Excellent Cadavers (a term used in Sicily to distinguish the assassination of prominent government officials from the hundreds of common criminals killed in the course of routine mafia business) tells of the remarkable investigation spearheaded by Giovanni Falcone & Paolo Borsellino the two Sicilian prosecutors who in the 1980s took the war against the Mafia further than anyone had ever dared. In 1992 aware that the two magistrates were without the complete support of the Italian government the Mafia assassinated them. In death they were hailed as national heroes; the massive public outcry demanded their investigations be completed. The outcome: the toppling of crucial alliances that had forged political rule in Italy since WWII & the criminal indictment of Italy's most prominent leaders. ...

This takes the form of Tom's battered homework diary
- crammed with his doodles & stories. No school for two whole weeks! (Yeah!)
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This book provides detailed step-by-step instructions for training your dog to master each agility obstacle with safety fun & competitive excellence in mind. It

Includes:: important principles for building a happy & successful working relationship with your dog as well as a solid foundation for all of your agility training. The focus is placed upon setting high standards from the start so that no retraining will be necessary later down the road.

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This book teaches you how to sequence smoothly from one obstacle to the next to reach your dog's highest potential for speed & accuracy. The book: helps you to develop a consistent set of cues for communicating with your dog on the agility course. As a result your dog will understand your directives in an instant even at the highest of speeds & the greatest of distances. It also provides detailed lesson plans for Beginner Intermediate I & Intermediate II agility training classes. ...

This book illustrates how to isolate & train many of the higher-level skills necessary to successfully compete at the most advanced levels of competition. It describes how to strengthen & maintain existing skills for attaining fast & reliable performances in the agility ring & provides in-depth answers to commonly asked questions in a helpful Problem Solving appendix. ...

A follow-up to Abrams' successful Treehouse Living" " Exceptional Treehouses"

Includes:: 25 new creations by

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Two & a half millennia ago the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere & it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back. Banks is a phenomenon.. .wildly successful fearlessly creative William Gibson Thrilling affecting & comic.. .probably the finest science fiction he has written to date New Scientist Banks has rewritten the libretto for the whole space-opera genre The Times ...

Barrie Travis is a damn good reporter stuck at a low-budget television station when the First Lady calls her. Stunned by the loss of her infant son the presidents wife hints he may have been murdered. Barrie sets out to find the truth fighting for the exclusive story with the help of Gray Bondurant a mysterious former presidential aide. But their scoop is about to test her ethics patriotism & courage. For Barrie unearths White House secrets that if exposed could topple the presidency. & now certain powerful parties want nothing more than to see the scandalous past
- & a certain young reporter
- dead & buried.

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A second chance to finish what they started... When Keri Daniels's boss finds out she used to be bestselling author Joe Kowalski's girlfriend she gives Keri a choice: get an interview or get a new job. Joe's never forgotten the girl who broke his heart so he's intrigued to hear Keri's back in town-and looking for him. He suggests a wicked plan-for every day she survives with his family on their annual camping trip Keri can ask one question. Who knew a little blackmail two weeks in close quarters a whole lot of family & some sizzling romantic interludes could make Keri reconsider the old dream of Keri & Joe together forever? ...

Maybe a phrase a line a hint somewhere would reveal a reason any reason for the elderly couple's disappearance. They'd saved everything.. .there was even a copy of the 'certificate of living existence' that nadir of bureaucratic imbecility.. . What was the 'protocol' to use a word dear to government offices? Did one simply write on a sheet of paper something like: 'I the undersigned Salvo Montalbano hereby declare myself to be in existence' sign it & turn it in to the appointed clerk? A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building early one morning & an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari -- two seemingly unrelated cases for Inspector Montalbano to solve amid the daily complications of life at Vigata police headquarters. But when Montalbano discovers that the couple & the murdered young man lived in the same building his investigation stumbles onto Sicily's brutal ' New Mafia' which leads him down a path more evil & more far-reaching than any he has been down before. Praise for Andrea Camilleri: 'A joy to read' The Times ' This savagely funny police procedural proves that sardonic laughter is a sound that translates ever so smoothly into English' New York Times ...