Grant, Robert

#2

1972

Ellery Queen meets Harry Burke, a British private investigator, who is returning to New York at the request of Inspector Queen, Ellery's father. The two weary travelers are quickly caught up in a murder investigation. Burke's client, Flory Guild, is found slumped over her desk having scrawled the word "f a c e" onto her blotter. The victim was a retired singer who had a taste for puzzles and bad taste in men. Her husband was a philanderer who had married her for her money, a plan that had been threatened when Burke had found the victim's long lost niece. It would have been so very simple if the husband hadn't had an alibi. Inspector Queen and New York's finest were hard at work on the case but even with Burke's and Ellery's help the progress is slow.

#3

1965

In troubled times, there is an urgency to understand ourselves and our world. We have so many questions, and they tug at us night and day, consciously and unconsciously. In this important volume Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh --- one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today --- reveals an art of living in mindfulness that helps us answer life's deepest questions and experience the happiness and freedom we desire. Thich Nhat Hanh presents, for the first time, seven transformative meditations that open up new perspectives on our lives, our relationships and our interconnectedness with the world around us. Based on the last full talks before his sudden hospitalization, and drawing on intimate examples from his own life, Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how these seven meditations can free us to live a happy, peaceful and active life, and face aging and dying with curiosity and joy and without fear. Containing the essence of the Buddha's teachings and Thich Nhat Hanh's poignant, timeless, and clarifying prose, The Art of Living provides a spiritual dimension to our lives. This is not an effort to escape life or to dwell in a place of bliss outside of this world. Instead, this path will allow us to discover where we come from and where we are going. And most of all, it will generate happiness, understanding, and love, so we can live deeply in each moment of our life, right where we are.