Bøger af Roland Smith

Security at airports around the world has been greatly tightened since 9/11 and Homeland Security continues to try and plug any remaining gaps in the USA, especially for airport and airline employees. Yet the FBI has recently closed the 45 year-old file on the infamous, and still unsolved D B Cooper hijacking. Even with the current high level of security, could a motivated airline employee, highly trained, armed with insider knowledge and virtually unlimited access to his company's planes repeat Cooper's feat? Hijack Over Weaver's Needle is a fictional story of such a man. Jack Traner is a senior engineer at TriCon Airlines whose comfortable life is turned upside down by tragedy and TriCon's self-serving management who try to make him the scapegoat for several costly and deadly mistakes affecting the passengers and employees of TriCon. Bitter, angry and grieving, Jack makes a plan to get revenge.

In this thrilling new adventure from the author of Zach's Lie, 13-year-old twins Grace and Marty are sent to live with their anthropologist uncle and discover that he's obsessed with finding cryptids, mysterious creatures believed to be long extinct.

Ring and Asia Wilde's wild life is anything but ordinary. Instead of attending school, they travel the world with their tutor and parents (scientists who work to protect endangered species). On their last adventure, they swung through the Amazon rainforest to save their mom from vile kidnappers--while defending the forest's population of golden lion tamarins. Now they're in Baja, Mexico--the Sea of Cortez to be exact--searching for the endangered vaquita and finding danger and conspiracy instead.

From the New York Times-bestselling author, Roland Smith, comes a fascinating, fact-filled resource that explores how humans have introduced-on purpose and by accident-plants and animals to parts of the world where they were previously unknown. . .sometimes with disastrous results. Did you know that brown rats were brought to the United States in the eighteenth century on a ship from England? Or that thousands of exotic pets were released into the Florida Everglades after a hurricane in 1992, leading to today's booming Burmese python population? All over the country, non-native species from around the world have been introduced to our lands, irrevocably changing the natural balances of their new habitats. This is the story of some of those newcomers, but also of human error and nature gone wild. By looking at thirty different intrusive plants and animals, They Are Here! explores invasive species, their impact on our environment, and the steps we can take to support local ecosystems under threat.

The Wildes have made some serious enemies in their last two adventures--and now they've all shown up in the little Texas town of Glen Rose with vengeance in their hearts. Moving the vaquitas to the Wilds has created quite a controversy and raised a national debate about how to save severely endangered species. Go behind the scenes of the Wilds facility with Ring and Asia and discover how a modern animal park operates--and the dramas they face. Asia and Ring are home and it turns out that home is even wilder than the places they've visited!

Twelve-year-old Chase Masters travels the country with his father, a "storm runner," but he is tested in ways he never could have imagined when he and a new friend are caught in a hurricane near St. Petersburg, Florida.

"On the day of Henry Ludd's thirteenth birthday, the power goes out. No phones, no news, people descending into lawlessness--and in the chaos, Henry's father has gone missing. Determined to find him, Henry ventures out with a trading crew to the place where his dad was last seen. But when the truck is hijacked and Henry is left behind, he is forced to travel alone. With only himself to rely on, can Henry survive this dangerous new world?"--

Moving to Elko, Nevada, as part of the Witness Security Program, Jack Osborne becomes "Zach" and is piecing together a new life when he finds himself in danger again--and this time his action could determine the fates of everyone he cares about.

In this thrilling new adventure from the author of "Zach's Lie," 13-year-old twins Grace and Marty are sent to live with their anthropologist uncle and discover that he's obsessed with finding cryptids, mysterious creatures believed to be long extinct.

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Moving to Elko, Nevada, as part of the Witness Security Program, Jack Osborne becomes "Zach" and is piecing together a new life when he finds himself in danger again--and this time his action could determine the fates of everyone he cares about.

Determined, after his mother's accidental death, to foil his stepfather's plans for his future, fourteen-year-old Jacob travels alone to Africa in search of his father, a biologist studying elephants in a remote area of Kenya.

In this thrilling climbing adventure from bestselling author Roland Smith, summiting one of the most isolated mountains in the world may be the easiest thing Peak does.After conquering the mountains in Afghanistan, Peak Marcello goes to Myanmar, a country that has been in the grips of a brutal military regime for more than fifty years, to visit Alessia.When he’s invited to climb the remote Hkakabo Razi, Peak can’t pass up the opportunity. But getting to the mountain will involve a four-week trek through tropical rainforests rife with hazards—from venomous reptiles and leeches to corrupt police and military.This thrilling teen climbing adventure is "the perfect antidote for kids who think books are boring" (Publishers Weekly starred review for Peak).Roland Smith''s Peak Marcello''s Adventures are:PeakThe EdgeAscentDescent

After Peak Marcello is arrested for scaling a New York City skyscraper, he's left with two choices: wither away in juvenile detention or go live with his long-lost father, who runs a climbing company. But Peak learns that his father's renewed interest in him has strings attached. He wants Peak to be the youngest person to reach the Everest summit.

In this thrilling new novel from best-selling author of Peak, Roland Smith, Peak Marcello, mountain-climbing extraordinaire and prodigy, faces his toughest challenge yet as he descends into Tibet and goes head-to-head with an old enemy.

NYT best-selling author of Peak, Roland Smith, reimagines the famous Lewis and Clark expedition in this historical fiction novel told through the compassionate eyes of a remarkable dog.