books about: mysterious     books:     Mysterious      The Mysterious Montague: A True Tale of Hollywood, Golf, and Armed Robbery Leigh Montville Doubleday, 2008 The Mysterious Montague - An Enjoyable Book The title of Leigh Montville's new book tells you a lot about the story without ever having to read a page. John Montague played golf and schmoozed with some of the most famous of the 1930's Hollywood celebrities. However, something in his personal life would ...             The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life Joseph Ledoux Simon & Schuster, 1998 Improving the performance of your mind by understanding how the brain works I have a special interest in training the mind to reduce negative thoughts and emotions with meditation exercises. I was therefore curious to find out if this book could give me some useful insights on this point. It does. In emotions we depend on two competing ...             Basket Case Carl Hiaasen Mysterious Press, 2005 Darkly funny and wildly entertaining Other than "Team Rodent" I had never read a Hiaasen novel until this one. I had always heard good things and had listened to him compared to many of my favorite authors. Last night I read Basket Case (actually I finished it... I started it yesterday). Now that I ...             Ricky Tims' Convergence Quilts: Mysterious, Magical, Easy, and Fun Ricky Tims C&T Publishing, 2003 An easy technique that makes everyone say WOW! Some quilting books show gorgeous quilts that you know you'll never make. The techniques are complex and time consuming, or the writing fails to give you confidence that you understand the steps involved. Perhaps it'd make sense if someone showed you just once... but ...             Nancy's Mysterious Letter (Nancy Drew, Book 8) Carolyn Keene Grosset & Dunlap, 1963 Wonderful Gift for Girls, ages 8-11 My cousin's daughter just celebrated her 9th birthday, and I plan on giving her this book, along with some other Nancy Drew books, for Christmas. I gave her volumes 1 through 6 for her birthday, and her mom tells me that she is just blazing through each book, because ...             The Mysterious Benedict Society Trenton Lee Stewart Little, Brown Young Readers, 2008 Thumbs way up! I am a 4th grade teacher and I just finished this book with my class. My students loved it, and we were able to talk about so many different issues that came out of the story, not to mention Morse Code! My 26 students range in ability level, but all of them love to be ...             The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey (Mysterious Benedict Society) Trenton Lee Stewart Little, Brown Young Readers, 2008 "Children You Must Not Come STOP. Dangerous" The Mysterious Benedict Society, a group of four children created to thwart the plans of the evil genius Ledroptha Curtain, is fresh off their great victory. The "brainswept" are slowly having their memories returned and everything seems like it should be getting back ...             Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, Book 1) Elizabeth Peters Mysterious Press, 1988 Absolutely wonderful escape This turn-of-the-20th-century cozy set in Egypt is a wonderful beginning to an excellent series. I have read other books in this series, but had not read this one that got everything started. Amelia Peabody and friends make for a delightful read. Nothing to gory or ...             Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar Mitsumasa Anno Putnam Juvenile, 1999 A lovely book on counting and factorials This picture book is easy to read, and presents two math concepts: the first is counting to ten. The second is factorials: If there are three kingdoms in two countries on one island, then how many kingdoms are there altogether? Imagining some of the silly scenes ...             The Curse of the Pharaohs (Amelia Peabody Mysteries) Elizabeth Peters Mysterious Press, 1988 Back to the Valley of Tombs This book finds our heroine Amelia Peabody married to the archeologist she met in Crocodile on the Sandbank. They have made their home in England where they have put their first love (digging around in Egypt) on hold while they raise their son and Professor Emerson ...             Fawn and the Mysterious Trickster (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)) Laura Driscoll RH/Disney, 2008 FAWN LOVES PRACTICAL JOKES. She’s by far the best prankster in all of Pixie Hollow. Then her friend Beck plays a trick of her own that spooks the fairy dust off Fawn. Fawn would never let a good joke go unanswered, and in the blink of a dragonfly’s eye, the two fairies in an all-out practical joke battle! Prank follows prank until one ...             Before the Pharaohs: Egypt's Mysterious Prehistory Edward F. Malkowski Bear & Company, 2005 If you want the truth....Buy this book! How old is the Sphinx? What was the Great Pyramid designed to be? I have never heard of Nabta Playa, but why would an astrophysicist claim that its megaliths were designed as a star map depicting the movements of the constellation Orion? And, over a 10,000 year period! ...             One Corpse Too Many: The Second Chronicle of Brother Cadfael Ellis Peters Mysterious Press, 1994 This being the second chronicle of Brother Cadfael Cadfael had answered the Crusader call when a young man. He had spent many years traveling the world, having adventures and learning many things but as he grew older he decided to return to England and become a Benedictine monk. Unfortunately the troubles of the ...             The Mysterious World of Sherlock Holmes: The Illustrated Guide to the Famous Cases, Infamous Adversaries, and ... Bruce Wexler Courage Books, 2008 Not Comprehensive, But Enlightening & Interesting Though Wexler's very visual book does not explain every detail from Holmes' cases, it definitely makes a good companion to them. Upon ordering the book I assumed the pictures would be small and/or sparse throughout. I was very mistaken, as the book is littered with ...             Silent Steel: The Mysterious Death of the Nuclear Attack Sub USS Scorpion Stephen Johnson Wiley, 2006 Silent Steel Not So Silent Any More I used to be a torpedo "cook-off" believer,however without advocating one way or the other, the author has convinced me she just lost depth control and imploded, just like Thresher, but we will never probably know how she lost depth control. There are still aspects of ...          products you might be interested in search for books adversaries, convergence, illustrated, multiplying, prehistory, underpinnings randomly chosen camera & photo: 6HR NP-FH100 BATTERY FOR SONY DCR-SR200 SR300 SR100