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Anonymous Rex

Author : Eric Garcia
Publisher : Villard
ISBN 13 : 0307819450
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Anonymous Rex written by Eric Garcia and published by Villard. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What would the world be like if the dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct? As this very funny book shows, for one thing, L.A. would be even weirder than it is now." --Dave Barry Vincent Rubio, a Los Angeles private investigator, is down on his luck: He's out of work. His car's been repossessed. His partner has died under mysterious circumstances. And his tail just won't stay put. Vincent is a dinosaur--a Velociraptor, to be precise. It seems the dinosaurs faked their extinction 65 million years ago and still roam the earth, disguised in convincing latex costumes that help them blend perfectly into human society. A heightened sense of smell allows the dinos to detect one another--Vincent's got an odor like a tasty Cuban cigar. When Vincent is called to investigate a two-bit case of arson at a hip dino nightclub, he discovers something much more sinister, which lures him back to New York City--the scene of his partner's death and a dangerous nexus of dinosaur and human intermingling. Will Vincent solve the mystery of his partner's death? Will a gorgeous blond chanteuse discover his true identity, jeopardizing both their lives? Will Vincent be able to conquer his dangerous addiction to basil, or will he wind up in Herba-holics Anonymous? Will he find true love, or resort to crumpled issues of Stegolicious? Somewhere between Jurassic Park and L.A. Confidential lies Eric Garcia's Anonymous Rex, one of the smartest, wittiest, and most entertaining debuts this side of the Ice Age.

Casual Rex

Author : Eric Garcia
Publisher : Villard
ISBN 13 : 0375506667
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Casual Rex written by Eric Garcia and published by Villard. This book was released on 2001-05-15 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1999, Eric Garcia made his mark with one of the most striking mystery debuts of the year, Anonymous Rex, hailed as a dino-mite detective yarn by People, inventive and imaginative by USA Today, and a fresh and antic comic thriller by The Seattle Times. Now, with Casual Rex, the sharpest dinosaur-detective in Los Angeles is back, funnier and grittier than ever, for the next tale in this acclaimed series. Vincent Rubio is a private eye, working the angles in Los Angeles with his partner, Ernie. They've got the usual problems bills, bum cases, woman troubles. But being dinosaurs is not a problem, as long as their latex disguises fit properly. Not all dinosaurs agree. Some have joined a mysterious back-to-basics movement led by a beautiful and beguiling Velociraptor to help dinosaurs find themselves, let their tails hang out, and roam about as they really are. When a member of this cult dies under suspicious circumstances, Vincent and Ernie must investigate, while simultaneously handling the case of the missing Mussolini the theft of a rare and priceless prosthetic penis treasured in the dinosaur community. With Casual Rex, Eric Garcia takes readers even more deeply into this warped underworld and succeeds in making it all believable. The result is a novel that is as hilarious and entertaining as it is original.

Anonymous Rex ; Casual Rex

Author : Eric Garcia
Publisher : Ace
ISBN 13 : 9780441012756
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Anonymous Rex ; Casual Rex written by Eric Garcia and published by Ace. This book was released on 2004 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inventive, imaginative, and funny detective thriller series starring a dinosaur disguised as a human in modern-day Los Angeles is now a Sci Fi Channel television movie.

Hot and Sweaty Rex

Author : Eric Garcia
Publisher : Villard
ISBN 13 : 1588364003
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Hot and Sweaty Rex written by Eric Garcia and published by Villard. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vincent Rubio, the most hard-boiled reptile detective ever, is back on the case in the third installment of Eric Garcia’s cult mystery series about dinosaurs who are still alive and committing crimes in L.A. Rubio’s latest assignment: the dinosaur mafia. As fans of Anonymous Rex and Casual Rex already know, the dinosaurs faked their extinction and live among us, disguising themselves as humans in elaborately designed latex costumes. Anyone could be a dinosaur. Your podiatrist. The crotchety old man who lives next door. Julia Roberts, it is well known, is actually a Stegosaur. When the head of the Raptor mafia asks Vincent Rubio to perform a service, he has no choice but to head for Miami to investigate a team of Hadrosaurs who are muscling in on Raptor territory. It’s dangerous business. Make the wrong move and your tail gets chopped off. Eric Garcia’s third Rex novel is a wildly entertaining mystery and an instant classic of dinosaur mafia fiction—further proof that this gifted author really knows where the bones are buried.

Matchstick Men

Author : Eric Garcia
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307488039
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Matchstick Men written by Eric Garcia and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • A novel about grifters with issues, by the acclaimed cult author of Anonymous Rex and Casual Rex Roy and Frankie are matchstick men—con artists. Partners in elegant crimes for years, they know each other like brothers and have perfected the rules of the game. Roy is the careful one, saves every penny. Frankie is the adventurous one, hungry for a big score. He wants Roy to join him in running a tricky game, but Roy is distracted by the discovery that he is the father of a punky teenage daughter from a brief marriage that ended years ago. The kid wants to get to know her father. She also wants to learn the family business. Novelist Eric Garcia takes readers into the fast and funny world of grifters with issues. Matchstick Men is a dazzling literary con game that will keep readers guessing until the last page.

