Download or read book The Case of the Time Capsule Bandit written by Octavia Spencer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unhappy about moving from Brooklyn to Deer Creek, Tennessee, after her mother's death, 12-year-old Randi soon finds new friends and a case to solve surrounding a stolen time capsule and rumors of a centuries-old treasure. The first in a new series by Oscar]-winning actress Spencer ("The Help"). Illustrations.

Download or read book Legends Secrets and Mysteries of Asheville written by Marla Hardee Milling and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the beaten path of local landmarks, residents and tourists can find curious secrets, lost mysteries and fascinating legends. The famed Hope Diamond once found itself, and its mysterious curse, buried in an Asheville girl's sandbox. Elvis once handed a cherished guitar to a local man at an Asheville concert, and he held on to it for forty years. At a flea market, an Asheville attorney paid a few bucks for an old tintype likely of Billy the Kid, and it may be worth millions. Native author Marla Hardee Milling recounts odd, but true, stories hiding behind Asheville's picturesque beauty.

Download or read book Pyramid of Secrets written by Alan F. Alford and published by Alan F. Alford. This book was released on 2010 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Needles and Haystacks written by ́ Linda Yolande Gouaze and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis traces the efforts in the 1930's of the Polish, French, and British Intelligence Services to break the German Enigma ciphering machine, efforts which led to the Bletchley Park Ultra operations of World War II. The cooperation, and lack thereof, among the Intelligence Services is discussed, with the conclusion that more cooperation sooner would have better served the individual national interests of each.

Download or read book SECRET PRINCE OF MANHATTAN written by Dottie Minton and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2020-05-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unusual warming trend brought an early spring in New York City in 1988, causing nature to awaken with trees and plants already beginning to bloom. This unique weather also awakens a junior business executive, who was recovering from a tragic loss in his life. The story reminds us that losing a loved one can be tragic and life-changing, even if you live in the tall towers or cold streets below. Sometimes even a stranger can help one find their way back from sorrow to peace. This businessman found guidance from an unusual friend who helps him appreciate his life. Brent’s awakening that stirred up his desire to embrace and start a new journey. Now he would have to uncover the secrets about his heritage. First, he must clear his mind so time can reveal the truth. The reader will find other characters who inspire Brent to move forward, to allow his heart to mend, and seek out the missing puzzle pieces of his heritage. With his mother gone, someone will reveal the family secrets, while Brent goes forward to reveal his destiny.

Download or read book Stay Tuned for Murder written by Mary Kennedy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie's radio show has been getting a boost in ratings ever since Madame Chantal, who claims to talk to dead people, started her regular guest appearance. But when two women are killed after a séance, it's up to Maggie to catch the culprit before she winds up on the other side...

Download or read book Secret Chamber Revisited written by Robert Bauval and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A firsthand, behind-the-scene account of the controversies surrounding modern explorations at Giza • Investigates the recent scandals at Giza and claims of secret excavations and tunneling inside the Great Pyramid • Reveals the historical evidence in support of secret chambers in the Great Pyramid and beneath the Great Sphinx • Exposes the secret agendas behind the latest explorations on the Giza plateau Since 1993 Robert Bauval has been embroiled in the many controversies involving the search for the lost treasures of the pyramid builders and the quest for the legendary Hall of Records of Atlantis. The strange but true story that he unfolds implicates American business moguls, the prestigious National Geographic Society, several Ivy League universities, the Edgar Cayce Foundation, the Freemasons, Christian fundamentalists, Zionists, and the Egyptian government. In this fully updated edition of Secret Chamber, including new color photographs, Robert Bauval pursues his in-depth investigation of clandestine events at Giza and the role played by the controversial ex-Minister of Antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawass. What lies behind the mysterious doors at the end of the star shafts in the Great Pyramid? What do the mysterious inscriptions found behind the Gantenbrink door mean? What is the real purpose of the Relief Chambers and the red ochre “graffiti” in them? Who is behind the secretly tunneling and excavating in these chambers, and why? Is there really a hidden Hall of Records from Atlantis beneath the Great Sphinx? Is the Great Pyramid just a tomb or does it serve a higher purpose involving a lost science of immortality? Why do the ancient texts ascribe the Pyramid’s design to the supreme god of wisdom Thoth, the writer of the fabled Books of Hermes? Will the Great Pyramid prove to be the “missing link” to our true origins or a “metaphysical machine” to access the world beyond? Providing a firsthand account of the strange events that have taken place at the Giza plateau in the last three decades, Bauval reveals the hidden agendas behind these events and raises important questions about the meaning of Egypt’s ancient structures and the very origins of civilization.

