The Mangans, having fought on the losing side of the American War of Independence, sail to the Bahamas, where they settle and prosper. Several generations later, Tom Mangan is the affluent proprietor of a number of luxury hotels, whose future looks even brighter with the injection of fifty million dollars provided by a well-heeled Texan family. The day Mangan clinches the deal with his friend, Bill Cunningham, should be the happiest day of his life, but a family tragedy followed by a series of misfortunes and disasters eventually leads him to suspect a conspiracy to ruin him, or, perhaps, something even more horrifying.
Elizabeth Allen is back at Whyteleafe School, and although she's vowed to be good and not get into trouble, she can't help herself when new boy Robert starts bullying smaller kids. And when Kathleen makes matters worse when she starts playing tricks on Elizabeth and her friend, Robert is wrongly blamed and everything becomes a muddle!
Famous Five - Book 16: Five Go To Billycock Hillby
Hurrah! It's holiday time, and the Famous Five are spending it at Billycock Hill. Most exciting of all, they've made a new friend—a real pilot! But when he disappears with top secret equipment, the Five are puzzled. Could their new friend be a spy?
If you had to kill three people to save your best friend's life, would you do it? When John Rain decides to get out of the business, his hand is forced by rogue CIA operative Jim Hilger. Hilger kidnaps Dox, Rain's trusted partner and closest friend, and offers Rain a choice: carry out a final assignment, or bear the responsibility for Dox's murder.
Collection of Ray Bradbury short stories from the 40's, 50's, and 60's
*The Kilimanjaro Device * The Terrible Conflagration Up at the Place * Tomorrow's Child * The Women *The Inspired Chicken Motel * Downwind from Gettysburg * Yes, We'll Gather at the River * The Cold Wind and the Warm * Night Call, Collec * The Haunting of the New * I Sing the Body Electric! * The Tombling Day * Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby's Is a Friend of Mine * Heavy-Set * The Man in the Rorschach Shirt * Henry the Ninth * The Lost City of Mars * Christus Apollo
