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"Drawing on verbatim interviews with an Algonquin and an Ojibwe elder, this book details the meaning and use of birds in North American Indigenous communities as helpers and teachers in spiritual, psychological, and social life"--Provided by publisher.
"An intimate and personal account of the profound role birds play in Native American life and spirituality. For many hours over a period of years, anthropologist Dennis Gaffin recorded his conversations...
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Marital and extra marital relationship is nothing, just a search of love and shelter . But today people feels to give the priority of money and lust, where love is misguided. Third person comes in everyone's life like a cold wind which helps us to take a comfortable breathe but it as per the situation it doesn't take a long time to become a storm. Expectation of love and possessiveness leads to make a person monster. Swagatam Sengupta is a fiction...
3) Deadline
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To learn who killed a loathsome gossip columnist, Bognor joins the paper Staggering homeward from a banquet, St. John Derby decides it would be easier to stagger back to work instead. When he reaches his desk, the booze-addled gossip columnist treats himself to a massive tumbler of port and calls for a taxi. By the time the cab arrives, the port is spilled on the carpet, mingling with the blood leaking from Derby's cut throat. No one will mourn his...
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El cuarto libro de la electrizante serie de los misterios de Slim Hardy. En la tarde del sábado 15 de enero de 1977, un tren de cercanías se retrasa en una pequeña estación de pueblo por una fuerte ventisca. La joven enfermera Jennifer Evans, con prisa por volver con su familia, se propone caminar los últimos kilómetros hasta su casa en un pueblo cercano. Telefonea a su hija para confirmarle que está en camino, pero nunca llegará a casa. La...
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Here is a "taste" of Inspector Pirat, a quartet of detective short stories translated from the Spanish books of Professor Guiteras featuring Inspector Pirat.These have now been rewritten and their settings "Anglicised" for publication in English.Three have been published previously, in the first three Inspector Pirat books, whilst the fourth is as yet unpublished.
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El segundo misterio electrizante de la serie de los misterios de Slim Hardy. Un reloj enterrado tiene la clave para descifrar un misterio de hace décadas. De vacaciones para escapar de las pesadillas de su último caso, el soldado caído en desgracia y convertido en detective privado, John «Slim» Hardy, encuentra algo enterrado en la turba de Bodmin Moor. Inacabado y dañado por el agua, el viejo reloj ofrece pistas vitales para un caso sin resolver...
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Bognor braves the frost to discover who has murdered Canada's richest man In his lavish private train car, Sir Roderick Farquhar draws a bath. When it has been filled to his satisfaction, the portly captain of industry tips in three drops of bath oil and lowers himself into the steam. Within seconds, the poison in the oil has stopped his heart and ruined Simon Bognor's winter. A special investigator for Britain's Board of Trade, Bognor makes the...
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As a result of a mysterious phone call, Sergeant Sean Begley of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Dublin is on the trail to find out what happened to the man who rang him to say that he was on the point of death. Could this all have been an accident or possibly suicide? After investigating a group of grasping relatives, a vengeful wife and a cyber blackmailer who are linked to the caller, the sergeant realizes that this might be a case...
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Lil Starling and husband Joe receive an invitation from her best childhood friend to go back to her hometown of Warsaw, NY to receive accolades for solving a fifty-one-year-old murder. Simultaneously, her friend, Federal Judge Stone, informs Lil that several federal inmates could be released from federal prison on a technicality. The technicality spawned appeals that stemmed from the prosecuting attorney that threatened Lil and Joe. She was about...
10) The Green Inker
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English eccentric Barrington Shakeshaft has retired from a colourful life of swashbuckling adventure to live in a caravan in the paddock of his daughter's home in Sussex. He amuses himself by perpetrating benign hoaxes on gullible journalists and duping greedy art dealers with forged paintings done in the style of famous painters.When police announce a fresh appeal for witnesses on the first anniversary of the unsolved murder of a schoolboy, Shakeshaft...
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El tercer libro de la electrizante serie de los misterios de Slim Hardy. Tras pasar por muy malos momentos, el soldado expulsado y convertido en investigador privado, John «Slim» Hardy es contratado por un terrateniente rico y enigmático, Oliver Ozgood, para descubrir la identidad de un misterioso chantajista. El hombre reclama una fortuna a cambio de su silencio. Afirma ser Dennis Sharp, un antiguo empleado de Ozgood y amenaza con revelar secretos...
12) Ocho Días
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El sexto volumen de la serie de Los misterios de Slim Hardy. Después de casi un año fuera de juego, el antiguo soldado convertido en detective privado John «Slim» Hardy asume tras su liberación lo que cree que será un caso sencillo en el tranquilo pueblo de Launceston, en Devonshire. La desaparición en misteriosas circunstancias de la colegiala Emily Martín desorientó a la policía. Ocho días después, su repentina reaparición le dejó...
13) Pick Any Title
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Lord Clive' bought his lordship at a 'Lord of the Manor' sale where titles fetch anything from two thousand to two hundred thousand pounds. Why not buy another cheap and sell it high? Why stop at only one customer? When some of his American buyers, each of whom imagines himself an English lord, come to England to inspect their property Clive leaves the beautiful Jane Strachey to handle them.But Clive was careless who he sold to, and among his victims...
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Un misterio en la costa de Lancashire en el noroeste de Inglaterra. John «Slim» Hardy, bebedor y soldado caído en desgracia y convertido en torpe detective privado, es contratado para investigar a Ted Douglas, banquero de inversión que se escapa todos los viernes a visitar una cala desolada en la costa de Lancashire. Allí camina hasta la orilla, abre un libro Viejo y empieza a leer en voz alta. Su mujer piensa que está teniendo una aventura....
15) Brought to Book
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Bognor tries to understand how a publishing magnate could have been crushed by smut Before retiring for the night, Vernon Hemlock pours a brandy, lights a cigar, and takes a look at his cache of pornography. Far more than a wad of dirty magazines stashed under a mattress, this is a collection of some of the world's finest erotica, dating back as far as a dirty doodle drawn by da Vinci. The millionaire publisher is perusing the Swedish section when...
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"Our people believe spirit lives in everything. Mountain, river, wind tree. Come, take a walk with me. What do we learn from plants when we listen to them speaking? Indigenous plantsman Nicholas Hummingbird calls on the legacy of his great-grandparents to remember how one drop of rain, one seed, one plant can renew a cycle of hope and connection—for him and for each of us." --publisher's website
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Bethancourt & Gibbons mysteries are a series of traditional British cozies in a modern setting. Phillip Bethancourt is a wealthy man-about town and amateur sleuth. His best friend is Detective Sergeant Jack Gibbons, a rising star at Scotland Yard. Together they can suss out even the most complex cases.The Dressing Table Murder is the first short story in the series, originally published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. There are also four novels...
20) Lark
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A corrupt cop must investigate a series of bizarre murders in order to save his city from itself in this grim hard-boiled thriller. Middleburg, Connecticut, is a dying river town, and Tommy Lark will be its undertaker. A hardened veteran of the local police force, Lark has worked in Middleburg for twenty-two years-each one worse than the year before. When he was an idealistic young rookie, his partner killed a suspect by accident, and Lark planted...
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