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“It’s a cinch to stick up a bank nowadays…!” boasted Frank Heberdon, socially prominent young lawyer. Goaded by his friends into making the attempt he just escapes capture due to the help of a beautiful and mysterious girl. A strange and inescapable force lures Frank on to this life of crime,...

If you want a brisk tale of adventures, in which leading parts are played by a hidden, almost inaccessible, valley, a remnant of a once-powerful tribe of Indians and a gold mine of fabulous value, then you will find something pretty much to your taste in this book by Hulbert Footner. And when we add...

Another mystery for the famous Madame Storey to solve. Do you like the lifestyle in Newport? Madame Storey prefers New York, for sure. Follow her in this investigation that is both dangerous and difficult. There are many twists and turns that keep it interesting.

First published in 1944, The Building of Jalna is one of sixteen books in the Jalna series written by Canada’s Mazo de la Roche. In The Building of Jalna, Adeline lay thinking about the journey. They were leaving London. When might she see it again? Perhaps never, with all the dangers of travel....

An impulsive bride with an Irish temper, and her husband, Captain Whiteoak, select Lake Ontario as the site of their new home. It is 1863 and life at Jalna is peaceful. Philip, who will grow up to become the master of Jalna, has just come into the world, while Augusta, Nicholas, and Ernest are children....

Raoul d’Harmental, jeune aristocrate monté à Paris en 1711, est un aventurier plutôt susceptible et impétueux. S’étant illustré à la dernière victoire de Louis XIV, nommé colonel à cette occasion, d’Harmental se trouve après la mort du roi mêlé au conflit qui oppose le parti des...

Amos Lee Mappin is visited by the surly and self-centered Major Dunphy, dependent on his beautiful actress granddaughter, Mary Stannard. Mary has disappeared, and the detective soon discovers that she has stood up her wedding party. More than one man was infatuated with Mary, and Mappin finds several...

Renny Whiteoak is keen to sail for Ireland with his small daughter, Adeline, to buy a racehorse, but he's more eager to see his younger cousins, Finch and Wakefield, who have been living in London. On his arrival in England, Renny becomes entangled in his cousins’ affairs of the heart.

Pauline est un des premiers romans de Dumas. C’est un livre qu’il a écrit seul, et qui se déroule de son temps. La fiction brode sur les thèmes du roman gothique, en « noir », nuit, cottage en ruine, sentes perdues, passages secrets, brigands impitoyables, héroïne enterrée vivante, substitution...

Ce récit écrit en 1829 sera placé, plus tard, par Balzac en ouverture de La Comédie humaine ». On y retrouve la trame de ce que seront les romans la composant et l’on y croise déjà les héros d’autres épisodes. Tout y préfigure la grande œuvre de Balzac. C’est en ces quelques pages...

In The Whiteoak Brothers, the Jalna household is electric with secrecy and excited expectation. It is now 1923, and while young love blossoms between Pheasant and Piers, Aunt Augusta's friend, Dilly Warkworth, arrives at Jalna and tries to snare the heart of Renny. Eden, meets a persuasive mining...

The international bestselling story of the Whiteoaks, the unforgettable southern Ontario family who live in a red-brick house called Jalna.

The collection of short stories featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, The Scarlet Pimpernel. Set in revolutionary France in 1793, these further adventures will thrill the first time reader as much as those who are familiar with the Pimpernel and the League. Their arch enemy Chauvelin and the Committee of...

During one return home, Sir Percy tells the story of André Vallon, a young Jacobin, to the Prince of Wales. André, wishing to revenge himself on a despotic seigneur, uses the Jacobins’ rise to force the seigneur’s daughter to marry him. Once wed, they come to love each other, only to have the...