Book Description
All seems well in the city on Pinchester, but trouble is brewing at the Varmint Theater.Before he knows it, Hermux is hired not only to investigate a mysterious blackmailer, but to design the set for an upcoming show.As Hermux enters the dizzying world of the theater he finds himself in a whirlwind of distractions--among them an accidental foray into reality theater; trying to fight off sexy film director Brinx Lotelle's shameless interest in Hermux's girlfriend Linka; coping with cosmetic queen Tucka Mertslin's latest takeover schemes; and learning the mysterious ways of the eccentric theater people.Before long, Hermux is receiving threatening messages, and life at the theater is getting more and more dangerous.It's up to Hermux to save the day, save the theater, protect his new friends and get the girl--a lot for one mouse to handle even with a surprisingly talented pet ladybug in tow! ... Read more

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A family classic series
A tightly edited, carefully written children's book even adults will love. Hermux is a quirky little mouse who finds himself in the unlikely role of set designer and private investigator. He solves a cold case mystery and designs a spectacular set for a musical production in the same story. Hermux is our guy!

We have read each book in the series together as a family and they are written for children but not down to children so that adults are also drawn in. The world Hoeye creates is so visually real it's great for developing comprehension and memory skills. Hermux and his friends have become classics for our family.

No Time Like Show Time
No Time Like Show Time is a story about a young mouse who is always trying to help the community whether they like it or not. The plot has many twists and turns with lots of characters that come into the story with different identities. A young mouse, Hermux Tantamoq is a watchmaker who has a knack for solving mysteries. In this story Hermux helps Fluster Varmint, a famous director and the owner of the Varmint Variety Theater. The theater is in trouble and brings a whole new twist to Hermux's life. The character involved in the troubles of the theater is Dr. Mennus a mole who ruins the young and beautiful Nurella Pinch's acting career and starts the difficulty for the theater years later.

Fluster Varmint's chain of bad events begins when his wife dies shortly after birth of their daughter Beulith. A lot of the story revolves around Beulith and the theater because they are the most important things in Varmint's life. The theater is the only place that Beulith Varmint knows because she grew up around the stage of Varmint Variety Theater.

The other books in this series are Time Stop for No Mouse and The Sands of Time. In the series they all start the same way. Hermux never goes out to find the adventures the adventures always find him in one way or other, leading him into a world he would have never known existed.The first book really starts to explain Hermux life of solving mysteries. I like his writing because the chapters are short so it's easier to read for long periods of time. It's very hard to stop reading this book because it's full of excitement. I liked this book because there is never dull part of the book and the plot never stops. This book is full of suspense and always keeps you guessing.

Delightful, magical, wise, clever, witty and fun!
I love this series so much--the characters are interesting, nuanced, and so well developed. In each book, there is witty social commentary combined with an engrossing mystery. This third installment of the series doesn't disappoint. I'm already eagerly awaiting this fall's release of Time to Smell the Roses.

No Time Like Show Time
No Time Like Show Time was a great book. With lots of adventure. It is about a mouse fighting a crime committed in a theater in his city. With others he works to solve the mystery of the crime. The case is a murder investigation. Varmint Variety Theater was the scene of the crime. They use all kinds of gadgets and brains to seek out this territying crime.
The authors writing style was unique and amazing. All of the words you could tell were not just jotted down they were thought through. It had a great plot and was never slow. It was a book of non-stop action.
I loved this book for many reasons. It had tons of adventure. It was suspensful and full of fun things that always drew my attention. It also had well developed characters. I would give this book five stars because it was awesome. It had all the things that make a great book. If you liked Time Srops for No Mouse and Sands of Time you would definitely like this book.

