The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation Louisa May Alcott http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3520 en 1867 Short Fiction Romance Ghost Stories A christmas story from the writer of Little Women. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3520.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3520.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3520.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3520.mobi Afloat On The Flood Lawrence J. Leslie http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3541 en 1915 Novels Young Readers Adventure Excerpt: "What's the latest weather report down at the post office, Max?" "More rain coming, they say, and everybody is as gloomy as a funeral." "My stars! the poor old town of Carson is getting a heavy dose this spring, for a fact; nothing but rain, rain, and then some more rain." "Never was anything to beat it, Bandy-legs, and they say even the oldest inhabitant can't remember when the Evergreen River was at a higher stage than it is right now." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3541.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3541.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3541.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3541.mobi The Seven Secrets William Le Queux http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3530 en 1903 Novels Crime/Mystery A mystery set in fin de siècle London. An elderly man is murdered and suspicion falls on his young widow. But then things get very complicated and lies and clues abound… This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3530.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3530.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3530.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3530.mobi The Upas Tree Florence L. Barclay http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3528 en 1912 Novels A Christmas Story for all the Year. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3528.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3528.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3528.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3528.mobi The Adventures of Don Lavington George Manville Fenn http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3543 en 1896 Novels Young Readers Adventure Lindon, known as Don, is a boy in his late teens who has left school, and who lives with his mother and uncle Josiah, his father being dead, and works as a clerk in the office, the business being sugar and tobacco importation, in Bristol, England, which he does not much like. One day some money is missing from the office. It’s pretty obvious who the thief is, but Uncle Josiah continues to accuse Don. Another worker has a row with his new young wife, and Don and he (Jem) decide to go away for a bit, both feeling rather ill-used. Unfortunately they are taken that night by the press-gang, and after some attempts to get away, they sail away to New Zealand. Here they manage to escape from the ship, though the search for them is keen. They fall in with some Maoris, among whom lives an Englishman, who is actually an escaped convict, but a good chap nonetheless. They assist the Maoris in their own battles against other tribes. The scene turns to some English settlers. They become friendly with our heroes. A Maori tribe attacks then, having been set up to do so by three villains, who have also escaped from the convict settlement at Norfolk Island. They hold their own, but there is a timely intervention by the police. One of the three villains turn out to have been the man who actually stole the money from Uncle Josiah’s office. From this point things begin to turn out for the better, and the two heroes return to England, and all is forgiven. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3543.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3543.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3543.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3543.mobi The Weapons of Mystery Joseph Hocking http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3527 en 1890 Novels Crime/Mystery This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3527.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3527.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3527.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3527.mobi The Jupiter Weapon Charles Louis Fontenay http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3539 en 1959 Short Fiction Science Fiction He was a living weapon of destruction—immeasurably powerful, utterly invulnerable. There was only one question: Was he human? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3539.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3539.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3539.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3539.mobi How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar Bret Harte http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3519 en 1872 Short Fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3519.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3519.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3519.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3519.mobi The Story of a Stuffed Elephant Laura Lee Hope http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3517 en 1922 Novels Young Readers From the "Make-Believe Stories": "Oh, how large he is!" "Isn't he? And such wonderfully strong legs!" "See his trunk, too! Isn't it cute! And he is well stuffed! This is really one of the best toys that ever came into our shop, Geraldine; don't you think so?" "Yes, Angelina. I must call father to come and look at him. He will make a lovely present for some boy or girl—I mean this Stuffed Elephant will make a lovely present, not our father!" and Miss Angelina Mugg smiled at her sister across the big packing box of Christmas toys they were opening in their father's store. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3517.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3517.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3517.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3517.mobi Among The Pathans William Murray Graydon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3542 en 1891 Short Fiction Adventure War Excerpt: When Jack Chetwynd dropped into the Bundar Cafe at Delhi one scorching afternoon in September of last year and informed me that we were ordered off to the Punjaub, I could have shouted for joy. I did not do it, though, for I well knew how scornfully Jack would regard any such demonstration. I merely nodded my head, lazily, and went on reading the Post with as much calmness as if such news was a mere every day affair. "Yes, my boy," went on Jack, dropping into a chair and ordering a lemon squash, "we are going to have some fun. You know those rascally Pathans killed two or three of our fellows near the frontier station at Oghi some time ago, so an expedition is going up to give them a drubbing for it. It's a deuce of a country, they say, that Black Mountain region, and these Pathans are terrible fellows, too; fight like tigers. Plenty of chance for glory there, Charlie; so prepare yourself!" This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3542.