Bøger af Suzanne Kehde

Jade Hill and Associates are back on the case. Wilburn Monk is on trial for the murder of Dee Dee Stokes and the agency has been called to give testimony. Darling Fisher, a self-proclaimed vampire, hires them to catch trespassers on his property in the swamp. It appears that the trespassers might be werewolves. Darling also hires a warlock, Lipscomb Montrose, to cause the trespassers' death once the agency has identified them. The problem is that Lipscomb has decided to turn over a new leaf, promising himself he'll never ever break another oath or do bad deeds (warlocks are known for their oath breaking and bad deeds). Now he can't break his oath to himself, which means he must cause the death he'd never intended to, a decidedly bad deed, and oh, it's very complicated, so he hires the agency to solve his conundrum. And then there's Chewy who is accused of putting a softball-sized wad of gum in Sister Paul's wimple and hires them on the recommendation of Mother Superior. But the thing is every time Jade Hill and Associates get three cases at one time really weird stuff happens.

Sam's dad is going overseas. It makes Sam weak at the knees. His dad needs good luck. Sam finds it in the muck.

Jake 2000 lives on the planet Chaos. He is the 2000th Jake to ferry eight-year-old dead kids across the Erebus to Shades, the land of the dead. His life is pretty routine. A batch of dead kids shows up and it's Jake's job to get them safely offshore and across the river. Unfortunately, Jake's side of the river is either erupting or collapsing. The sky spits fire. There are trap-spiders and Darts as big as 747s. On the river, there are giant slugs big enough to swallow Jake's boat, and pirates out body-snatching. Two things happen that change his life. He's chosen by the Mumming- Gloria, and he meets Kate. He will have to do what no one has ever done before--get into the land of the dead and out again alive. If he manages that, then he and Kate have only one more small thing to do-return control of the universe to the Mummings, the rightful guardians.

Jade Hill and Associates are back on the case. Mary Katherine, an eighth grader and most popular girl in the school, who would never ever be seen within twelve yards of a seventh grader (if she hadn't lost Buck Dieter's class ring), hires Jade. Jade is the only seventh grader in Bonaparte with her own detective agency. Then someone puts a spell on Mary Katherine so she's withering away at an alarming rate, and ironically, Samantha, the granddaughter of a notorious Voodoo practitioner, is expanding exponentially and just about to explode. It looks like black magic. It is, after all, beyond the realm of the real world when Jade finds herself hired by 73 dead runaway slaves to catch their murderer. There are tunnels under Jade's house and tea parties with skeletons and all manner of strange goings on, but Jade Hill and Associates are on the case and if the spells can be reversed and the wrongs can be righted, they're the team to make it happen.

Max Beetle is 12, short and has never won a fight. There is every possibility he won't survive long enough to reach eighth grade. He is the most unlikely of heroes. He lives with his mom and dad and his baby sister Charlie. He is a decent gamer and loves anything that has to do with aliens, outer space, giant spiders, robo crabs and landscape devouring rhinos from Nonedar. His best friend is Frankie Bone, the grandest girl that ever sucked air and an all-conference soccer star. With only two more weeks left to the end of school suddenly things get weird. A stranger has appeared in the neighborhood. When he abducts Frankie, Max and an unlikely band of losers set out to rescue her.

Pam's dad is going overseas. It makes Pam weak in the knees. Her dad needs good luck. Pam finds it in the muck.

Zip, the beautiful fat girl, is back. A freshman in ACCUSED OF MURDER and now a senior, she finds herself pursued by Cain Constable, a hunk who just happens to sideline as a model, and the object of death-texts by Breanne Fredrick, the most popular girl in the school, but to her fury second to Zip in class standing. In her freshman year Zip promised her virginity to Joshua Swift but now Josh is in New York and Zip is in San Francisco and Cain is hot on her trail. Joshua or Cain: how can she choose? Zip does have one additional problem: Cain has a brother just out of prison who has narrowed his homicidal passion to Zip and Zip alone. To get back at his brother he must kill Zip.

Jade Hill already has a reputation as a crackerjack detective when Evan hires her to find his iPod. With classmates, Drew and Everett, she runs Jade Hill and Associates, a seventh-grade detective agency in Bonaparte, Mississippi. She lives in the old Lipton mansion with her dad and the ghost of Captain Lipton. Jade is pretty near fearless. There's only one thing that truly gives her the creeps-snakes! Strange things are going on in Bonaparte. Blare Stokes has been charged with the murder of his wife. Sister John is acting weird. A mysterious man with a very small head is watching Jade's house. Stranger still, all these happenings are related to the missing iPod.

Lancelot Weed's teachers look like giant bugs. There are enemy soldiers behind every rock and in every secret hiding place. Surviving involves being brave enough to navigate the complicated labyrinths of the small town and the hundreds of square miles of forest and lakes beyond. For Lancelot Weed, home with a new step-dad is also enemy territory. Dead Man's Hill with Jenny Bolt is paradise. A record snow has made the Christmas war games the stuff of legend. Lancelot can taste victory on the cold crystal air. But then they discover the woman under the ice. Jenny convinces Lancelot that they must save her. To do this they will need to survive fire, snow and ice, and a stalking mountain lion.

