The Sculptor

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Sue Grafton

It is now nine weeks since Dr Dowan Purcell vanished without a trace. The sixty-nine-year-old doctor had said goodnight to his collegues at the Pacific Meadows nursing home, had climbed into his car and driven away - never to be seen again. His embittered first wife Fiona is convinced he is still alive. His second wife, Crystal - a former stripper forty ears his junior - is just as sure he is dead. Enter private investigator Kinsey Millhone, hired by Fiona to find out just what has happpened to the man they loved. Enter also tommy Hevener, an attractive flame-haired twenty-something who has set his romantic sights on Kinsey. And Tommy is a man with a very intresting past ... -- back cover.

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David D. Perlmutter

"From the dawn of time to the present, from the days of mammoth-hunting to the era of Scud-busting, pictures of war constitute the most persistent genre of images human beings have created. In fact, human beings are the only creatures who engage in these two activities - organized violence and the making of pictorial images - and the author shows how both art and war emerge from the same source: the hunter's eye.". "This book explores and analyzes the thirteen-thousand-year legacy of pictures of war from various cultures over the centuries."--BOOK JACKET.

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P. J. Night

Ancient artifacts provoke fresh fear when a night at the museum goes from fun to freaky in this spine-tingling addition to the You’re Invited to a Creepover series. Jane is ready for the time of her life. Tonight, she and forty-nine other girls will be spending the whole night in a museum! At first, she’s making lots of new friends and having a ton of fun, but the stakes get raised when one girl, Daria, dares her to take a tour of the museum after lights out. The girls have heard that one of the mummies in the Ancient Egyptian exhibit comes to life when the museum closes. Jane accepts the dare. After all, there’s no way a mummy can come to life. Or is there? And what other secrets will be revealed in a museum at night? This spooky story is a level 4 on the Creep-o-Meter. Super scary!

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Philip Niles

"During a period of rapid growth in Portland, after the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition and before the Great Depression, Albert E. Doyle was the city's most important architect. Beauty of the City is the first full-length biography of this celebrated architect. Doyle's career was short, just twenty-one years. Yet everywhere Portland retains his imprint. Using A.E. Doyle's own diaries and letters and his firm's records, Philip Niles traces the architect's life and times in the context of the burgeoning cityscape."--Jacket.