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The story takes place in Texas soon after the War with Mexico. Louise Poindexter, a beautiful newcomer, is courted by two men - the arrogant and vindictive Cassius Calhoun and the dashing but poor mustanger Maurice Gerald. Calhoun plots to eliminate his rival when tragedy strikes: Louise's brother, the young Henry Poindexter, is murdered. All clues point to Maurice Gerald as the assassin. At the same time a headless rider is spotted in the environs of the Poindexter plantation.

When Mr. Thomas Tennant got on a train from Brighton to Victoria he was unpleasantly surprised to see Nelly, a woman that tricked him thousand and one time, and whom he thought she was dead for seven years. They struggle in a carriage and the woman falls through the door and out of the train. Still confused with what happened, at the next station Tennant meets a certain detective who is looking for a missing woman named Louise O'Donnel. Tennant chooses not to share the story of his incident, believing Nelly is now really dead. But is she?

St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian retells the destiny of Wolfstein, a solitary wanderer and a disillusioned outcast from society who seeks to kill himself. After he is saved by the monks, he encounters Ginotti, an alchemist of the Rosicrucian, or Rose Cross Order who seeks to impart the secret of immortality.

Sweeney Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their remains into meat pies sold at the pie shop of Mrs. Lovett, his partner in crime. His barber shop is situated in Fleet Street, London, next to St. Dunstan's church, and is connected to Lovett's pie shop in nearby Bell Yard by means of an underground passage. Todd dispatches his victims by pulling a lever while they are in his barber chair, which makes them fall backward down a revolving trapdoor and generally causes them to break their necks or skulls on the cellar floor below. If the victims are still alive, he goes to the basement and "polishes them off" by slitting their throats with his straight razor.

The Beetle is supernatural thriller in which a polymorphous Ancient Egyptian entity seeks revenge on a British Member of Parliament. Robert Holt, a clerk who has been looking all day for a place to work, which he hasn't had for a long time, seeks shelter and food at a workhouse in Fulham. He is, however, denied, and in the dark and rain walks on looking for another place to stay. Holt comes upon a house in terrible state, with opened window, and invites himself in. This proves to be a mistake, as he comes face to face with what the beetle, and gets hypnotized into paralysis. The beetle takes human form as an Arab, and starts making a use of Holt.

Madge and Ella are two young ladies who have taken up residence at Clover Cottage, the former home of Tom Ossington, a house that has long stood empty with a bad reputation for being haunted. Not believing in such things, Madge and Ella rented it and lived there for about six weeks, when a strange woman showed up claiming that the house belongs to her, and that her husband, the landlord, is a ghost.

After the death of her rich foster parents, Marjorie Wetherill sets out to seek for her real parents. But when she witnesses the extreme poverty of her original family, she decides to bring them back with her to her home in Brentwood. But is it really "all''s well that ends well"? Will she be able to experience the true happiness which comes with loving Christ and one''s family?

After her beloved father''s death, it is up to Kerry to get his manuscripts published at all costs. While her own mother is against the very idea of publishing, someone is plotting to steal the papers and take all the credits. Will Kerry be able to fulfil her father''s mission? And who is the handsome young man who is helping her? Is he her true love or the traitor?

Ambitious, but ill-educated, naïve, and immature, Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents to help in their street missionary work. As a young adult, Clyde must, to help support his family, take menial jobs as a soda jerk, then a bellhop at a prestigious Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to bouts of social drinking and sex with prostitutes. Enjoying his new lifestyle, Clyde becomes infatuated with manipulative Hortense Briggs, who takes advantage of him. After being in a car accident in which a young girl loses her life, Clyde is forced to run away from the town in search for the new life.

While searching for lost Inca treasure in South America, American mining engineer Nicholas Graydon encounters Suarra, handmaiden to the Snake Mother of Yu-Atlanchi. She leads Graydon to an abyss where Nimir, the Lord of Evil is imprisoned in a face of gold. While Graydon''s companions are transformed by the face into globules of gold on account of their greed, he is saved by Suarra and the Snake Mother whom he joins in their struggle against Nimir.

The archaeologist hero, Kenton, receives a mysterious ancient Babylonian artifact, which he discovers contains an incredibly detailed model of a ship. A dizzy spell casts Kenton onto the deck of the ship, which becomes a full-sized vessel sailing an eternal sea. At one end is Sharane the assistant priestess of Ishtar and her female minions, and at the other is Klaneth the assistant priest of Nergal and his male minions, representatives of two opposed deities. None of them can cross an invisible barrier at the midline of the ship, but Kenton can. His arrival destabilizes a situation that had been frozen for 6,000 years, and fantastic adventures ensue.

