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Men will like and women will love dashing, rip-roaring Lord Johnnie, left-handed scion of nobility. Strange mixture of London's Whitehall where the nobles lived and Whitefriars where the thieves and pickpockets dwelt, Johnnie the Rogue was at home in both. Leader of...
A thrilling, gripping tale of fear, menace, and mystery in which Miss Adams becomes enmeshed when she plays the double game of nurse and detective in a large, eerie house where doors are barred at night!
A Jade Of Destiny is a glowing romance of the days of Queen Bess - a romance dealing to some extent with one of the many plots against the life of the great Queen. Two contrasting love stories are woven through this swift-moving, colorful narrative and, as may be...
What would a young Highlander leave his home and his bride-to-be to follow? D.K. Broster's The Flight of the Heron, set during the 1745 Jacobite uprising under Bonnie Prince Charlie, is the first book in a trilogy and follows the intersecting fortunes of two men who at...
Strawberry Roan concerns life in the countryside and has at its heartStrawberry Roan, a cow belonging to Mr. Dibben, the local baker and grocer in Coombe Wallop in Wiltshire. The book followsStrawberry Roan from her calfhood, through her various changes of ownership, to...
The mystery begins with the discovery of the body of old Robert Garth in the trampled mud of an ancient outhouse.The Garth family live at Garthmere Hall, which was ruled by Robert with a rod of iron.The Hall is a gloomy medieval building. When the local police officer...
Justin, Viscount Wade-Orrington has never felt like much of a gentleman's son, he's always been different from those high-falutin' aristocrats. His father doesn't seem to worry about any of that, instead he sets about arranging for him to marry Helene, Marchioness of...
Thomas Mann regarded his monumental re-telling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus, telling of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. As Joseph is saved from the well and sold to Egypt, he adopts a new name, Osarseph, replacing...
The Light Heart, the fourth installment in Elswyth Thane's Williamsburg series, covers the years 1902 to 1917.The reader enjoys these stories of the Days and the Spragues families in this saga series of novels, in successive generations, as one might the Whitecaks of...
This is Henry Bellamann's wonderful novel that many call a lost American classic. Despite being a critical and commercial success on its release in 1940, leading to a film version with Ronald Reagan two years later, King's Row and the rest of Bellamann's works are...
In this sequel to Kings Row, Parris Mitchell is definitely the proponent of the story - and not Kings Row itself. Parris has achieved his goal as psychiatrist (still a young profession in the Midwest of the First World War) in his home town hospital - but he is still...
Drink to Yesterday was based on the early life of one of its two collaborators, Cyril Henry Coles, who left school, lied about his age and enlisted as a teenager in the British army during World War I. He was transferred to intelligence when his remarkable aptitude for...
Tommy is back, and again he’s in Germany, posing as a camera-toting tourist while trailing Fascists. The investigation starts in Cologne when a corpse is found hung out like a batch of wash from a ruined building. ThenTommy learns about two girls whose custom it is “to...
A marvelous collection of love, treachery, foolishness, tragedy and humor. All the famous great ancient Greek tales are here compellingly re-told, from the insolent exploits of Phaeton and Icarus, to the sorrow-filled fate of Orpheus and Eurydice, and many others.
This roaring, virile novel is a fiery recreation of the legend of Jason, the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece. Jason's turbulent marriage to Medea and his tangled affairs with many women form the framework of this spectacular historical which was written in the grand...
Dorothy Parker was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding...
Tommy Hambleton, a British Foreign Intelligence officer, impersonates the Deputy Chief of the German Police in order to pass on information about the Nazi regime...
During his lifetime, Tamerlane conquered more territory than anyone except Alexander. His rule extended from his home base in Samarkand, southern Russia down through Iran and Syria in the west and into Northern Indian the south, and eastward into the westernmost parts...
In this second book of the Williamsburg series Yankee Stranger, Tabitha Day, heroine of "Dawn's Early Light", re-appears on her 95th birthday, an altogether delectable and beguiling grandmother and great-grandmother. The period spans the Civil War; the setting is...
Pilgrimage was the first expression in English of what it is to be called 'stream of conciousness' technique, predating the work of both Joyce and Woolf, echoing that of Proust with whom Dorothy Richardson stands as one of the great innovatory figures of our time. These...
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