Mauprat is a novel by George Sand that was first serialised in 1837. It is a love story that resists the courtship conventions of its time and focuses on the education of Bernard Maupra...więcej »
Captain Alyx "Flash" Gordon is a washed-out Mars Defense Command veteran assigned to a remote asteroid mining facility where he must face the man that ended his career. With the help of a myste...więcej »
Author Marie Corelli's brilliant commentary on the personal and professional politics of the literary community full of colorful characters fueled by fame, criticism and competition. It's...więcej »
After tragedy strikes, River moves his life to New Orleans for a fresh start. He starts to pick up the pieces, and everything seems to be working out just fine. However, with dark mysterious ...więcej »
The Antiquary (1816), the third of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott, centres on the character of an antiquary: an amateur historian, archaeologist and collector of items of dubious antiquity....więcej »
A mysterious stranger, looking for a change in scenery, discovers a small Mormon community where a grown-up Fay Larkin has been taken against her will. Like its predecessor, The Rainbo...więcej »
"The pen is mightier than the sword." So goes the old saying. In Peter Abbot's new novel Duty, letters written during the First World War lead to consequences that span more than a cent...więcej »
Here is a unique collection of mystery stories featuring women detectives, all written by women. For the first time the top women mystery writers are presented together in one volume. "Ms. Murde...więcej »
Set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England, "North and South" is Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel that contrasts the different ways of life in the two respective regions o...więcej »
"The Confessions of Arsene Lupin" is a collection of nine stories - or confessions - of the celebrated gentleman thief Arsene Lupin. This early work by Maurice Leblanc was originally published in 1...więcej »
A humorous tale of a town bustling with ghosts. The living villagers are accustomed to the deceased going about their business around them - but an element of chaos is introduced when a supernat...więcej »
On the surface, a quiet township in rural Ontario might seem picturesque, but in the early decades of the twentieth century, that image couldn't have been farther from the truth. With an obscure cu...więcej »
In the early 1950's, the old mining town of Park City, Utah was dying. Silver mines closed, miners fled, saloons, shops, and houses of pleasure shuttered, but one constant remained -- evil prowl...więcej »
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (born Margaret Oliphant Wilson; 4 April 1828 - 20 June 1897) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional wo...więcej »
THE CRIMINAL AT LARGE is a nontraditional story of feminism that attempts a definition of woman through a series of thrilling episodes narrated in an arresting style and language that keep the r...więcej »
Prophet Dhul-Qarnayn AS or Iskandar Zulkarnaen ("he of the two horns" (or "he of the two ages"), appears in Surah 18 verses 83-101 of The Holy Quran one who travels to east and west and erects a wa...więcej »
This early work by Émile Gaboriau was originally published in 1867 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Mystery of Orcival' is one of Gaboriau's novels of crime and my...więcej »