Frank V. Webster was one of the early 20th century's most prolific authors of kids adventure books and Westerns, but that was due in large part to the fact that Frank V. Webster was actually many authors. Using Webster's name as a pseudonym, the Stratemeyer Syndicate published a number of books tailor made for boys, and they are still popular today.

"A Knight of the Cumberland" from John Fox, Jr.. American journalist and novelist (1862-1919). The scenes are laid along the waters of the Cumberland, the lair of moonshiner and of feudsman. The knight is a moonshiner's son, and the heroine a beautiful girl perversely christened "The Blight." Two impetuous young Southerners' fall under the spell of "The Blight's" charms and she learns what a large part jealousy and pistols have in the love making of the mountaineers.,

A collection of letters from Darcy to her brother Jay, and the letter Joy wrote him.All the letter Darcy wrote to her brother after her move to New York, and the letter Joy wrote him when she had given up on getting better. Darcy writes to her brother in several letters, discussing various things like love, life and family. When she's sick, and giving up on getting better, Joy writes a letter to Jay on the off chance she doesn't get better.

Ahmed, son of Rahmut Khan, chief of the village of Shagpur, was making his lonely way through the hills some three miles above his home. He could see the walled village perched on a little tract of grassy land just where the base of the hills met the sandy plain. It was two thousand feet or more below him, and he could almost count the flat-topped houses clustered beyond his father's tower, which, though actually it rose to some height above them, dominating them, and affording an outlook over miles and miles of the plain, yet appeared to Ahmed, at his present altitude, merely a patch in the general level.

It was past midnight when he was awakened by the familiar clatter of boulders down the grade, the usual simulation of a wild rush from without that encompassed the whole mill, even to that heavy impact against the door, which he had heard once before. In this he recognized merely the ordinary phenomena of his experience, and only turned over to sleep again. But this time the door rudely fell in upon him, and a figure strode over his prostrate body, with a gun leveled at his head. In a Hollow of the Hills by Bret Harte is a classic adventure story. The very first scene, which takes place in a valley, prepares the readers for the ensuing events. The riders seem to be unable to move ahead as the visibility is very low. The opening dialogue makes it clearer that the dialect is purely American, mostly used by the farmers, cowboys, and riders in the Western America. The setting and the ambiance created by the author is highly emphatic, for the supporting narration and the accompanying dialogue add to the realism. If you rejoice in reading pure American classics, this is the book for you, in fact, most of the novels and stories written by Bret Harte are there to delight you. He was born in Albany, New York, as Francis Brett Hart. He was named after his great-grandfather Francis Brett, and his family name was Hart. When he was young his father changed the spelling of the family name from Hart to Harte. Later, Francis preferred to be known by his middle name, but he spelled it with only one "t", becoming Bret Harte. He moved to California in 1853, later working there in a number of capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist. He spent part of his life in the northern California coastal town of Union (now known as Arcata), a settlement on Humboldt Bay that was established as a provisioning center for mining camps in the interior.

It's 2097 and teens can fledge and grow wings. Fifteen year old Prissi Langue loves flying, school and her friends. However, after Prissi finds pictures of her dead mother with the man who invented fledging, she begins an investigation that uncovers long hidden secrets. Suddenly, it seems like everyone wants Prissi dead. Can Prissi fly far enough and fast enough to escape her enemies?Why is everyone trying to kill Prissi Langue? It's 2097 and teens can fledge and grow wings as they go through puberty. Fifteen year old Prissi has been having fun flying, goofing with her BFF Nancy, and stirring up arguments with her NQB (not quite boyfriend) Joe Fflowers. Despite her mother's death three years before, her dad's unending and very depressing grief, and Joe's threats to run away from school to avoid fledging, Prissi's life is pretty good.That is, until Prissi meets Joshua Fflowers, the man who invented fledging and one of the world's richest men. Intrigued with Joshua Fflowers, Prissi does some research and finds a picture of him with someone who looks just like her mother--except that her name is different and her dad professes to know nothing about it. As Prissi investigates, she meets a man who worked with her mother on some radical meta-mutational research a half-century before. Intrigued, Prissi keeps investigating and before she knows it her good life is gone. The chase is on. Over the skies of Manhattan, into the bowels of the drowned subway system, across the wasteland of eastern Long Island, the question becomes can Prissi fly fast enough and far enough to elude all the people who are trying to kill her?

