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Adventure of the Goblin Dog
by Enid BlytonAdventure of the Goblin Dog is a stand-alone Magic Faraway Tree adventure by the world's best-loved children's author, Enid Blyton.Discover the magic! Travel to the top of the Magic Faraway Tree with Peter and Mary on their quest to rescue a princess.Back in print for the first time in a generation, this is a wonderful introduction to the world of the Magic Faraway Tree. Explore Fairyland in this magical story, where you'll encounter the Goblin Dog, rescue a princess and visit the Land of Storytellers. This story first appeared in 1936 and was made part of the Magic Faraway Tree world in 1952, featuring different children discovering the Faraway Tree. The Magic Faraway Tree series is one of Enid Blyton's best-loved and most enduring creations.***The Magic Faraway Tree ®, Enid Blyton ® and Enid Blyton's signature are Registered Trademarks of Hodder and Stoughton Limited. No trademark or copyrighted material may be reproduced without the express written permission of the trademark and copyright owner.
Adventure of the Goblin Dog (The Magic Faraway Tree #5)
by Enid BlytonDiscover the magic! Travel to the top of the Magic Faraway Tree with Peter and Mary on their quest to rescue a princess.This is a wonderful introduction to the world of the Magic Faraway Tree. Explore Fairyland in this magical story, where you'll encounter the Goblin Dog, rescue a princess and visit the Land of Storytellers. This story first appeared in 1936 and was edited by Enid Blyton herself to become part of the Magic Faraway Tree world in 1952, featuring different children discovering the Faraway Tree. The Magic Faraway Tree series is one of Enid Blyton's best-loved and most enduring creations.(P) 2019 Hodder & Stoughton LimitedThe Magic Faraway Tree ®, Enid Blyton ® and Enid Blyton's signature are Registered Trademarks of Hodder and Stoughton Limited. No trademark or copyrighted material may be reproduced without the express written permission of the trademark and copyright owner.
The Adventure of the Human Intellect: Self, Society, and the Divine in Ancient World Cultures (Ancient World: Comparative Histories)
by Kurt A. RaaflaubThe Adventure of the Human Intellect presents the latest scholarship on the beginnings of intellectual history on a broad scope, encompassing ten eminent ancient or early civilizations from both the Old and New Worlds. Borrows themes from The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man (1946), updating an old topic with a new approach and up-to-date theoretical underpinning, evidence, and scholarship Provides a broad scope of studies, including discussion of highly developed ancient or early civilizations in China, India, West Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Americas Examines the world view of ten ancient or early societies, reconstructed from their own texts, concerning the place of human beings in society and state, in nature and cosmos, in space and time, in life and death, and in relation to those in power and the world of the divine Considers a diversity of sources representing a wide array of particular responses to differing environments, circumstances, and intellectual challenges Reflects a more inclusive and nuanced historiographical attitude with respect to non-elites, gender, and local variations Brings together leading specialists in the field, and is edited by an internationally renowned scholar
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman: A Hercule Poirot Story
by Agatha ChristiePreviously published in the print anthology Poirot Investigates. An Italian count telephones his doctor, screaming, but when help arrives at his hotel room, he is already dead.
The Adventure Of The Marie Antoinette Necklace: A Case for Sherlock Holmes
by David Stuart DaviesAn original short story taken from the anthology Motives for Murder, by members of The Detection ClubWho can you turn to when the police can't help you? Another intriguing case for London's most celebrated detective. When Lady Bramingham's famous Marie Antoinette necklace is stolen from the safe in her bedroom during her summer ball, there is only one man that she can turn to in order to get it back discretely: the celebrated sleuth Sherlock Holmes. Aided by the faithful Dr Watson, Holmes sets out to find the prize and restore it to its rightful owner.
The Adventure Of The Marie Antoinette Necklace: A Case for Sherlock Holmes
by David Stuart DaviesAn original short story taken from the anthology Motives for Murder, by members of The Detection ClubWho can you turn to when the police can't help you? Another intriguing case for London's most celebrated detective. When Lady Bramingham's famous Marie Antoinette necklace is stolen from the safe in her bedroom during her summer ball, there is only one man that she can turn to in order to get it back discretely: the celebrated sleuth Sherlock Holmes. Aided by the faithful Dr Watson, Holmes sets out to find the prize and restore it to its rightful owner.
