Four funny and touching short stories featuring soccer mom and movie lover, Barbara Marr, who made her debut appearance in the hilarious murder mystery, Take the Monkeys and Run. Includes the laugh-out-loud mystery short story, "Missing Impossible." When Barb decides to tag along on a PI job with Colt, things don't go quite as planned, and she finds herself in yet another sticky situation. (A between-the-novels short) Other short stories: "Taming the Hulk," "Top Lawn," and "The Road to Shangri-La." Also, just for fun, the author has added two BONUS shorts with different themes. All-in-all - a collection sure to entertain.
Cantwell handles her characters with flair and pizazz...blending page-turning action with those little tender moments that get you right in the gut.
Other books in this series: Take the Monkeys and Run (#1), Citizen Insane (#2), Silenced by the Yams (#3), Saturday Night Cleaver (#4), and Dead Man Stalking (#5)
A closer inspection with my finger told me Barney had not only cut her lip, but had also broken two teeth. “Thtupid Barney,” she said, her tears drying. We cleaned up the blood, put an ice pack on her lip, and I called Dr. Horner's ...
“Russell is a fire fighter at the station just down the road. I met him at my Citizen's Fire Fighter Academy.” Of course, he was a fire fighter. They're all hunks. It's true—go to a station sometime and just try to find a fat and ugly ...
Moving and poetically rendered, this novel-in-verse is the story of a young girl whose determination to find out who she is prevails.
Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood! Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader.
"On a remote island in the Pacific, Corpus scientists have taken test tube embryos and given them life. These beings--the Vitros--have knowledge and abilities most humans can only dream of. But they also have one enormous flaw"--