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Jesse Robinson tried to tell his father that they were in danger, that the increasing magnitude of the earthquakes meant the volcano they were climbing was about to erupt. If it did, they would be burned alive in the hot pyroclastic material that would sweep down the mountain. They had started their hike to the lava dome only a few hours earlier. But with the increase in shaking there must have been something wrong with the hazard alert under which they were granted the permit to enter the caldera. Will the volcano erupt? Why was the alert green, not red? Was someone trying to kill them? If...

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Fly Me to the Moon Hana's a sixth grader at the Tree of Life Preparatory School in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She and her friend, Phillip have taken an interest in NASA's space program because of Mrs. Livingston's science class. They went to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC together with her dad and got to met James Lovell an astronaut on the Apollo Eight and Thirteen Missions. Because of her increasing interest in space she went to Space Camp and then to the Kennedy Space Center. Come with Hana as she meets new friends and experiences what space is like.

He Will Have Two Horns Like a Lamb Renaldo, the childhood friend of Maurice Bordeau, recently became a Cardinal at the Vatican. He asks Bordeau and his detective agency to help investigate activities in the Vatican to see if there's any truth to the rumors that Pope Francis is organizing a global political/religious federation. Unfortunately, the rumors seem to be true. The Pope is building a robotic creature, called the Beast, and creating a biometric financial system called Diablo that mirrors some of the frightening scenarios of the End Times prophesied in the Bible. Renaldo asks Bordeau...

Alas, poor Charles, I knew you well. Bordeau and Bristol have arrived in London after traveling for a year in America. They return home with not only many wonderful memories but two wives. They met Katherine, Bordeau's wife, and Cindy, Bristol's wife in Dodge City, Kansas the previous summer as they were heading back to England. They were married by the captain of the Queen Mary on their way from New York to London and are now jockeying for dominance in their new relationships. At the same time Bordeau and Bristol are asked to solve murders at Westminster Abbey and a break-in at the ...

Seniors are dying at the Brookside Senior Living Center in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. This is not unusual, but the rate has doubled in the last six months. One or two retirees are now dying each week. The executive director reports to the police that someone appears to be helping the grim reaper harvest his crop more quickly than expected. Chief Detective Bradley requests his friend and celebrated international investigator, Maurice Bordeau, and his confidante, Anthony Bristol, to take a break from their train tour across America and assist him to find the murderer.

Nate's My Name and Traveling's My Game I like shiny eighteen-wheelers, but I never thought I’d spend three days in one exploring Canada. My dog, Cody, and I unexpectedly woke up in Big Red, a Peterbilt big rig, and traveled by ferry to a dozen cities in British Columbia. Join Cody and me on our adventure to see British Columbia.

Masada Shall Never Fall Again The B4 Detective Agency has free time between murder investigations during a three-week visit to the Holy Land. Stacie Schlomo, an Israeli Mossad Agent who helped hire Bordeau as a consultant offers to take his team to tour the Masada National Monument. While Bordeau's team is at the historical site a large group of Orthodox Jews in black, remove all tourists from the mountain to stage a protest. Stacie's small tour group is overlooked and swept up in the protest. They help recover the body of a fallen tourist, treat the head protestors for wounds, and capture ...

Pretty Bubbles in the SkyNASA is losing engineers. They're not retiring, but simply disappearing without a trace. Is a foreign country kidnapping some of the best minds working on a new initiative to colonize the Moon by 2024? How is it possible that three specialists who design habitats for the Moon could vanish and leave no trace? Were they killed? Were they abducted by aliens? Bordeau and Bristol are recruited by the Houston Police Department to find the missing engineers and determine if they were captured or murdered for some nefarius purpose. Meanwhile a consortium of engineers who ...

A Month in Boston The Vardiman family has traveled a lot, for week-long vacations, visits to the family in St. Louis, and trips to Disneyland. But, this trip was different. We were on our way to Boston, one of the birthplaces of our country. Living in the Midwest, Colorado, and on the West Coast provides only a limited exposure to the early history of our country, We were going to see where the shot heard around the world was fired, the Old North Church, the USS Constitution, and, maybe, Benjamin Franklin, if he happened to be visiting the Concord Inn while we are there. We anticipate ...

