Mystery stories have been around for centuries-there are whodunits, whydunits and howdunits, including locked-room puzzles, detective stories without detectives, and crimes with a limited choice of suspects. Countless volumes of such stories have been published, but some are still impossible to find: stories that appeared in a newspaper, magazine or an anthology that has long been out of print and unpublished stories that were absorbed into an author's...

An introduction to the early days of the Massachusetts Colony, from the difficulties faced by the Pilgrims to the role of Massachusetts in the American Revolution.

"When Marvin gets lost in the library, he has numerous adventures! He sees a knight fighting a dragon, a damsel in distress, and swashbuckling pirates! The only problem is, he went to the library without his parents' permission, and he gets lost. Can Marvin find his way home? Will they be upset with him?"--Page 4 of cover

"It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives - to show us places we want to escape to, lives we want to live, people we want to love. But there are also stories that can only be found in the deepest, darkest corners of the library. Stories about the unexplained, of lost souls, of things that go bump before the silence. Before the screaming. And some stories just disappear. Stories printed in old newspapers, broadcast...

Relates the history of the Colony of Pennsylvania from its founding by William Penn in 1681 to statehood in 1787.

Traces the history of Rhode Island from the arrival of the first European settlers in the early seventeenth century through 1790 when it became the thirteenth state to join the Union.

Introduces important people and events in the history of South Carolina from colonization to statehood.

An introduction to the lives of the early settlers in the Delaware Colony, from the early attempts of the Dutch, Swedes, and English to colonize to Delaware's role in the American Revolution.