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A little pumpkin dreams of the day when he will be a big, fierce, yellow pumpkin who frightens away the field mice as the scarecrow does.

Detective Jack Frost returns to seek out the unpleasant truth, often at great personal cost. This season Frost raids an illegal dogfighting ring, hoping to nab a local gangster, but the thug eludes him, and a brutal killing follows. Meanwhile, he is disturbed to find that someone is copying a series of unsolved crimes from years earlier, and Frost himself may be the killer's next victim. Most unexpected of all, love finally finds the aging detective,...

Brilliant CIA analyst Jack Ryan has little interest in fieldwork, but when covert photographs of Red October land on his desk, Ryan soon finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek played by two world powers; a game that could end in all-out war.

"Jack Nicklaus II shares stories, insights, and lessons he’s learned from his father, the “Golden Bear,” that will delight golf fans of all ages, encourage fathers, and inspire readers to focus on what’s most important in life---family"--

[disc 1]. Paying the price. "Rendered homeless by his own carelessness by burning his house down, Frost takes on a kidnapping case. A 24-hour operation at the victim's flat leads to escalating demands from the kidnapper and even Frost finds it difficult to keep cool under the pressure."--Container. [disc 2]. Unknown soldiers. "Frost finds himself staring down the barrel of a gun when he interviews a suspected drug dealer. He also investigates the...

In an attempt to heal from the deterioration caused by the pressures of sudden fame and too much alcohol, famous Beat author Jack Kerouac escapes to an isolated, mist-shrouded cabin in the primitive landscape of the Big Sur woods. Instead of finding the peace he desires, he is foiled once again by his own inner demons and sets off on a visceral collision course of paranoia, sex, delirium tremens, misery and madness.

After serving in Afghanistan, a young Jack Ryan becomes an analyst in the Financial Intelligence Unit of the CIA under the guardianship of his handler, Harper. When Ryan believes he's uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from analyst to spy, fighting to save his own life and those of countless others. Meanwhile, he is also trying to protect his relationship with his fiancee Cathy. A global action thriller set in...

"Ken Bruen has been called "hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility" (New York Times Book Review). His prose is as characteristically sharp as his outlook in the latest Jack Taylor novel, In the Galway Silence. After much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor has at long last landed at contentment. Of course, he still knocks back too much Jameson and dabbles in uppers, but he has a new woman in his life,...

When a beautiful woman is accused of murdering her husband, there is only one person she wants to represent her--Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck. What begins as a simple assignment, however, swiftly lurches into a twisting thrill-ride of unanswered questions and mounting suspicions on Jack's part, for the victim's husband was an officer at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay and the son of a prominent Cuban exile, and her story changes...

Explains why an object that looks like a pumpkin and can be moved like a pumpkin is not a really a pumpkin.