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A Mother in India – ebook
Sara Jeannette Duncan
The regiment, as usual, lacked officers, and John had to hold daytime parades three times a week. This story is about a poor guy who tried to do everything to get out of poverty. This story keeps everyone to the end.Data dostępności:
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Before Adam – ebook
Jack London
„Before Adam” is a striking story about our distant Neanderthal ancestors, who are just starting to become aware of themselves as people. According to the plot of the story, the protagonist has dreams in which he „watches a movie” about his adventures in prehistoric times in the person of the Big Tooth boy living with his mother in a nest in a big tree... The author tried to diversify the hero’s dreams...Data dostępności:
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Rod of the Lone Patrol – ebook
H.A. Cody
The lone patrol is a boy scout squad, and the boys willingly participate in many adventures. Rodney had to leave his mother unattended. And it had its consequences. However, we are used to Cody’s works that end well. Is this an exception?Data dostępności:
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The Storm – ebook
Max Brand
Twelve-year-old Tommy is left to fend for himself. Thanks to endurance, ingenuity and a wonderful union with the grizzly bear, whose mother he helped, the boy survives. When Tommy gets older, he and the bear set off for the valley, where they prevent the killing of an indestructible horse. The horse, bear and Tommy become legend – and the expedition is about to capture or kill Tommy.Data dostępności:
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The Miser’s Daughter – ebook
William Harrison Ainsworth
Randulph Crewe is an unusual name for a young hero. Hilda Scarve is the daughter of a titled miser. The denouement of the plot hinges on the making of wills and inheritance of property, and there is a secret love affair (between Randulph’s uncle and Hilda’s mother) that comes from the past.Data dostępności:
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The Imperialist – ebook
Sara Jeannette Duncan
Lorne Murchison is the son of a respectable first-generation immigrant family. He is of Presbyterian Scottish descent and is running for office with his ideals of a renewed British Empire. An intelligent and insightful snapshot of provincial Canada as it enters the 20th century, torn between being alone in the world and strengthening imperial ties with the mother country.Data dostępności:
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Joan Haste – ebook
H. Rider Haggard
Henry Rider Haggard was known as English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations. „Joan Haste” – a novel about a girl of extramarital origin with a single mother. Torn from the love of captain Henry Graves. Joan is experiencing exile in the London family of Dickensy and the pursuit of the pursuer of the Victorian era.Data dostępności:
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Jess – ebook
H. Rider Haggard
Jess Croft is a frightened and closed in herself a girl. All this because of her misfortune that happened in childhood. She was forced to leave England without a mother in South Africa. Captain John Niel arrives at the farm where Jess and her sister live. He falls in love with Jess. But all this can turn into a love triangle.Data dostępności:
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Dr. Kildare’s Girl – ebook
Max Brand
In the crowded waiting room of Dr. Gillespie there were people of ten nations of more than ten degrees, from the old pugilist with rheumatism in his broken hands to the Indian mystic whose eyes already were forgetting this world; but little Florrie Adams took precedence over all of these. Her mother lagged breathless, a step behind, as Florrie was led quickly on by a nurse so pretty that the little...Data dostępności:
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Shadows on the Rock – ebook
Willa Cather
This is a historical fiction book depicting the French colonization of Canada and life in Quebec in the late 1600s. Euclid Auclair is a father and a widower. The little daughter took over the running of their home after the death of her beloved mother two years ago. She is twelve. Euclid and his family, wife and daughter, had come to Quebec eight years earlier, hired by the Governor General to be his...Data dostępności:
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