Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village celebration, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery featuring a Murder Hunt, hosted by mystery writer Ariadne Oliver. One need only follow the game's make-believe clues to be the first to find the body. Only this time, it isn't a game, and the clues lead to a genuine corpse. Ariadne needs the help of her old friend, Hercule Poirot.

A nursery rhyme program that incorporates books, music, movement, art, ritual, repetition, nurturing, and play. Very young children learn social behavior, vocabulary words, and phonemic awareness. Caregivers and parents learn how to help build these skills through nursery rhyme activities. Promotes reading readiness.

"In December 2008, twentysomething Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master's degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becoming a librarian. But the economy had a different idea. As the Great Recession reared its ugly head, jobs were scarce. After some searching, however, Jill was lucky enough to snag one of the few librarian gigs left in her home state of Ohio. The catch? The job was behind bars as the prison librarian at a...

"With vivid storytelling and access to insider accounts, Weiner sets out to trace the roots of Russian-American political warfare--conflict waged without weapons--over the last seven decades to understand how a president landed in the White House with the help of an expansive, covert Russian campaign. Russia's modern revival of Soviet-era intelligence operations constitutes one of the most significant threats to democracy in the United States and...

When a body is discovered in the neighbouring village of Underhill, Alex Duggins, owner of Folly-on-Weir's premier pub, The Black Dog, is determined not to get involved--for once. But when she learns that the person who found the body was young Kyle Gammage, who helps out at her friend Tony's veterinary clinic, she and Tony are reluctantly drawn into the murder investigation. In her desire to protect Kyle and his elder brother Scoot, Alex finds herself...

A collection of humorous poems and drawings.

Edgar Allan Poe's life story is so full of dramatic twists and turns it seems the master of macabre could have penned it himself. Schoell provides a look at a complicated individual who, because of his own despondency and irresponsibility, was constantly detoured from the path to success. Left an orphan at a young age, Poe was adopted by John Allan, a man who, despite his own wealth, expected his son to live life with financial judiciousness. Poe...

Father John Misty's third album is a complex, often-sardonic, and, equally often, touching meditation on the confounding folly of modern humanity.