MobileRead Forums - IMP Books http://www.mobileread.com/forums Share your e-books in eBookwise IMP format (e.g. Fictionwise eBookwise 1150) en Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:51:32 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.mobileread.com/feeds/images/mr/misc/logo.gif MobileRead Forums - IMP Books http://www.mobileread.com/forums Western Bower, B. M: Rowdy of the Cross L. V1. 7 Nov 2009 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61562&goto=newpost Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:38:17 GMT B.M. Bower (1871-1940), author of western fiction based in the American West wrote Chip of the Flying U (1906). Excerpt “Rowdy” Vaughan—he had been christened Rowland by his mother, and rechristened Rowdy by his cowboy friends, who are prone to treat with much irreverence the names bestowed by mothers—was not happy. He stood in the stirrups and shook off the thick layer of snow which clung, damp and close-packed, to his coat. The dull yellow folds were full of it; his gray hat, pulled low over his purple ears, was heaped with it. He reached up a gloved hand and scraped away as much as he could, wrapped the long-skirted, “sour-dough” coat around his numbed legs, then settled into the saddle with B.M. Bower (1871-1940), author of western fiction based in the American West wrote Chip of the Flying U (1906).

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“Rowdy” Vaughan—he had been christened Rowland by his mother, and rechristened Rowdy by his cowboy friends, who are prone to treat with much irreverence the names bestowed by mothers—was not happy. He stood in the stirrups and shook off the thick layer of snow which clung, damp and close-packed, to his coat. The dull yellow folds were full of it; his gray hat, pulled low over his purple ears, was heaped with it. He reached up a gloved hand and scraped away as much as he could, wrapped the long-skirted, “sour-dough” coat around his numbed legs, then settled into the saddle with
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]]> IMP Books crutledge http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61562 <![CDATA[Western Bower, B. M: Rim o' the World. V1. 5 Nov 2009]]> http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61398&goto=newpost Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:53:08 GMT B.M. Bower (1871-1940), author of western fiction based in the American West wrote Chip of the Flying U (1906). Excerpt Not all of the West is tamed and trained to run smoothly on pneumatic tires and to talk more enthusiastically of the different “makes” of cars than of bits and saddles. There are still wide stretches unknown of tourists and movie men hunting locations for Western melodrama where men live in the full flavor of adventure and romance and never know it, because they have never known any other way to live. B.M. Bower (1871-1940), author of western fiction based in the American West wrote Chip of the Flying U (1906).

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Not all of the West is tamed and trained to run smoothly on pneumatic tires and to talk more enthusiastically of the different “makes” of cars than of bits and saddles. There are still wide stretches unknown of tourists and movie men hunting locations for Western melodrama where men live in the full flavor of adventure and romance and never know it, because they have never known any other way to live.
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]]> IMP Books crutledge http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61398 Western Bower, B. M: The Range Dwellers. V1. 5 Nov 2009 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61372&goto=newpost Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:22:31 GMT B.M. Bower (1871-1940), author of western fiction based in the American West wrote Chip of the Flying U (1906). Excerpt I’m something like the old maid you read about—the one who always knows all about babies and just how to bring them up to righteous maturity; I’ve got a mighty strong conviction that I know heaps that my dad never thought of about the proper training for a healthy male human. I don’t suppose I’ll ever have a chance to demonstrate my wisdom, but, if I do, there are a few things that won’t happen to my boy. B.M. Bower (1871-1940), author of western fiction based in the American West wrote Chip of the Flying U (1906).

