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THROUGH THE HAZE OF WAR COMES AN UNEXPECTED HERO.On the same day that France surrenders to the Nazis, Jack Mooney--a New Yorker, barely out of high school--hitches a ride to Montreal, where he enlists as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force. The last thing he says to his little brother before leaving home is, "Don't forget me, kid."Two years later a telegram arrives: Jack, now a Spitfire pilot flying for the Royal Air Force, is missing in action somewhere in German-occupied Europe. With only the telegram to guide him, 12-year-old Tommy Mooney arms himself to the hilt: with a sling-shot, a boomerang, a bow and arrow set, and an indomitable sense of youthful optimism. Mounting his Schwinn bicycle, he heads for the Brooklyn Harbor, setting a course for London, England, where he plans to recruit Jack's British fiancée before continuing on to Nazi-occupied Belgium. Thus begins a journey that one reader calls, "A rattling, high concept, wartime adventure--with a wonderfully quirky and incredibly brave hero-narrator." Soon enough, hope turns to foreboding--as it begins to look as though Tommy is being deceived by the Gestapo, used in a plot to expose a Resistance network created to help downed airmen. "Bravery," he realizes, "is like teeth plaque. It takes time to build up." Hearkening back to the Hitchcock film, Saboteur, and the WWII era mysteries of Eric Ambler and Helen MacInnis, Telegram For Mrs. Mooney will introduce you to a truly likable, sometimes irascible, archetypal "everyman" hero. It's a edge-of-your-seat, hair-raising, nail-biter of an adventure. A novel with the power to invoke the fearless child within you.

Blake is heading back to college after just a few days of his Christmas vacation at home. He and his father have once again argued over Blake's taking the next three years to finish his college education before going on a mission for their Church.Roger delayed his Holiday visit with his parents. He hadn't seen them in almost two years. When he does arrive home in New York City, he finds his father drunk and his mother high on drugs. He too returns early to the university.Blake and Roger are roommates and as they finish their second year at a prominent university of technology, they must choose a project and build a prototype of an innovative vehicle suitable for the future. It must be done by the end of the next quarter. Blake has an idea as to how a vehicle just might be able to cross the Universe in the blink of an eye, but can Roger figure out the mechanics.As a result of this project, both Blake and Roger discover their destinies. Join these two young men as they realize what, to them individually, is the most important thing in the Universe.

Tommy Mooney--back in England after his adventures in Telegram For Mrs. Mooney--goes with his brother's fiancée to RAF Rochford, where he begins to suspect that a Nazi spy is working mischief at the base. Airmen are mysteriously wounded, Spitfires are sabotaged, someone has been poisoning the food. No one escapes Tommy's radar, especially after Daphne falls ill and is hospitalized. That night the base is attacked, setting off a chain of events that will either prove Tommy to be a fool or a hero. Hearkening back to the Hitchcock film, Saboteur, and the WWII era mysteries of Eric Ambler and Helen MacInnis, Message For Hitler is narrated by a truly likable, sometimes irascible, archetypal "everyman" hero. It's a edge-of-your-seat, hair-raising, nail-biter of an adventure. A novel with the power to invoke the fearless child within you.

Tommy Mooney—a hero after his adventures in Nazi-occupied Europe and wartime Britain—is back at Warfield Hall in England when he gets a call from his friend Daphne. “We’ve a letter from Paris,” she says. “A very odd sort of letter.” The letter, written in invisible ink, is from their Parisian friend, begging them to help find her sister Sophie, who has gone missing. There is no way that Daphne is returning to German-occupied Europe. Unless, that is, Tommy can find a way to drag her there.A mystery involving a stolen masterpiece, communist Resistance members, and a foolhardy attempt on the life of Hermann—the rat-fink—Göring, leader of the Luftwaffe.Hearkening back to the Hitchcock film, Saboteur, and the WWII era mysteries of Eric Ambler and Helen MacInnis, Letter Via Paris continues a series featuring a truly likable, sometimes irascible, archetypal “everyman” hero.

Karissa Day had her future all planned when her family moved to Shawon, Colorado, right before her junior year in high school. A freak car accident shattered her dreams. Now confined to a wheelchair, Karissa returns to school lonely, bitter, and afraid. Then, unexpectedly, she is assigned to do a research paper with a mysterious boy named Neeve. Although he is also physically and emotionally damaged, he introduces her to a world of magic, which could be the salvation of them both.

