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*** Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard [John F, Moe The Cat, fantasyfan]
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub
*** Dr. Izard by Anna Katharine Green [crich70, desertblues, BelleZora]
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle
*** The Shepherd of the Hills by Harold Bell Wright [BelleZora, Seraphine, issybird]
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub
Spoiler:
This quote is from Branson.com, a tourism site for Branson, Missouri:
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Harold Bell Wright, an ailing minister-author who traveled to the Ozarks for his health discovered much more than he sought in the hill country. As he regained his strength in the healthful, peaceful atmosphere, he began writing a manuscript which would become the fourth most widely-read book in publishing history. It would also spark a nationwide interest and bring the first wave of tourism into the Missouri Ozarks.
Wright was born in 1872 in Rome, NY. He traveled extensively in his early career as a minister and a writer. At one point, he pastored a church in Pittsburg, KS. He lived there when he discovered that he had tuberculosis.
Concern for his health was complicated by despondency over a flagging career as a minister and writer. A cure for both problems seemed to be offered in the milder climate of the Ozark Mountains.
In the spring of 1896, he traveled as far into the Ozark hills as the rails took him. The end of the line was Marionville, MO where he set off on horseback into the rugged hills. Turning back from a flood swollen White River, he sheltered at the homestead of John and Anna Ross on a ridge near Mutton Hollow.
He intended only to spend the night, but Wright stayed for the summer. He returned to the Ross homestead each summer for eight years as he slowly regained his health.
He was a witness of a drought in 1902, as the homesteaders were pushed to the edge of starvation when their crops were scorched, the streams dried and the game disappeared. The settlers' desperation led to a series of events which would form the nucleus of Wright's most famous book, The Shepherd of the Hills.
In 1904, Wright began recording his impressions of the settlers and the events which shaped their lives at his campsite in a corn field on the Ross homestead. The completed novel lay unpublished until 1907, when one of Wright's friends insisted on backing its publication in 1907.
The Shepherd of the Hills marked a spectacular turning point in Wright's literary career. The book's success was almost immediate. Millions of copies were sold in several languages, and four movies versions were filmed. Wright's 40-year career as a writer resulted in 19 books, many scripts for stage plays, and a number of magazine articles before his death in 1944.
The legend Harold Bell Wright began in a novel continues to live in a nationally popular attraction, the Shepherd of the Hills Homestead and Outdoor Theatre.
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*** The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers [desertblues, WT Sharpe, sun surfer]
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub /
Kindle
Spoiler:
Dorothy Leigh Sayers 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, that remain popular to this day. However, Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to be her best work. She is also known for her plays, literary criticism and essays.
The nine tailors
Nine strokes from the belfry of an ancient country church toll the death of an unknown man and call the famous Lord Peter Wimsey to one of his most brilliant cases, set in the atmosphere of a quiet parish in the strange, flat, fen-country of East Anglia.
*** The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle [John F, VioletVal, fantasyfan]
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle
* Kepler by Walter Bryant [Billi]
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle
*** The Martyrs of Science by David Brewster [Billi, Seraphine, Hamlet53]
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle
*** The Case of the Golden Coprolite by Ralph Sir Edward [Billi, desertblues, Dazrin]
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle
Spoiler:
Patricia Clark:
Quote:
A mystery by our own Sir Sir Ralph Sir Edward, issued first in serial form in the Lounge, and now in a single volume for your delectation.
The cover image is by sa majesté, Zelda, reine de Pinwheel herself.
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*** Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift [sun surfer, BelleZora, Stephjk]
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub (Illustrated) /
German ePub /
Kindle /
PDF / more.
*** Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory [sun surfer, issybird, VioletVal]
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub /
Kindle
*** Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Montgomery [fantasyfan, Stephjk, Dazrin]
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle
The nominations are now closed.