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Introduction by A. S. Byatt
Illustrations by John Tenniel
Includes commissioned endnotes
Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have delighted generations of readers in more than eighty languages. “The clue to the enduring fascination and greatness
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Southern Sisters mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
2001
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243 p. ; 22 cm.
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Enjoying their golden years, amateur sleuths Mary Alice and Patricia Anne are delighted to be invited to a benefit, but their fun turns deadly when an Elvis impersonator takes a fatal dive into the band and the sisters must find a killer before it is too late.
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Southern Sisters mysteries volume 5
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Anne George's best-selling Southern Sisters mysteries offer delightful mixtures of offbeat characters, charming humor, and intriguing crimes. In Murder Gets a Life, middle-aged sisters Mary Alice and Patricia Ann are sleuthing their way through a mystery that is hotter than Alabama in August. Mary Alice's son has married Sunshine, a petite blond who is cute as a button. Her family, however, lives in a junk-filled trailer compound dotted with rusty...
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Southern Sisters mysteries volume 2
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Anne George's delightful mysteries combine humor and suspense in equal measure. Patricia Anne and Mary Alice are "60-something" twin sisters who, after years of sibling rivalry, have discovered a mutual interest in folk art. However, Patricia Anne never dreamed that attending a gallery opening would land them in the middle of a murder investigation. Patricia Anne, a retired school teacher, is pleasantly surprised to see that Claire, a former student,...
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p2001
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7 sound discs (8.25 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Anne George's novels offer a delightful mix of gentle comedy and compelling mystery. Murder Runs in the Family finds two feisty 60-something sisters doing a little amateur sleuthing into the death of a visiting genealogist. Mary Alice has spared no expense for her daughter's wedding. Two days after the glittering affair, Mary Alice and Patricia Anne are spending a fascinating lunch listening to the groom's cousin explain the 'dog-eat-dog" world of...
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Southern Sisters mysteries volume 1
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Flamboyant divorcee Mary Alice, better known as "Sister, " decides to buy her favorite hang-out, the Skoot 'n' Boot bar despite the disapproval of her respectable sister Patricia Anne, but the disagreement does not keep the women from teaming up to solve a crime when a dead body is found in the pub's wishing well.
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℗2017
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8 audio discs (7 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Alan Bennett narrates five much-loved stories by Kenneth Grahame, Lewis Carroll and AA Milne. The Wind in the Willows is the classic story featuring Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad (of Toad Hall). In Alice in Wonderland, when Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole, she embarks on a series of adventures with some of the most weird and wonderful characters ever encountered. In Through the Looking Glass, Alice sees another world in the looking glass and...
12) A cat named Brat
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2003
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199 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Hired to house-sit for Brat, the hyperactive cat belonging to New York guidebook author Louis Montag while his owner tries to work, actress/sleuth Alice Nestleton is stunned when, on her first day, she is attacked, her employer is murdered, and Brat vanishes, and drafts some of her colorful associates to uncover the truth about the case.
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2001
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200 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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A routine cat-sitting job for a beautiful Russian Blue feline at the center of a custody battle turns deadly for Alice Nestleton when she narrowly escapes death at the local supermarket, the building's doorman turns up dead, and her feline mysteriously vanishes.
14) A cat on the bus
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Pub. Date
2003
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207 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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When an ordinary ride aboard a crosstown bus leaves Alice Nestleton an eyewitness to a bizarre and senseless multiple homicide, by a killer who leaves her cat behind, she is asked to assist the NYPD as a consultant on the case.
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2000
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260 p. ; 22 cm.
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The Southern sisters have just returned from a trip to Europe, but they barely have time to get over jet lag before they are involved in another mystery. An anguished cousin has lost his wife to a snake-handling preacher, and when the sisters travel to a remote mountain settlemen to find her, they discover a corpse instead. An award-winning novelist and poet, Anne George has entertained millions of fans with her Agatha Award-winning mysteries.
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