Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne grows up and proves the promise of her youth by being a lovable, sunny young woman with an infinite capacity for enjoying "Patty's Place" at college and life in general, especially when it brings her own love story

The Salem Belle: A Tale of 1692 by Ebenezer Wheelwright

 The Salem Belle: A Tale of 1692 by Ebenezer Wheelwright

A historical record of several of the Salem witch trails, and how they were prosecuted.  This may be fictional, but it is based on some actual events.

Untamed Lust by Orrie Hitt

 Untamed Lust by Orrie Hitt

This is the story of a sadist, and his love-andsex-starved wife and daughter.  And, of his housemaid, and a man who works for him who satisfied the lust of all three.  The blurb on the books says:  "The story of a sadist --- of his twisted wife and daughter, and of a girl name Joan, whose only mania was love!

 Star Surgeon by Alan Nourse

A thrilling intergalactic adventure, Star Surgeon follows the journey of Dal Timgar as he strives to achieve his lifelong goal of becoming a physician. Published in 1959, the novel explores themes of discrimination, prejudice, and racial oppression, while also presenting key elements of science fiction including interplanetary travel, intergalactic medicine, aliens, and advanced technology.

A Manifest Destiny by Julia Magruder

A Manifest Destiny tells the story of Bettina Mowbray, a sweet-natured and beautiful American girl who meets the heir of a British lord. He falls madly in love with her and they are engaged to be married. But his cousin, Lord Hurdly, is vehemently opposed to the union and Bettina's attempts to win him round are fruitless. Instead Bettina receives an offer and makes a decision that seems to doom her for a life of unhappiness and disappointment... This charming love story from 1900 may sound highly fanciful, but Julia Magruder's own cousin Helen had married a Baron to become Lady Abinger, so she had recent family experience on which to draw. 

The Mission by Frederick Marryat

 The Mission by Frederick Marryat

Tale of travel and of a mission in Africa 100 years ago by Frederick Marryat.  Adventrue, romance, and thrills await the reading in this Fredercik Marryat tale.

The Peacock Feather by Leslie Moore

 

The Peacock Feather A Romance by Leslie Moore

Leslie Moore was the author of: The Happy League: A Story for Children (1908), Five Children and their Adventures (1911), The Notch in the Stick (1912), The Cloak of Convention (1912), The Peacock Feather (1913), Aunt Olive in Bohemia; or, The Intrusions of a Fairy Godmother (1913), The Jester (1915), The Wiser Folly (1916), Anthony Gray: Gardener (1917), The Desired Haven (1918), The Greenway (1920), The House Called Joyous Garde (1922), Her Promise (1928), The Lady's Maid (1928), A Girl of Chance (1931) and The Money Magnet (1937).

This title is a tale of suspense and romance.

 

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon.
According to Orwell, the fable reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet Union had become a brutal dictatorship built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin ("un conte satirique contre Staline"),^[and in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole"
The original title was Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, but U.S. publishers dropped the subtitle when it was published in 1946, and only one of the translations during Orwell's lifetime kept it. Other titular variations include subtitles like "A Satire" and "A Contemporary Satire". Orwell suggested the title Union des républiques socialistes animales for the French translation, which abbreviates to URSA, the Latin word for "bear", a symbol of Russia. It also played on the French name of the Soviet Union, Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques.
Orwell wrote the book between November 1943 and February 1944, when the United Kingdom was in its wartime alliance with the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, and the British intelligentsia held Stalin in high esteem, a phenomenon Orwell hated.^[The manuscript was initially rejected by a number of British and American publishers, including one of Orwell's own, Victor Gollancz, which delayed its publication. It became a great commercial success when it did appear partly because international relations were transformed as the wartime alliance gave way to the Cold War.
Time magazine chose the book as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005); it also featured at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels, and number 46 on the BBC's The Big Read poll. It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996. and is included in the Great Books of the Western World selection.

