13 Ergebnisse.

Catherine Little is an educator, consultant and writer living in Toronto, Ontario with her husband and son. She has a passion for picture books and often used them in the classroom to enhance her mathematics, science and history lessons. She wrote Endgame: The Secret Force 136 after learning about the force's existence just a few years ago and envisioned a book that could help more families learn of this little-known chapter in Canadian histor...

When Buddy Olson, Duff's old mentor, shows up unannounced at the boys' office in Chicago, they know it means business, not just a friendly visit. Art and Michelle Laskey, long time friends of Buddy's, have tragically turned up dead. The local police declared the case a simple murder-suicide, but something about that doesn't sit right with the retired county sheriff. At Buddy's request, Abe and Duff to head up to the Laskeys' picturesque little...

For two detectives who hardly have two nickels to rub together, a call from one of the world's richest men is not an everyday event. An insignificant piece of art by a recently deceased artist seemingly vanished from a billionaire's personal collection, and he wants Abe and Duff to figure out where it went and why it was taken. To complicate matters, just after the picture was stolen, an anonymous Internet rumor claimed the drawing contained ...

Nate Riegert had a lot going for him: good looks, a promising arm, unreal stats on the football field, and a potential shot at playing quarterback in the NFL. And then someone crushed his skull with an iron plate in the weight room at UW-Rockland. Nate's on-again-off-again girlfriend is accused of the grisly crime. Sarah Novak has no viable alibi, and the case seems open-and-shut.Sarah's father seeks out an acquaintance from his past to help p...

Every family has ghost stories. They are collected and told from person-to-person, generation-to-generation. They're told over campfires or at slumber parties. They're told on long drives down lonely country roads. In this short-story anthology, thirteen real-life experiences with the paranormal have been collected. The stories in this book contain tales about ouija boards, an Indigo child who could see the dead, Bigfoot roaming the Boundary W...

Abe Allard and C.S. Duffy are not handsome, wise, or tough. They're not successful. They're not good at much, but they do know how to solve a mystery. A woman digging into the adoption of her long-lost twin brother starts getting close to a long-buried secret which riles up those who would rather it stayed hidden. Fearing for her safety, she asks Abe and Duff to find out what really happened that night, and why would someone be willing to keep...

Twist and Ren have settled on the shores of a beautiful lake in Texas, but survival takes work. There are crops to plant and harvest, and animals to feed. There is the daily grind of life after a viral apocalypse where things they used to take for granted, like food, water, and safety, are no longer a given, especially with predators prowling at the perimeter of the farm. It is two against the world, and all they have is each other.

Steal a crystal skull that may or may not be made of the most dangerous element on Earth. If the skull is truly made of nethercrystal, then it means that someone, somewhere learned to shape and polish the volatile gem. If Bobbins can learn how, the potential for unlimited energy might be within reach. However, Doctor Proctocus and SWARM are equally interested in the skull. Do they know of its power, or does the artifactÕs intriguing history me...

After a hard, cold winter, Twist is no longer willing to struggle to live in Wisconsin. The time has come for him to move south. There he will begin to rebuild life after the viral apocalypse. The world he knew is changing, however. Nature is slowly reclaiming the land. Exotic animals released from zoos roam freely. Stores of food, once fresh and plentiful, are beginning to spoil. Surviving in the South is no guarantee, but it will be warmer t...

All Nicodemus Clarke wants to do is head west, get away from civilization, and build a home well away from people where he could live out the rest of his days in relative anonymity and quiet. After stints as a sniper in the Union Army and an expedition leader in the French Expeditionary Forces, he's earned some downtime. However, Lord Bobbins, the eccentric British adventurer and industrialist, has one last job for him: investigating sightings...

In 1943, Jerald C. McIntire is supposed to die in a grenade explosion in the Ardennes forest in World War II. He miraculously survives, but from that point on Jerry no longer needs to eat or sleep, he has no emotions, and he never ages. After several suicide attempts, Jerry discovers he can't die. But how is this possible? Nearly twenty years after his first brush with death, Jerry learns that he somehow broke the realm of the natural order. E...

The FluÑthatÕs what everyone called itÑculled the primate population of the planet. It struck hard and fast, wiping out the whole of humanity. For reasons he canÕt understand, Twist is left alive to face the apocalypse alone. Well, not entirely aloneÑhis neighborÕs gassy Labrador, Rowdy, tags along for the ride. Twist and Rowdy are forced to face the new post-apocalypse world together, holing up in the local library and scavenging supplies to ...

Chosen for their unique DNA profiles and taken from their homes as children, seven teenagers have endured a decade of experimentation, surgeries, and gene-splicing as part of the world-changing project of a geneticist bent on creating the next evolution of man. As a result of the experiments, each of the seven is imbued with the potential for a different superhuman ability. As they near adulthood, the experiment finally begins to show results,...