A dozen Catholic priests on holiday in Rome sit up after dinner and tell each other, as professionals, what they have actually met: a possession, a house that will not be blessed, a deathbed that went wrong.
Rachel Vinrace, twenty-four and educated by nobody in particular, sails to South America on her father's ship and meets the English abroad - including a young man who wants to write a novel about silence.
A Japanese prince, the most charming man in London, is at the center of an affair in which two men die and an alliance hangs - and Inspector Jacks knows perfectly well who did it and can prove nothing.
The trail of the badger: A story of the Colorado border thirty years ago explores the intersection of youth, wilderness, and cultural tension in the developing frontier of the American West.
Bonaventure: A prose pastoral of Acadian Louisiana is set in the serene yet evolving landscapes of Louisiana, immersing readers in the world of Acadian settlers confronting change, love, and personal trials.
A los 23 anos, Juan al fin consigue formar parte de la planta permanente de la municipalidad, puesto conseguido por su madre, que trabajo en el Estado hasta jubilarse.
A poor young tutor is hired by a shabby-genteel family drifting round the hotels of Europe, and finds his pupil is the cleverest person in the household and the only one ashamed of it.
A young Englishman at Aix-les-Bains meets a girl who is companion to a rich widow, and the next morning the widow is murdered and the girl has vanished - and everyone knows what to think.
Das auergewohnliche Leben einer auergewohnlichen FrauAls sie ihrer Heimat den Rucken kehrt, um in Stockholm eine Ausbildung als Lehrerin anzutreten, beginnt fur die junge Selma eine Zeit voller Umbruche: Nach dem Tod ihres Vaters muss sie ohne jegliche Unterstutzung in der gro en Stadt fur Mutter und Tante sorgen.
Craig Kennedy, professor of chemistry at Columbia, solves crimes with a lie detector, a seismograph, a spectroscope and a portable X-ray, and explains the apparatus as he goes.
Two houses on the Yorkshire moors, three generations, and a love that neither party would call by that name - Emily Bronte's only novel was published under a man's name and dismissed as brutal.
A Zeppelin drops a passenger on the English coast, and he walks into the house of a woman who must now decide what she owes her country and what she owes an old debt.
The trail of the hawk: A comedy of the seriousness of life follows a boy's transformation into adulthood as he struggles to reconcile imaginative longing with the demands of identity, culture, and responsibility.
Prince Otto: A romance portrays the troubled reign of a young ruler caught between duty, desire, and disillusionment in the small European principality of Grunewald.
Early autumn presents a vivid portrait of a prestigious New England family on the brink of change, set during an opulent gathering meant to restore their waning influence.
Children of the night is a compelling collection of poetry that delves into the intricate landscapes of human emotion, blending melancholy with moments of quiet insight.
Under king henry's banners: A story of the days of Agincourt examines the forging of character through conflict, duty, and familial loyalty during a turbulent chapter of English history.
David Harum: A story of American life is a novel that vividly portrays rural American life in central New York through the lens of a shrewd, horse-trading banker.
Donald Mcelroy Scotch Irishman is a historical narrative that traces the journey of a young man shaped by hardship, resilience, and a proud cultural heritage during a turbulent chapter of American history.
Den brittiske diplomaten lord Athelstan skickas på uppdrag til Kaukasus, där den fanatiskt religiöse folkledaren Shamyl kämpar mot det kejserliga Rysslands arméer.
When his wife and daughter are killed during a gang-related drive-by at his daughter's birthday dinner, engineer and ballistics expert Michael Holt is left shattered—and ignored by the very system meant to protect him.
From deprivation in the wilderness to the lavish courts of European nobility, this poignant historical novel explores the life and quest of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of Sacagawea.
Six months after uncovering a pharaoh's erased history beneath the Egyptian desert, the compass Amelia Fox inherited from her grandfather has gone quiet again, resting on its wooden stand at Foxglove Manor.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by William John Locke is a delightful novel set in Paris, showcasing the lighthearted escapades of the titular character, Aristide Pujol.
From deprivation in the wilderness to the lavish courts of European nobility, this poignant historical novel explores the life and quest of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of Sacagawea.
Tom Grogan is a stevedore contractor on the Staten Island waterfront, hires and fires, faces down the union and the local bosses - and is a woman, running her dead husband's business under his name because no one would give a contract to a widow.
A Chicago street tough is shanghaied aboard a ship sent to kidnap an heiress, and the voyage takes them to a lost Japanese island and a headhunters' village - after which the real trouble is Chicago.
The son of an English earl is stolen at three by his father's enemy and raised as a swordsman who does not know his own name - and grows up to lead an outlaw band against the barons in the war of Simon de Montfort.
A professor of geology, a retired general, and a young engineer sit on a hot veranda west of the Rockies arguing about the sea that used to be there - and out in the desert is a mine called the Golden Fleece, a relic said to be Montezuma's, and a woman who knows more about both than she says.
