Curiosity has caused twelve-year-old Roxy Maxwell to investigate a strange occurrence that took place a couple of days before she is to begin the seventh grade. Her father and her best friend, Dexie Chappell, are enlisted to help her solve the coin mystery. Dexie, a bookworm, contributes ideas and a karaoke machine to assist with the detective work. Dean Walker, a fifth grader and neighborhood spy, has to be trusted with the Maxwells' secret. The investigation team must maintain secrecy or the news media and scientific community will descend on the Chappells' property, ruining the plan to return the aliens to their home country.

The Niffits

Comics & Graphic Novels

Averill, Donald F

Graphic Novels

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The Antarctic Deception: A Sequel of The Kuiper Belt Deception (Middle English Edition)

Glacier Fires and Ornaments of Value

Combining adventure and mystery, author Donald F. Averill offers two distinctive novellas in one volume—Glacier Fires and Ornaments of Value: A Christmas Story. In Glacier Fires, University of Washington students Tim Michaels and Art Daniels get more than they bargain for when they travel to Mt. Baker in northwestern Washington State to test out their new telescope. With the sight trained on the glaciers, the two discover a young woman in distress; they rescue Mikka Morgan, a student from the rival Washington State University. But their adventures continue when they, Mikka, and Samantha Ashford embark on another mission to save Sam’s forest ranger father, and Otto, an Austrian mountain climber, from a deep crevasse. Rogue climbers have left Otto and the ranger in the crevasse to die. A heartwarming Christmas story, Ornaments of Value follows widow Karen Ekstrom as she tries to care for her three small children—Susan, Larry, and John—during difficult economic times. Karen dreams of using her artistic talent for the betterment of her family, and she is hired by Evan Finely, a glass blower, to decorate his store windows. Her good fortune continues as an anonymous benefactor leaves money, concealed in holiday ornaments, at Karen’s apartment door. Karen is stymied as to whom the Good Samaritan might be.

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

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Love and mystery have a way of intertwining in unexpected ways in life. In Donald Averill's short story collection, he traces a journey through the lives of vibrant characters driven by love who suddenly find themselves in the midst of intriguing situations. In "Missing Notes," a music department graduate student finds an intriguing composition in an old notebook and begins a search for the author. When she and another student look for a missing notebook, they find themselves implicated in a murder investigation. "The Canoe" sees retired mathematician and widower Samuel Kelly recalling past experiences involving his family canoe after seeing a canoe for sale. Following the sale of the canoe, Sam and a former girlfriend rekindle an old relationship and get involved in a holdup. In "Hidden Talents," Clay Coleman, a young physician, misses a turn and arrives at a secluded farm house where he is attacked. Suffering from amnesia, he works his way along Interstate 84 helping people with medical problems--while his wife searches desperately for him. A seven-year-old boy who thinks he is just living a normal life in 1949 soon realizes that the only way to find out any answers about his grandpa's past is to ask good questions in "The Pumpkin Tree." Missing Notes, Hidden Talents, and Other Stories shares four charming stories with important messages about perseverance, courage, and, most importantly, love.

Missing Notes, Hidden Talents, and Other Stories

Rocky Linfield and Jerry Morgan have both lost their fathers in war. In 1952, they meet in the small coastal town of Crafton, Maine, and become best friends pitted against spies seeking information about the first Us nuclear submarine. The story begins with Rocky and Susan, Rocky's younger sister, selling books to Mr. Waicukauski, who runs the lighthouse and the library. The youngsters are visiting their grandmother, Martha Makler, in Crafton a few weeks before school starts. The adventure takes the boys and their families into the backwoods of Maine and armed confrontation with the spies.

The Lighthouse Library

Action & Adventure

AuthorHouse

Genre Fiction

Book Vine Press

Rocky Linfield and Jerry Morgan have both lost their fathers in war. In 1952, they meet in the small coastal town of Crafton, Maine, and become best friends pitted against spies seeking information about the first Us nuclear submarine. The story begins with Rocky and Susan, Rocky’s younger sister, selling books to Mr. Waicukauski, who runs the lighthouse and the library. The youngsters are visiting their grandmother, Martha Makler, in Crafton a few weeks before school starts. The adventure takes the boys and their families into the backwoods of Maine and armed confrontation with the spies.

The Bitterroot Diamonds

With only fifteen months prior to college, David Drum starts a lawn service in Suddenly, Montana, to earn tuition money. His first customer, Mrs. Kincaid, a prototypical grandmother, has an acre of meter-high weeds to remove. David begins and damages his mower on a clay lawn ornament thought to have been discarded a decade ago. Given the clay turtle, he takes it home for repair. His girlfriend, Megan Isaacs, notices a shiny object in the headless turtle and they discover a ring. The local jeweler gives them good news, the ring is valued at $25,000, but it was stolen in 1997. The hunt, assisted by a bogus insurance agent, begins for the rest of the shipment.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Dr. Ned Curtis, a young professor of geology at Ocean Vista University in Southern California, is trying to cope with a problem. Two beautiful young women, one of which is his student, are attracted to him and he is interested in both of them. However, both women are married, which creates a major hurdle. One woman is a friend from long ago, and the other is a recent acquaintance. He knows his limitations; he can only have a relationship with one woman at a time or face disaster. What is he to do? He must keep each woman from knowing about the other. Should he develop a relationship with the blonde or the brunette? And what about their absentee husbands? Should he fear reprisals?

A Professor's Affair

Romance

Contemporary

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The Niffits

The Antarctic Deception: A Sequel of The Kuiper Belt Deception (Middle English Edition)

Glacier Fires and Ornaments of Value

Glacier Fires and Ornaments of Value

Missing Notes, Hidden Talents, and Other Stories

The Lighthouse Library

The Lighthouse Library

The Lighthouse Library

The Bitterroot Diamonds

A Professor's Affair