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Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer Abroad. Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time.

The reports in the American newspapers of the loss of Tom Slade, aviator, were read by his many admirers and friends with a sense of shock and with feelings of personal bereavement.

A classic adventure series by many writers including Stratemeyer Syndicate and his successors associated with Tom Swift. Tom Swift, in his first adventure, has purchased a motorcycle and immediately gets busy modifying it. Eager to test his enhancements, Tom volunteers to transport his father’s revolutionary turbine design plans across the country roads to Albany. Unaware of the evil corporate investors who want to steal the invention for themselves, Tom falls into their trap and finds himself facing the greatest peril of his young life. It is up to Tom not only to retrieve the blueprints and turbine prototype, but also to bring a gang of hired thugs to justice.

Not for my dear usual public of little children have I gathered these stories from Scandinavian authors, but for boys and girls who have reached a stage which warrants a rather free range in Story Land. For here are to be encountered creatures and events, deeds and ideas, unsuited to youngest readers, but which have legitimate attraction for boys and girls from nine to fourteen years old—the age varying according to the child’s maturity and previous reading.

“Then Mr Maston, you pretend that a woman has never been able to make mathematical or experimental-science progress?”
“To my extreme regret, I am obliged to, Mrs. Scorbitt,” answered J.T. Maston.
“That there have been some very remarkable women in mathematics, especially in Russia, I fully and willingly agree with you. But, with her cerebral conformation, she cannot become an Archimedes, much less a Newton.”

The Touch ‘n Go smart card is used by Malaysian toll expressway and highway operators as the sole electronic payment system. The credit card-sized smart card is made of plastic with Philips’ MIFARE Classic microchip technology embedded in it.

Trying to co-operate with your partner, and in my quest for a better way of doing so, you will be guided by the people in the process of being able to: those who are presenting that’s it at the stages of the worship, and everyone who comes from calling God is always able to judge one’s reason.
And at the very moment you will discuss at least one of your real terms, so please check the terms of the agreement, so that in order to give the truth to the whole, for the love of It’s your own, in the long run, you know your gaps and carpenters too.

“Why should this book be written? To give information. But was it proper to come through such hands, and to be communicated in such circumstances?
“As to the first of these questions, the Author happened to have in his possession a portfolio of incidents and observations, recorded by his own hand, during a tour through the wild and romantic regions of the American Lakes, and a visit among several tribes of Indians in the North-West Territory, in 1830. It happened also, that this visit in the North-West gave him an opportunity of being present at a great and eventful Council, composed of representatives of the chiefs of several Indian nations and a Commission from the Government of the United States, the developements of which were somewhat extraordinary and extremely interesting.” -Introduction

First published in the year 1921, the present book ‘Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus’ by Ludwig Wittgenstein seeks to ground his philosophy of action. The historical significance of Tractatus is for its influence on the philosophers of logical empiricism, by providing them with a framework for a philosophy of science, and hence engineering, Wittgenstein actually wrote it as a work on ethics.

Ascalon was the end of the trail for thirsty cowboys who gave vent to their pent-up feelings without restraint. Calvin Morgan was not concerned with its wickedness until Seth Craddock’s malevolence directed itself against him. He did not emerge from the maelstrom until he had obliterated every vestige of lawlessness, and assured himself of the safety of a certain dark-eyed girl.

First published in the year 1911, George Bird Grinnell’s novel ‘Trails of the Pathfinders’ is a collection of captivating articles through which the author examines the courage and determination of famous explorers including Lewis, Clark and Zebulon Pike.

First published in the year 1879, the present book ‘Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes’ is a collection of speculative essays written by the famous writer Robert Louis Stevenson. It is author’s earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature.

First published in the year 1881, the presnet book ‘Treasure Island’ by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of “buccaneers and buried gold”. Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an “X”, schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.

A book of travel experiences of over five continuous months by the author, during the autumn and winter of 1834-35. In this book, the author has endeavored to give some account of the great Western and Southern Country. In performing this task, he has not attempted the regions of fancy and fiction, but has told his own story—”a plain unvarnished tale,” in his own way.

The present Science fiction story ‘Triplanetary’ by the famous writer E. E. Smith was first published in the year 1934. This novel was first serialized in a magazine called Amazing Stories. It is a space opera.

