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Case File #3 The Accidental Accomplice
by David Lewman Daniel MatherIn this third book in the hilarious and zany illustrated chapter book series, Agent Glyker's quest to uncover the Rabbids' secrets continues!Agent Glyker of the SGAII-RD (Secret Government Agency for the Investigation of Intruders, Rabbid Division) has just been promoted to Secret Agent Second Class, and that means one thing: he now has his very own key to the Closet of Super-Secret Spy Gadgets. With all those neat devices at his disposal, he's sure to capture a Rabbid in no time...right? Agent Glyker soon discovers that capturing a Rabbid won't be as easy as he had hoped because while he has gained gadgets, the Rabbids have gained an ally. A very crafty, cunning ally named Courtney. She may look like an innocent teenager, but Agent Glyker is sure that Courtney is helping the Rabbids with their top-secret plan...whatever that may be! Peek into Glyker's top-secret files and laugh along as the Rabbids stay one step ahead of the bumbling agent...for now! Rabbids TM & © 2014 Ubisoft Entertainment.
Case File #4 Rabbids Go Viral
by David LewmanIn this fourth book in the hilarious illustrated chapter book series, Agent Glyker builds a robot Rabbid and attempts to infiltrate the Rabbids to learn their secrets! When a video of the Rabbids wreaking havoc at a birthday party goes viral, Director Stern of the SGAII-RD (Secret Government Agency for the Investigation of Intruders, Rabbid Division) tells Agent Glyker that this is the last straw--the Rabbids must be stopped! Luckily, Glyker has a new plan: infiltration. Once his robot Rabbid is among the Rabbids and they've accepted it as one of their own, Glyker will be able to figure out what their plan is and put a stop to it. At least, that's the idea... Peek into Glyker's top-secret files and laugh along as the Rabbids stay one step ahead of the poor agent...for now! Rabbids TM & © 2015 Ubisoft Entertainment.
Case File #4 Rabbids Go Viral
by David Lewman Patrick SpazianteIn this fourth book in the hilarious illustrated chapter book series, Agent Glyker builds a robot Rabbid and attempts to infiltrate the Rabbids to learn their secrets!When a video of the Rabbids wreaking havoc at a birthday party goes viral, Director Stern of the SGAII-RD (Secret Government Agency for the Investigation of Intruders, Rabbid Division) tells Agent Glyker that this is the last straw--the Rabbids must be stopped! Luckily, Glyker has a new plan: infiltration. Once his robot Rabbid is among the Rabbids and they've accepted it as one of their own, Glyker will be able to figure out what their plan is and put a stop to it. At least, that's the idea... Peek into Glyker's top-secret files and laugh along as the Rabbids stay one step ahead of the poor agent...for now! Rabbids TM & © 2015 Ubisoft Entertainment.
Case File #5 Rabbids Get Access
by David LewmanAgent Glyker of the SGAII-RD (Secret Government Agency for the Investigation of Intruders-Rabbids Division) is finally getting a chance to prove himself. Director Stern is going on vacation and leaving him in charge! Not only will Glyker get to pretend he's really, really important, but he will also have full access to the Closet of Super Secret Spy Gadgets. It's a dream come true... Or is it? When the Rabbids follow Glyker back to the office, they end up raiding the gadget closet, and steal all the best gadgets--including some that are so highly experimental, the secret agents aren't even allowed to use them yet. With top-secret gadgets in the hands of the Rabbids, there's practically no end to the mayhem they can cause! Can Glyker save the city from disaster? Can he even save his job? It's a race against the clock as Glyker scrambles to clean up his mess before Director Stern returns! Rabbids TM & © 2015 Ubisoft Entertainment
Case File #5 Rabbids Get Access
by David Lewman Shane L. JohnsonEverything is on the line as Agent Glyker tries to save the city from the Rabbids in the fifth book of this hilarious illustrated chapter book series!Agent Glyker of the SGAII-RD (Secret Government Agency for the Investigation of Intruders-Rabbids Division) is finally getting a chance to prove himself. Director Stern is going on vacation and leaving him in charge! Not only will Glyker get to pretend he's really, really important, but he will also have full access to the Closet of Super Secret Spy Gadgets. It's a dream come true...Or is it? When the Rabbids follow Glyker back to the office, they end up raiding the gadget closet, and steal all the best gadgets--including some that are so highly experimental, the secret agents aren't even allowed to use them yet. With top-secret gadgets in the hands of the Rabbids, there's practically no end to the mayhem they can cause! Can Glyker save the city from disaster? Can he even save his job? It's a race against the clock as Glyker scrambles to clean up his mess before Director Stern returns!Rabbids TM & © 2015 Ubisoft Entertainment
