The Chinese Parrot is the second novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers. It is the first in which Chan travels from Hawaii to mainland California, and...
Ethan Frome is a novel that was released in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in turn-of-the-century New England in the fictitious town of...
Charlie Chan Carries On is the fifth novel in the Charlie Chan series by Earl Derr Biggers. Inspector Duff, a Scotland Yard detective and friend of Chan's, first introduced in Behind That...
A Passage to India is a novel by E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works...
1634: The Galileo Affair is the fourth book and third novel published in the 1632 series by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis. It follows the activities of an embassy party sent from the United...
What A Life! is a work of satirical fiction by Edward Verrall Lucas and George Morrow published in 1911. The book is best known for its inventive narrative technique: the story takes the...
The Gods of Mars is a 1918 Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the second of his famous Barsoom series. It was first published in All-Story as a five-part serial in the issues for...
Gadsby: Champion of Youth is an intrawar account of Branton Hills , by Vin Wright. A story of about 50,000 words, it is possibly most famous of all Anglic-group lipograms ,...
Acorna's People is a 1999 fantasy novel written by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. It is the sequel to Acorna's Quest and is followed by Acorna's World and Acorna's Search In...
Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of...
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent is an essay written by Uruguayan journalist Eduardo Galeano in 1971. In the foreword...
The Nanny Diaries is a 2002 novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, both of whom are former nannies. The book satirizes upper class Manhattan society as seen through the eyes of their...
Against the Odds is a science fiction novel by Elizabeth Moon. It is her seventh and last novel set in the Familias Regnant fictional universe. It does not fall in either informal trilogy...
Thuvia, Maid of Mars is a science fiction novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fourth of the Barsoom series. Burroughs began writing it in April, 1914, and the finished story was first...
Wasp is a 1957 science fiction novel by English author Eric Frank Russell. Since its latest edition, published through Gollancz Science Fiction in 2000, Wasp has become controversial because...
The Age of Innocence is a novel by Edith Wharton, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The story is set in upper class New York City in the 1870s. In 1920, The Age of Innocence was published...
Behind That Curtain is the third novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers. It is set almost exclusively in California , and tells...
The Witch of Blackbird Pond is a children's historical novel by American author Elizabeth George Speare, published in 1958. The story takes place in late 17th-century New England . In...
A Coyote's in the House is a 2004 novel written by Elmore Leonard. The book was Leonard's first novel for children. The book's story involves a hip coyote, and an aging movie-star dog who...
The Bronze Bow is a book by Elizabeth George Speare that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1962. This book is set in first century Judaea. The lead...
The Edge of Sadness is a novel by the American author Edwin O'Connor. It was published in 1961 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962. The story is about a middle-aged Catholic...
Paul Clifford is a novel published in 1830 by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It tells the life of Paul Clifford, a man who leads a dual life as both a criminal and an upscale...
The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing? is a November 1984 book written by Eileen Barker , Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, United Kingdom, ISBN 0-631-13246-5. The book describes the...
The Wish List is a fantasy novel by Eoin Colfer. It chronicles the adventures of Meg Finn, a spirit who has struck a perfect balance between good and evil and, as such, is barred from...
Five Children and It is a children's novel by Edith Nesbit, first published in 1902; it was expanded from a series of stories published in the Strand Magazine in 1900 under the general title...