A baby bald eagle is raised by attentive parents in a tall tree overlooking the Chesapeake Bay.
As for Eric, Rhubarb's frantic guardian -- well, Eric faces challenges only a fierce and concupiscent kitty cat can provide.
Petranella had been raised in his home and was all but a daughter to him, and it had always been understood that he was going to leave his entire estate to her. At the time of the stick-waggling fummadiddles she was away from home, ...
“Renegade sailor, hired assassin, Barney. Using a club because it doesn't make a noise or because he has pawned his ... However, de Borotra has a standing offer to these renegades. Probably fifty guineas on your head, Barney. Cheap.
... a woodsman who lived in a clearing in the forest with his wife and their little daughter. Now when the old deer, whose name was Tonka, found out what the woodsman had done, she was so overcome with grief and rage that she decided to ...
A schoolmaster in the heart of Africa takes his best and most attentive student, a chimp, to England.
... published. Continued ... Other major works of C. S. Forester with first published dates: 1926 Payment Deferred 1929 Nelson 1929 Brown on Resolution or Single Handed 1932 Rifleman Dodd 1933 The Gun 1935 The African Queen 5 Flying Colours.
Sloan's business biography, My Years With General Motors, was an instant best seller when it was first published in 1964 and is still considered indispensable reading by modern business giants.
It is a duel to the death as ruthless as any ever waged on the field of honor―but with a difference. The setting is a Pennsylvania Dutch farm and surrounding woods. The antagonists are a fighting cock and a hawk.
... levees. It was tragedy when dikes on the tributaries broke, but if “de Ol' Man” ever got loose, we knew he would gobble back all the land that our sweat and toil had wrung from his belly. New Orleans got scared. They decided to blow a levee ...
A terrifying, suspenseful, and grim exploration of the circumstances under which animals become man-killers as told from the perspective of a huge and formidable wolf-dog. Based on true events in 18th century France.
... sea. But it was too much for his exhausted body. The weight of the corpse and of the iron with which it was loaded overbore him. He fell. He struggled up again in the foam-streaked, dark sea, staggered a few steps, fell again — and did ...
A young Frenchman and a young Englishwoman are caught in the wild plots and counterplots surrounding the Bourbon conspiracy against Francis I in 16th century France.
... laughing Allegra, igniting an L & M. “ 'During the first decades of the Twentieth Century Pittsburgh was the most picturesque place among the great cities of America. There was an eternal mist, an everlasting fog in the air. The ...
... Bowen of the I.N.S.” His name was Croswell Bowen, and he was the Rover Boy of Park Row. He was right out of a storybook. He was a good-looking young man and whenever I encountered him he had his hat brim turned up in front, a police ...
The Abernathy family lives in rural Mississippi where folks farm cotton and grow vegetables and kitchens are filled with smells of sweet potato pie, muscadine preserves, and pickled grapes.
A war correspondent from the Pacific returns to San Francisco just as peace is about to be declared.
Published in 1953, The Hate Merchant, is a timeless and unforgettable account of the power of manipulation and the tragedies that result when rhetoric, slanted facts, suggestions of secrecy, and imagined threats are unleashed into the world ...
... , for no good reason, an odd dread swept over me. The hotel at Ashland beckoned more enticingly than ever. Then a gust of courage returned, and I told him no. Chapter 3 The Trap-door ma ofTen says ThaT when iT 26 Blind Man's night.
Unhappy with city life and at odds with his step-father, fourteen year old Billy is sent to live in the country with his eccentric great-uncle — a powwow man and natural healer who teaches him the lore of a vanishing world.