Case File #6 Rabbids Road Trip
by David LewmanAgent Glyker has been trying to catch a Rabbid ever since he joined the SGAII-RD (Secret Government Agency for the Investigation of Intruders--Rabbid Division), but his last encounter with the Rabbids has left him in deep trouble--and on administrative leave. With his entire career hanging in the balance, Glyker knows the only way to save his job would be to finally catch a Rabbid...no matter what it takes. When a popular reality show, The Astonishing Trek, comes to town and the Rabbids are drawn out of hiding, Glyker thinks he's hit the jackpot! But if he wants to follow the Rabbids, who are following the contestants of the show, he'll have to travel all over the world. Can Glyker finally succeed at catching the Rabbids? Can he even afford the plane ticket? Rabbids TM & © 2015 Ubisoft Entertainment
Case File #6 Rabbids Road Trip
by David Lewman Shane L. JohnsonThe Rabbids are going global--and Agent Glyker is on their trail--in the sixth book of this hilarious illustrated chapter book series!Agent Glyker has been trying to catch a Rabbid ever since he joined the SGAII-RD (Secret Government Agency for the Investigation of Intruders--Rabbid Division), but his last encounter with the Rabbids has left him in deep trouble--and on administrative leave. With his entire career hanging in the balance, Glyker knows the only way to save his job would be to finally catch a Rabbid...no matter what it takes. When a popular reality show, The Astonishing Trek, comes to town and the Rabbids are drawn out of hiding, Glyker thinks he's hit the jackpot! But if he wants to follow the Rabbids, who are following the contestants of the show, he'll have to travel all over the world. Can Glyker finally succeed at catching the Rabbids? Can he even afford the plane ticket? Rabbids TM & © 2015 Ubisoft Entertainment
Case File #7 Red Carpet Rabbids
by David LewmanThe Rabbids invade Hollywood in the seventh book of this hilarious illustrated chapter book series! After winning the popular reality competition The Astonishing Trek, the Rabbids are up for an award for Best Non-Human Contestants to Win a Competitive Travel Show. Agent Glyker is still on leave from his job at the SGAII-Rabbid Division, so the awards committee hires him to track the Rabbids down and make sure they show up to accept their prize. Now, instead of trying to catch the Rabbids, Agent Glyker is supposed to lure them to Hollywood! Can he get them to the red carpet? And if he does, what kind of trouble will they cause when they get there? Rabbids TM & © 2016 Ubisoft Entertainment.
Case File #7 Red Carpet Rabbids
by David Lewman Shane L. JohnsonThe Rabbids invade Hollywood in the seventh book of this hilarious illustrated chapter book series!After winning the popular reality competition The Astonishing Trek, the Rabbids are up for an award for Best Non-Human Contestants to Win a Competitive Travel Show. Agent Glyker is still on leave from his job at the SGAII-Rabbid Division, so the awards committee hires him to track the Rabbids down and make sure they show up to accept their prize. Now, instead of trying to catch the Rabbids, Agent Glyker is supposed to lure them to Hollywood! Can he get them to the red carpet? And if he does, what kind of trouble will they cause when they get there? Rabbids TM & © 2016 Ubisoft Entertainment.
A Case for Irony
by Jonathan LearIn 2001, Vanity Fair declared that the Age of Irony was over. Joan Didion has lamented that the United States in the era of Barack Obama has become an "irony-free zone. " Jonathan Lear in his 2006 book Radical Hope looked into Americaâe(tm)s heart to ask how might we dispose ourselves if we came to feel our way of life was coming to an end. Here, he mobilizes a squad of philosophers and a psychoanalyst to once again forge a radical way forward, by arguing that no genuinely human life is possible without irony. Becoming human should not be taken for granted, Lear writes. It is something we accomplish, something we get the hang of, and like Kierkegaard and Plato, Lear claims that irony is one of the essential tools we use to do this. For Lear and the participants in his Socratic dialogue, irony is not about being cool and detached like a player in a Woody Allen film. That, as Johannes Climacus, one of Kierkegaardâe(tm)s pseudonymous authors, puts it, âeoeis something only assistant professors assume. âe Instead, it is a renewed commitment to living seriously, to experiencing every disruption that shakes us out of our habitual ways of tuning out of life, with all its vicissitudes. While many over the centuries have argued differently, Lear claims that our feelings and desires tend toward order, a structure that irony shakes us into seeing. Learâe(tm)s exchanges with his interlocutors strengthen his claims, while his experiences as a practicing psychoanalyst bring an emotionally gripping dimension to what is at stakeâe"the psychic costs and benefits of living with irony.
