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Tom Sawyer Abroad – ebook
Mark Twain
The adventures of Tom Sawyer continue. This time, the fidget Tom decides to go abroad to get rich and become independent. Tom’s friends also dream about it, and he quickly gathers around him who want to keep him company. So, the boys go on a long journey...Data dostępności:
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Orchids to Murder – ebook
Hulbert Footner
Amos Lee Mappin is a great detective. A sad man came to him asking him to find his granddaughter, Mary Stannard. The detective soon discovers that she has stood up her wedding party. Mappin found several strands and many clues through which he can find Mary.Data dostępności:
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The Red Ledger – ebook
Frank L. Packard
Ewen Stranway answers an advertisement to meet an old gentleman Henri Raoul Charlebois who has told him that he is in debt. At his flat, he removes from his safe a large book bound in red morocco in which it lists his debts. When he was very poor, Stranway’s father had given him a dime. Now, fabulously wealthy, he desires to pay back all those who helped him as well as those who did not and he recruits...Data dostępności:
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Dr Nikola’s Experiment – ebook
Guy Boothby
Dr. Nicola invited Douglas Ingleby to help him in a mysterious experiment. Unemployed and undoubtedly curious, Ingleby agrees to follow Nikola to a remote castle to help him take care of the old man on the verge of death, Nicola is trying to perform a miracle. But will Ingleby’s loyalty to Nicolau withstand the contrary to the requests of the old man’s great granddaughter, will the experiment give...Data dostępności:
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The Girl at Bullet Lake – ebook
H.A. Cody
For the main character, his daily work became a real torment. That he told his doctor. He had to drag himself to the office every morning, and always left him tired at the end of the day. He had never experienced anything like it before. His old friend Dr. Bradbury, in whom he was sure, would give him something to build him, and in a short time he would be as good as ever. But this order to leave the...Data dostępności:
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The Mahatma and the Hare – ebook
H. Rider Haggard
Henry Rider Haggard describes the plight of the protagonist. He loses his wife and daughter in a car accident, as he thinks through his fault. The main character goes into great depression and begins to drink. When the man was thinking about suicide, a stranger named Joren appeared and told him not to worry. He tells him about reincarnated souls and life after death. Joren teaches him to transcend...Data dostępności:
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Who Killed the Husband – ebook
Hulbert Footner
Mappin is a wealthy New York criminologist and author who is highly valued by the police and high society. He participates only in those crimes that really interest him. And in ’Who Killed the Husband’ he investigates solely because all the people around him beg him to take action. In this story, a detective investigates the murder of a banker. The killer who, according to the police have already ...Data dostępności:
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The Great White Queen – ebook
William Le Queux
Our hero, Richard Scarsmere, befriends an individual (Omar) at an English boarding school who turns out to be an African prince from a kingdom called Mo. Omar receives a visit from one of his mother’s trusted advisers. His mother, the Great White Queen, seeks him to return home immediately. Omar convinces Scarsmere to return to Africa with him since there is little opportunity awaiting him in London....Data dostępności:
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Quick Action – ebook
Robert W. Chambers
This is a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers. Green challenges his friend, the adventure novelist, to show him what can happen to him, that indeed romance is all around us, just waiting for us to notice it. This is the only story that dives into fantasy when Green discovers a girl trying to avoid a fortune teller’s prediction.Data dostępności:
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The Dark Road – ebook
Harold Bindloss
Once Welland wanted to be rich, but it so happened that life linked him to an officer’s position. Now he has become an avid adventurer. Welland realized that his main occupation was hunting Canadian elk and sailing on a yacht in the Great Lakes. This life seemed boring to him and he wanted to change something on his way.Data dostępności:
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