Marshall: 1961 books

One day you have to stop running from the past... Sidetracked to Scotland during his round-the-world ski odyssey, Kiwi Mike Cole's Valentine's Day almost turns into a massacre. Fending off spills, sabotage and secret admirers, he tries to win the annual ski school race for boss Jude, and, in...

First published in 1907, this large collection includes short humorous prose and verse by such writers as James Whitcomb Riley, Carolyn Wells, Bill Nye, William Henry Drummond, John Kendrick Bangs, and Eugene Field.

Heroes of the Acadian Resistance tells the unique and little-known story of the young men who led an Acadian resistance in 18th century Nova Scotia. They fought valiantly in a guerilla campaign against the British to save their homes and families from destruction and deportation. Their battle...

The outlaws were begging for trouble when they challenged the Texas Hell-raisers! Larry and Stretch couldn’t stand by and see the honest citizens of Widow’s Peak swindled by the unscrupulous Jay Endean. The boss-thief was selling worthless railroad stock, and courting Tess Hapgood—the girl they...

Stretch Emerson plays a lone hand! It had never happened before, but it was happening now, and the taller Texan just had to face up to it. Larry Valentine was in jail, facing a trumped-up charge of murder and theft. One of the Lone Star Hellions imprisoned, wounded and helpless. The other on the loose,...

THE STAKES WERE HIGH AND DANGER RODE IN THEIR SHADOW! The owlhoot pack was moving north, led by Craig Harnsey, the audacious bandit who had fooled the lawmen of Winfield County. Their destination was a lonely section of the railroad route, their goal a bank strongbox. In hot pursuit came Larry and...

“Will you be my dad?” Ask me anything but that. Once upon a time, Dr. Daniel Delaney had it all. But he lost it in the blink of an eye, and he won’t let himself fall again—not even for his dedicated new assistant, Keela O’Mara, and her adorable, lonely little girl, Anna. Resisting...

Monona Quinn and her husband Doug are taking a relaxing vacation in the northwoods of Wisconsin. Mo's enrolled in a writing workshop, and Doug's resolved to learn to fish. Naturally, it's the perfect time to solve another murder... Pompous, self-important writer Fletcher Downs was supposed...

The Moral Qualities Revealed in Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Richard III, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest Eight masterpieces of the theater are explored in light of the universal moral problems they dramatize. Dr. Howse finds that while each play indicates moral responsibility...

It started at a wedding… Since her recent lifesaving-and life-changing-operation, Charlotte Johnson has steered clear of romance…but brooding Jackson Hilstead is too delicious to resist! Surely some harmless flirting with the sexy army doc can't hurt? Charlotte knows Jackson has his...

Companion to Celebrity presents a multi-disciplinary collection of original essays that explore myriad issues relating to the origins, evolution, and current trends in the field of celebrity studies. Offers a detailed, systematic, and clear presentation of all aspects of celebrity studies, with...

The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But...

Rich and subtle, this is a compelling novel from one of New Zealand's finest writers. It is a moving study of love and disappointment, of the harm we do to each other, knowingly and unknowingly, of the power and significance of landscape in our lives. A graveyard is all that's left of the remote Central...

The White Seed Brings Life to Worlds Three thousand years ago, the seeds arrived from Earth on hundreds of worlds. The developed worlds formed the Network, connected only by radio and laser. Since the time of the seeds, nothing but information has traveled between the stars. Now a starship, The...