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The Lair of the White Worm (1911) is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Published only a year before Stokers death, The Lair of the White Worm helped to establish the Irish master of Gothic horrors reputation as a …
Old Indian Legends (1901) is a collection of traditional stories from Yankton Dakota writer Zitkala-Sa. Published while Zitkala-Sa was just beginning her career as an artist and activist, Old Indian Legends collects fourteen traditional legends and stories passed down through …
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) is a novel by American writer Stephen Crane. Self-published by Crane when the author was only 22 years old, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets has since been recognized as the first work …
The Gentle Grafter (1907) is a collection of fourteen short stories by American writer O. Henry. Inspired by his experiences as a fugitive and prisoner, these tales follow the escapades of two professional con artists whose humor and storytelling ability …
The Heads of Cerberus (1919) is a science fiction novel by Francis Stevens. Originally serialized in The Thrill Book, a popular pulp magazine, The Heads of Cerberus was recognized as perhaps the first science fiction fantasy to use the alternate …
The Great White Queen (1896) is an adventure novel by Anglo-French writer William Le Queux. Published at the beginning of Le Queuxs career as a leading author of popular thrillers, The Great White Queen is a story of empire, myth, …
Camilla; Or, A Picture of Youth (1796) is a novel by Frances Burney. Both satirical and serious, comedic and Gothic, Burneys novel helped establish her reputation as one of the most popular writers of eighteenth-century England. Referred to in Jane …
A darkly funny untangling of national and sexual identity. The Guardian * Transgressive...Incendiary. The New Yorker * A furious comic monologue...with a disregard for propriety worthy of Alexander Portnoy. The New York Times Book Review * Sexy, hilarious, and subversive. …
A provocatively explicit account of an unhappily married couple whose passionless union causes them to seek alternative sexual satisfaction in scandalous ways. Regina Wheeler married her high school sweetheart and has never experienced sexual intimacy with any other man. After …
From Americas librarian and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes an emotional, Anne-Tyler-esque (Library Journal) debut novel about an unlikely marriage at a crossroads.George and Lizzie are a couple, meeting as college students and marrying soon after graduation, but no …
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A Dave Robicheaux Novel
In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed …
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Nine Strange Ways the World Could End
Acerbic dark humour meets hardcore science in this mind-boggling exploration of the nine worst ways the world could endDiscover the mind-boggling science of the coming apocalypse! 'Curiously pleasurable... this will help you get your everyday problems into perspective.' Independent Which …
Fourteen years ago, undercover FBI agent Dan Gallagher watched his lover, Maggie Varcek, flee into the Miami night as gunfire exploded around them. Now a Bullet Catcher, Dan has learned that drug lord Ramon Jimenez is out of prison after …
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Moolelo Hawaii
Hawaiian Antiquities (1898) is an ethnography by David Malo. Originally published in 1838, Hawaiian Antiquities, or Moolelo Hawaii, was updated through the end of Malos life and later translated into English by Nathaniel Bright Emerson, a leading scholar of Hawaiian …
Arsene Lupin vs Herlock Sholmes (1910) is a novel by Maurice Leblanc. Forced to change the name of his antagonist following a legal challenge by Holmes creator, Leblanc still manages to pull off one of the greatest fictional mashups of …
Rigbys Romance (1921) is a novel by Joseph Furphy. Written under his pseudonym Tom Collins, Rigbys Romance is a sequel of sorts to Such is Life, a unique and challenging story that took decades to achieve a proper audience. Earning …
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The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter
After abandoning the family, Kate Bonnet sets out to find and reprimand her pirate father, Stede, who is being targeted by multiple figures including Blackbeard. She meets various people along her journey who help make the trek worth her while. …
The Fifth Queen Crowned (1908) is a novel by Ford Madox Ford. The third and final installment of Fords The Fifth Queen Trilogy is set during the reign of Henry VIII, a tumultuous time of political and religious oppression in …
Featuring eight works of short fiction, South Sea Tales by Jack London is an adventurous collection with a nautical theme. With settings on islands or ships, South Sea Tales tell the exciting, but often heartbreaking tales of violence, colonialism, and …
Alvina Houghton is bored by her little town, and feels trapped after her plans to elope with her lover falls through. Though she had previously dreamed of training as a nurse, Alvina is unsure what to do with her life. …
Orphaned as a teen, Carol Milford grew up in a city in Minnesota. Already a compassionate person, Carols time studying in college and grad school exposed her to diverse, radical ideas and lifestyles, which she learned to either accept or …
Elusive Isabel (1909) is a spy novel by Jacques Futrelle. Published at the height of his career as a leading popular detective and science fiction writer, Elusive Isabel was adapted for a 1916 silent film of the same name starring …
The New Life (1294) is a work of verse and prose by Italian poet Dante Alighieri. Composed in the prosimetrum style, The New Life explores the popular medieval theme of courtly love. Made up of alternating commentaries, sonnets, and canzoni, …
Doyles modesty of language conceals a profound tolerance of the human complexity-John Le Carre Every Writer owes something to Holmes. -T.S. EliotWhile the controversy of Psychic Photography was gripping the early 20th Century United Kingdom, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle set …
The Invasion of 1910 (1906) is a novel by Anglo-French writer William Le Queux. Published at the height of Le Queuxs career as a leading author of popular thrillers, The Invasion of 1910 is a story of espionage, resistance, and …
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