Wilbur Lawton

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• Jan-2018
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One breezy day in early June, when a fresh wind off shore was whipping the water into sparkling white caps, excitement and comment fairly hummed about the crowded foredecks of the big Dreadnought Manhattan. The formidable looking sea-fighter lay with...

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• Jan-2015
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Isn't it a dandy picture-the real thing-just as I've always imagined it. Herc! Ned Strong wheeled from the gaudily colored lithograph he had been admiring, and turned to a red-headed youth of about his own age-almost eighteen-who stood beside him in ...

• Aug-2014
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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

• Jun-2014
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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

• Apr-2014
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• Brief author biography includedThe story deals with aerial contests for a big prize offered by newspapers to fly from New York across the continent and the hairbreadth escapes encountered....

• Jan-2014
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Twenty days out from San Francisco in the vast, heaving desert of the sea, twenty days of storm, sunshine and calm, the Sea Gypsy, the great white yacht of Jacob Jukes, head of the big Atlantic and Pacific Shipping Combine, was making her way lazily ...

• Dec-2008
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John Henry Goldfrap (1879-1917) was a North American journalist and author of boys' books, participating in the "American series phenomenon. " He always wrote under various pseudonyms. He wrote under the pseudonym Captain Wilbur Lawton three differen...

• Jul-1917
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The newspapers announced in large type that the Kronprinzessin Emilie, the crack flyer of the Bremen-American line, was to carry from the United States to Germany the vast sum of $6,000,000 in bullion. On her sailing day the dock, from which she was ...

• Nov-1915
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"It seems queer not to have Harry along with us on this trip to the war zone of Europe " "Just what Pudge, here, was saying last night, Billy. But you know my brother Harry has been ordered by Doctor Perkins to keep quiet for two whole months." "Fran...

• Apr-1914
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The West Indian liner, Tropic Queen, one of the great vessels owned by the big shipping combine at whose head was Jacob Jukes, the New York millionaire, was plunging southward through a rolling green sea about two hundred miles to the east of Hattera...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

Published originally in 1911, this novel written for young adults is the second of six describing the adventures of Ned Strong and Herc Taylor, two rural farm boys, cousins, who decide to leave the farm owned by their parsimonious grandfather who rai...

Published originally in 1911, this novel written for young adults is the third of six describing the adventures of Ned Strong and Herc Taylor, two rural farm boys, cousins, who decide to leave the farm owned by their parsimonious grandfather who rais...

Published originally in 1912, this novel written for young adults is the fourth of six describing the adventures of Ned Strong and Herc Taylor, two rural farm boys, cousins, who decide to leave the farm owned by their parsimonious grandfather who rai...

Published originally in 1911, this novel written for young adults is the first of six describing the adventures of Ned Strong and Herc Taylor, two rural farm boys, cousins, who decide to leave the farm owned by their parsimonious grandfather who rais...

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