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The Spoilers – ebook
Rex Beach
The protagonist is Roy Glenister, a young and ambitious man who has been exploring for three years with his partner, an elderly man named Dextri. Their Midas mine is one of the richest in the area. Returning by boat from Seattle, where they spent the winter, they learn that their lawsuit is being contested in court, and until the lawsuit is settled, Midas is under the control of lawyer Alec McNama...Data dostępności:
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Jerusalem – ebook
Selma Lagerlöf
Jerusalem är en roman i två delar av den svenska författarinnan Selma Lagerlöf. Jerusalem utspelar sig i Dalarna och i Jerusalem under 1800-talet, där man får följa några människor och deras närstående under flera år. Selma Lagerlöf skriver om många olika personer ur olika generationer, bland annat om dem som lever på den stora Ingmarsgården, där man får bekanta sig med deras, inte alltid så okomplicerade,...Data dostępności:
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Fighting Stars – ebook
H.A. Cody
Although Charles Stanfield was a wealthy man he was far from happy. Everything that money could buy was at his command. He had merely to give the order and it would be fulfilled without delay. From a worldly point of view he was an outstanding example of a prosperous man who had fought his way to the top of the ladder of success. By many he was admired for his keen business qualities; by others he...Data dostępności:
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Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road – ebook
Edward Lytton Wheeler
„Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or The Black Rider of the Black Hills” is a fun shoot-’em-up-cowboy book, rather than a serious western but the entertainment value is just as high. They called him Deadwood Dick, the Prince of The Road, the Black Rider of the Black Hills of Dakota. He was as famous for a time as Wild Bill Hickok or Buffalo Bill. It is the story of gold-seekers, settlers and criminals...Data dostępności:
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Jack Chanty – ebook
Hulbert Footner
In this tightly plotted novel, we follow the bizarre career of a man who loathes criminals. After Humphrey Challoner finds his wife killed by the bullet of a robber in his home, he vows to catch the man. Mr. Challoner is a wealthy savant, and he saved the fingerprints of the robber as well as some of the robber’s strange hair which Challoner’s wife had in her hand. For twenty years Humphrey hunts for...Data dostępności:
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The Rangeland Avenger – ebook
Max Brand
If you enjoy a fast moving Western dealing with vengeance and well-deserved payback, you’ll like "The Rangeland Avenger" by Max Brand. When Riley Sinclair heads into the town of Sour Creek to seek vengeance for the death of his brother, he doesn’t expect any trouble given his reputation and his skills with a gun. He is not prepared for Cold Feet, however, a man locally known for his abject lack of...Data dostępności:
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Champion of Lost Causes – ebook
Max Brand
Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This is one of his novels. Our adventuring hero has just partaken of a poker game where he has seen a man lose heavily. Intrigued, and possessing an adventurous nature, our hero, Loring, is compelled to follow the man. This leads him to...Data dostępności:
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Godfrey Morgan – ebook
Jules Verne
Godfrey Morgan, the young nephew of „a strikingly rich man” William Kolderup and his future heir, believes that his life is extremely boring. He would like to fill her with adventures and travels, and is not going to marry – as his uncle wants – without having made at least a trip around the world. Mr. Kolderup is a resourceful and wise man, and, thinking, he agrees to Godfrey’s venture. Uncle William...Data dostępności:
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The God of His Fathers and Other Stories – ebook
Jack London
A white man bought an Indian woman as a wife. Bought without any romantic feelings, bought for help. The girl did her job: cooked, fed dogs, paved the way for teams. And the point is not in servile worship of the master, but in the fact that she saw in her husband an honest and courageous man trying to save other people from hunger and cold. They hoped for him, and she, at the cost of her life, helped...Data dostępności:
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The Faith of Men and Other Stories – ebook
Jack London
This is a situation when a person is faced with the inevitability of a terrible painful death. A choice arises before him, which is worse: to accept a painful end, clinging to life until the last breath, or to die voluntarily. This story is not about man’s courage, but about his weakness for money, his passion for profit. And such a passion destroys man in man. And then there is nothing left but money....Data dostępności:
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