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Long before the modern detective story, there was the diary of a Special Agent of the U.S. Post-Office Department. First published in 1855, Ten Years Among the Mail Bags gathers the narratives of James Holbrook, who spent a decade investigating thefts and breaches of trust in the American mail...

At eighteen, Frank Bullen signs aboard the ramshackle whaler Cachalot, more out of desperation than choice, and finds himself thrown into one of the harshest trades on the high seas. What follows is a three-year voyage from New Bedford, Massachusetts, round the Cape of Good Hope, and on through...

Sea air, golf links and a secret waiting to be uncovered. The sleepy seaside town of Stroan has seen better days, but a new golf course is bringing visitors, and a little life, back to its streets. Among the holidaymakers are three friends: Otto, Clifford and Willie, who has never been able to...

In 1872, Irish soldier and adventurer Sir William Francis Butler published this vivid firsthand account of his journey across the vast, untamed expanse of Canada's Northwest. Dispatched on a hazardous reconnaissance mission during the Red River Rebellion, Butler travelled deep into contested...

In the ancient city of Winton, three brothers grow up in the shadow of their family's old flour mill — and of the father whose sins seem to echo through its walls. Everything changes when a strange child named Zyp appears out of the woods, claiming to be a changeling with no home of her own...

A wealthy eccentric with a taste for playing the benevolent detective gathers nine guests aboard his barge, nine people whose lives have collided in ways none of them fully understands. One by one, they step forward with a story to tell: the Human Gargoyle, the Hypochondriacal Painter, the...

Step into the shadowy world of the early United States Secret Service with Captain Walker, the quiet, methodical chief who has spent a lifetime hunting the cleverest criminals of his age. In this classic collection, Melville Davisson Post, the celebrated creator of Uncle Abner and Randolph Mason...

In "Biographies of Working Men" (1884), the notable Victorian naturalist and social critic Grant Allen presents an inspiring collection of biographical sketches celebrating the lives of ordinary laborers who achieved greatness through sheer perseverance and self-education. This classic work...

Some houses keep their secrets better than others. In the quiet English town of Dourville, a handsome old mill house stands beside a stream that once powered a busy paper mill. It is here that a young woman, Rhoda Pembury, is brought to recover after being rescued from a near-fatal bicycle...

A gripping firsthand account of courage, resilience, and survival during the Great War. In My German Prisons, Captain Horace Gray Gilliland delivers an uncensored, deeply personal narrative of his experiences as a British officer captured during the brutal battles of World War I. For two and a...

Based on the true story of the mutiny aboard HMS Bounty, this historical adventure follows Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers after they cast Captain Bligh adrift and flee in search of a place beyond the reach of British law. Seeking an island remote enough to escape discovery, they...

First published in 1875, Thrift is Samuel Smiles' companion volume to his phenomenally popular Self-Help and Character. In it, Smiles argues that frugality and prudent saving form the true foundation of personal independence, dignity, and social progress. Drawing on historical anecdotes...

A stormy night in London. Two friends, a card table, a heap of gold, and one moment of blind rage that can never be undone. Haunted by guilt and terrified of the consequences, Adrian Lancaster flees into the tempest and stumbles upon the enigmatic Dr. Michael Roversmire, a man steeped in occult...

A woman rising from a tomb. A deserted palazzo. A crime worthy of the Borgias. Verona, late nineteenth century. Hugo Cranston, a young Englishman studying music under a local maestro, spends his nights wandering the moonlit city, until one evening his steps lead him to the old cemetery. There he...

Step behind the veil of Victorian London into a world where love is never safe from the dark. First published in 1894, Tales of the Supernatural gathers six haunting tales in which romance and the occult are bound together by blood, ritual, and forbidden bargains. From a blood pact sworn beside...

Step into the fields, woods, and marshes of early twentieth-century New England with one of America's most graceful nature writers. In this collection of nine essays, Dallas Lore Sharp turns his naturalist's eye on the small, often-overlooked dramas of the countryside: a hawk's raid on a flock...

Set against the dramatic backdrop of late fifteenth-century Spain, The Son of Columbus follows Diego, the young son of the visionary navigator Christopher Columbus, as he forges a deep friendship with Don Felipe, a nobleman's son, while the two boys are raised together in a monastery under the...

In the late twentieth century, Admiral Julian 3rd can get no rest, for he knows his future. He will be reborn as his grandson in the next century to journey through space and make an ominous discovery inside the moon; he will live again in the dark years of the twenty-second century as Julian...

The Sun Virgin is a bold work of historical romance by best-selling American author Jr. Thomas Dixon , set against one of history's most dramatic collisions of civilizations: the Spanish conquest of Peru. The novel explores the clash between the burgeoning Spanish Empire and the majestic Incan...

From E. W. Hornung — the English author who gave the world Raffles, the gentleman thief, and who was Arthur Conan Doyle's own brother-in-law — comes a quieter, more intimate novel that stands apart from his famous crime fiction. Duncan Clephane is a war-wounded officer who has no illusions...