Starbuck is a Rainmaker, not Coffee. A rainmaker with the name of Starbuck in a movie from the '50s starring Burt Lancaster and Katherine Hepburn arrives in a small western town and, for a fee, offers to end a drought that's plaguing the ranchers and farmers. He offers to seed the clouds with his secret chemicals. Starbuck is a bigger than life figure who promises, "Rain in buckets, rain in barrels, rain in the lowlands, flood in the gullies, and the land will be as green as the Valley of Adam." Starbuck, a swindler and charlatan, eventually brings rain to the parched land and hope to a ...

Mr. Dillon, Mr. Dillon. Somebody Done Got Kilt! Dodge City, Kansas was a major rail hub for shipping cattle to market in Kansas City and Chicago during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It lies in south central Kansas on the Arkansas River and the old Santa Fe Trail. The radio and television program, Gunsmoke, was created there. Today's sleepy remnant of that once bustling western town hosts a replica of Old Dodge with live re-enactors playing Marshall Dillon and his friends, Chester, Doc, and Kitty. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear as Bordeau and Bristol arrive in ...

Around the World in 80 weeks Pete's dad sailed around the world with his grandparents in the 50-foot sloop still stored next door in their yard. They don't plan to make the trip again and grandpa Langston has agreed to sell her to Mike Dempsey, a businessman and experienced sailor from Anacortes, Washington. Mike needs a three-man crew to sail her and has offered the position of Yeoman to Pete. After a year of restoration and several run-ups Expeditious is ready for the open sea. Join Pete as he sails to the watery part of the world.

An Exciting Life Requires the Right Hat. Larry led nine lives - Air Force officer, graduate student, cloud seeder, research scientist, college professor, science writer, creationist speaker, tour guide, and novelist. Each of these careers provided unique tales that are begging to be told. Larry's Tales is a compilation of adventures most readers would prefer to experience from the safety of their easy chair; experiences shared with friends to exciting destinations; and favorite jokes. A few stories are humorous, some embarrassing, and others downright scary. At the end of this collection of...

Fires plague California, but now they seem to be turning the Golden State black. Jack Wilson watches fires char the hillsides around him in Santee, California until one approaches his home. He's forced to load up his family and seek refuge in Palm Springs when he discovers that the inferno was only a short distance away in a fifty-mile-per-hour wind. The smoke and flame of the Julian Fire was not done with him yet, but continued to chase his family for several more days. Did his home survive? Will he stay in California when firestorms continue to chase him?

Danny and Lucy Bishop, a husband and wife team of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, were vacationing in Key West, Florida. They noticed that a hurricane named Zelda just off the coast of Florida was acting very strangely. It was traveling in loops not far from their hotel. They decided to call up a friend in the National Weather Service and get permission to fly on the next Hurricane Hunter flight to see what was going on. This led to an international adventure of flying on multiple planes and advising the President about heat beams.

Danny and Lucy Bishop, a husband and wife team of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, were vacationing in Key West, Florida. They noticed that a hurricane named Zelda just off the coast of Florida was acting very strangely. It was traveling in loops not far from their hotel. They decided to call up a friend in the National Weather Service and get permission to fly on the next Hurricane Hunter to see what was going on, This led to an international adventure of flying on multiple planes and advising the President on heat beam warfare.

Here a Million, there a Million Jesse’s walking Kim’s dogs when he’s snatched off the streets of Vancouver leaving them behind to fend for themselves. He's whisked away in the dark where he's imprisoned in an ancient, round tower to be tortured by a bearded Anglophile. What does the torturer want? Why is Jesse imprisoned in a round tower? Where is the tower? Will Kim be able find him? Will he be reunited with his cats, Max and Zoe, and her dogs, Lulu and Penny?

Curtis: Kelly’s Imaginary Brother Who Lived Under the House Curtis lived under the house. He was an imaginary older brother who was created in the fertile mind of Kelly. She was the second daughter of the Vardiman family. Kelly needed a playmate after her older sister began kindergarten. Curtis appeared and became her imaginary playmate. Kelly only revealed her new friend to her brothers and sisters as the family grew. But Curtis' presence was carefully hidden from the adults. He became a friend to all the kids and was a leader for many of their adventures.

A Whole Lot'a Shake'n Go'n On Trevor only has a year to go to earn his degree in Humanitarian Aid and Search and Rescue. He's taking the summer between his junior and senior years for a practicum in Search and Rescue. An 8.0 magnitude earthquake just occurred near Lake Van in Eastern Turkey. Trevor's on his way with four teams from the Orlando Search and Rescue Agency to assist in rescuing thousands of victims from the earthquake-prone region. He soon demonstrates that he has the knowledge and skills to lead in a remote and dangerous environment.