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Behind a Mask by A M Barnard

A fast-paced thriller, Behind a Mask is the story the demure governess Jean Muir and her ad...

The Daughter of the Commandant by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Russian 17-year-old Pyotr Grinyov is sent into military service during the Pugachev Rebelli...

The Daughter of the Chieftain by Edward Sylvester Ellis

A band of Iroquois warriors hold hostage Linna, the young daughter of Delaware Chieftain, O...

Dear Enemy by Jean Webster

Judy Abbott has come a long way from the orphanage where she grew up in this sequel to Dadd...

Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster

From an orphanage to college, Jerusha, or Judy, Abbott hopes to continue her education, but...

The Daughter of a Magnate by Frank Hamilton Spearman

An accomplished railroad engineer woos a beautiful heiress to a railroad fortune in this We...

The Dark Star by Robert W. Chambers

German and Turkish Secret Service agents seek the lost plans of Gallipoli, and find their q...

The Daughter of an Empress by Luise Muhlbach

Opening on a scene of execution, and involving the dramas of Empresses, Counts and Countess...

Desert Gold by Zane Grey

Which is the true treasure, love or money? Prospecting in an Arizona border town, Richard G...

Water Signs: A Story of Love and Renewal by Daria Anne DiGiovanni

Madeline Rose is a sweet, sheltered and eternally youthful young woman of 25, the youngest ...

Dangerous Days by Mary Roberts Rinehart

The passionate beginnings of World War I tear apart a group of lifelong friends. In the cen...

The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough

Jesse Wingate leads a caravan of covered wagons from Kansas City to Oregon, encountering a...

A Daughter of the Land by Gene Porter-Stratton

Kate Bates feels the weight of the world on her shoulders, left to care for her aging mothe...

A Daughter of Fife by Amelia Edith Barr

Maggie, a simple Scottish fisher-girl, finds herself pursued by a passionate young artist i...

Cruel As The Grave by Mrs. Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevit

Heiress Sybil Berners is headstrong, sentimental, bright and beautiful, a dangerous combina...

Count Hannibal by Stanley John Weyman

The ruthless Count Hannibal falls in love with a beautiful noblewoman, Clotilde de Vrillac,...

Crittenden by John Fox Jr.

War is coming to the bluegrass country of Kentucky in this romantic novel of the South. As ...

Daisy In The Field by Elizabeth Wetherell

In this third installment of the Wetherell series featuring Daisy Cardigan, the young heroi...

Clementina by Alfred E.W. Mason

The year is 1719. The scene is a desolate section of road between Florence and Bologna. Whe...

The Choir Invisible by James Lane Allen

A classic love story with a twist, The Choir Invisible takes us to Kentucky in 1795, where ...

Cashel Byrons Profession by George Bernard Shaw

An English schoolboy rebels, running to Australia to become a prizefighter. He returns to E...

Child of Storm by Henry Rider Haggard

Allen Quatermain is back, in Zululand, Africa. Attracted to Mameena, Child of the Storm, Qu...

Confession by William Gilmore Simms

Edward Clifford has a passionate love for his wife, Julia, yet he suspects her of entertain...

The City of Delight by Elizabeth Miller

The dramas of a nation form the backdrop for the drama of love in The City of Delight. The ...

Contrary Mary by Irene Temple Bailey

Mary, Constance and Barry Ballard are siblings living together in an old Washington, D.C. h...

The Captain of the Kansas by Louis Tracy

High-class passengers on a voyage from Chile to England must overcome sabotage, Indian atta...

The City of Fire by Grace Livingston Hill

Modern girls can have morals too. That is the message written into the character of Lynn Se...

The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Rachel Curtis is frustrated living the life of a Victorian English lady. At twenty-five, sh...

The Claim Jumpers by Stewart Edward White

The life of a miner in the Black Hills of South Dakota is not an easy one, and the new mine...

The Call of the Cumberlands by Charles Neville Buck

A rough, fighting mountaineer, Samson South leaves his family, his sweetheart and the majes...

The Cardinals Snuff-box by Henry Harland

English novelist Peter Marchdale settles in to do some writing in a quiet villa in the Ital...

The Castle Inn by Stanley John Weyman

Julia suspects that her lover, Sir George Sloane, is responsible for her abduction when he ...

Alisa Paige - Sample of Book by Robert W. Chambers

Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, Chambers brings all of the fiery passion of wart...

The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Imagine a world of weddings arranged for very young children to join their families for pol...

