Pearl Zane Grey was best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that were a basis for the Western genre in literature and the arts, but he also wrote two hunting books, six children's books, three baseball books, and eight fishing books.
After failing to tempt him to their own vices, Santa is kidnapped from the Laughing Valley by the five Daemons of the Caves (Daemons of Selfishness, Envy, Hatred, Malice, and Repentance) on Christmas Eve.
Despite her impoverished background, Rebecca is an imaginative and charming child, often composing little poems and songs to express her feelings or to amuse her younger brothers and sisters.
There she sits, a trifle loppy and loose-jointed, looking me squarely in the face in a straightforward, honest manner, a twinkle where her shoe-button eyes reflect the electric light.
Born into a family that is already engaged in a blood feud with another noble house, Otto is sent to live with monks, but is reclaimed at age 12 by his militant, but loving father.
Ken Ward encounters mustangs he must ride, a pack of hounds the likes of which he had never seen before, Native Americans who he comes to appreciate with a new awareness, and landscape so wild and primitive it takes the breath away in the Grand Canyon.
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Tom Swift Omnibus #8 contains a quartet of stories: In the twenty-second of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom hits upon the idea of a silent airplane engine, and continues his war effort focus.
Tom Swift Omnibus #7 contains a trio of stories: In the nineteenth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom lends a hand to a Peruvian construction project, and develops a new blasting powder.
Tom Swift Omnibus #6 contains a trio of stories: In the sixteenth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom and his father go in search of treasure along the Panama canal, and Tom develops a new type of artillary.
Tom Swift Omnibus #5 contains a trio of stories: In the thirteenth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom is sent to procure a South American giant for a circus sideshow act.
Tom Swift Omnibus #4 contains a trio of stories: In the tenth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom goes hunting for ivory in Africa, and encounters an adventurer who is trying to rescue a captured missionary team.
Tom Swift Omnibus #3 contains a trio of stories: In the seventh of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom goes in search of man-made diamonds, but winds up captured and held prisoner.
Tom Swift Omnibus #2 contains a trio of stories: In the fourth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom and his father, Barton Swift, race to build a submersible for the chance at a government prize, but must face off agaist a rival firm in pursuit of sunken treasure.
Tom Swift Omnibus #1 contains a trio of stories: In the first of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom repairs a wrecked motorcycle, then uses it to deliver some improtant patents to a lawyer on behalf of his father, Barton Swift.
In the twenty-fifth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom is employed to design and build an an electric locomotive with exacting specifications, but competitive forces introduce both crime and crisis.
In the twenty-second of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom hits upon the idea of a silent airplane engine, and continues his war effort focus.
In the nineteenth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom lends a hand to a Peruvian construction project, and develops a new blasting powder.
In the seventeenth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom develops a precursor to twenty-first-century communication methods, and must use his invention to track down a group of unscrupulous financial manipulators.
In the sixteenth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom and his father go in search of treasure along the Panama canal, and Tom develops a new type of artillary.
In the fourteenth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom is engaged to construct an electric motion-picture camera and gather newsreel footage.
In the eleventh of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom once goes hunting for Mexican treasure, supposedly protected by a tribe of head hunters.
In the tenth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom goes hunting for ivory in Africa, and encounters an adventurer who is trying to rescue a captured missionary team.