Untreed Reads: 526 books

Viscount Aubrey "Stony" Wellstone is at the end of his rope—and the end of his family's once-great fortune. Desperate, he tries his luck at the gaming tables, where an offer to exchange his debts for a gentlemanly favor leads to a profitable new profession...as an "honorable escort" accompanying the...

The lies are undeniable…but the truth is harder to see... Daniel Stamfield has become invaluable to the British Army for his ability to detect the truth from the enemy's lies. After years of service, Daniel finally takes a respite for some wine, wenches, and wagering. Unfortunately, he didn't bet on...

In the coastal town of Rocky Cove, nothing interesting ever happens. And, if you're part of a group of kids at school that aren't exactly among the most popular, life can move at an even slower pace. So, when a group of friends discover the body of one of their friends washed up on the rocks, the chance...

Mellow old Philadelphia, where life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have flourished for centuries, now has a new claim to fame. The City of Brotherly Love has been proclaimed number one in the nation...for hostility. English teacher Amanda Pepper, crabbily gearing up for summer school at exclusive...

Chinese by birth, Eurasian by blood, Mei-Ling Wang's extraordinary life is a mirror of our time. Born in China in 1949, the year of the Red Army's entry into Beijing, she is the daughter of an English mother and Chinese father who share the Communist vision of a more perfect future. Mei-ling grows to...

Sit down and have a cup of coffee (and eat something...you're looking a little thin), because oy VEY does humorist Darryl A. Forman have something to tell you. Join Darryl in this rollicking collection of essays covering everything from growing up Jewish to surgery to a secret love for Jon Stewart (ok,...

It's Christmas Eve morning, 1957, and John wakes up to find his parents are missing. When he realizes they never came home from a holiday party they attended the night before, John calls his estranged uncle, a man he barely remembers and hasn't seen in nearly 14 years. Together, they face a life-changing...

He was the rising star of psychoanalysis, an intimate associate of Anna Freud and Kurt Eissler, a member of the Freudian “inner circle” with unrestricted access to the Freud Archives. And then Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson threw it all away because he dared to break the psychoanalytic communitys deepest...

The bombs have fallen, and the world as we know it has ended. In her final days, one robotics engineer works to ensure that life will go on, constructing the creatures that will inherit the earth. New times are coming. The future echoes with the rattle of metal claws. A short story.

A tribute to her lost baby, and our crusade to find out why.' -The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths. In Jacquelynn Luben's quest to have a family, she suffers the disappointment of miscarriage and the tragedy of cot death. Set against an unusual background of family life, with a sprinkling of...

Little Veronica likes hanging out at Mrs. Life's porch. She can see the whole town from the steps, and Mrs. Life is fascinating in the way that she keeps track of all sorts of numbers and information in her little spiral-bound notebooks. So it's surprising to Veronica when the always-nice Mrs. Life has...

Larry's a hardworking Vietnam vet who loves his country and is proud of his small town roots. He's lived the better part of his life in Booneville, where Old Glory flies proudly over town square, and the Fourth of July is the biggest celebration of the year. Then, the closing of Halport Industries—the...

A young man heard a voice inside his head, "Get outta the car. Get outta the car." He jumped out and, seconds later, the car was destroyed. This story of a supernatural warning is one of many mystical encounters Dr. Farrell heard in twenty-three years working as a prison psychologist. Men in solitary...

The Mojave Desert. The heat of the noonday sun. A lonely stretch of highway. A screenwriter enjoys a nostalgic visit to his childhood home of Needles, California. But now it's time for him to leave that simple life in the desert and drive back home to L.A. and the lure of Hollywood. The highway isn't...