In 1883, railroad financier Henry Villard brought Portland and the Pacific Northwest their first transcontinental railroad. Earning a reputation for boldness on Wall Street, the war correspondent turned entrepreneur set out to establish Portland as a bourgeoning metropolis. To realize his vision, he hired architects McKim, Mead & White to design a massive passenger station and a first-class hotel. Despite financial panics, lost fortunes and stalled construction, the Portland Hotel opened i...

General Saigon Alexander is the honorable captain of the ESS Battleship Sphinx. He is an officer of the Galactic Police, a law enforcement branch created by the Unified Galactic State. His crew is talented, driven, and composed of many of his childhood friends. Together, they are a hard-working team often looked to for secret interstellar missions by the UGS.One such mission involves the successful apprehension of a notorious enemy of the state, charged with plotting terrorist acti...

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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. In the years before the war, when we had more time for light pursuits, a favorite sport of reviewers was to hunt for the Great American Novel. They gave tongue here and there, and pursued the quarry with great excitement in various directions, now north, now south, now west, and the inevitable disappointment at the end of the chase never deterred them from starting off on a fresh scent next day. But in ...

The more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume. The final selection of the thirty-eight stories in this collection offers for the reader's delight those tales honored almost unanimously by anthologists and those that represent, in variety and balance, the best work of America's favorite storyteller. They are tales in his most mellow, humorous, and ironic moods. They give the full range and flavor of the man born William Sy...

Jean Webster (pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster) was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her best-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers.This book is contained 8 works of Jean Webster;When Patty W...

With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D.This selection of a hundred of O. Henry’s succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer.Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging from thieves to tycoons, from the streets of New York to the prairies of Texas.These stories are famed for their 'trick endings' or 'twists in the tail'...

Grace Livingston Hill was an early 20th-century novelist and wrote both under her real name and the pseudonym Marcia Macdonald. She wrote over 100 novels and numerous short stories. Her characters were most often young female Christian women or those who become so within the confines of the story.   This volume includes 15 Classic Stories by Grace Livingston Hill: MARCIA SCHUYLER THE MYSTERY OF MARY AUNT CRETE'S EMANCIPATION DAWN OF THE ...

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.Grace Livingston Hill was a prolific American author of Christian fiction. Hill's novels often portray the themes of good versus evil and redemption. This collection includes the following:Marcia SchuylerThe Mystery of MaryDawn of t...

O. Henry's Selected Short Stories are known for their wit wordplay and surprise endings. Most of the stories are set New York City in the early years of the twentieth century and deal with the common people. The Gift of the Magi deals with the working-class and unselfish love. The collection also contains stories as A Cosmopolite in a Café Roads of Destiny and The Romance of a Busy Broker.

The Complete Works of O Henry! The Complete short Stories and Poems.The Ultimate Collection of O Henry - In One Beautifully Formatted Volume!O Henry's short stories have been delighting fans in America and around the World for over a hundred years. Contained in this volume are every collection of short stories, individual short-story and poem written by O Henry.This huge volume has been carefully researched, edited, compiled and formatted, ...

O. Henry, the pen name of William Sydney Porter, is known for short stories with surprise endings. In this collection you will find the following beloved O. Henry stories: "The Plutonian Fire", "The Princess and the Puma", "By Courier", "The Gift of the Magi", "The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein", "Mammon and the Archer", "The Memento", "Springtime À La Carte", "The Last Leaf", "The Skylight Room", "The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock", "The Count And The Wedding Guest", "The Romance of a Bu...