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Living with his grandparents gives Johnny Dixon a lot of time to find trouble. Or adventure. Or is it both? In this, the first Johnny Dixon mystery, our young hero hears the spine-tingling story of Father Baart, a madman who haunts the town's church. At first, Johnny does not believe in ghosts, but when he takes a scroll and a small Egyptian figurine from the church basement, all that changes. Soon, a mysterious stranger gives him a ring, and Johnny...
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IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 16
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THRILLER / SUSPENSE. Winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Novel. John Hart's New York Times bestselling debut, The King of Lies, announced the arrival of a major talent. With Down River, he surpassed his earlier success, transcending the barrier between thriller and literature and winning the 2008 Edgar Award for best novel. Now, with The Last Child, he achieves his most significant work to date, an intricate, powerful story of loss, hope, and...
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Professor Childermass's brother Peregrine has left behind a huge inheritance-a mansion, ten million dollars, and a cryptic riddle that might save the world from a madman. The only catch is that the professor must stay on the estate up in Maine for the entire summer. Johnny Dixon and his friend Fergie decide to come along to keep the professor company, but little do they know the dangerous magic that awaits them there. As they try to decode the strange...
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Decades ago, Evaristus Sloane invented a baseball-playing robot. It could pitch a fastball at a hundred and ten miles per hour, but it also had big, vacant, blue glass eyes that gave Johnny Dixon's grandpa the willies. Now, fifty years later, in the fifth book of the Johnny Dixon mystery series, Johnny's friend Professor Childermass puts the robot back together. It's only after he puts its chilling eyes back in their sockets that the professor realizes...
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By donating a box full of strange objects, Professor Childermass gets his young friend Johnny Dixon a summer job at the Gudge Museum. Everything seems okay as Johnny mops the floors and dusts the artifacts. That is, until a sinister man named Mattheus Mergal shows up looking for the one item the professor held back to keep safe-a wooden hand carved by the evil wizard Esdrias Blackleash. If Mergal gets the hand, he'll be able to bring back his long-dead...
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Picking up right where The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull left off, this fourth book in the Johnny Dixon series finds Johnny acting very strangely. He has terrible dreams, he wakes up having sleepwalked, and he is acting mean to his friends Fergie and Professor Childermass. The spirit of the evil Zebulon Windrow has taken over Johnny's body, and soon he is lying in a coma close to death. It is up to the professor and Fergie to save him, but that means...
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Their friend Father Higgins is in trouble, and it is up to Johnny and Professor Childermass to save him from the forces of evil. In this, the eighth Johnny Dixon mystery, Johnny and the professor hear word of Father Higgins being haunted, and when he disappears, clues lead them to England. There they find the priest has been possessed by Dr. Masterman, the ghost of a deranged knight bent on ruling the world. Masterman intends to reanimate the bodies...
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On a trip to Florida with his father, Johnny Dixon visits a fortune-teller and receives an eerie premonition. Inside the crystal ball, Johnny sees a ghost-white face with long white hair and black eyes like puddles of oil, which screams, "The universe shall be mine!" Back home, Johnny's father falls unconscious, gravely ill in a way the doctors cannot understand. Johnny and his friend Professor Childermass investigate and soon realize that the spirit...
11) Get Mooned
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Joey and Johnny, the Ninjas: Get Mooned is the first book in a clever, insanely funny, and highly entertaining illustrated series about two best friends and ninjas-in-training, perfect for fans of the Origami Yoda series.
Joey and Johnny are best friends, but they could not be more different. Joey follows all the rules. Johnny doesn't know what rules are. Joey is strategic. Johnny leaves everything up to chance. Joey is serious. Johnny is . . . well,...
12) Double Switch
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The thrilling return of the only Major League pitcher who moonlights as a private investigator sees Johnny Adcock facing off against a ring of ruthless South American smugglers and a mysterious, sexy assassin known only as La Loba. And he's still got the playoffs to worry about. Relief pitcher/private investigator Johnny Adcock doesn't have an office; he has the bullpen. That's where he sits shelling sunflower seeds when in walks a femme-fatale blonde...
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From the show called "the best of the best of radio's golden age" come these six suspenseful episodes of Johnny Dollar's far-flung private investigations, starring Bob Bailey in thirty quarter-hour episodes. First heard on network radio in 1948, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar chronicled the adventures of freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar, "the man with the action-packed expense account." For fifteen years, it was one of the most popular detective...
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The original Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama that aired on CBS Radio from February 18, 1949 to September 30, 1962.The best known incarnation was with Bob Bailey starring in "the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account-America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator." There were 809 episodes, plus two not-for-broadcast auditions, in the twelve-year run, and more than 720 still exist today out of 886...
15) Blutschach
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Ein tödliches Spiel ...
Seit Hauptkommissar Johannes "Johnny" Thiebeck vom Dienst suspendiert ist, widmet er sich mit Leidenschaft dem Schachboxen. Als in seinem Auto eine Leiche auftaucht, wird Johnny in eine Mordserie verstrickt. Der Täter hat es auf Johnnys Freunde und Verwandte abgesehen. Aber was ist sein Motiv, und wie kann man ihn stoppen? Während Johnny versucht, den Mörder zu finden, eröffnet dieser eine perfide Partie Schach - denn...
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In the novella "From Russia with Chilli and Garlic Sauce," the legend of Johnny Two Kebabs is revealed as being an astonishing reality. For years, the world has questioned the existence of this larger-than-life character, dismissing him as an urban myth or a product of Irish folklore. But now, in his own words, Johnny Two Kebabs steps out of the shadows to set the record straight.This is the man who, on 15th June 2011, after drinking 13 pints of lager,...
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In this second volume of his memoirs, Johnny describes how he infiltrated a dangerous gang of 'activists' and thwarted a plot to carry out a series of terrorist attacks in the U.K. In a race against time, he uncovers valuable information, but the deeper Johnny ventures into the heart of the gang's dark machinations, the more difficult it becomes to tread the path of righteousness as truth and falsehood seem to mingle together to form a surreal mirage.As...
18) Killerverse
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Das Schweigen der Schuld ...
Ein Serienmörder hat es auf die Mitglieder einer Reisegruppe abgesehen, die vor Jahren in Irland war. Er klebt seinen Opfern Augen, Nase und Mund zu und lässt sie jämmerlich ersticken. Neben den Leichen hinterlässt er Zeilen eines irischen Kinderreims.
Für die junge Berliner LKA-Beamtin Henni Herzog ist der Fall persönlich: Ihre Schwester hat damals auch an der Reise teilgenommen. Henni zieht den ehemaligen Kommissar...
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Little Johnny Goes to the Fair, the first episode of the Adventures of Little Johnny Series.
We find little Johnny and his family preparing to visit the Maricopa County Fair. While at the fair, the family meets Mr. Farnsworth, the owner of the fair, and he notices something special about this group. Later, they come across Mr. Ybanez, the fair's director, who walks them thru all the different attractions.
While waiting to board the coaster, Mr....
20) Puppenruhe
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Die abgründige Seite Berlins ...
Der ehemalige Kommissar Johannes "Johnny" Thiebeck soll als verdeckter Ermittler in die Drogenszene von Berlin eintauchen. Zur gleichen Zeit geschehen bizarre Morde: Die Opfer werden gefoltert, verstümmelt und erst nach langem Leiden getötet. Alles deutet darauf hin, dass ein Bandenkrieg zwischen verfeindeten Drogenbossen eskaliert ist. Doch Johnny findet Hinweise darauf, dass die Drahtzieher möglicherweise ganz...
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