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On the run from the redcoats, the two young highwaymen, Will and Bess, find themselves in Galloway, Scotland, blamed for a murder they did not commit. Here they are captured by smugglers and become embroiled in a story of hatred and revenge that goes back for generations, to the days of the Killing Times.

Denmark, Tennessee, stinks. Bad. The smell hits Horatio Wilkes the moment he pulls into town to visit his best friend, Hamilton Prince. And it’s not just the paper plant and the polluted Copenhagen River that’s stinking up Denmark: Hamilton’s father has been poisoned and the killer is still at large. Why? Because nobody believes Rex Prince was murdered. Nobody except Horatio and Hamilton. Now they need to find the killer before someone else dies, but it won’t be easy. It seems like everyone’s a suspect. But who has committed murder most foul?

The trial of the century has come to Tupelo Landing, North Carolina. Mo and Dale, aka the Desperado Detectives, head to court as star witnesses against Dale's daddy - confessed kidnapper Macon Johnson. Dale's nerves are jangled, but Mo, who doesn't mind getting even with Mr. Macon for hurting her loved ones, looks forward to a slam dunk conviction - if everything goes as expected. Of course nothing goes as expected.

When 11-year-old Annie first started lying to her social worker, she had been taught by an expert: Gran. "If you’re going to do something, make sure you do it with excellence," Gran would say. That was when Gran was feeling talkative, and not brooding for days in her room - as she did after telling Annie and her little brother, Rew, the one thing they know about their father: that he was killed in a fight with an angry man who was sent away.

Rose and Joshua meet when Joshua and his dad come to live with Rose and her mum. Then their world is shattered when their mother and father go out one evening and never return. With police inquiries going nowhere, Rose and Joshua are separated and sent to live with relatives. Then Rose is witness to not one, but two murders. Why is this happening? And how does it fit in with the disappearance of their parents?

Frannie doesn't know what to make of the poem she's reading in school. She hasn't thought much about hope. There are so many other things to think about. Each day, her friend Samantha seems a bit more "holy". And there is a new boy in class everyone is calling the Jesus Boy.

With a horse between his thighs and a weapon in his grip, the dashing Brigadier Etienne Gerard, Colonel of the Hussars of Conflans, gallops through the Napoleonic campaigns on secret missions for his beloved Emperor and his country. He encounters danger and hair-breadth escapes but never loses his bravado, his eye for a pretty girl, his boastfulness or his enormous vanity.

A slumber party over at Lucille's richie nanna's big giant house is sure to be a dream come true for Junie B.! 'Cause what could possibly go wrong?

Based on a true story, Prisoner 88 is the story of ten-year-old Jake, sent to the Old Idaho Penitentiary in 1885 to serve a five-year sentence for manslaughter. Issues of racism, justice, literacy, and frontier life inform James s story, with a compelling first-person voice that instantly transports the reader to the 19th-century American West.

Twelve-year-old Ruby Clyde Henderson's life turns upside down the day her mother's boyfriend holds up a convenience store and her mother is wrongly jailed for assisting with the crime. Ruby and her pet pig, Bunny, find their way to her estranged Aunt Eleanor's home. Aunt Eleanor is an ornery nun who lives in the midst of a peach orchard on Paradise Ranch. With a little patience, she and Ruby begin to get along. But Eleanor has secrets of her own - secrets that might mean more hard times for Ruby.

Jonathan Grisby is the newest arrival at the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys - an ancient, crumbling fortress of gray stone rising up from the ocean. It is dark, damp, and dismal. And it is just the place Jonathan figures he deserves. Because Jonathan has done something terrible. And he's willing to accept whatever punishment he has coming. Just as he's getting used to his new situation, however, a freak accident leaves the troubled boys of Slabhenge without any adult supervision.

