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A Musical Motley
by Ernest NewmanThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
A Mustache Baby Christmas (Mustache Baby)
by Bridget HeosMustache Baby is headed straight for the naughty list until he figures out it is much more fun to give than to receive in this hilarious holiday gift book. Billy is an unusual baby—he was born with a mustache! And his pal Javier was born with a beard. Things get even sillier on Christmas Eve when Javier&’s beard turns white and he becomes Santa Baby! Being Santa Baby is a lot of work—listening to the other babies&’ Christmas wishes, taste testing treats, and getting the dachshunds, ahem, reindeer, ready for their big night. Luckily, Mustache Baby, AKA Elf Baby, shows up in the St. Nick of time to help make the toys. But when he finishes, he decides to keep them all for himself! Hijinks ensue, landing Mustache Baby firmly on the naughty list. That is until a visit from Santa Grownup reminds him that it is much more fun to give than to receive. The perfect holiday gift for any family with a mustachioed or bearded dad.
A Mutant Named Mizzie
by Lee BaconMeet Captain Justice, the superhero star of A MUTANT NAMED MIZZIE in Lee Bacon's funny original digital story set in the exciting world of his JOSHUA DREAD series for ages 9-12. Who knows what to do with a poor little mutant baby better than Captain Justice?
A Mutiny in Time (Infinity Ring #1)
by James DashnerHistory is broken, and three kids must travel back in time to set it right. When best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste stumble upon a secret of time travel - a hand-held device known as the Infinity Ring - they're swept up in a centuries-long secret war for the fate of mankind.
A Mutiny in Time (Infinity Ring #1)
by James DashnerScholastic's next multi-platform mega-event begins here!History is broken, and three kids must travel back in time to set it right!When best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste stumble upon the secret of time travel -- a hand-held device known as the Infinity Ring -- they're swept up in a centuries-long secret war for the fate of mankind. Recruited by the Hystorians, a secret society that dates back to Aristotle, the kids learn that history has gone disastrously off course.Now it's up to Dak, Sera, and teenage Hystorian-in-training Riq to travel back in time to fix the Great Breaks . . . and to save Dak's missing parents while they're at it. First stop: Spain, 1492, where a sailor named Christopher Columbus is about to be thrown overboard in a deadly mutiny!
A Mysterious Disappearance
by Louis TracyGordon Holmes has a happy method in the way he talks to his readers. He takes something for granted instead of spinning out to a fine point every single idea.He gives us two diametrically opposite characters in his two detectives--the Scotland Yard man and the amateur. Then he gives his readers the same clues the detectives have in Lady Dyke's disappearance.No reader can resist the subtle invitation to speculate as to what has happened and is going to happen. It is a most involved tangle.
A Mysterious History (Mysteries of Sparrow Island)
by Charlotte CarterOLD WINCHIMELL MANOR on top of Arrowhead Hill has been abandoned for more than a century. Abigail Stanton knows there have been strange doings up at the house, yet she scoffs at the notion that it is haunted. When the town decides to demolish the house, Abby has only one week to find a way to save it, and her efforts lead her into a mystery of betrayal, love and redemption of the human spirit. While Abby is occupied with Winchell Manor, Mary is teaching arts and crafts at the church's vacation Bible school and discovers, amidst her selfconsciousness, gifts she never thought she had. She also meets young Josh Nicholson, a teen who's been helping out at the school. But is he harboring a secret of his own?
