Author : Kathleen Fuller
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1400317193
When three Amish teenagers search for clues to a family mystery, the investigation strains their close friendship.
Author : Kathleen Fuller
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2010-05-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1418560316
In the Mysteries of Middlefield series, readers will be immersed into exciting mysteries and authentic Amish culture. With a twin brother and five younger brothers, Mary Beth Mullet’s house is in constant chaos. Her parents don’t seem to mind the noise, but she needs a break from all the pestering and babysitting. It’s the summer before eighth grade, and Mary Beth plans to escape to her secret place as much as possible. The old barn in the neighboring field is dangerous, and her parents have forbidden her to go there, but she escapes to it as often as she can. Mary Beth soon discovers she is not alone in the barn. Someone is living there; someone who needs help. Can Mary Beth help the stranger without losing her secret place? And what if the barn is as dangerous as her parents say it is? Readers will identify with Mary Beth’s struggles for peace and independence and be engrossed in the excitement and danger of A Summer Secret.
Author : Byron Preiss
Publisher : ibooks
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN :
The tale begins over three-hundred years ago, when the Fair People—the goblins, fairies, dragons, and other fabled and fantastic creatures of a dozen lands—fled the Old World for the New, seeking haven from the ways of Man. With them came their precious jewels: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls... But then the Fair People vanished, taking with them their twelve fabulous treasures. And they remained hidden until now... Across North America, these twelve treasures, over ten-thousand dollars in precious jewels, are buried. The key to finding each can be found within the twelve full color paintings and verses of The Secret. Yet The Secret is much more than that. At long last, you can learn not only the whereabouts of the Fair People's treasure, but also the modern forms and hiding places of their descendants: the Toll Trolls, Maitre D'eamons, Elf Alphas, Tupperwerewolves, Freudian Sylphs, Culture Vultures, West Ghosts and other delightful creatures in the world around us. The Secret is a field guide to them all. Many "armchair treasure hunt" books have been published over the years, most notably Masquerade (1979) by British artist Kit Williams. Masquerade promised a jewel-encrusted golden hare to the first person to unravel the riddle that Williams cleverly hid in his art. In 1982, while everyone in Britain was still madly digging up hedgerows and pastures in search of the golden hare, The Secret: A Treasure Hunt was published in America. The previous year, author and publisher Byron Preiss had traveled to 12 locations in the continental U.S. (and possibly Canada) to secretly bury a dozen ceramic casques. Each casque contained a small key that could be redeemed for one of 12 jewels Preiss kept in a safe deposit box in New York. The key to finding the casques was to match one of 12 paintings to one of 12 poetic verses, solve the resulting riddle, and start digging. Since 1982, only two of the 12 casques have been recovered. The first was located in Grant Park, Chicago, in 1984 by a group of students. The second was unearthed in 2004 in Cleveland by two members of the Quest4Treasure forum. Preiss was killed in an auto accident in the summer of 2005, but the hunt for his casques continues.
Author : Alex Hirsch
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 27,95 MB
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1368017096
A collection of four all-new strange stories from the sleepy town of Gravity Falls in one original graphic novel. Written by Alex Hirsch. Illustrated by Asaf Hanuka, Dana Terrace, Ian Worrel, Jacob Chabot, Jim Campbell, Joe Pitt, Kyle Smeallie, Meredith Gran, Mike Holmes, Priscilla Tang, Serina Hernandez, Stephanie Ramirez, and Valerie Halla.
Author : Ember Blaze
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2021-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781955073189
Since the Purge, people like me have three choices. Slavery, sterilization, or hide our gender and hope for the best.Thanks to a toxic cocktail of black market heat blockers and pheromone suppressors, I've managed to carve out a respectable life in the glittering world of beta politics. Maybe I can do some good here, but if my secret ever comes out, I'll face a death sentence at the hands of the Committee-the shadowy international organization bent on crushing the aIphomic race under the bootheel of a ruling beta class.Even in these dark times, there are still those in the world who value us the way we're meant to be valued. Jax, Alex, and Flynn are subjugated like the rest of our people, assigned to act as muscle in a security detail protecting high level officials from the United Federation of North America-myself included.Being around them is slow torture of the sweetest kind. If I ever gave in to my instincts, the three of them would destroy me, sending my delicate house of cards tumbling to the ground. I've sworn they can never know about me, which is all well and good until terrorists capture my diplomatic contingent a week before my heat is due.Now, this pack of misfits may be my only hope.* * *Secret Pack is a non-shifter semisweet-verse trilogy where pack is everything. It features growly protectors and soft-hearted love interests who deserve to be cherished. Strap in for complicated relationships set against a backdrop of social upheaval. Series HEA guaranteed. What happens between now and then? not guaranteed.
Author : Daniel O'Malley
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316193275
Myfanwy Thomas awakens in a London park surrounded by dead bodies. With her memory gone, she must trust the instructions left by her former in order to survive. She quickly learns that she is a Rook, a high-level operative in a secret agency that protects the world from supernatural threats. But there is a mole inside the organization, and this person wants her dead. Battling to save herself, Myfanwy will encounter a person with four bodies, a woman who can enter her dreams, children transformed into deadly fighters, and terrifyingly vast conspiracy. Suspenseful and hilarious, The Rook is an outrageously imaginative thriller for readers who like their espionage with a dollop of purple slime. "Utterly convincing and engrossing -- -totally thought-through and frequently hilarious....Even this aging, jaded, attention-deficit-disordered critic was blown away."-Lev Grossman, Time
Author : Charles Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 1981
Category : House & Home
ISBN :
Have you ever needed to hide something where no one could find it? Well, this is the book for you. Over 60 pages of clever hiding places large enough for guns, jewelry, and just about anything you can think of. 5.5 x 8.5, 63 pages, illus., & softcover.
Author : Allan Fea
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Kathleen Fuller
Publisher : Tommy Nelson
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 2010-11-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1400317347
Rebekah Yoder loves a good mystery—that is, until she becomes a part of one. Rebekah Yoder has always been curious . . . or nosy depending on whom you ask. When a Yankee stranger moves into the house next door, she’s fascinated. Who is this strange old man who never waves or smiles? When Bekah sees him digging holes in his back yard, she’s sure there is a case to be solved. Unfortunately, when her cousin blabs the story to the whole school, rumors fly. Is he hiding something? Treasure? Victims? And worst of all, annoying Caleb Mullet is now determined to solve the mystery with her. What they don’t realize is there’s not just secrecy lurking next door—there’s danger. Will Bekah take her curiosity too far? Readers will love journeying with Bekah Yoder as they learn the danger of gossip, the importance of prayer, and the real story of The Secrets Beneath.
Author : Harvey Claflin Mansfield
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300129939
In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited. Yet, historian Jay Winter suggests, alongside the 'major utopians' who murdered millions in their attempts to transform the world were disparate groups of people trying in their own separate ways to imagine a radically better world. This original book focuses on some of the twentieth-century's 'minor utopias' whose stories, overshadowed by the horrors of the Holocaust and the Gulag, suggest that the future need not be as catastrophic as the past. The book is organized around six key moments when utopian ideas and projects flourished in Europe: 1900 (the Paris World's Fair), 1919 (the Paris Peace Conference), 1937 (the Paris exhibition celebrating science and light), 1948 (the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), 1968 (moral indictments and student revolt), and 1992 (the emergence of visions of global citizenship). Winter considers the dreamers and the nature of their dreams as well as their connections to one another and to the history of utopian thought. By restoring minor utopias to their rightful place in the recent past, Winter fills an important gap in the history of social thought and action in the twentieth century.
