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Fly Me to the Moon Hana's a sixth grader at the Tree of Life Preparatory School in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She and her friend, Phillip have taken an interest in NASA's space program because of Mrs. Livingston's science class. They went to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC together with her dad and got to met James Lovell an astronaut on the Apollo Eight and Thirteen Missions. Because of her increasing interest in space she went to Space Camp and then to the Kennedy Space Center. Come with Hana as she meets new friends and experiences what space is like.

A Whole Lot'a Shake'n Go'n On Trevor only has a year to go to earn his degree in Humanitarian Aid and Search and Rescue. He's taking the summer between his junior and senior years for a practicum in Search and Rescue. An 8.0 magnitude earthquake just occurred near Lake Van in Eastern Turkey. Trevor's on his way with four teams from the Orlando Search and Rescue Agency to assist in rescuing thousands of victims from the earthquake-prone region. He soon demonstrates that he has the knowledge and skills to lead in a remote and dangerous environment.

He Will Have Two Horns Like a Lamb Renaldo, the childhood friend of Maurice Bordeau, recently became a Cardinal at the Vatican. He asks Bordeau and his detective agency to help investigate activities in the Vatican to see if there's any truth to the rumors that Pope Francis is organizing a global political/religious federation. Unfortunately, the rumors seem to be true. The Pope is building a robotic creature, called the Beast, and creating a biometric financial system called Diablo that mirrors some of the frightening scenarios of the End Times prophesied in the Bible. Renaldo asks Bordeau...

Gog, I will put hooks into your jaws Mossad Agent Abe Gagin returns from Iran with the unsettling news that Russia plans to push back against NATO and the West by invading Eastern Europe. Even worse news is that Russia has already started the offensive by moving into Ukraine. Abe meets with the B4 Detectives he hired earlier to solve the murders of Israeli leaders in the book, Israel Besieged. He assigns Bordeau and Katherine to travel by train from Istanbul to Stockholm and scouting for evidence that the Russians are coming. Bristol and Cindy will travel through Turkey and Iran looking for...

Damn the Torpedoes. Full Speed Ahead! The Mediterranean recently became an active war zone. Russia bolstered its naval fleet on the coast of Syria north of Beirut and in the Black Sea to support its invasion of Ukraine. Newly promoted Captain Dan Phillips just reported to duty aboard the USS Harry S. Truman as the new Information Warfare Officer for NATO whose job was to coordinate exercises for Strike Force 8 based in Naples. The exercises had barely begun when Russia cut off its oil flowing to Europe when an LNG tanker loaded with gas from a new source in Israel was sunk by a Russian ...

Mount Zion, the city of the great King! After taking a Mediterranean cruise for their honeymoon the B4 Detective Agency is looking forward to a three-week tour of Israel. They'd barely gotten settled in Haifa before Bordeau's friend and Mossad Agent, Abe Gagin, recruited them to solve the murder of three high-ranking Israeli officials. They investigate the murders and an attempt on the Prime Minister's life while simultaneously touring Israel. By the end of the first week they learn that Iran planned the killings and chatter in the intelligence community hints that the King of the North may...

Could One Bomb Turn Off the Lights? Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico is about to test its latest design for protecting the Nation's electrical grid from an electromagnetic pulse by a nuclear explosion at high altitude. The design is to be tested over Bikini Island in the western Pacific by dropping an atomic bomb from a B-2 Spirit Bomber based at Whiteman AFB in Missouri. Bordeau and Bristol are tasked by the head of security, Joseph Warbucks, a former student of Bordeau's at Scotland Yard, to find the nest of spies stealing highly classified secrets about the design ...

Thank Heaven for Little Girls Bordeau and Bristol leave London with their new wives, Katherine and Cindy and travel by Eurostar to Marseille, France to meet Katherine's father, Liam Barnett, and family. But first, they plan to celebrate New Year's Eve in Paris. While there they enjoy classic tourist attractions, eat at well-known restaurants, and watch fireworks at the Eiffel Tower. An urgent message from Katherine's father causes them to hurry home to help Liam find who killed one of his nephews. When they arrive in Marseille Bordeau and Bristol are informed by Katherine's father that they...

Were Our Founders White Supremacists? Roger Steele, a Charlottesville FBI Agent and long-time friend of Bordeau"s, requests that Bordeau and Bristol help stop the local Antifa group from burning down Monticello. Antifa wants to make a political statement that America is racist and elitist since its founding. Bordeau identifies the leaders of the radical movement and develops a plan to capture them to prevent Monticello from being burnt. Coincidental to the investigation, the two confirmed bachelors become infatuated with two ladies from France they met the month before in Dodge City, Kansas...

A Smooth Sea Never Made a Skilled Sailor Bordeau and Bristol end their year-long tour of America and return to England in this suspenseful romantic comedy, murder mystery. They've become infatuated with two women from Marseilles, France. The unlikely suitors attend plays and concerts in New York with their new girl friends, Katherine and Cindy, before departing for home. Friendship turns to love and Bordeau and Bristol decide to propose marriage at the top of the Empire State Building. After they learn how to properly say, I love you, and clear up a few misunderstandings, the Captain of the...

