Set against the unforgiving backdrop of a desert butte destined to make way for a railroad, "A Rose of the Desert" reveals the subtle beauty and affection that can blossom under the most puzzling and contentious of circumstances.

With over three million copies sold, this collection of cowboy wisdom and words to live by is "worthy of a book rustler" ( South Bend Tribune).In the tradition of humorist Will Rogers, Don't Squat with Your Spurs On takes a look at life through the eyes of the cowboy. It's filled with quips and quotes that represent the Code of the West, like: "Always drink upstream from the herd" and "The easiest way to eat crow is while it's st...

Get the western woman's take on life with this collection of wise and witty quips and quotations."Callin' women the weaker sex makes about as much sense as callin' men the stronger one.""Anybody who thinks they know everything ain't been around long enough to know anything.""When a cowboy gives you the key to his truck, you know you're close to winning the key to his heart.""If you're fixin' to get yourself a good stallion, don't go lookin' in t...

Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic.This humorous ghost story centers around a photograph of an eerie hotel that seem...

Huckleberry Finn is a wonderful story filled with adventure and unforgettable characters that no one who has read it will ever forget.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.

The San Francisco-based artist celebrates American roots music with this volume of thirteen beautifully illustrated folk songs.Our love affair with folk songs runs as deep as the enduring power of music, nature, creativity, and the longings of the human heart. In The Littlest Birds Sing the Prettiest Songs, artist Jennie Smith celebrates the tradition with her illustrated renderings of thirteen soulful songs, including time-honored Scottish ballads, classi...

A lone traveler seeks shelter from an approaching storm in an apparently abandoned house, only to find that it is occupied by a "loathsome old, white-bearded, and ragged man."

‘The Christening’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1911. It was the ninth of his sixty-seven short stories, all of which will be published individually in ebook format by the Blackthorn Press. Lawrence is at his best in this story, taken from the scenes of his childhood and based on characters he knew intimately. The theme of the unmarried mother, and the frictions the situation caused in the family and in the local community were further explored in his play ‘The Daughter-in-Law’. In this s...

Huckleberry Finn is a wonderful story filled with adventure and unforgettable characters that no one who has read it will ever forget.  The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.

The moral in this particular tale is about materialism and envy; apparently as relevant to Christmas in the 1800s as it is today. In this case, a poor mother finally succumbs to the pressure and steals, which she soon comes to regret... Another Christmas Classic by Ali Ribelli Edizioni.

Among The Corn Rows, one of the most important works by Hamlin Garland now in an epub3 AudioeBook version based on LibriVox audio and Project Gutenberg texts. Proudly brought to you for free by ReadBeyond

The Humorous Story an American Development.−−Its Difference from Comic and Witty Stories. I do not claim that I can tell a story as it ought to be told. I only claim to know how a story ought to be told, for I have been almost daily in the company of the most expert story−tellers for many years. There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind−−the humorous. I will talk mainly about that one. The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is Fren...