'The Black Avons IV - Europe in the Melting Pot' is an adventure novel written by Edgar Wallace. The story begins with the narrator remarking that it is almost inconceivable that there should be in his family a Black Avon who was, for any reason whatsoever, an unpopular figure. They have for scores of generations been built in an heroic mold; a shining light of their time, and their memories have been hallowed by all who bear the narrator's last name.

'The Black Avons III - From Waterloo to the Mutiny' is a thriller novel written by Edgar Wallace. The story revolves around the three families of Avons: the Old Avons, living in Norfolk at that very manor which has been described by Henry Avon to be built during the reign of Elizabeth I; the Bedford Avons, the head of which was the grandson of that William who was the writer of the narrative of the Stuarts; and the third branch and the main focus of the story, which we call the Black branch, because it has produced so many swarthy members of our race; this had its home in Hampshire.

'The Black Avons I - How They Fared in the Time of the Tudors' is an adventure-drama novel written by Edgar Wallace. The story follows the narrator's life during the reign of the Tudors. He was born in the reign of the eighth Henry whom men called Bluff King Hal. The morning of his birth was the day when Anne Boleyn, who was mother of the great Elizabeth, was brought to the scaffold for her many wickednesses, and because of my father's admiration for the King (he approving of such terrible methods though he was a good husband and father), the narrator was named Henry.

In his senior year of high school, late bloomer Ryan Ward has just begun to feel the magic of baseball - the magic of catching a wicked slider, of throwing a runner out, of training hard and playing hard and pushing his limits. Giving up baseball would be like getting off the most exciting ride of his life. But when one of his teammates clearly pushes the limits too far, Ryan is faced with a heartbreaking dilemma: he must choose between his love for the game and his sense of integrity - two things that, in his mind, baseball should bring together.