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  On a Tricycle (Unabridged)

  H. G. Wells

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  Herbert George "H. G." Wells (1866 - 1946) was an English writer.He was prolific in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called a "father of science fiction"ON A TRICYCLE: I sat on the parapet of the bridge, and swung my feet over the water that frothed and fretted at the central pier below. Above the bridge the stream broadened into a cress-bespangled pool, over which the sapphire dragon-flies hovered, and its earlier course was hidden by the big oak trees that bent towards each other from either bank.

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  The Murder on the Links

  Agatha Christie

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  When a man is found dead in a freshly dug grave adjacent to a golf course, Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings arrive on the scene only to be met by a hostile local police detective who is unwilling to share information. But Poirot’s methodical investigation slowly and surely reveals the real killer amid a host of suspects and clues, including an impassioned love letter and heavy lead piping found near the body. However, as Poirot and Hastings are rushing to solve the murder, when a similarly slain corpse is and fresh clues are discovered and the investigators are able to find fresh clues.

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  Sandman The (Unabridged)

  Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

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  "The Sandman" (German: Der Sandmann, 1816) is a short story written in German by E. T. A. Hoffmann. It was the first in an 1817 book of stories titled Die Nachtstücke (The Night Pieces).The story is told by a narrator who claims to have known Lothar. It begins by quoting three letters...

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  Thirty-Nine Steps The (Unabridged)

  John Buchan

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  The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first of the five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations. The novel formed the basis for a number of successful adaptations, including several film versions and a long-running stage play. In 2003, the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels."In May of 1914, war looms in Europe. Richard Hannay returns home to London after living in Rhodesia. One night his neighbor, an American who claims to be in fear for his life, visits Hannay. The man appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilize Europe, beginning with a plan to assassinate the Greek Premier, Constantine Karolides, during his forthcoming visit to London.

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  Time Machine The - H G Wells

  H. G. Wells

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  The Time Machine is a science fiction novel by H.G. Wells, first published in 1895. It is about a time traveler who uses a machine to go far into the future, where he discovers a dystopian world divided between two races: the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi are a beautiful and effeminate people who live above ground, while the Morlocks are a brutal and primitive race who live underground and feed on the Eloi. 

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  Classic Christmas Stories

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

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  This work is a selection of Christmas stories (or sometimes chapters) of Lucy Maud Montgomery from different sources and different times. The focus is widened a bit to include a few works about Thanksgiving Day and New Year’s Day. LMM was a prolific Canadian author in the early 20th century whose works were very popular in her own country as well as the United States, and indeed around the world. Perhaps her most read novel was her first, Anne Of Green Gables 
   
  Lovers of the Anne of Green Gables series will love these ten Christmas stories by Lucy Maude Montgomery.

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