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I’m something like the old maid you read about—the one who always knows all about babies and just how to bring them up to righteous maturity; I’ve got a mighty strong conviction that I know heaps that my dad never thought of about the proper training for a healthy male human. I don’t suppose I’ll ever have a chance to demonstrate my wisdom, but, if I do, there are a few things that won’t happen to my boy.
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]]> IMP Books crutledge http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61372 Western Bower, B. M: The Ranch at the Wolverine. V1. 4 Nov 2009 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61293&goto=newpost Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:52:26 GMT B.M. Bower (1871-1940), author of western fiction based in the American West wrote Chip of the Flying U (1906). Excerpt Four trail-worn oxen, their necks bowed to the yoke of patient servitude, should really begin this story. But to follow the trail they made would take several chapters which you certainly would skip—unless you like to hear the tale of how the wilderness was tamed and can thrill at the stern history of those who did the taming while they fought to keep their stomachs fairly well filled with food and their hard-muscled bodies fit for the fray. There was a woman, low-browed, uncombed, harsh of voice and speech and nature, who drove the four oxen forward over lava rock and rough prairie and the scanty sage. I might tell you a great deal about Marthy, who plodded stolidly across the desert and the low-lying hills along the Blackfoot; and of her weak-souled, shiftless husband whom she called Jase, when she did not call him worse. B.M. Bower (1871-1940), author of western fiction based in the American West wrote Chip of the Flying U (1906).

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Four trail-worn oxen, their necks bowed to the yoke of patient servitude, should really begin this story. But to follow the trail they made would take several chapters which you certainly would skip—unless you like to hear the tale of how the wilderness was tamed and can thrill at the stern history of those who did the taming while they fought to keep their stomachs fairly well filled with food and their hard-muscled bodies fit for the fray.
There was a woman, low-browed, uncombed, harsh of voice and speech and nature, who drove the four oxen forward over lava rock and rough prairie and the scanty sage. I might tell you a great deal about Marthy, who plodded stolidly across the desert and the low-lying hills along the Blackfoot; and of her weak-souled, shiftless husband whom she called Jase, when she did not call him worse.
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]]> IMP Books crutledge http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61293 Western Bower, B. M: The Quirt. V1. 3 Nov 2009 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61241&goto=newpost Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:25:49 GMT B.M. Bower (1871-1940), author of western fiction based in the American West wrote Chip of the Flying U (1906). Excerpt Quirt Creek flowed sluggishly between willows which sagged none too gracefully across its deeper pools, or languished beside the rocky stretches that were bone dry from July to October, with a narrow channel in the center where what water there was hurried along to the pools below. For a mile or more, where the land lay fairly level in a platter-like valley set in the lower hills, the mud that rimmed the pools was scored deep with the tracks of the “TJ up-and-down” cattle, as the double monogram of Hunter and Johnson was called. B.M. Bower (1871-1940), author of western fiction based in the American West wrote Chip of the Flying U (1906).

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Quirt Creek flowed sluggishly between willows which sagged none too gracefully across its deeper pools, or languished beside the rocky stretches that were bone dry from July to October, with a narrow channel in the center where what water there was hurried along to the pools below. For a mile or more, where the land lay fairly level in a platter-like valley set in the lower hills, the mud that rimmed the pools was scored deep with the tracks of the “TJ up-and-down” cattle, as the double monogram of Hunter and Johnson was called.
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]]> IMP Books crutledge http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61241 Western Bower, B. M: The Phantom Herd. V1. 3 Nov 2009 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61220&goto=newpost Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:44:55 GMT B.M. Bower (1871-1940), author of western fiction based in the American West wrote Chip of the Flying U (1906). Excerpt For the accuracy of certain parts of this story which deal most intimately with the business of making motion pictures, I am indebted to Buck Connor. whose name is a sufficient guarantee that all technical points are correct. His criticism, advice and other assistance have been invaluable, and I take this opportunity of expressing my appreciation and thanks for the help he has given me. B.M. Bower (1871-1940), author of western fiction based in the American West wrote Chip of the Flying U (1906).

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For the accuracy of certain parts of this story which deal most intimately with the business of making motion pictures, I am indebted to Buck Connor. whose name is a sufficient guarantee that all technical points are correct. His criticism, advice and other assistance have been invaluable, and I take this opportunity of expressing my appreciation and thanks for the help he has given me.
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]]> IMP Books crutledge http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61220 Western Bower, B. M: The Lure of the Dim Trails. V1. 3 Nov 2009 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61194&goto=newpost Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:05:25 GMT B.M. Bower (1871-1940), author of western fiction based in the American West wrote Chip of the Flying U (1906). Excerpt “What do you care, anyway?” asked Reeve-Howard philosophically. “It isn’t as if you depended on the work for a living. Why worry over the fact that a mere pastime fails to be financially a success. You don’t need to write—” “Neither do you need to slave over those dry-point things,” Thurston retorted, in none the best humor with his comforter “You’ve an income bigger than mine; yet you toil over Grecian-nosed women with untidy hair as if each one meant a meal and a bed.” B.M. Bower (1871-1940), author of western fiction based in the American West wrote Chip of the Flying U (1906).

