgets and helmets, earphones and juicers. He poked and he pinched. He counted and he measured. The story of his transformation is not only brilliantly entertaining, but it just may be the healthiest book ever written. It will make you laugh until your sides split and endorphins flood your bloodstream. It will alter the contours of your brain, imprinting you with better habits of hygiene and diet. It will move you emotionally and get you moving physically in surprising ways. And it will give you occasion to reflect on the body’s many mysteries and the ultimate pursuit of health: a well-lived life.

Author: Kimberly Raye
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426814879
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 381

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Dillon Cash used to be the biggest geek in Skull Creek, Texas?until a vampire encounter changed him into a lean, mean sex machine. Now every woman in town wants a piece of the hunky cowboy. Meg Sweeney can't get over her old friend Dillon's transformation. Not only does she want him, but she's also dying to figure out how he did it. Because Meg is a former geek herself. If Dillon can suddenly morph into a stud, who's to say there isn't a sex kitten waiting to be unleashed inside her? She just needs a little instruction…. Dillon's never been able to refuse his best pal, Meg, anything…even sex lessons. Little does he guess that one life-changing night in her bed will leave him dying to live again…

Author: Kim Erickson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN: 9780658017933
Category : Beauty culture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Exposing the truth behind the cosmetics industry, "Drop Dead Gorgeous" reveals that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has identified many ingredients found in modern cosmetics as hazardous.