When the daughter of an amusement-park owner goes missing, it's anything but fun and games in this Hardy Boys adventure-a new take on the classic series. Daisy Rodriguez is missing. Just like that, gone without a trace. Her father, Hector Rodriguez-owner of Funspot, Bayport's local amusement park-is frantic. He feels he's to blame, since Funspot was recently the location of another disappearance. Could Daisy's vanishing be somehow connected? Joe...

Without a TraceTheir disappearances had haunted Detective Caroline Triece for longer than she cared to remember - young girls in trouble who had simply vanished. She'd known with chilling certainty that something was very wrong, and now she had the terrible proof - the cold, lifeless body of a girl who had just given birth... . There was no room in her life for anything that came between her and her work - and that definitely included her disturbing...

The Voice of America and Ed Tremont, of the English Language Unit, involved in the disappearance of Courtney Templeton, one of their difficult broadcasters. Templeton is responsible for a missing directive; Tremont finds a dead man and is fired; the FBI moves in as Tremont's fiancé moves out and Tremont finds solace in Templeton's daughter. Abduction, the Russians and a photo-finish chase put Tremont in the clear - with Templeton, his daughter and...

An American tourist vanishes without a trace in a foreign country. A corrupt police system that doesn't seem to care. A sister determined to get answers... When Toni mysteriously disappears while travelling in Istanbul, her sister, Dr. Julia Norris, thinks it's just another one of her sister's irresponsible stunts. But when Toni's backpack and passport wash up along the Istanbul seafront, Julia realizes the situation is far more serious than first...

Have you ever mislaid or dropped something, and then stooped down, to realize it has "Vanished into thin air?" In search of his lost coin, Finn journeys two degrees sideways in time and space, to a place called, Thin Air, of The In-Between World. Finn is faced with challenges and obstacles, all hexed with magical spells cast by Brolin, a sorcerer of the dark arts. Each challenge, from the River Bed of Bamboo, to Rocky Fortunes, to the Waterfall of...

Summary of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air was published in 1997 by journalist and outdoorsman Jon Krakauer. The book focuses on the events surrounding the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, of which the author was a survivor. In 1996, New Zealander mountaineering expert Robert Hall led a commercial expedition to climb the mountain. Krakauer joined this expedition while on assignment for Outside magazine. That same climbing season, American, Norwegian, South...

Sue's next assignment hits closer to home – when she is called in to investigate a kidnapping of a deaf student. In the meantime, Myles jockeys for a plum position in Iraq, and gets more than he bargained for.

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more—including Krakauer's—in guilt-ridden disarray. 

"A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse judgment and of heartbreaking heroism." —PEOPLE
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer...

The author describes his spring 1996 trek to Mt. Everest, a disastrous expedition that claimed the lives of eight climbers, and explains why he survived.