The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols: Adapted from the Journals of John H. Watson, M.D.
by Nicholas MeyerWith the international bestseller The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Nicholas Meyer brought to light a previously unpublished case of Sherlock Holmes, as recorded by Dr. John H. Watson. Now Meyer returns with a shocking discovery—an unknown case drawn from a recently unearthed Watson journal.January 1905: Holmes and Watson are summoned by Holmes' brother Mycroft to undertake a clandestine investigation. An agent of the British Secret Service has been found floating in the Thames, carrying a manuscript smuggled into England at the cost of her life. The pages purport to be the minutes of a meeting of a secret group intent on nothing less than taking over the world.Based on real events, the adventure takes the famed duo—in the company of a bewitching woman—aboard the Orient Express from Paris into the heart of Tsarist Russia, where Holmes and Watson attempt to trace the origins of this explosive document. On their heels are desperate men of unknown allegiance, determined to prevent them from achieving their task. And what they uncover is a conspiracy so vast as to challenge Sherlock Holmes as never before.
The Adventure of the Peerless Peer (Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
by Philip José FarmerHolmes travels to Africa to help Tarzan stop a German spy&’s nefarious weapon in this &“glorious&” sci-fi pastiche by the Hugo Award–winning author (Locus). When the acclaimed science fiction author Philip José Farmer took up the mantle of Sherlock Holmes, he produced an adventure unlike anything fans of the Baker Street detective had seen before. In this far-flung mystery of World War I, Holmes and Watson are sent to Egypt to stop the German spy Von Bork from perfecting a weapon that could destroy all of Great Britain. Along the way, the sleuthing team form an alliance with the famous Lord Greystoke—peer of the Realm and lord of the jungle!
The Adventure of the Plated Spoon and Other Tales of Sherlock Holmes
by Loren D EstlemanA collection of classic reprints and four original stories featuring Sherlock HolmesIn bringing to a close the adventures of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I am perforce reminded that he never, save on the occasion which, as you will now hear, brought his singular career to an end, consented to act in any mystery which was concerned with persons who made a livelihood by their pen."I am not particular about the people I mix among for business purposes," he would say, "but at literary characters I draw the line."We were in our rooms in Baker Street one evening. I was (I remember) by the centre table writing out "The Adventure of the Man Without a Cork Leg" (which had so puzzled the Royal Society and all the other scientific bodies of Europe), and Holmes was amusing himself with a little revolver practice. It was his custom of a summer evening to fire round my head, just shaving my face, until he had made a photograph of me on the opposite wall, and it is a slight proof of his skill that many of these portraits in pistol shots are considered admirable likenesses.
The Adventure of the Red Circle: Revised Edition Of Original Version (Classics To Go)
by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSherlock Holmes is approached by Mrs. Hudson to assist a friend of hers. The lady also lets furnished rooms and is now worried about what one of her boarders may be up to. The man had come to her 10 days before and paid her an exorbitant amount to ensure complete privacy during his stay. His meals are left outside his door and no one enters the room. Now the landlady can't sleep at night wondering what the person is up to. Based on the available information, it's apparent to Holmes that the lodger is an Italian gentleman who had recently arrived from New York City. Knowing of recent crimes there, Holmes soon knows the man's identity and that he is running away from the head of a sinister group known as the Red Circle...
