Those Voracious Vultures

Those Voracious Vultures
Author: Marta Magellan
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1561644250

Vultures are voracious! They eat a lot of yucky stuff--and that's good because it keeps things tidy. Here are 20 questions and answers about these clean-up birds so you'll know all about them. You'll learn why vultures' heads are bald, why vultures vomit, why vultures don't get sick when they eat rotten meat, why they circle in the sky, what baby vultures look like (cute fuzzballs), and whether turkey vultures gobble (no!). Make a turkey vulture mobile, a vulture collage, and connect the dots to reveal a Eurasian vulture. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

The Vulture is a Patient Bird

The Vulture is a Patient Bird
Author: James Hadley Chase
Publisher: Murder Room
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2013-06-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471903699

A brilliant but sadistic safe-breaker; a beautiful seductress; an expert young hunter and an ace pilot with a shady past - this is the team that undercover operator Armo Shalik assembles to steal the priceless Borgia ring from millionaire Max Kahlenberg's closely guarded fortress in the remote and deadly African bush. But when Kahlenberg finds out they are coming, the gang's expedition turns into a strictly one-way safari - to slaughter ... 'Insanely readable' Observer

Terra Nostra

Terra Nostra
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 1183
Release: 2013-05-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466840153

Terra Nostra is one of the great masterpieces of modern Latin American fiction. Concerned with nothing less than the history of Spain and of South America, with the Indian Gods and with Christianity, with the birth, the passion, and the death of civilizations, Fuentes's great novel is, indeed, that rare creation--the total work of art. Magnificently translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, Terra Nostra is, as Milan Kundera says in his afterword, "the spreading out of the novel, the exploration of its possibilities, the voyage to the edge of what only a novelist can see and say."