Anne of Green Gables

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Eleven-year-old Anne Shirley is an orphan girl in need of a family and the novel follows her adventures over the next five years. She may be scrawny and freckled with red hair but shes also loving and bright with imagination, smart, dutiful and hardworking. When shes mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, elderly siblings who plan to adopt a young boy to help around their farm in Canadas Prince Edward Island, Anne faces the prospect of securing a home and a loving family if she can prove shes worth keeping. Time will demand adult choices at a critical moment, choices that will change her life and affect those around her. First published in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has spawned a slew of sequels and other related novels.

The Tragedy of a Week

E. Phillips Oppenheim

British author E. Phillips Oppenheim achieved worldwide fame with his thrilling novels and short stories concerning international espionage and intrigue, but including romances, comedies, and parables of everyday life. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and intrigue and are precursors of modern-day spy fictions. Readers of Mr. Oppenheims novels may always count on a story of absorbing interest, turning on a complicated plot, worked out with dexterous craftsmanship. The Tragedy of a Week is an entertaining tale with lots of unexpected turns and twists, published in 1984. If you havent discovered the joys of Oppenheims mysteries there is a good place to start.

Again Sanders

Edgar Wallace

Again Sanders is a collection of twelve short stories written by Edgar Wallace. The situation appears calm in the colonial area of the Sanders. But dark clouds are gathering on the horizon and the Captain Hamilton and the inexperienced Lieutenant Bones need to pass some exciting adventure before you can enjoy life on the power again. The tales are all loosely connected and center on Lt. Augustus Bones Tibbetts. Part of his famous African novels (Sanders of the River series), this volume is highly recommended for those who have read and enjoyed others in the series, and it would make for a worthy addition to any collection.

Ein Dichter. Eine Erzählung aus den Vereinigten Staaten

Karl May

Eine Erzählung aus den Vereinigten Staaten ist eine frühe Abenteuergeschichte Karl Mays. Im Llano estakado treffen der Dichter Richard Forster und der Jäger Tim Summerland aufeinander. Sie können sich vor dem Tod retten, indem Forster Kojoten erschießt und beide das Blut trinken. Glücklich entronnen treffen sie am Rande der Wüste auf Stakemen. Nach einem Kampf hat Summerland sein geraubtes Eigentum zurück und der Oberschurke wurde durch einen Tomahawkschlag gekennzeichnet. Als der Schurke sich später in Stenton bei dem reichen Bankier Olbers und dessen Tochter Marga unter dem falschen Namen Tom Wilson einschleicht, wird er von Forster entlarvt und muss seinen üblen Plan ändern. Zwar misslingen die Anschläge auf Summerland und Forster, aber der Schurke kann mit 50.000 ergaunerten Dollar fliehen. Wilson flieht mit einem Schiff, wird aber vom Kapitän erkannt und auf einer unbewohnten Insel ausgesetzt. Die ihn verfolgenden Helden, Summerland und Forster, sammeln ihn dort auf. Als Wilson Forster angreift, kommt er zu Tode. Die Helden werden von Graf Hernando reich beschenkt und kehren nach Stenton zurück, wo Forster sich mit Marga Olbers verlobt.

Rok 1809. Powieść historyczna z epoki napoleońskiej

Wacław Gąsiorowski

Rok 1809 Wacława Gąsiorowskiego stanowi kontynuację powieści Huragan tego samego autora. Opowiada o losach Tadeusza Zabielskiego, burmistrza małego miasteczka w zaborze austriackim. Tadeusz przypadkowo pozyskuje tajne informacje o planowanej inwazji austriackiej na ziemie Księstwa Warszawskiego i za wszelką cenę stara się uprzedzić władze. Te jednak nie dają mu wiary. Tadeusz wplątuje się w bardzo niebezpieczną sytuację.

Iron Shadows in the Moon

Robert E. Howard

Shadows in the Moonlight is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in April 1934. Howard originally named his story Iron Shadows in the Moon. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan escaping to a remote island in the Vilayet Sea where he encounters the Red Brotherhood, a skulking creature, and mysterious iron statues.

The Strange Lapses of Larry Loman

Edgar Wallace

Larry Loman is a member of the Criminal Investigation Department of New Scotland Yard. While on a special assignment in Asia he contracts a form of malaria that causes him to suffer character-changing bouts of amnesia for up to eight hours at a stretch. When Larry is assigned to deal with the Crime Trust, a syndicate which has gathered just about every crook in England into one organization, his periodic blackouts result in all sorts of unforeseen complications. However, he eventually breaks the Trust, and his disease goes into remission. The Strange Lapses of Larry Loman is an enjoyable mystery short story by Edgar Wallace with some surprising twists, well written and great to read.

The Millionaire Baby

Anna Katharine Green

Was the little girl, who appears to have been everybodys darling, kidnapped for money? Nobody comes forward asking for a ransom. Did she sneak down to the river and drown? In The Millionaire Baby, a young detective Mr. Trevitt has more than one reason for desperately wanting to solve the mysterious case of little Gwendolen, a millionaires daughter who missed since the afternoon of August the 16th from right under the nose of her nurse. Our detective soon meets the widow living next door, a close friend of the bereft mother. Something does not quite add up with neither mother nor neighbor but then there are several other characters offering clues. Or are they red herrings?