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Bill Raynor and Jack Ready, the intrepid duo known as the Wireless Boys, set out on a sea voyage to Europe from New York. A few days into the trip, World War I breaks out, and the boys find themselves at the center of an international crisis. Will the ship make it back to American shores before it's too late?

Craving action on the high seas? Dive into "The King of Pirates," a rip-roaring adventure tale recounting the exploits of the infamous Captain Avery and written by Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Fans of classic pirate stories definitely will not be disappointed.

The tumultuous relationship between Katharine Howard and England's King Henry VIII was inextricably entwined with the rise to power and eventual fall of Thomas Cromwell, who served as the Lord Privy Seal. In this fictionalized account from Ford Madox Ford, the once-innocent Katharine begins to be swept...

Many of British writer Ford Madox Ford's most acclaimed works are in the genre of historical fiction, and The Young Lovell highlights Ford's strengths in this domain. Structurally, the novel bears similarities to many other tales of courtly love and damsels in distress in the age of chivalry, but Ford adds a dimension of sophistication and insight that many competing novels lack.

The unthinkable befalls the Desborough family when a wolf steals away with their young son Carl, absconding with him into the depths of the Indian jungle. The whole family mourns his loss -- except for his sister, who is adamant in her belief that Carl is still alive. Is there any possibility that she might be right?

This ingeniously plotted novel reveals the strange ways that men and women choose to act out their romantic feelings -- and the lengths some will go to avenge unrequited love. John Hampstead is a jack-of-all-trades who is bowled over by the dramatic presence of actress Marien Dourney -- but not quite...

After spending time at a number of schools around Europe for several years, teenage brothers Percy and Ralph Barclay have settled down in France with their family. But when the Franco-Prussian War breaks out, the Barclay family's hard-won stability is shattered, and the brave brothers join the war effort as spies.

Working under an array of pseudonyms and pen names, author and thinker William Walker Atkinson produced a prodigious body of influential work during his lifetime. Among other accomplishments, Atkinson is credited with developing the "New Thought" movement that has come back into vogue in recent years...

Outdoorsman and amateur sleuth Johnny Thompson is at it again in this thrilling mystery tale for younger readers. Set in and around Haiti, this case involves a long-sought-after treasure known as the Rope of Gold, the pursuit of which has brought about a great deal of misery and destruction. Can Johnny end the curse?

Sailor Jimmy Farquhar has enjoyed a period of relative calm in his life, serving on a series of problem-free cargo runs and striking up a burgeoning relationship with a beautiful passenger on one trip. But when a colleague proposes a salvage job that would entail traveling into icy, treacherous northern waters, Jimmy decides to throw caution to the wind and give it a shot.

In this adventure-mystery story geared for younger audiences, intrepid hero Johnny Thompson stumbles on some unusual goings-on in the foreboding jungles of Central America. Will he get to the bottom of the mystery and crack the case before it's too late?

A motley cast of characters comes together in the unspoiled forestland of the Carquinez Woods, including a female murderer on the lam, a sensitive, hermit-like Native American, a hard-drinking minister and his pious and beautiful teenage daughter, and Yuba Bill, a stage driver with a heart of gold who appears in many of Harte's stories.

This volume brings together a novella and several short stories from Mary Cholmondeley, an English writer who worked in many genres, including detective fiction, romance, and stories of the supernatural. The title novella, Moth and Rust, follows the drama surrounding a well-to-do young man's selection...

Far in the future, Earth's empire has grown to include dozens of different civilizations, many of which have been subjugated to serve humanity's growing need for cheap labor. In the short story "Tony and the Beetles," a young boy hatches an unlikely friendship with some of the insect-like creatures that are treated as slaves -- and sets off a firestorm of unintended consequences in the process.