It is the height of the gold rush when Dick and his sister Betty make their first visit to stay at Billabong and encounter rather more excitement than they’d bargained for....

The story of the thirty-five tumultous years in which Canada fought two world wars abroad, faced social, political and economic upheavals at home and virtually completed the...

Part of the generation that produced Ernest Hemingway and Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos wrote one of the most grimly honest portraits of World War I. Three Soldiers portrays...

Vladimir Dubrovsky is a young nobleman whose land is confiscated by a greedy and powerful aristocrat, Kirila Petrovitch Troekurov. Determined to get justice one way or another,...

Here is Golden Age mystery at its finest. Who murdered Colonel Margesson, one of his old military colleagues, and his offspring? To solve the case, the reader will have to...

When Gloriana comes to Arizona to visit her tenderfoot brother Jim, trouble is rampant. The notorious Hash Knife Outfit of rustlers and gunmen are stealing the ranchers'...

Set in Wyoming and Colorado, this is the story of cattleman and a rodeo star named Kirby Lane. Kirby is trying to help Rose McLean and her pregnant, single sister Esther. The...

This great treatise on cats describes the history, manners, habits of the cat and explores its relation to folklore, music, painting, law, poetry, and fiction. It has long been...

Although it is evident to my mind that the world is growing more healthy and more moral with every generation—speaking of civilized nations—it is still, as all agree, in a...

When Myles Cabot, inventor of radio transmission of matter, returned to Venus he found himself alone on an unknown continent on that alien planet. To get back to his old...