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This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal… John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars… Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie...

Charlie Durand, Professor of Romance Languages in a western University, had been spending the first weeks of a hard-earned Sabbatical holiday in wandering through Flanders and Belgium, and on the fatal second of August had found himself at Louvain, whose University, a year or two previously, had honoured...

The third and final volume of the popular R. M. stories, this light-hearted and comic novel faithfully captures life in the Irish countryside, focusing on the clash that occurs between the “Resident Magistrate,” Anglo-Irishman Major Yeates, and the customs of various eccentric Irish villagers.

All sorts of toys were to be found in that toy-shop. It was truly a place to please any child! A little girl, who had come to stay there with her aunt—the owner of the shop—and her little cousin, was always to be found amongst the toys; she was forever picking up and admiring this one, stroking that one, nursing another. All her spare moments were spent in the shop.

This book is the only comprehensive bibliography of Canadian folklore in English. The 3877 different items are arranged by genres: folktales; folk music and dance; folk speech and naming; superstitions, popular beliefs, folk medicine, and the supernatural; folk life and customs; folk art and material...

This volume is the first to examine at length and in detail the impact of the missionary experience on American cultural, political, and religious history. This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century...

Old lady, the soft voice called. We just really want a drink of water. Open the door. We know youre in there! Essie Gaudette, widowed and alone in a deteriorating neighborhood, was justifiably afraid of these three street boys whose harrassment was escalating with each encounter. Especially did she...

Tinis People is a true story about real people, her memories of Jews, Poles, Czechs, Germans and Austrians all of whom she thought of as her people form the backbone of this book. The book provides a historical, cultural and social perspective on the life of a Central European Jewish family from...

Story of Girl Scouts and how they learn to compete in canoe races.

There's a young lady here to see you, Linda, announced Miss Emily Carlton, coming into her niece's room the morning after the latter's return from the St. Louis Ground School. The girl had just graduated, winning both commercial and transport licenses, and, besides that, she was registered as the...

THE RECEPTION And it's somewhere there in fairyland – – It's where the rainbow ends!

A story about the Girl Scouts, and how they learn canoeing. This is recommended for young ladies ages 6 to 18 or more. This is a Green Bird Publication of a quality soft cover.

Marjorie Atkinson and her fellow students are settling in for a new school year at Miss Allen's Boarding School. Among the first tasks of the new term is selecting a batch of recruits for the school's elite troop of Girl Scouts. Which of the incoming "freshies" will have what it takes to join the group?