Interactive and chock full of interesting bits of informationits classic Encyclopedia Brown!Ĭlick for more in this series: Encyclopedia Brown And with ten confounding mysteries in each book, not only does Encyclopedia have a chance to solve them, but the reader is given all the clues as well. But his dad also happens to be the chief of the Idaville police department, and every night around the dinner table, Encyclopedia helps him solve his most baffling crimes. With an uncanny knack for trivia, he solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids through his own detective agency. WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: Leroy Brown, aka Encyclopedia Brown, is Idaville neighborhoods ten-year-old star detective. Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Secret PitchĬontributor(s): Sobol, Donald J.
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Being a murder scene was fun for a while, but sooner or later, everyone wanted to get back to the rosy picture of small-town life Clarksville was so good at projecting-as long as you didn’t peel back the edges. “It’s time to face facts, Jack,” the Sheriff began once the novelty of humoring a bereaved husband’s conspiracy theories wore off. By the 1870s, the scientific community and a majority of the educated public had accepted evolution as a fact. In a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace, he introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding.Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species. 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Rodrigo, a Spanish commander, has conquered the ancient Aztec city of Tenochtitlan with sword and flame. The novel begins with a flashback to 16th century Mexico, at the time of the Conquistadors. This may be the first true multi-media novel it is packaged with a CD which contains a catholic mixture of Puccini arias and Mexican danzones, and the narrative switches between text and pictures – drawn by the celebrated Latin-American graphic artist, Miguelanxo Prado – as the characters relive their past lives, each evoked by a particular melody. Esquivel's second novel is set mainly in 23rd-century Mexico, but there are flashbacks to the past for these, the author uses an imaginative blend of music and graphic art. The Law of Love is a strange blend of magic realism and New Age spirituality, from the author of the award-winning Like Water for Chocolate, which was made into a successful film. In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art-namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. |