"A captivating, atmospheric return to historical fiction that is every bit as convincing and engrossing as Martin's landmark Mary Reilly. In 1872 the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste was discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo was intact and there was no sign of struggle, but the crew was gone. They were never found. This maritime mystery lies at the center of an intricate narrative branching through the highest levels of late- nineteenth-century...

"Over the course of a single week in a small English village, a widowed octogenarian who has spent her last years alone, ready to die, discovers an unexpected reason to live. After living abroad for sixty years, Helen Cartwright returns to the English town where she was born. She buys a nondescript suburban house on Westminster Crescent, a nondescript suburban street, and settles into a repetitive, reclusive existence: "Each day was an impersonation...

The First Minister is missing... Scotland is divided… The referendum is in crisis...Only Robert Castle has a vision for Scotland that could unite both sides in the independence debate.Helen Castle fears that politics could destroy Robert. As the campaign intensifies she must face one of the hardest decisions of her life.News that the First Minister of Scotland is missing, with only four months until the referendum on Scottish independence, challenges...

"A superbly original collection of short stories with an esoteric bias. Each story explores in different situations, often humorous, a paradoxical edge of experience, when the inner and outer life is about to transform; at any stage in life. These stories, light-hearted and profound, were rough hewn by the well known mind-body-spirit author Alan Jacobs, and turned into literary gems by Jane Adams, an artist, poet and author. They express this fertile...

The chilling dystopian novel that influenced George Orwell while he was writing 1984, with a new introduction by Margaret Atwood and an essay by Ursula Le Guin

In a glass-enclosed city of perfectly straight lines, ruled over by an all-powerful “Benefactor,” the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState are regulated by spies and secret police; wear identical clothing; and are distinguished only by

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Blast off with "From the Earth to the Moon," a visionary science fiction masterpiece from the iconic Jules Verne. This groundbreaking novel spins an extraordinary tale of the daring Baltimore Gun Club, a post-Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, who devise an audacious plan to catapult a spaceship to the moon. In the era before actual lunar expeditions, Verne astonishingly predicts technological advancements and the thrill of space exploration,...

What do you do when you are involved in a love triangle? What if the situation continues even when one partner dies?Sophie has been living a life of duplicity in a love triangle for decades, so that she could save her marriage.Now her grand-daughter, Karen, faces a different challenge and a love triangle in her marriage. Karen has a near-death experience which changes her life and her marriage.The only way to for everyone to make sense of their situations...

Some moments change everything you become. Author Lynnda Pollio's life as a busy New Yorker abruptly changes when she unexpectedly hears the mystical, elderly voice of Addie Mae Aubrey, a Southern, African American woman. Her first words, "It's not what happened to me that matters," begin a spirited remembering of Addie Mae's teenage years in the late 1930s rural South and the hard learned wisdom Addie Mae asks Lynnda to share. As women from different...

EVOLUTION: JOURNEY Fleeing a spreading virus, Lucas Martin drives north from the Bay Area, planning to work in a healthier part of the country. Settling in Mt. Shasta, California, he and his wife Sylvia and autistic son Bobby seek a calming influence to heal their chaotic lives. They find it in Maya, a new resident of Telos, the fifth-dimensional city deep in the heart of Mt. Shasta. Maya's goal is to learn about the third-dimensional citizens...

A fated love and a sacred quest transported through time. This visionary fiction epic interweaves the story of two lovers who must fulfill a fated mission that spans across centuries and two lifetimes. In sixteenth-century England, Marissa is a headstrong apprentice priestess of the mystical and legendary Isle of Avalon. She must learn to be a wise and responsible leader if she is to one day inherit the title of High Priestess. Her secret lover,...