Rick Riordan
1) Rebel Island
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Enjoying his honeymoon at a Gulf Coast island resort, Tres Navarre finds his peaceful sojourn turning deadly when a U.S. Marshal is found murdered, the island is wracked by a hurricane, and he discovers that a desperate fugitive killer is on the island.
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The adventures of Tres Navarre, P.I. and Ph.D., continue to attract fans who love their spicy humor and suspense. When two English professors are killed in quick succession at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Tres is asked to finish teaching the semester's literature classes. All he has to do is keep his investigation of the murders quiet-and stay alive long enough to grade the final essays.
3) Mission Road
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-- “Riordan has a knack for showing readers a crazy good time.”— -- Praise for -- — -- —Dennis Lehane“One of the best PI series being written today.”—Crimespree Don’t miss any of these hotter-than-Texas-chili Tres Navarre novels:BIG RED TEQUILA • THE WIDOWER’S TWO-STEP • THE LAST KING OF TEXAS • THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO AUSTIN • SOUTHTOWN • MISSION¿ROAD • REBEL¿ISLAND
4) Southtown
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Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Award winner Rick Riordan is a master of Texas crime writing. In Southtown, maniacal convict Will Stirman escapes from the state penitentiary. With his gang of murderous thugs, Stirman pursues Erainya, the boss of college professor turned P.I. Tres Navarre. Erainya's husband Fred helped put Stirman behind bars, and although Fred is dead, Stirman wants his revenge. Now only Tres can stop him.
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-- Cold Springs relationship with his dangerously troubled daughter. And then one autumn night, the worst possible thing happened…. Now, a decade later, Chadwick’s heart is on the mend. Working for an old military buddy, he saves kids for a living, escorting troubled teens to a Texas wilderness school that specializes in the toughest brand of love. Until he gets a phone call that threatens to shatter his new life. Mallory Zedman is taking...
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Tres has taken a short-term teaching job at the University of Texas at Austin. He is living with his brother Garrett, a computer wizard, and enjoying this easy assignment. But when Garrett's business partner is murdered, Tres must switch from professor to detective. Rick Riordan, teacher, Texan, and multiple award-winner, creates a masterful mixture of local color and mystery in each Tres Navarre mystery.
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Edgar Award winner Rick Riordan captures San Antonio at its grittiest with his mysteries featuring Jackson "Tres" Navarre--unlicensed P.I., Tai Chi master, and imbiber of Big Red cream soda laced with tequila. It's been a decade since his father was murdered, and Tres left town. But he's got an itch that can only be scratched by looking for answers. Returning to San Antonio with his enchilada-eating cat, he uncovers a conspiracy involving the Mafia...
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Percy Jackson Diebe im Olymp Als sich Mrs. Dodds, die neue Mathelehrerin, in eine stinkende Furie verwandelt und über ihn herfällt, ahnt Percy schon, dass er sich schleunigst aus dem Staub machen muss. Auf der Flucht gelangt er ins Camp der Halbblüter, wo die Kinder der Götter leben. Percy erfährt, dass er der Sohn des Poseidon ist. Große Aufgaben warten auf ihn: er soll sich auf die abenteuerliche Suche nach dem Dieb des Blitzes Zeus machen....
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Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson - Die Schlacht um das Labyrinth
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Die Armee des Kronos wird immer stärker! Nun ist auch Camp Half-Blood nicht mehr vor ihr sicher, denn das magische Labyrinth des Dädalus hat einen geheimen Ausgang mitten im Camp. Nicht auszudenken, was passiert, wenn der Titan und seine Verbündeten den Weg dorthin finden! Percy und seine Freunde müssen das unbedingt verhindern. Unerschrocken treten sie eine Reise ins...
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Rick Riordan's first book in the Tres Navarre series, Big Red Tequila (S1004) hit the mystery market like a Texas tornado. Readers couldn't get enough of its hero's offbeat combination of academic degrees, tai chi skills, and nose for danger. When the second adventure, Widower's Two-Step, was published, it quickly earned an Edgar Award. Instead of accepting a teaching position at the university, Tres is finishing up his apprenticeship for a private...
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Jason erinnert sich an nichts mehr - nicht einmal an seinen Namen. Leo und Piper scheinen zwar seine Freunde zu sein, aber auch das kann er nicht mit Sicherheit sagen. Als es die drei dann plötzlich ins Camp Half Blood verschlägt, wo
angeblich nur Kinder von griechischen Göttern aufgenommen werden, versteht er zunächst gar nichts mehr. Und dann gilt es auch noch für die drei Freunde einen seit längerem verschwundenen Halbgott zu finden, einen...
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Rick Riordan Percy Jackson Der Fluch des Titanen gelesen von Marius Clarén Die Götter des Olymp befürchten das Schlimmste, denn die Titanen rüsten zum Krieg! Percy und seine Freunde müssen bis zur Wintersonnenwende die Göttin Artemis befreien, die in die Klauen der finsteren Mächte geraten ist. Dabei müssen sie gegen die gefährlichsten Monster der griechischen Mythologie antreten - und geraten selbst in tödliche Gefahr ...
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First published in 1921, "The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles" by the acclaimed and award-winning children's author Padraic Colum is a classic retelling of the ancient mythological tales of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. Woven into this volume of Greek mythology are also the stories of the creation of the heavens and the earth, Zeus's battle with the Titans, Pandora's box, Persephone in the Underworld...