I kælderrummet under skolen er der sket et mord. Sagen er aldrig blevet opklaret, så Anders og Kalle beslutter sig for at finde ud af, hvad der er sket. Lis Petersen, skolens søde rengøringsdame, er fundet død i skolens kælder. Men hvem kunne finde på at slå Lis ihjel? Og hvilken dødelig hemmelighed kendte Lis mon til? I asken fra kriminalassistent Madsens nedbrændte hus finder Anders en gammel metalkasse. Den er fyldt med gamle journaler. Det er uopklarede sager, som Madsen har efterforsket. Nu er han død. Serien "Journal X" handler om Anders og hans ven Kalle, der efterforsker gamle kr

S.O.S. står for "Syv og Slambert", og det er en rigtig hemmelig klub med kodeord og emblemer og den slags. Det hele begynder faktisk, da Jack taber sit emblem og sniger sig ud i natten for at lede efter det. En mystisk bil og et rædsomt skrig leder Jack og resten af S.O.S. på sporet af en skrækkelig forbrydelse, og da de får mistanke om, at en person bliver holdt fanget, beslutter de, at de må løse sagen ... Den hemmelige detektivklub S.O.S. består af børnene Peter, Janet, Jack, Barbara, George, Pam og Colin - og Peter og Janets hund Slambert.

Kiedy pada gol w wielkim meczu, kibice na stadionie i przed ekranami na całym świecie szaleją z radości! Najwspanialsze zagrania tworzą nowy rozdział w historii futbolu, a opowieści o nich przekazuje się z pokolenia na pokolenie. Sięgnijcie po lekturę o niesamowitych golach i bohaterach stadionów. O golu wielkiej ciszy, o indiańskim dryblingu i o czarodziejskich butach! Przeżyjcie jeszcze raz wspaniałe zagrania Maradony i Messiego, Garrinchy i Pelégo, Ronaldo i Lewandowskiego.

Piger, der forsvinder i Echo Ridge, kommer sjældent hjem igen ... Echo Ridge er en lille by, og Ellery har aldrig været der før, men hun har hørt meget om den, for det var der, hendes moster forsvandt som 17-årig. Og for blot fem år siden blev byen landskendt, da årets homecoming queen blev myrdet. Nu skal Ellery bo der sammen med sin tvillingebror hos sin bedstemor, som hun knap nok kender. Byen er fuld af hemmeligheder, og nogen truer med at gøre årets homecoming lige så farlig, som den var for fem år siden. Efterhånden som Ellery lærer mere om Echo Ridge, står det klart: alle skjuler noget.

En våghalsig bankkupp inleder den här berättelsen om brott, fräckhet och mysterium. Bellman och Ryssen måste lösa det egendomliga fallet. När de hitta ledtrådar som leder dem raka vägen till en högt uppsatt person i staden tvekar de inte en sekund att ställa den skyldige mot väggen... Bellman och Ryssen är på G igen, och aldrig har de väl varit mer skarptänkta i den här spännande deckaren! Peter Gissy har ett journalistiskt förflutet men är sedan många årförfattare på heltid.

Kommissarie Tax blir väckt tidigt en morgon av att en pingvin står utanför ytterdörren och ropar: "Polis! Polis! Någon har stulit min is!" Pingvinen hade tagit fram is kvällen innan för att göra iste till frukost, men nu på morgonen var isbiten borta. Mystiskt, tycker kommissarie Tax. Är det tjuvar i farten? Elsie Petrén, född 1954, är en svensk saxofonist, kompositör och författare. Hon hade påbörjat en utbildning till kläddesigner när kärleken till saxofonen tog över. Efter att hennes dotter föddes tog hon sedan en paus från musiken och började istället att skriva deckare för barn och unga.

Klockan är tolv när det bultar på dörren hos kommissarie Tax, som ligger i sin säng och läser spökhistorier. Utanför dörren står vildkatten Ville. Han har sett ett spöke i ödehuset han har flyttat in i och vill ha hjälp. Kommissarie Tax vill egentligen inte ge sig ut på spökjakt, men en kommissarie får ju inte vara feg! Elsie Petrén, född 1954, är en svensk saxofonist, kompositör och författare. Hon hade påbörjat en utbildning till kläddesigner när kärleken till saxofonen tog över.

Elizabeth Webster is happy to stay under the radar (and under her bangs) until middle school is dead and gone. But when star swimmer Henry Harrison asks her to tutor him in math, it's not linear equations Henry really needs help with - it's a flower-scented, poodle-skirt-wearing, head-tossing ghost who's calling out Elizabeth's name.

The X-Men meets Ocean's Eleven in this edge-of-your-seat sci-fi adventure about a band of "super" criminals. When the deadly MK virus swept across the planet, a vaccine was created to stop the epidemic, but it came with some unexpected side effects. A small percentage of the population developed superhero-like powers, and Americans suffering from these so-called adverse effects were given an ultimatum: Serve the country or be declared a traitor. Some people chose a third option: Live a life of crime.