The second in a series of short stories about the I.S.S. Fenghuang, the last faster-than-light starship in the galaxy. In this volume, Governor Caitlin Adair struggles with her place among the crew while they investigate an isolated solar mining platform.The Heilmann Drive allowed humanity to spread across the stars and prosper for nearly two thousand years. But when the use of the device begins to eat into the fabric of the universe, the People's Interstellar Republic bans all faster-than-light travel. A new age begins, one of isolation and stagnation, and becomes known as the Fall.One rebel, Captain Seth Garland, steals the last starship in existence. He is now mankind's only hope of re-uniting the stars.Dobhriathar: As Caitlin tries to figure out how she fits in aboard the ISS Fenghuang, the rebel crew visits an ancient solar mining station in search of materials to improve the ship. There, they discover an abandoned mining team that has been stuck on the station since the beginning of the Fall.

Cases collide for two star crossed ladies of law enforcement!Customs Special Agent Dana Rossi and semi-rural Ohio county Sheriff Melissa 'Mel' Crane are each working critical cases that seem to be related. Can they get along together long enough to solve them both and will their undeniable feelings for each other be allowed to grow or will the two ladies fight each other every step of the way?Cases collide for two star crossed ladies of law enforcement! Customs Special Agent Dana Rossi was forced to start her life anew after a bad breakup with her former girlfriend and the loss of job that she loved. These days, she spends life on the road, moving from one case to another until one day when runs run right into the path of Sheriff Mel Crane. The feisty, sexy butch cop is as determined to uncover a counterfeiting ring in her county as Agent Rossi becomes to stop a stalker obsessed with Mel and hot for her company. Dana is under the added pressure of conducting an undercover investigation of her own with a tight deadline: finding and then stopping a ring of smugglers bringing high end designer knock-offs into the states. Could their cases be related? When repeated vicious attacks on Mel and on her home accelerate the danger for her and also their attraction to each other, they become desperate to find the truth and solve the two mysteries. Can they find a way to work together to resolve both cases while coming to terms with their growing feelings for one another? Can Dana move beyond her jilted lover past and find true happiness with a small town Sheriff?

When a wealthy, bad boy client offers real estate agent Paige Knight the opportunity to escape her humdrum life and follow her dream of becoming an artist, she jumps at his offer. But doing so unwittingly puts herself, and her husband, in the hands of the sadist, Nicholas Steele, a body modification and tattoo artist who sees Paige as the perfect canvas to receive his next masterwork.A World of Verse is the first collection of poetry produced by poets of the Authors' Social Media Support Group (ASMSG). Twenty-One poets, representing dozens in the Writer's Circle of ASMSG, pour their hearts, souls, and imaginations into over sixty poems ranging from the anguish of loneliness and the despair of loss to the joy of belonging and the rapture of love. Feel the passion for life within these pages as we celebrate this inaugural collection. More will follow. The poets represented herein are: Alan HardyAndy SzpukB.L. RonanBryan PaulDebra ParmleyIan Bradley MarshallJames AmoatengKarena MarieLaurie KazmierczakLucy PireelMurielle CyrOllie LambertOscar Wager IIPeter Watson JenkinsRegina PuckettShannon McRobertsSteven HarzTeresa Amehana GarciaTeresa Joseph FranklinYelle HughesWe hope you enjoy this labor of love, and pass the passion along.

