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It was light, but not yet day.

The Wailing Octopus is presented here in a high quality paperback edition.

This book tells of the period shortly after the first mad rush for gold in California.

I smelled the trouble the moment I stepped on the lift and took the long ride up the side of the "Lachesis." There was something wrong. I couldn't put my finger on it, but...

A selection of five of Mr. Henty's short stories of adventure by land and sea.

The story of a young orphan who is sent to Gibraltar to live with his sister, who is married to an Irish officer. Soon after his arrival Gibraltar is sieged by the French and the Spanish.

Another brilliantly ingenious detective story by the author of The Ponson Case. The mystery of the real business of the syndicate utterly baffled the clever young "amateurs" who tried to solve it, and it took all the experience and perseverance of the "professionals" to break up the dangerous and murderous gang.

In the present volume I have endeavoured to give the details of the principal events in a struggle whose importance can hardly be overrated.

A wholesome story with gleams of humor, telling of a young man who blazed his way to fortune through the heart of the Michigan pines. Based on White's experiences as a lumberjack in the north woods of Michigan.

Bertrand William Sinclair was a popular 20th century Canadian author best known for his Western and frontier novels, depicting life not only in the U.S. but also in Canada. His books are still popular today.

"Oh dear, I do wish some one would invent something new for girls!" she exclaimed, although there was no one in the room to hear her. "

A number of "true" bear stories by a noted hunter, "accumulated and written during a quarter of a century of intermittent wanderings and hunting on the Pacific slope."

A stirring romance of life on an Idaho ranch, there is excitement and action on every page.

Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29, 1862 – June 5, 1919) was an American newspaper reporter, editor and author of popular juvenile historical fiction. He was a prolific writer, and produced fifty-one novels and (at least) fifty-one short stories. A Story of the Old New York Border.