This nineteenth-century novel begins in New York where two men are meeting for dinner. They are Mr. Whitehouse Southmead, a lawyer of around 50 years, and Captain Harry Storey Lawrence, a much younger man recently arrived in the city from a Utah mining company. They are clearly there to discuss some business, but the young Captain's head has been turned by a beautiful young woman whom he has just met on the stairs of the restaurant.

"The Right Stuff without the hype, Yeager without the ego."—Washington Post Book World "While the jet-jockey competitiveness, the undercurrent of fear, the victories and foul-ups of jet sweeps have been described many times, few such chronicles have done it so grippingly and with such a ring of accuracy. Mr. Grant explores the emotions felt not only by the men in battle but by the wives and others left behind, and the questions the war raised in their minds. To put in larger context the war's impact on individual participants, the author periodically reviews the high-level struggles over how to fight the air war. "What is most impressive is to find an analysis so clearly stated, so seemingly on track in locating the weak spots in the policies of various political and military officials....Written in a straightforward yet stylish prose, Over the Beach carries tremendous conviction."—Richard Witkin, New York Times Book Review

In Roy Blakeley on the Mohawk Trail by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, Roy Blakeley goes on an expedition with his fellow Boy Scouts to test the indefatigable drive of the community Hunkerjunk car. Excerpt: "Gordon Lord flung his duffel bag into the bench on the station platform and, casting himself precipitately beside it, smiled the smile of the Scouts. It was the genuine, original, warranted scout smile, done to perfection. It had often been remarked of Gordon that when he smiled his lips formed a perfect crescent so that if the words "Be Prepared" had been printed on his white, even teeth, the effect would have been perfectly natural. Moreover, it was somewhat to his credit that he smiled on the present occasion, for several commuters who were in the same predicament as himself stalked up and down the platform in anything but amiable humor."

12 tales featuring boy detectives, from Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer, Dective" to entries in the Mercer Boys, Ken Holt, Hal Keene, and Skippy Dare series, and lots more -- over 1,400 pages of great reading! Here are: THE MERCER BOYS AT WOODCREST, by Capwell Wyckoff THE MYSTERY OF THE IRON BOX, by Bruce Campbell THE AIR MYSTERY OF ISLE LA MOTTE, by E. J. Craine THE LOST MINE OF THE AMAZON, by Hugh Lloyd PRISONERS IN DEVIL’S BOG, by Hugh Lloyd BOB DEXTER AND THE STORM MOUNTAIN MYSTERY, by Willard F. Baker THE MYSTERY HUNTERS AT THE HAUNTED LODGE, by Capwell Wyckoff TRIPLE SPIES, by Roy G. Snell DETECTIVES, INC., by William Heyliger TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE, by Mark Twain If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 260+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

A collection of poems for children on subjects such as Noah's Ark, animals, and the state and status of childhood in general.

Seth Johnson's debut story collection comprises twelve linked tales set in Kentucky against the backdrop of the disintegration of a young marriage amidst thwarted expectations and contrasted by illustrations of the unconditional love freely given by dogs. A man on the run hides out at a boarding house owned by a paraplegic woman whose uncle's dog gives birth with an ease that impresses the observers of this ordinary event. A young man confesses his extramarital affairs to his mother. A housewife attends the funeral of a young woman whom she never knew. In precise, evocative prose, The Things We Do for Women explores the perpetual desire for love and the obstacles to obtaining it.