It is not difficult to account for the pre-eminence, generally assigned to the victories of war over the victories of peace in popular history. The noise and ostentation which attend the former, the air of romance which surrounds them,—lay firm hold of the imagination, while the directness and rapidity with which, in such transactions, the effect follows the cause, invest them with a peculiar charm for simple and superficial observers.

It is perfectly possible for an individual to adopt this way of life without having to wait for others to do so. And if an individual can observe a certain rule of conduct, it follows that a group of individuals can do likewise. It is necessary for me to emphasize the fact that no one need wait for anyone else in order to adopt a right course. Men generally hesitate to make a beginning if they feel that the objective cannot be had in its entirety. Such an attitude of mind is in reality a bar to progress.
—FROM THE BOOK

God and therefore religion are fundamental necessities for normal healthy life to the individual as well as to nations. Here in this book the reader will find Gandhiji speaking from his heart on various occasions in the course of thirty years of the maturest period of his life. What a modern man who did very great things thought on the subject of God and religion cannot fail to be instructive to educated men and women in these difficult days.

Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–02 as a Twelfth Night’s entertainment for the close of the Christmas season.

First published in the year 1919, the present book ‘Twelve Men’ by American novelist and journalist Theodore Dreiser is collection of character sketches, combining the best of biography with the finest of narrative – short and illustrative.

“Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State—and having at the end of that time been kidnapped and sold into Slavery, where I remained, until happily rescued in the month of January, 1853, after a bondage of twelve years—it has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.” -an excerpt

Alexandre Dumas’s novel ‘Twenty Years After’ is a sequel to his ‘The Three Musketeers’ and precedes ‘The Vicomte de Bragelonne’. Through the words of the main characters, particularly Athos, Dumas comes out on the side of the monarchy in general, or at least the text often praises the idea of benevolent royalty. His musketeers are valiant and just in their efforts to protect young Louis XIV and the doomed Charles I from their attackers.

Russian literature, which for half a century has abounded in happy surprises, has again made manifest its wonderful power of innovation. A tramp, Maxime Gorky, lacking in all systematic training, has suddenly forced his way into its sacred domain, and brought thither the fresh spontaneity of his thoughts and character. Nothing as individual or as new has been produced since the first novels of Tolstoy. His work owes nothing to its predecessors; it stands apart and alone. It, therefore, obtains more than an artistic success, it causes a real revolution.

First published in the year 1837, the present book ‘Twice Told Tales’ by famous English writer Nathaniel Hawthorne is a collection of short stories. This collection consists of his forty short stories.

Indignation at my dedicating this book to you will be useless, since I am at present three thousand miles out of your reach. Moreover, this dedication is not intended as a public monument to our friendship;—I know too much for that. If that were the case, we should manage to quarrel even at this distance, I am quite confident, before the proof-sheets had left the press. But I can dedicate it to you alone of all my college friends, because you and I were brought so especially into the atmosphere of the man who inspired me to undertake it,—the man to whom, under God, I shall owe most of what grace and culture I may ever acquire.

“How beautiful!” said Frank and Harry. “Suppose, Mother,” said Harry, “it should rain, and hail, and snow to-morrow, for it looks like it now, and then you know we cannot go into the woods and gather flowers; and all our plans will be spoiled.” “Why, then, my dear, we must enjoy May morning as the great poet did, after he lost his sight, with our mind’s eye; and you must bear your disappointment patiently.” “Easier said than done, Mother,” said Harry. “Why, only think of all our preparations, and the beautiful wreath you made for Lizzy Evans, who is to be queen of the May, and how pretty she would look in it, and then think of the dinner in the woods, we all sitting round in a circle, and she and the king of the May in the midst of us, and Ned Brown playing on his flageolet; and then you know we are all to walk home in procession, and have a dance at his mother’s after tea.” “You will not lose your dance, Harry,” said his mother, “if it should hail, and rain, and snow; but, on the contrary, enjoy it all the more, for then you will riot be fatigued by a long walk; and Lizzy can wear the wreath at any rate.”

This is one of the great classics of nature and boyhood by one of America’s foremost nature experts. It presents a vast range of woodlore in the most palatable of forms, a genuinely delightful story. It will provide many hours of good reading for any child who likes the out-of-doors, and will teach him or her many interesting facts of nature, as well as a number of practical skills. It will be sure to awaken an interest in the outdoor world in any youngster who has not yet discovered the fascination of nature.