Lamar Public Library

In a sweltering trailer park in rural Florida, Lem Altick is peddling encyclopedias to pay for college. Then, before his eyes, a couple of potential customers are shot dead. The killer, the strangely charismatic Melford Kean, has struck without remorse and with remarkable good cheer. But the self-styled "ethical assassin" hadn't planned on a witness, and so he makes Lem a deal: Stay quiet and there will be no problems. Go to the police and take the...

Labeled illustrations identify theories, experiments, and instruments related to all areas of physics, including energy, machines, waves, electricity, magnetism, and nuclear reactions.

With main topics like Movies, Music, the Arts, Animals, Sex, Love & Marriage, Work & Money, Crime, Politics, etc. you can spend hours reading through this book.

"The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story - a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking." "Professor James Murray, an astonishingly...