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In Washington, D.C., twelve-year-old Florian Bates, a consulting detective for the FBI, and his best friend Margaret help thwart the biggest art heist in United States history.

James Ponti takes listeners on three heart-stopping mysteries rich with adventure, unforgettable characters, and old-fashioned sleuthing in the Edgar Award-winning Framed! series! Middle school is hard. Solving cases for the FBI is even harder. Doing both at the same time-well that's just crazy. But that doesn't stop Florian Bates! Get to know the only kid on the FBI Director's speed dial-and several international criminals' most wanted lists-in...

James Ponti takes listeners on three heart-stopping mysteries rich with adventure, unforgettable characters, and old-fashioned sleuthing in the Edgar Award–winning Framed! series!
Middle school is hard. Solving cases for the FBI is even harder. Doing both at the same time—well that's just crazy. But that doesn't stop Florian Bates! Get to know the only kid on the FBI Director's speed dial—and several international criminals'...

After visiting Madame Dots where they see a famous painting about a day in the park, Tiger Brooks, accompanied by his friend Luna, get sucked into the painting and land in a Parisian park where they are attacked by a pet monkey and chased by the police.

There is a new reality for mothers in the 21st century-it's a different world with different goals than it was even a generation ago. As little girls, today's moms didn't grow up with ONLY dolls and toy kitchens and princesses and visions of idyllic domesticity and motherhood behind a white picket fence: they were given these but also a little plastic doctor's bag and a coloring book full of potential careers to choose from. "You can be anything you...

Caring for orphans makes grace touchable. When Christians choose to adopt, foster, mentor or support care for orphans around the world, it reveals God's true character to the world like nothing else we can do. This softcover book unpacks specific steps that you can take to care for orphans in distress. Some of these steps are "big" choices like fostering or adopting; some are smaller choices like supporting work abroad or mentoring a foster youth....

Twentysomethings today are redefining what this decade means and what making a positive contribution to society looks like. One reality is today's economy - you may find yourself a recent college graduate with no job prospects. As such, many twentysomethings are shifting away from career, to calling, looking for ways to impact the world. Or maybe for you, a career or job is what you do in order to support the more meaningful work you love, like photography,...

It's an age of accelerated information and information overload. The rate and way in which we receive information has changed dramatically: from newspapers and radio and a few nightly news programs to constant news online. We have made our lives available to the world in "tweetable" moments. As much as we try to stop consuming the vast amounts of info coming at us, we wrestle against a paranoia of 'missing out' on important information or being out...

There are lots of questions we must ask ourselves when we talk about violence, and our role in perpetuating it or in creating peace. Why are we, as Christians, more comfortable with violence in our movies than sex? What does it mean that Jesus called us to love our enemies? How can we, in our churches, cultivate a peace that might reshape society? Do we create it by constantly protesting violence? By preaching? By rethinking our foreign policy? By...

"The first- and second-generation Latinx authors discussed in Walk the Barrio use their US hometowns as both setting and stylistic inspiration, utilizing various formal techniques to mirror their literary location to the real one. The book presents a "barriography" for each work, which includes first-person reportage, archival research, human geography, relevant theories of space, and interviews with the author, neighbors, or local historians. Authors...