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Canadian-born writer May Agnes Fleming was one of the first female authors in North America to emerge as a major literary star and to earn a lucrative income from her fiction. The Gypsy Queen's Vow is a sweeping epic that will enthrall readers with its perfect amalgamation of adventure and romance.

The child of Irish immigrants, author May Agnes Fleming was born in Canada and lived her final years in the United States. The gripping romance novel The Actress' Daughter contains many of the elements that contributed to Fleming's popular acclaim: strong female characters, complex plot twists, and plenty of shadowy intrigue.

TV repairman Ed Loyce sets out for what he thinks will be a typical day at work -- and finds himself in a world in which everything has been turned topsy-turvy. The first indication that things are amiss occurs when Loyce spies a stomach-turning abomination in the town park -- and none of his fellow...

"This book is aimed squarely at the theater-goer. It hopes to offer a concise general treatment upon the use of the theater, so that the person in the seat may get the most for his money; may choose his entertainment wisely, avoid that which is not worth while, and appreciate the values artistic and intellectual of what he is seeing and hearing."

In this thrilling action-adventure novel for younger audiences, lifelong chums Rob McIntyre, John Hardy and Jesse Wilcox set off on a grueling, life-changing trek in the wilds of the Rocky Mountains with their friend Uncle Dick, a civil engineer and skilled outdoorsman.

Home economist and social reformer Helen Campbell dedicated her life to improving economic prospects for women, both in the realm of the family home and in the workforce. In this series of essays, she considers the then-recent trend of large numbers of women moving into the working world and presents a number of compelling solutions for making the lives of working women easier and more fulfilling.

Fans of historical fiction will enjoy this tightly plotted tale from author Helen H. Gardener. An Unofficial Patriot follows the ups and downs of a Southern-born clergyman, Griffith Davenport, as he makes his way in the evolving and sometimes treacherous new order of the United States in the post-Civil War era.

Though Honore de Balzac is now lauded as a master of the literary genre of social realism, a sizable number of his stories and novels also contain supernatural and mystical elements. The story "The Exiles" is set in the medieval period, and revolves around a couple who run a small boarding house -- and gradually begin to suspect that some of their boarders may be harboring dark secrets.

Joy: A Play on the Letter I, in Three Acts is a play by the Nobel Prize winning English writer John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933), best known for The Forsyte Saga and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter.

Brothers Philippe and Joseph Bridau couldn't be more different. One is a cruel man who puts his ruthlessness to good use in a military career, while the other is a kind-hearted, sensitive soul who grows up to be a penniless artist. When the family's fortune is at risk, the two diametrically opposed siblings wage an all-out war.

In the early twentieth century, university professor and Methodist minister Dallas Lore Sharp made a splash in the often-stuffy field of nature writing with this collection of essays in his unique voice, which combines encyclopedic knowledge of flora and fauna with a wry wit and keen observational skills.

Carolyn Wells is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the Golden Age of mystery novels; she even penned a well-known book on mystery writing techniques. Her unparalleled skill at crafting airtight plots is on full display in In the Onyx Lobby, which recounts the investigation into what seems to be the perfect crime.

Giving up the ghost, cashing in your chips, kicking the bucket, meeting your maker -- however you prefer to think of death, it's something that will happen to all of us, so why not have a sense of humor about it? That's the attitude that the writers of the epitaphs featured in this uproarious collection...

Humble farmer and tavern owner John Procter was swept up in the tide of hysteria surrounding accusations of witchcraft that rocked Massachusetts in the late seventeenth century. In the aftermath of a flurry of back-and-forth suspicions and allegations, Procter was eventually convicted and hanged. This concise account tells the story with a focus on Procter's perspective.