Case History of a Movie
by Dore Schary"Case History of a Movie" documents the behind-the-scenes record of a low-budget studio film from 1950. The movie was "The Next Voice You Hear", which was directed by William Wellman and starring James Whitmore and Nancy Davis (Reagan).“I have always wanted to do a book which would state realistically and in detail how a motion picture is made. I had reserved this plan for some time in the future, when other men will be doing the work I am now doing, and when I would be able to look back and reflect on the enjoyable effort of most of my lifetime.However, the making of the film, The Next Voice You Hear, was so stimulating that it propelled me into attempting this job long before I actually had the full time to do it. Help came along in the form of one Charles Palmer, an experienced, capable writer who tackles his assignments with the wide-eyed enthusiasm of an apprentice who has just sold his first by-line to the local gazette. “Cap” (for his initials) shares my enthusiasm for films, knows his way around the studios, and has skill and experience with the printed word. He was willing to take on this collaborative and “as told to” assignment, and I am delighted he did, because even though I have not been able to write all of this book, it is exactly the way I would have wanted to write it. Cap did most of the putting together of the words from notes taken at sessions we had during free hours in the morning, or at night, or on Sundays; from some articles I had worked on; some speeches I had made; from my own dictated comments and handwritten scrawls—and finally, from his own keen eye and his own talent.”-Foreword
A Case of Curiosities: A Novel
by Allen KurzweilThis tale of an ambitious inventor in France as the Revolution looms is &“brilliantly playful . . . full of lore and lewdness&” (Chicago Tribune). &“A portrait of a young mechanical genius in 18th-century France, delivered along with a gallimaufry of odd and intriguing facts and a rich, lusty picture of society in that time and place.&” —Publishers Weekly In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. Over the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from an irascible, defrocked abbé, then apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker. But it is Claude&’s greatest device—a talking mechanical head—that both crowns his career and leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre. &“Like a joint effort by Henry Fielding and John Barth&” (Chicago Tribune), this &“captivating novel&” (San Francisco Chronicle) marked the debut of one of the finest literary artists of our time. &“A Case of Curiosities . . . really is brilliant. Also witty, learned, ingenious, sly, and bawdy.&” —Entertainment Weekly &“What John Fowles did for the 19th century with The French Lieutenant&’s Woman and Umberto Eco did for the 14th with The Name of the Rose . . . Kurzweil now does for the late 18th century.&” —San Francisco Chronicle
The Case of the Black-Hooded Hangmans (Hank the Cowdog Series, #24)
by John R. EricksonWhen Eddy the Rac disappears from the ranch, a search for the fugitive leads Hank, along with Drover and Little Alfred, into the lair of the dreaded Black-Hooded Hangmans.
The Case of the Blazing Sky (Hank the Cowdog Series, #51)
by John R. EricksonSeptember can get pretty hot on the ranch, and as the head of security, Hank the Cowdog's being extra vigilant to ensure safety for all. But when a huge prairie fire looms on the horizon in the middle of the night, Hank finds himself in a sticky situation, trapped in a henhouse after another dirty trick from Pete the barn cat. Can Hank warn the family in time, save the ranch, and possibly get revenge on his feline enemy? Not without a lot of bumbling, stumbling, and grumbling--and Hank's goofy, crowd-pleasing sense of humor.
The Case of the Burrowing Robot (Hank the Cowdog Series, #42)
by John R. EricksonSally May's new vegetable garden is invaded by a burrowing robot. Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, investigates but then is implicated as the perpetrator. In exile, Hank meets his old friend, Madame Moonshine, who helps clear Hank's name. Number 42 in the Hank series.
The Case of the Car-Barkaholic Dog (Hank the Cowdog Series, #17)
by John R. EricksonHank hitches a ride to town and finds his sister and her children are the target of a neighborhood bully. Hank devises an ingenious plan to ensnare the enemy.
The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity
by Adam Rex Mac BarnettSeventh-grader Steve Brixton is an avid reader of the Bailey Brothers series, and he's about to get a chance to put the detective tactics he's read so much about into practice. He's out to solve a mystery being investigated by America's most secret crime solving agency: the United States Department of Library Sciences. It will take all of Steve's skills to navigate this story of intrigue and crime as he tracks down the missing quilt (yes, quilt) containing all of America's secrets.
