This is the first book in a delightful series featuring two sleuthing sisters. Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, runs the Inn at Hemlock Falls, while her sister, Meg, keeps the guests happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam sisters have to rely on other skills—spotting clues, solving crimes, and catching culprits. The History Days festival...

A war breaks out in the 24th century between humans and the more advanced post-humans. The latter descend from people who transformed themselves with technology to live a thousand times faster, which accounts for their rapid progress.

Simple text and photographs present the features of jack-o-lanterns and the different kinds of faces that they can have.

Simple text and photographs describe scarecrows, their purpose, composition, and places where they are found.

Chronicles the Czarist Russian Empire in the 1800s, the birth of Bolshevism, events leading to the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the development of new political structures in its aftermath.

Focuses on Soviet politics in the period between the end of World War II and the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), known as the Cold War.

Summary: The Quilliam sisters embark on their latest mystery when two fast-food rivals, Holcomb's Wholesome Fried Chicken and Colonel Cluck, engage in a deep fat frying contest, resulting in the theft of a butcher knife and the murder of a celebrity judge.

An avid Sherlock Holmes fan, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill is kidnapped while investigating mysterious happenings in her home town.

"A prominent ambassador is killed in Washington, D.C. Hours later, his stepdaughter vanishes in the mountains of New England. Back in her hometown of Black Falls, Vermont, to do damage control on her career, Secret Service agent Jo Harper is drawn into the search. But her efforts face an unexpected challenge: Elijah Cameron. With his military training and mountain rescue experience, no one knows the rugged terrain better than Elijah. But he and Jo...