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Little Alice Mongoose has a loving home and doting parents in India, but she is eager to have a grown-up job and make her mark on the world. She travels to the Big Island of Hawaii, where mongoose are very much in demand. On the voyage over, as she is nibbling on one of the hard-boiled eggs her father packed for her, an unpleasant man with big boots comes over and tells her what her job in Hawaii will be: to kill rats in the cane fields. Poo...

Professor Emma Nakamura doesn't believe in ghosts. So it doesn't bother her (much) when she learns of a long-ago suicide in her remote upcountry rental house. She's sure there's a logical explanation for the disappearing items and the strange sounds in the night. Fortunately (?), Emma's best friend Molly has news shocking enough to take Emma's mind off the hauntings. Now Emma and Molly have to rely on their strong reasoning skills and a weak ...

Mahina State's powerful fundraising office tasks Professor Molly with a special assignment: To serve as the personal tutierge (that's tutor-concierge) to Jeremy Brigham, whose mother happens to be fabulously wealthy and gravely ill. Molly is not thrilled at having to babysit a spoiled slacker. But once inside the Brigham House, Molly realizes something is very wrong. And she has to decide whether to mind her own business and keep her job, or r...

It's Alice Mongoose's first Christmas in Hawaii. She misses her family and is resigned to spending the holiday alone.Alistair Rat would love to spend Christmas with his best friend Alice, but he's afraid that Alice has more exciting things to do than spend time with a solitary rat.Fortunately, the outspoken Cordelia Canetoad knows just what to do!The Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat stories are classic tales of friendship, beloved to this day b...

Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat have a lovely lunch shop. Alice runs it during the daytime, and Alistair, who is nocturnal, manages the night shift. Everything is working well-until a helpful customer suggests that they put up a sign. Alice and Alistair agree that their lunch shop should have a sign. And they assume they agree on what the sign should say. When the delivery arrives, Alice and Alistair both have a bad surprise. They must work to...

Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat love to eat. And they love to cook together. Naturally, they decide to open a restaurant. How much fun it will be! But on opening night, Alice and Alistair find that some customers are impossible to please, others are happy to eat everything in the pantry and squawk for more, and the entire endeavor is far too much for the two friends to manage. Their dream, they fear, has turned out to be a failure. Fortunately...

This box set contains four licensed novellas in the Miss Fortune universe.Mary-Alice Moves InBayou BusybodyThe Vanishing VictimAloha, Y'allIncludes Recipes

When Professor Molly brings her husband to Mahina State University's exclusive donor dinner, she doesn't expect to share a table with the insufferable Stephen Park. Turns out it's one thing to invite your toxic ex-boyfriend to drop dead...it's quite another when he takes you up on it.The Perfect Body has* no swearing* no explicit sex* no graphic violenceHowever, it does contain* realistic accounts of the new-mom experience, including diapers a...

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (1803-1847) was a French artist and satirist who was known by his pseudonym, J. J. Grandville. In Vie Privée et Publique des Animaux (The Private and Public Lives of Animals), first published in 1842, the animals of the world shake off human oppression and form their own government. Upon closer inspection, some of the beasts appear surprisingly human. This coloring book contains thirty-two high-resolution reproductio...

When a violent death disrupts the monthly meeting of the Pua Kala Garden society, Professor Molly Barda has no intention of playing amateur detective. But Molly's not just a witness-the victim is Molly's house guest and grad-school frenemy. And Molly quickly finds to her dismay that her interest in the murder is more than just…academic. If you like Dorothy Parker, Sarah Caudwell, P.G. Wodehouse, or E.F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia stories, or are ...

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were- Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter. They lived with their Mother in a sand-bank, underneath the root of a very big fir-tree. This coloring book features Beatrix Potter's black and white line drawings, as seen in the original 1901 edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

Professor Molly has a new research project: investigating attitudes toward engineered crops. But on the way to interviewing a local farmer, she stumbles onto a dismembered body in a papaya field. Which couldn't possibly have anything to do with her project...could it? But a second gruesome death rocks Mahina's tight farming community, and Molly's administration drops her research like a hot potato. If Molly can't root out the bad apples, ...

I do not draw cats well, " Beatrix Potter reportedly complained to her publisher in 1916. But Potter continued to draw cats, and drew them well, perceptively portraying what New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead called "verities of feline nature:that cats are selfish, unpredictable, ill-tempered, unhelpful, and possibly violent." A century later, Miss Potter's cats continue to beguile and amuse. The high-quality images in this coloring book a...

Professor Molly Barda investigates a mysterious paddling accident, and realizes it isn't just business majors who cheat to get what they want. Whether it's moving up in the college rankings, getting a seat in the big canoe race, or just looking out for themselves, some people will do whatever it takes-including murder. If you like Dorothy Parker, Sarah Caudwell, P.G. Wodehouse, or E.F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia stories, or are in the mood for a ...

When the lecherous Kent Lovely, Mahina State's one-man hostile work environment, collapses face-first into his haupia cheesecake, the faculty retreat goes from dull to disastrous. Now Professor Molly Barda has to fight to keep an innocent out of prison--and herself off the unemployment line. If you like Dorothy Parker, Sarah Caudwell, P.G. Wodehouse, or E.F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia stories, you'll enjoy this tale of passion, pilferage, and pet...

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (1803-1847) was a French artist and satirist who was known by his pseudonym, J. J. Grandville. Un Autre Monde (Another World), published in 1844, was a highly original work, its surreal illustrations veering from whimsical to nightmarish. This coloring book contains thirty-thigh-resolutionion reproductions of the original illustrations. Illustrations are on one side of a page, with room for notes on the other side.

When Alice Mongoose sails from India to a sugar plantation on the Big Island of Hawaii, she is shocked to learn what her new job entails. She decides instead to strike out on her own. When she meets the gentle and dapper Alistair Rat, she knows that she has found a friend in her new Hawaiian home. Enjoy the artwork of author and illustrator Mary Pfaff, acclaimed in her day as the "Beatrix Potter of Hawaii." The Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat ...

Robert Hooke (1635-1703) is somewhat obscure today, due in part to the enmity of his famous, influential, and extremely vindictive colleague, Sir Isaac Newton. Yet Hooke was perhaps the single greatest experimental scientist of the seventeenth century. His reputation in the history of biology largely rests on his book Micrographia, published in 1665. Using his compound microscope and illumination system, he observed organisms as diverse s inse...

Relax with coloring therapy and enjoy this tour of historic Hawaiian stamps, from the earliest "Missionary" stamps to the bicentennial Hawaiian flag stamp. Printed on a single side, with space on the back of each sheet to record name, date, and notes. Get a free downloadable sample by signing up for the Hawaiian Heritage Press mailing list. http://bit.ly/HawaiianHeritage

Take time out for a short Hawaiian vacation with this relaxing collection of 32 photographic images of Hawaiian landscapes and native plants. Choose crayons, markers, pastel, colored pencils, pens, charcoal, or whatever you like. You can even use mixed media! Printed on one side for maximum picture quality and coloring pleasure. Each coloring page is on a separate sheet. Get a free downloadable sample by signing up for the Hawaiian Heritage ...