Edith: 1347 books

Contents Linda Carlton, Air Pilot Linda Carlton's Island Adventure Linda Carlton's Ocean Flight The Mary Lou Series The Mystery at Dark Cedars (1935) The Mystery of the Fires (1935) The Mystery of the Secret Band The Girl Scouts Series The Girl Scouts' Good Turn (1922)

Intrepid amateur detective Mary Louise Gay is at it again in this thoroughly enjoyable mystery geared for younger readers. What starts out as a pleasant, month-long sojourn at a rustic house on the Hudson River turns into an investigation when strange occurrences begin to pique the curiosity of this persistent sleuth.

A story of Girl Scouts at school.  Miss Lavell has written a number of tales about Girl Scouts.

"My girl, you are in perfect physical condition," announced pleasant-faced Dr. Ginsley, who had served as the Carlton family physician for years. "I can't picture anybody in more radiant health." "I thought so," smiled Linda Carlton, the pretty aviatrix who had...

Teenage detective Mary Louise Gay has cracked a few cases on her own, and her father -- a skilled detective himself -- has recognized her innate investigative talents. When he asks Mary Louise to help him get to the bottom of a series of thefts at a hotel, she jumps at the chance. Though written with...

Seven short stories from one of the most celebrated authors of the early twentieth century have been updated with an eye toward readability for modern readers. The bones of the stories are just as she told them with no changes to plot or settings. Best of all the book includes the original unedited...

What starts out as a tranquil holiday in the family vacation home in upstate New York soon turns into an exciting foray into journalism for the enterprising Weldon family. Patsy, Beth, and Louise quickly become restless with the life of leisure and decide to start a newspaper. But the locals take a narrow view of this gutsy move, and before long, the Weldon family finds itself under attack.

Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, and unmarried at 29. In her search for a husband with money and position she betrays her own heart and sows the...

IN the surgical ward of the Hope Hospital at Hanaford, a nurse was bending over a young man whose bandaged right hand and arm lay stretched along the bed.

A gentle tale of romance and art from a noted children's author . . . "He asked idle questions: she answered them with a conscientious tremulous truthfulness that showed to him as the most finished art. Betty told him nervously and in words ill-chosen everything that he asked to know, but all...

This book will introduce the reader to a remarkable people who have much to teach us about the skills of coping in the world that confronts us . There are many life lessons to be learned through these glimpses into their daily struggles. In these pages the author hopes you will come to appreciate...

Originally published in 1903, The Descent of Man and Other Stories is an early collection of short fiction that isn't held together by any particular theme. Of all the stories perhaps the most interesting for technical reasons is The Lady's Maid's Bell, a ghost story that incorporates a distinctly unreliable...