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The boxcar children are trying to track down a dinosaur-bone thief! But another set of tracks in a cave leads to a whole new mystery....

100 Ways to Motivate Others is the culmination of many years of successful leadership coaching and training by best-selling author Steve Chandler and attorney Scott Richardson, and the natural follow-up to Steve's previous best sellers, including 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself. Chandler and Richardson have crafted a vital, user-friendly, inspirational guide for executives, managers, and professionals...and those aspiring to reach their level.

On the night before the first day of my new job, I find myself naked in front of a floor to ceiling window of a penthouse suite with my legs wrapped around the neck of a mysterious stranger. Our filthy encounter left my body sore but my mind blown as he took me to places I have never been. Before the sun rises the next morning, I manage to escape his embrace to rejoin the real world and begin my new career. Yet fate has the last laugh, as I quickly discover that the man who was my late night fantasy is also my new boss—and even worse–my Dad’s best friend. Xavier Hayes is a powerful ...

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: private investigator Philip Marlowe. He is willing to help a man down on his luck, but later Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe is drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA's Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?

Los Angeles, 1854. Felipe Alvitre and a band of teenage outlaws set out on a brutal, seemingly random killing spree across the San Gabriel Valley, igniting the ire of the Los Angeles citizens. Sheriff James Barton wrestles with a rapidly escalating crime rate and a populace that demands more from their corrupt, do-nothing legal system as the bodies continue to pile up.

A dusty old theater that was shut up for years is coming to life again, and the Aldens are there for opening night! They're excited to help out backstage with a brand-new mystery play. But the Trap-Door Theater has mysteries of its own—with rumors of ghosts, disappearing props, and even a haunted seat! What secrets lie behind the scenes?

This novel came out of a long, complex dream the author had in 2008 when he was in France after having visited briefly in La Rochelle, a port town on the southwestern coast. It concerns a small group of French soldiers who had been drafted and were preparing to go to the front in 1915. Later parts of the dream took place at the Wstern Front, and still later scenes after the war's 1918 end. The author thinks it is true story of actual events and real men, the narrator having been one of those soldiers who survived the Great War.

Jack Donovan–Dominant billionaire. Alpha with a dark past. Dangerous allure wrapped in a tailored suit. His hypnotizing blue eyes, silver hair and hard, chiseled body make surrender seem like a foregone conclusion. He's the kind of man who knows exactly how to take what he wants. And right now, he wants me. One forbidden night was all it was supposed to be—one reckless, unguarded moment beneath the Aspen moonlight that left me breathless, aching, and craving more.. But this isn’t just any affair; Jack is my father’s fiercest business rival, the man he despises most. The one person I...

An enlightening and entertaining interrogation of the myth of American self-reliance and the idea of hard work as destiny “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” This phrase, arguably Thomas Edison’s most famous quote, has been drilled into the minds of...

Walter the Cat is a star, but is he too famous for his own good? The Boxcar Children must find out who's trying to ruin this cat's career!

This is the first person account of Evangeline Weathers, a young woman whoi travelled back in time to the Mediteranean world in 27 A.D. She tells of her journey to the past and her subsequent travels through Morrocco, Spain, Italy, France , Germany, Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece and Palestine. She helps the reader see the wonders, spiritual practices, and dangers of the ancient world through her modern eyes. Themes of this story include flying, history, spiritual, romantic, and psychadelic practices, warfare, sea voyages, and self-defense.

The Boxcar Children know how much work it takes to live in the wilderness. They also know how much fun it can be! The children love exploring and learning new things at a primitive skills summer camp. But when strange things start happening around the camp, they need to use another of their favorite skills - mystery solving!

Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he...

In Try the Girl, Raymond Chandler delivers a taut and thrilling tale that exemplifies his mastery of the hardboiled detective genre. This short story brims with intrigue, danger, and the sharp wit for which Chandler is renowned, immersing readers in the gritty underworld of crime and deception. The story follows a seasoned private detective, navigating a murky case involving a missing person, a suspicious nightclub, and a cast of characters hiding dangerous secrets.

The end of summer can be sooo boring, especially for budding archaeologists. Stuck at home just weeks before the new school year and with zero chance of even one last mini vacation, Desmond Elleryby is dying for some excitement. So are his two best friends, siblings Corin and Diego Townsend. They try entertaining themselves by learning to fly some of Desmond’s new drones, but nothing compares to their recent escapades in Italy and finding the lost treasure of Julius Caesar. So, when Diego learns that tantalizing artifacts from a homegrown American mystery lie close by in a local museum, ...

The Aldens are so excited when they get to meet other ballonists, learn how hot air balloons work, and even help the crew launch a balloon. Then, things start to go wrong. Someone is trying to ruin the rally, and the Boxcar Children might not get the chance to ride in a hot air balloon after all - unless they solve the mystery in time.

A teenage girl faces an impossible choice in this high-concept contemporary YA tearjerker set in a world where resurrection is possible but strictly controlled.

From the outside, The Lyon’s Den doesn’t look like much; there isn’t even a sign. But Mercs of all species know that if you head to Southwest Houston, near the Starport, there’s a particular run-down strip mall that looks like it’s been abandoned for years. The glass door second from the south end of the strip is plastered over on the inside with blue paper, and the faint golden outline of a rampant lion is the only clue.

His hand slides up my thigh, his mouth crashes against mine, and before I can stop it, I’m moaning his name as he spreads me open like he’s already claimed me. Because maybe he has… Knox Sterling isn’t just my ex-boyfriend’s older brother. He’s the brooding billionaire who broke away from the family business—and the one I’ve spent the past two years pretending not to notice. Quiet. Intense. Untouchable. Built like sin in a tailored suit, with ice-blue eyes that strip me bare every time he looks at me. After I’m left with a broken heart, I bury myself in my work. But a ...

Most of my writing is in a series people seem to enjoy but there is a constant small crowd who say: I'd really like your take on an alien invasion story. Well this is for them. The bulk of the aliens come to Earth stories assume their vast superiority, sometimes invincibility. Sometimes they suddenly appear on the white house lawn dictating terms. I have yet to see one with them appearing at the Kremlin or Canberra which seems rather parochial.