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Bannerman is a schoolmaster on his way to Florence to do some research. On the plane, he meets a recent pupil, Avery Brenton, who is travelling to see his divorced father. However, Avery is young and naïve and is being unwittingly used by his domineering mother. Bannerman finds himself being drawn...

Penelope, the daughter of a local priest, is lured to a villa in the south of France where she is the victim of a cruel hoax. As to how she came into the situation, we are first introduced to her as a child and the background is set out with Stewart’s usual wit and highly descriptive writing. Fulke...

Rupert Craine is a wealthy, cultured banker, who treats problems of high finance and additions to his collection of paintings with equal seriousness. He is aware, however, that his wife’s first husband, who was killed in the war in Italy, was a brilliant artist. Something strange occurs when drawings...

Lady Cameron and Charles Hornett had been married some fifty years before, but Hornett has now forgotten all about it. Embarrassment is therefore evident when they find themselves as part of a party holidaying in Greece. Meanwhile, the Balmaynes realise they nothing about Roland Redpath, who is about...

This Gist-Bible is a paraphrase of the Torah of the Bible, it is not a verseby- verse paraphrase, or a paragraph-by paragraph paraphrase; we may have made a full page out of one short paragraph, or a short paragraph out of a full page. It was a team effort. Winner Torborg, the president of Bread of...

In 1952, when an eight-year-old, South Dakota farm boy is visited by a strange phenomenon in the sky, he wonders if he should tell anyone.   But when the bizarre phenomena continues to occur, he eventually learns that though he feels the same, he has been given an extraordinary gift… the ability to fly! Book 1 of In a Single Bound

This Gist-Bible is a paraphrase of the New Testament of the Bible, it is not a verse-by-verse paraphrase, or a paragraph-by-paragraph paraphrase; we may have made a full page out of one short paragraph, or a short paragraph out of a full page. It was a team effort. Winner Torborg, the president of...

In this collection of short stories, strange and mysterious things seem to happen, from a South Dakota farmboy, in 1952, who wakes up one morning and discovers that he apparently is the last person on Earth, to a college professor, in 1994, who seems to be living next door to Superman, to an alien...

At Marine Corps Boot Camp in 1962, an 18-year-old recruit learns that the life of a friend and fellow recruit is in jeopardy at the hands of a violent and seemingly mentally disturbed drill instructor, and he must decide whether or not to get involved.

When a sixty-one year old retired college teacher travels fifty years into the past to change the tragic, childhood death of his beloved sister and only sibling, he spends several hours with that fourteen year old “kindred spirit” - and with himself as an eleven year old farm boy - and must decide whether or not it is wise to alter the past.

"So, you're the ones..." A mysterious package appears just as Maya and Nate start helping in their grandparents' store. Inside is just one book: a faded copy of Free to Choose. In a race against time, they must decipher a series of cryptic messages to discover the secret under the staircase....

Three very unusual deaths that take place in Tangier, Cadiz and Gibraltar lead an international investigator and her team to visit the Viagra club in London, unmask a pair of killers in southern England and rescue a child out in the country. There were two of them. The blonde American they...

What if you did not win a boatload of cash, but rather a total body make-over in the lotto? But not just an external make-over but a total re-sequencing of your genetic material? Of course this type of treatment would be horrifically expensive. Which is why the lottery makes sense. To give...

On a hunch, he pressed down on the ledge, first on 'Hubris' and then on 'Nemesis.' Crrrr.... The click-clackety sound of moving gears creaked loudly on the other side of the wall. Slowly the bookshelf slid aside, revealing a dark hallway. After spending the summer discovering the Under the Staircase...