Great Series
First of all, this is a great series and if you haven't read the first two books then go do it now! No Time Like Show Time was just as suspenseful and cool as the other books and I hope the next book comes out soon! In case you're wondering what it's about, it is set in the world of mice, rats, and other like creatures with the main character a mouse watchmaker named Hermux Tantamoq, who has an otherwise quiet life until he meets Linka Perflinger in the first book, who becomes his new love interest and somehow gets him involved in all sorts of thrilling adventures throughout the first and second books. Besides a new mysterious plot with each book, there is also a little romance for the teen readers, but it is tastefully done and there is nothing, in my opinion, overly romantic. Anyway, it's a great book and series and I would really recommend that you consider buying it! ... Read more

Book Description
Read by Campbell Scott
approx. 6 hours
4 cassettes

This second book, The Sands of Time continues the adventures of Hermux Tantamoq, mouse and watchmaker in the imaginary city of Pinchester.When the museum announces a show of Mirrin Stentrill's latest paintings- monumental, visionary portraits of cats- Mayor Hooter Pinkwiggin vows to shut it down.Cast are touchy subject among Pinchester's mostly small-rodent population.But while militant mice organize to stop the show, most of Pinchester's stylish set is vying for invitations to the gala opening.Complications arise when a mysterious chipmunk named Birch Tentintrotter claims to have a map to the royal library of an ancient kingdom of cats.When Birch recruits Hermux to help him find the library, they discover they're not the only ones looking for it! ... Read more

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Hermux Tantamoq-a great book!
This was a cool book about the watch fixing mouse, Hermux Tantamoq! It is the second in a series about him, but it's just as good as the first book(which doesn't happen very much)and I loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Sands of Time
It all starts when Mirrin Stentrill, puts on an artshow in the museum. When Mirrin was blind, she saw many visions and so when she recovered from her blindness, she decides to paint pictures of what she saw when she was blind. But it turns out that the pictures she paints are cats- a word no one likes to use in the city of mice and rodents. Then along comes Birch Tentintrotter, an old chipmunk, a friend of Hermux's father. He tells a secret to Hermux; a secret no one knows about, and about a map he had found in a library years ago. Birch believes that cats really did exist. To prove that, Hermux, Birch, and their friend, Linka Perflinger, set off on a journey to the Kingdom of Cats. On their journey, Hermux and his friends uncover the evidence that cats once had mice as slaves. Now, Hermux doesn't know if he's doing the right thing to find the whole truth about them.
Michael Hoeye describes all his characters and the scene very carefully and really well. I like the way he gives a personality to a character and he sticks with it. He doesn't mix Hermux and Mirrin's personality together. It's just Hermux. And it's just Mirrin.
I really enjoyed this book because of the great journey that Hermux and his friends went on. It was so exciting and I really loved how Michael Hoeye made me want to keep reading more and more!

The Sands of Time
Hermux Tantamoq, a distinguished mouse who lives in the heavily populated city of Pinchester, is sailing through life day in and day out, in his watchmaking shop, until one day, an old, weather worn chipmunk missing an ear stops by, says his name is Birch Tentintrotter,and he would like to speak to Mr. Tantamoq seinor. Hermux's father had passed away five months ago, and no friend of his from college would look like that old wreck!
Meanwhile, Hermux's friend Mirrin Stentril's first art show is causing tremendous uproar. She's been painting CATS!!! Everyone (the hamsters, mice, ferrets, squirrels etc.) knows they're not real, right? Well Hermux, Birch and aviatrix Linka Perflinger are out to prove those art critics wrong!
Michael Hoeye combines detail, vocabulary and suspense in this stunning sequel to Time Stops For No Mouse, proving never to overlook history, even if you are afraid.

Fabulous Addition to the Hermux Tantamoq Series
Watchmaker-extraordinaire and resident cheese lover, Hermux Tantamoq, is in for the surprise of his life, when his good friend, Mirrin Stentrill, reveals the scandalous work being featured in her new art show: cats! After all, mice don't want to hear about cats, even if they never actually existed, and the entire town of Pinchester is up in arms over the showing. Then a long lost stranger known as Birch Tentintrotter, a chipmunk, visits Hermux and lets him in on a very important secret: cats DID exist, and Birch has the facts to prove it. So, on a split second decision, Birch, Hermux, and he lovely aviatrix, Linka Perflinger, set out to the desert to find the lost Kingdom of Cats. While there, Hermux learns many new things about the history of mice, things different than what he was taught as a child, and he begins wondering whether it is really necessary to bring these truths forward.

