Alger: 474 books
by Horatio Alger
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
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Synopsis:
Horatio Alger Jr. (January 13, 1832 - July 18, 1899) was an American writer, best known for his many young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class...
by Horatio Alger
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***
Synopsis:
Paul Palmer was a wide-awake boy of sixteen who supported his mother and sister by selling books and papers on the Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad. He detects a young man in the act of picking the pocket...
Andy Gordon
The Fortunes of a Young Janitor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Our hero is the son of a poor widow. Andy works as a janitor at the local school to earn his education. Andy is an excellent student, which earns him the enmity of fop Herbert Ross, the rich and spoiled son of a wealthy lawyer.
The first episode occurs in the schoolhouse; Andy is sweeping before...
by Horatio Alger
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018
Another tale by Horatio Alger, intended to instruct and encourage young men down the paty of self esteem. Well worth the read.
A Boy's Fortune (Illustrated)
The Strange Adventures of Ben Baker
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
In A Boy's Fortune, Ben Baker, 16, leaves his widowed mother in Connecticut, to seek his fortune in New York City. He goes to New York and takes a job working in his rich uncle's department store, unaware that his uncle made his fortune by robbing Ben's late father. Five years earlier, Ben’s father...
Helping Himself
Grant Thornton's Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
In Alger's books real boys are seen doing honest things and being successful. Helping Himself begins with Deacon Gridley who was a farmer. Gridley had managed to save a little money. His thriftiness meant that he had also hoarded all of the interest. Here our young hero enters the tale.
by Jr. Horatio Alger
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
"Brave and Bold" was the first in a new series of Alger novels published by Loring, and the first in which sex rears its head. Before Brave and Bold, the girls of the hero's age were sisters or simply prop figures. In this new book, Hester Paine, the lovely daughter of Millville's most prominent citizen...
by Horatio Alger, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
When his father can no longer afford to pay for his education, young Andy Grant experiences both good and bad fortune as he tries to make his way in the world. Accused of a theft of jewelry he did not commit, Andy nonetheless loses his first job in New York City. But, believed in by a wealthy real...
Hector's Inheritance
The Boys of Smith Institute
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Hector's Inheritance was published in 1900. It tells the story of Hector Roscoe, whose uncle does everything in his power to cheat Hector out of his rightful inheritance. At the time he was saving his money, Hector regarded himself as the heir and future possessor of a large estate, and had no expectation...
Helping Himself
Grant Thornton's Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Helping Himself: In order to pay his minister father's debts, young Grant postpones his college education to take a job as a Wall Street broker's clerk. When Grant Thornton’s family owes a debt of some $260, Mrs. Thornton decides to sell her pearl necklace and bracelets. She sends Grant to New York...
A Cousin's Conspiracy (Illustrated Edition)
A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
Ernest Ray is a young boy who sets out to reclaim the inheritance that was unjustly with held from his father and given to a cousin, fighting bank robbers and befriending any and all along the way.
This edition of the book contains 13 illustrations that are unique to this edition.
Horatio...
Of Gratitude & Happiness - The Thanksgiving Storybook
60+ Holiday Tales & Poems: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, The Genesis of the Doughnut Club, The Purple Dress, Thankful, The Kingdom Of Greedy, The Night before Thanksgiving, The Master of the Harvest…
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Enjoy this meticulously edited collection, dedicated to the holiday of gratefulness and forgiveness: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen (O....
by Cristina Alger
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
**An Instant New York Times Bestseller
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Banker's Wife, worlds collide when an FBI agent investigates a string of grisly murders on Long Island that raises the impossible question: What happens when the primary suspect is your father?**
FBI...
by William Rounseville Alger
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
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