Notes on a Killing

Notes on a Killing
Author: Kevin Flynn
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1101619392

Their friendship would kill her… Weaver and fiber artist Edith “Pen” Meyer knew her friend Sandy Merritt’s relationship with a married man was wrong. She had even urged Sandy to take out a restraining order against Kenneth Carpenter. Which was why her call to Sandy on February 23, 2005, seemed to come from out of the blue. During it, she told Sandy to drop the restraining order and get back together with Ken. Pen was never seen again. One man stood to gain from Pen’s disappearance: Ken Carpenter. But evidence was bleak: no blood, no DNA, no body. Until detectives found notes hidden beneath a leather chair that turned out to be a playbook for murder… INCLUDES PHOTOS

Dinosaurs Roar, Butterflies Soar!

Dinosaurs Roar, Butterflies Soar!
Author: Bob Barner
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2012-03-16
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1452113777

What are as light as a feather and as old as the dinosaurs? Butterflies! With a lively text and vibrant paper-collage illustrations, award-winning author Bob Barner brings us a wonderful look at the amazing history of butterflies, and how their lives intersected with the dinosaurs millions of years ago. Readers will be fascinated to discover that when they stop to admire a beautiful butterfly, a dinosaur may have once done the same! This gorgeous, rollicking, informative book is sure to become a favorite of budding scientists everywhere.