The Big Boom Dreaded by All Mid-Eastern terrorists smuggle a dirty bomb through a tunnel under the border from Tijuana, Mexico with the intent of spreading death and destruction to millions of people living in Southern California. The terrorists come from five different Muslim countries to exact revenge on the infidels who defiled Muslim lands with their prescence. The plan is to bring as much pain and suffering to the West Coast as the New York Towers attack did to the East Coast. Two American Border Patrol agents are killed when they discover the smuggling operation. Bordeau and Bristol ...

There's Go'na Be a Lot'a Shak'n Go'n On The San Andreas fault runs directly through California and under a portion of San Francisco. There have been fears for many years that another major earthquake like the one in 1906 could occur any time destroying the city and sending California into the Pacific Ocean. Two disenchanted college-age terrorists decide to use a bomb to trigger the built-up energy in the fault and wipe out the shambles thirty-million Californians had made and start again. One terrorist wishes to clear away the pollution, the industrialization, and the destruction of the ...

Will socialism replace capitalism? Three Starbucks coffee shops near Washington Square in Lower Manhattan are firebombed early on Saturday morning of a march and rally by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). The bombings are intended to start a revolution to replace capitalism with socialism. During the rally rumors are circulated that a 'Big Surprise' is expected somewhere in Manhattan later that afternoon. Only a few members of the DSA know that the surprise is to be the destruction of one of the Trump towers. They plan to float a nuclear weapon under the building through one of ...

All Babies Go to Heaven. Will Seniors?Why are hundreds of seniors in the Denver metropolitan area disappearing? Bordeau and Bristol receive an invitation from the Denver Police Department to assist in the investigation and must decide if they're willing to forgo part of their travels around America to help. Of course, Bordeau always wants to lend a hand, but neither he nor Bristol anticipate the abominable scheme they uncover in Denver. Bordeau invites a reporter from the Denver Post to help, in return for publishing the scheme on the front page of his newspaper. They discover that a new ...

How High Does the Villainy Go? A group of religious universities and seminaries in St. Louis are being vandalized by a local Antifa group. Bordeau is requested by his friend Luis, a priest at St. Louis University, to find out why the schools are being targeted. An ecumenical council of presidents from several schools wants to know what can be done to stop the culprits. The attackers began by spray painting threats and hate symbols on campus buildings and soon graduated to firebombing a dormitory and some buses. A student was killed at the university and fear spread that the violence would ...

Foreign diplomats are frozen to death clinging to the sides of Chicago skyscrapers, the Chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Chicago is drowned in the Chicago River at the foot of the Sears Tower, and executives from several social media giants in California are tossed off the Golden Gate Bridge. A 'turf war' of sorts has broken out between the faculties at the University of Chicago and the University of California Berkeley over the issue of nationalism versus globalism; borders or no borders; sovereignty or subjection. The celebrated international investigative duo ...

When You're in Luck, You're in Luck Willie Nelson's bus driver is killed and his guitar, Trigger, is stolen in the parking lot behind Ryman Hall, Bordeau and Bristol are recruited by the Nashville Police Department to find the killer and the guitar. Willie carries the two detectives on his tour bus, Honeysuckle Rose, to Memphis, Branson, and Austin to recover Trigger. The chase turns into a version of Smokey and the Bandit from Branson to the Missouri/Oklahoma State line. Following several adventures Willie shows Bordeau and Bristol his ranch outside Austin, Texas; takes them to see his ...

Pretty Bubbles in the SkyNASA is losing engineers. They're not retiring, but simply disappearing without a trace. Is a foreign country kidnapping some of the best minds working on a new initiative to colonize the Moon by 2024? How is it possible that three specialists who design habitats for the Moon could vanish and leave no trace? Were they killed? Were they abducted by aliens? Bordeau and Bristol are recruited by the Houston Police Department to find the missing engineers and determine if they were captured or murdered for some nefarius purpose. Meanwhile a consortium of engineers who ...

A Month in Boston The Vardiman family has traveled a lot, for week-long vacations, visits to the family in St. Louis, and trips to Disneyland. But, this trip was different. We were on our way to Boston, one of the birthplaces of our country. Living in the Midwest, Colorado, and on the West Coast provides only a limited exposure to the early history of our country, We were going to see where the shot heard around the world was fired, the Old North Church, the USS Constitution, and, maybe, Benjamin Franklin, if he happened to be visiting the Concord Inn while we are there. We anticipate ...

Hurricanes are Full of Sound and Fury On their way to New York and finally home to London Bordeau and Bristol's train intercepts Hurricane Jaye, a category five storm, on the Amtrak Crescent through Louisiana. They're forced to seek refuge at the L'AuBerge Lake Charles Resort along with other train passengers and tourists trapped in the hotel. On the first night someone's murdered in the room above by someone driven mad by the incessant sound of the one hundred fifty-mph wind. Bordeau and Bristol volunteer to assist the hotel manager investigate the murders and attempt to rescue the crazed ...