Chip of the Flying U
10 best books like Chip of the Flying U (B.M. Bower): Meet Me in St. Louis, Cimarron, Pigs Is Pigs, Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories, Lodore, The Agony Column, The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days, Foreign Parts, Shaking the Nickel Bush, Rosanna of the Amish
| Author | Sally Benson |
| ISBN | 1891442260 |
There are times when a film does a more enjoyable job with a book than the book does for itself. "Meet Me in Saint Louis" is one of the great old movie musicals, and probably provided the best performance ever given by Judy Garland. The book, on the other hand, is nothing extraordinary in the genre of happy-old-time-family...
| Author | Edna Ferber |
| ISBN | 1417920955 |
The most popular book of 1930!
So my second crazy reading goal of 2017 is to read the “most popular” book of the year for each year that ends in zero, beginning in 1930. I’m intentionally choosing “popular” books over either “classic” or “critically acclaimed” because...
| Author | Ellis Parker Butler |
| ISBN | 1410103226 |
This American classic is a humorous turn-of-the-century story about a train agent and the definition of a guinea pig. This hilarious tale of bureaucracy run amok at the Interurban Express Company, and exponential growth of the Guinea pig population shows what can happen when ignorance and bureaucrats...
| Author | Rebecca Harding Davis |
| ISBN | 0935312390 |
"Life in the Iron Mills" (1861) was one of the first major Realist works in American literature and created an immediate sensation in the literary world when it was first published, though it was subsequently forgotten and only re-discovered in relatively recent times by editor Olsen. I'd read, and...
| Author | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
| ISBN | 1419131079 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
| Author | Earl Derr Biggers |
| ISBN | 1587153017 |
The Agony Column is a perfect brew of mystery and romance of the very old-fashioned variety. Perhaps no one other than M.M. Kaye blended these two elements as well as Earl Derr Biggers. Forever remembered for his creation of Charlie Chan, the great detective from Hawaii, many of Biggers' other novels...
| Author | Andy Adams |
| ISBN | 0618083480 |
A classic fictional chronicle of life on the open trail, THE LOG OF A COWBOY has long been considered the best and most reliable account of real cowboy life ever written.
In the years following the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Andy Adams left his home in the San Antonio Valley and took to the range....
| Author | Janice Galloway |
| ISBN | 1564780821 |
From the beginning this novel's tension weaves warp and woof between hilarity and hell. Two women friends travel through France, encountering backroad-European misogynist crudities and the awkward experiences of being female, over thirty, with your teeth almost literally at your closest friend's...
| Author | Ralph Moody |
| ISBN | 0803282184 |
Skinny and suffering from diabetes, Ralph Moody is ordered by a Boston doctor to seek a more healthful climate. Going west again is a delightful prospect. His childhood adventures on a Colorado ranch were described in Little Britches and Man of the Family, also Bison Books. Now nineteen years old, he...
| Author | Joseph W. Yoder |
| ISBN | 0836190181 |
This book tells the story of a baby who was raised by an Amishwoman after the baby's mother died a few days after her birth. Pat McGonegal of Ireland had followed the love of his life, Bridget O’Connor, to America. Pat boarded with an Amish woman, Elizabeth Yoder, and after he married Bridget, the two...
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 0886820650 |
Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a happy ending? No matter what their taste, our Creative Short Stories series has the answer.We've taken some of the world's best stories from dark, musty anthologies and brought them into the light, giving them...
| Author | Herbert Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0850461405 |
3.5 stars. This is a witty, somewhat fluffy British romance written in 1918. There's a meet-cute: Patricia Brent, a secretary in her twenties, lives in a boarding house with a bunch of rather catty gossips. One night she overhears a couple of them snidely commenting on her lack of dates. Incensed, she...
The Winning of Barbara Worth
| Author | Harold Bell Wright |
| ISBN | 1565544722 |
"The secret of [Harold Bell Wright's] power is the same God-given secret that inspired Shakespeare and upheld Dickens."
--Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch
"It is this almost clairvoyant power of reading the human soul that has made Mr. Wright's books among the most remarkable works of...
| Author | Jackie Ivie |
| ISBN | 1420108840 |
In the rugged Scottish Highlands, a mighty clansman weds a headstrong heiress against her will--and discovers a fiery passion he'll risk his life to protect. . .
A Man Of Power
Payton Dunn-Fadden is the King's Champion, notorious for his ability to fight any man and win. With steely...
The Biography Of A Prairie Girl
Eleanor Gates (1875-1951) was born in Shakopee, Minnesota. She attended both the University of California and Stanford University. Her first husband was Richard Walton Tully and later she married Frederick Ferdinand Moore. Her works, both novels and plays, include: The Biography of a Prairie Girl...
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Short Stories
| Author | Bret Harte |
| ISBN | 0486272710 |
In 1870, the young San Francisco–based writer and editor Bret Harte (1836–1902) first compiled a single-volume edition of his rousing stories of life in the Wild West. Entitled The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches, the book propelled him almost overnight from local celebrity to American...
| Author | George MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0871239043 |
My favourite Christian writer.
In this extended homily on the choice between a love of God and a love of Mammon, a young farmer and maid are shown to be better Christians than the local laird, his proud daughter and her wealthy cousin
Andrew Ingram and Dawtie discovered the true meaning...
| Author | Zane Grey |
| ISBN | 1406953776 |
The red stallion did not appear to be hurt. The twitching of his muscles must have been caused by the cactus spikes embedded in him. There were drops of blood all over one side. Lucy thought she dared to try to pull these thorns out. She had never in her life been afraid of any horse. Farlane, Holley, all the...
| Author | Rita Herron |
| ISBN | 0446199486 |
HE'S EVERYTHING SHE FEARS...
Reporter Annabelle Armstrong will go to any lengths to deliver a story, even track down Quinton Valtrez, a man she believes is a coldhearted assassin. Yet the truth about the darkly sensual Quinton is even more shocking...and the overwhelming desire he ignites is...
| Author | Max Brand |
| ISBN | 1406589497 |
Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American fiction author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns. Faust wrote mostly under pen names, and today he is primarily known by one, Max Brand. Others include George Owen Baxter, Martin Dexter, Evin Evans, David Manning, Peter...
| Author | Aki Shimazaki |
| ISBN | 2742785663 |
À la saison des lucioles, lorsqu'elle rend visite à sa grand-mère, Tsubaki est loin de se douter que celle-ci lui confiera bientôt le secret qui ronge sa vie depuis cinquante ans, incapable qu'elle fut de le révéler à son mari. Étudiante en archéologie, Tsubaki apprend à travers cette confession...
| Author | Wilkie Collins |
| ISBN | 1846370469 |
Ça y est, j’attaque Wilkie Collins en VO ! The new Magdalen est disponible en français chez Phébus, sous le titre harlequinesque de Passion et repentir. Un assez court roman qui rompt un peu avec le reste de son œuvre. L’intrigue est simple, et démarre en 1870 quelque part en France, durant la...
| Author | Sinclair Lewis |
| ISBN | 0803279434 |
Fame was just around the corner when Sinclair Lewis published Free Air in 1919, a year before Main Street. The latter novel zeroed in on the town of Gopher Prairie; the former stopped there briefly and then took the reader by automobile in search of America. Free Air heads toward a West that was brimming...
| Author | Hazelden Foundation |
| ISBN | 0894860046 |
Designed as an aid for the study of the book Alcoholics Anonymous, The Little Red Book contains many helpful topics for discussion meetings.
This is the original study guide to the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous. Filled with practical information for those first days of sober living, this...