As a fan of the first Hermux Tantamoq novel, TIME STOPS FOR NO MOUSE, I knew that I had to check out Michael Hoeye's latest contribution to the series, THE SANDS OF TIME, and I was not at all disappointed. Young Hermux is as adorable as ever, in his quest to find out about the lost civilization known as cats; and his sidekicks, both new and old, are perfect. The wonderful story that has been crafted will delight readers of all ages, and keep them begging for more Tantamoq. A must have!

Erika Sorocco
Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper

THIS IS THE GRATEST BOOK EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you like mice or anything small you will love this book. If you read Time Stops for No Mouse it is related to this book. A new chipmunks arrives.The things that are intresting about him is he has a missing ear and a rusty-colored cordury jacket. He is so intrested in cats that he wants to find a library. I am not going to spoil the adventure for you. So the only thing i have to say to you is READ IT. ... Read more

Amazon.com
It's impossible not to like Hermux Tantamoq, the watchmaking mouse. Herelaxes in a flannel shirt printed with pictures of cheeses from around theworld, he has a caged pet ladybug named Terfle, he writes endearing thank-youletters to the universe each night, and he has a big heart--a heart that achesfor the fearless aviatrix Ms. Linka Perflinger, who unexpectedly visits his shoprequesting an emergency rush repair of her wristwatch. Little does he know thatthis brief rendezvous with the jaunty adventuress will change his life forever.When a week goes by without word from her, he doesn't know whether to be worriedor angry. He drafts a slightly unpleasant, then desperate, then not-too-sweet,not-too-sour letter to her and awaits her response. Nothing. Even nastyencounters with his neighbor (the horribly garish and affected cosmetics tycoonTucka Mertslin) and pleasant interludes with his artist friend Mirrin don'tdistract him from his new heart-quickening obsession.

His worst fears start to cement when a yellow-eyed, thin-lipped, sharp-tonguedrat comes to his shop and says with a dreadful smile, "I've come for LinkaPerflinger's watch." Hermux isn't about to fork over his beloved's watch withouta claim check, and ends up following the rat... all the way to Linka's house!And, what's this? Is she being kidnapped? The plot thickens as Hermux boldlyenters her apartment (what has gotten into him?) and discovers a mysteriousletter from Teulabonari and an overturned spicy-smelling plant. As he says tohis ladybug that night, "This is the beginning of a new career for me. Either asa detective or a jailbird. Only time will tell. If it turns out to be the latterI will be asking you for hints on decorating my cage." Soon he begins to make aconnection with these strange clues and the cosmetics mogul Tucka, who pulls himinto her scheme to create eternal youth in a bottle (to be taken internally).

Suffice it to say that gentle Hermux gets in way over his head with hisdetective work and proceeds to have fur-raising encounters involving spies,thieves, killers, betrayal, the Fountain of Youth, snakes, calliopes, anddramatic rescue attempts. Throughout it all, however, Hermux continues to thankthe world at large: "Thank you for corner grocers. For sandwiches and honeyfizz. For scary news and narrow escapes and trolleys and shopping bags. Thankyou for loyal pets and bold adventurers (and adventuresses)." Readers will bedisarmed by Hermux's earnest, inquisitive nature and zeal for life--andthoroughly engaged by the suspenseful action adventure. Highly recommended!(Ages 10 to adult) --Karin SnelsonBook Description
Read by Campbell Scott
approx. 5 hrs. 45 mins.
4 cassettes

