David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in the lowlands of Scotland near Edinburgh. His uncle, Ebenezer (as close a miser as Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge), is shocked to suddenly have his ...
Byron died at the age of 36 in 1824. He was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses, amassing huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, rumours of his sexuality and his self-imposed exile. This book offers an insight into the love affairs of ...
The author has collated and published in this book curious events or traditions that have attracted his attention from years past.
Curiosities of Olden Times, by S Baring-Gould is packaged with an easy to use book reader.
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The last of Hardy's completed novels. It tells the story of the self educated Jude and his difficult relationships.
Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy is packaged with an easy to use book reader.
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For Mark Rohr, a decorated Desert Storm vet, the last ten years have been filled with shady jobs like his current stint as a bouncer at a nameless whorehouse/bar in Thailand. When the beautiful and naive Robin Antonucci arrives in Phuket City from the States and hires him to ...
The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, for which purpose his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a connected ...
A tale of the indian frontier by Charles King who was a serving General in the indian wars. He would have used his experiences in his popular novels
An Apache Princess, by Charles King is packaged with an easy to use book reader.
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Audrey Stanley captures a wide range of subjects in verse and captures the reader with the vividness of her powers of expression. Some of these poems have been previously published and some are entirely new. They reflect the breadth of Audrey’s interests, which range across the globe and across ...
The Author - It has been my object in these pages to present the life of each astronomer in such detail as to enable the reader to realise in some degree the man's character and surroundings; and I have endeavoured to indicate as clearly as circumstances would permit the main ...
Published in 1899 this book contains a collection of 13 tales from Northumbria that have been handed down from one generation to another.
Tales of Northumbria, by Howard Pease is packaged with an easy to use book reader.
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The Woman's Institute Library of Cookery consists of five volumes that cover the various phases of the subject of cookery as it is carried on in the home. This volume, the fifth of the Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, deals with the varieties of fruits and the desserts ...
His life is a veritable romance, with the additional charm of unquestionable truth. It opens to the reader scenes in the lives of the lowly, and a state of semi-civilization, of which but few of them can have the faintest idea. It has not been my object, in this narrative ...
John Timmins has led an extraordinary life, from being given up for adoption at just six months old at the end of World War II and orphaned at a young age, through time spent travelling and working abroad, several troubled marriages and many different careers. The one thing that has ...
This is the story of the love of a fifteen year old boy BRADLEY ROBERTS for his grandfather whom he calls PAPA. It tells of the total understanding between the young and the old, with advice given that serves the boy through his life and well into his manhood.
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The most careless reader can hardly fail to see that many of the Tales in this volume have the same groundwork as those with which he has been familiar from his earliest youth. They are Nursery Tales, in fact, of the days when there were tales in nurseries–old wives ...
The purpose of this work is to make the world better acquainted with the character of Livingstone. His discoveries and researches have been given to the public in his own books, but his modesty led him to say little in these of himself, and those who knew him best feel ...
Prominent Syme Park Millionaire Disappears... The story of the Bristol PI and the blood stained parquet floor grows curiouser and curiouser.
As the headlines grow more cynical by the day, Jack Shepherd knows that his search for a missing retired bookie can only end in misery.
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A millionaire is suddenly taken ill, and sensing his mortality, he asks his attorney to do him one last favor—to find and secretly watch over his missing niece, the daughter of his profligate deceased sister. This niece at the appropriate time would become heir to his millions. However, the ...
This fantastic new eBook from well-known author Paul Kelly will make an excellent addition to any fiction-lover’s digital shelf. Featuring strong characters and plots which draws you into Kelly’s worlds, reviewers have been recommending his titles for years. This latest addition to his catalogue of successes is sure ...
I have attempted to paint the religious life of the typical American Indian as it was before he knew the white man. I have long wished to do this, because I cannot find that it has ever been seriously, adequately, and sincerely done. The religion of the Indian is the ...
This fantastic new eBook from well-known author Paul Kelly will make an excellent addition to any fiction-lover’s digital shelf. Featuring strong characters and plots which draws you into Kelly’s worlds, reviewers have been recommending his titles for years. In Love with Richard is the latest addition to Paul ...
This book offers practical examples and informed advice about: how even very young children form close relationships with each other, the ways that observant adults can nuture possible friendships, understanding social play and skills from the children's perspective, young children who may have special difficulty over making friends and ...
Many people may not have heard of actor Jim Whelan but he has appeared in some of the most iconic programmes on British television over the past four decades, from Crown Court and Last of the Summer Wine to The Royle Family and Heartbeat. What a Life is the story ...
His life is a veritable romance, with the additional charm of unquestionable truth. It opens to the reader scenes in the lives of the lowly, and a state of semi-civilization, of which but few of them can have the faintest idea. It has not been my object, in this narrative ...
The bonds of Liz and Paul Grayson’s close-knit family are dramatically changed – yet further strengthened - by an illness and a plea for help from a surprising source. However, despite everything thrown at them, Liz and Paul have finally reached a happy and settled point in their lives, and their ...
A complete set of books on Columbus by Filson Young, they detail his life, voyages and death.
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Covering a time span of over ten years, this novel follows the fortunes of the mining community of Aberfoyle near Stirling, Scotland. Receiving a letter from an old colleague, mining engineer James Starr sets off for the old Aberfoyle mine, thought to have been mined out ten years earlier. Starr ...
Jack London wrote at least four stories about boxing. The Game is told, in part, from the point of view of a woman, the fiancée of one of the competitors. This is to be his last fight and they are to be married on the morrow. Against her better judgement ...
This fantastic new eBook from well-known author Paul Kelly will make an excellent addition to any fiction-lover’s digital shelf. Featuring strong characters and plots which draws you into Kelly’s worlds, reviewers have been recommending his titles for years. This latest addition to his catalogue of successes is sure ...
This fantastic new eBook from well-known author Paul Kelly will make an excellent addition to any fiction-lover’s digital shelf. Featuring strong characters and plots which draw you into Kelly’s worlds, reviewers have been recommending his titles for years. This latest addition to his catalogue of successes is sure ...