Tooth and Nail

• Author : Charles Harrington Elster,Joseph Elliot
• Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Release : 27 May 1994

Uses hundreds of SAT vocabulary words printed in boldface in the text of a mystery novel, and includes a glossary, sample test, and tips on studying

• Author : Ian Rankin
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 14 May 2009

The third Inspector Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES 'No one writes better crime novels' EVENING STANDARD They call him the Wolfman - because he takes a bite out of his victims and because they found the first victim in the East End's lonely Wolf Street. Scotland Yard are anxious to find the killer and Inspector Rebus is drafted in to help. But his Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn't happy

• Author : Craig DiLouie
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 20 June 2013

"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, not with a whimper, but a slaughter.

• Author : Sara Lunsford
• Publisher : Corvus Corax
• Release : 23 January 2018

Sara Lunsford's breezy, almost conversational prose deceptively lulls usinto a vulnerable state before taking us into some dark and terrifying places.TOOTH AND NAIL is aptly titled, because it's a nail-biter. Recommended.-GrandMaster of Horror Award Winner Ray Garton, Author of Live Girls. “The Vigilante” was my case. He killed killers. Rapists. Drug-dealing scum. All the ugly crumbs that fell through the cracks of willfully blind justice. I spent five years hunting him until I realized I didn’t really

• Author : Brian Coman
• Publisher : Text Publishing
• Release : 01 March 2010

When the First Fleet arrived at Sydney Cove in 1788, its cargo included a small number of rabbits. A hundred years later rabbits had colonised vast areas of the continent, bringing irreversible change to the country's ecology. Tooth and Nail is a beautifully written and wonderfully entertaining history about human reactions to the rabbit. A survivor of drought, fire, flood, diseases, predators and poisons, this small and rather attractive creature has irrevocably transformed our environment and influenced social, political and cultural

• Author : Agatha Gregson
• Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
• Release : 15 July 2016

Plenty of predators use their monstrous jaws and piercing claws to attack their prey, but many creatures wield these adaptations as defensive mechanisms, too. Readers may be surprised that an animal as cute as the red panda can fiercely protect itself from a snow leopard and that there’s a kind of frog that can jab its version of a bony claw through its skin. Every animal needs to have some kind of weapon if they want to survive in

• Author : Anupam Arunachalam
• Publisher : Penguin Random House India
• Release : 28 June 2017

Displayed as found! In the pages of history and in the dense undergrowth of human memory, we see glimpses of lurking fantastic beasts. Be honest-haven't you felt them around you? Haven't you been surprised by movement in the corner of your vision? By stirring shadows or a faint rustling in the dark? The specimens in this exhibit of monsters from the Indian subcontinent have been hand-picked from musty old encyclopedias, murky urban legends, earthy folk tales and the white-hot bowels

• Author : Jonathan Maberry
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 23 July 2013

What happened to Benny Imura and his friends after they reached Sanctuary—and discovered that it was far from the miracle they had thought it would be? Jonathan Maberry shares a glimpse into a formative moment in an exclusive e-short story that also features Joe Ledger (Patient Zero, Extinction Machine) and Iron Mike Sweeney (The Pine Deep Trilogy).

• Author : Douglas Christian Larsen
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release : 01 March 2011

Rodolphus and Larsen. Together in one book for the very first time. These two writers stir emotions, produce chills, and introduce characters that remain in our memories, as if they are people we know and love (and sometimes hate and fear). Collected here are such singular works as Fearsweat, wherein a supernatural stalker threatens an entire town. In My Father: The Killer, we meet a young man who has always believed the worst about his father, a famed terrorist. Interstate

• Author : Ian Rankin
• Publisher : Macmillan
• Release : 11 November 2008

Assisting the London police in the investigation into a serial killer who leaves bite marks on his victim's necks, Scottish homicide detective John Rebus struggles with differences in personal style with his British partner. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

• Author : Kim Solga
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 08 August 2019

To call something modern is to assert something fundamental about the social, cultural, economic and technical sophistication of that thing, over and against what has come before. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age provides an interdisciplinary overview of theatre and performance in their social and material contexts from the late 19th century through the early 2000s, emphasizing key developments and trends that both exemplify and trouble the various meanings of the term 'modern', and the identity of

• Author : Sven Tarp
• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
• Release : 01 January 2008

Biographical note: Sven Tarp, Center for Lexicography, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

• Author : J. M. Dixon
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 27 May 1891

• Author : James Main Dixon
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 27 May 1891

This is a classical text of a dictionary of English idioms and phrases. This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book

• Author : Per-Olof Hasselgren
• Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
• Release : 03 June 2015

Written by a physician, Body Language – from Head to Toe is a “dictionary” of American idioms and other expressions that contain the name of a body part. The use of body part-related expressions is both interesting and fun. This book contains about 2,000 such idioms, words, and expressions, such as “with the back against the wall,” “brainstorming,” “sweet tooth,” and “tongue in cheek.” Says author Per-Olof Hasselgren, “As a surgeon, I understand the importance of anatomy and the knowledge of organs