A Mysterious Season (A Lady Julia Grey Mystery)
by Deanna RaybournGet swept up in a Victorian world of intrigue in these Lady Julia Grey mystery novellas, only from New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn. Silent Night After a year of marriage—and numerous adventures—Lady Julia and Brisbane hope for a quiet, intimate Christmas together—until they find themselves at her father’s ancestral estate, Belmont Abbey, with her eccentric family and a menagerie of animals. Nevertheless, Julia looks forward to a lively family gathering—but amongst the celebrations, a mystery stirs…Midsummer Night Midsummer in Victorian England—an auspicious time for a wedding. Brisbane has taken charge of the music. Julia has, perhaps mistakenly, allowed her sisters to choose the dress. And Belmont Abbey is overflowing with guests awaiting the blessed day. Add in a dangerous past nemesis who has come to wish them not-so-well, and their day to remember just might take a fatal turn… Twelfth Night To mark the passing of another decade, the March family have assembled at Belmont Abbey to perform the Twelfth Night Revels. But before Lady Julia and Brisbane can take to the stage, an abandoned infant is found nestled in the helm of St. George. When the pair take up the challenge to investigate, they’ll be faced with an impossible choice—one that will alter the course of their lives…forever.Bonfire NightDuring the autumn of 1890, a solicitor arrives with a strange bequest: Nicholas, it seems, has inherited a country house—but only if he and his family are in residence from All Hallows’ Eve through Bonfire Night. Neither Lady Julia nor Nicholas is likely to be put off by local legends of ghosts and witches, until a new lady’s maid disappears, igniting a caper that will have explosive results…Previously published
A Mystery Bred in Buckhead (Sheila Travis Series, #6)
by Patricia SprinkleAt an engagement party in 1944, one man killed another while protecting his sister's honor. A married man is attracted to another woman. Two gay lovers part. A bootlegger meets with his accomplice. Fifty years later, Sheila Travis tries to fathom these secrets when a stolen manuscript, thought to be a sequel to "Gone with the Wind," is instead a revelation of Buckhead's past. This time, Aunt Mary is not as helpful as usual, for reasons of her own. We also learn how Sheila's romance with Crispin Montgomery is progressing, and she reveals some painful truths about her marriage to Tyler Travis.
A Mystery for Mr. Bass (Mushroom Planet #4)
by Eleanor CameronDavid Topman and Chuck Masterson, the young heroes of the three previous MUSHROOM PLANET books, have made an "absolutely priceless" discovery, according to their friend Tyco Bass, the little astronomer-artist-inventor of 5 Thallo Street, Pacific Grove, California. It is a discovery that not only splits the world of science but proves to have fascinating and dangerous consequences for the boys and Prewytt Brumblydge. (Prewytt, you will recall, was the inventor of that marvelous machine called the Brumblitron.) Mysteriously, Prewytt has been beset, lately, by a series of strange misfortunes. So now, with Mr. Bass far from earth and Prewytt Brumblydge delirious with fever, David and Chuck undertake a desperate and nearly disastrous journey through space to the Mushroom Planet in his behalf. Fear of an ancient prophecy, terror and treasure in the City of Silence, the trial of Prewytt Brumblydge, and staggering revelations concerning their friends on Basidium bring Chuck and David to a startling climax in this fourth suspenseful MUSHROOM PLANET book by Mrs. Cameron.
A Mystery for Thoreau
by Kin PlattSixteen-year-old Oliver Puckle, news gatherer for the Concord Freeman in the summer of 1846, has his work cut out for him when word arrives of a gruesome murder at Walden Pond. It seems the only citizen who is not a suspect is the poetphilosopher Henry David Thoreau, who spent the night locked in the local jail for refusing to pay his poll tax. As Oliver leads the charge to unravel the mystery, he has much to learn from his colorful neighbors – among them Ralph Waldo Emerson and a feisty teenage Louisa May Alcott – but unexpectedly it is the recluse Thoreau himself who provides particular help to the investigation. This posthumously published novel, set in the famously literary town of Concord, Massachusetts, is rich with intrigue and witty detail and features a foreword by the author's son.
A Mystery of Heroism
by Stephen CraneThough best known for The Red Badge of Courage, his classic novel of men at war, in his tragically brief life and career Stephen Crane produced a wealth of stories-among them "The Monster," "The Upturned Face," "The Open Boat," and the title story-that stand among the most acclaimed and enduring in the history of American fiction. This superb volume collects stories of unique power and variety in which impressionistic, hallucinatory, and realistic situations alike are brilliantly conveyed through the cold, sometimes brutal irony of Crane's narrative voice.
A Máquina do Tempo
by Herbert George Wells Tiago KernA Máquina do Tempo é uma novela de ficção científica de autoria de H.G. Wells e publicada originalmente em 1895. A história, além de popularizar o conceito de uma máquina que permite ao operador viajar através do tempo - tanto para o passado quanto para o futuro -, também foi possivelmente o trabalho de mais sucesso do escritor, tendo cimentado sua reputação como mestre da ficção científica e contribuído para a evolução do gênero literário desde então. A Máquina do Tempo já foi adaptada diversas vezes para filmes, histórias em quadrinhos e outras mídias, além de ter inspirado diversos outras histórias e até mesmo recebido sequências escritas por outros autores.