Ivy is a beautiful but ambitious young woman who married an idler, Jervis Lexton for his family money. However, through the fault of Jervis and his gambling father, the Lextons have become quite poor and the young Ivy became quite frustrated with her impoverished husband. Before he has a chance to bounce back on his feet Jervis dies from a mysterious illness and there is a suspicion that he has been poisoned.

This action packed adventure edition tells the story of the heroic Sir Percy Blakeney and his friends and helpers, especially their exploits in rescuing various aristocrats and French citizens from the clutches of the guillotine. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel: Sir Percy Explains A Question of Passports Two Good Patriots The Old Scarecrow A Fine Bit of Work How Jean-Pierre Met the Scarlet Pimpernel Out of the Jaws of Death The Traitor The Cabaret de la Liberté Needs Must Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel: Fie, Sir Percy! The Principal Witness The Stranger from Paris Fly-By-Night The Lure of the Old Chateau In the Tiger''s Den The Little Doctor The Chief''s Way

For young and pretty Fleurette the revolution seems far away until an aristocratic neighbouring family is threatened. Now, the dangers are all too real, and she is accused of being a traitor. Fleurette''s father is ironically Armand Chauvelin, the infamous prosecutor and a man who sent many people on the guillotine. For the first time the villainous agent is forced to ask his arch-enemy, the heroic Scarlet Pimpernel, for help.

It is the fall of 1793, the dark days of the Revolution, and the Reign of Terror has taken many lives. The fragile child of the de Croissy''s is ill and they must take him in countryside, on doctor''s recommendations. However the travel permits are required and they are impossible to get. A friend of a couple, lovely Jossete, thinks of a way out and summons a heroic Scarlet Pimpernel to the rescue.

"The Scarlet Pimpernel" - Set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution The Scarlet Pimpernel is the tale of Sir Percy Blakeney, a chivalrous Englishman who rescues aristocrats before they are sent to the guillotine. He is known by his symbol, a simple flower, the scarlet pimpernel. Marguerite Blakeney, his French wife, does not share his secret. She is approached by the new French envoy to England with a threat to her brother''s life if she does not aid in the search for the Pimpernel. "Sir Percy Leads the Band" - It is January of 1793 and the Reign of Terror has already taken many lives. Scarlet Pimpernel and his gang of friends and helpers camouflage themselves as a wandering musical group, in order to rescue wrongly accused family from execution. But their bitter enemy Chauvelin is on their trail, and he is ready to go beyond blackmailing and bribery just to get Sir Percy.

Mam''zelle Guillotine follows Gabrielle Damiens, the daughter of Francois Damiens, a man arrested and executed for attacking the King of France with a pocket knife. When the French Revolution begins she is released from the Bastille after 16 years in prison. Mad for revenge, Gabrielle works her way into the favor of the men behind the republic, and soon becomes the public executioner of Artois, known as Mam''zelle Guillotine. When a new sleuth from Paris arrives to track down the English spies who want to stop her, Gabrielle doesn''t realize it is actually the Scarlet Pimpernel.

During one return home, Sir Percy tells the story of André Vallon, a young Jacobin, to the Prince of Wales. André, wishing to revenge himself on a despotic seigneur, uses the Jacobins'' rise to force the seigneur''s daughter to marry him. Once wed, they come to love each other, only to have the old seigneur denounce André in an attempt to free his daughter.

Seven years after her wedding with Gilbert, Anne visits her old friend Diana Wright and her daughter in Avonlea, following the funeral of Gilbert''s father. When she returns home to the old Morgan house, now named "Ingleside", she is greeted by her five children: ''Jem'', the eldest, aged seven; Walter Cuthbert, who is about six; twins ''Nan'' and ''Di'', who are five and look nothing alike; and finally Shirley, two years old and a favorite of their housekeeper Susan. In the next couple of years Anne and Gilbert''s youngest child ''Rilla'' is born. The novel includes a series of adventures which spotlight Anne''s children as they engage in the misunderstandings and mishaps of youth.

Anne Shirley has graduated from Redmond College and she is getting ready to marry to Gilbert Blythe. While Gilbert is still in medical school, Anne takes a job as the principal of Summerside High School, where she also teaches. She lives in a large house called Windy Poplars with two elderly widows, Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty, along with their housekeeper, Rebecca Dew, and their cat, Dusty Miller. During her time in Summerside, Anne must learn to manage many of Summerside's inhabitants, including the clannish and resentful Pringle family, her bitter colleague Katherine Brooke, and others of Summerside's more eccentric residents.

