This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Treasure Island (R. L. Stevenson) Blackbeard: Buccaneer (R. D. Paine) Pieces of Eight (Le Gallienne) Gold-Bug (Edgar A. Poe) The Dark Frigate (C. B. Hawes) Hearts of Three (Jack London) Captain Singleton (Defoe) Swords of Red Brotherhood (Howard) Queen of Black Coast (Howard) Afloat and Ashore (James F. Cooper) Pirate Gow (Defoe) The King of Pirates (Defoe) Barbarossa—Kin...

A NEW NOVEL IN JOHN RINGO'S BEST-SELLING BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES BY NEBULA- AND DRAGON AWARDNOMINATED AUTHOR CHARLES E. GANNONIt was supposed to be fun. Six teenagers and their British captain aboard the ketch Crosscurrent Voyager, headed on a senior year summer cruise to excitement and adventure. Then the world as they knew it ended.A plague spread throughout the globe, killing millions and turning the survivors into cannibalistic rage monsters—z...

A NEW NOVEL IN JOHN RINGO'S BEST-SELLING BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES BY NEBULA- AND DRAGON AWARDNOMINATED AUTHOR CHARLES E. GANNONCASTAWAYS IN A ZOMBIE PLAGUESix kids ranging from suburban geeks to street-smart pariahs. A British captain who rarely talks and never smiles. All on the 70-foot pilot house ketch Crosscurrent Voyager, bound on a senior summer cruise to adventure and serious fun.Except most of the kids don’t get along. And they’ll b...

This 1st volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Cather, Willa:...

Sequel to national bestseller, Nebula Award finalist, and Compton Crook Award winner Fire with Fire. Science fiction adventure on a grand scale.When reluctant interstellar diplomat and intelligence operative Caine Riordan returns from humanity’s first encounter with alien races, sudden war clouds burst. With Earth’s fleet shattered by a sneak attack and its survivors fighting for their lives, Caine must rely upon both his first contact and weaponry skills to contend with t...

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a sweeping study of collective irrationality, tracing episodes such as the Mississippi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, Tulipomania, alchemical obsessions, witch persecutions, crusading fervor, and other social manias. Written in vigorous nineteenth-century prose, Mackay blends anecdote, moral reflection, and historical narrative, situating the work within Victorian popular history while anticipating modern studies of behavioral eco...

Nell Cummins, former barmaid and now manager of the Duke of York hotel, is an institution. But her impeccable reputation, and that of the hotel she oversees, is threatened when one of the guests, a stranger to the district, is found stabbed. Inspector Head, tasked with unearthing the truth surrounding the murder, is annoyed to recieve a number of insistent phone calls from Enthwaite of Enthwaite House demanding that he attend immediately to an urgent matter of his own, details of which he ...

Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Novels & Tales (Illustrated) gathers the author's celebrated seasonal writings, from A Christmas Carol to lesser-known festive stories, presenting Christmas as a moral, social, and imaginative space. Written in Dickens's vivid, theatrical prose, these works blend ghost story, domestic realism, satire, sentiment, and social critique. The illustrations enhance their Victorian atmosphere, recalling the periodical culture and visual richness through whic...

2105, September: Intelligence Analyst Caine Riordan uncovers a conspiracy on Earth's Moon—a history-making clandestine project—and ends up involuntarily cryocelled for his troubles. Twelve years later, Riordan awakens to a changed world. Humanity has achieved faster-than-light travel and is pioneering nearby star systems. And now, Riordan is compelled to become an inadvertent agent of conspiracy himself. Riordan's mission: travel to a newly settled world and investigate whether a primitive...

"He hoped he was bringing a man down here to his death, and I’m going to get him for it!"Ward Keller is dead. For the art world, this is sensational news. Keller has spent his fortune in amassing an astonishing collection of artworks, which he housed at The Strong Box - a fortress-like country house with an impenetrable water-covered safe at its centre. And it is shortly after arriving at this incredible residence to take up his inheritance that Keller's heir is brutally attacked, ...

The Pirates Own Book (Illustrated) is a vivid nineteenth-century compendium of maritime outlawry, gathering sensational narratives of buccaneers, privateers, mutineers, and sea robbers into a form at once documentary and theatrical. Its prose belongs to the popular literature of crime and adventure: brisk, moralizing, richly anecdotal, and heightened by illustrations that transform historical violence into memorable spectacle. Situated within the antebellum appetite for captivity tales, cr...

Montagu Kemp and Diane Heriot arrive at Westingborough station in a raging blizzard, intent on joining the house party at Castel Garde, the country home of Jim Houghton. Having battled through the snow to reach the house, they are dismayed to find the immoral financier Malcolm Carmichael is a guest of Houghton's - and Diane is appalled to learn that Carmichael intends to ruin their host. But when Carmichael is murdered during a party game, the guests at Castel Garde must face up to the fac...