Wally is an Emperor Penguin from Antarctica who isn't exactly like the other penguins. Wally is always cold and dreams of life on a tropical island. When Wally learns about a place that is always sunny and warm, he sets sail for the Galapagos Islands and discovers an amazing world of tap-dancing crabs, racing hundred-year-old tortoises and diving birds with bright blue feet. Wally the Warm-Weather Penguin is a board book aimed at children 1 - 4 years old. Optimized for tablet devices. With clever rhyming text and brilliant, colorful illustrations, visit the Galapagos Islands with Wally and his memorable friends.

The hurricane has passed. The treasure has been found. The mortgage on the Miller Estate has been paid (see The Mystery of the Ugly Bottle). But what has happened to Jennie and Jeremy's father? He was caught in that storm and has not been seen since. Nicalee has written to her cousin, Jennie, asking her to hurry to Louisiana a week earlier than her scheduled summer vacation. She has discovered a clue that suggests Jennie's father may still be alive. Nicalee's older brother is missing as well. He had been with his uncle on the ill-fated treasure-hunting trip. Nicalee waits anxiously on the front porch for the moment Grandpa Miller's battered truck will appear from the winding, gravel road which leads through the trees to Grandma Miller's house. Join Nicalee and Jennie as they risk their personal safety to follow clues and trails they hope will lead them to their two missing family members.

Tivoli, a stuffed bear, believes Kirsten no longer wants him because he is worn out and tattered, so he spends Christmas Eve on a quest to get repaired. He thinks if he is as handsome as a brand new bear, perhaps Kirsten will love him again.With the help of Whiskers, the brave alley cat, Tivoli discovers that how you act is more important than how you look.

Karissa Day had her future all planned when her family moved to Shawon, Colorado, right before her junior year in high school. A freak car accident shattered her dreams. Now confined to a wheelchair, Karissa returns to school lonely, bitter, and afraid. Then, unexpectedly, she is assigned to do a research paper with a mysterious boy named Neeve. Although he is also physically and emotionally damaged, he introduces her to a world of magic, which could be the salvation of them both.

This vintage work contains a collection of the customs, usages, and ceremonies used among gypsies, as regards fortune-telling, witch-doctoring, love-philtering, and other sorcery, illustrated by many anecdotes and instances, taken either from works as yet very little known to the English reader or from personal experiences. Within a very few years, since Ethnology and Archaeology have received a great inspiration, and much enlarged their scope through Folk-lore, everything relating to such subjects is studied with far greater interest and to much greater profit than was the case when they were cultivated in a languid, half-believing, half-sceptical spirit which was in reality rather one of mere romance than reason. Now that we seek with resolution to find the whole truth, be it based on materialism, spiritualism, or their identity, we are amazed to find that the realm of marvel and mystery, of wonder and poetry, connected with what we vaguely call “magic,” far from being explained away or exploded, enlarges before us as we proceed, and that not into a mere cloudland, gorgeous land, but into a country of reality in which men of science who would once have disdained the mere thought thereof are beginning to stray.

Blake is heading back to college after just a few days of his Christmas vacation at home. He and his father have once again argued over Blake's taking the next three years to finish his college education before going on a mission for their Church. Roger delayed his Holiday visit with his parents. He hadn't seen them in almost two years. When he does arrive home in New York City, he finds his father drunk and his mother high on drugs. He too returns early to the university. Blake and Roger are roommates and as they finish their second year at a prominent university of technology, they must choose a project and build a prototype of an innovative vehicle suitable for the future. It must be done by the end of the next quarter. Blake has an idea as to how a vehicle just might be able to cross the Universe in the blink of an eye, but can Roger figure out the mechanics. As a result of this project, both Blake and Roger discover their destinies. Join these two young men as they realize what, to them individually, is the most important thing in the Universe.

The hurricane has passed. The treasure has been found. The mortgage on the Miller Estate has been paid (see The Mystery of the Ugly Bottle). But what has happened to Jennie and Jeremy's father? He was caught in that storm and has not been seen since. Nicalee has written to her cousin, Jennie, asking her to hurry to Louisiana a week earlier than her scheduled summer vacation. She has discovered a clue that suggests Jennie's father may still be alive. Nicalee's older brother is missing as well. He had been with his uncle on the ill-fated treasure-hunting trip. Nicalee waits anxiously on the front porch for the moment Grandpa Miller's battered truck will appear from the winding, gravel road which leads through the trees to Grandma Miller's house. Join Nicalee and Jennie as they risk their personal safety to follow clues and trails they hope will lead them to their two missing family members.