"To the Lighthouse" - The Ramsey family arrives to their summer house in the Hebrides, on the Isle of Sky in Scotland. They plan to visit the island''s lighthouse one day, but the weather doesn''t allow them and that creates some tension between family members. As the Ramsays have been joined at the house by a number of friends and colleagues, the trip to the lighthouse doesn''t happen. Passing of the time brings death and grief to the Ramsey family, but the tension is still there. "The Waves" consists of soliloquies spoken by six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though we never hear him speak in his own voice. The soliloquies that span the characters'' lives are broken up by nine brief third-person interludes detailing a coastal scene at varying stages in a day from sunrise to sunset. As the six characters or "voices" speak Woolf explores concepts of individuality, self and community. Each character is distinct, yet together they compose a gestalt about a silent central consciousness.

Captain Bullard series chronicles the journey of a young and daring officer until his success as a fleet admiral of space ship. This series seems like a precursor tothe modern day space exploration series like Star Trek. This edition includes 9 of his famous deep space adventures: Admiral''s Inspection: It was a new trick from ancient history-the Admiral''s Inspection. But man, what an inspection that turned out to be! White Mutiny: A rule book skipper in a prize-winning ship is dynamite enough for causing a mutiny! Blockade Runner: Can a good technician make unlikely things turn into highly effective weapons? Bullard Reflects: A harmless sport turns into a dangerous sport of outlaw busting! Devil''s Powder: The drug was getting aboard somehow and making people do peculiar things! Slacker''s Paradise: It seemed like a paradise until the commander of a space rowboat found a gigantic enemy battleship that was determined to surrender to him! Brimstone Bill: Bill is a crook, a hell-fire-damnation specialist in the art of collecting cash and amarvellous orator with gadgets. But can Bullard turn him around? The Bureaucrat: Bullard, a Grand Admiral now is caught in a red tape of high position but can he do a small favour to his friend? Orders: The last Bullard Saga. Malcolm Jameson (1891-1945) was an American Golden Age science fiction author whose writing career began when complications of throat cancer limited his activity as a naval officer. Drawing from his experiences of navy and warfare he gave a personal touch to all of his stories.

Otis Adelbert Kline was an adventure and science-fiction novelist, best known for his interplanetary adventure novels set on Venus and Mars, which instantly became science-fiction classics. Introduction Writing the Fantastic Story The Venus Trilogy The Planet of Peril The Prince of Peril The Port of Peril The Mars Series The Swordsman of Mars The Outlaws of Mars Other Tales Maza of the Moon The Man from the Moon A Vision of Venus

Jan of the Jungle is a young boy, raised in isolation of lab by a weird scientist, with a chimpanzee as his only company. When he manages to escape, Jan finds himself in the surrounding forests and swamps of the Everglades, with his ape friend as a mentor in the wildlife. After tasting a freedom for the first time, Jan and his ape friend go through number of adventures, but as the time passes, Jan is getting anxious to learn about his origins and find his parents. Jan in India - As we continue to follow adventures of Jan of the Jungle, we find him engaged to his fiancée Ramona and reunited with his parents. Together with some friends, they start a cruise on the Indian Ocean. However, the happy days don''t last long for Jan as he gets thrown in the shark infested waters and Ramona gets abducted. Otis Adelbert Kline was an adventure and science-fiction novelist, best known for his interplanetary adventure novels set on Venus and Mars, which instantly became science-fiction classics.

"The Swordsman of Mars" is a story of Harry Thorne, an outcast descendent of a noble family, in search for the grand adventure. He swaps bodies with a young hot-headed Martian Sheb Takkor, and gets transported to Mars, many years into the past. He arrives to a pulsating planet inhabited with scary beasts and creatures, fierce warriors, and beautiful and dangerous women, where he must confront various challenges in order to fulfill his destiny of a swordsman. "The Outlaws of Mars" is a continuation of a Mars series, this time with Jerry Morgan, a man with no future on Earth, who gets offered a new life on Mars. He starts out on the wrong foot, meeting a princess Junia and killing the fearsome-looking Martian beast he takes to be menacing her, which actually turns out to be her pet. After being imprisoned, Morgan becomes entangled in the politics of the Byzantine Martian royal court. Various adventures follow, with dazzling swordplay, feats of strength, and other trials, tribulations and treacheries. Otis Adelbert Kline was an adventure and science-fiction novelist, best known for his interplanetary adventure novels set on Venus and Mars, which instantly became science-fiction classics.

