(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Often referred to as the "American Agatha Christie," Mary Roberts Rinehart did much to popularize and refine the mystery genre in the United States. The Street of Seven Stars follows an American musician, Harmony Wells, to Austria, where she has gone to hone her violin skills. Though the dashing doctor she meets there appears to want to protect her, there may be more to his motives than meets the eye.
83) Tante
84) The Flirt
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington has an amazingly deft touch with characterization, and the tense relationship between town flirt Cora Madison and her quieter sister Laura is so compelling that the story has been the basis for a number of filmed versions. As with Tarkington's later novel The Magnificent Ambersons, The Flirt is a thoroughly entertaining portrait of a dysfunctional but ultimately loving family.
85) Running Water
Get set for edge-of-your-seat excitement and adventure in A. E. W. Mason's Running Water. A rescue team must race against time to save a trapped mountaineer in the treacherous upper reaches of the Swiss Alps. Packed with action and romance, this fast-paced novel will appeal to a wide range of readers.
86) Dora Thorne
Though acclaimed romance novelist Charlotte M. Brame penned hundreds of short stories and book-length tales over the course of her illustrious literary career, fans and critics alike regard Dora Thorne as her most popular creation. This epic tale centers around romance that blooms among partners of different social classes. Is lasting love possible when the social pressure to say goodbye is so intense? Read Dora Thorne to find out.
...89) Aftermath
First published in 1854, Hard Times is a profoundly moving, articulate and searing indictment of the life-reducing effects of the industrial revolution, and certain aspects of enlightenment thinking. Set in the fictional midlands mill-town of Coketown, the narrative centers on the industrialist, Mr Thomas Gradgrind, whose belief in scientific utilitarianism skews his world view and is a motive force, carrying the narrative towards farce
...92) The Odd Women
93) A Tale of a Tub
94) The Sea Hawk
Science fiction innovator H. G. Wells held many progressive political and social views, and many of his novels and short stories served as vehicles through which he sought to disseminate his opinions. In The Passionate Friends, which many critics and fans alike regard as one of Wells' best non-science fiction novels, a father passes on some of the wisdom he's gained over the course of his life to his son, much of which has to do with his
...96) Sanctuary
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request
