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In Don't Lick the Minivan, Shirtliffe captures the bizarre aspects of
parenting in her edgy, honest voice. She explores the hazards of
everyday life with children such as: The birthday party where neighborhood kids took home skin rashes from the second-hand face paint she applied, the time she discovered her twins carving their names into her minivan's paint with rocks, the funeral she officiated for "Stripper Barbie," the horror of glitter, and much more!
Evie O'Neill has been
exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling
streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-toot-ly thrilled. New York is
the city of speakeasies, shopping, and movie palaces! Soon enough, Evie
is running with glamorous Ziegfield girls and rakish pickpockets. The
only catch is Evie has to live with her Uncle Will, curator of The
Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult--also known as
"The Museum of the Creepy Crawlies."
When a rash of occult-based murders comes to light, Evie and her uncle are right in the thick of the investigation. And through it all, Evie has a secret: a mysterious power that could help catch the killer--if he doesn't catch her first.
After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was
quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no
mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite son,
husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver.
Implicated in the deaths of as many as 300 patients, he was also perhaps
the most prolific serial killer in American history. In the tradition of In Cold Blood, THE GOOD NURSE does more than
chronicle Cullen's deadly career and the breathless efforts to stop him;
it paints an incredibly vivid portrait of madness and offers a
penetrating look inside America's medical system. Harrowing and
irresistibly paced, this book will make you look at medicine, hospitals,
and the people who work in them, in an entirely different way.
Sookie has a murder investigation on her hands.
A young girl has died at a vampire party - and it looks as though her lover, Eric, might be responsible. Eric swears he didn't do it, the police don't believe him, and even Sookie isn't so sure. Nor is she inclined to take his word for it, not having caught him enjoying the victim's blood minutes before she was killed.
A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession.
From Florida’s swamps to its courtrooms, the New Yorker writer follows one deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man’s possibly criminal pursuit of an endangered flower. Determined to clone the rare ghost orchid, Polyrrhiza lindenii, John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, along with the Seminole Indians who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. In the end, Orlean–and the reader–will have more respect for underdog determination and a powerful new definition of passion.
