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Publisher
Tantor
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
By all accounts, Thomas Gilbert Jr. led a charmed life. But Tommy always felt different, and the cracks in his façade began to show. Author John Glatt constructs the agonizing spiral of mental illness that led Thomas Gilbert Jr. to the ultimate unspeakable act.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you home again: we use these words without thinking about their origins or how their meanings have changed over time. Simon Horobin takes the reader on a journey through a typical day, showing how the words we use to describe routine activities - getting up, going to work, eating meals - have surprisingly...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Hamish Macbeth, the one-man police department of the Highland village of Lochdubh, is unofficially engaged to the beautiful Priscilla Halburton-Smythe but is now reminded of the old adage about answered prayers. His lovely fiancee has replaced his cozy wood stove with a modern electric one and is busy trying to "make a man of him." The only man Hamish wants to be is the one who wanders about the village with his dog Towser, gossiping, fishing, and...
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Admittedly, there's a touch of black humor in the case. Rich, old practical joker Andrew Trent summons his kin to the remote Arrat House in the dead of winter for a deathbed farewell. They arrive to find him in perfect health and eager to torment them with a new bag of unfunny jokes. But this time the body that falls out of the closet is Andrew Trent's own. And nobody's laughing. Especially not Constable Hamish Macbeth, who is hard put to glean any...
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