Books with author Garrett Gunn

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Fifteen-year-old Anika had no idea she’s descended from royalty and comes from an enchanted land in another realm. The only magic in her life is her grand magician father, William, whose clever performances always draw admiring crowds. Anika starts practicing a few tricks of her own—but disappearing was never on her list. When she’s confronted by two strange men searching for a pocket watch connected to Cora, her deceased mother, Anika is stuffed into a wooden magician’s box and transported to the land of Valgard.There, she meets Eris, one of the kingdom’s four sibling rulers—who also happens to be Anika’s aunt. Eris needs help reuniting the kingdom, requiring the stones of the Gods, given to each sibling after the king’s death, to do so. One of the stones belongs to Eris’s illusionist brother, Merrick.Anika is shocked to discover that Merrick is the reason her father fled Valgard years before—and that he’s holding her mother captive. Eager to help, Anika agrees to steal his stone to free her mother. But something about Eris’s elaborate tale doesn’t add up, causing Anika to question who the real threat is—and if perhaps she is aiding the wrong side.

This is the second of three novels with a free market theme written by the author in the early 1920's, the first being "The Driver" and the last "Satan's Bushel". "The Cinder Buggy"'s plot revolves around the historic quest to perfect the manufacture of steel rails for the rapidly growing railroad industry, which initially used only iron rails. The steel age that would follow was the most dynamic in human history, as mighty skyscrapers, bridges, sailing vessels, and many other things which could only be dreamt of in the past, could now be built.Garrett was a fine novelist, and successfully mixed in believable action and love sequences into his stories about the wonders of capitalism in a way that Ayn Rand could only envy.The writing style is a bit old-fashioned, but easy to read and follow. "The Cinder Buggy" is great reading from the historical perspective, as well as a fine novel.

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Each of the four royal siblings--Eris, Ranger, Merrick, and Cora--has received a magical stone of the Gods to assist with peacefully ruling their separate territories. But when one of the royals becomes greedy for power and turns on the others, the kingdom is thrown into disarray. Fifteen-year-old Anika, Cora's heir, has no idea of her origins, or the power she possesses. Her father, William, led her to believe her mother is dead and that Anika herself is merely a magician's daughter. But there is no escaping fate. Strange men seeking the missing stone discover Anika's connection to Cora. Kidnapped and transported back to Valgard, Anika finally learns the truth about her heritage. To save the kingdom and her birthright, she must determine who in her family she can trust and who will commit the ultimate betrayal.

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Excerpt from The Cinder Buggy: A Fable in Iron, and SteelThe town has nothing to sell except the finest wrought iron in the world. As the quality of this iron is historic and the form of it a standard muck bar for use in further manufacture you order it from afar at a price based on what is current in Pittsburgh.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.