Theresa is the wife of the Captain of the Desire, the first ever American built slaver ship used to bring in cargo straight from Africa. As she joins her husband, she meets the...

Stolen as a child and raised in the wood of Evilshaw as servant to a witch, Birdalone ultimately escapes in her captress's magical boat, in which she travels to a succession of...

"Caesar's Column" is a novel by Ignatius Donnelly, a writer famous for having written and published the work entitled "Atlantis: the antediluvian...

Plus size southern belle Tallulah foregoes college to take of her sick grandmother. With dwindling finances and 90 pounds of excess weight, she's not motivated to do...

In Sevastopol (or Sebastopol) Sketches Tolstoy examines the senselessness and vanity of war, the many aspects of the psychology of war, heroism, and the misleading presence of...

Lavretsky pursues an education in Moscow, and while he is studying there, he falls in love with a beautiful young woman Varvara. The two move to Paris, where Varvara becomes a...

Following Twain's failed investment into a revolutionary typesetting machine he makes an attempt to extricate himself from huge debt by undertaking a tour of the British Empire,...

Marilla Reed had everything she could want growing up. She knew that life held only the best for her.Then, one tragic day, her father is brought home unconscious. Suddenly,...

Louisiana, end of 1800: Creole families, French settlers descendants, are melted with the rest of the Anglo-Saxon society in the United States. In that world that she feels tight,...

The Horde is in shambles and the Humans try to reform their alliances. Robyn, the sworn protector of Queen Grace, solemly looks out at the battlefield. She has an inner desire...