Celebrate Christmas and the Lone Star State with this 1950s classic that puts a spin on the Clement C. Moore classic.This clever, Texas-sized, Texas-style tale has entertained audiences for more than forty years. A Western Santa Claus-decked out in Levis, ten-gallon Stetson, cowboy vest, and with a bandana around his neck-makes his Christmas journey on a buckboard piled high with presents.Swooping in over the prairie to the amazement of sleepy residents and...

In "Ewing's Lady," Harry Leon Wilson crafts a captivating narrative that explores the complexities of love, ambition, and social class in the early 20th century American West. The novel boasts a rich, descriptive style reminiscent of the regionalism movement, as Wilson skillfully brings to life the rugged beauty of the landscape and the spirited characters that inhabit it. The story revolves around Ewing, a man caught between his emerging industrial success and the traditional values of hi...

"The Lions of the Lord: A Tale of the Old West" by Harry Leon Wilson is a gripping historical novel that transports readers to the rugged landscape of the American frontier. Set against the backdrop of the Old West, Wilson's masterful storytelling brings to life the tumultuous era of pioneering and exploration. Through vivid prose and meticulous research, Wilson paints a vivid portrait of the untamed wilderness and the colorful characters who inhabited it. At its core, "The Lions of the Lo...

Identical twin brothers choose wildly divergent paths in life, one embracing reckless adventure and the other conforming to rigid, respectable societal norms. As the years pass, the profound differences in their characters ignite a bitter rivalry, testing the boundaries of family loyalty and personal identity. When sudden tragedy strikes, a daring switch of identities forces the surviving brother to navigate the complicated, foreign life of the sibling he both loved and resented. This comp...

"The Boss Of Little Arcady" by Harry Leon Wilson is a classic work that represents the essence of its genre. This book offers readers an engaging experience, reflecting the author’s distinctive style, depth, and vision.

The story follows Daniel Voorhees Pike, an unassuming lawyer from Kokomo, Indiana, who travels to Europe to help his young ward, Ethel Granger-Simpson, navigate a complex situation involving her engagement to an English aristocrat. Ethel, captivated by the allure of European nobility, is engaged to marry the suave but morally dubious Lord Hawcastle. Pike, a straightforward and shrewd Midwesterner, uncovers the mercenary motives of the nobleman and his family, who are more interested in Eth...

Hours of great reading await, with ghostly tales from some of the 19th and 20th century's most renowned authors. Here is the lineup:AT CHRIGHTON ABBEY, by Mary Elizabeth BraddonTHE HAUNTED MILL, by Jerome K. JeromeTHE GHOST CLUB, by John Kendrick BangsTHE SHADOWS OF THE DEAD, by Louis BeckeTHE ROOM IN THE TOWER, by E. F. BensonTHE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS, by Lord Edward Bulwer-LyttonTHE MIDDLE BEDROOM, by H. de Vere StacpooleTHE DRU...

This book-collection file includes: Cavanagh's Forest Ranger, A Daughter of the Middle Border, The Eagle's Heart, The Forester's Daughter, A Little Norsk, Main-Travelled Roads, The Moccasin Ranch, Other Main-Traveled Roads, Prairie Folks, The Spirit of Sweetwater, A Spoil of Office, The Tyranny of the Dark, and Wayside Courtships. According to Wikipedia: "Hannibal Hamlin Garland (September 14, 1860 – March 4, 1940) was an American novelist, poet, psychical researcher essayist, and short st...

Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was a major American novelist of the early 20th century.Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works and novellas. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written and published from the 1920s to the 1940s, vividly reflect on American culture and mores of the period, albeit filtered through Wolfe's sensitive, s...

This classic collection by Bret Harte centers on the iconic title story, in which a group of social outcasts—expelled from a California mining town during the Gold Rush—are stranded in the wilderness, where they face hardship, sacrifice, and unexpected humanity. Alongside this poignant tale are stories that blend humor, irony, and adventure, portraying gamblers, miners, and drifters navigating love, loss, and survival in the rugged American West. Harte’s vivid characters and rich storytell...

Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books’ new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s sixth sense for tales of the weird and unusual.In the 1859 Christmas edition of his regular publication, All Year Round, Charles Dickens solicited his favorit...

It is a matchless morning in rural England. On a fair hill we see a majestic pile, the ivied walls and towers of Cholmondeley Castle, huge relic and witness of the baronial grandeurs of the Middle Ages. This is one of the seats of the Earl of Rossmore, K. G. G. C. B. K. C. M. G., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., who possesses twenty−two thousand acres of English land, owns a parish in London with two thousand houses on its lease−roll, and struggles comfortably along on an income of two hundre...