Free Lunch

Author : Rex Ogle
Publisher : WW Norton
ISBN 13 : 1324003618
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Free Lunch written by Rex Ogle and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A mighty portrait of poverty amid cruelty and optimism."—Kirkus (starred review) Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle’s first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school’s free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day in the school lunch line, Rex’s is a compelling story of a more profound hunger—that of a child for his parents’ love and care. Compulsively readable, beautifully crafted, and authentically told with the voice and point of view of a 6th-grade kid, Free Lunch is a remarkable debut by a gifted storyteller.

Casual Rex

Author : Eric Garcia
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0425183394
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Casual Rex written by Eric Garcia and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2002-03-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised by Dave Barry and T.C. Boyle, Anonymous Rex was called an “awesomely funny” debut with “all the elements of a cult classic.” (Entertainment Weekly) Now Eric Garcia roars again…

Punching Bag

Author : Rex Ogle
Publisher : WW Norton
ISBN 13 : 1324016248
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Punching Bag written by Rex Ogle and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Public Library Best Book of 2021 The companion to Rex Ogle’s award-winning Free Lunch is a searing account of adolescence in a household torn by domestic violence. Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of hunger in Free Lunch, here describes his struggle to survive; reflects on his complex, often paradoxical relationship with his passionate, fierce mother; and charts the trajectory of his stepdad’s anger. Hovering over Rex’s story is the talismanic presence of his unborn baby sister. Through it all, Rex threads moments of grace and humor that act as beacons of light in the darkness. Compulsively readable, beautifully crafted, and authentically told, Punching Bag is a remarkable memoir about one teenager’s cycle of violence, blame, and attempts to forgive his parents—and himself.

The Repossession Mambo

Author : Eric Garcia
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061802832
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Repossession Mambo written by Eric Garcia and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to the technological miracle of artiforgs, now you can live virtually forever. Nearly indestructible artificial organs, these wonders of metal and plastic are far more reliable and efficient than the cancer-prone lungs and fallible kidneys you were born with—and the Credit Union will be delighted to work out an equitable payment plan. But, of course, if you fall delinquent, one of their dedicated professionals will be dispatched to track you down and take their product back. This is the story of the making—and unmaking—of the best Bio-Repo Man in the extraction business, who finds his soul when he loses his heart . . . and then he has to run.

Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society

Author : Cordelia Fine
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393253880
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society written by Cordelia Fine and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Beliefs about men and women are as old as humanity itself, but Fine’s funny, spiky book gives reason to hope that we’ve heard Testosterone rex’s last roar.” —Annie Murphy Paul, New York Times Book Review Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental force in human development. According to this false-yet-familiar story, the divisions between men and women are in nature alone and not part of culture. Drawing on evolutionary science, psychology, neuroscience, endocrinology, and philosophy, Testosterone Rex disproves this ingrained myth and calls for a more equal society based on both sexes’ full human potential.

Owls in the Family

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551991993
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Owls in the Family written by Farley Mowat and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every child needs to have a pet. No one could argue with that. But what happens when your pet is an owl, and your owl is terrorizing the neighbourhood? In Farley Mowat’s exciting children’s story, a young boy’s pet menagerie – which includes crows, magpies, gophers and a dog – grows out of control with the addition of two cantankerous pet owls. The story of how Wol and Weeps turn the whole town upside down is warm, funny, and bursting with adventure and suspense.

Roxy the Last Unisaurus Rex

Author : Eva Chen
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 1250780691
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Roxy the Last Unisaurus Rex written by Eva Chen and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instagram superstar and New York Times bestselling author of Juno Valentine and the Magical Shoes Eva Chen embarks on an all-new picture book venture of jurassic proportions, vibrantly brought to life by Matthew Rivera's rainbow watercolors. Dinosaurs are awesome. Unicorns are, too. So what happens when you combine the best parts of each? Roxy the Last Unisaurus Rex! Join Roxy in all her sassy, steak-loving, glittery glory as she learns about the importance of staying true to yourself, celebrating your differences, and finding friends who love you for who you are.

The Doorbell Rang

Author : Rex Stout
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 9780553237214
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book The Doorbell Rang written by Rex Stout and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s no one and nothing the great detective Nero Wolfe wouldn’t take on if the price was right. That’s something wealthy society widow Rachel Bruner is counting on when she writes him a check for a whopping hundred grand. But even Wolfe has a moment’s doubt when he finds out why the prize is so generous. For the oversize genius and his able assistant Archie Goodwin are about to lock horns with the FBI—and those highly trained G-men have a way with threats, tails, and bugs that could give even sedentary sleuth Nero Wolfe a run for his money. Introduction by Stuart Kaminsky “It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.”—The New York Times Book Review A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America’s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertained—and puzzled—millions of mystery fans around the world. Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable master himself, Rex Stout.

