A Poisonous Silence

A Poisonous SilenceBy: Jenny Adams When a film star is poisoned in Prohibition era Philadelphia, private investigator Edie Shippen is on the case in the second Deadly Twenties mystery, perfect for fans of Deanna Raybourn and Rhys Bowen. Philadelphia, 1921. Edie Shippen has officially started her new career as a private investigatoreven though she has yet to book a client. When she runs into an old friend, the film actress Ava Sylvester, Edie is delighted at the chance

Carmel Fishkill was unceremoniously pushed into a world that refuses to offer her security

Blackmail lures sixteen-year-old Ava to the derelict carnival on Portgrave Pier

Ana Huang truly is the queen of billionaire romances' Goodreads Review

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• Relevance: your capacity to connect with others’ interests

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from homeless intellectual Joe Gould to Old John McSorley

作者: 富安陽子  |  繪者: 小松良佳 | 譯者: 游韻馨 |適讀年齡:10-12 |

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Mark Kurlansky journeys to his familiar haunts like New York’s Central Park or Miami’s Little Havana but with an original

Jacob Portman ventures through history one last time to rescue the peculiar children from a heavily guarded fortress

Asking young readers what being loved feels like to them and how they can show others love prompts questions about how we treat one another and ourselves