Slocum 303: Slocum and the Orphan Express

Slocum 303: Slocum and the Orphan Express
Author: Jake Logan
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2004-04-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101166037

Slocum escorts a pint-sized package through pistol-packed peril… Caught in a hellish Arizona sandstorm, John Slocum comes across a broken down wagon with only one living occupant—a newborn baby boy. The tiny bundle of joy has a pack of very dangerous men hunting for him. The same cutthroats who killed his father—and now want to cash in on the gold mine the kid just inherited. Teamed up with a less-than-motherly spitfire, Slocum fights a running battle across the wastelands. But he’s made a promise to get the baby to safety at all costs—and along the way, he’s going to sing the desperadoes a little hot lead lullaby….

The Orphan in Eighteenth-century Law and Literature

The Orphan in Eighteenth-century Law and Literature
Author: Cheryl Nixon
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2011
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780754664246

Examining novels by authors such as Haywood, Smollett, and Inchbald, and uncovering new manuscript and print case records, Cheryl Nixon compares tales of fictional orphans to narratives of legal orphans. Focusing on the eighteenth-century construction of the valued orphan, her book shows this figure's centrality to the development of new novelistic subgenres, new ideologies of the individual, and new understandings of property, family, and gender.

The Galaxy

The Galaxy
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 936
Release: 1873
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ISBN: