History Mystery Adventure

Black Jack Hollis was a daring outlaw before he was shot down. In the wake of his death, it's discovered that Hollis left behind an infant son. Elizabeth Cornish, coowner of the Cornish Ranch alongside her brother, Vance, takes it upon herself to raise the child as her own. Elizabeth names the boy Terry Colby and gives Terry a fictitious aristocratic background, believing the way the boy is raised will determine the man he will become. But Vance is convinced that Terry is destined to become an outlaw himself.

But once Margaret begins to unravel the secrets of Bletchley Park, Betty finds herself thrust—untrained—into the deadly world of counter-espionage. And as the pair begin a critical game of cat and mouse with each other, the situation rapidly becomes ever more desperate. With a highly dangerous newcomer suddenly arriving on the scene, the fate of Britain's most vital war secret hangs entirely on the outcome of the two women’s deeply personal conflict. But which one of them has really been the cat, and which one the mouse?

The Past meets the Future to defeat an unspeakable evil! Europe, 1945, the final days of World War II. A sinister plan to defeat the Allies using black sorcery is thwarted, only to be resurrected again in a form more terrible than ever before! Now, over six turbulent decades, across multiple continents, and through the darkest alternate dimensions, a force of unimaginable power is poised to subjugate all mankind! Bound by time, a band of heroes will rise!

The Library Kids Princess of Tara is the fifth book of a seven book series. Katie O'Conner travels to Ireland with her friends and family to retrieve the 6th and 7th crystals with the help of her 15,000 year old leprechaun friend, Liam. They battle the Enemies, meet ancient fairies and outwit an Ogress along the way. 1. The Library Kids Mystery of the Blue Mounds 2. The Library Kids The Serpent of Rock Lake 3. The Library Kids Cry of the Banshee 4. The Library Kids Talking Stones 5. The Library Kids Princess of Tara 6. The Library Kids The Pharaoh’s Clue 7. The Library Kids House of the ...

Who are they? Where did they come from? To whom do they answer? What is their mission? What is their "why"? Cast against a science fiction setting, Regenerate stands as a very human story about the love, grace, and the power of God.

Katie O'Conner and her friends travel to Africa to retrieve the 8th and 9th crystals. They will meet a Dogon Elder and the Goddess Sekhmet along the way. The battle with the Enemies is ongoing and a new set of Enemies called the Group of Thirty-Three makes themselves known. 1. The Library Kids Mystery of the Blue Mounds 2. The Library Kids The Serpent of Rock Lake 3. The Library Kids Cry of the Banshee 4. The Library Kids Talking Stones 5. The Library Kids Princess of Tara 6. The Library Kids The Pharaoh’s Clue 7. The Library Kids House of the Dragon

It is 1803, and closing on the retreating Mahrattas in western India is Sir Arthur Wellesley's army and with it Ensign Richard Sharpe, newly commissioned but wishing he had stayed a sergeant. Spurned by his new regiment, he is sent to the army's baggage train and there finds corruption, romance, treason, and enemies old and new, including the murderous Sergeant Hakeswill who has powerful friends, while Sharpe's only ally is an orphaned Arab boy.

As a captive in their mountain palace in Switzerland, Matt List begins to understand the power of Midas and his Ewige (Eternal Ones) to manipulate gold markets and human history. Thus began the destiny of the Army aviation pioneer to undermine the Ewige and their hold over mankind. Now, he uses the power of the financial tycoons in America to create the beginnings of a world freed from the dominion of gold and the Ewige. But will his battle with the Ewige cost him the love of Helene, the beautiful daughter of Midas? Will the ultimatum lead to the end of the carnage of the Great War?

Strange happenings and visitations start to haunt a Norfolk village when Tim, the local builder, discovers a stone slab concealing the entrance to an ancient pit. Evidence of a long forgotten and shameful event from the distant past is revealed, and in a race against time it becomes clear that only in the darkness of the pit can an answer be found.

Far from civilization, on the hunt for Sir John Franklin's recently lost Northwest Passage expedition, Lieutenant Morgan and his crew find themselves trapped in ever-hardening Arctic ice that threatens to break apart their ship. When Morgan realizes that a stowaway will give birth to his child in the frozen wilderness, he finds new clarity and courage to lead his men across a bleak expanse as shifting, stubborn, and treacherous as human nature itself.

A faraway land. An ancient pilgrimage trail. And a missing tiara. Millions of hikers have attempted to walk the Camino de Santiago across northern Spain—one of the world’s most famous Christian pilgrimages—but Ainsley Walker never thought she’d be one of them. Until now. A mysterious priest has challenged her to find a valuable crystal tiara hidden along the path. She’s the only one who knows where it is. Unprepared and overconfident, Ainsley begins her grueling quest. But things conspire against her—group hostels, scorching weather, brutal terrain, wild predators, and even her ...

Romeo Montague is handsome and charming and the first time he sees young Rosaline Capulet, who has secretly snuck into his family's masquerade summer ball, he falls instantly in love. At first Rosaline is unsure of Romeo's attentions but with her father determined that she join the nunnery, Romeo offers her the chance of a different life. Gradually he convinces her that only true love could make him feel this way, that he is enraptured by her beauty. Indeed, he cannot live without her!

Katie and her friends must battle the Enemies again to retrieve the last three crystals. They will use their wits to find the tenth crystal in India and they will have to use their martial arts training to battle the Dragons in Tibet. They will use their will power to battle the Dark Master in his temple for the final crystal, with the help of an Aborigine woman. 1. The Library Kids Mystery of the Blue Mounds 2. The Library Kids The Serpent of Rock Lake 3. The Library Kids Cry of the Banshee 4. The Library Kids Talking Stones 5. The Library Kids Princess of Tara 6. The Library Kids The ...

1944, Nazi Germany - The war is in its final hours. Three high-ranking Nazi officers, using secret orders from the desk of Herman Goering, execute a plan to purloin a fortune in confiscated diamonds. Decades later, in a sleepy village near west palm beach, florida, moe green, a retired octogenarian, seeks to determine the value of a German postage stamp he acquired during the war, given to him by a grateful young Holocaust survivor. But when the stamp's existence surfaces on the Internet, blood flows.

It's 1748, and two Irish brothers in search of employment venture to London, where they are kidnapped by the owner of an abbey, just outside of London, who earns a substantial sum by shanghaiing young men. They are separated and placed into servitude on separate pirate ships. This story follows Mick, one of the brothers who struggles to survive while he searches for his older brother among the hundreds of pirates and pirate ships in the Caribbean.

Malta 1565 - die Insel Malta wird von den Türken belagert. Nur ein Mann, so scheint es, kann den Christen noch helfen: Der Deutsche Mattias Tannhäuser wurde als Zwölfjähriger von den Türken entführt und ist bei ihnen aufgewachsen. Er kennt ihre Kultur und ihre Waffen. Um ihn auf die Insel zu locken, schickt der Großmeister des Malteser Ordens die schöne Contessa Clara nach Sizilien, wo Tannhäuser mit einem jüdischen Freund erfolgreich Handel treibt.

Experiencing time travel is just a paper-fold away for Mike the insurance salesman. The problem is, he never knows which “where-when” reality he’ll experience. Being crucified, or being gassed at Auschwitz, or marooned in space in a Russian capsule. The bigger problem is, that he cannot control when he gets back to normal reality if there is such thing as normal reality.

Navy SEAL unit Mobile 4 does not exist. The U.S. military does not acknowledge them. The White House has never heard of them. And no one who has ever seen them in action has lived to tell about them. Lt. Robert Getts and his men have had more than their share of dangerous assignments. But when a mission is sabotaged from within, the best of friends will soon become hunter and prey.

Sherlock Holmes has taken on unusual and dangerous cases. Cases that involve shapeshifters, vampires and werewolves… Dark, power-hungry wizards…. But this time, it is different. It is personal. When he returns home, he finds a mystery growing around his own friends. One by one they are mysteriously vanishing. Taken by an invisible force, which can strike unexpectedly, his loved ones are vanishing without a trace. Can Holmes save the ones he loves this time? Or is Christmas going to be desolate and empty for him? Buy now.

In 1890 actor John Wilkes Booth - long presumed dead - emerged from 25 years of anonymity in his wilderness refuge to expose those truly responsible for the Lincoln assassination and its ensuing cover-up, to unite with the children he had never known and recover what he might of his sense of purpose and dignity.