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“What do you care, anyway?” asked Reeve-Howard philosophically. “It isn’t as if you depended on the work for a living. Why worry over the fact that a mere pastime fails to be financially a success. You don’t need to write—”
“Neither do you need to slave over those dry-point things,” Thurston retorted, in none the best humor with his comforter “You’ve an income bigger than mine; yet you toil over Grecian-nosed women with untidy hair as if each one meant a meal and a bed.”
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]]> IMP Books crutledge http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61194 Western Bower, B. M: The Lookout Man. V1. 2 Nov 2009 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61119&goto=newpost Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:14:18 GMT B.M. Bower (1871-1940), author of western fiction based in the American West wrote Chip of the Flying U (1906). Excerpt From the obscurity of vast, unquiet distance the surf came booming in with the heavy impetus of high tide, flinging long streamers of kelp and bits of driftwood over the narrowing stretch of sand where garishly costumed bathers had lately shrieked hilariously at their gambols. Before the chill wind that had risen with the turn of the tide the bathers retreated in dripping, shivering groups, to appear later in fluffs and furs and woollen sweaters; still inclined to hilarity, still undeniably both to leave off their pleasuring at Venice, dedicated to cheap pleasures. B.M. Bower (1871-1940), author of western fiction based in the American West wrote Chip of the Flying U (1906).

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From the obscurity of vast, unquiet distance the surf came booming in with the heavy impetus of high tide, flinging long streamers of kelp and bits of driftwood over the narrowing stretch of sand where garishly costumed bathers had lately shrieked hilariously at their gambols. Before the chill wind that had risen with the turn of the tide the bathers retreated in dripping, shivering groups, to appear later in fluffs and furs and woollen sweaters; still inclined to hilarity, still undeniably both to leave off their pleasuring at Venice, dedicated to cheap pleasures.
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]]> IMP Books crutledge http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61119 Spiritual Olcott, Henry S: The Buddhist Catechism, v1, 2 November 2009. http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61066&goto=newpost Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:24:39 GMT Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907) The Buddhist Catechism (44th Edition, 1915) 383 questions and answers outlining the tenets of Buddhism. The source was a very inconsistently-formatted Project Gutenberg file. I have tried to bring some consistency and to improve the layout. Unfortunately, Book Designer does not support macrons, so I’ve replaced them with circumflexes. Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907)
The Buddhist Catechism
(44th Edition, 1915)

383 questions and answers outlining the tenets of Buddhism.

The source was a very inconsistently-formatted Project Gutenberg file. I have tried to bring some consistency and to improve the layout. Unfortunately, Book Designer does not support macrons, so I’ve replaced them with circumflexes.
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]]> IMP Books Patricia http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61066 Horror Le Fanu, J. Sheridan: Green Tea, v1, 2 November 2009. http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61061&goto=newpost Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:12:25 GMT J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) Green Tea (1872) A man is haunted by a malevolent black monkey. J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873)
Green Tea (1872)

A man is haunted by a malevolent black monkey.
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]]> IMP Books Patricia http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61061 Western Bower, B. M: The Long Shadow. V1. 1 Nov 2009 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61037&goto=newpost Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:24:15 GMT B.M. Bower (1871-1940), author of western fiction based in the American West wrote Chip of the Flying U (1906). Excerpt The wind, rising again as the sun went down, mourned lonesomely at the northwest corner of the cabin, as if it felt the desolateness of the barren, icy hills and the black hollows between, and of the angry red sky with its purple shadows lowering over the unhappy land—and would make fickle friendship with some human thing. Charming Billy, hearing the crooning wail of it, knew well the portent and sighed. Perhaps he, too, felt something of the desolateness without and perhaps he, too, longed for some human companionship. B.M. Bower (1871-1940), author of western fiction based in the American West wrote Chip of the Flying U (1906).

