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Dimnet's classic on the art of thinking provides the most useful tips and advice on how to improve one's mind, improve concentration and thinking better, and even answers some timeless and all-important questions such as "how do I be myself" and "how do I find myself."...
Self Condemned tells the story of Professor Renarding who finds himself reduced to a position at a second-rate university in Canada after his resignation as an academic in London. He and his wife suffer through a bleak and oppressive isolation in a dreary and alien...
This is the story of Sam Small, a man from Yorkshire who wakes up one morning and decides that he can fly on his own two hands. So he does.This is for all those who know that dogs talk, Sundays can be repeated seven days in a row so that Monday never comes, and other...
This amusing foray into eighteenth century literature is an entertaining tabloid biography of an age not unlike our own; men and women of fashion led their lives under the avid scrutiny of a public with a sharp appetite for scandal and sensation. In the period between...
In a country hotel Maxwell Cheyne sits down to lunch with the pleasant stranger he has just met. Then, as the meal ends, he sinks into a drugged sleep and, on waking, learns that his house has been burgled (though nothing is missing)... This is only the first of his...
Charles Webster Leadbeater is regarded as one of the most important of the twentieth century’s writers on Theosophy. A competent seer and teacher, the series of lectures which comprise Volumes I and II were given to students in the early 1900s, during evening ‘talks’ at...
First published in the 1940s and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptian outsold every other American novel published that same year, and remains a classic; readers worldwide have testified to its life-changing power. It is a full-bodied re-creation of a largely...
The Last of the Vikings tells the life and adventures of Harald Hardrada, last great Viking and King of Norway, who met his death in 1066 when fighting at Stamford Bridge against King Harold Godwinson of England.
In The Deer Stalker Zane Grey readers will find all they have come to expect from their favorite Western author - swift action, magnificent descriptions of the desert and canyon country, plus the valiant effort of a ranger’s struggle to save the doomed herd of deer on...
This book is a sequel to the earlier novel, The Proper Place, concerning an aristocratic Scottish family, the Rutherfurds, forced by circumstances to sell the family estate. Lady Jane has lost both of her sons in the recent Great War; the subsequent death of her husband...
The Cartwright Gardens Murder is another one of those stories of crime which made Mr. Fletcher one of the most popular writers of the Golden Era of detective crime fiction. There is a great deal of character study in it, as well as a baffling plot, and, at the end, a...
The Silver Curlew is one of Eleanor Farjeon's finest works, an intriguing re-telling of the classic story Rumpelstiltskin. Mother Codling lives with her children in a small, Norfolk windmill. One day, the Codlngs receive a surprise visit from the king of Norwich, who...
The son of a Roman Tribune, raised in Roman Britain, familiar with Celtic customs, and friendly to their people, chooses to follow his father as a warrior until barbarism and battle change his mind.
The story of young, hard-working rancher John Saxon who suffers abuse from the mean-spirited Bob Witherell. Saxon gains skill as a gunsman and takes down Witherell in a duel... but was it a good idea? Witherell was no ordinary bully, he was also the brother of the...
The Proper Place is delightful reading and is Miss O. Douglas at her best.The story deals with the Rutherfurd family, who have to leave their beautiful country house and all their friends on Tweedside and settle in the littler Fife sea town of Kirkmeikle. Here, Lady...
The Roman is a superb reconstruction of a time long ago, the Roman world in the time of the Emperors Claudius & Nero. It's the story of Minutus, of noble birth, who serves the government and travels widely through the Empire, from his home in Antioch to the seat of...
At the height of his popularity, Lloyd C. Douglas was receiving an average of one hundred letters a week from fans. One of those fans, a department store clerk in Ohio named Hazel McCann, wrote to Douglas asking what he thought had happened to Christ's garments after...
Set in Austria, Spencer witnesses the burial of a liveried servant, murdered after an attempt to seize some gold in transit. Spencer identifies Lady Helena as the owner of the livery, warns her of murder, becomes her lover. Discovers the target is gold bullion in the...
Peter Vibart is his uncle's favorite nephew and as such, it has always been expected that he would inherit the lands, fortune and title of his uncle. But, his shocking will says otherwise.Peter will only inherit if he marries Lady Sophia, the toast of the town. ...
The Silly Season,The Marching Morons, andThe Mindworn are just three of the acknowledged science fiction classics included in this masterful collection of nineteen tales all displaying the author's very best work! A must-have for all lovers of excellent old-style...
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