Clara Hopgood by Mark Rutherford

Sisters Clara and Madge, independent young women, venture out from their Fenmarket home to ...

Chance by Joseph Conrad

Miss Flora de Barral is the daughter of an imprisoned swindler left to fend for herself, wi...

Capitolas Peril by Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth

Ride horseback in a thunderstorm? Visit a haunted house? Outsmart an outlaw? Capitola Black...

Burned Bridges by Bertrand W. Sinclair

Unreachable except by canoe or dogsled, young Sophie Carr's cabin is tucked away in the wil...

The Call of the Blood by Robert Smythe Hichens

The honeymoon period is brief for newlyweds Hermione and Maurice when the new bride is call...

The Buccaneer - A Tale by Mrs. S. C. Hall

The pure-hearted Barbara tries her best to maintain a high moral code, but she is surrounde...

The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol

This is Romance with a capital R. The Broad Highway has romantic language, passionate chara...

The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

A young couple could hardly choose a more idyllic place to settle down and raise a family t...

The Bravo of Venice - A Romance by M. G. Lewis

Evil lurks on the streets of Venice in the form of Abellino, known as The Bravo of Venice. ...

The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey

Braving the elements, wilderness, and outlaws, Carley Burch leaves the glamorous life in Ne...

The Border Legion by Zane Grey

Only the love of the young Miss Joan Randle can melt the cold heart of Jack Kells, ruthless...

Camille (La Dame aux Camilias) by Alexandre Dumas

This famous story of a courtesan and her love affair is partly autobiographical, reflecting...

Cabin Fever by B. M. Bower

Bud Moore enters into a partnership with a prospector in the Western wilderness and looks f...

By Berwen Banks by Allen Raine

Twins raised apart, Gwladys and Valmai are mirror images of one another, and fiercely prote...

Brownsmiths Boy - A Romance in a Garden by George Manville Fenn

From death new life grows in this story about the young Grant Dennison and his education in...

Mystery & Suspense Books

The Branding Iron by Katharine Newline Burt

To have and to hold, to honor and obey - marriage vows usually recited to show committment ...

Bones in London by Edgar Wallace

Bones is back in the second story of The Lieutenant Bones series. A mischievous businessman...

Beyond the City by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The girl next door is much more than ordinary in this surprising domestic romance by Arthur...

The Womans Way by Charles Garvice

Celia's new neighbors are a mysterious lot. The elderly violin virtuoso downstairs appears ...

Bab - A Sub Deb by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Meet Bab, a melodramatic young lady who is outraged that she is not allowed to be a debutan...

The Ghost of Guir House by Charles Willing Beale

A mysterious missive from young Dorothy Guir draws Mr. Henley from his New York City home t...

The After House by Mary Roberts Rinehart

A young doctor climbs aboard a luxury yacht as steward of the After House. It's smooth sail...

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

In this fast-paced mystery, eyewitnesses each tell what they know about an enormous diamond...

The Apartment Next Door by William Andrew Johnston

A young woman is paid to secretly watch the people in the next apartment during World War I...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A series of mysteries are solved by detective Sherlock Holmes “ a Colonel dies after recei...

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

This baffling mystery story seeks to find who poisoned the stepmother “ was it one of her ...

Seattle Quake 9.2 by Marti Talbott

Wealthy Evan Cole thought his wife was lost at sea until he spotted her one-of-a-kind weddi...

Romancing A Stalker by Carl Wayne Bryant

William Arflin escapes from prison while serving a life sentence for murdering three women ...

Three Strikes - You Are Dead by Debbie Colleen Gansert

How do you manage a baseball team that is in the middle of a heated pennant and is also bei...

Forever Young by Pat Dilloway

A young girl wakes up with no idea of who she is or how she got there on an island ruled by...

The Finding by Wayne Allen McClain

Mystery and action kick up when a land deal gone bad is another case to solve for a newspap...

The Dead and The Dreamer by Wayne Allen McClain

This fast-paced action novel follows the challenges of a struggling private eye who solves ...

Fatal Impact by Wayne Allen McClain

An easy money scam puts five people in a deadly game of cat and mouse as human targets of a...

Tales For A Dark and Rainy Night by M Dee Dubroff

A collection of scary, very short stories perfect for those moments when you crave a thrill...

Deception by Casey Pendelton

When a night out results in memory loss for Kelly, little does she realize what it means. ...

Teen Books

Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The sequel to Anne of Green Gables, beautiful Anne is now the village's only boarding schoo...

