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- Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American poet and writer of detective and mystery novels, as well as children’s books, best known for her Fleming Stone Detective Stories. Marjorie series is Carolyn Wells’s also known series was publicized as happy books for happy girls. The series includes „Marjorie’s Vacation”, „Marjorie’s Busy Days”, „Marjorie’s New Friend”, „Marjorie in Command”, „Marjorie’s Maytime”,...
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- Need an adventure story with plots and counterplots? Intrigue? A love interest? Politics? Murder? Follow our young American hero, Robert Harcliffe, as he goes on the adventure of his lifetime. A young man just out of college goes to Brazil as secretary of the prime mover in the revolution, and by so doing begins a series of adventures that run from tragic to comic, ending with the success of the conspiracy,...
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- Tommy learns how to communicate with animals, thanks to Doctor Dolittle. Tommy finds himself with a kind doctor on a thrilling and dangerous journey to find Long Arrow, the native American and son of the Golden Arrow, who is considered the greatest living naturalist in the world. This is both an adventure story and a strong call for compassion for animals. The main character found a man in spirit and...
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- Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was a contemporary of many big names in American fiction straddling the 19th and 20th centuries, but today he’s almost completely forgotten. The selections in „Mike Flannery On Duty and Off” book include three humorous stories, „Just Like a Cat,” „The Three Hundred” and „Fleas Will Be Fleas,” by this American humorist, whose first success, „Pigs is Pigs” (1906), remained...
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- Originally published under the title „Proverb Stories” in 1882 by Louisa May Alcott, this collection of sweet stories with a high moral tone includes: „Kitty’s Class Day”, „Aunt Kipp, Psyche’s Art”, „A Country Christmas”, „On Picket Duty”, „The Baron’s Gloves”, „My Red Cap”, and „What the Bells Saw and Said”. Using different characters in each story, she has portrayed various aspects of life brilliantly....
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- Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American author and poet. She wrote more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children’s books. After 1910, she devoted herself to the mystery genre. This is one of the later books in the popular Patty Fairfield series of novels for young readers. In this volume, Patty and her chums hole up at a lavish hotel...
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- Patty enters a contest and wins an electric car, which she names „The Swift Camilla”. Then she and her family decide to buy a summer home on the beach. All of Patty’s friends come up for a visit. Patty turns 19 in this book. She’s still not socially considered an adult, but her relationships are starting to get slightly more complicated. First appearance of Mona Galbraith. „Patty’s Motor Car” is the...
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- Patty and her dad decide to spend part of the year in New York City. She moves to New York and enrolls in the Oliphant School. Then she starts to make friends, as she always does, and she even starts a club called the Grig. First appearance of the Farringtons. „Patty in the City „ (1905) is the third book of the Patty Fairfield collection, a total of 17 novels covering the life of this happy and cheerful...
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- Carolyn Wells (June 18, 1862 – March 26, 1942) was an American author and poet. Wells wrote a total of more than 170 books. She was a well known author of children’s stories, until she began reading mystery stories written by Anna Katherine Green, and from then on she devoted her writings to puzzling mysteries in a similar vein. A new book by this popular author, and written in her best and most interest-compelling...
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- „In New York with the Tucker Twins” is a sixth book in the Tucker Twins series, written by an American author of juvenile fiction and a movie censor Emma Speed Sampson and published between 1915 and 1924. Nominally it’s a boarding school series, but actually only two of the books are set at school. Our heroine is 15 year-old Page Allison, a doctor’s daughter, raised in a rural Virginia community where...
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- Originally published in 1866 under the pseudonym „A. M. Barnard.” Louisa May Alcott’s novel of romance and sexual intrigue is one of her lesser-known gems. „Behind a Mask, or A Woman Power” is a controversial novella; its tone and characterizations strike a markedly different chord from her best-known works, such as „Little Women” and „Little Men”. The plot of the novella is focused upon Jean Muir,...
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- Humorous novel set in Riverbank, a fictionalized Muscatine, in a Mississippi River town. Pastor David Dean and his wife take up residence in this town, Iowa in the 1850s and learn how unaccepting a small town can be of new residents, even after a stay of decades. An interesting social history of mid nineteenth century life, emphasizing the dominance of crass commercial interests in the vicissitudes...
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- Ellis Parker Butler was an American author in the first half of the 20th century. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, and is most famous for his short story „Pigs is Pigs”. His writing spanned more than forty years and his stories, poems and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. More of this popular author’s fun, a bundle of absurd complications...
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- Another lighthearted tale from American author Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937) which revolves around old Peter Lane, who lives on a decrepit houseboat on the Mississippi River and mostly whiles away his time whittling with his jack-knife and not really doing much else. That is, until one night, a sickly woman knocks at his boat door holding her son in her arms. This encounter...
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- Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was a contemporary of many big names in American fiction straddling the 19th and 20th centuries, but today he’s almost completely forgotten. Butler, the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays. His writing spanned more than forty years and his stories, poems and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. „Perkins of Portland „ are...
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- First published in 1920, „Swatty: A Story of Real Boy” is another breathtaking tale from American author Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937). Butler, the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, is most famous for his short story „Pigs is Pigs” in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea...
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- A thrilling tale for younger ladies who love mysteries by Carolyn Wells. When Dotty Rose moves into the house next door to Dolly Fayre, the two 14 year old girls quickly become friends. We follow them through many of their adventures as they finish 8th grade and start high school. Table of contents: „Two Little Women”, „Two Little Women and Treasure House”, „Two Little Women on a Holiday”. Carolyn...
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- The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the 3rd novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo. Civilization drives old hunter Natty Bumppo (Leatherstocking) west of the Mississippi to the prairies, where he becomes a trapper and helps a band of emigrants in their conflicts with Indians, miscreants, and the harsh environment. We find Hawkeye removed to the uncharted territory which...
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- Fenimore Cooper is known for everyone who were interested in Indians and their life in childhood. Almost everyone knows the name of Cooper’s favorite hero, wandering from novel to novel – Natanael, Bampo. The hero of „The Last of the Mohicans” is Hawkeye. The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans – Uncas, his father Chingachgook, and his adopted half-white brother Hawkeye – live...
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- Pierwsza ciałopozytywna książka dla najmłodszych! Moje ciało, twoje ciało, każdego rodzaju ciało… Wszystkie ciała są dobre! Ciała są super! Ten ciałopozytywny picture book dla najmłodszych czytelników jest celebracją ludzkiego ciała. Pokazuje różne odcienie skóry, kształty ciała, rodzaje włosów, a nawet sposoby poruszania się czy blizny. Ta pełna werwy książka świetnie nadaje się do czytania...
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