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Cover of The Burglar's Fate and the Detectives
by Allan Pinkerton
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015

In the pages which follow I have narrated a story of actual occurrence. No touch of fiction obscures the truthful recital. The crime which is here detailed was actually committed, and under the circumstances which I have related. The four young men, whose real names are clothed with the charitable...
Cover of A Winter Amid the Ice
by Jules Verne
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

When his son Louis and members of the crew of the ship Jeune-Hardie, do not return from sea, Jean Cornbutte decides to refit the ship and go north to find them. Accompanying him on this trip is his son's fiancée, Marie, and the man who would be his son's rival for her affections, the ship's first...
Cover of A Belated Guest
by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015

William Dean Howells (18371920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel...
Cover of The Lost Stradivarius
by J. Meade Falkner
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014

While practicing his violin at Oxford, John Maltravers notices a strange phenomenon: whenever a certain tune is played a mysterious presence seems to enter the room. Maltravers becomes increasingly unsettled, until he makes a startling discovery - tucked away in a hidden cupboard is a priceless Stradivarius!...
Cover of Houlihan's Equation
by Walter J. Sheldon
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015

The tiny spaceship had been built for a journey to a star. But its small, mischievous pilots had a rendezvous with destiny--on Earth.
Cover of The Ties That Bind
by Walter M. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015

The Earth was green and quiet. Nature had survived Man, and Man had survived himself. Then, one day, the great silvery ships broke the tranquillity of the skies, bringing Man's twenty-thousand-year-lost inheritance back to Earth....
Cover of The Native Soil
by Alan Nourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014

Before the first ship from Earth made a landing on Venus, there was much speculation about what might be found beneath the cloud layers obscuring that planet's surface from the eyes of all observers. One school of thought maintained that the surface of Venus was a jungle, rank with hot-house moisture,...
Cover of Gold in the Sky
by Alan Nourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014

Alan E. Nourse's 1958 novel of fortunes made and lost, murder, and betrayal among the asteroid miners. Originally published in the September, 1958 issue of AMAZING SCIENCE FICTION STORIES magazine.
Cover of Infinite Intruder
by Alan Nourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014

When Roger Strang found that someone was killing his son—killing him horribly and often—he started investigating. He wasn't prepared to find the results of another investigation—this time about his own life.
Cover of Rebels of the Red Planet
by Charles Louis Fontenay
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015

Dark Kensington had been dead for twenty-five years. It was a fact; everyone knew it. Then suddenly he reappeared, youthful, brilliant, ready to take over the Phoenix, the rebel group that worked to overthrow the tyranny that gripped the settlers on Mars.
Cover of Under the Sunset
by Bram Stoker
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015

Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and color, give a promise of the glory and beauty that encompass it. Sometimes it is given to...
Cover of The Winged Men of Orcon
by David R. Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015

Far out at the edge of the Universe two scientists play a game of wits--Earth to the winner.
Cover of The Pirate Woman
by Aylward Edward Dingle
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014

Daughter of the deceased Red Jabez, Sultan of the pirates, the passionate Dolores is left to rule a Jamaican pirate island. Although more than equal to the job of managing the ruffians, Dolores dreams of the day when she can be off the island and on her own, taking her jewels and fortune with her.
Cover of Essays and Lectures
by Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014

The Rise of Historical Criticism The English Renaissance of Art House Decoration Art and the Handicraftman Lecture to Art Students London Models Poems in Prose
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