A Mãe dos Lobos
by J. Aislynn D'MerrickssonÉ um ano de despertar e mudar para o Kalla kyl'Solidor; o lobo que dorme. Mago de Cryshal Kanlon, Kalla foi procurar um magister, que serve como protetor e fonte de energia para seus magos. Ela descobre mais do que esperava quando a cidade celeste é atacada por uma fogueira, e os dois estão em um caminho difícil para a autodescoberta. Um ser de poder antigo está começando a se agitar, e um contrapeso deve despertar com ele. Das profundezas de Xibalba às planícies de Arkkadia e às alturas do continente celeste de Argoth, Kalla e seu magister viajam para reivindicar a plenitude de seu ser e pôr um fim à fonte da destruição antes que o caos reivindique o reino. Primeiro livro da saga Evalyce arcanepunk, Mãe dos Lobos é uma rica mistura de fantasia, aventura e mistério.
A Mãe e o Crocodilo
by José GardeazabalA trabalhar numa fábrica de reciclagem algures num lugar centro europeu, ex-fascista, ex-comunista e ex-industrial, Vladimir cria um crocodilo chamado Benito e sobrevive à rotina alimentando sonhos de imigração e de uma relação íntima com uma mulher. Vladimir trabalha numa fábrica de reciclagem e partilha a sua vida com um crocodilo chamado Benito e uma longa história de esquecimento com a mãe, que recusa revelar-lhe o nome do pai desaparecido. Aprisionado numa geografia do desespero, num lugar centro europeu ex-fascista, ex-comunista e ex-industrial, por esta ordem, Vladimir observa os hábitos do perigoso animal, sonha com uma relação íntima com uma mulher, e resiste às idiossincrasias do seu grupo de amigos, ultrapassando a rotina apoiado na pergunta warum?, o velho porquê alemão. É então que o seu bocado de Europa é atravessado por um grupo de refugiados que chega à cidade na esteira de Noor, por quem Vladimir se apaixona, e que interrompe a rotina moral da reciclagem de forma violenta. Vladimir descobre numa antiga fotografia do pai uma revelação que muda o seu destino e o do crocodilo Benito. E o que muda, afinal? E warum?
A Mão Cinzenta de Kessrin: Guerra dos Doze Livro Dois (Guerra dos Doze #2)
by Alex RobinsEles voltaram. O cerco de Arelium foi rompido, mas apenas a um custo grande e terrível. O Barão caiu, vítima inocente de uma intrincada teia de mentiras concebida para abrir uma barreira entre Arelium e o Baronato costeiro de Kessrin. Merad Reed, assustado e desiludido, é assombrado pelas trágicas mortes dos homens sob seu comando. Quando todo o contato com a Velha Guarda de Morlak é perdido, ele relutantemente viaja para o norte para investigar, apenas para descobrir que a verdade é muito pior do que qualquer coisa que ele poderia ter imaginado. Depois de escapar por pouco de um atentado contra sua própria vida, Jelaïa del Arelium está lutando para entender suas habilidades emergentes e o vício paralisante que vem com elas. As sacerdotisas de Brachyura podem ter as respostas que ela busca, mas depois de anos protegendo os segredos dos Doze, elas ainda são confiáveis? Lorde Praxis, agora atuando como Regente, deve enfrentar as consequências imprevistas de suas próprias maquinações quando uma simples adaga o leva das torres brilhantes de Kessrin ao tempestuoso Mar da Tristeza, e uma nova e aterrorizante ameaça. Enquanto isso, em algum lugar em uma estrada empoeirada longe da civilização, um antigo semideus está lentamente vindo para encontrá-los. Ele acordou de décadas de sono para cumprir seu último propósito... Assolar as terras dos homens.
