Sunday, July 04, 2010

Manybooks.net additions for your Kindle library

July 4, 2010 Cindy O'Neal
Romance

Allan's Wife
author: H. Rider Haggard
published: 1889
language: English
wordcount: 50,737 / 135 pg
series: Allan Quatermain
audiobook: librivox.org
mnybks.net#: 3096
origin: gutenberg.org
genres: Adventure, Romance, Audiobook
Elephants, lions, baboons, and other fauna of the African wilds abound on these pages, and we have a Zulu impi and the resulting carnage described with the author's usual vivid power of narration. Our old friend, Allan Quatermain, figures as the hero throughout, and the most substantial part of the volume is occupied with the story of his wooing, and the brief episode of his married life. The romance, however, is subsidiary to the sauce piquante of livelier incidents.

Amanda
A Daughter of the Mennonites
author: Anna Balmer Myers
language: English
wordcount: 68,673 / 196 pg
downloads: 2,685
mnybks.net#: 5250
genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature
Excerpt
ons and discover that, though childless, she could attract the love of other people's children if she chose. The tender moment was fleet. She looked at Amanda and Philip and saw in them only two children prone to evil, requiring stern disciplining.

"Now don't go far from the house," said Mrs. Reist later, "for your other dress is soon ready to fit. As soon as Aunt Rebecca gets the pleats basted in the skirt."

"I'll soon get them in. But it's foolishness to go to all that bother when gathers would do just as good and go faster."

Amanda turned away and a moment later she and Phil were seated on the long wooden settee in the kitchen. The boy had silently agreed to a temporary truce so that the game of counting might be played. He would pay back his sister some other time. Gee, it was easy to get her goat-- just a little thing like a caterpillar dropped down her neck would make her holler!

"Gee, Manda, I thought of a bully thing!" the boy whispered. "If that old crosspatch Rebecca says 'My goodness' t

The Amateur Gentleman
author: Jeffery Farnol
published: 1913
language: English
wordcount: 177,532 / 529 pg
downloads: 3,427
added to site: 2006.02.15
mnybks.net#: 12767
origin: gutenberg.org
genres: Fiction & Literature, Romance
The story of Barnabas Barty, son of John Barty, former champion boxer of England and landlord of a pub in Kent. At the start of the tale Barnabas comes into possession of a vast fortune and determines to become a gentleman. His father objects, they quarrel, and settle their differences in a round of fisticuffs which Barnabas wins fair and square, whereupon Barnabas sets off for London to make his place in society -- and discover romance!

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