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Kidnapped by a cult of religious fanatics, an Austin school bus driver and 11 of his young charges have been held underground at the group's highly fortified compound for 46 days. While a team of federal negotiators begins to lose all hope of rescuing the hostages, crime reporter Molly Cates sets out to discover everything she can about the cult's iron-willed leader, Samuel Mordecai.

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.

"Absolutely horrifying." - Customer Review In Five-Minute Frights, Dan DeLuise brings you ten tales that creep under your skin and linger for long after. Neighbors who haven’t left the house in years. Unwelcome visitors who rob you of sleep. Reflections that aren’t your own. By combining elements of American Folklore, '80s horror, and Creepypasta, DeLuise's Five-Minute Frights will leave you longing for a full night's sleep.

Are you a Law & Order Junkie? Then take the challenge. Read each chapter. Find the evidence. Solve the case. Become a Couch Detective.

Although his work is technically illegal, Hubie Schuze has no qualms with digging up ancient Native American artifacts. The government calls him a thief, but Hubie thinks of himself as a treasure hunter - and his latest quest could be his last. After lowering himself into a cave in search of Anasazi pottery, Hubie uncovers a long-dead corpse, buried where the Anasazi would never have left a body. As he puzzles over this discovery, he hears a chilling sound: his truck, left behind on the cliff face, being driven away.

Charlie knows that she’s not an angel... Charlie constantly finds herself reminiscing about the good times at grandma's house. She recalled her brother and sister playing outside while she helped Grandma Rose pick greens from the garden. The delicious soul food, the gospel teachings, and getting eggs from the chicken coop were only a few of the fond memories that entertained Charlie. Unfortunately for Charlie, those good memories were always plagued by the grim reality of her everyday existence. Although she strives to be everything that her grandma taught her to be, Charlie knows that ...

Fresh off his adventure beneath the Great Sphinx of Egypt, fourteen-year-old Lorton McCroy is itching for another quest. When his archaeologist uncle invites him to Nova Scotia to investigate the world-famous Oak Island Money Pit, Lorton can’t say no—even if it means delaying his first summer job. Armed with ancient maps, ground-penetrating radar scans, and a healthy dose of skepticism, Lorton joins his uncle and a gruff one-eyed guide to navigate the island’s dangerous maze of tunnels. But centuries of treasure hunters have left booby traps, collapses, and curses in their wake. And ...

Taylor Watson’s life is like most teenagers in their senior year of high school. Studying for tests, going to band practice, hanging out with friends, and dealing with an overbearing mom, are just a few of the things on her to-do list. And now with the softball coach pressuring her to join the team, how is she supposed to find enough time in the day for everything? When Taylor finds a lost book of spells on the school bus one afternoon, she discovers a spell for more time and figures what’s the worst that can happen. Taylor soon wishes she had left the book where she found it, because ...

I know my brother is dead. But sometimes Mama gets confused. There’s plenty about the grownup world that six-year-old Aoife doesn’t understand. Like what happened to her big brother Theo and why her mama is in the hospital instead of home where she belongs. Uncle Donny says she just needs to be patient, but Aoife’s sure her mama won’t be able to come home until Aoife learns what really happened to her brother. The trouble is no one wants to talk about Theo because he was murdered. But by whom?

A family-friendly haunted house adventure, perfect for ghost hunters... And if you loved The Goonies movie, The Secret Astoria Scavenger Hunt is for you! The Goonies Anniversary Celebration brings Seattle tween Morgan to Astoria, Oregon, for a fun weekend in this historic riverfront town. Her cousins, Sean and Ronan, have just entered a spooky contest inspired by the movie. When the boys ask Morgan to help them win the grand prize, she’s determined to make their Anniversary Celebration weekend together the most memorable ever! But there’s something really peculiar about the old mansion ...

Teenager Rebecca “Becka” Williams, her younger brother Scott, and her friend Ryan Riordan are swept into heart-stopping encounters with an all-too-real invisible world - a world fraught with deception and spiritual adversaries that promise goodness and enlightenment but will stop at nothing to destroy life, sanity, and human souls.

One Cube. Three vials. Three vials that contain the blood of the Dark Trinity. The Dark Trinity has the power to plunge the world into darkness and despair. How could one girl ever stop them? One Girl. Many Friends. Mitzi Clark and Team Whale are on another race against time, to find the stolen Covenant Cube before someone, or something, releases the power of the Dark Trinity. They will navigate through new and even more challenging clues as they encounter Vampires, Werewolves and other menacing creatures lurking in the dark. Can they Stop the darkness from coming? Maybe. Can they save the ...

When 17 yr old Jason Hunter sets out to discover the identity of the mystery girl at Ocean Drive he and his friends find themselves caught up in a risky intrigue. Jason is delivering newspapers on his motorbike when a Mercedes sweeps out of a driveway in front of him. He loses control of his scrambler and almost ends up under the car’s wheels. An attractive teenage girl leaps out to ask if he is hurt, but before Jason can reply the girl is bundled back into the Mercedes and driven off. Jason’s instincts warn him that the girl is in trouble. The following day he sees her in an upstairs ...

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.

*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 ...

If you think a gang of real-life geeks can't take on the world and win big...think again. And whatever you do, don't sit down across a gaming table from Jon Finkel, better known as Jonny Magic. Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids is his amazing true story: the jaw-dropping, zero-to-hero chronicle of a fat, friendless boy from New Jersey who found his edge in a game of cards and turned it into a fortune!

The United States is unrecognizable. Most of the landscape remains frozen while the NepSat winds continue to rip apart the very fabric of life. After mercenaries destroy the only home Dakota has ever known, she and her father, Navy SEAL Commander Decker Storm, find an underground sanctuary called Juniper Caves. They move there to begin a new life and quickly find that their advanced technology may prove to be humanity’s last hope. Terrorist teams are sent to the United States to kidnap the president and assist in launching new biological weapons that would eradicate any remaining life. ...

Early retirees Maria and Richard Wilcox adore their new home out in the country. The past six months have been sheer bliss as they settled in and prepared for their golden years. Until the night they answer a knock on their door. The unexpected visitors are a pair of children. Richard tries to be cordial, but something about the kids is off. Something sinister, something menacing, something inhuman. And then the children demand to be let in. What do they want? Is this all a prank? Can Maria and Richard get them to go away, or will their dreams of a peaceful retirement together go up in flames?

An intricate twisted plot with moral ambiguity. Considered one of his best stories.

*****People's Book Prize Finalist***** Spy School or Lie School? Ocean Daley just doesn't fit in –for one, he's called Ocean– but his enigmatic uncle sees huge promise in him and takes Ocean to a summer school for talented teens. Orca, the secretive organisation behind the school, needs fresh recruits…but for what? With classes in hacking, bike racing and defence, it could be Ocean's chance of a lifetime....or something far darker. Orca Rising is the explosive first book in the Orca series by Chris Hannon and finalist for The People's Book Prize, ideal for fans of Alex Rider, Cherub ...