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1) Slider
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Hoping to win a cash prize in a pizza eating contest after racking up a tab on his mother's credit card, David must juggle his competitive eating training with the responsibility of looking after his autistic younger brother.
2) Slider
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Each summer, on the fields of glorious Cape Marlin, off the New England coast, the nation's best college players gather to play the most important baseball of their lives. Jack Faber is a young hotshot pitcher with an unhittable slider and a rocket for a fastball. He plays for the fabled Seapuit Seawolves and dreams of making the Big Show. But a new coach, the scowling Bruno Riazzi, a former pro catcher, resents the kid's celebrity status and decides...
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 13
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English
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Rogers was handsome, charming, and rich-- until someone killed him in the hallway of his million-plus-pound house. Was he killed for passion, professional jealousy, or plain old money? Slider soon discovers that nothing is as it seems.
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 18
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English
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"A middle-aged man jumps under a tube train at Shepherd's Bush station, and a teenage girl is killed in a hit-and-run, in a country lane puzzlingly far from her home on the White City Estate: two unrelated incidents which occupy DCI Bill Slider and his team during a slack period. At least it's a change of speed after the grind of domestics, burglaries and Community Liaison. But links to a cold case--another dead teenager, pulled out of the River Thames--create...
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 12
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English
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When the strangled corpse of a nearly seventeen-year-old girl, a bright, gifted student, talented artist, and musician respected by her teachers and peers at an excellent all-girls church school, is discovered in a London park near her home, dressed like a tart, Slider and his team investigate.
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 14
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English
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When Melanie Hunter uncharacteristically disappears, the men in her life come under suspicion. It soon becomes clear that there are many secrets in Melanie's past. Bill Slider and his team are investigating and they will have to unravel lies, half-truths and deceptions to find the answer to their questions.
7) Slider's Son
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English
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Friendship. Danger. Murder.
Grant O'Grady wants nothing more than to be a major league baseball pitcher. He's only thirteen, but his dream seems possible . . . until Big Joe turns his life upside down.
Grant and his buddies are no strangers to risk. At the end of the Great Depression in small-town North Dakota, money is tight, so Grant and his friends swipe coal from the coal train when it stops in town to fill its boiler. It's risky to climb the...
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 9
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
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English
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 15
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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English
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Who would kill a charming antiques expert Rowland Egerton, the darling of daytime TV? Bill Slider and his team are on the case . . . 'It's quiet out there,' says DS Atherton, at Bill Slider's office window. 'Too quiet.' Right on cue, the phone rings. 'Now look what you've done,' says Slider. It's a homicide. The post-Christmas lull is officially over. The deceased is antiques expert Rowland Egerton, the darling of daytime TV, stabbed to death in...
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 1
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Maxwell Macmillan International
Pub. Date
c1991
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English
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English
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A collection of seventy-five slider recipes packing flavor into little bites for omnivores and vegetarians, plus recipes for buns and condiments.
Sliders are an art form, a modern-tapas-of-sorts. A remarkable slider is one that allows you to evenly taste all the delicious ingredients within it. You can't eat just one! Way better than a cupcake, sliders are delicious and fun-and you can't eat just one of these savory, handheld treats. Indulge in the...
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English
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Bill Slider and his team face a mystery when an unidentifiable man appears to have committed suicide but all signs point to murder A boiling-hot August day and a handsome young man is found dead in his bath, exsanguinated. Bill Slider's colleague takes one look at the body and is convinced something isn't quite right. As Bill investigates, he reluctantly has to agree. But as Slider and his team try to identify the man – whose personal papers are...
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 5
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Scribner
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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At the BBC-TV studios in London, a music critic is found in the men's room with his throat slashed minutes before he was due to appear on a show. Sergeant Mills sifts through the suspects, ranging from a jealous wife to a vindictive musician.
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English
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In his very first trip to the ballpark, Joe Falls watched Lou Gehrig slam two home runs against the Philadelphia As. He's been in love with professional sports ever since. In this humorous and intelligent memoir, Falls reflects on over sixty years of writing with stories about all the greats from Jack Nicklaus and Michael Jordan, to Joe DiMaggio and more. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints,...
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