Brand: 861 books

From legendary Western author Max Brand comes a tale of covert espionage, gold, and a mysterious figure on horseback. In this dramatic and strange story, Lefty Bill Ranger, an Alaskan mail carrier, travels to Circle City through a terrific snowstorm. There he meets Menneval-a man who is widely...

The Streak had blasted seven vicious killers single-handedly, tamed the wildest mustangs on the range and outsmarted the sharpest dealers in Jasper Valley. The stories about the fabulous Streak were endless. BUT... not one of them was true! The Streak was really a harmless young man named Blondy Terrance....

Time doesn't really fly … and other pieces on other subjects CONTENTS How the forces dance Almost the end Scorching kebabs Storming ahead with a burning violin All of us alive at this time Old heroes stand, some fall, and posters are changed Day in town About monkeys and (so-called)...

Old Mr. Benton had been murdered on his lonely ranch and there was only one suspect: the stranger who rode up in the downpour and sped off again before dawn. But looks can be deceiving and there were plenty of others acting suspiciously including Mrs. Zellar and Jack Montagne. Who had killed old Mr....

The story of two young women determined to live outside the confines of the Victorian Age and who have a lasting impact on the fledgling town of Melbourne. Florence is seduced by the son of her employer in Leicestershire. Thomas Luxford casts her aside, denying all responsibility for her coming child....

Adam, recently widowed and suffering from melancholia, sets out on an overland journey from Sydney in 1847 with his two young sons. Still grieving on his arrival in Melbourne, he leaves the boys in the care of friends and embarks on a further quest to mend his heart. Finally returning to Melbourne,...

Kit Markham’s world turns upside down when Jack, the boy she always believed she would marry, turns out to be her half-brother. At sixteen, feisty and headstrong, she leaves her home in Melbourne and flees to England. The year is 1855. Though unsure of where life will lead, she is determined to...

Collected Stories from Contests and Events 2014 A Collection of flash fiction. During 2014 I entered a few writing contests, and submitted to many events. Here you will find all my submissions from the year including the prize-winning story Julie's Problem. Some are humorous,...

Christo Brand was a South African farm boy, born into the Afrikaans culture which had created apartheid, a racial system designed to persecute black people while claiming superiority for white people. Nelson Mandela, the black son of a tribal chief, also raised in a rural village, trained as a lawyer...

FROM INDIA TO THE PLANET MARS A STUDY OF A CASE OF SOMNAMBULISM WITH GLOSSOLALIA By Theodore Flournoy Synopsis Fully illustrated, this is a skeptical inquiry into a remarkable 19th century French medium, here called Hélène Smith. She popularized the concept of automatic writing, which earned...

Hawks and Eagles is the author’s classic. The brand is a great storyteller who shows his enthusiasm for humans and animals, such characters as a professor, a small dog, and Mole. Joe Good, the protagonist, he’s twenty years old. His father was killed by the richest man in the city, because he...

Carrick Dunmore seemed to be nothing more than a happy-go-lucky cowboy whose main pastimes were drinking and sleeping. He wasn’t the kind of man who could challenge Jim Tankerton, the outlaw chief whose cruel violence terrorized the countryside. But Dunmore had a few tricks to outwit old Jim......

Libby Carter wanted to get away from it all, so she took a job mining asteroids as far out into the inky blackness as possible. However, her escape turned into a trap, leaving her stuck in indentured servitude, living on a tiny rock in space. As she tries to dig herself out, she gains friends and finds adventure.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Man Who Forgot Christmas" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Excerpt: "At length he let the stocking fall to the floor and there in his hand was a leaden soldier with red coat and stiff back, a painted musket...