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When Tina, Willie''s big sister, gets to cast and direct the next school play, Willie assumes that she is a slam-dunk for the lead. Every night Willie dreams of her reviews in the school newspaper: "BRAVO! SPECTACULAR! OUT OF THIS WORLD! A New Star Is Born at Harriet Tubman School and her name is Willimena Thomas!" But Willie''s audition goes south and she is cast as a tree. And without saying a single word, Willie still manages to make the headlines on opening night: "NIGHTMARE ON TUBMAN STAGE! Tap-Dancing Tree Ruins School Play." Needless to say, Willimena does her best to make things right. But in the process, she makes things worse than Tina could ever imagine.

This time Willimena''s troubles arrive in the form of sweet, innocent little peanut-butter cremes, chocolate mint, and 100% shortbread cookies. She sells box after box after box. and even gets a patch for being the top seller in her troop. But then she loses-well, actually, spends-the money while trying to do her best to live up to the Girl Scout Law. But in doing so, she breaks it at the same time. Facing the humiliation and shame of being kicked out of Brownies, she and her big sister Tina come up with a plan to earn the money back. Of course, it backfires and that''s when things really begin to heat up!!

Brief biographies of black men and women.

Featuring the same spunky young heroine in three separate adventures in which she gets into trouble, but learns something along the way, this work of fiction will delight readers age 7-10. In the first tale Willimena spends most of her Girl Scout Cookie money to help someone out, and now has to think of a way to earn it back. In the second story she gets to take care of the class guinea pig, an honour that holds some surprises! In the final tale Willimena''s cousin comes to town and charms her family and friends, but what will Willimena do to get noticed?

After being held prisoner for years, Artemis Fowl''s father has finally come home. He is a new man-an honest man, much to Artemis''s horror. He makes his son promise to give up his life of crime, and Artemis has to go along with it. But not until he has completed one last scheme. Artemis has constructed a super-computer from stolen fairy technology. Called the "C Cube," it will render all existing human technology obsolete. He arranges a meeting with a powerful Chicago businessman, Jon Spiro, to broker a deal for the C Cube. But Spiro springs a trap-he steals the C Cube and mortally injures Butler. Artemis knows his only hope of saving his loyal bodyguard is to employ fairy magic; so once again he must contact his old rival, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. It is going to take a miracle to save Butler, and Artemis''s luck may have just run out.

Als Alleinerziehende stets knapp bei Kasse, nimmt Tamara den Auftrag des Investmentbankers Lincoln Storey an: Sie soll den Freund seiner Stieftochter Alexa beschatten – ausgerechnet ein Exlover Tamaras. Doch ehe sie auch nur den ersten Honorarscheck erhält, ist der Auftraggeber tot und Privates nicht mehr von Beruflichem zu trennen. Tiefer und tiefer dringt Tamara in die undurchsichtige Vergangenheit des Investmentbankers ein und riskiert dabei ihr eigenes Leben.

Willimena Thomas has to deal with the class bully and the back-to-school blues.

Une semaine de vacances au soleil tous frais payés ou presque, pour une détective privée qui ne roule pas sur l''or, c''est pain bénit. Et Tamara Hayle entend bien profiter de sa semaine à Kingston... Mais la jeune femme semble attirer les âmes en peine : à peine installée au bord de la piscine, une inconnue s''empresse de lui confier ses malheurs conjugaux. Comme Tamara lui prête une oreille compatissante, rien d''étonnant à ce que la même naïade, au doux nom de Delilah Love, frappe à sa porte le lendemain avec deux cadavres dans son sillage... Loin du Bronx et de la violence urbaine, la troisième enquête de Tamara Hayle la plonge dans une Jamaïque obscure et angoissante...

Eva, left alone at the age of forty when her husband of ten years leaves in search of the joy that he feels is missing from his life, takes refuge in the arms of her daughter''s ex-boyfriend, a handsome, twenty-eight-year-old jazz musician.

Dans les ghettos du New Jersey, les jeunes grandissent toujours trop vite, souvent ils meurent très tôt, et très souvent... assassinés, comme Shawn Raymond, un petit voyou de Court Ward, abattu dans son appartement sans aucune trace d''effraction. Quand sa mère, Bessie, vient frapper à la porte du bureau de Tamara Hayle pour réclamer justice, l''affaire a déjà été classée par la police : banal règlement de comptes entre dealers. Mais les figures du passé ressurgissent dans sa vie, et Tamara se voit obligée de plonger à corps perdu au cœur du danger... Quatrième enquête de la privée chic et choc de Newark, A visage découvert confirme la place de Valerie Wilson Wesley parmi les grandes, entre Sara Paretsky et Sue Grafton...