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The Tolkien Reader
by J. R. R. TolkienContains Tolkien's Magic Ring, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, Tree and Leaf, Farmer Giles of Ham, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
Blaze and the Lost Quarry (Billy and Blaze #8)
by C. W. AndersonBilly and his pony Blaze like to go on adventures. When Billy goes looking for the lost quarry, he finds "Wolf Rock", a old shack, and a new friend too.
Blaze and Thunderbolt (Billy and Blaze #5)
by C. W. AndersonWhen Billy goes on vacation with his family to western ranch, they bring Blaze, Billy's pony. Billy and Blaze go on adventures and one day, they see Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt is one of the last wild horses, and a beautiful horse at that. No one can catch him. Can Billy teach Thunderbolt that he can be trusted? Will Billy get to ride Thunderbolt?
The Blind Connemara
by C. W. AndersonRhonda is given a beautiful white Connemara show pony that has gone blind after she promises the owner that she is willing to ride him carefully, take care of him, and teach him to trust her. Can they build up enough trust to jump without him seeing what he is jumping? Based on a true story.
Blaze and the Indian Cave (Billy and Blaze #7)
by C. W. AndersonBilly and Blaze head west--but when Blaze is kidnapped, Bill must track down Rattlesnake Joe in order to recover his beloved horse. Blaze and the Indian Cave is part of the classic Billy and Blaze series. Easy-to-read words capture the warmth and special understanding between a boy and his horse.
Blaze and the Gray Spotted Pony (Billy and Blaze #9)
by C. W. AndersonBilly's younger neighbor, Tommy, loves to ride Blaze. But he wants a pony of his own--a real one, not just another toy pony. Then one glorious day, with a little help from Billy and Blaze, Tommy finds the gray spotted pony of his dreams.
Blaze Finds Forgotten Roads (Billy and Blaze #11)
by C. W. AndersonBilly and his friend Tommy often take long rides through the woods and over the hills on their ponies, Blaze and Dusty. One day they decide to explore some of the country they have never seen. They agree to take every right turn they come to and see what they will find. After a day of discoveries, they are lost--but Blaze knows the way home! "Blaze Finds Forgotten Roads" is part of the classic Billy and Blaze series. Sensitive drawings and easy-to-read words capture the warmth and understanding between a boy and his horse.
The Book With No Pictures
by B. J. NovakA book with no pictures, where the person reading has to read out loud has to say all the silly things written in the book. That includes using silly words and singing silly songs.
The Face In the Abyss
by A. MerrittThe tale is brilliant! It is full of weird imagination, marvelous writing, horror, beauty, and it may well be called the most "visual" book ever written for the world of fantasy. It is a grand book with a grand cast of characters. Visualize, if you are able, a monstrous head that cries tears of gold, locked deep in a cavern out of time forgotten. Consider also the incredible, Snake Mother, who is both human and reptilian, and her battle with the thing called the Lord of Evil.
The Diabolical Baron
by Mary Jo PutneyHER ODDS AGAINST HAPPINESS WERE TWO AGAINST ONE There were three men in Caroline Hanscombe's life. One was her father, the angrily imperious Sir Alfred, who ordered her to wed for the wealth he desperately needed, and threatened to blight her beloved sister's chances for happiness if Caroline refused. One was Jason Kincaid, the devastatingly handsome Baron Radford, who made her an offer of marriage for reasons she did not know but could only fear, since he clearly loved another far more fervently than he could love her. And the third was the honorable Captain Richard Davenport, who would never dream of stealing another man's intended bride, no matter how much he wanted her ... or how much she wanted him to....
The Last Express (Duncan Maclain Mystery #1)
by Baynard KendrickWhen a bomb exploded in a New York subway car, killing the assistant D. A., it left a pair of puzzling survivors on the rear seat: two caged white mice. Who had put them there and why? Maybe a blind man could figure it out--if he had the amazing sensory powers of a Duncan Maclain. Captain Duncan Maclain, a blind detective, has a mystery to solve hidden in the labyrinth of New York's subway system. This is the first book in the series that inspired the popular television show "Longstreet."
