Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743423429
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
AN UNDERCOVER STORY BRINGS CRIME OUT IN THE OPEN! Frank and Joe's aunt Gertrude leads a pretty quiet life -- until an old high school friend turns up in Bayport. Clayton Silvers once had a distinguished career as an investigative reporter. Then he was accused of falsifying some of his articles and even taking money to expose his subjects. Now he's in town, working on the explosive story that he says will be his comeback. Aunt Gertrude staunchly maintains her friend's innocence, but the Hardys aren't so sure that Silvers is a sterling character. Since he's been around, the danger level has escalated. Now the Hardys are the ones being watched and stalked, their every move monitored. Silvers is playing a high-stakes game, and the Hardys don't want to be on the losing end!
Past and Present Danger
Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743423429
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
AN UNDERCOVER STORY BRINGS CRIME OUT IN THE OPEN! Frank and Joe's aunt Gertrude leads a pretty quiet life -- until an old high school friend turns up in Bayport. Clayton Silvers once had a distinguished career as an investigative reporter. Then he was accused of falsifying some of his articles and even taking money to expose his subjects. Now he's in town, working on the explosive story that he says will be his comeback. Aunt Gertrude staunchly maintains her friend's innocence, but the Hardys aren't so sure that Silvers is a sterling character. Since he's been around, the danger level has escalated. Now the Hardys are the ones being watched and stalked, their every move monitored. Silvers is playing a high-stakes game, and the Hardys don't want to be on the losing end!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743423429
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
AN UNDERCOVER STORY BRINGS CRIME OUT IN THE OPEN! Frank and Joe's aunt Gertrude leads a pretty quiet life -- until an old high school friend turns up in Bayport. Clayton Silvers once had a distinguished career as an investigative reporter. Then he was accused of falsifying some of his articles and even taking money to expose his subjects. Now he's in town, working on the explosive story that he says will be his comeback. Aunt Gertrude staunchly maintains her friend's innocence, but the Hardys aren't so sure that Silvers is a sterling character. Since he's been around, the danger level has escalated. Now the Hardys are the ones being watched and stalked, their every move monitored. Silvers is playing a high-stakes game, and the Hardys don't want to be on the losing end!
Prescription Medication/Drug Misuse Andabuse: a Clear & Present Danger
Author: Dr. James A. Mays
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483664422
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
James A. Mays is a true renaissance man: poet, scholar, popular novelist, songwriter, cardiologist, and civil leader. His individual achievements are such that he was the recipient of the George Washington Medal. Other notable recipients of this prestigious award are Barbara Jordan and the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Mays has written several songs, one of which, Happy Birthday Mama, was recorded by Bill Cosby. He also co-wrote several songs with H.B Barnum. As an author he is responsible for nine novels, including his latest Trapped, which is in preparation to become a movie. An earlier trilogy, Strivers, is being developed as a miniseries. Dr. Mays is widely recognized as the founder of community problem-solving programs such as the Adopt-A-Family endowment. He is currently involved in several campaigns promoting drug and AIDS awareness and giving assistance to the homeless. He has frequently appeared on television, featuring on shows including The Today Show, The Phil Donahue Show, on radio, such as the Voice of America and has had articles published in LIFE, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the L.A. Times, and Ebony. Dr. Mays, who was decorated as combat physician in Vietnam, is a lone parent with four sons.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483664422
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
James A. Mays is a true renaissance man: poet, scholar, popular novelist, songwriter, cardiologist, and civil leader. His individual achievements are such that he was the recipient of the George Washington Medal. Other notable recipients of this prestigious award are Barbara Jordan and the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Mays has written several songs, one of which, Happy Birthday Mama, was recorded by Bill Cosby. He also co-wrote several songs with H.B Barnum. As an author he is responsible for nine novels, including his latest Trapped, which is in preparation to become a movie. An earlier trilogy, Strivers, is being developed as a miniseries. Dr. Mays is widely recognized as the founder of community problem-solving programs such as the Adopt-A-Family endowment. He is currently involved in several campaigns promoting drug and AIDS awareness and giving assistance to the homeless. He has frequently appeared on television, featuring on shows including The Today Show, The Phil Donahue Show, on radio, such as the Voice of America and has had articles published in LIFE, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the L.A. Times, and Ebony. Dr. Mays, who was decorated as combat physician in Vietnam, is a lone parent with four sons.
