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Gunman Lassiter shows up to help a female rancher protect her cattle from rustlers and demands from authorities of the Church. Highly dramatic, poignant, yet tender, this acclaimed Western writer corrals the listener into this captivating story.

This is a tale of an early Christmas. It is also a story of the healing power of divine knowledge. Only a clergyman of the caliber of Rev. Henry Van Dyke could bring a story of Christmas and a profound lesson of life in one delightful piece of fiction.

A young boy was reported missing from school. Was he kidnapped? If so, who was the kidnapper? Only Sherlock Holmes could sleuth out the answer through a maze of unscrupulous characters, a web of deceit, and the labyrinth of misleading clues.

This memorable and laughable story, first published in the Atlantic Monthly, was the catalyst that spiraled Hale into becoming one of America's most famous writers. Naturally, when two Frederic Inghams showed up in a small parish in Maine, the inevitable twist and turns of deceit could lead only to disaster.

Only Mark Twain, with his wry humor, would weigh in on a military campaign's failure and delight his listeners with a different take on the evils of war and the damage it can cause.

H. G. Wells, here at his best, creates a psychological portrayal of a young scientist, who, caught up in his own scientific experiments, believes he has discovered the secret of invisibility. This masterpiece of terror and murder plays upon the personal dichotomy of desires as the young scientist fights for sanity when he fails to reverse his experiment.

Enter the world of Beatrix Potter and her endearing anthropomorphic animals. These treasured characters have become every child's playmates and have found a home in every child's heart. Say hello to Nutkin the Squirrel and Benjamin Bunny, along with their many friends.

The story of Philip Nolan, exiled on a ship for 55 years after being convicted of treason whiplashes the listener between scorn and sympathy as he is doomed never to see his native land. The portrait of a patriot.

Noted as one of the highest literary achievements of the modern age, this impressionistic novel moves with boldness and pathos into the motivation and experience of a young soldier during the Civil War.

Everyone has heard of Ichabod Crane; few have read the real story of his adventures in Sleepy Hollow. The tale is set in the village of Terry Town, New York, where the commoners are beset by superstitions and wild visions. Ichabod, the priggish schoolmaster, when competing for the hand of the Hollow's fair damsel, is pursued by the village specter, the Headless Horseman.

A tidewater dog named Buck is stolen from his original owner and catapulted into an arena of bad men and dogs during the gold rush in northern Alaska. "Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing", and thus begins the start of hardship, mistreatment, and the will to survive. Toughening, maddening, and overcoming are the hallmarks of this great classic. Don't miss it.

"Never have I beheld any spectacle which so forcibly taught the lesson of humility to man as a total eclipse of the sun." So said the author in this sensitive story of death and rebirth when humans come face to face with nature.

Anna, a sensuous and rebellious woman, scraps her marriage for a young officer, Count Vronsky, hoping to find love. Its chilling ending assures the reader that this is a book never to be forgotten.

Three wishes - as if out of Arabian Nights - come to a man and his wife. Too fascinating to turn down, they fall victim to the ruse and make their wishes, unmindful of the enormously devastating consequences.

William Sidney Porter, or O. Henry as he is better known, spent his formative years in Texas. No wonder one of America's best-loved story tellers picked a vagabond like "Curly" to understand, the hard way, what the law of the West really means.

This is the story, set in 1891, that introduces Holmes' greatest opponent, the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty. As is well known, "The Final Problem" was intended to be exactly what its name says. Conan Doyle meant to stop writing about his famous detective with this short story - equally well-known, this device failed in its purpose.

Love can be found anywhere. Aboard a steamer headed for New York, a young man falls in love with a married woman; but fate trumps hope, and leaves only bittersweet memories.

When the man of the house disappears, it can't be because of a ghost - or can it? Leave it to Wharton to create the extraordinary out of the ordinary as she laces intrigue with doubt over fear and common sense.

The story is told in the first person (or "first horse") as an autobiographical memoir told by a highbred horse named Black Beauty - beginning with his carefree days as a foal on an English farm, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and recounts many tales of cruelty and kindness.

Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are two sisters with contrasting personalities. After being left impoverished by the death of their father and the greed of their elder brother, John, the sisters move into a new cottage, where they struggle through trials of love and loss before eventually finding happiness.