Huck Finn had always lived wild. He had no home, and his only relative was a drunken, illiterate father who could go away for weeks at a stretch. One day Huck and his friend, Tom Sawyer, in exploring a cave, found $12,000 in gold that robbers had hidden.
Once upon a time, there was a donkey who loved to sing and play the lute. One day his master, the farmer allowed him to go his own way. As the donkey traveled on the road to Bremen, he met some other interesting animal friends- a dog, a cat and a cock. They eventually have to tangle with a band of robbers, but they win out at the end and start making some beautiful music.
Grade 6–8 Moose and the cons are about to get a lot closer in this much-anticipated sequel. It’s 1935. Moose Flanagan lives on Alcatraz with his family, the other families of the guards, and a few hundred no-name hit men, con men, mad dog murderers and a handful of bank robbers too. And one of those cons has just done him a big favor.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 19 August 2011
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The Lacquer Screen - A Judge Dee Mystery
Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously altered to show the man stabbing his lover. The magistrate fears he is losing his mind and will murder his own wife. Meanwhile, a banker has inexplicably killed himself, and a lovely lady has allowed Dee's lieutenant, Chiao Tai, to believe she is a courtesan. Dee and Chiao Tai go incognito among a gang of robbers to solve this mystery, and find the leader of the robbers is more honorable than the magistrate.