A Mão e a Luva
by Machado De AssisBem-vindo ao universo extraordinario de Machado de Assis, um dos maiores vultos da literatura Luso-Brasileira de sempre. Nesta edição de A Mão e a Luva, trazemos até si a melhor edição esta admirável peça literária do final do século XIX. A Mão e a Luva é o segundo romance escrito pelo escritor brasileiro Machado de Assis, pela primeira vez publicado em 1874. A Mão e a Luva foiinicialmente publicado em 20 folhetins, com o subtítulo "Um perfil de mulher", nos rodapés de O Globo, jornal dirigido por Quintino Bocaiúva, entre 26 de setembro e 3 de novembro (não diariamente). Em A Mão e a Luva, a história transcorre em Botafogo, então um simples arrabalde (o que hoje chamaríamos de subúrbio) repleto de aprazíveis chácaras. Machado de Assis conta-nos uma "história de amor", ou seja, a história de uma mulher de personalidade forte, Guiomar, que é assediada por três pretendentes a marido. A obra enquadra-se na fase "romântica" do autor, mas em vez dos recursos clássicos do romantismo — enredos rocambolescos, plenos de coincidências, reviravoltas, surpresas, suspenses — Machado de Assis, como já ocorrera no romance de estreia, Ressurreição, prefere um texto contido, minimalista em termos de trama, de análise psicológica, mas com uma enorme elegância estilística, que continuaria aperfeiçoando até atingir seus píncaros na chamada "fase realista". Esperamos que tenha tanto prazer a ler esta obra clássica quanto aquele que nós, Cascais Classic Editions, tivemos a trazer-lha até si. Deixe-se levar pelos sonhos... Oliver Garrett
A Música das Esferas
by Valmore Daniels Íris BértoloDescrição do Livro: A tecnologia para o voo interestelar existe através do poder do Kinemet, mas a chave para desvendar o seu mistério está num pergaminho com mil anos de antiguidade, deixado na Terra por uma espécie alienígena. Quando o antigo pergaminho é roubado antes de concluída uma tradução completa, Alex, Michael e Justine tentam recuperá-lo. No caminho, eles tropeçam numa conspiração interplanetária e descobrem um segredo que altera o seu paradigma da vida e abala as próprias fundações da nossa existência.
A NASCAR Holiday 2
by Gina Wilkins Pamela Britton Ken Casper Abby GainesMiracle Season by Pamela BrittonFormer NASCAR driver Mike Morgan didn't believe in miracles-until Maggie Taylor. Now he's entered the biggest race of his life...the one to win her heart!Season of Dreams by Gina WilkinsTom Wyatt's racing year has taken a toll on his romance with Melissa Hampton. But it turns out that love is the real driving force in his life.Taking Control by Ken CasperAidan O'Keefe doesn't like sharing his team with Ellie Satterfield So he's as surprised as she is that he'll do anything to stop her from selling out...even pursue her!The Natural by Abby GainesWhen Danny Cruise appears at her animal clinic, Madison Beale is convinced it's nothing more than a publicity stunt. Until Danny changes her mind with a kiss under the mistletoe.
A NASCAR Holiday 3
by Marisa Carroll Brenda Jackson Wendy Etherington Jean BrashearHAVE A BEACHY LITTLE CHRISTMAS by Liz Allison and Wendy EtheringtonAn island romance between Tiffany McMillan, the boss's daughter, and Jesse Harwood, a NASCAR team engineer, is strictly forbidden, but can they keep the passion at bay during a company holiday getaway?WINNING THE RACE by Brenda JacksonNASCAR driver Miles Gregory roars back into town just for a Christmas wedding--until a reunion with his high school sweetheart gives him a reason to stay...ALL THEY WANT FOR CHRISTMAS by Marisa CarrollSanta, if you're listening, all NASCAR driver Trace Collier's daughter and single mom Carrie Ferrell's son want for Christmas is a family. 'Tis the season for mischief and matchmaking!A FAMILY FOR CHRISTMAS by Jean BrashearNASCAR crew chief Gib Cameron gets a crash course in life's little surprises when he sees his first love, Cassie Wheeler.Just what--or who--has she been keeping under wraps?
