Books published by publisher Halcyon Press Ltd

This Halcyon Classics ebook contains Augustine of Hippo's 'Confessions.' One of the early church fathers, Augustine's 'Confessions' charts his journey from his sinful youth and Manichaeism to Christianity. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.

This Halcyon Classics ebook contains Augustine of Hippo's 'Confessions.' One of the early church fathers, Augustine's 'Confessions' charts his journey from his sinful youth and Manichaeism to Christianity. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.

This Halcyon Classics ebook contains Augustine of Hippo's 'Confessions.' One of the early church fathers, Augustine's 'Confessions' charts his journey from his sinful youth and Manichaeism to Christianity. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.

THE PENNY PARKER MYSTERY SERIES Volume I contains the first nine books in Mildred A. Wirt's popular detective stories for girls series. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.TALE OF THE WITCH DOLL (#1)THE VANISHING HOUSEBOAT (#2)DANGER AT THE DRAWBRIDGE (#3)BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR (#4)CLUE OF THE SILKEN LADDER (#5) THE SECRET PACT (#6)THE CLOCK STRIKES THIRTEEN (#7) THE WISHING WELL (#8)GHOST BEYOND THE GATE (#9) Mildred A. Wirt Benson (1905-2002) was a prolific author of books for young readers. A trained journalist, Benson is best known as a ghostwriter for the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Under the house pen-name Carolyn Keene, Benson completed 23 of the first 25 Nancy Drew mysteries and wrote a number of others until 1984. Benson also wrote her own mystery series, Penny Parker, from the 1930s to the 1950s.

THE PENNY NICHOLS MYSTERY SERIES contains the complete series in Mildred Wirt Benson's (writing as Joan Clark) popular detective stories for girls series. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.PENNY NICHOLS FINDS A CLUEPENNY NICHOLS AND THE MYSTERY OF THE LOST KEYPENNY NICHOLS AND THE BLACK IMPPENNY NICHOLS AND THE KNOB HILL MYSTERYJoan Clark was a pseudonym of Mildred A. Wirt Benson, (1905-2002) a prolific author of books for young readers. A trained journalist, Benson is best known as a ghostwriter for the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Under the house pen-name Carolyn Keene, Benson completed 23 of the first 25 Nancy Drew mysteries and wrote a number of others until 1984. Benson also wrote several of her own mystery series from the 1930s to the 1950s.

This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains nine works by California conservationist John Muir (1838-1914). Scottish-born Muir was an early advocate of Conservation in the United States; his activism led to the establishment of the Sierra Club. Muir is perhaps best known for his efforts to preserve the Yosemite Valley and Sequoia National Park, and his unsuccessful attempts to stop the damming of the Hetch Hetchy Valley near San Francisco.This ebook is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.Contents:Studies in the Sierra (1874)Picturesque California (1890)The Mountains of California (1894)The Grand Canyon of the Colorado (1902)Stickeen: The Story of a Dog (1909)The Yosemite (1912)The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913)Travels in Alaska (1915)Steep Trails (1919)This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.

Biff Brewster, sixteen, is a tall, strongly built blond youth who lives In Indianapolis, Indiana, with his parents and the eleven-year-old twins, Ted and Monica. Because his mother and father believe that travel is as important to education as formal schooling, Biff is encouraged to travel to various countries during the vacation months. His experiences in these lands, and the young people he meets there, form the basis of a new series for adventure-loving readers. In every journey there is a strong element of mystery, usually a direct result of conditions peculiar to the region in which he is traveling. • Brazilian Gold Mine Mystery• Mystery of the Chinese Ring• Hawaiian Sea Hunt Mystery• Mystery of the Ambush in IndiaAndy Adams (1859-1935) was a successful American writer of Western stories and young reader mysteries. Raised by pioneer parents, Adams lived in several western states during the closing days of the frontier, where he worked as a cowhand in Texas and a gold miner in Colorado. His partly fictional LOG OF COWBOY is considered one of the best accounts of cowboy life told from a first-hand perspective.

Ruth and Alice DeVere and their father struggle to make ends meet while Mr. DeVere seeks another theatrical engagement. A friend's suggestion that Mr. DeVere work as an actor in the moving pictures is considered vulgar -- but when the family is served an eviction notice Mr. DeVere accepts work in the 'movies'. The family's financial situation improves, and in time, Alice and Ruth win positions with the film company, too -- and begin to have thrilling adventures!• The Moving Picture Girls, or First Appearance in Photo Dramas• The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm, or Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays• The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound, or The Proof on the Film• The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms, or Lost in the Wilds of Florida• The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch, or Great Days Among the Cowboys• The Moving Picture Girls at Sea, or A Pictured Shipwreck that Became Real• The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays, or The Sham Battles at Oak FarmTHE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS were ostensibly written by Laura Lee Hope, a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer syndicate for several series from 1904 to the 1930s, including THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS and THE BOBBSEY TWINS. Authors who contributed to the series include Howard and Lilian Garis, Elizabeth Ward, Harriet (Stratemeyer) Adams, Andrew E. Svenson, June M. Dunn, Grace Grote, and Nancy Axelrad.