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence

Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by English author D. H. Lawrence, first published privately in 1928 in Italy, and in 1929 in France and Australia. An unexpurgated edition was not published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960, when it was the subject of a watershed obscenity trial against the publisher Penguin Books. Penguin won the case, and quickly sold 3 million copies. The book was also banned for obscenity in the United States (1929–59), Canada, Australia, India, and Japan. The book soon became notorious for its story of the physical (and emotional) relationship between a working class man and an upper class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex, and its use of then-unprintable (four-letter) words.
The story is said to have originated from certain events in Lawrence's own unhappy domestic life, and he took inspiration for the settings of the book from the county of Nottinghamshire, where he grew up. According to some critics, the fling of Lady Ottoline Morrell with "Tiger", a young stonemason who came to carve plinths for her garden statues, also influenced the story. Lawrence at one time considered calling the novel "Tenderness", and made significant alterations to the text and story in the process of its composition.
The story concerns a young married woman, the former Constance Reid (Lady Chatterley), whose upper class husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley, described as a handsome, well-built man, has been paralysed from the waist down due to a Great War injury. In addition to Clifford's physical limitations, his emotional neglect of Constance forces distance between the couple. Her emotional frustration leads her into an affair with the gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. The class difference between the couple highlights a major motif of the novel which is the unfair dominance of intellectuals over the working class. The novel is about Constance's realization that she cannot live with the mind alone; she must also be alive physically. This realization stems from a heightened sexual experience Constance has only felt with Mellors, suggesting that love can only happen with the element of the body, not the mind.

The White Desert by Courtney Ryley Cooper

The White Desert by Courtney Ryley Cooper

An adventure taking place in snow and in the mountains.  A railroad is being built, and of course, there are problems.  There is a romantic entanglement, and soon, one has a full-blown adventure and tale of suspense and intrigue.

Whispering Tongues by Homer Greene

Whispering Tongues by Homer Greene

Two young men at a university are close, best friends, until a certain event occurs.  They have drifted rather far apart, however, due to the behavior of one of them. It falls on the one to save the other, but will he do the right thing?

The Ward of King Canute by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

The Ward of King Canute by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz 

There is an old myth of a hero who renewed his strength each time he touched the earth, and finally was overcome by being raised in the air and crushed. Whether or not the Angles risked a like fate as they raised themselves away from the primitive virtues that had been their life and strength, no one can tell; but it has been well said that when Northern blood mingled with English blood at the time of the Danish Conquest, the Anglo-Saxon race touched the earth again. This is available at Ronaldbooks for 89 cents.  Laughingly, it's 2.99 at Amazon.

The Stillwater Tragedy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

THE STILLWATER TRAGEDY

The Stillwater Tragedy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Set in a small New England manufacturing town whose tranquility is disturbed first by the murder of one of its prominent citizens followed soon thereafter by a general strike of all the trades-unions. As the story develops, Richard Shackford, the murdered man's nephew, finds himself inextricably caught up in both these events.

A Winter of Content by Laura Lee Davidson

A woman spends a year alone on an island in the middle of a lake, and befriends some of the wildlife in the middle of a cold winter. Great reading, interesting tale.

Prince Dusty by Kirk Munroe

A thrilling tale of a group of young men in the wilderness, searching for oil and their fortunes.  Thrilling reading for the whole family.

The Blue Germ by Maurice Nicoll

Two scientists develop a germ that wipes out illness and decay. Incredibly, they don't test it properly, and release it into the water supply, infecting millions with immortality -- to unexpected results. Along with disease, the germ also kills "worldly ambition, self-gratification, physical pleasure, conceit, lust, hatred, passion, egotism, selfishness, vanity, avarice, sensuality" ... all the things that give people reasons to live.

Three Sailor Boys; or, Adrift in the Pacific by Verney Lovett Cameron
A thrilling adventure, told in the first person, of three young men aboard a sailboat that is set adrift in the Pacific.  They are attacked by natives of the local islands and are taken prisoner.  Daring escapes and close calls make this a thrilling book, not only for young men, but for everyone else as well.