James Oliver: 203 books

How long has the United States been trying to get its hands on Cuba? Waiting for Uncle John, an exciting and fast paced historical novel, tells the story of how a few regiments of soldiers, armed and supported by leading American politicians, set out to capture Cuba from Spain in 1851, the first of...

Set in the backdrop of the Northland this is a tale of the wilderness. Dealing with mixed breeds of people Curwood has designated unique qualities to them. This work showcases the courage survival instincts and wisdom of the people of these highlands. Engrossing!

A ripping, wild-west melodrama of lust, greed, gold, railroads, madmen, dynamite, prostitution--and the love of a good woman with a complicated past for a man convinced that all women are bad. Joanne is a beautiful woman who travels alone by rail on a mysterious, desperate mission. John Aldous is...

  "Such hair! Such eyes! Such color! Laugh if you will, Whittemore, but I swear that she was the handsomest girl I've ever laid my eyes upon!" There was an artist's enthusiasm in Gregson's girlishly sensitive face as he looked across the table at Whittemore and lighted...

Perhaps the greatest human understanding lies within the hearts and souls of Black people. The old Negro folk songs entered the African American church and became prayer songs and sorrow songs that still trouble our souls. These songs were spirituals groans and mournful meanings that are ever present...

Facing the barbarism of one man this is a story of two women who suffer pain and experience humiliation. Unfolding in the Northwest of Canada the work portrays the lawlessness and rule of might prevailing in the beginning of nineteenth century. Depicting the grave realities of life this is a brilliant work by Curwood.

The Flaming Forest is a rip-roaring tale of travel through the upper Canadian wilderness during the early 1900s, with a forest fire and of course a love story, all combined to bring a book that you can not put down. David Carrigan, out in the wilderness to catch Black Roger Audemard, a notorious...

It had an aristocratic sound; and Thomas Jefferson, with the Brown cut off, was still aristocratic, when you came to count the red corpuscles in him. In some sort of way he was related to two dead Presidents, three dead army officers, a living college professor, and a few common people. He was legitimately...

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     Weyman laughed joyously.     "Fooled 'em—fooled 'em all!" he told himself. "We'll wager a dollar to a doughnut that we're the toughest looking specimen that ever drifted down from Coronation Gulf, or any other gulf. A DOUGHNUT! I'd trade a gold nugget as big as my fist for a doughnut or a piece of pie right this minute.

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The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...