Kids Crime

For all those who love it most, baseball is like a religion, and "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" ought to be in their hymn books. An injured minor league slugger and his preacher dad try using the hallowed game as a tool to reach troubled teens locked up in juvie. Will Mike Flaherty and Brother Pat connect with the teens held in a detention facility on the grounds of an old lighthouse in Panama City, Florida - or will they go down swinging? Young lives are at stake as betrayal lurks on the grounds - and it may already be too late to guide them out of darkness and into the light. Get it now ...

Officiellement mort, le Bourbon Kid pourrait en profiter pour couler des jours heureux en compagnie de Beth, son amour de jeunesse enfin retrouvé. Encore faudrait-il que sa nouvelle identité reste secrète, sans quoi ses nombreuses victimes et ses ennemis, plus nombreux encore, finiraient bien par s'unir pour se venger. Mais quand Beth est kidnappée, et qu'il s'avère aussi être le seul à pouvoir sauver Santa Mondega d'un terrible bain de sang, le Bourbon Kid n'a plus qu'une solution : revenir d'entre les morts. Plus sauvage et plus impitoyable que jamais. Un quatrième épisode des aventures du Bourbon Kid, encore plus déjanté et jubilatoire que les trois premiers.

Vous n'avez pas lu "Le Livre sans nom" ? Vous êtes donc encore de ce monde, et c'est tant mieux. Parce que vous allez pouvoir assister à un spectacle sans précédent, mettant en scène Judy Garland, James Brown, les Blues Brothers, Kurt Cobain, Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin, Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson... et le Bourbon Kid. Les héros du "Livre sans nom" se retrouvent en effet dans un hôtel perdu au milieu du désert pour assister à un concours de chant au nom prometteur : "Back From The Dead". Imaginez un Dix petits nègres rock revu et corrigé par Quentin Tarantino... Vous y êtes ?

Set in Oklahoma during the 1930s, The Hot Kid is a powerfully entertaining story and introduces Carl Webster, one of the coolest lawmen ever to draw on a fugitive felon. At 21, Carl Webster's on his way to becoming the most famous Deputy US Marshal in America. He has shot and killed notorious bank robber Emmet Long and is now tracking Jack Belmont, the no-good son of an oil millionaire with dreams of becoming Public Enemy Number One.

This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great - the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction listeners and that always includes the hero's childhood influences. This volume features Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court Justice.

Thirteen-year-old Montana MacCarthy feels a deep responsibility for every creature in Glen Helen Forest, especially the rare American Bald eagles nesting on Talus Trail. So, when the Glen director invites her and her friends from the Wesley Club to create a kid-friendly pamphlet about the forest’s wildlife for a summer project, they eagerly accept. Montana leads the group as they explore the forest, capturing sketches and photographs of its diverse inhabitants—bobcats, foxes, skunks, bats, and of course, the majestic eagles. But their project takes an unexpected turn when they stumble ...

Helen Mudgett, 63, widowed, jobless, and bankrupt, is forced to move to Cooper's Paradise Hotel, a dilapidated pile of wood catering to indigent senior citizens who thought they could live their lives on the two hundred year plan. Within hours of her arrival she is set upon by Ethel Mae Tibbets, a beer swilling, handicapped resident, and her ward, Sarah Brewster, a ten year old refugee from a broken home. They want Helen to help Sarah search for a 1936 Packard Limousine that went missing twenty years ago, along with its owner, Sonny Zervas. Helen tells them that looking for the car is an ...

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As far as thirteen-year-old Montana MacCarthy is concerned every animal in the Glen Helen Forest is under her protection. That goes double for the pair of American Bald eagles nesting in the oak on Talus Trail. When the Glen director asks her and the Wesley Club to create a kid-friendly pamphlet about the animals as a summer project, they jump at the chance. Montana guides them through the forest as they sketch and photograph bobcats, foxes, skunks, bats, and, yes, the eagles. Their project uncovers a ring of poachers who are desperate to get the Glen’s only two American Bald Eagles and a...

On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues. But that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still.

