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The pirate ship’s first mate, Rotten Tooth, sees Pete and his friends more as an annoyance than pirates in training. As the ship heads toward Snake Island, Pete has an idea to earn some respect - if the kids can find the hidden treasure before the grown-ups, then they’ll have to be taken seriously! 

While on watch in the crow’s nest, the pirate kids spot something gaining on their ship: a ghost ship! Rotten Tooth refuses to believe them, so the kids know that they have to solve this mystery themselves. They spend a night on deck waiting for the ghost ship to approach, and then they plan to board it. But is it even possible to step onto a ghost ship? And if it is, is it possible to get off of it? 

A two-fisted, gun-toting private eye! A member of the French Foreign Legion waist-deep in intrigue! A lady with a taste for diamonds and danger! Heroes many have thought lost to yesterday now blast their way into today in Bishop and Hancock's Pulse Fiction! A concept conceived by noted author Paul Bishop and contributed to by author and publisher Tommy Hancock, Pulse Fiction takes the best of the past and shakes and stirs it with today's finest genre fiction writers!

Why are the New Zealand All Blacks the best rugby team in the world? How does the Kirov Ballet produce generation after generation of exceptional ballerinas? How did Southwest Airlines evolve from being an idiosyncratic Texan airline to become one of the most successful businesses internationally? How does the Finnish School Education System deliver great results by breaking conventions? Powerhouse uncovers the performance secrets of some of the most impressive organizations around the world and reveals the key principles they have in common....

You’ll discover how this three-legged little Aussie terrier goes from a city dog, who’s never seen a horse, to become a world famous jockey, accidentally! In the second part, we follow Lucky and his horse friend Bardot to America, where he rides in one of the world’s most famous horse races, the Kentucky Derby. What happens in that race will amaze and surprise you.

It's the height of the Blitz. Night after night, waves of German bombers pound London streets determined to bring the city to its knees. As the air-raid sirens wail, Alan and his best mates, Tommy and Wilkie, skip school to play among the bombed out homes of their neighbors. They are soon sucked into a gang of looters run by infamous Duggie, but the police are on their tail and catching up quickly. Even if they escape, they could still fall victim to the dangerous skies above them.

Edited by Ron Fortier & Van Allen Plexico. Here are seven new tales of Puritan swordsman Gideon Cain the Demon Hunter by Scott Harris, Brian Zavitz, I. A. Watson, K. G. McAbee, James Palmer, David Wright, and Van Allen Plexico. In the tradition of Robert E. Howard's "Solomon Kane", here is swashbuckling action at its finest.

In the series' first volume, Interpreting American History: The Age of Andrew Jackson, experts on Jacksonian America address the changing views of historians over the past century on a watershed era in U.S. history. A two-term president of the United States, Jackson was a powerful leader who widened constitutional boundaries on the presidency, shaping policy himself instead of deferring to the wishes of Congress.

It's been twenty years since the five friends known as the 'Lightning Five' visited their hunting cabin together. Twenty years spent living in the shadow of something they did in high school - an event that forever defined them in the minds of everyone in their small town. Now they're returning to the cabin to reminisce about old times and forget their troubles...but mother nature has other plans in mind. Before too long, supplies will run low and they will have to make some hard choices - like who gets to live and who has to die...

In March of 2001, Federal prosecutor Mark Devereaux cold-called Rob Holm, the head of security for McDonald's Corporation. Without explanation, Devereaux asked that Holm and several other McDonald's senior executives plan a visit to the Jacksonville, Florida, FBI, and tell no one about their intended destination. To him, they were all potential suspects. Once they were seated in an unremarkable conference room, sealed away in the hyper-secure FBI building, Devereaux began to lay out a shocking conspiracy, one that ran deep into McDonald's most beloved promotions: the Monopoly game.

Hong Mien was tickled by Ha Mi's words, but it was clear at it for her mobile number. You know mi did it because he wanted Tri's phone, but I didn't expect him to text her. Hong Mien tried to focus on listening to lectures, but could not. That's it! It's awkward, so Tri shouldn't have done it because he wasn't delicate at all.

What happens when a married couple of Gen-X musicians and artists go deep into astrology, mythology and depth psychology and let you listen in on kitchen table conversations about their favorite creative people?Join your hosts Brian James and Debbie Stapleton for a special episode every month that explores the archetypal themes of the astrological season and weekly episodes that explore a different artist who inspires us by truly embodying archetypal themes in their life and work. Let’s talk Archetypology! Email us your suggestions and comments!archetypology101@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. ...