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Swiss secrets

1992
Nancy, Bess, and George travel to Switzerland where a jet-setter invites them to a club on the shores of Lake Geneva. He receives a death threat and Nancy is in the middle of romantic intrigue.

An instinct for trouble

1994
Ned asks Nancy to go to Yellowstone National Park, where his professor is studying the marmot. While she's there, someone starts poaching marmots, which are native to the park, and Nancy sets out to find the poachers.

Footprints under the window

2001
A reproduction of the first edition of the 1933 Hardy Boys novel, in which Frank and Joe uncover a plot to steal a vital top-secret instrument of the space program.

The taking

2014
Sixteen-year-old Kyra Agnew wakes up behind a dumpster of a gas station with no memory of how she got there, returning home she learns that she has been missing for five years, now she races to find an explanation for what happened so that she can reclaim her life.

Ask me

2014
Blessed, or cursed, as an Oracle who cannot decipher her own predictions, Aria Morse must reply truthfully to questions asked about her best friend Jade's disappearance, and although her answers seldom make sense they make her the next target.

Minders

2014
Sadie, a wealthy, success-oriented sixteen-year-old joins the prestigious Mind Corps Fellowship program as an observer in the head of Ford, a troubled, possibly murderous boy, with whom Sadie falls in love.

Feeding frenzy

2008
After hot-dog eating contest champion David Cole drops dead in a qualifying match, Frank and Joe stake out the Super Bowl, the halftime home of the competitive eating finals, to find his killer.

Gus & Gertie and the lucky charms

2002
Penguins Gus and Gertie take part in the Animals' Winter Olympics.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1981
A classic tale of a fiendish dog on the moors of England.

Twinsisters

1995
Elizabeth and Isabel hadn't seen each other since they were three years old. Then Isabel is murdered--and her twin wants to find out why. Elizabeth takes Isabel's placeand inherited her friends...and enemies, in her attempt to find the killer.

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