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When two striking women walk into Nero Wolfe's office with a puzzling predicament, he is initially reluctant to get involved. But when murder strikes at their fencing academy, Wolfe can't resist the challenge. As he delves deeper, he uncovers a web of intrigue that stretches beyond the borders of New York. With his trusty assistant Archie Goodwin by his side, Wolfe navigates a complex case filled with hidden motives and international secrets. What started as a simple inquiry becomes a race against time to find a killer and solve the mystery behind a stolen artifact. Join Wolfe and Archie as ...

You wake up exhausted. Your motivation is gone. The belly fat keeps growing. Your sleep is broken. Your focus is shot. Your testosterone feels like it disappeared overnight. And deep down… you know this isn’t the man you’re supposed to be. Most men think this is just aging. It’s not. Your body is adapting to stress, poor recovery, sleep deprivation, hormone disruption, and years of running on fumes.

It's bad enough to steal someone's idea; but it takes real guts to claim it as your own, then sue the originator. But that's just what a gang of hack writers are doing, ingeniously planting evidence to back up their claims. The frustrated authors call on Nero Wolfe for help.

“It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.”—The New York Times Book Review Introduction by David Handler It wasn’t Leonard Dykes’s writing style that offended. But something in his unpublished tome seemed to lead everyone who read it to a very...

It’s a wily killer who dares to strike on Nero Wolfe’s hallowed turf—and leave a corpse strangled with Wolfe’s own soup-stained tie. But no sooner does the gourmandizing sleuth clean up this first course of murder than he faces a gun-toting wife who serves up a confession of homicidal...

With Nero Wolfe on the job, you'd think murderers would take caution. But even the master detective can't stop a killing, especially if it's an inside job—right under the roof of his client, millionaire Otis Jarrell. What's more, it's Jarrell's own missing revolver that the killer uses. Wolfe...

It was a broadcaster's worst nightmare: dead air, in the true sense. A radio host's on-air guest is anything but live, dropping dead after chugging a sponsor's beverage.

In the early twentieth century, politics were a much simpler affair, and much could be accomplished by diplomacy and compromise. But even the toughest of politicians could be ruled by their families. Peter Knight was just such a man, who is maneuvered into transplanting to New York for the sake of his beautiful daughter's acting career. - Summary by LynneT

Paperback Confessions is your spicy, unfiltered escape into romance, fantasy, smut, book boyfriends, morally gray characters, chaotic theories, and the books that make us blush, spiral, swoon, and scream into the group chat. Think book club with your smartest messy friend, equal parts deep analysis, emotional damage, hot takes, and “I know he’s a red flag, but hear me out.”Each episode dives into the world, characters, themes, romance, spice, unpopular opinions, and the final verdict of the book being reviewed. In Deep Dive, we break down the world-building, magic systems, politics, ...

In 1840 Louisa Stuart Costello published in Fraser’s Magazine an article on classic Persian poetry, which included a section on Omar Khayyam with translations of some verses. Interest in the poetry of Omar Khayyam received its first major boost in the English speaking world when Edward Fitzgerald published a translation of 75 quatrains in 1859. Fitzgerald’s mentor was Professor Edward Byles Cowell, who, in the previous year, had published an essay entitled “Omar Khayyam, the astronomer-poet of Persia” which included translations of thirty quatrains. In 1885 Whitley Stokes, a renowned ...

Diego Benevides works hard. His single mother encourages him to stay focused on school, on getting into college, on getting out of their crumbling neighborhood. That’s why she gave him her car. Diego’s best friend, Lawson, needs a ride? because Lawson is dealing. As long as Diego’s not carrying, not selling, it’s cool. It’s just weed. But when Lawson starts carrying powder and pills and worse, their friendship is tested and their lives are threatened.

Rex Forehand, PhD, and Nicholas Long, PhD, have helped thousands of parents achieve discipline using positive reinforcement, without yelling or harming the child's self-esteem. Their clinically proven, five-week program gives you the tools you need to successfully manage your child's behavior, giving specific factors that cause or contribute to disruptive behavior, ways to develop a more positive atmosphere in your family and home, and strategies for managing specific behavior problems.

Ever since it was first drilled more than 150 years ago, oil has been both a blessing and a curse. It has enabled economic growth, provided an efficient energy source, fuelled our entire infrastructure - and caused wars, pollution and global warming. These seven dramas, set between 1951 and 2045, and taking us from postwar Iran to futuristic Lancashire, examine the role oil has played in shaping our world: recounting incredible stories of wealth, power, politics and corruption.

Romance semiautobiográfico de Cormac McCarthy, Suttree acompanha quatro anos na vida de um homem que abandonou o conforto da classe média para viver à margem da sociedade. É um clássico cultuado da literatura norte-americana do século XX, que ganha agora sua primeira tradução brasileira—por Daniel Galera.

One hot summer afternoon, Rex Ogle’s sexuality is found out and his father gives him an ultimatum: you can be gay, or you can live here, but not both—and you have twenty-four hours to decide. Rex desperately hopes for a reprieve that doesn’t come, and the following day, he leaves. With no place to go, he drives to New Orleans, where he has the phone number of a man he met briefly and kissed once.

Rex Brasher is best known for his having painted in watercolor a complete set of all the extant American birds during his lifetime. This is a collection of his writing that serves as a kind of memoir. These are set on his 150-acre farm purchased in 1911 and never developed in his lifetime beyond a simple house and an outbuilding or two. - Summary by KevinS

Take a hilarious journey into the wonderful out of this world haunts of ghosts relaxing in their own fantastic crypts. We all know that ghosts can be scary, very frightening OR they can be fun in the right mood. These ghosts have all got together for parties to chat about how life was like when they were, well, alive. This audiobook contains four different books of their tales ranging from playful revenge to the confessions of the people who hear confessions as part of their earthly existence.come what may, these are all funny stories designed to share laughter.

From award-winning author Rex Ogle, a mixed-format middle grade novel about three boys who skip school, told in verse, prose, and comics. With a dad in jail and a lack of teachers interested in helping him learn, Manny doesn’t see the point in anything besides skateboarding and writing lyrics...

Forget the rocking chair and endless TV reruns. Fun Things to Do in Retirement is your ticket to staying curious, active, and downright excited about every new day. Whether you want to travel, try something new, or simply add more laughter to your life, this book is bursting with ideas to help you make retirement your most rewarding adventure yet.

A vintage eight-part radio serial based on the true story of the infamous outlaw and his Kelly gang Ned Kelly’s name has gone down in history as Australia’s greatest folk hero. A legendary bushranger and bank robber, he is lauded by many as a Robin Hood-style rebel – and reviled by others...