Jose, Zoe, Tanya, and Corben are four friends struggling in gym class. They don't mind until they get their mid-term report cards, all full of C's, D's, and F's. Jose doesn't mind his F, but he's sick of being out of shape. Tired of being left behind at his family's yearly hiking trip, he's determined to get in shape, and also pass gym class.Jose comes up with a plan... will they pass gym class?Jose, Zoe, Tanya, and Corben are four friends struggling in gym class. They don’t mind it so much until they get their mid-term report cards—all full of C’s, D’s, and F’s! Jose doesn’t mind his F so much, but he’s sick and tired of being out of shape. Tired of being left behind at his family’s yearly hiking trip, he’s determined to get in shape, and also pass gym class.Jose comes up with a plan to help the group reach their personal fitness goals while raising their grades at the same time. To pass the class, they have to finish a mile-run in under an hour. Will they be able to reach their goals AND pass the class?This short story is less than 2,000 words—a quick, entertaining read :-)

When Kim and David go house hunting, they’re hoping for a Once in a Lifetime Opportunity. But is their relationship strong enough to survive the rigours of house hunting in the gentrified suburbs of Wellington?Local pub owner Jemima Jane Ericson is living a lie. She’s been in love with her best friend Ethan since forever. But he fell in love with another woman, married her, and despite their tempestuous relationship and decade old divorce, JJ knows Ethan’s heart is still down for the count. And friendship is better than nothing, right?Single dad and Jumbuck Springs chief of police, Ethan Weston, hits the pub the night his ex-wife remarries and announces she wants custody of their daughter. When he wakes the next morning to find himself in JJ’s bed he’s mortified that they’d crossed a line they should never have crossed. Until JJ’s abusive ex, Shane, shows up at her door and Ethan claims he and JJ are engaged to protect her.Both are stunned by the unravelling of their normally sane lives but suddenly it makes sense – JJ gets a deterrent and Ethan gets the respectability of a wife for any custody claims. But when JJ’s life is threatened, Ethan is forced to confront feelings that may just run much deeper than convenience…

What if one of history's (cough) less-fortunate heroes got a second chance? All sugar-and-spice, adventurous Crusa is once again in the embrace of her aunt's magical kitchen. Her family (or at least, one side of it) is thrilled, because (finally!) they can throw her a most-advantageous wedding. Her escapades get a rough start, as her not-quite-fairy godparents get her a bodyguard, the fiery Lium.Fate's funny. It begins with an unwritten recipe... Back from military school, adventurous dreamer Crusa is once again in the embrace of her aunt's magical kitchen. Her whole family (or at least, one side of it) is thrilled, because (finally!) they can throw her a most-advantageous wedding. Crusa has fun with the rough, easily frustrated man who she likes to refer to as the "babysitter guy" (to everyone but him, of course). Little does she know, the playful, thrill-seeking Lium and his moody brother Hale are fighting to hold their own against both sides of her feuding family. They're joined by a rambunctious cast of characters revived from ancient myths and colorful New England legends. At its heart, the story of a girl, her family, her friends, and her island. Quick wit and slick talk spur Crusa's story to a wild conclusion with equal parts humor and heart through this spirited family drama.

An inspired story about the Man Who Listens - and the troubled strangers who seek comfort within his sanctuary. Through their very human experiences Miss Caldwell illuminates the spiritual crises of our time and brings into triumphant focus the power of faith in a world that puts faith in power. This dramatic and modern novel is a book for everyone in search of courage and peace of mind.

What would you do with rational thought in a world ruled by instinct?What do you do when you realise you are the first creature to become self-aware?‘My father paid dearly for my education. He will pay yet more…’Some might say that a princess always has an easy life. But what value is an easy life if the price is freedom? Princess Zahrah takes the weapons she has - her intelligence, her education and her beauty - to embrace her own destiny.