Ben and Me: A New and Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin as Written by His Good Mouse Amos
by Robert LawsonEver wonder where inventors get their ideas? As it turns out, the great inventor Benjamin Franklin got his best ideas from a mouse named Amos! Funny, interesting and wise, this classic tale has been a favorite for generations. Once you've met Amos and read his account, you'll never think of Ben Franklin-or American history quite the same way. All images described.
The Whistling Hangman (Duncan Maclain Mystery #2)
by Baynard KendrickWhen a wealthy man falls from the balcony of a luxury apartment hotel, blind detective Captain Duncan Maclain and his Seeing Eye dog Schnucke are on the case. Was it suicide or was it murder? This is the second book in the series that inspired the popular television show "Longstreet."
Moss on the North Side
by Sylvia WilkinsonThis is the story of Cary, a half-Indian girl who grows up in a pocket of southern backwoods poverty. It is also the story the indomitable spirit of a child, who, any standards but her own, would have been labelled "deprived." As the illegitimate child of a Cherokee tenant farmer and a white woman of promiscuous habits, Cary suffers--and survives--the special agonies of adolescence devoid of middle-class salves. Early in the book, she is witness to father's death and, bereft, she provides for his body a violent last rite. Outraged by loss, she rejects the livelihood offered by her mother. Withdrawal follows, and her battered emotions drive her to almost demented preoccupation with nature's mistakes, with nature's perversities, with the cruelties and deaths she sees all around her. Yet total loneliness pricks memory, and there remain for Cary lingering images of her Indian grandmother's enduring respect for the land, of her father's affinity with nature and of his natural wisdom. Impulsively, she turns to her only inheritance--a familiarity and rapport with things of the earth--and finds it a rich one. As the title suggests, Cary's ultimate view of life, and of human instinct, is defined for her by the course of nature which she recognizes as more often positive than perverse. In this knowledge, Cary refuses to deprive herself of human love. Written with the pureness of expression and uncompromising verisimilitude of its characters and setting, Moss on the North Side is a first novel of unsettling originality and artless beauty.
Bring Me His Ears
by Clarence E. MulfordThe year is 1840, and young frontiersman Tom Boyd is planning a trip to the Oregon territory. All of that is about to change, because Tom sees a beautiful young woman whom he decides to follow wherever she may go. Her destination is the city of Santa Fe, deep inside the New Mexico territory. Her father, whom she hasn't seen in five years, conducts a trading operation there and she plans to go with her Uncle Joe who is taking several wagonloads of trade goods to his brother. Santa Fe, New Mexico, is the last place Tom Boyd should consider visiting, because the leading dignitary of that city has a vengeful grudge against him, and wants him either as a captive, or he wants his minions to "BRING ME HIS EARS"! The Mexican-American War is still six years in the future, and the 13-day battle of The Alamo is four years in the past, and Boyd decides against all reason to travel to Santa Fe as the silent protector of the young woman. Several of Boyd's mountaineer friends decide to accompany him, and adventure follows adventure as they head for the New Mexico territory.
North of Nowhere (Alex McKnight Series #4)
by Steve HamiltonPrivate detective fiction set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
A Pillar of Iron
by Taylor CaldwellTaking us back to Rome in its greatest period--the time of Caesar and Pompey--Taylor Caldwell has written her most poignant story that unfolds as Roman democracy faces its own inexorable decay. Its hero is Cicero--Marcus Tullius Cicero, the pillar of iron, the brilliant and idealistic lawyer, dramatically but precariously devoted to the defense of a nation and republic on trial.
Glory and the Lightning
by Taylor CaldwellLike Romeo and Juliet, and Tristan and Isolde, there was Pericles and Aspasia. Set in ancient Persia and Greece, this novel is based on the life of Aspasia, the beautiful and intelligent courtesan who eventually became the companion of Pericles, ruler of Athens. Follow their paths, starting from their lives apart until they meet and become star-crossed lovers. It's a love story that has endured for millennia.
Odor of Violets (Duncan Maclain Mystery #3)
by Baynard KendrickA paragraph in a gossip column causes two violent deaths... and all sorts of odd clues lead Captain Duncan Maclain, the brilliant private detective who is totally blind, on his next a strange and spectacular case. The third mystery in the series that inspired the popular television show "Longstreet."