The Adventure of the Red Circle (Classics To Go)
by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleMrs. Warren, a landlady, comes to 221B Baker Street with some questions about her lodger. A heavily bearded man, who spoke good but accented eng came to her and offered double her usual rent on the condition that he get the room on his own terms. He went out the first night that he was there, and came back after midnight when the rest of the household had gone to bed. Since then, neither Mrs. Warren, her husband, or their servant girl have seen him. The lodger insisted on having the Daily Gazette every morning, and sometimes requested other things. All requests were printed on a slip of paper left on a chair outside the room where meals were also left. Mrs. Warren has brought some spent matches and a cigarette end from her lodger, hoping that Holmes can read something from them. It is clear that the cigarette has been smoked without a holder, which is quite unusual for a man with whiskers. He also eats very little, and never receives visitors or messages… (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
The Adventure of the Ring of Stones: A Langdon St. Ives Novella
by James P. BlaylockA strange message summons Langdon St. Ives and his companions to the Half Toad Inn in Smithfield, London, and along with the eccentric but fabulously wealthy Gilbert Frobisher, they set out for an uncharted island in the Caribbean, carrying a map that promises a treasure that beggars description. What they find - a terrible, pagan god from the depths of the ocean - leads them back to London, carrying within the hold of Frobisher's steam yacht a fearsome, tentacled menace that threatens to devastate London.
The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger
by Agatha ChristieTommy and Tuppence Beresford wait anxiously for a letter from Russia that may contain information of international importance hidden beneath the stamp. The letter is anticipated by more than just the Beresfords, and they must fight to keep the information from getting into the wrong hands.
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons and Other Cases (The Penguin English Library)
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Penguin English Library editionMany readers would claim that The Adventure of the Copper Beeches or The Man with the Twisted Lip was their favourite Sherlock Holmes story - but then that would be doing an injustice to The Adventure of the Yellow Face and The Problem of Thor Bridge. It is just as well that in the end we do not have to choose - as if we did then there would be no doubt it should be The Adventure of Six Napoleons.
The Adventure of the Six Sherlocks: A Where Are They Now? Short Story (Where Are They Now? #4)
by Toni L. P. KelnerAward-winning author of the Laura Fleming mysteries and the “Where Are They Now?” mystery seriesTilda Harper, a freelance entertainment writer who specializes in tracking down the formerly famous, has a weekend gig moderating discussions at a Sherlock Holmes convention. She’s hoping to pick up some new scoops, but gets more than she’d bargained for when an ex-TV star is murdered during a panel Tilda is in charge of. The police think it’s an accident, but Tilda isn’t convinced. With the help of Vincent, a devoted Sherlockian who knows even more about the fan world that she does, Tilda has to match wits with not just one master detective, but six different incarnations of Sherlock Holmes.“The Adventure of the Six Sherlocks” is an exciting return to the Where Are They Now? series for Agatha Award-winner Toni L.P. Kelner.Where Are They Now? seriesBook 1: Curse of the Kissing CousinsBook 2: Who Killed the Pinup Queen?Book 3: Blast from the PastShort Story 1: "The Adventure of the Six Sherlocks"
The Adventure of the ‘Western Star'
by Agatha ChristieMovie star Mary Marvell consults with Hercule Poirot after receiving threatening letters that warn her to return her diamond, the famous "Western Star," to its rightful owner. But who does own the diamond, and is it even the genuine article?
The Adventure of Weak Theology: Reading the Work of John D. Caputo through Biographies and Events (SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought)
by Štefan ŠtofaníkIn this distinctive exploration of John D. Caputo's work, Štefan Štofaník traces Caputo's journey of philosophical discovery from his earlier, more conventional academic writings to his later, almost confessional works of weak theology and his deep engagement with Derrida. Štofaník draws upon Caputo's life story to help explain sudden shifts in Caputo's thinking, offers intricate readings of philosophical passages that have all too often been taken for granted, and joins in Caputo's effort to find a theology that can be trusted and that does not rely upon dogmatic and hierarchical authority. At the same time, Štofaník subtly disagrees with aspects of Caputo's view and turns to the work of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry as a way to suggest that one cannot take leave of the tradition of theology as easily as Caputo thinks. At times, The Adventure of Weak Theology reads like a letter to Caputo, and Štofaník's own passion for theology, his deep understanding of Caputo's work, and his gift for writing makes this an immensely appealing book for both admirers and critics of Caputo.