The history of the Buddha and his teachings is not static, but is meant to be made fluid through the practice and of his teachings and values. In The Temptation of the Buddha: A Fictional Study in the History of Religion and of Aesthetics, Sonny Saul reinterprets the ancient Vedas to fully transmit the profound, aesthetic fluidity and meaning of the ancient narrative.The history of the Buddha and his teachings is not static, but is meant to be made fluid through the practice and of his teachings and values. In The Temptation of the Buddha: A Fictional Study in the History of Religion and of Aesthetics Sonny Saul reinterprets the ancient Vedas to fully transmit the profound, aesthetic fluidity and meaning of the ancient narrative.Saul, “Over a broad portion of the world, at a time during which this story takes place, the source of ritual began to change. Old rituals began to be reinterpreted and man began, more and more, to create his own rituals.” It is in this spirit of reinterpretation and rediscovery that Saul creates a visual, lyrical, and theatrical view of the Buddha’s life and his relationship with the three goddesses, Desire, Regret, and Fulfillment, and their wise and clever father, Kama Mara, originally sent to tempt him.With his description of the legend of Gotama Siddhartha, Saul brings alive the image of Buddha as the ascetic figure not yet enlightened, and shapes the reader’s sense of the Buddha’s inner dialogue, “sitting there under the tree … cross-legged, in meditative posture ... absorbed in the bliss of inner experience.”Saul portrays the Buddha’s fictional conversations with the goddesses and Kama Mara as playful, warm, and literary, which in turn successfully reveals the true role of each character in shaping the Buddha’s spiritual, physical, and philosophical journey, and allows the reader to engage in an intimate dialogue with the Buddha as friend, protagonist, and teacher.Saul, “I have imagined, for the first time, Kama Mara’s daughters as individuals, each with a role to play in the education of Gotama Siddhartha, who became the Buddha. The lore of Buddhism is rich in ‘conversations.’ Zen Buddhism especially takes up this genre to great effect. Authenticity is not of concern. Somewhat like collective dreaming, or as we have suggested, collective novel writing, conversations have suggested themselves and remained in literature. I wish to add just a few.”The reader is made to feel that they are living in the time of the Buddha in Aryavarta, “Daytime winds blow dust, giving the sky a brassy color. Concentration becomes difficult. Intensive work is not a possibility. Midday hours are times of peace and quiet, as most people seek refuge from the sun. Virtually everyone sleeps out of doors.”Through his use of “program notes” Saul guides the reader through “the imagining of the scene, setting, character, and story,” and encourages readers to draw parallels between the vivid history of the Buddha and art in all its forms. Readers who wish to explore the relationship between religion, aesthetics, literature, historical truth, experience, and individual spirituality will benefit greatly from the ideas outlined by Saul in this volume.The book features quotes from the writings of Leo Tolstoy, William Blake, Frederick Nietzsche, Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, Herman Melville, de Cervantes, Gore Vidal, Aldous Huxley, Marcel Proust, Henry Miller, and Dante, references to the music of Miles Davis, Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven, commentary on the philosophies of Plato, Socrates, and Karl Marx, and an aesthetic analysis the art of Vincent Van Gogh, Renoir, Goya, and Giorgione.

