R M : 2583 books

Every journalist seeks out the story of a lifetime, but Lisa’s story might put an end to hers. Tasked with yet another fluff piece praising healthcare company Lysent Corp, headstrong Lisa Pearson feels more like a public relations specialist than a newspaper reporter. But when she receives...

In a universe of opportunities, Captain Frankie and the crew of the Atalanta Empress are coming up empty. Their day started off OK, but a giant ship attacked their little ship; they lost their jobs to a gimmicky transport scheme; and their mechanic quit after they crash-landed on a planet overrun...

Losing their jobs to IT!™ is one thing. Losing grasp of known reality is another. Trapped in subspace, the Atalanta Empress floats outside regular space-time -- and into the middle of a multidimensional smuggling operation. It has IT!™’s name written all over it. Seriously, it’s...

Quantum space is a tricky thing, especially if you’re doing the tricking. Things are looking up for Captain Frankie and the crew of the Atalanta Empress. First, they’ve returned to the mostly empty, vastly limiting, and highly loved regular spacetime. Second, they landed a new job (OK –...

“‘Honesty is the best policy,’ Tom, you may depend on it,” said a youth to his companion, one afternoon, as they walked along the margin of one of those brawling rivulets which, born amid the snows of the Rocky Mountain peaks, run a wild and plunging course of many miles before finding comparative rest in the celebrated goldfields of Oregon.

First published in 1869, “The Wild Man of the West: A Tale of the Rocky Mountains” is a Western fiction novel aimed at children by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. Presented as a series of stories told by “mountain men”, it revolves around the early trappers and hunters of the Rocky Mountains...

This is and adventure story of exploration in the wilds of Canada. R. M. Ballantyne (24 April 1825 – 8 February 1894) was a Scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than 100 books.   Robert went to Canada aged 16, and spent five years working for the Hudson's Bay Company....

Collected here in this omnibus edition are five of the great Pirate novels and a number of wonderful short stories. You'll go in search of adventure in 'Kidnapped' by Robert Louis Stevenson, 'A Brush with the Chinese' by G. A. Henty, and 'The Madman and the Pirate' by R.M. Ballantyne. Authors include...

What do spelling tests have to do with apple pie? Nothing, unless you're in Ms. B's fourth grade class, in which case hold on to your pencil and your spatula, cuz…somethin’s cookin’.Will Taylor isn’t looking forward to the fourth grade with its four paragraph essays, multiple...

"Fred Temple was a tall, handsome young fellow of about five-and-twenty. He had a romantic spirit, a quiet gentlemanly manner, a pleasant smile, and a passionate desire for violent exercise. To look at him you would have supposed that he was rather a lazy man, for all his motions were slow and...

In "The Island Queen," Paulina, Dominick and Otto Rigonda manage to escape in a life boat after their ship is destroyed at sea, and soon find themselves stranded on an uninhabited coral island. Thankful to be alive, they begin to explore their new island home, learning by necessity the skills...

Thus permitted, Waboose opened her lips for the first time -- disclosing a double row of bright little teeth in the act -- and said that she had been sent by her mother in search of Maqua and his son, as she had reason to believe that the camp was in danger of being attacked by Dogrib Indians....

R.M. Koster’s Tinieblas Trilogy, which began with The Prince, a National Book Award finalist, and continued with the cult classic The Dissertation, is one of the landmarks of American literature in the second half of the twentieth century. The first major work of English-language magical realism,...

Vaudeville in the Dark is R. M. Ryan’s dance to the music of our times, his search for salvation in poetry. In writing up our minor moments, he reckons to find “peace beneath the unsteady light / where we give ourselves to the world / as we circle in and out of the dark.” Sometimes funny, sometimes...