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3542.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3542.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3542.mobi The Two Christmas Celebrations, A.D. I. and MDCCCLV. Theodore Parker http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3518 en 1856 Short Fiction Religion http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3518.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3518.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3518.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3518.mobi Christmas Zona Gale http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3522 en 1912 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3522.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3522.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3522.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3522.mobi The Burglar and the Blizzard Alice Duer Miller http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3521 en 1914 Novels A Christmas story. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3521.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3521.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3521.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3521.mobi White Fang Jack London http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3533 en 1906 Novels Adventure An initiation story concerning the taming of a wild dog in the Klondike. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3533.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3533.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3533.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3533.mobi Christmas with Grandma Elsie Martha Finley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3523 en 1888 Novels A Christmas story from the Elsie series. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3523.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3523.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3523.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3523.mobi The Story of a Nodding Donkey Laura Lee Hope http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3516 en 1921 Novels Young Readers From the "Make Believe Stories": The Nodding Donkey dated his birth from the day he received the beautiful coat of varnish in the workshop of Santa Claus at the North Pole. Before that he was just some pieces of wood, glued together. His head was not glued on, however, but was fastened in such a manner that with the least motion the Donkey could nod it up and down, and also sidewise. It is not every wooden donkey who is able to nod his head in as many ways as could the Donkey about whom I am going to tell you. This Nodding Donkey was an especially fine toy, and, as has been said, his first birthday was that on which he received such a bright, shiny coat of varnish. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3516.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3516.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3516.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3516.mobi Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays Annie Roe Carr http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3554 en 1916 Novels Young Readers Excerpt: Ta-ra! ta-ra! ta-ra-ra-ra! ta-rat! Professor Krenner took the silver bugle from his lips while the strain echoed flatly from the opposite, wooded hill. That hill was the Isle of Hope, a small island of a single eminence lying half a mile off the mainland, and not far north of Freeling. The shore of Lake Huron was sheathed in ice. It was almost Christmas time. Winter had for some weeks held this part of Michigan in an iron grip. The girls of Lakeview Hall were tasting all the joys of winter sports. The cove at the boathouse (this was the building that some of the Lakeview Hall girls had once believed haunted) was now a smooth, well-scraped skating pond. Between the foot of the hill, on the brow of which the professor stood, and the Isle of Hope, the strait was likewise solidly frozen. The bobsled course was down the hill and across the icy track to the shore of the island. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3554.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3554.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3554.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3554.mobi Little Lord Fauntleroy Frances Hodgson Burnett http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4151 en 1885 Novels Young Readers In mid-1880s Brooklyn, New York, Cedric Errol lives with his Mother (never named, known only as Mrs Errol or "dearest") in genteel poverty after his Father Captain Errol dies. They receive a visit from Havisham, an English lawyer with a message from Cedric's grandfather, Lord Dorincourt. With the deaths of his father's elder brothers, Cedric is now Lord Fauntleroy and heir to the Earldom and a vast estate. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4151.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4151.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4151.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4151.mobi Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Lewis Wallace http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540 urn:isbn:1404185712 en 1880 Novels History Religion Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published on November 12, 1880 by Harper & Brothers. Wallace's work is part of an important sub-genre of historical fiction set among the characters of the New Testament. The novel was a phenomenal best-seller; it soon surpassed Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) as the best-selling American novel and retained this distinction until the 1936 publication of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. The central character is Judah, prince of the Hebrew house of Hur. Judah grows up in Jerusalem, during the turbulent years around the birth of Christ. His best friend is Messala, a Roman. As adults Judah and Messala become rivals, each hating the other, which leads to Judah's downfall and eventual triumph. Elements of the story include leprosy, naval battles among galleys, the Roman hippodrome, Roman adoption, Magus Balthasar, the Arab sheikh Ilderim. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.mobi Eight Keys to Eden Mark Irvin Clifton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3538 en 1960 Novels Science Fiction The piercing wonder of man's climb to higher intelligence. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3538.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3538.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3538.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3538.mobi