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Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
207 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"This lavishly illustrated book by Lisa Perrin introduces more than 25 infamous women poisoners, exploring the circumstances and skill sets that led them to lives of crime. Learn about popular poisons throughout history and their deadly effects, and explore the common motives that drove these women to commit their dastardly deeds. You might find yourself rooting for some of them-like Sally Bassett, who helped poison her granddaughter's enslavers in...
62) Poison study
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace -- and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust -- and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison. As Yelena...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jules Capshaw has too much on her plate--and she's feeling the pinch: the whole town of Ashland, Oregon, is in on the surprise Elizabethan-themed wedding she's planning for her mom and soon-to-be stepdad. But is her secret scheme half-baked? She's hiding racks overflowing with sweet treats while Torte is topsy-turvy with a major remodel and the return of Jules's estranged husband, Carlos. And until now, Jules had no clue about the bitter family feud...
66) Poisoned water: how the citizens of Flint, Michigan, fought for their lives and warned the nation
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., part of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Flint, Michigan had been built up, then abandoned, by General Motors. In 2014, as part of a plan to save money, government officials decided that Flint would temporarily switch its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Within months, many residents broke out in rashes. Children stopped growing. Some people were hospitalized with mysterious illnesses; others died. Despite the murky, foul-smelling liquid pouring from the city's faucets, officials...
67) Fierce poison
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Private Enquiry agent Cyrus Barker has just about seen it all--he's been attacked by assassins, his office has been bombed, and evil-doers have even nearly killed his dog. But never before has a potential client dropped dead in his office. When Roland Fitzhugh, Member of Parliament arrives to consult Barker and his partner Thomas Llewelyn, he falls to the floor, dead, upon entering. As they soon learn, he's been poisoned with a cyanide laced raspberry...
68) Cloud warriors
Author
Publisher
Roundfire Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The discovery of the century... Anthropology professor Terry Castro, leading a summer-school program in the Peruvian rain forest, stumbles upon the remnant of a nation of tall, white-skinned warriors from the time of the Incan empire. But, when a simple accident leaves Castro poisoned, a series of events are set in motion that threaten his life, and the extinction of the tribe. With the help of a young medium, Carrie Waters, Castro tries to find a...
69) The fallen star
Author
Series
Nocturnals volume 3
Publisher
Fabled Films Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
193 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dawn, Tobin, and Bismark awaken one evening to a disaster: all of the forest's pomelos have been mysteriously poisoned! As the Nocturnal Brigade sets out to investigate, they encounter Iris, a mysterious aye-aye, who claims monsters from the moon are to blame. While the three heroes suspect a more earthly explanation, the animals of the valley are all falling ill. And then Tobin gets sick, too! The Nocturnal Brigade must race to find answers, and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
When magic itself has been poisoned and her undead father may have left the only cure in the hands of a madman, Allie Beckstrom and her fellow renegades must elude the Authority to find the cure before they are no longer able to stop the sickness from spreading.
72) Frequency
Author
Series
Fallout volume 3
Publisher
Lisa Harris
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In today's world, law enforcement agencies across the country rely on forensic tools, DNA testing, and crime labs. But what if that technology was suddenly no longer available? No one in the small, west Texas town of Shadow Ridge knows what took down the power grid, or when it's going to be back up, but everyone knows exactly where they were the moment it went down. And now, with no electricity, no internet, and no modern technology, the men and...
Author
Series
Flower House mystery volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
St. Martin's Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sierra Ravenswood has embraced her role as owner of Flower House floral shop and companion to her former boss's pet, Gus the Corgi. Sierra's team are enjoying their new jobs too. At least until everyone realizes their lack of experience might be contributing to their lack of customers... Sierra decides they need a change in luck, so she creates a special window display featuring lucky bamboo and auspicious flowers. It seems the new arrangement has...
74) The night market
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's late Thursday night, and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene in one of the city's last luxury homes. The dead man on the floor is covered by an unknown substance that's eating through his skin. Before Carver can identify it, six FBI agents burst in and remove him from the premises. He's pushed into a disinfectant trailer, forced to drink a liquid that sends him into seizures, and is shocked unconscious. On Sunday he wakes in his bed to...
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
247 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When forty-year-old Esther Castellani died a slow and agonizing death in Vancouver in 1965, the official cause was at first undetermined. The day after Esther's funeral, her husband, Rene, packed up his girlfriend, Lolly; his daughter, Jeannine; and Lolly's son, Don, in the company car and took off for Disneyland. If not for the doggedness of the doctor who treated Esther, Rene, then a charismatic and handsome CKNW radio personality, would have been...
76) Poison evidence
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Kensington trade paperback printing.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the year 1543 of King Henry VIII's turbulent reign, the daughter of a notorious alchemist finds herself suspected of cold-blooded murder...Bianca Goddard employs her knowledge of herbs and medicinal plants to concoct remedies for the disease-riddled poor in London's squalid Southwark slum. But when her friend Jolyn comes to her complaining of severe stomach pains, Bianca's prescription seems to kill her on the spot. Recovering from her shock,...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
419 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick. The "Maybrick Mystery" had all the makings of a sensation: a pretty, flirtatious young girl; resentful, gossiping servants; rumors of gambling and debt; and torrid mutual infidelity. The case cracked the varnish of Victorian respectability, shocking and exciting the public...
79) Shadowscent
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
362 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Aramtesh Empire scent is all important, and seventeen-year-old Rakel has a way with perfumes which she hopes to use to delay her father's inevitable death. Ash is a member of the imperial bodyguard, assigned to the crown prince Nisai's bodyguard. Now they are all brought together on a caravan to an outer province, seeking a rare flower that can cure the poisoned emperor--but when Nisai himself is poisoned, Rakel and Ash smell like the chief...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Kensington trade edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Good deeds build good character, and good character is what the Haverleigh School for Young Ladies is all about. Lady Phoebe--with the tireless assistance of Eva--has organized a luncheon to benefit wounded veterans of the Great War, encouraging the students to participate in the cooking and the baking. But too many cooks add up to a recipe for disaster when the school's headmistress, Miss Finch, is fatally poisoned. The girls at Haverleigh all come...