Books with author Daniel Foxx

There's a new breed of Private Investigator in town! A vandal is loose in the village of Punky-yarn destroying public property, wrecking the re-election, and even threatening the lives of the locals. Worst of all an innocent eleven year-old boy is being blamed and there is only one Private Investigator who can save him…Suzy the six-month old Beagle puppy. She’s young, she’s forgetful, she has no idea about what she’s doing. And she’s absolutely determined that nobody will send her human boy Away.

Robinson Crusoe in 1719, under ... the following quaint title :T he Life and Strange Surly prising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: who lived eight-and-twenty years all alone in an uninhabited island on the coast of A merica, near the mouth of the great river Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself. With an account how he was at last strangely delivered by Pirates. Written by himself. Like Paradise Lost, this romance, destined to so immediate and lasting a popularity, is said to have been offered to the whole circle of the trade before any publisher could be found willing to incur the risk of producing it. I ts success however was so gi eat that four editions were printed in as many months. It appeared, in the first instance, with the following preface :I fever the story of any private mans adventures in the world were worth making public, and were acceptable when published, the Editor of this account thinks this will be so. The wonders of this mans life exceed all that (he thinks) is to be found extant; the life of one man being scarce capable of a greater variety. The story is told with modesty, with seriousness, and with a religious application of events to the uses to which wise men always apply them ;viz.. to the instruction of others, by this example, and to justify and honor the wisdom of Providence in all the variety of circumstances, let them happen how they will. The Editor believes the thing to be a just history of fact; neither is there any appearance of fiction in it: and however thinks, because all such things are dispfited, that the improvement of it, as well to the diversion as to the instruction of the reader, will be the same; and as such, he thinks, without farther compliment to the world, he does tliem a great service in the publication. The great success of the first par(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

She brought up... the Curse of the Blood-Curdling Crab!There's something wrong with the prize-winning crab Abilene brought up from the dark ocean waters - everybody who tries to give her grief ends up in hot water, and she's sure the crustacean has something to do with it. Can Abilene crack the case of how to stop the bottom-dwelling demon, or will the shelled monster continue to wreak its hard-shelled havoc?

Discount prices on...DANGER!Nobody can quite remember the used-clothing shop moving into town - but with such low prices on such high-quality items, nobody wants to worry. But worry they will when everyone wearing the discount apparel starts to act like a criminal.Can good boy Barton shut the evil store down, or will the whole town end up paying the ultimate price?

She brought up... the Curse of the Blood-Curdling Crab! There's something wrong with the prize-winning crab Abilene brought up from the dark ocean waters - everybody who tries to give her grief ends up in hot water, and she's sure the crustacean has something to do with it. Can Abilene crack the case of how to stop the bottom-dwelling demon, or will the murky monster continue to wreak its hard-shelled havoc?

Title: A journal of the shipwreck and sufferings of Daniel Foss : a native of Elkton, Maryland, who was the only person saved from on board the brig Negociator, of Philadelphia, which foundered in the Pacific Ocean, on the 26th Nov. 1809, and who lived five years on a small barren island, during which time he subsisted on seals and never saw the face of any human creature.<br /><br />Author: Daniel Foss<br /><br />Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana <br /><br />Description: <br /><br />Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.<br /><br />Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.<br /><br />Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.<br /><br />++++<br />The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:<br />++++<br /><br />SourceLibrary: Huntington Library<br /><br />DocumentID: SABCP01197300<br /><br />CollectionID: CTRG93-B4253<br /><br />PublicationDate: 18160101<br /><br />SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America<br /><br />Notes: "The public may rely on the truth of the proceeding narrative of the shipwreck and sufferings of D. Foss, who is now living with his relatives in Elkton, Maryland, and has deposited in the Philadelphia Museum, the oar, which he so highly prized, and on which he kept a reckoning of the number of days he passed on the dreary island."<br /><br />Collation: 24 p<br /><br />

There’s a vandal loose in the village of Punky-yarn destroying public property, wrecking the re-election, and even threatening the lives of the locals. Worst of all an innocent eleven year-old boy is being blamed and there is only one Private Investigator who can save him… Suzy the six-month old Beagle puppy. She’s young, she’s forgetful, she has no idea about what she’s doing. And she’s absolutely determined that nobody will send her human boy Away.