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Are you looking for a good book for your son or daughter, age 10-15? Here's a new mystery series guaranteed to give them the same sense of wonder and excitement you experienced when you first discovered Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and Sherlock Holmes. Grab your magnifying glass and curl up on the couch! You're about to enter the mysterious and action-packed world of the North Hollywood Detective Club. A world of secret staircases, dangerous double-crosses, and graveyards at midnight, cloaked in mist and concealing hidden treasure. A page-turning world of teenage detectives uncovering clues ...

Jeffrey has a math test in the morning, tonight he has a murder to solve. 15-year-old Jeffrey Jones is in trouble again. It doesn't matter that he and his friends helped catch a pair of thieves from their school's theater department. What sent his father's blood pressure through the roof is that one of the thieves is suing Jeffrey's family. By trying to do the right thing, Jeffrey has once again made everything worse. Then a girl from school dies under mysterious circumstances and Jeffrey and his friends find themselves drawn into another chilling mystery. The police rule the girl's death ...

A graveyard at midnight, cloaked in mist and concealing hidden treasure. A trio of sinister villains who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the prize. And four teenage detectives in a race against time. When Jeffrey's high school teacher hires him to find the driver responsible for a hit-and-run car accident, he thinks it's an easy case - until a harrowing encounter with a ruthless treasure hunter sends him and his friends spiraling into a search for an ancient treasure. Are you looking for a good book for your son or daughter, age 10-15? Here's a new mystery series guaranteed to ...

Jeffrey has a math test in the morning, tonight he has a murder to solve. Grab your magnifying glass and curl up on the couch! You're about to enter the mysterious and action-packed world of the North Hollywood Detective Club. A world of secret staircases, dangerous double-crosses, and graveyards at midnight, cloaked in mist and concealing hidden treasure. A page-turning world of teenage detectives uncovering clues and matching wits with blond blackmailers, cunning counterfeiters, and fifteen-year-old femme fatales. Together for the first time in one volume, here are Books 3 & 4 of this ...

Can four teenage detectives solve an impossible crime, rescue an innocent man from jail and still get their homework done on time? It's a hot summer and 14-year-old Jeffrey is grounded again. It doesn't matter that he and his best friend Pablo solved a neighborhood burglary. It's the danger Jeffrey put himself in that upset his father. Now he's sentenced to an endless summer of mowing lawns and cleaning out dusty, cobweb-covered garages for cranky old Mr. Kozlowski. But when the brother of the cute girl next door is arrested for stealing a valuable painting, Jeffrey can't help himself. He ...

Turning three I'm a sight to see! Celebrate your three-year-old with this humorous and heartfelt look at life, told in simple, easy to read poems. This book, one of a series for children up to age 5, contains bright, colorful illustrations and simple rhymes for parents and grandparents to read to their children. Rhyming is fun and accelerates learning. Even more important is the bonding that takes place when children are read to. Poll 100 people and you'll find that the ones who were read to as children have much closer relationships with their parents and grandparents than the ones who ...

Botswana is a country of contrasts. Culturally, the people are overwhelmingly Bantu, but with more than twenty different ethnic groups and over thirty languages spoken, the society is by no means homogeneous. Culture Smart! Botswana introduces you to the lives of the people. It looks at the history that has shaped the society and shows the importance of traditional customs and values for both travelers and businesspeople alike. It describes how the Batswana live, work, and play, and how to avoid the pitfalls of cultural misunderstanding.

Can four teenage detectives solve an impossible crime, rescue an innocent man from jail, and still get their homework done on time? It's a hot summer and 14-year-old Jeffrey is grounded again. It doesn't matter that he and his best friend Pablo solved a neighborhood burglary. It's the danger Jeffrey put himself in that so upset his father. Now he's sentenced to an endless summer of mowing lawns and cleaning out dusty, cobweb-covered garages for cranky old Mr. Kozlowski. But when the brother of the cute girl next door is arrested for stealing a valuable painting, Jeffrey can't help himself. ...

A criminal mastermind. Two billion dollars in counterfeit currency. And four teenage detectives in for the ride of their life! While the rest of the world prepares to celebrate Christmas, 15-year-old Jeffrey and his friends uncover a plot to flood their city with billions of dollars in counterfeit money. Their investigation leads to a criminal kingpin, his hoodlum son, and a mysterious 15-year-old girl who holds the key to the entire puzzle. Action-packed from start to finish, readers have voted this their favorite book in the series. Are you looking for a good book for your son or daughter...

