Secret Agents Jack and Max Stalwart

Secret Agents Jack and Max Stalwart
Author: Elizabeth Singer Hunt
Publisher: Running Press Kids
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781602863590

For fans of the award-winning SECRET AGENT JACK STALWART comes a must-read new chapter book series! Now Jack teams up with his older brother, Max, to solve new international mysteries, using their special training as secret agents. Temporarily retired from the GPF-Global Protection Force-and on family vacation, Jack Stalwart and his older brother, Max, are motivated to act when a band of thieves takes the Emerald Buddha from the Grand Palace in Bangkok. Without the help of the GPF, they're on their own. They're also up against one of the smartest and wealthiest villains they've ever faced. Can Jack and Max find Thailand's most precious statue before it's too late?

Secret Agents Jack and Max Stalwart: Book 2: The Adventure in the Amazon: Brazil

Secret Agents Jack and Max Stalwart: Book 2: The Adventure in the Amazon: Brazil
Author: Elizabeth Singer Hunt
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1602863628

For fans of the award-winning SECRET AGENT JACK STALWART series comes a must-read new chapter book series! Now Jack teams up with his older brother, Max, to solve new international mysteries, using their special training as secret agents. Secret agents Jack and Max Stalwart are sent to the Amazon jungle to investigate the disappearance of an important Global Protection Force scientist. Soon, they discover that the scientist's disappearance is no accident. A greedy outlaw is illegally mining for gold and he'll stop and nothing to keep his secret safe. Can Jack and Max save themselves and the scientist from almost certain death?

Secret Agents Jack and Max Stalwart: Book 4: The Race for Gold Rush Treasure: California, USA

Secret Agents Jack and Max Stalwart: Book 4: The Race for Gold Rush Treasure: California, USA
Author: Elizabeth Singer Hunt
Publisher: Running Press Kids
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2019-03-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1602865809

The fourth globe-trotting installment in the exciting Secret Agents Jack and Max Stalwart series, by beloved children's author Elizabeth Singer Hunt (author of the award-winning Secret Agent Jack Stalwart series). Now Jack teams up with his older brother Max to solve a thrilling California puzzle, using their special training as Global Protection Force agents. In the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains, an unbelievable discovery is made: $10 million in rare coins dating back to the California Gold Rush! Secret Agents Jack and Max Stalwart are sent to protect the treasure. But almost as soon as they arrive, it vanishes into thin air. Little do they know that the culprit is someone from Jack's past. Unfortunately for the brothers, the criminal isn't only after the loot. He wants revenge.

The Puzzle of the Missing Panda

The Puzzle of the Missing Panda
Author: Elizabeth Singer Hunt
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2007
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: 1862301271

An endangered giant panda has been kidnapped from the Wolong Nature Reserve in China. Can Jack find the panda and rescue it before the evil Scorpion Gang sells it for profit?

The Mystery of the Mona Lisa

The Mystery of the Mona Lisa
Author: Elizabeth Singer Hunt
Publisher: Jack Stalwart
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781862301238

"The Mona Lisa", the most famous painting in the world, has been stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. Can secret agent Jack Stalwart find it before an evil red-haired man takes it out of the country, never to be seen again?

Zen Odyssey

Zen Odyssey
Author: Janica Anderson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2018-01-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1614292744

Explore two lives—and a relationship—that profoundly shaped American Zen. Ruth Fuller Sasaki and Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki: two pioneers of Zen in the West. Ruth was an American with a privileged life, even during the height of the Great Depression, before she went to Japan and met D. T. Suzuki. Sokei-an was one of the first Zen priests to come to America; he brought the gift of the Dharma to the United States but in 1942 was put in an internment camp. One made his way to the West and the other would find her way to the East, but together they created the First Zen Institute of America and helped birth a new generation of Zen practitioners: among them, Alan Watts, Gary Snyder, and Burton Watson. They were married less than a year before Sokei-an died, but Ruth would go on to helm trailblazing translations in his honor and to become the first foreigner to be the priest of a Rinzai Zen temple in Japan. With lyrical prose, authors Steven Schwartz and Janica Anderson bring Ruth and Sokei-an to life. Two dozen intimate photographs photos show us two people who aren’t mere historical figures, but flesh and blood people, walking their paths.

Secret Agent Jack Stalwart: Book 13: The Hunt for the Yeti Skull: Nepal

Secret Agent Jack Stalwart: Book 13: The Hunt for the Yeti Skull: Nepal
Author: Elizabeth Singer Hunt
Publisher: Running Press Kids
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2011-10-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1602861552

The Hunt for the Yeti Skull (Book 13) Jack has become the most decorated secret agent for the Global Protection Force, but during the day he's still just an ordinary kid who has to put up with annoying people -- like Marko Mayer, a new student in Jack's rock-climbing class. When Jack and Marko race to the top of the wall, Marko stomps on Jack's hand and wins -- then has the nerve to gloat! But Jack has no time to sulk -- the GPF needs him in Nepal. A plane carrying a team of scientists has gone missing over Mount Everest. They were thought to be carrying the first true Yeti skull ever recovered -- proof that the legendary Abominable Snowman really existed. Jack quickly discovers that a greedy collector is behind the theft -- and he may have hired Jack's archnemesis for the job. Can Jack and his fellow agents use their climbing skills to brave the highest mountain on earth and recover the priceless skull?

Out of the Ordinary

Out of the Ordinary
Author: Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0823274810

Now available for the first time—more than 50 years after it was written—is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915–62), the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, and for his groundbreaking 1946 book Self: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology. Here at last is Dillon/Jivaka’s extraordinary life story told in his own words. Out of the Ordinary captures Dillon/Jivaka’s various journeys—to Oxford, into medicine, across the world by ship—within the major narratives of his gender and religious journeys. Moving chronologically, Dillon/Jivaka begins with his childhood in Folkestone, England, where he was raised by his spinster aunts, and tells of his days at Oxford immersed in theology, classics, and rowing. He recounts his hormonal transition while working as an auto mechanic and fire watcher during World War II and his surgical transition under Sir Harold Gillies while Dillon himself attended medical school. He details his worldwide travel as a ship’s surgeon in the British Merchant Navy with extensive commentary on his interactions with colonial and postcolonial subjects, followed by his “outing” by the British press while he was serving aboard The City of Bath. Out of the Ordinary is not only a salient record of an early sex transition but also a unique account of religious conversion in the mid–twentieth century. Dillon/Jivaka chronicles his gradual shift from Anglican Christianity to the esoteric spiritual systems of George Gurdjieff and Peter Ouspensky to Theravada and finally Mahayana Buddhism. He concludes his memoir with the contested circumstances of his Buddhist monastic ordination in India and Tibet. Ultimately, while Dillon/Jivaka died before becoming a monk, his novice ordination was significant: It made him the first white European man to be ordained in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Out of the Ordinary is a landmark publication that sets free a distinct voice from the history of the transgender movement.