Peter Winkle just lost his dad to the war in Afghanistan. He's having trouble getting his brain wrapped around the loss. Then a crop circle gives Peter an opening into an alternate universe. In his universe, he is a skinny sixth-grader who fights for the underdog against bullies who are sometimes tricked into eating worm brownies. His best buddy is Fanny Braid and neither of them minds taking a little abuse in the cause of truth and justice. In the alternate universe, he is Peter Winkle Son of Super Man. He has super powers and uses them to battle Moleman, Lizard Boy and the twin amoebas. The weird thing--if this isn't weird enough--is that his dead dad turns up in Super Peter's world and Peter wants nothing more than to bring him home. But in bringing him home, he turns his own universe on its ear.

Spring break is a string of firsts for 14-year-old Charlie Hudson: first cruise, first kiss, first time kidnapped by hijackers. After a hijacker knocks him unconscious, Charlie comes to in a lifeboat full of kids adrift in the Pacific Ocean. Charlie must survive mutinies, sharks, killer storms, and drug runners. Back in the U.S., rogue government agents who hired the hijackers are coming after him, but they have no idea who they're messing with. With Kevin, his new best girl, and Sam, his side-kick, Charlie, the invisible boy, is transformed into a full-blown hero.

In BLOOD SUCKERS, the characters from the first four books of the HIGH SCHOOL MURDER series are united at USC to solve the mystery of who is sucking the blood out of pets and campus coeds. Hamish Garza moves into the Zoo and finds himself the newest inmate of a house of kids with bloody pasts. Hamish is the "normal guy" -never killed anyone, nor has anyone tried to kill him, but all that changes. He finds out that living at the Zoo can be hazardous to one's health. There is a film to make and everyone pitches in. The Zoo takes to the hills outside Los Angeles to shoot raw footage until the homicidal madman shows up to create the kind of havoc that forces the young veterans into action to save the life of one of their own.

Megan Saint is anything but a saint. She smokes when she can get them. Beer had taken some time getting used to. She doesn't do drugs. To make up for that, she overuses the "f" word. A boyfriend would be nice but not many guys want to be seen with her. All told, Megan is a closet rebel. She loves getting in a "little" trouble-the kind of trouble that makes adults think she has "issues." But then real trouble comes to campus. Megan's just starting her junior year when weird things start to happen. Kids in her English class are dying. Surviving murder, mayhem, and kidnapping are the assignments of the day. To do so Megan teams up with the Hump, a no-neck fat boy who believes he's the reincarnation of Henry the VIII.

When a young soldier passes her qualifying exam by killing two cyborg Ringers intent on decapitating her, she never suspects she will become the FACE OF COURAGE for the world. Her goal is to stop the murder of million of teenage conscripts. To do this, she must destroy the greedy mastermind, WorldCorp. But in taking on this quest, she puts her own life and the lives of her friends in jeopardy. Ultimately, she steps into the role of leader of the resistance just as it gears up to clash with the enemy worldwide.

Joshua Swift is small and fast and almost never runs from a fight. Son to a legless man, grandson to a billionaire, best friends with the high school hunk and a beautiful fat girl, Zipporah Bennett never without a rolling suitcase full of food. Josh is accused of murdering Kerri Donner, the girl with the best breasts in the freshman class. And just to keep things interesting, he owes a debt to a murdered Indian woman and finds himself wearing a dead kid's clothes. Then there's the lurking FBI, the psychopath policeman and the townies who just want to kill him for sport. Not to mention the sick-making fact that his dad is shacking up with the principal. Such is life in Merryweather, Montana.

Most Americans think of Betsy Ross as she was depicted in Charles Weisberger's popular painting The Birth of Our Nation's Flag--a motherly figure, sewing at the hearth. In fact, as Jo Ann Menezes's analysis in Nostalgia, Gender, and Nationalism points out, Ross was a widowed businesswoman who ran an upholstery shop out of her house. In Weisberger's painting, all signs of economic industry are erased and Ross's house is transformed into a home rather that the site of cottage industry. Ross is constructed as the perfect heroic mother, worthy of sacred creation; thus, our flag was born. Ross's transformation into an icon neatly illustrates the conjunction of soaring nationalism and the establishment of woman as a fixed domestic presence and serves as an excellent example of the master narratives revealed in Nostalgia, Gender, and Nationalism. The essays in this provocative anthology explore the connections between nation and gender and the ways in which nostalgia functions to bind these two presumably unrelated constructions together. Collectively they suggest that women pay a special fee on behalf of the nation, even though it is traditionally represented as an honorarium given to them and that, in fact, the nation-state takes as a foundational principle the subordination of women.

Most Americans think of Betsy Ross as she was depicted in Charles Weisberger's popular painting The Birth of Our Nation's Flag--a motherly figure, sewing at the hearth. In fact, as Jo Ann Menezes's analysis in Nostalgia, Gender, and Nationalism points out, Ross was a widowed businesswoman who ran an upholstery shop out of her house. In Weisberger's painting, all signs of economic industry are erased and Ross's house is transformed into a home rather that the site of cottage industry. Ross is constructed as the perfect heroic mother, worthy of sacred creation; thus, our flag was born. Ross's transformation into an icon neatly illustrates the conjunction of soaring nationalism and the establishment of woman as a fixed domestic presence and serves as an excellent example of the master narratives revealed in Nostalgia, Gender, and Nationalism. The essays in this provocative anthology explore the connections between nation and gender and the ways in which nostalgia functions to bind these two presumably unrelated constructions together. Collectively they suggest that women pay a special fee on behalf of the nation, even though it is traditionally represented as an honorarium given to them and that, in fact, the nation-state takes as a foundational principle the subordination of women.