Author: Linda Barnes
Publisher: Hyperion
Keywords: fools, trouble
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-10-06
List price: $4.50
ISBN-10: 0786889535
ISBN-13: 9780786889532
The first book in the Carlotta Carlyle series!Linda Barnes’s A Trouble of Fools is the book that introduced readers to ex-Boston cop and PI Carlotta Carlyle, who knows trouble when she sees it like the old Irish lady offering a grand in cash to find her brother...TROUBLE…Since being bounced from the Boston police for insubordination after six years of service, Carlotta Carlyle has set up shop as a private investigator ready to deal with anything from lost pets to substantially grander larcenies. Though Carlotta, a six-foot-tall, redheaded ex cop, part-time cabbie, and neophyte private eye,
Author: Haidan Dong
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: trickery, trouble
Number of Pages: 58
Published: 2004-03-02
List price: $8.94
ISBN-10: 0595311709
ISBN-13: 9780595311705
Written by a pre-teen author, Of Trouble and Trickery unfolds the story of Heather Doung, fifth-grade vulpine who, in her class, starts full-scale rivalry against a traitor and a mathematician.To make matters worse-and better-the rest of the class get into trouble of their own, shooting elastic bands and bribing each other to be spies.Heather never planned for it to become so large, but now that it is, she must to cling to one thought expect the unexpected and win the rivalry.
Author: Nicole Seitz
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Keywords: water, trouble
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008-03-11
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1595544003
ISBN-13: 9781595544001
Set in the South Carolina Sea Islands, Nicole Seitz’s second novel follows the stories of two sisters. One is seeking to recreate her life yet again and learns to truly live from a group of Gullah nannies she meets on the island. The other thinks she’s got it all together until her sister’s imminent death from cancer causes her to re-examine her own life and seek the healing and rebirth her troubled sister managed to find on St. Anne’s Island. An entrancing, unsettling story of sisterhood and sea changes, healing grace and unlikely angels. A tragic, hilarious, hope-
Author: Betty G. Birney
Publisher: Puffin
Keywords: humphrey, according, trouble
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-02-28
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0142410896
ISBN-13: 9780142410899
Author: Raymond Chandler
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: business, trouble
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1988-08-12
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0394757645
ISBN-13: 9780394757643
In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold digger, runs afoul of crooked politicos, gets a line on some stolen jewels with a reward attached, and stumbles across a murder victim who may have been an extortionist.
Author: Christopher Coake
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: trouble
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-04-11
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0151010943
ISBN-13: 9780151010943
Each of the seven stories in this extraordinary debut collection dramatizes a deep love staring at the face of death- an encounter that elicits either the best or the worst in these vividly drawn characters. In "We’re in Trouble," a woman is asked to end her dying husband’s suffering. In "Abandon," a troubled young man must risk jail to do right by the only woman he has ever loved. And "In the Event" shows a young musician’s all-night vigil after his best friends’ sudden deaths leave him the guardian of their three-year-old son.Suspenseful and empathic, these dramatica
Author: Leslie Bulion
Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
Keywords: rules, trouble
Number of Pages: 137
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1561454400
ISBN-13: 9781561454402
For Nadine Rostraver, fourth grade means peer pressure and new social rules she hadn t anticipated. For one thing, girls aren t supposed to hang out with boys anymore. So where does that leave Nadine and her best friend Nick?Then Summer Crawford arrives at Upper Springville Elementary and Nadine s life goes from bad to worse! Nadine loses her job as the art editor on the class newspaper The Springville Spark and gets in some serious trouble with her teacher, Mr. Allen. But Summer is a free spirit who marches to her own beat. Slowly Nadine realizes that life can be a lot more fun if you call yo
