Between Christmas and New Year's Eve, College Springs has a winter carnival, complete with ice sculptures; however, this year someone has stolen all thirty-seven of them, including one on Chickadee Court. Unfortunately, the twelve-year-old sleuths, Yasmeen and Alex, are having friendship issues—Yasmeen thinks that she's being replaced by a new girl who has come to Chickadee Court. Then, the whole gang comes together to solve the frosty mystery. Believe it or not, the clues lead to a fracking operation and the laboratory of a professor who is racing to invent a new alternative fuel before his competitors do. Views: 28
It begins with a call one snowy February night. Lying in her bed, young Sylvie Mason overhears her parents on the phone across the hall. This is not the first late-night call they have received, since her mother and father have an uncommon occupation: helping "haunted souls" find peace. And yet something in Sylvie senses that this call is different from the others, especially when they are lured to the old church on the outskirts of town. Once there, her parents disappear, one after the other, behind the church's red door, leaving Sylvie alone in the car. Not long after, she drifts off to sleep, only to wake to the sound of gunfire.As the story weaves back and forth through the years leading up to that night and the months following, the ever-inquisitive Sylvie searches for answers and uncovers secrets that have haunted her family for years.Capturing the vivid eeriness of Stephen King's works and the quirky tenderness of John Irving's novels, Help for the Haunted is told in the captivating voice of a young heroine who is determined to discover the truth about what happened on that winter night. Views: 28
Book 2 Webster familyFrom the author of the bestselling debut THE OPEN DOOR comes a moving
and uplifting story about a generation of young people living through
World War II.When war breaks out Annie Webster and her
closeknit family find themselves - along with everyone else in the
country - thrust into a world of uncertainty, danger and despair. Her
brothers join up, her sweetheart Paul becomes a fighter pilot, and
Annie, desperate to help, finds herself in the WAAF, where her
intelligence and warmth singles her out for a role more daring than she
can ever have known.All the time, the Battle of Britain is
raging in the skies above her. The country has never needed its young
people more, but will Annie and her loved ones survive its darkest hour? Views: 28
In her latest Camdens of Colorado story, USA TODAY bestselling author Victoria Pade introduces readers to a suddenly single father--and the woman who might be his perfect match, if they can get past their feuding familes!Lang Camden has the daddy of all dilemmas! He just found out he's a dad...of a rambunctious two-year-old. He's now the sole guardian of said toddler and he's never pulled diaper duty in his life! What's a man to do?Enter Heddy Hanrahan, the widowed baker who's as luscious as her cheesecakes. Lang's on a mission to help her business, and Heddy willingly lends a helping hand with his child. The chemistry between them is off the charts--but the history between their two families is complicated, and if Heddy lets herself love this man and his little boy, she could lose everything. Is it a risk she's willing to take...for love? Views: 28
Ringing in the New Year turns deadly at Rex's Hogmanay celebrationWhen barrister Rex Graves and his fiancée Helen d'Arcy host a New Year's Eve party at Gleneagle Lodge in the Scottish Highlands, an oncoming storm threatens to ruin the festivities. Despite the unlucky number of guests and an argument over the lost Jacobite gold, friends and colleagues alike are enjoying the evening with drinks flowing freely. But as the clock strikes midnight and the power goes out, Ken and Catriona Fraser -- the inheritors of Gleneagle Castle -- are found dead. Suspecting the Frasers were murdered for monetary gain or revenge, Rex investigates who and what killed the couple. He must use his skills of intellect and detection to catch the culprit in this traditional locked-room mystery."Seek high, seek low For the Jacobite goldBrought over the seas in a stout ship's holdA princely sum raised by France and SpainThat Bonny brave Scotland might fight again.Hidden in the glen where the eagle soarsAbove the loch where the burn in spring roarsFor forty-odd years buried long and deepHow many more yeas its secret to keep?"*** ~ Gaelic poem containing clues to buried treasure * **Review"This is a classic country-house mystery, with modern day twists and turns adding to the fun." --Booklist "Traditional mystery fans will appreciate the retro Agatha Christie style." --Publishers Weekly for the Rex Graves Mystery Series "Skillfully choreographed." --Washington Post for the Rex Graves Mystery Series "Contemporary in setting but classic in style and voice, it'll have you guessing to the very end." --Romantic Times for the Rex Graves Mystery Series "A well-paced mystery that plays fair with the reader and provides a satisfying and surprising conclusion." --Mystery Scene Magazine for the Rex Graves Mystery Series About the AuthorC.S. Challinor (Florida) was educated in England and Scotland, and has traveled extensively. Her short stories have been published in women’s magazines in the United States and the United Kingdom. Views: 28
Chicago, September 1964. Beatlemania sweeps the nation, the Vietnam
War looms, and the Warren Commission prepares to blame a “lone-nut”
assassin for the killing of President John F. Kennedy. But as the
post-Camelot era begins, a suspicious outbreak of suicides, accidental
deaths, and outright murders decimates assassination witnesses. When
Nathan Heller and his son are nearly run down on a city street, the
private detective wonders if he himself might be a loose end.…
Soon a faked suicide linked to President Johnson’s corrupt cronies
takes Heller to Texas, where celebrity columnist Flo Kilgore implores
him to explore that growing list of dead witnesses. With the blessing of
Bobby Kennedy—former US attorney general, now running for Senator from
New York—Heller and Flo investigate the increasing wave of violence that
seems to emanate from the notorious Mac Wallace, rumored to be LBJ’s
personal hatchet man.
Fifty years after JFK’s tragic death, Collins’s rigorous research for Ask Not raises new questions about the most controversial assassination of our time.
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Kenneth wakes up in an empty room with no memories of his past life and an uncertain future ahead of him. A defiant teenager finds herself home alone, or at least that’s what she thinks… Meanwhile, a silent and mysterious disease is spreading through the human population. A pair of scientists are trying to understand how the disease attacked, and why some humans react to it differently, but they are running out of time. The disease causes unspeakable atrocities. The scientists have patient “Zero” to prove it. Is there any hope for mankind? Only time will tell…. Views: 28
Jessica Lee's KinKaid Wolf Pack Trilogy follows the journey of the KinKaid twins, Evin and Rosa on their path to find their mates. Except the road for both siblings is littered with deception and danger at every turn, as the hunger for power and revenge escalates not only between packs, but among their own ranks. Views: 28
