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The Further Adventures of Zorro is the second novel Johnston McCulley wrote about Californian vigilante Zorro, the secret identity of Don Diego Vega. First published serially in Argosy All-Story Weekly between May and June 1922, this novel is the direct sequel to the 1919 novel The Curse of Capistrano. Although McCulley initially intended Zorro’s story to be complete in a single novel, the 1920 film adaptation The Mark of Zorro popularized the character sufficiently to convince McCulley to write another Zorro novel. Because McCulley wrote The Curse of Capistrano to be a stand-alone story, he...

This issue includes "Slaves of the Dust" by Sophie Wenzel Ellis, Part B of "The Pirate Planet" by Charles W. Diffin, "The Sea Terror" by Captain S. P. Meek, "Gray Denim" by Harl Vincent, and "The Ape-Men of Xlotli" by David R. Sparks. - Summary by Bill Boerst

A mysterious map, pirates, and pieces of eight! When young Jim Hawkins finds a map to pirates’ gold he starts on an adventure that takes him from his English village to a desert island with the murderous Black Dog, half-mad Ben Gunn, and (of course) Long John Silver. Arr Jim lad! R.L. Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Scotland and travelled extensively in California and the south Pacific. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis)

Phil Thorne can really bounce back! The story starts with him unceremoniously losing his job (due to his own indiscretion), but immediately helping himself to a great spot by remaining compassionate for an elderly man who needs his help - that man becoming his next employer. Though some nasty men within his new office try to do him up, he overcomes their attempts with his honesty and determination for the truth. Phil teaches us about courage against men as well as calculated bravery in the stock market. (Summary by Keith Salis)

The house had been vacant and was supposed to be haunted. Mr. Hardy started to investigate - and disappeared! (From an old ad) This the second book in the original "Hardy Boys" mystery series.

PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the "Riverview Star," Penny is self-sufficient, outspoken, and extraordinarily tenacious. Penny was the creation of Mildred A. Wirt, who was also the author of the original Nancy Drew series (under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene). Wirt once said, " 'I always thought Penny Parker was a better Nancy Drew than Nancy is." In THE GHOST BEYOND THE GATE, Penny's father mysteriously disappears in the wake of an accient. ...

Bruce Hardy and Joe Ramsey are chums from Hurricane Hill Military Academy in Jew Jersey. From their studies to sports and even their daring exploits, they show pluck and determination in everything they do. Whether it's a 200ft high wall, or staring down thieving miners, they show that they won't back down and will complete their quest. (Summary by Keith Salis)

Joe Vickers, a young man of humble circumstances, was a strong and conscientious worker for the railroad. Starting as a Wiper, he took advantage of his chance to become a Fireman and even an Engineer just as his father was. Joe shows his honesty, ingenuity, and courage are well-suited to overcome any evil that comes his way. (Summary by Keith Salis)

Last summer I went down to where my uncle lives and spent vacation there and I had a peach of a time and all the things I did are told in the first story, but there are a lot of things left over and I’m going to tell these in another story. There are snakes and peach orchards and everything down there. Then comes the second story and that’s about a dandy mistake I made. Gee whiz! I’ve made better mistakes than any feller in our troop. I didn’t make it on purpose, but anyway it led to a lot of dandy adventures. That’s one good thing about mistakes, anyway. But one thing sure, if I had...

Nip and Tuck are the best of rivals. Throughout the time they've known each other, they seemed to be interested in the same things and in constant competition. Now that they are both burgeoning on adulthood, they each have managed to start a small brokerage firm in the same building in Wall Street. Their youth make them instant targets for ridicule by the older brokers, but their tenacity and business savvy prove to everyone their right to be up there with the best of them. (Summary by Keith Salis)

Tom Garland is a young man in Boston who is sent to learn a trade at an Industrial Farm near the bay. There he meets another young man who's lame, Dick Rogers, and they become lifelong chums. When Tom learns of a couple of dastardly plots against both him and Dick, he plans their escape. Tom and Dick continue to succeed through courage and Providence against many difficult situations, the symbol of which is a lucky penny of Tom's. (Summary by Keith Salis)

An incredible true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all–outer space For a special breed of individual, the call of space is worth the risk it entails: men such as U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox, and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin, who in...

An incredible, true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all—outer spaceIn the nearly forty years since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, space travel has come to be seen as a routine enterprise—at least until the shuttle Columbia disintegrated like the Challenger before it...