“The Airplane Boys accidentally bump into a new mystery which is only solved after many pages of excitement in this seventh book of air adventures.” Excerpt From: E. J. Craine. “Airplane Boys in the Black Woods.” [chương_files]
PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the “Riverview Star,” Penny has been raised to be self-sufficient, outspoken, innovative, and extraordinarily tenacious. Her cheerful, chatty manner belies a shrewd and keenly observant mind. Penny was the creation of Mildred A. Wirt, who was also the author of the original Nancy Drew series (under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene). Wirt became frustrated when she was pushed to “tone down” Nancy Drew and make her less independent and daring. With Penny Parker, Wirt had a freer hand and received full credit. Wirt once said, ” ‘I always thought Penny Parker was a better Nancy Drew than Nancy is.” In THE WISHING WELL, the once-grand, now abandoned Marborough Estate and its legendary stone wishing well have become the center of odd happenings. The reclusive owner unexpectedly returns, only to lock herself secretively away in the mansion. Soon after, an ancient stone is unearthed on the estate, upon which is carved a 400-year-old message. Or is it a hoax? Who are the two strangers who repeatedly visit the wishing well in the dead of night? Penny boldly investigates, certain that danger threatens her new friend Rhoda, a gifted, but poverty-stricken artist. – Summary by Cheryl Adam [chương_files]
This is a collection of essays by John Galsworthy. A multitude of subjects is covered, but the essays are connected by an artistic spirit, and they are written much more like short stories than in the classical style of essays. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
The Prince and the Pauper tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII. (Wikipedia) [chương_files]
Olive Schreiner was a South African writer born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She is credited with being the first Internationally famous South African Novelist. She was an extraordinary person and was one of the earliest campaigners for women’s rights, including the right to equal pay for equal work, saying: “The fact that for equal work equally well performed by a man and by a woman it is ordained that the woman on the ground of her sex alone shall receive a less recompense is the nearest approach to a willful and unqualified “wrong” in the whole relation of woman to society today”. She opposed racism of all kinds whether against the Boers or Black People and she was also a pacifist and anti-war campaigner. She was a vociferous critic of British Imperialism in South Africa and of Cecil Rhodes and his policies while prime minister of the Cape. As a result of her public support for the Boers, all her manuscripts and her house were burned by the British during the Anglo-Boer War and she was interned in a concentration camp for several years. Her most well known book is “The Story of an African Farm” from 1883, in which her own free thinking and progressive views on equality, sexuality and marriage are explored. It became a best seller in Europe and The United States, praised by feminists for portraying a strong heroine in control of her own destiny. The book was originally published under […]
When Ken Holt’s father, the famous newspaper writer, comes home for a Christmas visit, one of the gifts he brings is an antique iron box. Soon after he arrives a serious of unexplained events occur, including an attempted burglary. A hunch that the iron box is at the center of these occurrences sends Ken Holt and his friend Sandy Allen on an exciting adventure to solve the mystery! Ken Holt was the central characters in a series of 18 mystery stories for boys written by Sam and Beryl Epstein under the pseudonym Bruce Campbell. (Summary by Maria Therese) [chương_files]
Long time since this hand hath penned a preface. Now only to say, that this romance, as originally published, was written when the author was suffering severe affliction, both physically and mentally—the result of a gun-wound that brought him as near to death as Darke’s bullet did Clancy. It may be asked, Why under such strain was the tale written at all? A good reason could be given; but this, private and personal, need not, and should not be intruded on the public. Suffice it to say, that, dissatisfied with the execution of the work, the author has remodelled—almost rewritten it. It is the same story; but, as he hopes and believes, better told. Great Malvern, September, 1874. [chương_files]
National Geographic Magazine Volume 6, articles published from January, 1894, to May, 1895. * Geographic Progress of Civilization – Annual Address by the President Honorable Gardiner G. Hubbard * Shawangunk Mountain, by N. H. Darton * Weather Making, Ancient and Modern, by Mark W. Harrington * Geomorphology of the Southern Appalachians, by Charles Willard Hayes and Marius R. Campbell * The Battle of the Forest, by B. E. Fernow * Surveys and Maps of the District of Columbia, by Marcus Baker * The first Landfall of Columbus, by Jacques W. Redway, F. R. G. S. * Japan, by D.W. Stevens * Geography of the Air, Annual Address by the Vice-President, General A. W. Greely * Sir Francis Drake’s Anchorage, by Edward L. Berthoud * Note on the Height of Mount Saint Elias, by Professor Israel C. Russell * Geographic Notes, by Cyrus C. Babb (The Antarctic Continent – Magnetic Observation in Iceland, Jan Mayen and Spitzbergen in 1892 – A New Light on the Discovery of America – Monographs of the National Geographic Sociaty – Important Announcement Concerning Essays) * Laws of the Temperature Control of the Geographic Distribution of Terrestrial Animals and Plants. Annual Address by Vice-President Dr. C. Hart Merriam. * Oregon: Its History, Geography, and Resources, by John H. Mitchell. [chương_files]
“The Roosevelt Bears – Their Travels and Adventures” is full of fun as we follow the journeys and mishaps of two big, delightful bears. Tired of life in the West of America and eager to see places of which they had only heard, Teddy-B and Teddy-G head east. All ages will laugh and enjoy the antics told in lively rhyme – whether riding a train, donkey, balloon or boat, running a farm, attending school, or (oh, no!)… sitting in jail. – Summary by HannahMary [chương_files]
This is a posthumous collection of essays by Randolph Bourne. Many originally appeared in the journal “The Seven Arts,” before the controversial end to its run. Also included is the unfinished manuscript of “The State,” the book Bourne worked on until his tragic death in December, 1918, at the hands of the Spanish flu pandemic. In the words of the book’s editor, poet James Oppenheim, “We have nothing else like this book in America. It is the only living record of the suppressed minority, and is, as so often the case, the prophecy of that minority’s final triumph.” – Summary by Ben Adams [chương_files]
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