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The international-bestselling author answers readers' questions and discusses the origins of the Oxford inspector with a penchant for classical music.
In 1975, “Inspector Morse” debuted, working to solve the case of a murdered hitchhiker in Colin Dexter's “Last Bus to Woodstock”. The book led to a multimillion-bestselling mystery series and a television show that spawned a spinoff and a prequel. But how did the beloved DCI from Oxford come...
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Writer Tracy Nelson Maurer and illustrator El Primo Ramón present a lively picture book biography of Samuel Morse that highlights how he revolutionized modern technology.
Back in the 1800s, information traveled slowly. Who would dream of instant messages? Samuel Morse, that's who! Who traveled to France, where the famous telegraph towers relayed 10,000 possible codes for messages depending on the signal arm positions-only if the weather was clear?...
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An Inspector Morse Mystery. The case seems so simple that Inspector Morse deems it beneath his notice. A wealthy, elderly American tourist has a heart attack in her room at Oxford's luxurious Randolph Hotel. Missing from the scene is the lady's handbag, which contained the Wolvercote Tongue, a priceless jewel that her late husband had bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum just across the street. Morse proceeds to spend a great deal of time thinking-and...
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The Riddle of the Third Mile is the sixth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.
The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons. No wives to worry about their whereabouts; no landladies to whine about the unpaid rents. In fact nobody would miss most of them at all . . .
By the 16th of July the Master of Lonsdale was concerned, but not yet worried.
Dr Browne-Smith...
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The Wench is Dead is the eighth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.
That night he dreamed in Technicolor. He saw the ochre-skinned, scantily clad siren in her black, arrowed stockings. And in Morse's muddled computer of a mind, that siren took the name of one Joanna Franks...
The body of Joanna Franks was found at Duke's Cut on the Oxford Canal at about 5.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 22nd June 1859.
At around 10.15 a.m. on a Saturday...
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August Purgatory Underground volume 2
August Purgatory Underground volume 1
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August Purgatory Underground volume 1
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The final hours of Captain August! Shaken and crippled after his confrontation with his arch-enemy, August launches a desperate plan to save as many of his new allies as he can from the villainous rebel fleet and their cyborg commander. He's been hounded, hurt and humbled- but he's not going down without a fight! The astonishing conclusion of August: Purgatory Underground!
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We Are Scarlet Twilight volume 3
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Captain Lancet and his Maxie Militia are trapped by the Scarlet Twilight vampire cult that dominates the world, and Cap's quest to free the world from the vampire curse that afflicts himself seems doomed! To make matters worse, their leader, Madame Satanika, has learned his TRUE identity (a small clue- it's DEFINITELY someone you know of!). Check out #3 to see whether our heroes can escape Scarlet Twilight- and if Captain Lancet is really the true...
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Fear is a perfectly natural human emotion. However, when fear controls us, it stops us from living our best life and it limits the opportunities and experiences available to us.
Michael the Monkey is about teaching our children that it is natural to feel fearful at times. However, it is how we choose to manage or deal with those fears that will either hold us back or see us thrive.
In today's society it is critical that our children know they have...
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The Long Way Around begins in a fictional small, rural Oklahoma town, based upon the author's hometown of Calvin, Oklahoma in the fall of 1941. Similar to the author's own life, the protagonist, fourteen-year-old Jimmy Mueller's life is changed forever on Halloween of 1941 when his father and stepmother are among the five victims of a car that was swept away into "The River" when a bridge washed out. From there, the book weaves a story of a young...
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"The Color Between the Hours" speaks to romantic love flirting with disaster, loss beyond reason and crime (white collar and otherwise). Addressing the reader as "you," the work explores inner landscapes. Whether it is a woman contemplating her mother's fate while microwaving dinner, or a person working as a psychic because it's required to collect welfare, the poems embrace a reality that is unique and universal at the same time. In these poems,...
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The Universal Circle of Return is a life-changing guide that will help you create the future that you want and deserve. You create your future reality by choosing the feelings you embrace and by sowing the seeds of those feelings in the ground of your day-to-day life. Get ready to plant these seeds, nurture them, and experience the change you've been seeking!
What kind of future can you manifest by learning how to harness the creative power of your...
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The first time on the open road with Dad's beat-up clunker and a brand-new driver's license. That first kiss. Practicing Steve Tyler moves in the garage. Lazy summer days with nothing to do but hang out with a group of friends and the radio. Classic Rock. In Classic Rock Stories, classic rockers reveal the sometimes painful, sometimes accidental, and often hilarious process of creating the songs that you can still sing aloud. In their own words, rockers...
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Twins Stacy and Gina are on rival little league teams, and when Gina accidentally unleashes a curse that wakes the dead, Stacy's misfit team gets coached by a baseball-playing zombie!
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Stacy and Gina Cavallaro are twin sisters and baseball rivals, each pitching for a different Little League team. Gina is a sports whiz and the star of her winning team, while Stacy's band of misfits hasn't won a game all season. The...
15) Rescue 911
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People from all walks of life call 911 when things go bad. These are their stories, told by the people who respond and make things better.
First responders often don't tell stories, preferring to keep what happens at work private. Rescue Captain Michael Morse changes that with these heartfelt descriptions of hundreds of emergency calls, with the usual coverings peeled back, exposing the bizarre, heartbreaking, and often hilarious reactions to 911...
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Reclusive Professor David Denlon makes a startling discovery-evidence that advanced humans inhabited the Earth a billion years ago. But wealthy, well-connected Patrick Veeder launches a plan to murder David and steal that evidence. As he struggles to stay out of Veeder's crosshairs, David learns that these highly evolved people left something behind, something they intended for us to find... Can a misfit professor and his thrown-together team translate...
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The full true story of the lululemon murder and what really happened to Jayna Murray and Brittany Norwood.
It was a crime that shocked the country. On March 12, 2011, two young saleswomen were found brutally attacked inside a lululemon athletica retail store in Bethesda, Maryland, one of the nation's wealthiest suburbs.
Thirty-year-old Jayna Murray was dead-slashed, stabbed, and struck more than three hundred times. Investigators found blood spattered...
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With breathtaking virtuosity, Garry Thomas Morse sets out to recover the appropriated, stolen and scattered world of his ancestral people from Alert Bay to Quadra Island to Vancouver, retracing Captain Vancouver's original sailing route. These poems draw upon both written history and oral tradition to reflect all of the respective stories of the community, which vocally weave in and out of the dialogics of the text.
A dramatic symphony of many voices,...
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In this prequel within a sequel, Diminuenda discovers that she stands to win a vast inheritance from her estranged father, the inimitable Minor, if she travels into the past and collects" a number of objects d'art. The cheeky diva travels to classical Greece, becoming the subject of the very painting she must steal as well as the focus of a Platonic dialogue. In ancient Rome, she dines with Emperor Tiberius and several Latin poets at his notorious...
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Since the debut of Garry Thomas Morse's first collection deemed "experimental fiction," Death in Vancouver has drawn fervid enthusiasm from many West Coast writers and artists. Set in Vancouver, B.C., this gathering of stories superimposes aspects of literary classics on local urban space to express increasing dissonance and alienation in the groaning "necropolis" that is the contemporary global city. "One Helen" is a woman subject to poetic idealization...
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