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

Author : Steve Brusatte
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062490451
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs written by Steve Brusatte and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY," hails Scientific American: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. "A masterpiece of science writing." —Washington Post A New York Times Bestseller • Goodreads Choice Awards Winner • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Smithsonian, Science Friday, The Times (London), Popular Mechanics, Science News "This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." —Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before. In this captivating narrative (enlivened with more than seventy original illustrations and photographs), Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field—naming fifteen new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork—masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically bring to life their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy. Captivating and revelatory, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a book for the ages. Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers—themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period—into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorizes today, T. rex, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and more. This gifted scientist and writer re-creates the dinosaurs’ peak during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, when thousands of species thrived, and winged and feathered dinosaurs, the prehistoric ancestors of modern birds, emerged. The story continues to the end of the Cretaceous period, when a giant asteroid or comet struck the planet and nearly every dinosaur species (but not all) died out, in the most extraordinary extinction event in earth’s history, one full of lessons for today as we confront a “sixth extinction.” Brusatte also recalls compelling stories from his globe-trotting expeditions during one of the most exciting eras in dinosaur research—which he calls “a new golden age of discovery”—and offers thrilling accounts of some of the remarkable findings he and his colleagues have made, including primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs; monstrous carnivores even larger than T. rex; and paradigm-shifting feathered raptors from China. An electrifying scientific history that unearths the dinosaurs’ epic saga, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs will be a definitive and treasured account for decades to come. Includes 75 images, world maps of the prehistoric earth, and a dinosaur family tree.

Dinosaurs!

Author : Steve Parker
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780679867159
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Dinosaurs! written by Steve Parker and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anonymous Rex

Author : Eric Garcia
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0425178218
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Anonymous Rex written by Eric Garcia and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A People Beach Book of the Week “Very funny.” –Dave Barry “Startling and clever…hilarious and chilling.” –T.C. Boyle “All the elements of a cult classic.” –Entertainment Weekly “Great.” –Orlando Sentinel “Fast, funny, and smoothly written.” –Seattle Times “A detective thriller featuring a velociraptor PI and a secret society of dinosaurs disguised as humans?…Awesomely funny….Vincent Rubio has a washed-up Los Angeles detective agency, lousy credit, and a dead partner—on top of an addiction to basil and a hard time keeping his tail tucked away in his latex human suit. A routine arson investigation promises to get him back on his (clawed) feet, until the case sends him to New York, the scene of his partner’s suspicious death by runaway taxi. Witty, fast-paced detective work makes for a good mystery, but the story’s sly, seamlessly conceived dinosaur underworld contains all the elements of a cult classic. Grade: A.” –Entertainment Weekly “Debut novelist Eric Garcia pulls off this parallel dino world to a T (rex). [His] descriptions are delicious…inventive and imaginative. He cleverly avoids what could have been a one-joke book with charm, sly humor and a terrific narrative pace.” –USA Today “What would the world be like if the dinosaurs hadn’t gone extinct? As this very funny book shows, for one thing, L.A. would be even weirder than it is now.” –Dave Barry “First-time novelist Eric Garcia pulls it off, keeping the laughs frequent and the plot intriguing. After a few chapters, it seems downright logical to believe we’re surrounded by a cast out of Jurassic Park. Apart from showing off a splendidly warped imagination, Garcia provides a solid mystery.” –People “Garcia has come up with an imaginative twist to the detective fiction genre.” –Daily Variety “Audacious and imaginative. You might not believe any of this 30 seconds after you close the covers, but while it’s going on you’re going to be dazzled by Garcia’s energy and chutzpah.” –Publishers Weekly “Garcia plays it almost completely straight, respecting all noir traditions, and comes up with lovely touches.” –Chicago Tribune “A ‘noir-asaurus’ of a novel, bellowing for attention, the first and only of its breed in the dinosaur detective genre. Garcia has written something so strange, so bizarre, that he’s to be admired just for the attempt. And he not only pulls it off, he also actually makes you wonder why someone hasn’t thought of it before. Garcia’s tough guy deadpan is perfect for navigating his outrageous lost world, and the easy, familiar tone is probably what makes the premise so simple to swallow. Garcia talks the talk, and more importantly, he smirks in all the right places.” –The Miami Herald “Vincent Rubio, the protagonist of this first-person—er, first-dino narrative is so likeable, the story handled with such deftness, that it actually, incredibly works. Spider Robinson meets Sam Spade. The writing is sardonic and strong in the hard-boiled tradition, and laced with jokes about the history humans think they know: Oliver Cromwell was a Brontosaur, and ‘Capone and Eliot Ness were just two Diplodoci with a grudge to settle.’” –The Richmond Times Dispatch “Anonymous Rex leaps out of its gumshoe formula fast enough to break the genre barrier. Imagine a hard-boiled detective novel crossed with magical realism. Think film noir with great special effects. Think fabulous read. Well p...

The Illustrated Dinosaur Encyclopedia

Author : Dougal Dixon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780600567998
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated Dinosaur Encyclopedia written by Dougal Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in simple language and designed in colour-coded sections, this book describes the evolution, the lifestyles and the history of the dinosaurs.