When spunky aviatrix Linka Perflinger walks into Hermux Tantamoq’s watch shop in Pinchester, it’s obvious that she’s anything but ordinary. And when she mysteriously disappears, it’s clear Hermux must find her. Hermux unexpectedly stumbles across the key to the mystery when he intercepts the journal of an adventurous botanist who is missing in the faraway jungles of Teulabonari. A trail of clues leads directly to The Last Resort. The doctor who runs this exclusive spa, the reclusive Hiril Mennus, is putting the final touches on a machine that will put coin-operated plastic surgery into every shopping mall. Caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse that pits Hermux against an eccentric cosmetics tycoon, a sinister plastic surgeon, and a squad of ruthless lab rats, the watchmaker discovers that no one – not even himself – is quite what they seem. ... Read more

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Hermux Rocks
Reluctant gumshoe Hermux Tantamoq is a person--er, mouse--who shows his true capabilities when placed in an unusual situation. Fashionistas, noir references, and ethnobotany seeem like unusual subjects for a child's story peopled--er, moused--with fuzzy characters, but it works.

I found an old copy in a store's sale bin, and couldn't decide if it was for adults or children. Still can't--it's great for children and adults alike. How impressed am I? My son gave up videos and computer to hear more "Hermux." We had to pause occasionally to explain some vocabulary and situations, but for older children (say age 8 and up)this is fantastic, imaginative storytelling.

Cat Club Review: www.freewebs.com/hlgstrider
There is a successful author (who shall remain unnamed) who has made his name by inserting rodents into medieval/fantasy epics, and honestly I have never particularly cared for his work. Imagine my surprise when another author (who shall be named Michael Hoeye) inserted rodents into an almost Hitchcockian setting and presented the world with a romp combining James Bond, Stewart Little, and The Number One Ladies' Detective Agency . . . all right, I've gotten ahead of myself, but the mix is a bit like baking soda and vinegar. It seems strange, but it sizzles.
Hermux Tantamoq is a watchmaker with heart and an unexpected nose for mystery. When a beautiful she-mouse leaves behind a severely damaged watch but no other trace it is up to Hermux, with the help of his pet ladybug and other friends, to foil the plots of an evil plastic surgeon and a garish cosmetics tycoon to save the lady and the day.
Where these books achieve most is tone. They are beautifully and intriguingly written. One not quite weak, but indeed curious, part is Hermux's journal where he thanks "something" for good things, like sun and friendship and ladybugs. I'd like to know whom he is thanking. However, the book holds up well and is a quick, joyous read.

To Be Chewed and Digested
When one character accuses another of being a "horrible little...rodent...[a] nasty little vermin!" in Michael Hoeye's Time Stops for No Mouse, on some level, there's a bit of truth to it.That's because this juvenile fiction book is populated by mice, rats, moles, squirrels, minks, and other assorted furry creatures.

A clever mystery novel at heart, Hoeye's debut introduces us to Hermux Tantamoq -a big name for a little guy...er...mouse.Hermux is a solitary watchmaker in the quaint city of Pinchester (location unknown).Ruled by his passion for precision and his orderly jacket and bowtie, his world is turned upside-down by a new customer - aviatrix and adventuress extraordinaire Linka Perflinger.He is smitten with her beauty and zest for life, and out of a general goodness of character and an attraction to this beguiling stranger, he becomes involved in a dangerous game of cat and mouse...well, it's really just mouse and mouse.

I loved this book for so many reasons.First of all, it's just smart.The writing is clever and straightforward.There is no sense of "talking" down to the young audience, and yet it is open and inviting enough for readers of all ages to enjoy.And it really is a fun mystery.What I appreciated most of all is that Hermux is Hermux throughout all of his adventures in detective work.He doesn't morph into the bumbling Joe totally out of his league (although he does have his moments!!), nor does he unlock his hidden "James Bond" and become a super sleuth.Somehow Hermux transforms into something he was all along - a mouse that has a little more strength than he knew, a mouse that has a little more smarts than he knew, and a mouse that appreciates beauty in ways unique to his own set of eyes.There is a sweetness to this story that is a valuable lesson for everyone.

