Will these kid detectives succeed where the professionals failed?A fun adventure appropriate for all ages.Daniel just can't seem to stay out of trouble. One day, after finding himself grounded and home alone, he decides to face his fears and explore the old house's dark and scary basement. What he finds down there will change his life forever.Join Daniel and his friends as they form a detective agency and investigate their first cas...

Conquistador treasure will change his life. But will it be for the good?Clancy Peters was only hoping to strike some luck on a newly purchased mine claim outside of Buena Vista, but the town, or more particularly its tyrant, Dane Sampson, had other plans for the lone cowboy. On the run from a mob of Sampson's goons, Peters finds a hidden valley deep in the mountains, where the MacNeil family, also victim to Sampson's greed, has built the foundations of a peaceful l...

Will these kid detectives finally give a grieving family the answers they've waited decades to receive?A fun adventure appropriate for all ages.Daniel just can't seem to stay out of trouble. On a family outing to the beach, he wanders away and stumbles across an old bank box washed-up on shore and buried in the sand. Determined to solve the mystery and return the box's treasures to their rightful owner, Daniel and his friends embark on a th...

Has your district cut funding for your school drama program? Do you want to step in and provide your kids with a valuable theater experience? Here are ten rules you can follow that we discovered when building a middle school theater program from the ground up. We did it and you can too!

Stella was excited to return home from college for a much needed Thanksgiving break and to start the Christmas holiday season with her family. It was her favorite time of year. But things changed dramatically when her mom woke her from a deep sleep to say they had to rush her dad to the hospital. He was struggling to breathe. The diagnosis was a shock, but paled in comparison to the secrets unveiled on that fateful night. Stella was a Christmas miracle when she was born at 11:59 pm on Chri...

Meet Yohana. In a village where strength is everything, a ten-year-old boy born with albinism is the last person anyone expects to be a hero. Happy-go-lucky and eternally optimistic, Yohana dreams of a path forbidden to him: the way of the Shaman.But when an apocalyptic darkness falls, the village's strongest warriors are not enough.To save his home, Yohana must step into a world of ancient spirits and magical beasts. From the legends of the jinn to the mysteries of the Wit...

Two Women. One Location. 175 Years Apart.Connected through time.Will they have the strength and courage to survive?When Rose's husband sustains a deadly snake bite, their wagon train abandons them beside a solitary standing rock in the unforgiving desert. Undaunted, Rose vows to save her husband and the little life growing inside her. Confronting relentless weather, lawless bandits, and Apache warriors, Rose fights ...

Will these kid detectives succeed where the professionals failed?A fun adventure appropriate for all ages.Daniel just can't seem to stay out of trouble. One day, after finding himself grounded and home alone, he decides to face his fears and explore the old house's dark and scary basement. What he finds down there will change his life forever.Join Daniel and his friends as they form a detective agency and investigate their first cas...

Learn how to conduct fair and impartial investigations despite your biases. As an investigator, your job is to determine if the available evidence supports a finding to your evidentiary standard. You will not only learn how to do this without bias, you will grow the confidence to withstand false accusations of bias.

Set on the beaches of California and the mountains of Sicily, The Flaming Grenade takes us on an adventure to discover ancient secrets with modern technology. Archie, a scientist in Half Moon Bay, CA is accidentally used as a test subject in his company's secret teleportation research, a mistake that somehow connects him to an ancient Power long sought after throughout the centuries. His discovery links his cutting edge research with his fiancé's family history, and together he and Zaira t...

Every case leads back to a human being; and human beings are multi-faceted and complex. You will find it necessary to assess the credibility of every person involved in the investigation. This book will help you develop those skills and teach you to conduct evidence based credibility assessments.

Conquistador treasure will change his life. But will it be for the good?Clancy Peters was only hoping to strike some luck on a newly purchased mine claim outside of Buena Vista, but the town, or more particularly its tyrant, Dane Sampson, had other plans for the lone cowboy. On the run from a mob of Sampson's goons, Peters finds a hidden valley deep in the mountains, where the MacNeil family, also victim to Sampson's greed, has built the foundations of a peaceful l...