Clairvoyant and Present Danger
Author: Lena Gregory
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425282775
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A haunting vision reveals a ghostly grave in the latest Bay Island Psychic Mystery from the author of Occult and Battery. Whoever said that dead men tell no tales has never met Cass Donnovan... Cass has always relied on her abilities to guide her, but after communications with a ghost land her in the middle of a murder investigation, she has to wonder if her gifts are really more a curse. Cass knows she is meant to help track down the killer--much to the chagrin of local law enforcement--when the apparition leads her to a dead body on the beach near her psychic shop, Mystical Musings. But the police are not the only ones who wish Cass would stick to reading palms. Someone is trying to scare her off, and it will take all her powers of premonition to catch the killer before Cass herself becomes the next victim...
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425282775
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A haunting vision reveals a ghostly grave in the latest Bay Island Psychic Mystery from the author of Occult and Battery. Whoever said that dead men tell no tales has never met Cass Donnovan... Cass has always relied on her abilities to guide her, but after communications with a ghost land her in the middle of a murder investigation, she has to wonder if her gifts are really more a curse. Cass knows she is meant to help track down the killer--much to the chagrin of local law enforcement--when the apparition leads her to a dead body on the beach near her psychic shop, Mystical Musings. But the police are not the only ones who wish Cass would stick to reading palms. Someone is trying to scare her off, and it will take all her powers of premonition to catch the killer before Cass herself becomes the next victim...
Claire and Present Danger
Author: Gillian Roberts
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 0449007367
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
When Claire Fairchild begins receiving anonymous letters suggesting she investigate the past of her soon-to-be daughter-in-law, she does a little digging of her own and uncovers some startling secrets.
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 0449007367
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
When Claire Fairchild begins receiving anonymous letters suggesting she investigate the past of her soon-to-be daughter-in-law, she does a little digging of her own and uncovers some startling secrets.
AD 2040: Clear and Present Danger
Author: R. Grantham West
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 145687778X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
It’s 2039, and over the past fifteen years, the U.S. has gone through bankruptcy and collapse of the federal government, a second Great Depression, establishment of a military government, and martial law. Although now in economic recovery, the long-neglected HIV/AIDS epidemic is ravaging the country. Over a quarter of the U.S. population is feared infected. Infiltrated by religious-right fundamentalists, the government has mandated nation-wide HIV testing, and their solution the HIV/AIDS nemesis is shocking. A second civil war seems imminent. This leaves Reverend Gerald Fall and Lillian, his spouse, in a dilemma. Their lives go through a roller coaster ride of events and discoveries about what’s really happening in the police state of America. This journey may cost them their lives. They experience a surreal, alternate reality that stimulates serious re-evaluation of the religious-right, Biblical inerrancy, Bible abuse, hypocrisy, bigotry, homophobia, and twisted Christian dogma.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 145687778X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
It’s 2039, and over the past fifteen years, the U.S. has gone through bankruptcy and collapse of the federal government, a second Great Depression, establishment of a military government, and martial law. Although now in economic recovery, the long-neglected HIV/AIDS epidemic is ravaging the country. Over a quarter of the U.S. population is feared infected. Infiltrated by religious-right fundamentalists, the government has mandated nation-wide HIV testing, and their solution the HIV/AIDS nemesis is shocking. A second civil war seems imminent. This leaves Reverend Gerald Fall and Lillian, his spouse, in a dilemma. Their lives go through a roller coaster ride of events and discoveries about what’s really happening in the police state of America. This journey may cost them their lives. They experience a surreal, alternate reality that stimulates serious re-evaluation of the religious-right, Biblical inerrancy, Bible abuse, hypocrisy, bigotry, homophobia, and twisted Christian dogma.