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The life, trials, tribulations and friendships of Anne Shirley, a red-haired orphan with a ...

When Mona Lisa Came to School by Linda M Bartash-Dawley

Three famous paintings come to life for teens - Mona Lisa by Leonardo de Vinci, the Scream ...

Life with an Angel by Michael E Johnson

Teens use time and space travel and a wise guardian angel to learn the meaning of faith, di...

SciFi & Horror Books

Soldiers of God by Steven Moore

Three stories weave together to present the struggle against fundamentalist extremists and ...

Full Medical by Steven Moore

It is 2053. Periodic terrorist attacks are the aftermath of three wars in the Middle East. ...

A Journey Through Hell: Visions of the Afterlife by Elizabeth Hartl

Derick Lombasto is a factory worker who has written a religous book and wants it published....

Darker Side by Mike Russel Sawyer

A collection of dark and horror poetry. This is set in a fictionalized field that surrounds...

Retribution by Paul Johnson

Ryan Larkin is tied to a seat in the middle of a locked room, beaten and broken. He can't r...

September and Other Stories by Julie Ann Dawson

Go ghost hunting with a ghost. Have dinner with a demon. Explore the tomb of a forgotten ph...

The Second Book of Iaddius Iohann by Chad Lines

Five years have passed since Iaddius returned from the desert; five years since the slaught...

Gardenland by Tala Bar

This futuristic book tells romantic stories of love, relationships and life's conflicts in ...

Enhanced by Ralph LeRoy Jones, Jr.

In this futuristic tale of transgenic beasts and tribulation saints, a teen is one of milli...

The First Book of Iaddius Ioahann by Chad Lines

Discover a frightening land of danger, brutal giants, captivity and horror and learn the se...

John and the Herodians - From the What a Strange Little Man by Michael Straessle

A prison guard from 1st Century Rome time travels to join a fellow Christian from the past ...

The Great Chain on Urantia by Nicholas P. Peter Snoek

A baby boy covered in fur is left at a monastery in Bhutan, an Asian country that honors th...

Jess the Journeyer by Steven Cross

Jess steps into the fantasy world his great, great grandfather wrote about a world of drago...

What A Strange Little Man by Michael Straessle

Michael is a prison guard from 1st Century Rome who has his life turned upside down by a st...

The Biker Wore Red by Casey Pendelton

Little did Niki know that when a biker entered the store where she worked she would be thro...

Shannon O'Reilly: A Haunted Life by Charlotte E Gerber

Shannon O'Reilly is being haunted in her own home. The ghosts haunting her are murder vict...

Business & Finance Books

Single Parents Cash and Sources Guide by Rose Laverne Mason

This action-oriented resource guide gives helpful contact information on obtaining financia...

Entertainment Books

Jazz - Then and Now by Frank Leanza

This is a well-researched, detailed history of the musicians and music of the jazz form. It...

Muse Power: How Recreational Music Making Heals Depression a by Cheri D. Lunn

Making music together can help our culture heal and builds community by providing a powerfu...

Blues Then and Now - The History of the Blues by Frank Leanza

Trace the orgin of the blues from its African roots into new music forms such as rock and r...

Number Puzzle Jumblers by Ryan Lamont Sloan

What if I told you that a person with an 89 IQ managed to join Mensa? You would wonder how ...

History Books

LEGACY: The Life of Nikola Tesla by Norma Brody

This is the little-known story of Nikola Tesla, the discoverer of alternating current, the ...

Terrorism - A Global Scourge by Eluma Ikemefuna Sylas

This well-researched book documents the origin, history, definitions, causes, reasons, type...

Ms. Austen by Randi M. Hull

If you love historical romance novels, enjoy this fictional account of the last years of th...

Fascinating Colorado by Bonnie Marie DeWolfe

This collection of fascinating mini trips is filled with engaging travel facts about Colora...

Jones of Old Lincoln by Doak Maddox Mansfield

A history buff searches for answers to the mystery surrounding one of the more prominent ye...

Home & Garden Books

Best Washing Machines and Dishwashers by Subhasis Chatterjee

It is easy to pick the best washing machine or dishwasher. You can quickly discover the rec...

Science Books

Effects of Global Warming and Other Current Environment Issu by Aarthi Meenakshi Sundaram

This how-to-book simplifies the causes of current environmental issues including energy, po...

Ecocide Files by Lidia Lopinto

Environmental crimes and unsecured nuclear facilities incite terror and the case files are ...