A Nail Through the Heart: A Novel of Bangkok (The Poke Rafferty Thrillers)
by Timothy HallinanAn expat detective in Bangkok discovers the dark truths beneath the surface of his chosen home in this “fast, bold, and beautifully written” thriller (T. Jefferson Parker).Travel writer Poke Rafferty was good at looking for trouble—so good that he made a little money writing a few offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored. But that was before Bangkok stole his heart. Now the expat American is happily playing family with Rose, the former go-go dancer he wants to marry, and with Miaow, the wary street child he wants to adopt. But settling down won’t be as easy as it seems . . .First, Poke takes in Miaow’s friend, a troubled and terrifying street urchin named Superman. Then he agrees to help an Aussie woman find her missing uncle—and accepts an old woman’s generous payment to find a blackmailing thief. Soon, these three seemingly disparate events begin to overlap, pulling Poke into dark, unfamiliar terrain. Poke soon comes to realize that he’s been gliding across the surface of a culture he really doesn’t understand—and that what he doesn’t know is about to hurt him and everyone he loves.
A Nail, A Rose (Pushkin Collection)
by Madeleine BourdouxheEnchanting stories of women's inner lives by the rediscovered Belgian author Madeleine BourdouxheThe seven stories in A Nail, A Rose confirm Madeleine Bourdouxhe's status as an under-appreciated master of the form. Like her critically lauded novels Marie and La Femme de Giles, these stories tunnel into the conflicted hearts of their female characters in fluid, beautiful prose. These are stories of longing and dissatisfaction, of mundane lives ruptured by strange currents of feeling. A woman, wandering alone and heartbroken, is first attacked and then romantically pursued by a stranger, who returns to her house to offer her gifts. A maid wears her mistress's expensive coat to meet her lover, but finds herself more preoccupied with fantasies of intimacy with her mistress. With piercing insight and candour, Bourdouxhe offers seven unforgettable portraits of the expansive inner lives of ordinary women.
A Naked Singularity
by Sergio De La PavaA Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi, a child of Colombian immigrants who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender--one who, tellingly has never lost a trial. Never. In the book, we watch what happens when his sense of justice and even his sense of self begin to crack--and how his world then slowly devolves. It's a huge, ambitious novel clearly in the vein of DeLillo, Foster Wallace, Pynchon, and even Melville, and it's told in a distinct, frequently hilarious voice, with a striking human empathy at its center.
A Naked Singularity
by Sergio De La PavaNOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING JOHN BOYEGA, OLIVIA COOKE AND BILL SKARSGÅRD"The Wire written by Voltaire" Sunday Times"Crime and Punishment as reimagined by the Coen Brothers" The MillionsCasi is a hotshot public defender working on the front line of America's War on Drugs. So far he's on the winning side. He's never lost a case. But nothing lasts forever, and pride like his has a long way to fall. Funny, smart and always surprising, A Naked Singularity speaks a language all of its own and reads like nothing else ever written. Casi's beautiful mind and planetary intelligence make him an inimitable and unforgettable narrator. In De La Pava's hands, the labyrinthine miseries of the New York Justice System are as layered and diabolical as Dante's nine circles of Hell. But the Devil doesn't hog the best lines. There are plenty here to go around.
A Naked Singularity: A Novel
by Sergio de la Pava“Propulsive . . . The novel’s chaotic sprawl, black humor and madcap digressions make it a thrilling rejoinder to the tidy story arcs [of] most crime fiction.” —The Wall Street JournalWinner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Best Debut NovelNamed a Best Book of the Year in the Wall Street Journal, Houston Chronicle, and Philadelphia City PaperA Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi, born to Colombian immigrants, who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender—one who, tellingly, has never lost a trial. Never. In the book, we watch what happens when his sense of justice and even his sense of self begin to crack—and how his world then slowly devolves. A huge, ambitious novel in the vein of DeLillo, Foster Wallace, Pynchon, and even Melville, it’s told in a distinct, frequently hilarious voice, with a striking human empathy at its center. Its panoramic reach takes readers through crime and courts, immigrant families and urban blight, media savagery and media satire, scatology and boxing, and even a breathless heist worthy of any crime novel. If Infinite Jest stuck a pin in the map of mid-90s culture and drew our trajectory from there, A Naked Singularity does the same for the feeling of surfeit, brokenness, and exhaustion that permeates our civic and cultural life today. In the opening sentence of William Gaddis’s A Frolic of His Own, a character sneers, “Justice? You get justice in the next world. In this world, you get the law.” A Naked Singularity reveals the extent of that gap, and lands firmly on the side of those who are forever getting the law.“A great American novel.” —Toronto Star