John Hampstead began as a rate clerk with a face nobody thought fit for the stage, played leading man to the ambitious actress Marien Dounay, and then gave up the theatre to bring up his widowed sister's children and preach at All People's Church. Years later Marien comes to his city a star, wearing a fortune in diamonds and wanting from him something he will not give. When the necklace vanishes after her supper party, a frightened young bank clerk confesses the theft to the minister, and ...

The Legal Battle: The protagonist becomes embroiled in a legal case that tests their integrity and resilience. The case may involve accusations, trials, and the quest for truth.Personal Struggles: Alongside the legal challenges, the protagonist faces personal issues, including relationships and internal conflicts, which add depth to their character.Quest for Justice: The novel focuses on the protagonist's pursuit of justice, both legally and morally, exploring themes of right and wrong.Res...

Peter Clark MacFarlane (1871-1924) was an American writer, actor, pastor and novelist.He was frequently published in The American Magazine, Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post where his articles on politics received significant attention, and wrote many novels, including The Quest of the Yellow Pearl (1909), The Centurion’s Story (1910), California, the Promised Land (1913), Held to Answer (1916), The Crack in th...

This ingeniously plotted novel reveals the strange ways that men and women choose to act out their romantic feelings -- and the lengths some will go to avenge unrequited love. John Hampstead is a jack-of-all-trades who is bowled over by the dramatic presence of actress Marien Dourney -- but not quite in the way that she hopes. When John doesn't return her affections, Marien hatches a depraved plan to exact revenge. Will John be able to escape her clutches?

A work of dangerous and haunting beauty by America's last real literary outlaw.Under Tiberius is a thrilling story of crime and deceit involving the man who came to be called Jesus Christ. Deep in the recesses of the Vatican, Nick Tosches unearths a first-century memoir by Gaius Fulvius Falconius, foremost speechwriter for Emperor Tiberius. The codex is profound, proof of the existence of a Messiah who was anything but the one we've known -- a shabby and l...

A Tear and a Smile by Kahlil Gibran - A collection of poems and parables emphasizing themes of love, life, and spirituality.

Barabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. Barabbas is a man condemned to have no god. "Christos Iesus" is carved on the disk suspended from his neck, but he cannot affirm his faith. He cannot pray. He can only say, "I want to believe."Translated from the Swedish by Alan Blair

The One I Knew Best of All (1893) is a memoir written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The author covers her childhood and girlhood, taking the reader into confidence and depicting the delightful situations and circumstances of her youth. She starts her memoir with the Christmas holidays.

A little book, based on First Corinthians 13, about showing Calvary love in common life. "If…I have not compassion on my fellow-servant, even as my Lord had pity on me, then I know nothing of Calvary love." Over 100,000 in print.

The morning of August eighteenth, 190-, was a memorable one to me. For two months I had had a run of bad luck. During that time I had failed to score in at least three affairs of unusual importance, and the result was a decided loss in repute as well as great financial embarrassment. As I had a mother and two sisters to support and knew but one way to do it, I was in a state of profound discouragement. This was before I took up the morning papers. After I had opened and read them, not a man i...

You know the story of the Three Wise Men of the East, and how they traveled from far away to offer their gifts at the manger-cradle in Bethlehem. But have you ever heard the story of the Fourth Wise Man, who also saw the star rising and set out to follow it, yet did not arrive with the other Magi? The story expands the account of the Biblical Magi, recounted in the Gospel of Matthew. It tells about a "fourth" wise man, a priest of the Magi named Artaban, from Persia. Like the other Magi, h...

To say that Mrs. Burnett's account of 'The One I Knew Best of All' is a fascinating book, is to put the matter very mildly. It is not one little girl alone whose experiences are here recorded, but, as the author justly claims, it is the story of any child with an imagination. Mrs. Burnett's recollections go back to a very early age; she remembers events that happened before she was three years old, and she cannot remember a time when she was not capable of forming decided opinions about th...