A graveyard at midnight, cloaked in mist and concealing hidden treasure. A trio of sinister villains who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the prize. And four teenage detectives in a race against time. When Jeffrey's high school teacher hires him to find the driver responsible for a hit-and-run car accident, he thinks it's an easy case - until a harrowing encounter with a ruthless treasure hunter sends him and his friends spiraling into a search for an ancient treasure. Are you looking for a good book for your son or daughter, age 10-15? Here's a new mystery series guaranteed to ...

If someone you loved committed murder, how far would you go to cover up the crime? A mysterious note found in a school library book leads Jeffrey and his friends to suspect that a girl who committed suicide was actually murdered. Their investigation leads to a haunted library, a web of lies and long-buried secrets, and a list of suspects that includes their own high school principal. A classic murder mystery for boys and girls, age 10-15. Are you looking for a good book for your son or daughter, age 10-15? Here's a new mystery series guaranteed to give them the same sense of wonder and ...

Look closely at the two photos on the cover of this book. Is that the same woman? Since 1960, the Vatican has claimed that the woman on the right is the same person as the woman on the left. Have they been lying to us? If so, why? In this explosive new book, you will discover: Conclusive proof that Sister Lucy of Fatima was replaced with an impostor The sad, but true fate of the real Sister Lucy Why the Vatican had to replace Sister Lucy with an impostor Sister Lucy's frank admission that we are living in the end times The Communist infiltration of the Catholic Church The Third Secret of ...

Framed for murder! All Jeffrey wanted to do was help a friend from school find her missing father. He had no way of knowing it would lead to his being arrested for the man's murder. Now after a daring escape, he and his friends must solve an impossible crime and catch a killer - before the police catch them. Are you looking for a good book for your son or daughter, age 10-15? Here's a new mystery series guaranteed to give them the same sense of wonder and excitement you felt when you first discovered Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and Sherlock Holmes. Books aren't clothes they'll outgrow or ...

It's all here! Everything you need to go to Heaven, your true home. Read this book and discover for yourself the four key steps followed by everyone that we now know is in Heaven, people like St. Peter, St. Paul, the seers of Fatima, Padre Pio, and others. To follow in their footsteps and go to Heaven yourself, all you have to do is model your life on theirs. In other words, by doing what they did and not doing what they didn't do, you can virtually guarantee yourself of going to Heaven. If you've ever wished you had a map or a system that would lead you straight to Heaven, now you do! ...

Turning one is lots of fun! Celebrate your one-year-old with this humorous and heartfelt look at life, told in simple, easy to follow poems. This book, one of a series for children from age 1 to 5, contains bright, colorful illustrations and simple rhymes for parents and grandparents to read to their children. Rhyming is fun and accelerates learning. Even more important is the bonding that takes place when children are read to. Poll 100 people and you'll find that the ones who were read to as children have much closer relationships with their parents and grandparents than the ones who ...

You're marooned on Ship-Wreck Island and dashing wildly through the jungle. Behind you, a pack of baying hounds known to tear men limb from limb track your scent. Ahead of you is a swamp filled with quicksand. Your breath is coming in ragged pants, your legs are weary. You would give anything to stop for a moment's rest, but you can't. You're being hunted by a madman. Could you survive The Most Dangerous Game? Your name is Leiningen and an army of ants, ten miles long and two miles wide, is marching through the Brazilian jungle, devouring everything in its path. The ants can swarm over a ...

"I can never thank you enough!!! My acne is all gone, thanks to your book!" Have you ever looked at your face in the mirror and wanted to cry? Did a face filled with acne staring back at you make you want to punch the mirror? I felt that way - for many years - until I learned what causes acne and how to get rid it. Once I did that, once I eliminated the things that were causing my acne, it literally melted away like a snow cone on a hot summer day. How fast, you ask? In my case, it took two weeks for most of my acne to disappear and one full month before all of it was gone. That might sound...

A girl in distress. A criminal mastermind. And two billion dollars in counterfeit money. While the rest of the world prepares to celebrate Christmas, 15-year-old Jeffrey and his friends uncover a plot to flood their city with two billion dollars in counterfeit currency. Now he's locked in an airtight vault with his friends Pablo and Marisol. A timer is set to flood the vault with poison gas at the stroke of midnight - only fifteen minutes from now - and the clock is ticking. Action-packed from start to finish, readers have voted this their favorite book in the series. Are you looking for a ...

It's all here! Everything you need to go to Heaven, your true home. Read this book and discover for yourself the four key steps followed by everyone that we now know is in Heaven, people like St. Peter, St. Paul, the seers of Fatima, Padre Pio, and others. To follow in their footsteps and go to Heaven yourself, all you have to do is model your life on theirs. In other words, by doing what they did and not doing what they didn't do, you can virtually guarantee yourself of going to Heaven. If you've ever wished you had a map or a system that would lead you straight to Heaven, now you do! ...

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