The complete online text of Bound to Rise by Horatio Alger, Jr..

Horatio Alger (1832-1899) was the American author of prodigiously popular and influential juvenile novels and biographies. Horatio Alger was born in Revere, Mass., the son of a Unitarian minister. The fervent father so rigorously supervised his son's ear...

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Maxine Bryant received an ad in her mailbox last year for undeveloped land in West Texas and bought, sight unseen, 20 acres of sorry-looking desert in the middle of nowhere.The Florida woman said the real estate company, Florida Top Land, told her that a Home...

Out on Phoenix's suburban fringes, where cement mixers are fast colonizing what's left of the hay and cotton fields, the day is winding to a close. The home hour has arrived. But sundown gives away a troubling secret: Behind dark windows and many unanswered doors,...