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The hero of this story is the Squaw Man's son. He has been taken to
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and a girl's pretty face.
JOHN MARCH, SOUTHERNER. By George W. Cable.
A story of the pretty women and spirited men of the South. As fragrant
in sentiment as a sprig of magnolia, and as full of mystery and racial
troubles as any romance of "after the war" days.
MR. JUSTICE RAFFLES. By E.W. Hornung.
This engaging rascal is found helping a young cricket player out of the
toils of a money shark. Novel in plot, thrilling and amusing.
FORTY MINUTES LATE. By F. Hopkinson Smith. Illustrated by S.M. Chase.
Delightfully human stories of every day happenings; of a lecturer's
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OLD LADY NUMBER 31. By Louise Forsslund.
A heart-warming story of American rural life, telling of the adventures
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THE HUSBAND'S STORY. By David Graham Phillips.
A story that has given all Europe as well as all America much food for
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THE TRAIL OF NINETY-EIGHT. By Robert W. Service. Illustrated by Maynard
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A beautiful blonde Englishwoman visits Russia, and is violently made
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THE GAMBLERS. By Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow, Illustrated by C.E.
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A young Southerner who loved Lafayette, goes to France to aid him during
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By MYRTLE REED
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life in all its fulness. But a girl comes into his existence, a
beautiful bit of human driftwood that his aunt had taken into her heart
and home; and through his passionate love for her, he learns the lessons
that life has to give--and his soul awakens.
Founded on a fact well known among artists, but not often recognized or
discussed.
If you have not read "LAVENDER AND OLD LACE" by the same author, you
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A beautiful Parisienne became an outcast because her husband would not
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CONISTON. Illustrated by Florence Scovel Shinn.
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HER PRAIRIE KNIGHT
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THE RANGE DWELLERS
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THE LURE OF DIM TRAILS
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trails" but the hardest, and probably the most welcome, is that of love.
THE LONESOME TRAIL
"Weary" Davidson leaves the ranch for Portland, where conventional city
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atmosphere of the prairie, and the recollection of a pair of large brown
eyes soon compel his return. A wholesome love story.
THE LONG SHADOW
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GRAUSTARK.
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BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK.
Beverly is a bewitching American girl who has gone to that stirring
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BREWSTER'S MILLIONS.
A young man is required to spend one million dollars in one year in
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CASTLE CRANEYCROW.
The story revolves round the abduction of a young American woman, her
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COWARDICE COURT.
An amusing social feud in the Adirondacks in which an English girl is
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THE DAUGHTER OF ANDERSON CROW.
The story centers about the adopted daughter of the town marshal in a
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THE MAN FROM BRODNEY'S.
The hero meets a princess in a far-away island among fanatically hostile
Musselmen. Romantic love making amid amusing situations and exciting
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NEDRA.
A young couple elope from Chicago to go to London traveling as brother
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of it.
THE SHERRODS.
The scene is the Middle West and centers around a man who leads a double
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TRUXTON KING.
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A pretty American girl in London is touring in a car with a chauffeur
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THE STOWAWAY GIRL. Illustrated by Nesbitt Benson.
A shipwreck, a lovely girl stowaway, a rascally captain, a fascinating
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THE CAPTAIN OF THE KANSAS.
Love and the salt sea, a helpless ship whirled into the hands of
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THE MESSAGE. Illustrated by Joseph Cummings Chase.
A bit of parchment found in the figurehead of an old vessel tells of a
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THE PILLAR OF LIGHT.
The pillar thus designated was a lighthouse, and the author tells with
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THE WHEEL O'FORTUNE. With illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg.
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A SON OF THE IMMORTALS. Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy.
A young American is proclaimed king of a little Balkan Kingdom, and a
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