Download or read book The Eye of the Mammoth written by Stephen Harrigan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In four decades of writing for magazines ranging from Texas Monthly to the Atlantic, American History, and Travel Holiday, Stephen Harrigan has established himself as one of America’s most thoughtful writers. In this career-spanning anthology, which gathers together essays from two previous books—A Natural State and Comanche Midnight—as well as previously uncollected work, readers finally have a comprehensive collection of Harrigan’s best nonfiction. History—natural history, human history, and personal history—and place are the cornerstones of The Eye of the Mammoth. But the specific history or place varies considerably from essay to essay. Harrigan’s career has taken him from the Alaska Highway to the Chihuahuan Desert, from the casinos of Monaco to his ancestors’ village in the Czech Republic. Texas is the subject of a number of essays, and a force in shaping others, as in “The Anger of Achilles,” in which a nineteenth-century painting moves the author despite his possessing a “Texan’s suspicion of serious culture.” Harrigan’s deceptively straightforward voice, however, belies an intense curiosity about things that, by his own admission, may be “unknowable.” Certainly, we are limited in what we can know about the inner life of George Washington, the last days of Davy Crockett, or the motives of a caged tiger, but Harrigan’s gift—a gift that has also made him an award-winning novelist—is to bring readers closer to such things, to make them less remote, just as a cave painting in the title essay eerily transmits the living stare of a long-extinct mammoth.

Download or read book Chateau of Secrets written by Melanie Dobson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A courageous young noblewoman risks her life to hide French resistance fighters; seventy years later, her granddaughter visits the family’s abandoned chateau and uncovers shocking secrets from the past. Gisèle Duchant guards a secret that could cost her life. Tunnels snake through the hill under her family’s medieval chateau in Normandy. Now, with Hitler’s army bearing down, her brother and several friends are hiding in the tunnels, resisting the German occupation of France. But when German soldiers take over the family’s château, Gisèle is forced to host them as well—while harboring the resistance fighters right below their feet. Taking in a Jewish friend’s baby, she convinces the Nazis that it is her child, ultimately risking everything for the future of the child. When the German officers begin to suspect her deception, an unlikely hero rescues both her and the child. A present day story weaves through the past one as Chloe Sauver, Gisèle’s granddaughter, arrives in Normandy. After calling off her engagement with a political candidate, Chloe pays a visit to the chateau to escape publicity and work with a documentary filmmaker, Riley, who has uncovered a fascinating story about Jews serving in Hitler’s army. Riley wants to research Chloe’s family history and the lives that were saved in the tunnels under their house in Normandy. Chloe is floored—her family isn’t Jewish, for one thing, and she doesn’t know anything about tunnels or the history of the house. But as she begins to explore the dark and winding passageways beneath the chateau, nothing can prepare her for the shock of what she and Riley discover… With emotion and intrigue, Melanie Dobson brings World War II France to life in this beautiful novel about war, family, sacrifice, and the secrets of the past.

Download or read book A Billie B Mystery 6 Treasure Hunt written by Sally Rippin and published by Hardie Grant Egmont. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book in the Billie B Mystery series! Billie and the Secret Mystery Club have a new case to solve. Billie and the Secret Mystery Club have been given a very important mystery to solve for the principal at school. A long time ago, a time capsule was hidden in the school somewhere, and it’s up to the SMC to find it!

Download or read book The Secret History of Marvel Comics written by Blake Bell and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2013-11-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret History of Marvel Comics digs back to the 1930s when Marvel Comics wasn't just a comic-book producing company. Marvel Comics owner Martin Goodman had tentacles into a publishing world that might have made that era’s conservative American parents lynch him on his front porch. Marvel was but a small part of Goodman’s publishing empire, which had begun years before he published his first comic book. Goodman mostly published lurid and sensationalistic story books (known as “pulps”) and magazines, featuring sexually-charged detective and romance short fiction, and celebrity gossip scandal sheets. And artists like Jack Kirby, who was producing Captain America for eight-year-olds, were simultaneously dipping their toes in both ponds. The Secret History of Marvel Comics tells this parallel story of 1930s/40s Marvel Comics sharing offices with those Goodman publications not quite fit for children. The book also features a comprehensive display of the artwork produced for Goodman’s other enterprises by Marvel Comics artists such as Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, Alex Schomburg, Bill Everett, Al Jaffee, and Dan DeCarlo, plus the very best pulp artists in the field, including Norman Saunders, John Walter Scott, Hans Wesso, L.F. Bjorklund, and Marvel Comics #1 cover artist Frank R. Paul. Goodman’s magazines also featured cover stories on celebrities such as Jackie Gleason, Elizabeth Taylor, Liberace, and Sophia Loren, as well as contributions from famous literary and social figures such as Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, and L. Ron Hubbard.