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The wind, rising again as the sun went down, mourned lonesomely at the northwest corner of the cabin, as if it felt the desolateness of the barren, icy hills and the black hollows between, and of the angry red sky with its purple shadows lowering over the unhappy land—and would make fickle friendship with some human thing. Charming Billy, hearing the crooning wail of it, knew well the portent and sighed. Perhaps he, too, felt something of the desolateness without and perhaps he, too, longed for some human companionship.
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]]> IMP Books crutledge http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61037 Other Fiction Chesterton, G K: The Flying Inn, v1, 1 November 2009. http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60992&goto=newpost Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:54:18 GMT G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) The Flying Inn (1914) First published in 1914, this surreal comic novel is set in the near future. The themes that Chesterton satirizes are still likely to touch a nerve today. He envisages an England where the upper classes have converted to Islam, and are attempting to ban the consumption of alcohol. The lead characters set up a peripatetic public house and exploit various legal loopholes in order to get a drink. There is a particularly delightful excoriation of cocoa; discussions on the merits of cannabis, criticism of Islamic extremists, corrupt politicians, journalists, vegetarians and exponents of “Higher Thought” (i.e. new-age weirdoes). This means that it is surprisingly topical in places. G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936)
The Flying Inn (1914)

First published in 1914, this surreal comic novel is set in the near future. The themes that Chesterton satirizes are still likely to touch a nerve today. He envisages an England where the upper classes have converted to Islam, and are attempting to ban the consumption of alcohol. The lead characters set up a peripatetic public house and exploit various legal loopholes in order to get a drink.
There is a particularly delightful excoriation of cocoa; discussions on the merits of cannabis, criticism of Islamic extremists, corrupt politicians, journalists, vegetarians and exponents of “Higher Thought” (i.e. new-age weirdoes). This means that it is surprisingly topical in places.
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]]> IMP Books Patricia http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60992 Biography O’Connor, John: Father Brown on Chesterton, v1, 1 November 2009. http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60989&goto=newpost Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:41:48 GMT Father John O’Connor (1870–1952) Father Brown on Chesterton (1937) This is written by the priest who received Chesterton into the Catholic Church, and who was supposed to be the model for Chesterton’s “Father Brown” detective stories. The source was Project Gutenberg Canada. The cover image is a photograph of Chesterton and his wife. Father John O’Connor (1870–1952)
Father Brown on Chesterton (1937)

This is written by the priest who received Chesterton into the Catholic Church, and who was supposed to be the model for Chesterton’s “Father Brown” detective stories.
The source was Project Gutenberg Canada. The cover image is a photograph of Chesterton and his wife.
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]]> IMP Books Patricia http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60989 Horror Oliphant, Margaret: The Library Window, v1, 1 November 2009. http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60983&goto=newpost Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:26:41 GMT Margaret Oliphant (Margaret Oliphant Wilson) (1828–1897) The Library Window: A Story of the Seen and the Unseen (1896) A ghost story. A young girl looks out of her aunt’s window, to the college library opposite, where there is a mysterious window… Margaret Oliphant (Margaret Oliphant Wilson) (1828–1897)
The Library Window: A Story of the Seen and the Unseen (1896)

A ghost story. A young girl looks out of her aunt’s window, to the college library opposite, where there is a mysterious window…
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]]> IMP Books Patricia http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60983 Horror Oliphant, Margaret: The Portrait, v1, 1 November 2009. http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60979&goto=newpost Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:17:02 GMT Margaret Oliphant (Margaret Oliphant Wilson) (1828–1897) The Portrait (1894) A ghost story. The arrival of an old family portrait has unsettling consequences… Margaret Oliphant (Margaret Oliphant Wilson) (1828–1897)
The Portrait (1894)

A ghost story. The arrival of an old family portrait has unsettling consequences…
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