Dorothy: 1480 books

Boilermakers Beware: There's a dark and secret side to Lafayette's history that is sure to send shivers down the spine. From storied specters and urban legends, like Amelia Earhart's tragic figure haunting hangar number one at Purdue University Airport and sightings of the ever-elusive Bigfoot, to haunted...

Un alpiniste dévissant est retenu par des mains invisibles qui le sauvent d'une mort certaine... Une mère décédée alerte sa fille alors qu'elle va embarquer à bord d'un ferry promis au naufrage... Une femme entend une voix l'informer que sa fenêtre est restée ouverte au moment où deux hommes...

If  you've passed the birthday that AARP calls The Big 5-0, and the future looks dismal, if the light at the end of the tunnel looks like a train is coming, this bright and breezy collection of hints, laughs, and observations will get you though the worst days.  These chapters have been updated...

Born in the south to a slave mother and a white father, Anna Knight grew up in the Jasper County, Mississippi cotton fields. Realizing this wasn’t for her, she taught herself to read and write and eventually became the first in her family to graduate from College. In From Cotton Fields to Mission...

The Book of Poems was written over time by my Sister Dorothy Hoskins, which Iput them on Computer andasa gift am having thebeautiful poems published as a gift to my Sister.

Dr Dorothy Shepherd had wide experience both in Harley Street and in clinics in the poorer parts of London. Although she had leanings towards homoeopathy during her student years, it was not until she visited Dr J.T. Kent in the U.S.A., and experienced great benefit from this therapy that she...

What happens to marginalized groups from Africa when they ally with the indigenous peoples’ movement? Who claims to be indigenous and why? Dorothy L. Hodgson explores how indigenous identity, both in concept and in practice, plays out in the context of economic liberalization, transnational capitalism,...

Affording a clearer depiction of women in the Late Iron Age and Roman Britain than currently exists, Dorothy Watts examines archaeological, inscriptional and literary evidence to present a unique assessment of women and their place during the Romanization of Britain. Analyzing information from...

How human language evolved from the need for social communication The origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans and other animals, an evolutionary account of human language—in its modern form—remains as...

Guinea pigs are one of the world’s most popular pets—small, friendly, easy to care for, and unbearably cute. We have felt this way for a long time: guinea pigs were first domesticated in 5000 B.C.E. Since then they have inspired historical figures ranging from the scientist William Harvey to the...

In this Edgar Award–winning debut novel, a dedicated cop becomes the ultimate prey when a serial killer gets out on bail It begins when New York Police Department Detective Second-Grade Christie Opara arrests a man on the subway for indecent exposure. Within hours, Murray Rogoff, a burly...

She’s the only one who saw what really happened, but this cop doesn’t plan to play by the rules . . . Detective First-Grade Christie Opara, the newest addition to the district attorney’s Special Investigation Squad, has just gotten her first assignment: to tail her boss’s daughter.   As...

Every crime has its price, but for one woman, the cost may be too high Elena Vargas is a material witness to a homicide, the shooting of a foot soldier in an international mob cartel. But the sultry call girl and sometime-mistress of gang lord Enzo Giardino claims to have seen and heard nothing.   Desperate...

EC law is now a pervasive part of the legislation affecting business, government agencies, the voluntary sector and the individual citizen across the whole of the European Union. This uniquely comprehensive and accessible guide provides a simple and practical explanation of the most important aspects...