The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity
by Adam Rex Mac BarnettSteve Brixton always wanted to be a detective... until he found out he already WAS one. It all starts here: The thrilling story of Steve Bixton's first case. Our hero has a national treasure to recover, a criminal mastermind to unmask, and a social studies report due Monday -- all while on the run from cops, thugs, and secret-agent librarians. Since when can librarians rappel from helicopters? Does Steve have any brothers or sisters? If not, then why is this series called The Brixton Brothers? You will solve all these mysteries and many more by the time you finish The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity. We think you'll agree: Steve Brixton's first adventure is his best adventure yet.
The Case of the Chewable Worms (Secret Agent Dingledorf... and His Trusty Dog, Splat #2)
by Bill MyersThe earth is being invaded by worms! They're everywhere...crawling on kid's toothbrushes, squirming in their sandwiches, making guest appearances in Mom's spaghetti dinner. And worst of all, people find them...tasty! But is it really an invasion or the work of B.A.D.D. (Bungling Agents Dedicated to Destruction)?Only Secret Agent Dingledorf and his trusty dog, Splat, can find out and save the day...while also realizing the importance of doing good and helping others.
The Case of the Counterfeit Criminals (The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency, Book #3)
by Jordan Stratford Kelly MurphyThis “winner” (School Library Journal) of a history-mystery-science series continues as the Wollstonecraft Detectives--Ada Byron Lovelace and Mary Shelley--take on a case from the celebrated dinosaur bone hunter, Mary Anning. The Wollestonecraft Girls embark on their most important case yet--the famed dinosaur fossil hunter Mary Anning is being blackmailed. Her precious dog has been snatched and the kidnappers are demanding that Miss Anning authenticate some fake dinosaur bones up for auction at the British Museum in order to get him back. Ada and Mary have just three days to track down the fossil fakers, find the dog, and save the integrity of science! The game is truly afoot in this quirky caper involving blood-sucking leeches, an asthmatic pug, smoke bombs, secret elevators, diabolical disguises, and wicked word-play. Praise for The Case of the Missing Moonstone: "An enjoyable plot, resourceful heroines and fun writing." --Wall Street Journal "Smart and witty. . . . The detectives in training use quick thinking, book smarts, and social know-how to find a stolen gemstone. Comical narration and dialogue will charm readers thoroughly." --Publishers Weekly Praise for The Case of the Girl in Grey: "Mystery fans ... will relish the girls' romp around the stately home; discovery of an encrypted clue (in the crypt, of course); and unraveling of the mystery."--Booklist “Equal parts laughs and adventure, this lively mystery will keep you guessing till the end!” –Discovery GirlsFrom the Hardcover edition.
The Case of the Disappearing Diamond
by Kristin O'Donnell TubbDetectives Sal and Iggy have a new case—find the stolen diamond from the museum! Together, they must find the thief and return the diamond. Who can be the buggy culprit? Was it the security guard firefly? One of the bees at the nearby party? These two reptiles need to use the evidence left at the scene to solve the mystery!
The Case of the Double Bumblebee Sting (Hank the Cowdog Series, #22)
by John R. EricksonHank sticks his nose where it doesn't belong adn ends up with a dreaded double bumblebee sting.
The Case of the Falling Sky (Hank the Cowdog Series, #45)
by John R. EricksonWhen Hank hears a rumor that the sky is going to fall from the ranch's resident rooster, he is naturally a bit skeptical. But when a report from Pete the Barncat and a strange dream seem to support the theory, Hank knows that he'd better take the threat seriously. After all, as Head of Ranch Security, it's his job to protect the ranch from any and all danger. So Hank decides that he'll do whatever it takes to prevent the sky from falling on his beloved ranch. Even if it means getting into trouble with Sally May (again). . . .
The Case of the Fickle Mermaid: A Brothers Grimm Mystery (Brothers Grimm Mysteries) (Brothers Grimm Mysteries #3)
by P. J. BrackstonFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Witch's Daughter comes the story of Gretel, all grown up and investigating a series of mysterious disappearances off the coast of Bavaria. Gretel—yes, that Gretel—is now all grown up and working as a private investigator in 18th century Bavaria. Her professional interest is piqued when she begins to hear whispers of of mysterious goings-on off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein: sailors are disappearing, and there are rumors of mermaids and sea creatures and all manner of slippery, sea-based happenings. Ordinarily, Gretel’s interest in sea-life does not extend beyond that which is edible, doused in butter and garlic, and already on the plate before her. However, funds are low, and the captain of the ship Arabella makes a tempting offer of good pay and a free cruise in return for her detective services. With a splendid new wig packed, Hans as her bodyguard on the journey north, and the promise of two weeks of fine dining and erudite company whilst sailing around the picturesque Friesian islands, what could possibly go wrong?