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A fast and furious, Machiavellian plot that once you begin reading,
you can't put it down.--Webb Sawyer, author of Blue Heron Marsh
Loved it...a thrilling read from cover to cover--Elrod Stanton,
author of Hunting Ground Henry Ellis becomes embroiled in an
international incident when a chartered Iberian Air jet loaded with
American high school students, including his twin son and daughter,
is hijacked. Beneath the fade of a simple hijacking by Palestinian
terrorists there is a much deeper plot, one that involves the overt
Basque separatist group known as ETA, a covert Catalan separatist
cabal led by a clique of old men who are holdovers from the Spanish
Civil War, and, hidden even deeper in the confused trail of
deception, an ex-CIA agent driven by an obsession for revenge.
While Henry acts to save his children from their fate at the hands
of the hijackers, the twins, Jennie and Theo, are drawn into a
contest of wills with the Palestinian terrorists. In a bizarre turn
of events, Henry Ellis strikes an unholy bargain with the infamous
international terrorist and assassin, El S'Khah.
The second book in Douglas Quinn's Ancestry novels, Samuel The
Pioneer, the son of Cornelius The Orphan, goes on a mission to find
and rescue his sister who, as a child, was taken by the Indians and
sold to the French, deals with an unscrupulous businessman and his
family and is present at the British attempt to recapture Port
Royal from the French.
Set on the Outer Banks and Albemarle Sound areas of northeast North
Carolina, Swan's Landing: a Webb Sawyer Mystery is the third novel
in this series. When Webb Sawyer's young friend, Sunshine Bledsoe's
mother goes missing, then later found buried in someone's back
yard, Webb finds himself involved in his most bizarre investigation
yet, one that leads him to Swan's Landing, a small rural fishing
community in Perqumans County, North Carolina, to New York City,
then back to the small town of Hertford, North Carolina where more
than one person living there is running from their past.
When a girl from Summer McPhee's school named Missy Reynolds is
accused of stealing things from around Ocracoke Village, Summer
doesn't believe it. Summer sets out to prove Missy's innocence.
However, in her zeal to help, her investigation backfires, and it
appears that maybe Missy Reynolds is guilty of what they say. Even
so, Summer still believes the girl is innocent. With the help of
her friend Angie, she tries one more time to catch the real
culprit. Everyone is surprised when they uncover the real story of
The Midnight Skulker.
When his dad takes Quinn to visit his Aunt Kim and cousin Summer
McPhee at Ocracoke Village on the Outer Banks of North Carolina,
little does Quinn realize the adventure awaiting them. Once there,
Quinn discovers that his Aunt Kim is unable to pay the mortgage and
is about to lose her home. Soon, Quinn and Summer come up with a
crazy idea. If they can find the buried treasure of the infamous
pirate known as Blackbeard, which is supposed to be buried
somewhere on Ocracoke Island, they can save the house. There are
two big problems. Treasure hunters have been looking for
Blackbeard's treasure for over three hundred years and still
haven't found it. The second problem is a man named Pegleg
Peterson, who claims to be a descendant of one of Blackbeard's
crew, and who has been looking for the treasure all his life.
Pegleg Peterson is not a nice man and doesn't appreciate any
competition, especially from kids. Will Quinn and Summer find the
buried treasure before Pegleg Peterson? Or is the treasure lost
forever, never to be found?
Charles, the son of Lothar, the dragon keeper, is there at Colshire
Castle to assist his father with the birth of Charon and Chaka's
dragonling. Once the new addition is old enough, he is to be
trained for Prince Barth, the king's son. Much to everyone's
surprise and dismay, when the dragonling is born, it is purple.
Prince Barth is horrified and wants to kill it. When Charles stops
him from doing so, an angry Barth goes to the king about it. Before
Barth can act, Charles kidnaps the baby dragon, who he calls Hero,
and takes him for safe-keeping to the cave of Magus the Magician,
where he decides to train him for himself. Angry about what
happened, the king arrests Lothar and throws him in the dungeon.
When Charles discovers that Lothar is scheduled for execution by
hanging, and that it is all fault, he tries to come up with a plan
to rescue his father. Will Charles be able to devise a plan in
time? Will the purple dragon survive and be trained in time to help
Charles with the rescue? Or will the king and Prince Barth have
their way?
When Quinn's new neighbor, Vaughn Taylor, told him that the kids in
his class at school said the house at the end their road was
haunted, Quinn just laughed. Quinn had ridden his bike down to the
house many times and, while it was old, falling apart and spooky
looking, he assured Vaughn that the place was certainly not
haunted. To prove it, one Friday evening after school, Quinn,
Vaughn, Reggie and Demian took the one-mile bike ride to the end of
their road and found out that maybe Vaughn's classmates were
correct. By the time they'd raced home, they were both frightened
out of their wits. "I told you it was haunted," Vaughn said. Quinn
Higgins didn't know what to make of their weird experience, but he
was determined to get to the bottom of The Case of the Haunted
House.
When Quinn travels to visit his father in Oregon, he discovers that
the bear who has been raiding the log cabin's trash bins may not be
a bear at all. What kind of bear runs away on two feet? And are all
bears that big? Quinn Higgins and his friend, Charlotte "Little
Dove" Evans, pair up to solve the mystery. Have they discovered the
secret of the mysterious creature known as Bigfoot? Not to worry.
Quinn Higgins, Boy Detective, is on The Case of Bigfoot on the
Loose.
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