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The Secret at Shadow Ranch is the fifth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1931 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene, and was ghostwritten by Mildred Wirt Benson. [1] This book, as of 2001, ranks 50 on the list of All-Time Bestselling Children's Books, according to Publishers Weekly, with 2,347,750 sales ...
Jeannie's mother sends her a package of "pipchicks"—her favorite, homemade candies. Pipchicks have the unusual but temporary side effect of giving the consumer enormous strength. Dr. Bellows gets ahold of one, experiences the effect and insists Tony give the recipe to a NASA dietician . When Tony explains that he ad libs when he cooks, Dr ...
Transient global amnesia ( TGA) is a neurological disorder whose key defining characteristic is a temporary but almost total disruption of short-term memory with a range of problems accessing older memories. A person in a state of TGA exhibits no other signs of impaired cognitive functioning but recalls only the last few moments of ...
Plot summary. Nancy looks for a flight of the 99 steps in France to solve the mystery of a friend's strange dream. Before Nancy, Bess, and George leaves the United States for France, a person calling himself Monsieur Neuf warns Nancy not to pursue her mission. The girls arrive in Paris and join Nancy’s father, who is trying to find out who or ...
National Security Archive staff and fellows have authored some 100 books, including the winners of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize, the 1995 National Book Award, the 1996 Lionel Gelber Prize, the 1996 American Library Association's James Madison Award Citation, a Boston Globe Notable Book selection for 1999, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2003, [15 ...
Nancy Drew and her friends plan to join a dig sponsored by two colleges to hunt for the gold. Before she starts, the young sleuth receives an ancient stone tablet with petroglyphs on it. With this amazing clue, however, come a threat from a thief who also wants the treasure. One harrowing adventure after another besets Nancy, George, Bess, Ned ...
Specialty. Psychiatry, neurology. Amnesia. Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage or brain diseases, [ 1] but it can also be temporarily caused by the use of various sedative and hypnotic drugs. The memory can be either wholly or partially lost due to the extent of damage that is caused. [ 2]
The Ringmaster's Secret. The Ringmaster's Secret is the thirty-first volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in late 1953 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. [1] The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams .