Jerome Jerome: 1081 books

It began as Bytown, after Colonel John By who built the Rideau Canal since the canal was the only reason for the town to exist. Workers were needed to clear the land and prepare the ground and stone works, thousands of them, and these workers needed someplace...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The fifth collection of poems by the author, LOVE, SUPREME makes no excuses for the heart. The poetry offers a glimpse into the mind and heart of the poet as he relishes the soberness of having found his true love. Having been described by some as poetry from another time, the language is both robust and imaginative.

Lives become entangled with disastrous results in this noir thriller. Jon Rodensky, a disgraced former professor, his wife, Ellen, a clinical psychologist, and her sociopathic family of clients, the Bowies, are all touched by the evil of Suzanne Schmidt, a beautiful computer consultant and schemer. Jon,...

This book is about my dads life from 1927 till he sold his business. He is now eighty-eight years old and, with the encouragement of others, decided that his stories and antics from his younger days should be down on paper. This blossomed into his putting it into book form. So here it is! I am responsible...

The Burg and Other Seattle Scenes is a short collection of nine stories and one poem. Eight of the stories—all except Arf—are true, and the poem, Icarus, also relates a true story. The stories range from satirical to deadly serious, from empathetic to, well, less empathetic. Mostly they are funny...

Using Shakespeare's work to expand our understanding of what it is to be human, this book of applied psychoanalysis furthers the study of Shakespeare, literary theory, dramatic arts, and psychoanalytic theory. It is also accessible to readers, theatre-goers and those who have an interest in the human...

Disguised as a bum and living in a flophouse, Sidel tries to save a streetwalker The ragged old man has a tapeworm in his gut and a room at a nameless Whore’s Row hotel, but to those in the know, he is one of the most powerful people in New York. Once the first deputy of the police commissioner,...

When a friend’s crime spree threatens his legal empire, a powerful New York attorney must race to stop it—before at least one of them winds up dead Edward Parkchester, or Parky, “the black eagle,” is the most successful criminal lawyer in town. He looms over Manhattan from his lair...

When his best friend is killed, Isaac Sidel looks for revenge in the Bronx Though incorruptible—at least by New York Police Department standards—Detective Isaac Sidel knows that sometimes it’s useful to look a little dirty. To gain access to the Bronx-based Guzmann crime syndicate, rumored...

On the eve of a White House run, Sidel cleans up a mess in his old backyard Tired of being led by weaklings, the American people have fallen in love with J. Michael Storm and Isaac Sidel, the lawyer and the New York mayor who saved the country from the worst baseball strike in history. The...

After decades of madness in the Bronx, Isaac Sidel visits the craziest state in the country Isaac Sidel is too popular to be America’s vice president. Once the New York Police Department commissioner, he became the most beloved mayor in the city’s history—famous for his refusal to surrender...

A stylish killer makes the mistake of befriending a god Though he doesn’t know mink from sable, Sidney Holden is the most important employee at Aladdin Furs. He is a bumper, a well-dressed killer who collects the debts that cannot be paid, and Aladdin would be nothing without him. After all,...

New York’s children wage war on the city’s rich, with Sidel as the referee In his years serving the people of New York, Isaac Sidel has often rescued the city from oblivion, but never has he faced anything as dangerous as the current baseball strike. The South Bronx, a wasteland of drugs,...