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Who's the best friend you could ever have? An irresistible bandit named Rascal. Skunks, woodchucks, a crow named Poe, an absentminded father, and an 18-foot canoe filling the living room-welcome to the North home! Rascal is only a baby when Sterling brings him home to join the menagerie. But soon the mischievous raccoon is ready to join Sterling in swimming, fishing, and camping excursions. They're partners and best friends for a perfect year of adventure - until the spring day when suddenly everything changes.

After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud of the Devil’s Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enthusiastically invests in goods that he will offer for trade in America. But Sackett has a powerful enemy: Rupert Genester, nephew of an earl, wants him dead. A battlefield promise made to Sackett’s father threatens Genester’s inheritance. So on the eve of his departure for America, Sackett is attacked and thrown into the hold of a pirate ship. Genester’s orders are for him to disappear into the waters of the Atlantic. But after managing to escape, Sackett makes his way to the Carolina coast. He sees in the raw, abundant land the promise of a bright future. But before that dream can be realized, he must first return to England and discover the secret of his father’s legacy.

It was the only water for miles in a vast, sun-blasted desert where water meant survival. So Logan Cates naturally headed for Papago Wells. But he wasn’t the only one. Fleeing the fierce Churupati and his Apache warriors, other travelers had come there too. And when the Apaches found them, they began a siege as relentless and unforgiving as the barren land…and just as inescapable.

Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If The Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then The Odyssey is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.

Having grown old living in his shantyboat on the Big Sandy River in eastern Kentucky, John engages in a final battle with Scrapiron Jack, the huge catfish he has been trying to catch for years.

Macon Fallon had never needed more than a deck of cards, a fast horse, and a ready gun; he was counting on those things now as he led an unsuspecting group of settlers to an abandoned mining town. But while Fallon prepared to pass the ghost town off as a gold mine in the making, a funny thing happened: a real-life community started to take shape in the town he’d christened Red Horse. So when a band of vicious outlaws and a kid who fancied himself a gunslinger threatened to rip Red Horse apart, Fallon found himself caught in one predicament he’d never gambled on. He had come to Red Horse to make a quick fortune, but now he might have to pick up a gun and risk his life for a place he never wanted to call home.…

Laura Ingalls and her family are heading to Kansas! Leaving behind their home in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, they travel by covered wagon until they find the perfect spot to build a little house on the prairie. Laura and her sister Mary love exploring the rolling hills around their new home, but the family must soon get to work, farming and hunting and gathering food for themselves and for their livestock. Just when the Ingalls family starts to settle into their new home, they find themselves caught in the middle of a conflict. Will they have to move again?

The nine books in the timeless Little House series tell the story of Laura’s real childhood as an American pioneer, and are cherished by readers of all generations. They offer a unique glimpse into life on the American frontier, and tell the heartwarming, unforgettable story of a loving family.

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Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the twentieth century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms give authentic color to Little Britches. So do adventures, wonderfully told, that equip Ralph to take his father's place when it becomes necessary.

Here is a deluxe gift-box edition of L.M. Montgomery's classic stories about one of the most beloved fictional heroines of all time--Anne of Green Gables.

This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:
Novels:
A Search for a Secret
All But Lost
Out on the Pampas
The Young Franc-Tireurs
The Young Buglers
The Cornet of Horse
In Times of Peril
Facing Death, The Hero of the Vaughan Pit
Winning His Spurs
Friends Though Divided
Jack Archer
Under Drake's Flag
By Sheer Pluck
With Clive in India
In Freedom's Cause
St. George For England
True to the Old Flag
The Young Colonists
The Dragon and the Raven
For Name and Fame
The Lion of the North
Through the Fray
The Bravest of the Brave
A Final Reckoning
The Young Carthaginian
With Wolfe in Canada
Bonnie Prince Charlie
For the Temple
In the Reign of Terror
Orange and Green
Captain Bayley's Heir
The Cat of Bubastes
The Curse of Carne's Hold
The Lion of St. Mark
By Pike and Dyke
One of the 28th
With Lee in Virginia
By England's Aid
By Right of Conquest
Chapter of Adventures
Maori and Settler
The Dash For Khartoum
Held Fast for England
Redskin and Cowboy
Beric the Briton
Condemned as a Nihilist
In Greek Waters
Rujub, the Juggler
Dorothy's Double
A Jacobite Exile
Saint Bartholomew's Eve
Through the Sikh War
In the Heart of the Rockies
When London Burned
A Girl of the Commune
Wulf The Saxon
A Knight of the White Cross
Through Russian Snows
The Tiger of Mysore
At Agincourt
On the Irrawaddy
The Queen's Cup
With Cochrane the Dauntless
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret
A March on London
With Frederick the Great
With Moore at Corunna
Among Malay Pirates
At Aboukir and Acre
Both Sides the Border
The Golden Cañon
The Stone Chest
The Lost Heir
Under Wellington's Command
In the Hands of the Cave Dwellers
No Surrender
A Roving Commission
Won by the Sword
In the Irish Brigade
Out With Garibaldi
With Buller in Natal
At the Point of the Bayonet
To Herat and Cabul
With Roberts to Pretoria
The Treasure of the Incas
With Kitchener in the Soudan
With the British Legion
Through Three Campaigns
With the Allies to Pekin
By Conduct and Courage
Short Stories
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