A MYSTERY NO ONE CAN SOLVEThe Vanishings started without warning. People disappearing into thin air - just piles of clothes left behind. Each day, thousands gone without a trace.A BABY NO ONE WANTEDMax was abandoned in a bookshop and grows up haunted by memories of his parents. Only he can solve the mystery of the Vanishings.A SECRET THAT COULD SAVE THE FUTURETo find the answers, Max must leave this world and enter the Beginning Woods. A realm of mag...

Ein dunkles, märchenhaftes Fantasy-Abenteuer mit philosophischem Tiefgang - für alle Fans von Michael Ende und Carlos Ruiz ZafónWo Max herkommt und wer er ist, können ihm nicht einmal seine Adoptiveltern sagen. Doch das ist nicht das einzige Rätsel im Leben des kleinen Waisenjungen: Er besitze die Gabe, Menschen verschwinden zu lassen, erfährt er von zwei unheimlichen Fremden, dem eigenbrötlerischen Wissenschaftler Boris und der phantastischen Mrs Jeffers. Ob das Verschwinden seiner...

In Pursuit Of The "Mad" Mullah: Service And Sport In The Somali Protectorate is a compelling account by an officer who served in the Somali Protectorate. The book captures the excitement and challenges of war in an unfamiliar environment, focusing on the military campaign against the "Mad" Mullah and his forces. Interwoven with the military narrative are moments of personal reflection, including the author’s passion for sport, particularly hunting. The portrayal of the landscape, the fierc...

A 2018 Carnegie Medal NomineeA MYSTERY NO ONE CAN SOLVEThe Vanishings started without warning. People disappearing into thin air—just piles of clothes left behind. Each day, thousands gone without a trace.A BABY NO ONE WANTEDAbandoned in a bookshop, Max has grown up haunted by memories of his parents. Only he can solve the mystery of the Vanishings.A SECRET THAT COULD SAVE THE FUTURETo find the answers, Max must leave this wor...

Photographer Mark Miller opened his studio in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 1914. The town he chose to live and work in sits in a river valley in northern Colorado, nestled between the Rocky Mountain foothills and the semiarid high plains, with Denver to the south and Cheyenne, Wyoming, to the north. Established as a Civil War'era army post, the town was a Wild West frontier outpost until it was tamed in the 1870s by the arrival of a land-grant college and the railroad. By the turn of the cen...

Carved eons ago by the Cache la Poudre River, the Poudre Canyon, north and west of Fort Collins, Colorado, has long been a favored recreation place, for fishing, hiking, camping, and more, of area residents and tourists. The canyon has many colorful tales to tell; this book takes readers on a drive through that history, milepost by milepost, stopping at historic places and taking some side trips along the way. Beginning with trappers and mountain men, the canyon has been traveled since the...