The Longshot: Four friends whose mission in life is to make it "big" come across an inside tip on a horse race and frantically try to raise the capitol to put down the big bet.
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In Scarlet Street a lonely bank clerk is ensnarled in an embezzlement scheme by an alluring streetwalker. In The Red House a reclusive farmer living with his spinster sister and adopted daughter goes to extreme lengths to protect the dark secret of a decaying house on his propert...
"Addie's getting into the spirit for the upcoming charity auction--especially since she's got an 1843 copy of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol to donate. Her former colleagues at the Boston Public Library have confirmed that its worth runs toward the high five figures, which s...
Presents the songs and calls of more than seventy North American birds. Includes audio compact disc featuring songbird concerts and solos.
In this humorous retelling of Andrew Lang's "Puddocky," a young maiden who has been transformed into a toad by a jealous fairy relies on her newly honed magical abilities to charm a prince into marriage.
The Eye is an intelligence agent whose current assignment is to track Joanna Eris, a woman suspected of blackmailing a senior government official. But the Eye soon learns that Eris is far more than a blackmailer.
Addie's getting into the spirit for the upcoming Charity Auction--especially since she's got an 1843 copy of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol to donate. Her former colleagues at the Boston Public Library have confirmed that its worth runs toward the high five figures, which sh...
6 humorous retellings of familiar fairy tales, chiefly traditional: Diamonds and toads, The princess and the pea, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Puddocky (by Andrew Lang), and The golden goose.
"The Eye is an intelligence agent whose current assignment is to track Joanna Eris, a woman suspected of blackmailing a senior government official. But the Eye soon learns that Eris is far more than a blackmailer. She is a seductive, shadowy master of disguise who is a frenzied m...
This volume includes 25 wonderful, wondrous stories and two poems about cats, by major authors old and new. Included are: INTRODUCTION: ...IN THE DARK, by Robert Reginald SEVEN SAW MURDER, by G. T. Fleming-Roberts THE CATS, by H. P. Lovecraft (poem) THE HEMINGWAY KITTENS, by A. R...