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After a massive row with her parents over intolerable relatives, Katie finds herself all alone for the holidays. So she heads for the one place in town where everyone is welcome on Christmas Eve, the...

On a cold, damp January evening a woman sat in the dusk of a fire-lit room gazing through the window. For half an hour she had been sitting there fidgeting impatiently with her hands and feet every few...

"Der Judenstaat" (German, literally "The Jew State", commonly translated as "The Jewish State") is a pamphlet written by Theodor Herzl and published in February 1896 in Leipzig and Vienna by M. Breitenstein's...

A House in Bloomsbury written by Margaret Oliphant who was a Scottish novelist and historical writer. This book was published in 1894. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally...

Tales of All Countries written by Anthony Trollope who was an English novelist of the Victorian era. This book was published in 1861. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally...

Enchantment written by Harold MacGrath who was a bestselling American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. This book was published in 1905. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this...

The Unjust Steward or The Minister's Debt written by Margaret Oliphant who was a Scottish novelist and historical writer. This book was published in 1896. And now republish in ebook format. We believe...

The Story of the Mince Pie written by Josephine Scribner Gates who was a very popular writer of childrens' books at the turn of the 19th-20th century. This book was published in 1916. And now republish...

Life and Lillian Gish written by Albert Bigelow Paine who was an American author and biographer. This book was published in 1932. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally...

The Summit House Mystery: The Earthly Purgatory written by L. Dougall who was a Canadian author and feminist. This book was published in 1905. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is...

Rough and Ready: Life Among the New York Newsboys written by Horatio Alger, Jr. who was a prolific 19th-century American writer. "Rough and Ready" is presented to the public as the fourth volume of the...

The Polly Page Yacht Club written by Izola L. Forrester who was an American author. This book was published in 1910. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in...

Plot: the protagonist decides to make himself a small boat to be able to find solace to his ailments in the sea, but receives a letter in which he was told that he was hired at the bank. In his new job...

A tale where love and the occult collide. Artist Bernard Lendon is entranced by young American actress Beatrice Brett when they meet on board a ship bound for Southampton. Later, in London, their paths...

Little Miss Grasshopper written by Johanna Spyri who was a Swiss-born author of novels. This book was published in 1918. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important...

The Wooden Hand: A Detective Story written by Fergus Hume who was a prolific English novelist. This book was published in 1905. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important...

Hard Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era. First published in 1854. And now republish in ebook format....

When two men dressed up as Father Christmas rob a London jewellery store and one of them ends up dead on the floor, shot by his own accomplice, it’s certainly one of the more unusual cases for Detective...

Renny Whiteoak is keen to sail for Ireland with his small daughter, Adeline, to buy a racehorse, but he's more eager to see his younger cousins, Finch and Wakefield, who have been living in London. On...

Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War written by Kirk Munroe who was an American writer and conservationist. This book was published in 1896. And now republish in ebook format. We believe...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a British...

This volume of 30 folk and fairy tales was compiled by the Grimm Brothers over a century ago. The tales are brought to life by the 20 colour plates and 28 pen and ink illustrations by the master illustrator...

"Utopia" ("Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia") is a work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More (1478–1535) published...

Until her dad died, Little considered herself a Californian. Now, thanks to half a letter, a symbol she can’t quite remember, and writer’s block, she finds herself back in Italy, the country of her birth....

British novelist Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932), was a Reuters war correspondent who wrote thrillers to earn additional money. He also wrote Hollywood screenplays and died while drafting King...

Now that this book is printed, and about to be given to the world, a sense of its shortcomings both in style and contents, weighs very heavily upon me. As regards the latter, I can only say that it does...

When intern Kitty Chan is found dead in the basement of the Victoria and Albert Museum, dressed in a Victorian ball gown, the cause of death is quickly established. Kitty died of arsenic poisoning. But...

On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances...

Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a land owner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death,...

A narrator tells a novel he read a few days before. Anna and Lucia are two girls of Italian origin, who after having spent a childhood and boyhood, serene and happy in Borneo discovered a love affair...