Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Random House Canada
Keywords: illegal
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-02-05
List price: $30.81
ISBN-10: 0307356566
ISBN-13: 9780307356567
Two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey’s His Illegal Self crackles with passionate, electrifying prose and characters that leap off the page and into your psyche. Utterly captivating. It is 1972 and Ché, a precocious seven-almost-eight-year-old boy, leads a rather bourgeois life on Park Avenue with his eccentric grandmother. His parents are young radicals in hiding from the FBI – he has never even met his father and he last saw his mother at the age of two. Ché is ecstatic when a woman called Dial – who he believes is his mother – appears at his front door to take him out for lunch
Author: Paul Levine
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: illegal
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-03-24
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0553806734
ISBN-13: 9780553806731
The Edgar-nominated author acclaimed for his crackling courtroom scenes delivers an adrenaline-laced, no-holds-barred thriller—his most powerful novel to date—as a disgraced lawyer travels the twisted border between justice and revenge.Haunted by a tragedy in his past and wanted by the cops for his latest malfeasance, trial lawyer Jimmy “Royal” Payne needs to skip town. That’s when he crosses paths with twelve-year-old Tino Perez, newly arrived from Mexico with no money and no papers. The gutsy kid first robs Payne, then pleads for his help. Marisol, the boy’s mother, is missing, a
Author: Bettina Restrepo
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Keywords: illegal
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2011-03-08
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0061953423
ISBN-13: 9780061953422
Author: K., R. Sutter
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing, LLC
Keywords: healthy, illegal
Number of Pages: 76
Published: 2006-03-17
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1598581406
ISBN-13: 9781598581409
Terminally ill????? Disease isn’t something you get. Health is something you lose. It seems almost absurd in its simplicity. You were healthy once. What happened? Where do these diseases come from? Are they just floating around in the ether somewhere randomly falling on an unsuspecting victim? And there’s so many of them now. Fifty years ago Cancer was at one in two thousand. Today it’s one in three. Back in 1971 President Nixon declared war on cancer. Looks like the war on cancer went the same way as the war in Vietnam. We lost. Why? I am Dr. Kenneth R. Sutter II. I a
Author: Paul Levine
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: suspense, novel, illegal
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2011-01-25
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0553591053
ISBN-13: 9780553591057
Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: international, vintage, illegal
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-02-10
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 030727649X
ISBN-13: 9780307276490
Seven-year-old Che Selkirk was raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. The son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties, Che has grown up with the hope that one day his parents will come back for him. So when a woman arrives at his front door and whisks him away to the jungles of Queensland, he is confronted with the most important questions of his life: Who is his real mother? Did he know his real father? And if all he suspects is true, what should he do? In this artful tale of a young boy’s journey, His Illegal Self lifts your spirit in the most une
Author: Robert Turkington
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: purposes, illegal, used, chemicals
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2009-10-26
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0470187808
ISBN-13: 9780470187807
Chemicals Used for Illegal Purposes helps hazmat professionals and others determine if chemicals at a suspicious site could be used to make illegal substances such as drugs, explosives, pyrotechnics, nerve agents, and other toxins. It profiles dangerous chemicals, covering their appearance, smell, incompatibilities, and identification tests. It features diagrams to assist responders in identifying illegal laboratories. This is a hands-on reference for crime scene responders, policemen, firemen, bomb squad members, drug enforcement officials, and others who need to be able to identify potential
