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Print: $11.96 Download: $4.99 Olive and Violet Bright have stopped by the beautiful Japanese ryokan (inn), the Fall of Snow. While there, they happen upon the lovely Suiko, a young scholar and proprietress of the ryokan. Olive and Violet quickly discover that Suiko is the ichiban (Number One) oral historian in all of Nippon. Suiko has discovered a troubling phenomenon. The Komatsu, an old and revered industrial family, is being written out of history. The sisters haven’t much time to discover who would falsify the history of the Komatsu and why. Hopefully, Professor Furikawa Akihiko will be able to help them and Suiko. As with all of the Olive and Violet series, the action is non-stop.
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Print: $11.96 Download: $4.99 Illustrator: Nicole Madelyn Meyer
Olive, Violet, Judith and Jack arrive at Flamingo Cay just as Hurikan descends. They are on their way to Texas, but must first stop in bayou country to deliver medical supplies to Dr. Hispanola Jubilee. When they arrive in Texas, at the Cuatro S Ranch, they head out at once to begin a long cattle drive to Kansas. From hurricanes, to bayous, to an adventuress cattle drive, to the mountains and forests of Colorado, Olive and Violet lead the way in solving a new mystery under the wide panoramas of the Old West
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Print: $11.96 Download: $4.99 Introducing: Nicole Madelyn Meyer as illustrator
Jack, Olive, Violet, and Judith are in the beautiful isles of Atla to investigate mysterious underwater ruins. Rumour has spread throughout the Greek Islands that the ruins of a colony of Atlantis has been discovered. If it is true than the treasure which lies below the waters of the Aegean Sea, in the temple of Poseidon, is priceless. The adventure takes place at the very site of the final, great battle between the Empire of Atlantis and the Empire of Athens, both of which died out over 11,000 years ago. The quartette meets the artist, Appollonia, the ill-fated Lextra, and the dashing Greek, Captain Ioannis, in a hair-raising adventure under the waters of the Aegean Sea they face wild storms and water funnels to save the ruins of the Atlantis’ colony.
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Print: $11.96 Download: $4.99 Olive and Violet are off to spend Christmas with their cousins in Bavaria. The much anticipated holiday takes a sudden turn for the worse when it’s discovered that the famous August Pine is suffering from an unknown blight. The joy at Christmastide is threatened for the whole magical kingdom of Bavaria. Olive and Violet must travel south to Venice to meet with their good friend, Jack Pems, who offers vital clues in solving the mystery of the August Pine. But their adventures have hardly begun. They leave Venice to travel north to the Baltic Sea, then east to Hungary to meet with a classmate, Elizabeth. They work feverishly, are thrown into the wake of an avalanche, and barely escape discovery by a prince who would rule Bavaria if not stopped by Olive, Violet, and their cousins. They must hurry if they are to save the old and distinguished trees of Bavaria. The book is rich with enchanting imagery, a perfect, new fairy tale for Christmas.
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Print: $11.96 Download: $4.99 Governor Takeo Turntowers of Hawai’i has asked his daughter, Orchid, to write to her old classmates from the University of London. Their know-how is sought by the governor to resolve the unscrupulous burning of the sugarcane fields on O’ahu. This tragedy threatens to destroy the economy of the Hawai’ian Islands. Jack, Olive, Judith, and Violet answer Orchid’s letter at once. They are soon on their way from the Pacific Research Institute on Cocoanut Palm Island, Tahiti, to help solve the mystery of the burning cane. A brother and a sister, Boki and Srivayasan, are at the center of this intriguing mystery. The quartette faces hurricanes and tidal waves in their effort to stop the destruction of the cane fields.
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Print: $11.96 Download: $4.99 Young Lord Jack Pems is accompanied by Nigel and Mollie Buckingham on a working holiday in the desolute moor country of North England. They have been given an assignment by their Humanities instructor, Professor Hans-Dieter Toeffler. Professor Toeffler believes that there may be a volume of poetry written by Sir Francis Drake to his beloved bride, Dreiden, in that wild countryside. If they can find this book it will make an extraordinary contribution to the archives of the British Museum in London. This book is written in the romance of fairy light, subtle, lovely, and intriguing.
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Print: $11.96 Download: $4.99 Jack, Violet, Olive and Judith have joined Ethel Chan at the Pacific Research Institute on the island kingdom of Hermosa. This fragment of Chinese life, a nudge of old China beyond the fierce Straits of Hermosa, is threatened with extinction. A dark prince has arisen who would strangle the kingdom of the thoughtful Chinese people. The young people must discover how to stop the destruction and to disarm the power of the red jade.
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Print: $11.96 Download: $4.99 This volume describes the setting up of the Pacific Research Institute as a center for regional cooperation in scientific and agricultural pursuits for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. It was funded by an award made to Jack, Olive, Violet, and Judith in the first novel, Olive and Violet Bright: Daughters of Rosewood Heath. This new mystery centers around the beautiful but destructive plant known as the “Water Orchid.” This plant grows wild in Tahiti and is threatening the fragile watershed of these paradise islands. The heirs of the Tave and Pomare line (principal chiefly families in old Tahiti) are anxious to resolve this matter together with the young English. Here the reader learns the debt of the British to gentle Queen Pomare IV of Tahiti* who lived in the mid- 19th century. Olive, Violet, and Lieutenant Charlessen hope to discover who is behind the water orchid conspiracy in the lush green arbors of this tiny corner of the old Society Islands.
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Print: $11.96 Download: $4.99 Jack, Olive, Violet, and Judith are youngsters in their first novel set in the fictional countryside of northwest England. It’s summer and Olive and Violet are now in residence in the family manorhouse, Rosewood Heath. Their best friend, Jack Pems, who lives not far from them at Blackwheat, has just come north to begin his summer. They’re soon joined by Judith Pinckney, Jack’s cousin. Not soon after the quartette of good friends have arrived north they meet a mysterious Burmese. They soon discover that this exotic gentleman is conspiring with the town librarian to steal a plant growing wildly on one of the great old estates of the Holly District. The plant is renowned for its alchemic abilities. If it were to fall into the wrong hands, it could have dire consequences for both the Burmese and the English people.
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Print: $11.96 Download: $4.99 Jack. Violet, Olive, and Judith are staying at the plantation of Peachy Wu north of Hongkong above Kowloon in the New Territories. The city of Hongkong (Fragrant Harbor) holds a mystery reaching far beyond the quiet of the up-country plantation of the good and wise Peachy Wu. The quartette soon finds themselves in the beautiful Floating City controlled by an evil mandarin, Master Ch’ing. He is engaged in the sale of the treasures of China. This ruthless enterprise, however, is only one side of Master Ch’ing. He rules wickedly over his walled village maintaining a beautiful, exiled life in the inner world of the Floating City. In this book we learn about the loyalty of the Chinese people to the Middle Kingdom (China). At times in their history, the Chinese have left their beloved country but never left the Middle Kingdom of their hearts and souls.
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