Happy Pollyooly. The Rich Little Poor Girl

Edgar Jepson

Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl is a bride story. Jepson continues the story of his twelve year-old heroine, Mary Bride, known as Pollyooly. She is still acting as housekeeper to the Honorable John Ruffin, keeping his rooms spotlessly clean and grilling his bacon to the right turn. John Ruffin gets a windfall that enables him to take a seaside holiday. He takes Pollyooly and her brother along with him. Twice in the course of the story she is called to act the part of Lady Marion Ricksborough, the little peeress whom she so remarkably resembles, and in the second instance is instrumental in effecting a reconciliation between the duke and duchess, Lady Marions father and mother.

Arizona Ames

Zane Grey

This late-period Zane Grey is one of the best of his novels. Rich Ames didnt set out to be a gunslinger it was forced on him. After the bad guys try to ruin his twin sister Nesta, Ames grabs his pistols and the bloody gunfight follows. Unfortunately, his criminal actions forces him to flee from his beloved Nesta and his happy Tonto Rim home, pursued by the law and vengeful family members. Rich soon acquired the name Arizona Ames and for years after that fateful day his name struck fear into the hearts of bad men all over the West. Certainly he was quick with a six-gun; to be sure there were many notches in the Colt he threw with such lightning rapidity; but at his core he was a good man, forced into a life of wandering for protecting his kin. Arizona Ames is a classic western full of thrill and adventure, written by the granddaddy of them all Zane Grey.

Dead Mens Money

Joseph Smith Fletcher

Another fast-paced murder mystery by J.S. Fletcher told in the first person. He wrote about 200 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Golden Age. It was first published in 1920, and has just the right stock of truly good characters, balanced by a couple of nasties. A young apprentice solicitor in a rural English town bordering Scotland, is riding his bike through lonely stretches of countryside very late in the evening, to run a strange errand for a mysterious lodger at his mothers house. He finds a recently murdered body at the end of his ride, and the mysteries keep piling up from there.

Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll

Before the readers comes the legendary fairy tale about Alice. In the second volume of adventures the girl is in Zaderkalli, where the world is a chessboard. There, Alice meets the Black Queen, the White Knight, the Lion, the Unicorn, the Shaltay Boltay and many other incredible characters who have been pleasing to children and adults around the world for almost a hundred and fifty years. Children will love this book.

Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard

Joseph Conrad

Set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, this story of revolution, deception, and self-betrayal centers on Nostromo, a handsome Italian sailor, who, like Costaguana, is being consumed by secret guilt and corruption. The story begins halfway through the revolution, employing flashbacks and glimpses of the future to depict the lure of silver and its effects on men corrupting and destroying some, revealing the strengths of others.Nostromo is considered by many to be Conrads greatest novel. The ambiguous nature of good and evil, the importance of duty, common themes in all of Conrads novels, get an epic treatment in Nostromo. Published in 1904, the book has the feel of a modern novel. Its a book about revolutions, money, and character, told through different voices, different eyes.

The Golden Pool. A Story of a Forgotten Mine

R. Austin Freeman

This novel begins with Robert Englefield, a young Englishman, taking on a job with a vessel sailing for northern Africa. Once there, Englefield is placed in the position of running the store through which the captain sells and trades his goods. As Englefield spends more and more time at this outpost on the African coast, he hears stories a legendary mine in the interior of Africa where the priests capture unwary travelers and blind them to prevent escape. Purely out of curiousity, Englefield finally decides to go looking for this mine in spite of the obvious dangers presented to a white man traveling in the rural African interior. Once Englefield departs and inevitably runs into trouble, the story finally takes on some suspense and unpredictability.

The Openers of the Gate

Elizabeth Louisa Moresby

A collection of ten short stories of supernatural phenomena, psychic events and the occult. These stories are founded on the deepest and highest range of Asiatic thought though the scenes of some are in the West. That thought is as vital for the West as for the East. The background is fictional but the stories are all true. In this connection I draw attention especially to the two entitled respectively Hell and The Man Who Saw L. Adams Beck (E. Barrington). E. Barrington started writing her novels, which commonly had an oriental setting, at the age of sixty. She was also a distinguished writer of esoteric works such as The Story of Oriental Philosophy and The Splendor of Asia, and on Theosophy.

The Governor of Chi-Foo

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace was an English novelist, journalist and playwright, who was an enormously popular writer of detective, suspense stories, and practically invented the modern thriller. His popularity at the time was comparable to that of Charles Dickens one of Wallaces publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. The Governor of Chi-Foo is a rare short story collection, long out of print which contains 16 thrilling stories: The Witney Road, Mother o Mine, The Kings Brahm, The Greek Poropolous, The Treasure of the Kalahari and others. An exiting book full of intrigue and mystery, this book is a must-read for all fans of thrilling crime fiction. Edgar Wallace provides a thrill of another sort!