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The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship
Teenagers Peggy Prescott and her brother Roy share a love of aviation that they inherited from their late father. Mr. Prescott had always dr…
The Golden Dream
Thoroughly engaging, at times even harrowing, adventure tale set in the San Francisco gold rush. Detailed depiction of its time and place, c…
The Angel of Terror
When this was written, literary traditions still decreed beauty to be the outward sign of inner saintliness, whereas evil characters tended …
Fighting the Whales
A fatherless boy joins the crew of a whaling ship in order to earn a living for himself and his mother. Beyond being a fascinating depiction…
The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
Nat Love was born a slave, emancipated into abject poverty, grew up riding the range as a cowboy and spent his maturity riding the rails as …
The Highest Treason
Set in a future in which humanity’s dream of total equality is fully realized and poverty in terms of material wealth has been eliminated, h…
Greener Than You Think
Do remember reading a panic-mongering news story a while back about genetically engineered “Frankengrass” “escaping” from the golf course wh…
The Wonderful Bed
Little kids sent to stay the night with their Aunt Jane find themselves sharing an enormous bed. So enormous is it, that when they make a te…
The Counterpane Fairy
A little boy, recuperating from a lengthy illness, is entertained by visits from the Counterpane Fairy, who treats him to stories associated…
A German Deserter's War Experience
The author of this 1917 narrative, who escaped from Germany and military service after 14 months of fighting in France, did not wish to have…
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass published his highly acclaimed third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1881 and revised it in 1892.…
Doctor Izard
The opening scene takes place in a hospital ward where two patients lie, apparently dying, when a man enters and offers a proposition to one…
The de Bercy Affair
A beautiful French actress with concealed origins and a clandestine involvement with a group of anarchists is brutally murdered in London. C…
The Permanent Husband
THE PERMANENT HUSBAND, also published as The Eternal Husband, is a psychological novella by the acclaimed Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.…
Inside the Lines
As World War I commences, a plucky young American woman in Europe on a business trip begins to realize that she may have remained too long. …
A Rebel's Recollections
George Cary Eggleston's Civil War memoir begins with a separate essay on the living conditions and political opinions of Virginia’s citizenr…
Meadowlark Basin
This is an action-packed tale of the old west with richly drawn characters including the notorious Butch Cassidy, most of them upstanding bu…
Uncle Wiggily's Fortune
Uncle Wiggily Longears is the main character of a series of children's stories by American author Howard R. Garis. He began writing the stor…
The Last Entry
This is a sea-faring novel set in 1837. A wealthy former seaman from London and his daughter, who is engaged to be married, set sail on his …
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann, author of Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) was a winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. The main character in th…