I also have to say, I love the book's dimensions and typeface.Little things to some, but it's not always so bad to judge a book by its cover!(or font!)

To be practical, there's nothing completely unpredictable about this story, but it is certainly fun to wind and wend through the various twists.And one tiny distraction:all the crazy names!!It took some time for me to let go of wanting to know ~exactly~ how to pronounce all of them.You won't blame me when you see names like Pup Schoonagliffen, Tucka Mertslin, and Ortolina Perriflot.I suppose it all just feeds in to the whimsy of the book.

I was surprised to find that Mr. Hoeye is an Oregonian himself, so I'm pleased and excited to be supporting a local author!I also have the next two books in the Hermux Tantamoq series on hold at the library, and I'm looking forward to getting to know this mouse much better!

time stops for no mouse
This book is very confusing and it does not have anything to do with the story until page 60. There was a watch fixer named Hermux. A lady named Mrs.Perflinger came in with a brken watch. Hermux fixed it and Mrs.Perflinger never came back for it. Where's she. Friends will betray. People will trick others. OMG.HOLLY COW.

-Nelly

Time Stops for No Mouse by Patricia
From what I have read from this book, I think that it is interesting because it is telling a part of a mouse's life. I enjoy fiction books and sometimes when I read a part of a fiction book, I want to read more to know what will happen.In this story you can see different types of attitudes or ways of being. This might help people because when they grow they ask themselves why are people this way or that way and sometimes end up following the wrong way to act.
I think this book is an expectacular book even though long. ... Read more

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Reifying the bibliographical Zeitgeist...
In A Union List of Appellate Court Records and Briefs : Federal and State, Whiteman and Campbell outline a new type of Supreme Court brief aesthetics based in contemporary literary theory and exemplified by a variety of imaginative texts, from Anglo-American canonical poetry and fiction to avant-garde music and film. The innovative work links philosophical and aesthetic issues inherent to collections of state and federal briefs, with postmodernism continuing and amplifying the central concerns of romanticism, including subject formation,the disruptive effects of the human body; and the unique forms of textuality found in the writings of lawyers arguing before the appellate courts of Louisiana and New Jersey.Messiers Whiteman and Campbell, discuss such conflicts in psychoanalytic terms, although the book demonstrates how imaginative texts complicate psychoanalytic models, especially in legal bibliography. Perhaps through the influence of Campbell (the droll Frick to the obtuse Frack of Whiteman), the Union List of Appellate Court Records keeps reinventing itself through conflict via the exploration of limits, that is, by surviving extreme experience more than from the results of the dialectic.State or federal? -- who cares as the briefs dissolve in a world affirming, karmic Weltansicht.

Brilliant!
Whiteman and Campbell manage to turn a truly dull subject into fascinating reading!Should be on everyone's "must read" list.

What Is a Union List?
Though Whiteman and Campbell fail to answer a fundamental question in their all-too-brief introduction (just what is a union list?), this undaunted reader was pleased to find a wealth of information in thisslender tome.Richly delivering on the title's promise, Whiteman andCampbell do indeed offer a scrupulously alphabetized list of court recordholdings, encompassing both the federal and state judiciaries.

Moreover,this helpful work includes addresses, telephone numbers, formats andlending policies of the myriad law libraries profiled herein.While I willprobably never ever again refer to this work, it is edifying to know thatfastidious scholars Whiteman and Campbell have provided me with theknowledge that the North Carolina Division of Archives & History'sCultural Resources Department holds case files of the North CarolinaSupreme Court from 1800 to 1939.

The publisher is to be commended forprinting the book using an attractive serif font on pleasing, cream-coloredpaper.The cover and binding also seem durable enough to stand years ofdisuse on a forgotten shelf. ... Read more

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