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Quick Action – ebook
Robert W. Chambers
This is a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers. Green challenges his friend, the adventure novelist, to show him what can happen to him, that indeed romance is all around us, just waiting for us to notice it. This is the only story that dives into fantasy when Green discovers a girl trying to avoid a fortune teller’s prediction.Data dostępności:
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Michael, Brother of Jerry – ebook
Jack London
Craving for travel, curiosity and a great desire to find his brother made the Irish Terrier Michael to get on board the ship. Friendship with a man helped Michael to survive in a sea voyage, and unusual quick wits made the terrier a welcome prey for sensational hunters. But at any twist of fate, Michael believed that sooner or later he and his brother would be together again.Data dostępności:
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The Pot of Gold and Other Stories – ebook
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
This novel is for those who are looking for a quick and easy read. The Flowers family lived in a small house in a wide grassy meadow that descended a few branches from the front door to a gentle silvery river. Directly across the river stood a lovely dark green mountain, and when a rainbow fell, as it often did, nothing could look more charming than it rose from the opposite bank of the stream against...Data dostępności:
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Koniec lata – ebook
Jayne Ann Krentz
Malownicze i tajemnicze wybrzeże, poszarpane ostrymi klifami kryjącymi mroczne jaskinie, okala Eclipse Bay. To małe miasteczko kryje sekrety tak zdradliwe jak groźny krajobraz, i rywalizacje tak dzikie jak sztorm oceanu. W Eclipse Bay plotki rozchodzą się szybko. Nick Harte nie myślał o tym, zanim zaczął się spotykać z Olivią, piękną właścicielką miejscowej galerii. Teraz całe miasto aż wrze. Bo...Data dostępności:
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Tales of El Borak – ebook
Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard is famous for creating such immortal heroes as Conan the Cimmerian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. Less well-known but equally extraordinary are his non-fantasy adventure stories set in the Middle East and featuring such hero as Francis Xavier Gordon. Texas gunfighter F. X. Gordon traveled the world before settling in 1920s Afghanistan. The Afghans dubbed him „El Borak” for his quick...Data dostępności:
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Dogs of the Captain – ebook
Max Brand
When the character of Cole Lavery first appeared in the 1940’s, readers immediately fell in love with this, which had a surprising smile and a quick gun. And, for the first time in a soft cover, all the stories of Cole Lavery were accumulated in one volume. The events in the book are continuously moving from one adventure to the next, when Cole bites with river pirates and the notorious gangster and...Data dostępności:
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The Trail Driver – ebook
Zane Grey
A great story by „the greatest novelist of the American West”. This one is about the tough men and women who made their living by obtaining herds of cattle and driving them across large territories to be sold. Driving forty-five hundred longhorns is hard enough, but in addition to leading the biggest cattle drive in the history of the Chisholm Trail, Adam Brite and his ten trail-hardened partners have...Data dostępności:
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Some Christmas Stories – ebook
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens’ work is ranked among the finest writing in the Western canon, and the author specialized in seasonal stories to warm the hearts of his adoring fans during the holiday season. Dickens’s relationship with Christmas extends far beyond the success of „A Christmas Carol”, with five short Christmas books and countless slighter stories on a festive theme. In all of them he uses Christmas...Data dostępności:
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An African Millionaire – ebook
Grant Allen
Colonel Cuthbert Clay is a master of disguise and an ingenious con man who sets his sights on the South African Millionaire, Sir Charles Vandrift, a millionaire owner of diamond mines in Africa. Each chapter brings new cringing on the reader’s part as we realize before Charles does that he is about to be a victim anew. As his South African diamond fortune takes hit after hit from the quick-witted master...Data dostępności:
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Arizona Ames – ebook
Zane Grey
This late-period Zane Grey is one of the best of his novels. Rich Ames didn’t set out to be a gunslinger – it was forced on him. After the bad guys try to „ruin” his twin sister Nesta, Ames grabs his pistols and the bloody gunfight follows. Unfortunately, his criminal actions forces him to flee from his beloved Nesta and his happy Tonto Rim home, pursued by the law and vengeful family members. Rich...Data dostępności:
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