Clear and Present Danger
Author: Tom Clancy
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425122129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
The assassinations of the U.S. ambassador and the visiting head of the F.B.I. by Colombian drug lords trigger a mysterious covert response and an investigation of U.S. and Colombian actions by Jack Ryan. Reissue.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425122129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
The assassinations of the U.S. ambassador and the visiting head of the F.B.I. by Colombian drug lords trigger a mysterious covert response and an investigation of U.S. and Colombian actions by Jack Ryan. Reissue.
Religious Denominations in the United States, Their Past History, Present Condition, and Doctrines, Accurately Set Forth in Fifty-three ... Articles Written by Eminent Clerical and Lay Authors ... Together with Complete and Well-digested Statistics. To which is Added a Historical Summary of Religious Denominations in England and Scotland
Past, Present and Future
Author: Laszlo Solymar
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496984951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
The present book is about history, written through the satirical eyes of a Hungarian refugee in the early 1960s, a few years after he settled in England. The title Past, Present and Future, together with the subtitle An Irreverent Treatment of History, explains beautifully what the book is about. Brief but profound historical judgments are made about everything that matters: socialism, capitalism, communism, Nazism, colonialism, revolution, science, religion, war and peace, and stability and anarchy. The common factor is power. Everything is explained by the love of power by individuals, groups, social classes, dictators, and nationsby people who are high up and by people who are low down.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496984951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
The present book is about history, written through the satirical eyes of a Hungarian refugee in the early 1960s, a few years after he settled in England. The title Past, Present and Future, together with the subtitle An Irreverent Treatment of History, explains beautifully what the book is about. Brief but profound historical judgments are made about everything that matters: socialism, capitalism, communism, Nazism, colonialism, revolution, science, religion, war and peace, and stability and anarchy. The common factor is power. Everything is explained by the love of power by individuals, groups, social classes, dictators, and nationsby people who are high up and by people who are low down.
Espionage: Past, Present and Future?
Author: Wesley K. Wark
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136296972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Highlights of the volume include pioneering essays on the methodology of intelligence studies by Michael Fry and Miles Hochstein, and the future perils of the surveillance state by James Der Derian. Two leading authorities on the history of Soviet/Russian intelligence, Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, contribute essays on the final days of the KGB. Also, the mythology surrounding the life of Second World War intelligence chief, Sir William Stephenson, The Man Called Intrepid', is penetrated in a persuasive revisionist account by Timothy Naftali. The collection is rounded off by a series of essays devoted to unearthing the history of the Canadian intelligence service.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136296972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Highlights of the volume include pioneering essays on the methodology of intelligence studies by Michael Fry and Miles Hochstein, and the future perils of the surveillance state by James Der Derian. Two leading authorities on the history of Soviet/Russian intelligence, Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, contribute essays on the final days of the KGB. Also, the mythology surrounding the life of Second World War intelligence chief, Sir William Stephenson, The Man Called Intrepid', is penetrated in a persuasive revisionist account by Timothy Naftali. The collection is rounded off by a series of essays devoted to unearthing the history of the Canadian intelligence service.
History's Memory
Author: Ellen Frances Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674016057
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This reinterpretation of a century of American historical writing challenges the notion that the politics of the recent past alone explains the politics of history. Fitzpatrick offers a wise historical perspective on today's heated debates, and reclaims the long line of historians who tilled the rich and diverse soil of our past.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674016057
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This reinterpretation of a century of American historical writing challenges the notion that the politics of the recent past alone explains the politics of history. Fitzpatrick offers a wise historical perspective on today's heated debates, and reclaims the long line of historians who tilled the rich and diverse soil of our past.