Download or read book Shotokan s Secret written by Bruce D. Clayton and published by Black Belt Communications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the origins and purpose of the art of shotokan. This book describes how karate was invented by the world's only unarmed bodyguards to protect the world's only unarmed king, the king of Okinawa, against Americans.

Download or read book Public Key Infrastructure written by Pierangela Samarati and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features the refereed proceedings from the 4th European Public Key Infrastructure Workshop: Theory and Practice, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain in June 2007. Twenty-one full papers and eight short papers, contributed by experts in the field, are included. The papers address all current issues in public key infrastructure, ranging from theoretical and foundational topics to applications and regulatory issues.

Download or read book Web of Secrets written by Susan Sleeman and published by Bell Bridge Books. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nightmare come true . . . Years ago, a fifteen-year-old girl was abducted by a monster. Although she managed to escape, her tormenter was never caught. So the girl was given a new home, a new name . . . and the determination to save other foster kids from suffering similar horrors. FBI Agent Becca Lange is in the middle of a credit card fraud investigation when she's faced with her worst nightmare: a serial killer, van Gogh--given the name because he removed his victims' ears--has resurfaced. Back in the nineties, van Gogh tortured, then killed several young foster girls. Becca was almost one of them. Over the years, Becca's been keeping her own investigation going. So when the police come to her for help, she's more than ready to do what it takes to put van Gogh behind bars--even if it means working with Connor Warren, the easy-going cop whose attentions she's been avoiding. Connor is too charming, too good-looking, too . . . tempting. He makes Becca want things she can never have. And might never have . . . Because van Gogh isn't finished with Becca yet. He's been searching for her all these years. And now that he's found her, he's got a plan to keep her . . . forever. "An absolutely incredible romantic suspense novel!"--TheSuspenseZone.com "Web of Shadows is another winner from Sleeman. Highly recommended!"--Edits and Reviews by Leslie Susan Sleeman is a best-selling author of clean read and inspirational romantic suspense books. Awards include the 2013 Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Best Book Award. In addition to writing, Susan also hosts the popular website TheSuspenseZone.com. She currently lives in Oregon with her husband. They have two daughters, a son-in-law, and an adorable grandson. To learn more about Susan stop by any of these locations on the web. Susansleeman.com; Facebook.com/SusanSleemanBooks; Twitter.com/SusanSleeman

Download or read book The Taunch Bowl and the Secret Scrolls written by Richard A. Spink and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-08-14 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the sequel to The Taunch Bowl and Moon Glow Wood. In the land of Landof, on the unknown planet Interk, amazing progress is being made by the intelligent, diverse creatures of Moon Glow Wood. They are continuing to follow the lead of Smilecramp the young owl in an attempt to create a contained community of peace and harmony through their newfound attainment of knowledge from learning to read the books of a forgotten library situated in a dilapidated mansion hidden in the wood. The agreed unanimous elimination of preying for their daily survival routine has provided them with precious time and protection. They are utilizing their new knowledge to build a school, a hospital, and to take care of the sick and elderly in their brave pursuit of a harmonious society. With the sudden mystifying disappearance of their treasured Taunch Bowl and its magical powers that provided valuable assistance to their cause, the creatures are left to solve an increasing problem due to their ongoing remarkable success. The gradual overcrowding in the small protected wood is now hindering their advancement. Prior to the bowl's disappearance, Ploff the frog had discovered a number of Secret Scrolls in an underground cave. On learning of this exciting occurrence, Smilecramp's grandfather took advantage of the bowl's powers in order to retrieve a complete set of these scrolls to satisfy his energetic curiosity. Sir Arthur Rennell, who is an expert on creature behavior, is the owner of the private Moon Glow Wood and is now incredibly able to communicate with creatures through prior assistance from the magical Taunch Bowl. He collaborates with Grandfather, the old owl, to successfully decode the Secret Scrolls with an amazingly ingenious method. The two unlikely friends begin to unravel an intriguing story of the Taunch Bowl's origin, which remarkably proves to be from a planet named Earth and also explains the reason for the enigmatic silver adornments of several of these intellectual creatures. The Secret Scrolls then alluringly reveal to them a story of total devastating global warming on this planet Earth, which leads Sir Arthur into an extraordinary, wild solution to the future of the creatures' evolution in their unprecedented quest for peace and harmony. The developing unique tale of tenderness, humor, and intelligence continues to ask the exciting question, what if? To be continued.

Download or read book House of Secrets written by Ramona Richards and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheriff Ray Taylor always had a soft spot for the former minister's widow, June Eaton...until he found her standing over the current minister's dead body. She claims she's innocent--and after a string of attacks against Ray and June, he's inclined to believe her. So who is the real killer, and what is he after? Ray knows that the parsonage has to be the key. The old house is hiding a dark secret, something the pastor's murderer is convinced June knows. Something that murderer will do anything to keep buried.