Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage where the children were wholly dependent on charity. At the age of 18, her education finished, she is at loose ends, and has begun to work in the dormitories of the orphanage when the asylum’s trustees make their monthly visit. An unidentified […]
Wealthy and attractive Princeton student Amory Blaine dabbles in literature and romance, and becomes disillusioned by the greed and social climbing of post-World War I American youth.
A Story of Love, Mystery and a Private Yacht “An astonishing story of love and mystery, which equals if not surpasses in interest those other lively stories of Mrs. Rinehart’s. The novel is one of the sprightliest of the season and will add to the author’s reputation as an inventor of ‘queer’ plots.” — Philadelphia […]
or, The World Well Lost Book Excerpt nd Baron Osborne of Kiveton, in Yorkshire; Lord High Treasurer of England, one of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.My Lord, The gratitude of poets is so troublesome a virtue to great men, that you are often in […]
A Rose of the Cumberlands Smiles is a girl who has already made many friends and is destined to make many more. Her real name is Rose, but the rough folk of the Cumberlands preferred tehir own way of addressing her, for her smile was so bright and winning that no other name suited her […]
Among New York City’s upper class of the 1870s, before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there was a small cluster of aristocratic families that ruled New York’s social life. To those at the apex of the social world one’s occupation or abilities were secondary to heredity and family connections, and one’s […]
Rae Wilder has problems. Plunged into a world of dark magic, fierce creatures and ritual sacrifice, she is charged with a guarding a magical amulet. Rae finds herself beaten up, repeatedly, and forced to make a choice: to live and die human, or embrace her birth-right and wield magics that could turn her into something […]
The story of a man named Erik, an eccentric, physically deformed genius who terrorizes the Opera Garnier in Paris. He builds his home beneath it and takes the love of his life, a beautiful soprano, under his wing.