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Calvin Gray is a swindler who won immediate sympathy from readers. It’s sleek, stylish, smart and full of life. However, the best thing about him is that he is sincere, noble and always on the right side of the law.

The narrator is a widower with two daughters, living happily into a rather troubling middle age and pushing away his daughter’s suitors so that his daughters would live with him a little longer. A younger neighbor persuades him to buy a pig and then bets that the boredom of life has so eclipsed his intelligence that he won’t be smart enough to stop someone from stealing it. If the narrator loses the...

Alaba`s incredible trip is a wonderful and heart-touching story for children and adults in two language versions — Afrikaans and English. It is story about a girl who for the first time in her life leaves the family home called HERE and sets off into an unknown world called THERE. Alaba observes the world through the eyes of a child, draws her own conclusions and learns from her own mistakes. And all...