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Author
Series
Publisher
Child's Play (International) Ltd
Pub. Date
1973.
Edition
Big book edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 44 cm.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated version of the cumulative folk song in which the solution proves worse than the predicament when an old lady swallows a fly. Some pages are die-cut, permitting a portion of the next illustration to be seen.
3) Holes
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's Play
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
16 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 16 x 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
Through the use of die-cutting, this book tells the story of the nursery rhyme "Here we Go Round the Mulberry Bush." The holes in the pages are designed to draw the reader on through the book. The nursery rhyme is updated to reflect the everyday activities of 21st-century children.
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's Play (International) Ltd
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 44 cm.
Language
English
Description
The wheels on the bus go round, the wipers go swish, the doors open and close, and the people go in and out in this rollicking version of the classic song.
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 3
Language
English
Description
A tale moving from the final months of World War II to the present, and from the Russian front to contemporary South Africa, follows the dual adventures of a freedom-seeking war martyr and an alcoholic police officer who is drawn into a mystery with past origins.
7) Small steps
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.
Series
Publisher
Child's Play (International) Ltd
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Big Book edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 44 cm.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated version of the traditional song describing the inhabitants of Old Macdonald's farm. Some pages are die-cut, permitting a portion of the next illustration to be seen.
9) Nemesis
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 4
Language
English
Description
Oslo Police Detective Harry Hole is assigned to investigate a series of bank robberies of unparalleled savagery while at the same time absolving himself of the murder of his former girlfriend in a criminal investigation led by his longtime adversary Tom Waaler and Waaler's vigilante police force.
10) The redeemer
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 6
Language
English
Description
"Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. A gunshot cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole--the Oslo Police Department's best investigator and worst civil servant--has little to work with: no suspect, no weapon, and no motive. But Harry's troubles will multiply. As the search closes in, the killer becomes increasingly desperate,...
11) Deadly identity
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
One tragic decision dashed Rachel Carson's plans and made her scared of her own shadow. Now she's on the run.
12) The devil's star
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 5
Language
English
Description
"It's fascinating to watch this Norwegian author adapt our homegrown monster [the serial killer] to a foreign culture.... When things go wrong, Harry goes on a bender, but when he's on his game, no one is better than this obsessive detective. He systematically works his way through the intricacies of a plot that speeds along like a bullet train."—New York Times Book Review
Detective Harry Hole is on the trail
...14) Deadly silence
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Matt Sinclaire loved fighting fires - until the flames came for his family. Arson took his wife and left him with an eight-year-old daughter too traumatized to speak. Assigned to Jackson Hole, forest ranger Casey Cantrell meets the wounded firefighter and his daughter in the woods and soon becomes almost a mother to the girl. Matt feels on the verge of getting his little girl back, and even finding love again. But what about the evil that stripped...
15) The last cowboy
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
City girl. It was written all over her like a "keep off" sign. Sure, Slade McPherson would train her horse - he can't afford to turn away a paying customer, but no way is this cowboy getting involved with a woman like Jordana Lawton. Yet everything can change in an instant. A terrifying run-in with an angry bull leaves Slade wounded and unable to compete in a race that could make his future. But with Jordana by his side, he might stand a chance ....
16) The leopard
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 8
Language
English
Description
After two young women are found dead, both drowned in their own blood, Inspector Harry Hole is compelled to return to Norway to see his dying father and to investigate the brutal crime, which may be the work of a serial killer.
17) The snowman
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 7
Language
English
Description
"In Oslo, after the first snow of the season has fallen, a woman disappears, and a sinister snowman is left in her wake. As irascible detective Harry Hole realizes that this is only one of multiple disappearances, he begins to think a serial killer may be at work--and may be drawing in Hole personally and intentionally"--
Author
Series
Jackson Hole volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leaving her job as a Hollywood makeup artist behind, Grace Barrett arrives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to stay with her great aunt to figure out her life and finds herself distracted by Cole Rawlins, a rugged cowboy.
19) Phantom
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 9
Language
English
Description
When Harry left Oslo again for Hong Kong, fleeing the traumas of life as a cop, he thought he was there for good. But then the unthinkable happened. The son of the woman he loved, lost, and still loves is arrested for murder: Oleg, the boy Harry helped raise but couldn't help deserting when he fled. Harry has come back to prove that Oleg is not a killer. Barred from rejoining the police force, he sets out on a solitary, increasingly dangerous investigation...
20) The wrangler
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"After Wall Street collapses, investment banker Griff McPherson trades in his suits and ties for Stetsons and cowboy boots. He returns to the Wyoming ranch he co-owns with his brother, but it's not exactly a happy homecoming. So to prove to everyone, including himself, that that he belongs back in Jackson Hole, he takes a post as a wrangler on another ranch. Air force lieutenant Val Hunter has just returned to the Bar H ranch to help her ailing grandmother...
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