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge: Revised Edition Of Original Version (Classics To Go)
by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleHolmes is visited by a perturbed proper eng gentleman, John Scott Eccles, who wishes to discuss something “grotesque”. No sooner has he arrived at 221B Baker Street than Inspector Gregson also shows up, along with Inspector Baynes of the Surrey Constabulary. They wish a statement from Eccles about the murder near Esher last night. A note in the dead man’s pocket indicates that Eccles said that he would be at the victim’s house that night. Eccles is shocked to hear of Aloysius Garcia’s beating death. Yes, he spent the night at Wisteria Lodge, Garcia’s rented house, but when he woke up in the morning, he found that Garcia and his servants had all disappeared. He was alone in an empty house. He last remembers seeing Garcia at about one o’clock in the morning when he came to Eccles’s room to ask if he had rung… (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
Adventure on Dolphin Island
by Ellen PragerA family vacation aboard a rented sailboat turns into a horrible nightmare when young Kelly Wickmer is swept off the boat in a raging storm in the Bermuda Triangle. Alone in the wild sea, the timid young girl must struggle for survival and fight her fears of the ocean and its creatures, especially sharks. As darkness surrounds her, a nearby wave explodes in shimmering light and a dolphin appears. The dolphin brings Kelly to a mysterious tropical island, unlike anything she has ever seen or heard about. Kids on the island befriend her as they encounter stingrays, sea turtles, iguanas, giant tortoise, the fish of a coral reef, and more. Yet, Kelly longs to go home. As she searches for a way off the island and the dolphin that saved her, she will have the adventure of a lifetime. If she survives, it will change her life forever. Adventure on Dolphin Island combines the best of fiction and non-fiction, with an exciting story of fantasy and adventure blended with fascinating true details about the sea and marine life. A percentage of the profits from sales will go toward marine education.
Adventure on the Horizon (Scholastic Reader, Level 2)
by Maria S. BarboKids can practice their reading skills with Pokémon in this fun Level 2 Reader!Meet Sprigatito in this Level 2 Reader! Liko gets her very first partner Pokémon, Sprigatito. It's so cute! But the pair have trouble bonding. When a suspicious stranger shows up looking for Liko, can she and Sprigatito work together to get away from trouble?This easy-to-read book features an exciting but simple story based on an episode from the hit Pokémon animated TV series. Full-color illustrations on every page!
Adventure on the Wilderness Road 1775 (American Sisters)
by Laurie LawlorEveryone warns of Indian ambushes as Elizabeth Pogue, her nine-year-old sister, Martha, and their family begin the dangerous trip on foot to Daniel Boone's new settlement in Kentucky But the only thing bothering Elizabeth is her bratty younger sister, Martha -- until she disappears. Then, without thinking, Elizabeth races into the savage wilderness to find the sister she tried not to love. . . .
Adventure on Treasure Island (Pokémon Chapter Books)
by Jeanette LaneThe new Pokémon are here, and kids gotta catch 'em all! This title features the cool Alola Pokémon from Nintendo DS games, Pokémon Sun & Moon.There's so much to explore in Alola! Ash and Pikachu are visiting one of the tropical islands off Melemele's coast. There they discover all sorts of new and interesting Pokémon. But these new Pokémon can be a bit tricky! Can Ash and Pikachu rescue a mysterious Alolan Water-type... and persuade a mischievous new Pokémon to join their team? This illustrated chapter book is based on a thrilling three-part Pokémon Sun & Moon storyline that can be seen on Netflix.
Adventure Philanthropist: Great Adventures Volunteering Abroad
by Erin MichelsonThe plan was there was no plan-visit all seven continents, see what happens. Erin Michelson is a high adventuress, who lives life on the edge. Giving up a successful business, her stake to a house, and all of her possessions,she decides to just take the money and run. Surviving swindlers and saints, she struggles to keep her eyes and heart open. Her escapades not only show us how best to tackle a minefield, how to bathe an elephant, and where to find a string of pearls, but also how to make a world of difference in the lives of those who are most vulnerable. For two years, she volunteers across the globe, searching for an authentic experience and the chance to reach out and leave the world, even just a small part of it, a better place. This is the life of an Adventure Philanthropist!