Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse

A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm.

After seeing his friend Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge for the first time in years, author Jeremy Garnet is dragged along on holiday to Ukridge's new chicken farm in Dorset.

Hilarious situations abound with Garnet's troublesome courting of a girl living nearby and the struggles on the farm, which are worsened by Ukridge's bizarre business ideas and methods.

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A Rip Van Winkle of the Kalahari by Frederick Cornell

Seven Tales of South-West Africa

First published in 1915, these seven stories exemplify the beautiful, but arid and treacherous area that forms part of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa and Namibia (then South-West Africa).

Most of these stories were written on the veldt; at odd times, in out- of-the-way prospecting camps, or in the wilds of the Kalahari Desert. They bring us reminiscences of a long-forgotten era and of a variety of fascinating characters and dangerous animals that roamed this area.

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The Man-eaters of Tsavo by J. H. Patterson

And Other East African Adventures

In 1898, the British East Africa Company commissioned Col. John H. Patterson to oversee the construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in present-day Kenya. Almost immediately after his arrival, lion attacks started to take place on the workers, with the lions dragging men out of their tents at night and feeding on their victims.

Despite taking various measures to curb the attacks, they escalated dramatically, and eventually the bridge construction stopped due to a mass exodus of the workers. The superstitious workers became increasingly hostile and many of them were certain that the lions were evil spirits who came to punish the bridge builders.

With his reputation, livelihood and personal safety at stake, Patterson realized that he had to deal with the crisis in the only way he knew how - hunt the man-eaters down and kill them. This true story was the basis for 3 films; The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), starring Val Kilmer as Patterson, being the latest.

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is Mark Twain's classic story about a mischievous orphan who is cared for by his Aunt Polly. He lives in the carefree and wonderful world of boyhood on the banks of the Mississippi in the early-mid 1800s.

Tom and his friends go after adventure time and again, but one night he witnesses a murder by a fearsome character in town. Tom testifies against the murderer after the wrong man was accused of the murder, but the murderer escapes.

Eventually Tom and his sweetheart, Beckey, get trapped in a cave. To make things worse, they run into the murderer inside the cave, who uses it as a hideaway. Will they be able to get out in one piece?

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Mark Twain's classic novel about Huckleberry Finn, a teenaged misfit who has a tough time with his alcoholic father.

After an adventure with his friend, Tom Sawyer, Huck's father returns and kidnaps him. Huck escapes and floats on a raft down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave, Jim. Plenty of adventure and peril await them on their journey.

Ernest Hemingway commented the following about this work: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. It's the best book we've had."

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An Iron Will by Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden says "There are three kinds of people in the world: the wills, the won'ts, and the can'ts. The first accomplish everything; the second oppose everything; the third fail in everything." Are you of the second or third kind? Do you wish you knew how to be more successful in life?

This personal motivational book shows you how to attain a positive attitude, mental discipline and self-control in order to gain more willpower to achieve your goals.

You will not only gain willpower, but an Iron Will that you can use to succeed against the odds in your personal and business life.

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Above Life's Turmoil by James Allen

In this practical and spiritual guide, James Allen illustrates how to shut out the noise from outside to place the spotlight on the enlightenment of the inner self.

Allen, one of the most popular writers on inspiration and the power of thought of the 20th century, is best known for his work As a Man Thinketh.

We cannot alter external things, nor shape other people to our liking, nor mold the world to our wishes but we can alter internal things,-our desires, passions, thoughts,-we can shape our liking to other people, and we can mold the inner world of our own mind in accordance with wisdom. The turmoil of the world we cannot avoid, but the disturbances of mind we can overcome.

The duties and difficulties of life claim our attention, but we can rise above all anxiety concerning them. This book points the reader towards those heights of self-knowledge and self-conquest which, rising above the turbulence of the world, lift their peaks where the Heavenly Silence reigns.

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