Teenage detective Nancy Drew uses her courage and powers of deduction to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion. After receiving a call from her friend Helen Corning, Nancy agrees to help solve a baffling mystery. Helen's Aunt Rosemary has been living with her mother at the old family mansion, and they have noticed many strange things. They have heard music, thumps, and creaking noises at night, and seen eerie shadows on the walls....

Two young men come to the forbidding desert at the foot of Black Mesa. Paul Manning, a would-be writer from Kansas City, is running from memories that haunt him. Wess Kintell, a tall, grey-eyed Texan, is hiding from his shady past.

Baree, a wolf-dog of the Canadian wilderness, shares the struggles of his friend Pierrot, a trapper, and his French-Indian daughter, Nepeese.

While Ruby and Louise are making a memory poster, Max plays cowboy and makes a mess by spilling glitter and paint and ripping a tutu, but these mishaps just might make the poster even better.

When Ruby and Louise notice that the last pages of their book are missing, having been blown away by the wind, Max arrives with his toy helicopter to help.

A shaggy white dog who performs circus tricks leads the Bobbsey Twins on a new adventure.

"A collection of eight stories featuring Ruby and her little brother Max as they share a variety of adventures." --

Deeply wounded by her embittered mother's lack of sympathy for her aspirations, Elnora finds comfort in the nearby Limberlost Swamp, whose beauty and rich abundance provide her with the means to better her life.

Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett's tour de force of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing...

Lola is going to her first sleepover at Lotta's house, but she is scared that she will not be able to fall asleep there.