The Missing Cuckoo

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! There's a new kid at Camp Dakota! It's Megan’s first year, and all she can think about is riding horses. But gravity seems to be getting in the way of all the campers' fun, from the stables to the beach. Then the big cuckoo clock in the main cabin goes missing. Who would take a cuckoo clock? Can the campers use the weighty facts they've learned to solve the mystery of where it went—and why? Look in the back of the book for experiments and more to help you become a science detective too!

A mysterious house lit by hissing and flickering gaslight begins this relaxing Time to Sleep Story written especially to help your child drop off to sleep at bedtime.The story gives your child's imagination a location to explore as they make their way around the old house and uncover a strange mystery. Why is a cuckoo calling out in the dead of night? An old grandfather clock reveals its secret - behind the swinging pendulum is a hidden door that leads down a golden staircase to the secret Land of Time. Here you help Mr Cogs capture the naughty bird who has escaped from his cuckoo clock. Then, you follow another secret staircase to the top of a tower where a wonderful bedroom awaits complete with a crackling log fire and a soft and fluffy four poster bed - perfect for climbing into and heading off to the land of sweet dreams.

There's a new kid at Camp Dakota! It's Megan's first year, and all she can think about is riding horses. But gravity seems to be getting in the way of all the campers' fun, from the stables to the beach. Then the big cuckoo clock in the main cabin goes missing. Who would take a cuckoo clock? Can the campers use the weighty facts they've learned to solve the mystery of where it went0́4and why?Look in the back of the book for experiments and more to help you become a science detective too!

She lost her husband, but she won't lose her son. Widowed tutor Marisa Azzat leads a double life in New York – she’s a vigilante whose goal in life is to root out human trafficking once and for all. Well, that and to avenge the gruesome murder of her husband. She pursues her goal together with her college student son Gabe. They’re on the hunt for an underground organization named Club Nirvana. The organization not only engages in sex trafficking of children, but they also tortured and killed Marisa’s husband. Marisa finally stumbles upon Nirvana’s new location, and it appears a dance school funnels young girls there. She and Gabe recruit a law student to infiltrate the school. The student verifies the school’s involvement, but Marisa’s joy doesn’t last long because Gabe suddenly goes missing. And she suspects that Club Nirvana is behind his disappearance. She must find him before he suffers the same terrible fate as her husband. NOTE: This is the fourth book in the Club Nirvana Series. The first book, Saving Ana, is FREE.

YOUR ABDUCTED CHILD IS MIRACULOUSLY RETURNED. TOO BAD HE'S NO LONGER THE SAME. Stay-at-home mom Yvonne Landis enters her kitchen one day to meet a huge surprise: seated on a chair is her son, Gabe. He went missing when he was ten years old, more than three years ago. It turns out he was abducted by pedophiles who made his existence a living hell. Extremely traumatized, he acts strangely and barely speaks. Yvonne is determined to heal Gabe. He’ll stay at home and work daily with a trauma therapist. Her husband Ben is not completely on board with that idea, especially since Gabe stabbed him with a fork shortly after they were reunited. Then disturbing things happen to their younger son, 9-year old Joseph... If you love dark suspenseful crime thrillers with murder and mayhem, vigilante heroes with complex characters and strong women, check out my Cuckoo Series and Club Nirvana series. In them, mother and son have a singular mission in life - to root out child trafficking once and for all. Part of the Mother and Son Vigilantes bundle. This trilogy covers what happens BEFORE Yvonne and Gabe embark on their mission. Other series in the Yvonne Landis Universe: - Cuckoo Series - Club Nirvana

Penelope Plum is a modern day sleuth full of adventures with her best friend Max. Penelope and Max have all sorts of adventures with her dog, Sampson. Penelope loves wearing her detective hat and springing into action when there is a mystery to solve. Like The Case Of The Missing Jewelry Box, The Case of The Broken Cuckoo, and The Case Of The Vanishing Lighthouse. Penelope was relieved when she found the missing jewelry in her grandmother's old red Falcon. Penelope gasped when she discovered the mangled broken cuckoo in Sampson's mouth. Penelope was also amazed by the vanishing lighthouse on Monte Christo Beach amidst all the stories of pirate's and buried treasure. X-marks the spot in the adventures of Penelope Plum.

Building on , this volume on Optimization and Decision Making covers a range of algorithms and their applications. Like the first volume, it provides a starting point for machine learning enthusiasts as a comprehensive guide on classical optimization methods. It also provides an in-depth overview on how artificial intelligence can be used to define, disprove or validate economic modeling and decision making concepts.

Terror outfits in Asia are looking beyond the 9/11 episode to terrorize the world with nuclear devices. Rogue nuclear scientists involved in smuggling and dissemination of WMD technologies are eager to help Al Qaeda and similar groups in achieving their objectives. Russian mafia groups are arranging sale of nuclear scrap retrieved from ICBM's dismantled under SALT Treaty agreements to whoever is willing to pay in bullion and US Dollars. Indian Intelligence agencies discover a major money laundering operation in Mumbai. A British hydrocarbon specialist working at a major drilling site is kidnapped and taken to Myanmar as hostage. The Tamil Tiger guerillas of Sri Lanka demand the British Government release a Lankan rogue scientist undergoing prison term for smuggling contraband nuclear material, in exchange of the hostage in Myanmar. The murder of a senior executive involved in the money laundering operations in Mumbai sends Indian sleuths on tracing money trails to Sri Lanka, Bangkok and Chiang Mai. The daring rescue of a Bangladesh nuclear scientist held captive for three decades and blackmailed to work on a project of WMD's by the ISI, exposes the conspiracy to arm Qaeda with nuclear devices.