it is about the hardy boys going on vacation in the desert and they find some mysterious people stealing cactuses

Diplomatic Deceit I just got done reading a great book.The book I read was Diplomatic Deceit by Franklin W. Dixon.

Diplomatic Deceit is a book about three friends Frank Hardy, Joe Hardy and Callie who go on a trip to meet a pen pal of Callie's.

The three friends went expecting a nice vacation and it turned out to be a total nightmare instead.

I thought that the plot was pretty weak as far as explaining where they were and what it was like.

Franklin W. Dixon's style of writing has a lot of interactions between charters and it also has a lot of actions.

I liked how the author (Franklin W. Dixon) kept the suspense up and didn't just give the ending of the mystery away instead he had a lot of little events adding up to the ending.

I feel that if you like mystery books that keep you out of your seat than you will love this book by Franklin W. Dixon who gives you the feel of a horrible nightmare.

When the Hardy Boys race to Seattle to help their dad, they're met by men trying to gun them down. "Disaster for Hire" is a mystery book great for kids, with a quick pace and plenty of action.

I have found this book very useful on 3 cruises through the San Juans and Vancouver Island. Information on each marina includes: area map, harbor layout, address, phone #, VHF channel, Marina services, photographs and a general discussion of the marina and surrounding area.

I liked this book because it always kept me in suspence. It made me want to keep reading because I always wanted to know what would happen next. It is fairly easy to read and not very long, which made me like it more. The plot is a mystery about a person named Janosik being framed. The Hardy boys try and figure how and who is framing Janosik, with some help and sometimes confusion from a mysterious person claiming to be their long lost brother. One thing that could have made this book more enjoyable for me is if I had read the previous Hardy Boys books in the series. Since it is book #22, it made it difficult to know who many of the main charactres were because I was just being introduced to them. I think this was a great mystery book overall.

I think it is cool how they find the fort.I think being an archeologist would be an interesting job.This book explains what can happen when you get involved with valueble items.

I liked this book. We have to read it for our class on career counseling and it gives a good primer on the theology of work--really the history of the theology of work. From the ancients to the reformers of Calvin and Luther. Chapter four details the modern thinkers on work and management. A good read overall.

Far from a Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy, was a very well written book that is equivalent to common soap operas of today. Hardy's classical romantic describes to us and lets us depict if the woman is in power of love or if her need to control love will overpower her.
Bathsheba's love life is what the plot is based on in the story. Bathsheba is the main character and doesn't realize the effect she has on men and her number of admirers. Many typical elements in a woman's love life are represented through her romantic affairs. Hardy portrays to a 'T' the relationship with Gabriel. He will be there for her if nothing else works out. Gabriel is kind-hearted and is honest excepting any problems that need to be solved. He is heroic in saving Bathsheba's life and her farm numerous times.
Bathsheba's relationship with Boldwood is a typical situation of an eager and curious girl wondering if she could accomplish snatching the handsome, wealthy man that every girl has her eye on. Bathsheba has her fun with Boldwood then pushes herself away from him because she doesn't want him now that she can have him. Hardy tends to make the reader feel bad for Bathsheba's love interests because she is a heartbreaker.
Bathsheba's third love interest, Troy, is a challenge to Bathsheba because he is not totally openhearted and devoted to her. Fanny, Troy's first love interest, will always be in the picture during the relationship. This makes Bathsheba nervous because she wanted Troy all to herself and seduces him to the fullest to try to get his devotion. Troy has the most effect on Bathsheba's heart and the most effect on her mental breakdown. He enjoys experimenting with women's emotions, which is new to Bathsheba because she is used to being the controlling one. Hardy's descriptions of Troy and Bathsheba's relationship makes his female readers relate to her directly.
In the end of the novel Bathsheba falls back on the man she thought she was too good for, Gabriel. Gabriel was her cushion from emotional strain caused by the two other men in the story. This shows women's pattern for motivation to get what she wants but return back to what feels natural.
I like Thomas Hardy's e depiction of how women can be in a love situation. I dislike how everything in the novel was Bathsheba's fault because it made the reader hate the main character, I didn't feel bad for Bathsheba at all through out the novel. I did though feel bad for the men she played.
Thomas Hardy was a brilliant observer of women and how they tend to function in love. He emotionally and physically caught the pattern that women most likely have towards men and took it to the extreme in the romantic novel, Far from a Madding Crowd.

...A young duo of gumshoes, Frank and Joe Hardy are called upon by Grant Tucker, a hot rod show's promoter, to crack a case of extortion and on-purpose accidents caused by a mysterious man in black. There is just one problem with this case, there are to many suspects who all have motives for causing the accidents and for needing the extortion money, a cool quarter million. Frank and Joe have to crack the case because the accidents are getting more and more dangerous.

The characters in the story are like all Hardy Boys characters. They are all fairly weird but fairly believable, which gives the stories a human property. All the hot rodders are full of them selves, the truckers act like truckers, and all of them baby their vehicles like they would their own children. The chief mechanic was a hot rodder until he crashed and hurt his leg, and now he's a bitter man. Another thing about the Hardy Boys books is the language that everyone can understand. There aren't a lot of big words. This book was just perfect in how long it was. It had enough details to give the reader a clear picture of what was going on, without doing so much that they described every little thing.

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes mysteries. It was a very elusive book, in that I didn't have a clue who the extortionist or the person causing the accidents were. That made the book very easy to read, because I was waiting for the Hardys to crack the case, which never happened until the very end.

Murder and attempted murder fills this Hardy Boys Casefiles adventure. This book is good for anyone between the ages of 9 and 13.