Soon the homicide team find themselves delving into the past, but as they approach the truth, Simonsen discovers long-hidden skeletons in his own closet. Author : Charles G. A moving tale of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men, set in the time of Napoleon, against the tensions of wartime.
As the author depicts Sylvia's fateful decision to marry one man while loving the other, she deftly interweaves the eternal themes of jealousy, unrequited love, and the consequences of individual choice. Risking her life to save her homeland, Shabon, a princess from the Nine-Headed Dragon Archipelago, joins Souma's side in hopes of stopping an impending war. But with a fleet already en route to the hostile archipelago under his orders, Souma sets out to infiltrate the islands before they arrive.
As he gathers information within the enemy territory, he finds that the real threat isn't their naval fleet, but a massive creature in their waters that defies all common sense?! What strategy will Souma come up with to handle these two encroaching threats?! Find out in the thirteenth volume of the revolutionary administrative fantasy series!
Wolf Haas' Detective Brenner series has become wildly popular around the world for a reason: They're timely, edgy stories told in a wry, quirky voice that's often hilarious, and with a protagonist it's hard not to love. In this episode, Brenner-forced out of the police force-tries to get away from detective work by taking a job as the personal chauffeur for two-year-old Helena, the daughter of a Munich construction giant and a Viennese abortion doctor. One day, while Brenner's attention is turned to picking out a chocolate bar for Helena at a gas station, Helena gets snatched from the car.
Abruptly out of a job, Brenner decides to investigate her disappearance on his own. With both parents in the public eye, there's no scarcity of leads-the father's latest development project has spurred public protest, and the mother's clinic has been targeted by the zealous leader of an anti-abortion group.
Brenner and God is told with a dark humor that leaves no character, including Brenner, unscathed. Haas tells the story of a fallible hero who can be indecisive and world-weary, baffled and disillusioned by what he finds, but who presses forward nonetheless out of a stubborn sense of decency-a two-year-old is kidnapped, so you find her, because that's just what you do.
Fabulous piece of writing. It is really quite astounding that Machen is largely forgotten as a writer. In The Secret Glory, I particularly loved Machen's satirical social comments about the class system, Christian hypocrisy and the sadistic puritanism of English Public Schools.
This isn't always an easy book to read but it is very rewarding, and after reading, like the best literary works, carves out a place for itself in one's psyche. A wide-bodied Boeing is so large that you could barely park it on a football field. But soon after a routine takeoff from Kuala Lumpur International Airport on the night of 7 March , Flight MH disappeared from the radar with passengers and 12 crew on board.
No one could even be sure where it was last seen. Debris was spotted hundreds, then thousands of miles apart, only to be discounted. For weeks this real-life version of the hit TV show Lost gripped the world. Even Russia's invasion of the Crimea couldn't keep it off the front pages. Were those on board to be found alive on a mysterious tropical island? Had they crashed into the sea? Had the plane been hijacked or brought down by a terrorist bomb?
As the story unfolded more mysteries came to light. Who had turned off the plane's tracking systems? And why? Why had there been no 'Mayday' call? And which way was it headed? Why were governments and institutions that had information about Flight MH so reluctant to share it? And why did the mobile phones of those on board continue to ring out.
Wild theories abounded. Had Flight MH been abducted by aliens? Or shot down by the North Koreans? But somehow, in the world of the web, where every email was intercepted, the disappearance of MH began to rival the legend of the Marie Celeste.
Prolific author Nigel Cawthorne sifts the evidence, weighs the theories and unravels the mystery of Flight MH Reading Level: 4. Most of them are only three to five inches long. These birds are called hummingbirds because of the sound they make. Their wings beat so fast that it makes a humming sound. Many people like these birds. Let us learn more about them. Learn what a hummingbird looks like, where it lives, what it eats, who are its enemies, how babies are born, and fun facts.
RL: 3. Some are funny and some are strange. This book will tell you about seven interesting animals. This is a compilation of seven of our popular Minute Books for early readers. It contains the full text and pictures from the following individual books: "Meet the Elephant" "Meet the Hippo" "Meet the Polar Bear" "Meet the Beaver" "Meet the Bat" "Meet the Spider" "Meet the Raccoon" Help kids discover the joy of learning about different animals in this set of easy to read books Ages 5 to 8 All measurements in American and metric.