There is more to a butterfly, as we engage in this short story Jezzabell says her final goodbye to Uncle Cherrome, yet she is not alone as Krome and Kimberley want to pinch the key, so powerful and special, from his coffin. As Cherome's coffins flies into the clouds the key becomes a part of Jezzabell.“Where is the key? I can’t find it,” Kimberley went on her knees and started to lift the flowers.“I don’t know. Perhaps we have to price it open,” he laughed. “No, I am not looking at the butterfly,” Kimberley shook the bits of flower that had stuck to her fingers.“Shush, lets hide she’s coming back,” he said. “Oh, no, It’s Jezzabell,” Kimberley held his hand and they hid behind the between the patch of clover and dandelion heads.Jezzabell, the same young women who did not have the chance to say goodbye to her uncle sat down next to the coffin. She pulled her own white wings off her back, pulled out a long piece of white ribbon. She tied the left wing onto the ribbon and wound the ribbon around the coffin. She did the same thing for the other wing and then she tied the remaining piece of ribbon into a bow. “Good bye Uncle Cherrome,” she cried. The wings began to flutter up and down, in and out and then, the coffin began to rise.“She’s taking our key away from us,” Kimberley whispered.There is more to a butterfly, as we engage in this short story Jezzabell says her final goodbye to Uncle Cherrome, yet she is not alone as Krome and Kimberley want to pinch the key, so powerful and special, from his coffin. As Cherome's coffins flies into the clouds the key becomes a part of Jezzabell. Jezzabell does not know what it means but for the other two they really want it , Krome can not wait to get his hands on the key as for Limberly stops him. For she has other ways to retrieve the key. Later on in the week Jezzabell comes face to face with a few humans, Daniel and Slinks. Has the butterfly world already molded with the human world, maybe there was only one world they all lived in. Slinks accuses her of being an angel. Jezzabell tells them who she is, Daniel begins to fall for her and they help her reach Fryl harbour where Kimberley her aunts loyal friend is waiting for her, but after the lads head back, her aunt's friend lures her into a trap, leading to her families enermy, Krome. The master of Butterflies who seeks to destroy her in order to get he key. A key so special that he can bring powerfull demons into the human world. Will Daniel and Slinks reach her before he kills her?

In the year 6421 AD, with only a thousand years left to humanity’s existence, Savannah and Kenneth are pulled forward into the year 7245 to answer a riddle that could save mankind. As young as they are, the fate of humanity lies in their hands...TRAPPED IN TIMESTRANDED IN THE FUTUREIn the year 6421 AD, reasons for humanity’s extinction remain unknown to the government and future historians alike. In an era where time travel is possible, historians and journeymen have been forbidden from exploring that time period for any purpose whatsoever.Nobody knows what will cause human extinction, and nobody has a clue.But with only a thousand years left to humanity’s existence, an frenetic kind of curiosity spurred the constabulary's highest officials to agree that the future has to be known. No matter how proven it is that nothing in the events of the past can change the future, historians cling onto the fact that a theoretical Zeta Disruption may exist.The Zeta Disruption, according to temporal theory, is a person—or animal—capable of changing the future. The Zeta Disruption can change the entire course of humanity.Savannah Proehl and Kenneth Yardrow are pulled forward into the year 7245 to do exactly just that. They are given the rare chance to make a positive change to the world by discovering the causes of human destruction and answering a mysterious riddle.But as young as they are, even they themselves are unsure if they can fulfill this gargantuan task. Still, the fate of humanity lies in their hands and it is up to them to save humanity from its demise.Will they be able to unearth the truth? Will they be able to save the humans from obliteration?Only one way to find out….If you wish to read more, download now!BONUS PREVIEW FOR NEXT STORY IF YOU BUY THIS BOOK!EXCERPTEven after hearing the riddle, Savannah Proehl hadn't been able to make much sense of it, other than to figure out the number fourteen was important to her mission to save the world. After getting the Soonseen's Lonnan Nation to cease firing at a ship from their Kinnan Nation, President Kunan Slaan had asked her to stick around in the future for a while.The problem of the human race dying out as a result of Hinjo Junta's actions had remained. Though the immediate danger from deflected energy beams striking the planet had passed, Savannah found that she could not return home as soon as she wanted.She sat in the president's mansion in Jakarta. President Slaan had placed her in a room with three walls and several panes of glass connected to each other to form one great transparent wall. The evening sun streamed in through the glass, shining upon her braided hair which lay over one shoulder.An empty white can lie before her on a glass table. The can had once contained the same kind of gray nutrients she had eaten in Alexandria. She wouldn't call it food, not since she had come to regard it as little better than puppy chow.President Slaan had promised to bring her food from the Temporal Constabulary. The nearest constabulary base lay in Okinawa, which was further away from Jakarta....Download and discover why readers follow CARL JOHNSON.Scroll up and get the book now!