Ernest: 1678 books

"Bless my soul! I nearly forgot," exclaimed Colonel Jinks, as he came back into the store. "Tomorrow is Sam's birthday and I promised Ma to bring him home something for a present. Have you got anything for a boy six years old?" "Let me see," answered the young...

IT was a rugged old tree standing sturdy and big among the slender second-growth. The woodmen had spared it because it was too gnarled and too difficult for them to handle. But the Woodpecker, and a host of wood-folk that look to the Woodpecker for lodgings, had marked and used it for many years....

Volume 1 of 2. Classic contains most of the more common words, plus slang, archaic words and phrases, and common foreign words. Roots are identified, cross-references to words with similar roots are listed and colloquial usages and alternate spellings are given. "Notable for its readable historical discussions, apt citations and jargonless clarity" — Saturday Review.

Volume 2 of 2. Classic contains most of the more common words, plus slang, archaic words and phrases, and common foreign words. Roots are identified, cross-references to words with similar roots are listed and colloquial usages and alternate spellings are given. "Notable for its readable historical discussions, apt citations and jargonless clarity" — Saturday Review.

MY name is Mervington Smythers. I was born in London, but have not had the inestimable advantage of in any way profiting by my short residence in that centre of civilisation, being only some four years old when my parents landed in Sydney. My father was a gentleman, living upon his income,...

A scintillating collection from the award-winning author of The Ice-Cream Makers and Mama Tandoori The vivid characters in these stories share lives marked by coincidences, deeply felt passions, impulsive decisions, and missed opportunities. There's Ezio, a lonely apple-picker dangerously obsessed...

THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY The Home Secretary leant his golf-clubs against a chair. His was the longest face of all. "I am only sorry it should have come now," said Claude apologetically. "Just as we were starting for the links! Our first day, too!" muttered the Home Secretary. "I...

Winner, 2014 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize California Book Awards silver medal for fiction, 2016 *It’s 1981, and thirteen-year-old Roscoe McAdams and his brother and sister have always lived with their parents, Sebastian and Moonstar, in an isolated cabin high on a ridge in California’s northern...

Contenant 12 merveilleux contes pour les enfants. SOUS LE SAULE Le pays autour de la petite ville de Kjoegé, en Seeland, est très-nu. Elle est au bord de la mer ; la mer est toujours une belle chose ; mais le rivage de Kjoegé pourrait être plus beau qu’il n’est. Partout vous...

BnF collection ebooks - "Minuit ; cinq mille personnes dans les salons du palais de l'Élysée ; la fête battait son plein. Une vapeur lourde voilait la flamme des bougies, tremblant effarée dans le cristal des bobèches, sous le coup de vent qui montait du tourbillon des danseurs. Sur les...

BnF collection ebooks - "Le capitaine de vaisseau Yves Kernoël, après une longue suite d'années consacrées tout entières à son pays, jouit, depuis un an, du repos qu'il a si bien mérité par les services rendus à la France, soit comme voyageur armé, comme militaire, soit comme voyageur...

BnF collection ebooks - "Monsieur Fox était un fort honnête homme de chien, barbet de père en fils, qui faisait les délices d'une respectable bonne femme appelée la mère Beloiseau. Par exemple, monsieur Fox n'était pas joli, joli. Pour cela, non ! Mais il était bon. Et, ma foi, qu'on...

10 Contes pour les enfants ..... Le petit ouvrier par Jules Janin . IL était une fois, sous le règne du roi Arthur, une brave femme qui était très-charitable, et qui avait d’autant plus de mérite à l’être qu’elle était pauvre. Pour toute fortune, elle possédait un champ...

When high school girls are being murdered and thrown into the Cape Fear River in a small Southern town, it has all the signs that a serial killer is at work .The murders go unsolved by law enforcement as local corruption and politics come into play. The scenario changes after the daughter of an influential...