An inexplicable leap across the void. A dying planet populated by giant warriors. A desperate fight for love and survival.When former cavalry officer John Carter seeks refuge in a mysterious Arizona cave, he expects nothing more than a temporary respite from hostile pursuers. Instead, he awakens millions of miles from Earth upon the sprawling, moss-covered plains of Mars—a world known to its inhabitants as Barsoom.Navigating a lower gravity that grants him ...

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."Step into the opulent, suffocating world of 19th-century Imperial Russia, where polite society masks devastating betrayals and desires that possess the power to ruin lives. Anna Karenina plunges us immediately into the domestic catastrophe of the Oblonsky household, shattered by infidelity, before shifting the lens to the earnest, agrarian Konstantin Levin, whose desperate, unre...

Is there any room left in the world for true romance and daring heroics?Young journalist Edward Malone is desperate to prove his worth to the woman he loves. When he begs his editor for the most dangerous assignment available, he is sent to interview the notorious, irascible, and fiercely imposing Professor George Edward Challenger. The Professor has just returned from an isolated plateau deep in the uncharted Amazon basin with claims that defy all modern science: ...

Bored by the stifling routine of high-society London, a young Foreign Office official accepts a seemingly innocent invitation from an old acquaintance to go yachting in the Baltic Sea. But what begins as an uncomfortable escape from the city soon plunges him into a chilling web of international intrigue.Aboard the cramped, scrubby little yacht Dulcibella, Carruthers discovers that his host, the eccentric and resourceful Davies, is hiding a dark secret from his solo voyage ...

After the sudden death of her eccentric father, Anne Beddingfeld refuses to settle for a dull, ordinary life. Yearning for romance and peril, she gets far more than she bargained for when she witnesses a fatal accident in a London Tube station. But was it an accident?Armed with nothing but a cryptic piece of paper smelling faintly of mothballs and an unshakeable belief in her own wits, Anne embarks on a globe-trotting quest to unmask a killer. Her pursuit takes her deep into the my...

A brilliant fusion of classic scientific romance and breathtaking cosmic adventure.It is November 1900, and the world stands on the brink of devastating war. But high above the turbulent Atlantic, a marvel of human genius has just pierced the clouds. Piloted by the aristocratic Lord Redgrave and powered by a revolutionary anti-gravity engine, the magnificent Astronef is humanity's first true spacecraft—and it is about to change the course of history foreve...

After a decade of Earthly exile, Captain John Carter is inexplicably pulled across the void of space back to the dying red planet he once called home. But the Barsoom he returns to is not the one he remembers.Instead of the welcoming arms of his beloved Dejah Thoris, Carter materializes in the terrifying Valley Dor—the mythical Martian afterlife that is no paradise, but a gruesome slaughterhouse guarded by monstrous plant-men and towering white apes.Reunite...

When the sudden death of Mr. Dashwood leaves his wife and three daughters with a mere pittance, the Dashwood women are unceremoniously forced from the sprawling, wealthy grounds of Norland Park. Thrust into the modest confines of Barton Cottage in Devonshire, sisters Elinor and Marianne must navigate the turbulent waters of nineteenth-century society, where a woman's future depends entirely on making a suitable, advantageous match.But the two eldest sisters could not be more fundam...

A war-hardened general. A pacifist disguise. A lethal game of cat-and-mouse in the heart of England.Recalled from the blood-soaked trenches of the Somme, Brigadier General Richard Hannay expects to be sent to another brutal front line. Instead, British Intelligence hands him a mission that turns his stomach: shed his uniform, adopt the name Cornelius Brand, and plunge into the eccentric, pacifist underworld of the English garden cities as a sympathetic South Africa...

Born into privilege but condemned to the brutal realities of poverty, young Roderick faces a world that is as merciless as it is absurd. Disowned by his ruthless grandfather and orphaned by tragedy, he must survive by his wits alone in a society teeming with corrupt aristocrats, tyrannical schoolmasters, and murderous highwaymen.In The Adventures of Roderick Random, Yvonne Schaefer breathes fresh life into a classic picaresque epic. When Roderick's fiercely loyal, ...

Five escaped prisoners. One raging hurricane. An uncharted wilderness where survival demands absolute genius.When a daring balloon escape from a besieged Civil War stronghold goes terribly wrong, an engineer, a reporter, a sailor, a young boy, and a devoted servant are swept away by a monumental tempest. Thrown onto the desolate, rocky shores of an unknown land in the vast Pacific Ocean, they are stripped of every tool, weapon, and modern convenience.Separa...

Two young adventurers. A missing treaty. A ruthless criminal mastermind holding the fate of the British Empire in his hands.It is 1915, and the torpedoed Lusitania is sinking fast into the icy Atlantic. In the chaos, a desperate man entrusts an oilskin packet of unimaginable political significance to a young American girl named Jane Finn. She survives the wreck, but vanishes without a trace. Five years later, the Great War is over, but a new, more insidiou...