Includes 15 cartoon illustrations. This highly humorous account of two self-confessed "short, fat, bald, middle-aged, inland Americans" who decide to join the war effort all the way from Wichita having left their jobs as journalists. As they go to New York to start their sea journey eastward, they start to find out that their life is going to be much more arduous than they initially thought… "In our pockets we hold commissions from the American...

3) The Virginian : a horseman of the plains

Author

Wister, Owen

Series

Recorded Books classics library

Language

English

Formats

Book, CD Audiobook, eAudiobook, eBook

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The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister The Virginian is a 1902 novel by the American author Owen Wister, set in Wyoming Territory during the 1880's. It describes the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch and is considered the first true fictional western ever written, aside from short stories and pulp dime novels, though modern scholars debate this.

4) The sea-wolf

Author

London, Jack

Series

Oxford world's classics
Puffin classics
Modern Library classics
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Language

English

Formats

Book, Cassette Audiobook, CD Audiobook, eAudiobook, eBook

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A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas. The Sea Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. The vivid story of a gentleman scholar's rescue and subsequent ordeal at the hands of a hunting schooner's brutal captain and devious crew. It remains one of Jack London's finest achievements.

5) The pink motel

Author

Brink, Carol Ryrie

Publisher

Macmillan Company

Pub. Date

1959

Physical Desc

182, [2] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description

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When Kirby, Bitsy, and their parents inherit an unusual and very pink motel in Florida, they find it filled with eccentric characters, mystery, and adventure.