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Meg and Michael's annual holiday celebration is well underway, with
a throng of out-of-town relatives staying at their house. Hosting
these festivities is a little harder than usual - they have to
relocate all the events normally held in their library, currently
occupied by Roderick Castlemayne, the irascible wildlife artist
who's creating twelve paintings of birds to illustrate Meg's
grandfather's latest nature book. Then someone murders Castlemayne
in the middle of a blizzard and sets loose the birds he was
painting. Can Meg help the police crack the case before the killer
strikes again? This intrigue-filled Christmas mystery takes readers
home to Caerphilly to join in Meg's family's holiday celebration -
including, of course, another baffling mystery.
Dashing Through the Snowbirds is the next merry installment of
Donna Andrews's New York Times bestselling Meg Langslow mystery
series. Christmas in Caerphilly is wonderful! Unless you're a
Canadian whose inconsiderate boss is forcing you to spend the
holiday there, far from family and friends, with only a slim chance
of a white Christmas. Meg already has her hands full, trying to
make the season festive for the dozen programmers who are staying
with her and Michael while working on a rush project with her
brother's software company. At least it's an interesting project,
since the Canadian company is doing forensic genealogy and DNA
analysis. When the inconsiderate boss is found murdered, there are
too many suspects. Even before their Christmas in exile, his own
employees had plenty of motives, and the growing number of people
suing the company for faulty DNA analysis and invasion of their
genetic privacy include at least one notorious murderer. Can Meg
crack the case in time to keep the Yuletide bright?
Meg is relaxing in the hammock, taste-testing Michael's latest
batch of Arnold Palmers and watching the hummingbirds at their
feeders when her hopes for a relaxing early summer morning are
dashed. First her father recruits her to help him install a new
batch of bees in the hive in her backyard. Then Mayor Shiffley
recruits her to placate the NIMBYs (Not in my backyard), as she
calls them - a group of newcomers to Caerphilly who have built
McMansions next door to working farms and then do their best to
make life miserable for the farmers. And finally Meg's grandmother,
shows up, trailed by a nosy reporter who is writing a feature on
her for a genteel Southern ladies' magazine. Cordelia drafts Meg to
accompany her and Deacon Washington of the New Life Baptist Church
- and the reporter, alas - in their search for a long-lost
African-American cemetery. Unfortunately what they discover is not
an ancient cemetery but a fresh corpse. Can Meg protect her
grandmother - and Caerphilly - from the reporter who seems to see
the worst in everything . . . and help crack the case before the
killer finds another victim?
The primary aim of Taking Control of Your Seizures: Workbook is to
improve the lives of patients with seizures. Both epileptic
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potentially disabling. The Workbook is designed to be used by a
patient with seizures in conjunction with his or her counselor. The
Workbook contains step-by-step guidelines that enable patients to
take control of their seizures and their lives. The companion
Treating Nonepileptic Seizures: Therapist Guide enhances
effectiveness by providing session-by-session instructions for
counselors who use the Workbook with patients with NES. The authors
developed this treatment approach based on extensive clinical
experience and research with epilepsy and NES. Many patients who
have completed the Taking Control process experience fewer
seizures, reduced symptoms, and a greater sense of well-being.
Chesapeake Crimes II is an eclectic mix of mystery and murder. No
sooner do the stories start than the bodies begin to fall. Fifteen
mysteries written by fifteen different authors-all members of
Chesapeake Sisters in Crime and some of the hottest authors in
mystery today-are a must-read for anyone serious about murder
mysteries. In these pages you will find Edgar, Anthony, and Agatha
Award winners. Authors include Goodie Cantwell, Nora Charles, Leone
Ciporin, Carla Coupe, Elizabeth Foxwell, Chris Freeburn, Barb
Goffman, Peggy Hanson, G. M. Malliet, Sherriel Mattingly, Valerie
O. Patterson, Judy Pomeranz, Harriette I. Sackler, Marcia Talley,
and Sandi Wilson.
A Shakespearean twist on the long-running Meg Langslow mystery
series in Murder Most Fowl, the next installment from Donna
Andrews, award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The
Falcon Always Wings Twice. Meg Langslow's in for a busy summer. Her
husband is directing a production of Macbeth, and most of the cast
and crew are occupying spare bedrooms in their house. She also has
to keep an eye on Camp Birnam, where a group of medieval reenactors
are commemorating the real-life Macbeth by setting up what they
fondly believe is an authentic medieval Scottish military camp. And
then there's Damien Goodwin, a filmmaker who has been hanging
around, trying to document the production. When Goodwin hosts a
showing of some of the footage he's taken, he manages to embarrass
or offend just about everyone. The next morning Meg isn't exactly
surprised to find that someone has murdered him. But who? Some
people's motives were obvious from the footage: the couple whose
affair was revealed . . . the bombastic leader of the reenactors,
who could be facing years in prison if the evidence from the video
helps convict him of sheep stealing . . . the actress who's
desperately trying to downplay a health issue that could cost her
the role of her life. Other motives are only hinted at--did the
filmmaker have other footage that would reveal why one of the
actors is behaving so furtively? Unfortunately, whoever murdered
Goodwin also destroyed all the electronic devices on which his
video was stored. So Caerphilly's chief of police--and Meg--must
rediscover the same secrets the filmmaker did if they want to catch
a killer.
Meg and Michael's house is serving as the marshaling point for
the annual Caerphilly Christmas parade. The theme is "The Twelve
Days of Christmas," and it features twelve drummers from the school
marching band, eleven bagpipers, and so on. As organizer, Meg's job
is hard enough. But when her nephew Eric, wide eyed and ashen
faced, whispers, "Meg, something's wrong with Santa," things take a
tragic turn. The local curmudgeon, whose beard and belly made him a
natural for the role, has been murdered. Now it's up to Meg and
Chief Burke to tackle the two-fold mission of solving the murder
and saving Christmas
This latest adventure from award-winning Donna Andrews is filled
with outrageous Christmas spirit and malice.
Three Weddings...And a Murder
So far Meg Langslow's summer is not going swimmingly. Down in her
small Virginia hometown, she's maid of honor at the nuptuals of
three loved ones--each of whom has dumped the planning in her
capable hands. One bride is set on including a Native American
herbal purification ceremony, while another wants live peacocks on
the law. Only help from the town's drop-dead gorgeous hunk,
disappointingly rumored to be gay, keeps Meg afloat in a sea of
dotty relatives and outrageous neighbors.
And, in whirl of summer parties and picnics, Souther hospitality is
strained to the limit by an offenseive newcomer who hints at
skeletons in the guests' closets. But it seems this lady has
offended one too many when she's found dead in suspicious
circumstances, followed by a string of accidents--some fatal. Soon,
level-headed Meg's to-do list extends from flower arragements and
bridal registries to catching a killer--before the next catered
event is her own funeral...
Meg Langslow is only too pleased to join her grandfather on a
cruise ship vacation dedicated to lectures on birds and other
environmental topics. But Meg's vacation quickly becomes a
nightmare when the ship breaks down and needs repairs... in the
Bermuda Triangle. Ahoy! If that, plus nursing an injured tern back
to health, isn't enough, a woman has jumped ship - leaving behind a
note that reveals alarming details about her fellow writing-retreat
members who are still onboard - and Meg's grandfather's assistant,
Trevor, is now missing too. Suspicions are flying all around...
Soon it's up to Meg to swab the decks and solve this killer case
before more bodies are swept to shore.
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