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High in the wild Asturian mountains, a remote calamine mine tests more than iron and stone. Sent to recover his health—and branded an “idle young dog”—young Jim Cayley battles a stubborn stutter and a worse reputation. When Little Toro, a sharp-eyed Cuban orphan, whispers of sabotage...

A jewel that shouldn’t exist. A masked outlaw who won’t back down. And a hidden world with the power to shatter the Earth. When the legendary Earth Star is stolen from a Rajah’s palace, suspicion falls on Seth Martell’s three sons—Tony, Phil, and Jimmy—pitting family honor against a...

On a frost-bitten New York evening, Soapy, an unhoused wanderer with a wry sense of dignity, hatches a simple winter plan: get arrested and enjoy three warm months on Blackwell’s Island. But each petty scheme—dining and dashing, window-smashing, heckling, causing a scene, even...

Emma Goldman’s most lucid statement of anarchist thought, Anarchism: What It Really Stands For, tears down the myths that equate anarchism with chaos to reveal a humane, life-affirming vision rooted in individual liberty and voluntary cooperation. With lyrical force and unsparing logic...

In a sunlit garden that harbors deadly secrets, a young medical student, Giovanni Guasconti, becomes entranced by Beatrice—radiant, brilliant, and mysteriously poisonous. As Giovanni’s fascination deepens, he discovers that Dr. Rappaccini, Beatrice’s fanatical father, has cultivated both...

Step inside the rough-and-ready world of 1890s New York sleuthing with Old King Brady’s plainspoken master class in detection—brought to life by narrator Jason Michael Mann. Part handbook, part casebook, this lively guide lays out the essential qualities of a first-rate detective—courage...

Shipwrecked on a speck of coral off Madagascar, professional egg hunter Butcher watches his last hope drift to sea—except for one priceless prize: an intact Aepyornis (elephant-bird) egg. When it hatches, the castaway finds unlikely companionship in the towering chick he names Friday. As the...

Henry David Thoreau’s Wild Apples is a luminous, invigorating walk through orchards, woodlots, and memory. Using the untamed apple as his compass, Thoreau ranges from ancient myth to New England fence lines, celebrating the rugged beauty, sharp flavor, and stubborn independence of nature...

Across a sunlit river, the Australian bush promises adventure. For one lonely little boy, the forest beyond his home seems filled with wonders—and perhaps companions waiting to be found. Despite his mother’s warnings, the child crosses the water and begins exploring. Strange animals...

In Woman’s Sexual Life, writer and sex educator William J. Fielding examines female sexuality through the biological, psychological, and social theories available in the 1920s. Moving across puberty, sexual desire, menstruation, marriage, pregnancy, motherhood, menopause, and mental health...

A humble clerk. A treasured overcoat. A loss that follows him beyond the grave. Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin lives an invisible life in the freezing streets of St. Petersburg. Poorly paid, routinely mocked, and devoted to his monotonous work as a government copyist, he asks for little—until...