Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox. Their desperate venture inspires them to a further idea: they will steal the schooner and its cargo of champagne, sell them, and...
Manners and customs
- Author:STEVENSON, Robert LouisSummary:
- Author:Ridley, EricaSummary:
The start of a new Regency series features a woman looking to recover a stolen painting accidentally kidnaps a duke instead.Chloe Wynchester is completely forgettable -- a curse that gives her the ability to blend into any crowd. When...
- Author:Quinn, JuliaSummary:
A #1 New York Times Bestseller. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Daphne Bridgerton, in the first of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series...
- Author:Steel, DanielleSummary:
An enthralling novel set in early 19th-century England, Paris, and New York, featuring an indomitable young heroine who rises from ruin to become the toast of Paris, by way of the chic bordello she establishes for the most powerful men...
- Author:Williams, PipSummary:
The Dictionary of Lost Words is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as...
- Author:CARLYLE, LizSummary:
By day, Sidonie Saint-Godard is a quietly elegant young widow who teaches deportment to the unpolished daughters of London's nouveau riche. By night, she is someone altogether different -- the notorious Black Angel.
- Author:St. George, HarperSummary:
Sparks fly when a runaway heiress bargains with a devilish rogue to escape a marriage of convenience. No one would guess that beneath Violet Crenshaw's ladylike demeanor lies the heart of a rebel. American heiresses looking to...
- Author:Lewis, C. S.Summary:
This definitive collection of short fiction explores enduring spiritual and science fiction themes such as space, time, reality, fantasy, God, and the fate of humankind.
- Author:Mallory, SarahSummary:
Lord Darrington is not a man to be welcomed into a house of unprotected women! Even in the wilds of Yorkshire, Beth Forrester has heard tales of the incorrigible rake that make her toes curl. When he finds out about the dark secret she...
- Author:Fitzgerald, F. ScottSummary:
This collection of four of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most memorable short stories begins with 'The curious case of Benjamin Button,' in which the protagonist is born an old man and ages in reverse until he becomes a baby, and then finally...
- Author:Fitzgerald, ScottSummary:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally published in Colliers Magazine on May 27th, 1922. The story follows Benjamin's life from his birth in 1860. However he is no ordinary child, as he...
- Author:Medina, PabloSummary:
Piedra Negra is an isolated village that is home to many soldiers who were injured in the revolution and now pass their time drinking firewater so intense that they all hallucinate and most never recover. The firewater distiller's...
- Author:Ratzlaff, LloydSummary:
The Crow Who Tampered With Time blossoms with essays that find radiance and coherence in a world (both natural and human) which formal religious dogma has forgotten. A visionary humility, and an original, engaging voice make these...
- Author:Jordan, SophieSummary:
New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan kicks off her amazing new high concept series, The Scandalous Ladies of London, which chronicles the lives of a group of affluent ladies reigning over glittering, Regency-era London, vying...
- Author:Gordimer, NadineSummary:
Mehring, a rich industrialist, has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. Gordimer offers a fascinating study of the forces and relationships that seethed in...
- Author:Chesnutt, Charles W.Summary:
Contents: The goophered grapevine.--Po' Sandy.--Mars Jeem's nightmare.--The conjurer's revenge.--Sis' Becky's pickaninny.--The gray wolf's ha'nt.--Hot-Foot Hannibal. Note these stories were written...
- Author:Austen, JaneSummary:
The Complete Works of Jane Austen includes all six novels, and Austen’s shorter works; Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition, and her complete Juvenilia. Jane Austen is famous for her six novels, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and prejudice...
- Author:Whitehead, ColsonSummary:
Whitehead lays out the city of New York from the perspective of an inhabitant in 13 parts.
- Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary:
In the 1840s Charles Dickens wrote 5 short stories with strong social and moral messages. The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rand an Old Year Out and a New Year In, is the second of these stories, whose predecessor was the...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
The Ellison sisters were proper young Victorian ladies. In the foggy streets outside their peaceful home, five women were found horribly murdered. And Police Inspector Pitt found himself wondering if the Ellisons were in fact too good...