Reading Level: 2. Many parrots are very colorful birds. They can be green, blue, yellow, red, black, and white. Many of them have three or four colors.
There are many different kinds of parrots. In fact, if you include all the birds in the parrot family, there are over different kinds of parrots. Have children learn about parrots in this fun minute book. Reading level: 3. Many people would think it was a good problem, but it was still a problem.
What was his problem? Henry Ford was selling too many cars. Henry had made the first Model T in He made sure that it was cheap. He wanted anyone to be able to buy a car.
He got a lot of people to sell it. He also had the newspapers write about it. Henry also sold the car in different ways. There was a regular Model T that people could ride in. But that was not all. There was also a Model T pickup. There was one with a flat bed on the back. A flatbed is like the bottom part of a pickup truck.
It has the flat bottom part, but not the sides. Henry also put ads in papers. On of the ads showed a plow hooked to a Model T. In Henry's mind, this car could do a lot of things. He thought it would work for lots of people. Lots of people thought so too. They were buying the cars. Find out how Henry solves the problem and starts making cars much faster in this fun minute book.
Ages 7 and up. Reading level 2. These minute books focus on a specific moment in a historic person's life. Our Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge.
Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day. They were at the home of their friend, Shing Lee.
Her family had the biggest kitchen, but the kitchen looked small when it was filled with cupcakes. There were cupcakes on every surface. There were white ones and chocolate ones. There were even strawberry cupcakes. Some had red frosting and some had white frosting.
A lot of them had chocolate frosting. He slumped into a nearby chair. They were all tired. It had taken them over four hours to mix up the batter. Then they had spent another five hours baking and frosting them all. She was feeling frantically at the chain around her neck, but it was no use. The pendent was gone. Can Kendall and Jamie help her find the pendant without breaking open all 1, cupcakes they have just baked? See if you can solve this minute mystery before the Brodericks do.
Many books also work well as hi-lo readers. A break-in at the local pet shop is just the first of a number of strange thefts. Animals are disappearing all over town - some are exotic and expensive, some are household pets and some are so rare they shouldn't even be available to steal.
Harriet Tubman was known as Araminta Ross when she was growing up. People called her Minty. One day Minty was working in the fields. She was picking cotton. It was the summer of and it was hot! Minty saw the water boy coming toward her. That was good. She could use a cool drink of water. But something about the boy was different.
He walked straight toward her. When he reached her, Minty found out why. He dipped the ladle into the water bucket and held it out to her. Minty began to drink. Then he leaned in close and spoke to her. Tomorrow you join the chain gang. She was filled with panic. She would die on the chain gang! Find out how Minty escapes to the North and to freedom in this exciting minute book. Ages 7 and up. Reading level 2. These minute books focus on a specific moment in a historic person's life.
Aimed at second graders, they provide the perfect introduction to famous Americans in an exciting, fun-to-read way. It was and Stephen Decatur was in the Navy. He was on a ship that was in Europe. Stephen was the commander of a small ship. It was named the Enterprise. One day the head of the Navy called Stephen and some other men together.
Stephen knew that the Philadelphia was a big ship. She had 44 huge cannons on her. The enemy captured her, along with all her men and her guns. When she is fixed, she will be part of the enemy fleet. She will be one of the biggest and fastest ships they have. It would be better if she had sunk rather than be used against us.
Stephen kept thinking about the ship. Finally he went to the commander. If we cannot steal her, we could burn her. Then she could not be used against us.
Yacouba Sawadogo was the village idiot. At least that was what everyone in his small province of Yatenga in Burkina Faso thought. After all, everyone knew that you broke up the hard ground and planted your crops during the rainy season. Without rain, the crops would never grow. And who planted trees in this arid region near the edge of the Sahara Desert. People didn't need trees, they needed food.
After all, the older people had chopped down the trees in order to make the land ripe for farming. Who would plant a tree in the middle of their crops? Everyone knew the trees stole the water, and they took away valuable farm land. More than that, Yacouba was hacking down termite nests and planting them next to the trees. Didn't termites eat trees? They were the enemy of trees! Yes, Yacouba must be an idiot. Even the local chieftains said so. Soon they all found that they were wrong.
Find out more about this man who discovered how to turn the Sahara Desert into a forest in this short minute children's biography. Ages 10 and up. Reading Level: 6. It was a cold day in October It had been warm for many days. Then it turned cool. There was a breeze blowing across the water.
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