After a close friend died of cancer, middle-aged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan decided to pay tribute to her in a most unorthodox manner. Ryan and his friend, miniature schnauzer Atticus M. Finch, would attempt to climb all forty-eight of New Hampshire's four thousand- foot peaks twi[...]

Hardboiled Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe marks his return in Chandler's four later novels--The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, and Playback--in an action-packed mystery omnibus. 15,000 first printing.[...]

One doll, 8 carefully researched costumes of the Hopi, Zuni, Navajo, Pawnee, Sioux, Apache, and Arapaho tribes and the Acoma pueblo. Plus basketware, jewelry, blankets, toys, footwear. 1 paper doll. 8 full-color costumes.
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Captures the world of stay-at-home mums (and one dad); playground politics; and where a stolen kiss with someone else's husband can lead you. Meet Todd, the handsome house husband; and Sarah, a lapsed feminist. And then there's Mary Ann, who is busy scheduling everything, including her sex life (ev[...]

Reminiscent of "Wiseguy," "Mob Boss "is a compelling biography from two prominent mob experts recounting the life and times of the first acting boss of an American Mafia family to turn government witness
Alfonso "Little Al" D'Arco, the former acting boss of the Luchese crime family, was the high[...]

Stop, in the name of love!Tom s take on policemen and criminalsTom s taste for police officers and felons and for sexual tension between the two developed late in his career. I ve never been to prison, he told a class at the California Institute of the Arts in 1985, but I hear it s a closed world wh[...]

Let s get physical: Tom s cowboys, loggers, roughnecks, and roustaboutsAs a boy, Tom s first crush was a strapping young farmhand who worked the fields around his family home. Finland is a land of tough physical men, catching fish in the icy sea; cutting logs in the endless forests; threshing oats, [...]