Vous avez aimé "Le Livre sans nom" ? Vous allez adorer "L'Œil de la lune" ! Personne n'a oublié le Bourbon Kid, mystérieux tueur en série aux innombrables victimes. Ni les lecteurs du "Livre sans nom", ni les habitants de Santa Mondega, l'étrange cité d'Amérique du Sud, où sommeillent toujours de terribles secrets. Alors que la ville s'apprête à fêter Halloween, le Bourbon Kid célèbre, lui, le dix-huitième anniversaire de son premier homicide. Il est alors loin de se douter qu'il est devenu la proie d'une agence très spéciale.

Melding prose, poetry, imagined interviews and ephemeral photography, Ondaatje weaves together a lyrical reinterpretation of Billy’s short, infamous existence, forming a portrait of a young man, and a young country, borne out of violence, threaded through with disaster, yet rich in wonder.

There's no place like home. Except when home really sucks - then there's just no place. There’s no place like home. Except when home really sucks – then there’s just no place. His mom’s boyfriends are never nice, but after the newest one explodes, abusing him, ten-year-old Neilson flees home. With nowhere else to go, he finds himself on the porch of an abandoned house. But the thing is, the house is no longer abandoned and the mysterious stranger staying there has a secret. Follow the memories back to 1978 in this short story of a boy struggling to find his place in the world. You ...

It was animal attraction, pure and simple. Charlotte: He’s such a bad boy, And I’m not into his type. Unless they look like him. Or taste like him or feel like him. Note to self: it was a one time deal. Now, my brother is set to join a biker gang, So I swallow my pride to ask him to help. He’s just the man to talk him out of it, And I find his momma named him right. Hart is all heart under that delicious biker veneer. Hart: Charlotte has been taking care of things her whole damn life. Her animals. Her little brother. Everyone. Until one night, she lets me take care of her. (And I took...

*Updated, if you downloaded months back you may have to manually process to receive the latest version.* A Murder Mystery that keeps you guessing to the very end! Investigator Buck Arnold isn't expecting to work another murder case after he's forced to retire from the police department. When Artie, a prominent attorney in a small upscale Georgia town with a reputation as a "Fixer" is killed, his fiancée Michelle hires him to solve the murder. Buck has worked for Artie's law firm Adcock and Adcock over the years, so he's someone she can fully trust. There are many suspects for him to dig ...

Are you a Law & Order or CSI crime junkie? In these You Solve It mini mysteries, you get to be the lead detective who takes on the case. You will read the case file, collect the evidence and solve the crime. Become an iDetective.

Oh, you think you’ve got problems . . . The Steel Cobras are at war and I’m to blame. But there are only two things worth fighting for in this life. My club and my woman. I should have never prospected with Hells Fury. Then I wouldn’t have needed to defect. And we wouldn’t be in this senseless war. And I’ve fallen in love with Sasha, my Russian dumplin’. Sweet, wholesome, and delicious. With a hitman for an ex. But that doesn’t make her a bad girl. No, not at all. Just not so great at choosing men. But, I’m the last bad boy she’ll ever need, Because I’ll protect her and ...

In many ways, the narrative of the Wild West has endured more as legend than reality, and a perfect example of that can be found in the legend of William Henry McCarty Jr., better known as William H. Bonney or "Billy the Kid". Indeed, separating fact from fiction when it comes to the life of the West's most famous outlaw is nearly impossible, due in great measure to the fact that the young man himself cultivated the image of a deadly outlaw and legendary gunman himself.

Joseph Silver Hawk Argent is on the run. He's running from the cops and an ancient prophecy that he doesn't want anything to do with. He's seventeen, a leader of the Los Caballeros street gang and even though he's Native American, he doesn't want any part of where he came from. A Holy man has pegged Joseph or Cheetah, as his friends call him, as a warrior who lived during the days of Crazy Horse but Joseph lives in New York. He wants nothing to do with his past or a past life that he doesn't care about. Frank Belger is the cop who only cares about one thing. He's determined to catch the ...

When Brian Bradford's teenage daughter starts undergoing a strange transformation, it begins a journey for the both of them as Brian not only meets God and the devil, but also learns who he is and why his daughter is changing. What happens will change their lives forever. He also realizes that if you truly love someone, maybe the best thing that you can do is to let them go.