The Planet of Peril tells the story of Robert Grandon, a restless young man who gets kidnapped by a mysterious scientist Dr. Morgan and finds himself transported to the planet Venus in the distant past in the body of a Venusian prince who has been enslaved by a beautiful and tyrannous Empress. After he manages to escape, Grandon starts his rise to leadership of an army of rebels. The Prince of Peril - Using his secret method Dr. Morgan projects a young Martian''s astral body into a certain Harry Thorne on Earth, who then gets transported to an ancient Venus. He arrives there in the body of Prince Zinlo of Olba, and he is soon forced to escape assassination, since an ambitious noble is killing off the Royals in a bid to seize the throne. With the help of the fellow interplanetary traveler Vorn Vangal he gets to know the planet and the rules of it. The Port of Peril - Robert Grandon and his Venusian wife Vernia, empress of Reabon were about to start their honeymoon when the terrible yellow pirates, lead by Huitsenni, kidnapped Vernia and took her to their hidden port. Grandon goes on a quest to save her, a quest that will put him on challenges, and against enemies beyond everything he had came across before. Otis Adelbert Kline was an adventure and science-fiction novelist, best known for his interplanetary adventure novels set on Venus and Mars, which instantly became science-fiction classics.

After the war has ended the unnamed protagonist goes back to Paris and meets the people he once knew before, but time has never stopped for anyone, especially for humans. The journey now grows more expansive and seeks writing as the answer to the perennial question of how do we defy death. This beautiful novel will absorb you wholly and make you wish that it may never come to a finish. "Tansonville seemed little more than a place to rest in between two walks or a refuge during a shower. Rather too countrified, it was one of those rural dwellings where every sitting-room is a cabinet of greenery, and where the roses and the birds out in the garden keep you company in the curtains; for they were old and each rose stood out so clearly that it might have been picked like a real one and each bird put in a cage, unlike those pretentious modern decorations in which, against a silver background, all the apple trees in Normandy are outlined in the Japanese manner, to trick the hours you lie in bed." Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la Recherche du Temps Perdu (1913-1927). He is considered by English critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.

Henri Charlebois is a rich old man who was homeless, ill and destitute many years ago. He keeps a book that he calls the Red Ledger, where he has written names of all people he encountered during his life as a hobo. He has a plan to make his accounts balanced, and debts settled. All those who done him well, will be protected and secured, but those who done him wrong will live to regret it. Frank Lucius Packard (1877-1942) was a Canadian novelist best known for his Jimmie Dale mystery series. As a young man he worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing a series of railroad stories and novels. Packard also wrote number of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale, a wealthy playboy by day and a fearless crime fighter by night. Jimmie Dale novels brought the idea of a costume and mask for hero''s secret identity, and also established the concept of a hero''s secret hideout or lair.

"The Adventures of Jimmie Dale" - Jimmie Dale is a wealthy playboy by day, but at night he puts on a costume and becomes The Gray Seal, who enters businesses or homes and cracks safes, always leaving a diamond shaped, gray paper "seal" behind to mark his conquest, but never taking anything and just doing it for "the sheer deviltry of it". But he gets caught by a mysterious woman he calls The Tocsin, and she blackmails him to help her in the war with certain crime organizations. "The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale" - Jimmie Dale wanted to settle with the love of his life, but when she disappears, he is pulled back into the New York''s underworld of crooks and crime. "Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue" - Jimmie Dale is back in the underworld of New York, and he is destined to find the criminal known as the Phantom, in order to save the woman he loves. "Jimmie Dale and Blue Envelope Murder" - Jimmie Dale tries to protect his friend who received a threat in the form of a mysterious blue envelope, but when the friend is found dead, Jimmie is accused of the murder. To clear himself, Jimmie must resolve the envelope''s mystery and find out who stands behind the murder, and he must do it while avoiding the police and his old enemies from the underworld. Frank Lucius Packard (1877-1942) was a Canadian novelist best known for his Jimmie Dale mystery series. The character Jimmie Dale is a wealthy playboy by day and a fearless crime fighter by night. Jimmie Dale novels brought the idea of a costume and mask for hero''s secret identity, and also established the concept of a hero''s secret hideout or lair.

As the butch doyenne of the Parisian Salons, Gertrude Stein captures the heart of Picasso in that context and gives insights on how Picasso worked as an artist and why Cubism came about in the way that it did. Also, this portrait of Picasso contains pretty clear description of Cubism and reveals a lot about relationship between Picasso and Stein without revealing a lot of actual events in either of their lives. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector, best known for Three Lives, The Making of Americans and Tender Buttons. Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. Picasso and Cubism were an important influence on Stein''s writing. Her works are compared to James Joyce''s Ulysses and to Marcel Proust''s In Search of Lost Time.