Wds Publishing: 369 books

Cover of Owners Up
by W.A. Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013

CLATAWA had put racing in Walla Walla in cold storage. You can't have any kind of sport with one individual, horse or man, and Clatawa had beaten everything so decisively that the gamblers sat down with blank faces and asked, "What's the use?" Horse racing had been a civic...
Cover of Ken Ward in the Jungle
by Zane Grey
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013

"What a change from the Arizona desert!" The words broke from the lips of Ken Ward as he leaned from the window of the train which was bearing his brother and himself over the plateau to Tampico in Tamaulipas, the southeastern state of Mexico. He had caught sight of a river leaping...
Cover of Back to God's Country and Other Stories
by James Oliver Curwood
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013

When Shan Tung, the long-cued Chinaman from Vancouver, started up the Frazer River in the old days when the Telegraph Trail and the headwaters of the Peace were the Meccas of half the gold-hunting population of British Columbia, he did not foresee tragedy ahead of him. He was a clever man, was Shan...
Cover of What Diantha Did
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

HANDICAPPED     One may use the Old Man of the Sea, For a partner or patron, But helpless and hapless is he Who is ridden, inextricably, By a fond old mer-matron.     The Warden house was more impressive in appearance than its neighbors. It had "grounds," instead of...
Cover of Jettatura
by Theophile Gautier
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013

The "Leopold," a splendid Tuscan steamer plying between Marseilles and Naples, had just doubled Procida Point. The passengers, cured of their sea-sickness by the sight of land, most efficacious of all remedies, were all out on deck. On the part reserved for the first-class passengers, stood...
Cover of Jerry Stokes
by Grant Allen
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013

Jerry Stokes was a member of Her Majesty's civil service. To put it more plainly, he was the provincial hangman. Not a man in all Canada, he used to boast with pardonable professional pride, had turned off as many famous murderers as he had. He was a pillar of the constitution, was Jerry Stokes....
Cover of The Vital Spark
by Neil Munro
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013

A short, thick-set man, with a red beard, a hard round felt hat, ridiculously out of harmony with a blue pilot jacket and trousers and a seaman's jersey, his hands immersed deeply in those pockets our fathers (and the heroes of Rabelais) used to wear behind a front flap, he would have attracted my...
Cover of In Highland Harbours with Para Handy
by Neil Munro
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013

The s.s. Texa made a triumphal entry to the harbour by steaming in between two square-rigged schooners, the Volant and Jehu, of Wick, and slid silently, with the exactitude of long experience, against the piles of Rothesay quay, where Para Handy sat on a log of wood. The throb of her engine, the wash...
Cover of A Silent Witness (1914)
by R. Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013

The history upon which I am now embarking abounds in incidents so amazing that, as I look back on them, a something approaching to skepticism contends with my vivid recollections and makes me feel almost apologetic in laying them before the reader. Some of them indeed are so out of character with...
Cover of The Autobiography of Cockney Tom
by Thomas Bastard
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2013

I, Cockney Tom, am the son of a gun, who was so called because his father was a general in the Navy. Now this requires a little explanation. My grandfather, you must know, was master-at-arms on board the Royal Standard, 74 guns. It was his duty as a: warrant-officer to officiate when a man was to...
Cover of Shearing In The Riverina, New South Wales
by Rolf Boldrewood
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013

"Shearing commences to-morrow!" These apparently simple words were spoken by Hugh Gordon, the manager of Anabanco station, in the district of Riverina, in the colony of New South Wales, one Monday morning in the month of August. The utterance had its importance to every member of a rather...
Cover of Traces of Crime
by Mary Fortune
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013

There are many who recollect full well the rush at Chinaman's Flat. It was in the height of its prosperity that an assault was committed upon a female of a character so diabolical in itself, as to have aroused the utmost anxiety in the public as well as in the police, to punish the perpetrator thereof....
Cover of The Phantom Coach and other stories
by Amelia B. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013

The circumstances I am about to relate to you have truth to recommend them. They happened to myself, and my recollection of them is as vivid as if they had taken place only yesterday. Twenty years, however, have gone by since that night. During those twenty years I have told the story to but one other...
Cover of The South Pole
by Roald Amundsen
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013

On February 10, 1911, we started for the South to establish depots, and continued our journey until April 11. We formed three depots and stored in them 3 tons of provisions, including 22 hundredweight of seal meat. As there were no landmarks, we had to indicate the position of our depots by flags,...
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