Fiction

Diane of the Green Van was awarded the $10,000.00 prize in a novel contest in which over five hundred manuscripts were submitted.

A college professor sets out with his daughter to find gold. They meet a rancher who loses his heart, and becomes involved in a feud. An intensely exciting story.

Dramatic, colorful tales of adventure told against a tropical setting.

George W. Ogden was a 20th century author known for his Westerns, some of which were adapted into films. This is one of his most popular books.

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G A Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures

In 1920 the idea of going around the world in ten days was as preposterous as that projected by Jules Verne in 1873 when he wrote Around the World in Eighty Days.

The romantic, dramatic story of Major Staines, the woman he married, the woman he met too late, and Lionel his friend. "The Dark Tower has the world for its market; its appeal is universal."--Philadelphia North American.

Fairy tales, wonder tales, magic tales are a folklore genre taking the form of a short story that typically includes magical beings such as dragons, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, griffins, mermaids, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, or witches.

Arguably Scott's finest novel, and the last of his major Scottish novels, Redgauntlet centers around a third, fictitious, Jacobite rebellion set in the summer of 1765. The novel's hero, young Darsie Latimer, is kidnapped by Edward Hugh Redgauntlet, a fanatical supporter of the Stewart cause, and finds himself caught up in the plot to install the exiled Bonnie Prince Charlie on the British throne. First published in 1824, this is perhaps Scott's most complex statement about the relation between history and fiction.

In the year 1702 fencing was far from having attained that perfection which it reached later.

Sir Philip Gibbs served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War. In this book he relays the experiences of British soldiers and offers a detailed narrative of the events of World War I, while trying to draw broader conclusions about the nature of war and how it can be prevented in the future.

Ascalon was the end of the trail for thirsty cowboys who gave vent to their pent-up feelings without restraint.

This is a book which owes its appeal neither to people nor to talk, but rather to land. Mr. Fergusson not only goes back to the soil but he burrows into it.

"All boys will read this story with eager and unflagging interest.

"Among writers of stories of adventure for boys Mr. Henty stands in the very first rank. Those who know something about India will be the most ready to thank Mr. Henty for giving them this instructive volume to place in the hands of their children."--Academy.

First volume in the 100th anniversary rewrite project celebrating a century of Tom Swift.

Jack London, the novelist, the writer of short stories, merits respect, for he is a powerful artist in the field where he found fame.

In one of the tenderest love stories which James Oliver Curwood, the great writer of the far North, has ever penned, the Canadian wilderness hero, Phillip Weyman, agrees to help Josephine Adare, her family, and friends against the wiles and lechery of an outlaw gang, while the Russett and Barton Lumber Companies clash.