The dog days of August are making the 87th Precinct feel like the inside of an oven. But things can always get hotter. With nearly half the squadroom on vacation, Detectives Carella and Hawes look into what appears to be an ordinary warehouse fire, but Carella and Hawes rarely see anything ordinary, and this is no different. The trail from the warehouse leads uptown to the murders of a junkie and a suspected prostitute. They soon discover a shady...

Two girls spend an adventurous night trapped inside the public library during a terrible blizzard.

For the well-meaning Henry Huggins, nothing ever works out quite as planned including getting the bike of his dreams. Luckily his pal Beezus Quimby is there to help! Henry's attempts at raising money for his bike fund keep falling flat. Selling bubble gum on the playground gets him in trouble with his teacher, and then Ribsy's nose for mischief almost ruins Henry s paper route. Even pesky little Ramona Quimby manages to get in the way of Henry's chance...

A braille primer for sighted parents, which works step by step through the alphabet, punctuation, contractions and special symbols. The text of the self-correcting exercises relates one parent's experience of preparing her blind child to learn to read.

"A young boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love and generosity of a tree which gives to him without thought of return"--WorldCat.