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Historical novel, set around 1750 America. A young boy's parents are killed in a Mohawk raid. He and a girl in a similar plight are adopted by the Seneca Indians. They have many adventures, and he ends up as a participant in the famous battle.
This can be thought of as one of the best precursors to today's self-help books. Books that arouse men to greater hope and spur them on to larger achievement, to self-conquest and the conquest of their particular little world are always welcome. Such a one is this...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Good value in an excellent selection of Riley favorites. Great introduction to his work, with the raggedy man and little Orphant Annie and the hired girl all properly introduced, the Riley gallery of poems here is set - a generous lot.
William Bligh (1754-1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator eventually rising in rank to Vice Admiral. During his command of the "Bounty" in 1789, a notorious mutiny occurred.William Bligh and eighteen of his loyal seamen were...
Profiles of 16 decisive struggles from ancient and modern times. Gripping accounts range from Alexander the Great's conquest to World War II. Pratt depicts the circumstances leading up to the decisive clashes, the personalities involved, and the historically important...
Delightful descriptions and characterizations enliven this tale of an old-time gardener in an English countryside garden and his love of plants. With tender mentoring and the luck of winning a prize at the flower show, young Herbert becomes what he had dreamed of. This...
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."...
A fast-paced thriller written near the end of Queen Victoria’s reign when Great Britain ruled a worldwide empire, it subtly reveals the political awareness and personal views of a young Churchill, decades before he would become one of the most important figures of the...
A collection of major Bible stories of the Old Testament, delightfully re-told in modern English, from the Garden of Eden to David and Goliath! Although geared towards the young, this book is a delight for all ages...
Here we see an older Laura still growing up in Lark Rise, but branching out into the wider world and visiting her urbanite cousins in the small country town of Candleford, and contrasting her country life with theirs.
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.
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 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...
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...
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