Jeannette Caines explores one young girls awful secret in "Chilly Stomach". It is a subject that often goes untouched, but unfortunately some children are found in similar situations. In this story, a young girl does not like the way her uncle kisses her, but she is afraid to tell her parents. So, she tells a friend instead, who she hopes will tell her mother. Then, hopefully, the mother will tell her parents. It is a "chilly" story.

I've just finished CONFEDERATE ADMIRAL and the more I reflect on it the more solid it seems. A great job of professional history and biography. Symonds sets Buchanan in his time, and does a great job of presenting a guy many of us wd not get along with in person, and whose ideas would not pass muster today, but presenting him without judgment in the context of his time and profession. I never felt the author liked him, but I never felt he disliked Buchanan either; it felt . . . objective. What a word, how seldom we see objective reporting today! Read this book to see what it means, and to follow a real roller-coaster of a career in a stormy century and time in America. Damn nice writing too. Thanks Mr Symonds!

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There are not that many books on General Lord Cornwallis out there on the market, but this is the best one I've read on him. It not only presents Cornwallis, but it also covers a few other British officers as well as American officers. It also covers the rtevolutionary war in good detail. Overall it is a really good book.

Frank and Joe stop an atomic bomb from destroying a major city. Cool! A must read for any HBC fan!

This book is one of the best paperbacks in the series. It starts off with Frank and Joe breaking up an attempted mugging on a New York subway. It turns out that the mugger is after the victim's newly purchased ruby, called "The Crimson Flame". The victim is a prominent rancher in Arizona. Soon after arriving in Arizona, the victim asks the Hardys to investigate strange events at his ranch. Here they encounter sinister ranchhands and a suspicious staff, and a clue from a hat they find takes them to Thailand and then back to Arizona where they solve the mystery. I don't want to give away too much. Numerous encounters with the criminals happen throughout the book, and the action is non-stop. Their friends, Chet and Biff are in the story, but they play no significant role in the investigation other than be ranch hands at the victim's friend's ranch (and that's not saying much). Highly recommended, great read from start to finish.

This is a good book for anyone between the ages of 9 and 13. It has fast paced action and memorable characters. But then again, so does every other Hardy Boys book.

I thought this was a very interesting book. As far as Casefiles go, it was ok. It was however a little different then some of the other casefiles. Surprise ending, and theme of the 20's. Very good.

In this book, a relative of Frank's girlfriend is charged with murder. As always, the Hardys step in to help clear his name.

When young Stepon Kutuzov steals a roll of microfilm from the KGB's sucessor organization, the Russian Federal Service, he sets in motion a chilling chain of events that, if the microfilm's contents become public, will expose the existence of a Soviet sleeper cell, a spy unit clandestinely inserted into the U.S., embarrass Russia, and cause several political leaders to be toppled from power.
In this action-oriented thriller, author Larry Franklin, an intelligence specialist and Vietnam combat veteran, who is also a retired police detective, has written of things about which he knows. He spins a tale around the five-member sleeper cell, Den of the Black Dragon, planted in America in '79 during the Cold War. Its assignment? To submerge deeply and wait - for its wake-up call. But its creators did not foresee the demise of the Soviet Union. When all the Dragon cells were allegedly disbanded in '89 by diplomatic agreement between Russia and the allied powers, Black Dragon could not be contacted because its "father" had died, taking to his grave the method of reaching team members.
When Colonel Nikolai Pasternak, aide to the Director of Russian National Defense, is told that the microfilm record has been stolen and might surface in the hands of either German or Polish Intelligence, he understands how embarrassing this revelation could be for Russia, and how damaging it could be for his boss and himself. He decides that they must find and kill all five Black Dragon members, and then forget that the Den ever existed.
But Vasili Stravinsky, a senior member of Russia's new Parliament, has other ideas. He believes the Black Dragon team, strategically placed as it is, will be useful when Russian hard-liners, himself included, return to power. Complicating matters, his niece's son, Dmitri, is one of Black Dragon's sleeper agents, now using the cover of a Houston police detective, John Burrell.
Pasternak prevails and he dispatches Russia's top assassin, Andre Petrovich and a squad of assassins, to do the job.
Meanwhile, the American CIA learns of the existence of the Black Dragon cell and becomes a player in this deadly game when it decides to find the Dragon members and bring them in alive, thus triggering a race between the assassins and the CIA to locate Black Dragon's surviving members.
As Petrovich and his band of assassins proceed with their gruesome work, Burrell, convinced that the cell will never be activated, is enjoying his new life in America, with job, wife and family. He is shocked to discover the deaths of two cell members, upon whom he's been checking periodically. Realizing what is happening, he makes contact with the beautiful Ekatarina, whose cover name is Kathy Hempstead. Together, to the consternation of Burrell's angry wife, and the Houston Police Department, he and Kathy embark on a dangerous journey. They must remain alive, stop the Russian assassins from killing them, and try to stay out of the hands of the CIA.
This is a gripping novel of intrigue about an entirely plausible issue left over from Cold War years. An intense drama, it will provide hours of reading enjoyment. I highly recommend it.