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The mischievous antics of one little boy with his car and a big dream that becomes a reality with the help of his parents.

A little girl and her bloodhound enjoy strolling through the countryside always with an eye out for the possible appearance of a fox. It's always good to be prepared! In Case There's a Fox is a tale in light verse with illustrations for readers from age one to one hundred. Children will enjoy this as a bedtime story, and adults will not mind reading it again and again.

Hidden temple and secret passages. Mystical ninja guardians. A wolf that means business. Trish and Patrick are committed now. The only problem is they're after a legendary temple that may not even exist. When they pursue a strange man into an underground cavern, they discover instead a clan of ninja guardians who will stop at nothing to see that the two never leave to reveal their location. But when pirates arrive, the struggle goes from simple survival to all-out war.

The pirate federation has tracked down the Blade of the Sea, and it's time for a final reckoning. Now that Trish and Patrick have formed a team of warriors, it's time to find the Temple of Kunesh and protect the legendary land of creativity and ultimate power. Will they be able to stand up against the powers of Captain Blackheart and her feared crew of pirates? When put to the test against the Ender Dragon, will they abandon all hope and flee, or step up to the challenge in order to save the world?

In Niger, a coup that is staged and funded by ISIL puts a vicious leader in command. People are summarily slaughtered, the government is in shambles, and a terrorist regime rules with impunity. But deep inside the sublevel of a defunct hospital is the key to annihilation. It is a secret known only to the members of the ISIL regime and the Iran Ministry of Intelligence. The world is impotent to respond, and there seems to be no counteroffensive to stop the rogue efforts that could bring the world to its knees.

During military exercises, rogue missiles fire off from a US naval battleship and head directly towards North Korea. Then Air Force Two disappears over the Rocky Mountains. These are mere flexes of muscle from one man who wields the Black Key, a tool capable of controlling nuclear arsenals and weaponry systems. President Jack Meacham's past comes back to haunt him with a single message: "Are you willing to sacrifice your life for the good of the whole?" The president turns to Jon Jericho, a.k.a. The Hunter, to locate and neutralize the man behind the Black Key.

There are millions of people today suffering from alcoholism, but most don't seek help because of the stigma associated with the disease. They also don't know who to turn to for help. How to Control Alcoholism is a book meant to help you identify, control, and overcome alcoholism. By knowing what your alcohol triggers are, the many excuses you use for drinking and the options you have for alcohol treatment, you can better understand what's happening.

Speed reading can be described as any of several methods used to improve your ability to read faster. Both psychologists and educational experts working on visual acuity concluded that, with a certain amount of training, an average individual could easily identify minute images displayed quickly on a screen for just 1/500th of a second. You too can take advantage of this skill which can be learned easily with the tips in this book. So let's get started!

Do you ever feel like you cannot understand what you are reading? Or, that you feel like reading takes up much of your time even when it's actually not supposed to? Well, maybe, it's high time that you learn how to read faster, or in other words, learn the technique of speed reading. Speed reading denotes collective techniques that are used to help you read faster while still being able to understand what you are reading. Back in the day, education specialists and psychologists used devices called tachiotoscopes to determine how fast people read.

In real life, Jonas's sister Emma babbles nonsense from her wheelchair. But in Jonas's world, she is the moonstone bearer and the only person capable of restoring the Stormdragons to power. He weaves a tale of jarring action, fascinating creatures, heart-pounding battles, and loveable characters that may be just what he needs to save his sister and his family.

These four stories were previously offered as stand-alone pieces. I've compiled them into one collection. Bill Bernico is the author of more than 200 short stories including 33 stories featuring his 1940s Los Angeles detective, Matt Cooper.

Your Aunt Grace is dying and you are her only living relative so you would be the logical choice as sole heir to her fortune. However, Aunt Grace has nine cats that also figure into the equasion. Will you split the fortune 10 ways? Or will that plan you've hatched help you keep it all? What will you do?

Kenney Masterson would rather intentionally hurt himself in public and then sue whomever he can, than work at a regular job. So far he's been pretty successful at avoiding work and he's always on the lookout for another big score from someone's insurance company. He's thinks he's found the perfect score, but will it be his Final Score?

An experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland has gone hideously wrong. Divine manifestations have become commonplace, the fundamental laws of physics are mutating, and only a young Hungarian grad student understands what has happened. This short story is a 2013 AML Award winner.

Matt's story jumps ahead to 1971, where his 21-year-old son, Clay, joins him in the family business. Matt and Clay are off to a rousing start as they are hired by an underworld figure to help him surrender to the authorities, because he's afraid he'll be killed before he gets to say his piece in court. Clay's going to learn the hard way that the job is not as easy as he thought it might be. Murder is never easy.

The storyline in my Matt Cooper series now shifts to his son, Clay, who has taken over the private eye business. It's 1992 now and Matt's 81. Clay is 42 and his son, Elliott is 12. Bodies are showing up all over town with notes pinned to their bare flesh. The notes are clues from the killer. Sergeant Dean Hollister is not sure how to interpret these clues, but he knows someone who can - Clay Cooper. The clues are all connected. Can you figure out what the connection is?

The shocking revelations in this seminar audiobook about Da Vinci's secrets will astound any curious listener. There are REAL secrets of Da Vinci. This audiobook doesn't simply present hyperbole about 'theories' of Da Vinci's secrets, it actually illustrates his REAL secrets in three of his most famous paintings - the Mona Lisa, the Madonna of the Rocks, and the Last Supper! There actually are secret numbers in the Mona Lisa relating to the Fibonacci Sequence.