The Pursuit of the House-Boat (Hades #2)
By: John Kendrick Bangs
3.32
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
Not even death can keep a good pirate down—but the world’s greatest detective might be able to give…
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1. The Woman in White
By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet
4.01
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more
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- mystery
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- historical fiction
"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
2. Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
By: Jodi Taylor
3.88
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
"History is just one damned thing after another." Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Ma… read more
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"Your primary survival strategy will always be running away."-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
"He had fallen for Cal like a sperm-whale failing to clear the Grand Canyon on a bicycle."-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
"The eyes of the world are fixed on Mars at the moment, sir. Everywhere I look the arts are being shunted aside for technology. It's not necessarily a bad thing but, maybe in some small way, this coul…"-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
3. The Cask
By: Freeman Wills Crofts
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
Paris. Shipping business, police techniques, investigative procedures, feature in this alibi puzzle… read more
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4. Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for… read more
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"And life is all a variorum, at the best."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
"But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
5. The Mysterious Island (Extraordinary Voyages, #12)
By: Jules Verne , Caleb Carr , Jordan Stump
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Five Union prisoners escape from the siege of Richmond in a balloon, are blown off course and crash… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
6. The Club of Queer Trades
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.22
Format: 224 pages,
The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G.K. Chesterton first published in 1905. Eac… read more
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7. The Valley of Fear
By: Arthur Conan Doyle , David Timson
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Audio CD
The Sherlock Holmes series read in unabridged form by David Timson is widely regarded as one of the… read more
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8. The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)
By: George MacDonald , Arthur Hughes
4.02
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the cas… read more
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"That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?"-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)
"But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary."…"-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)
9. The Red Badge of Courage
By: Stephen Crane
3.68
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more
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10. A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy Book 1)
By: Caimh McDonnell
3.28
Format: 5 pages,
The First time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul… read more
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11. The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.99
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin… read more
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12. Pippi Longstocking
By: Astrid Lindgren , Louis S. Glanzman , Florence Lamborn
4.41
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
The beloved story of a spunky young girl and her hilarious escapades. Tommy and his sister Annika h… read more
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13. My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
By: Gerald Durrell , Helma Lapiņa
4.17
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do… read more
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- humor
"Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
14. Personal Memoirs
By: Ulysses S. Grant , Geoffrey Perrett
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant's are lucid, compelling, and brutally honest, a chronicle of triump… read more
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15. The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
By: Arthur Conan Doyle , George MacDonald Fraser
4.47
Format: None pages, Paperback
Having killed off Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began a new series of tales on a very dif… read more
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16. This Charming Man (Stranger Times, #2)
By: C.K. McDonnell
4.36
Format: 497 pages, Hardcover
Vampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start popping u… read more
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17. A Killer Cupcake (Beachfront Bakery #1)
By: Fiona Grace
3.71
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
A Killer Cupcake is the debut novel in a charming and hilarious new cozy mystery series by #1 bests… read more
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18. The Scottish Ladies' Detective Agency (The Scottish Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
By: Lydia Travers
3.97
Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition
When Maud McIntyre sets up her own private detective agency, she never imagines her first case will… read more
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19. The Stranger Times (Stranger Times, #1)
By: C.K. McDonnell
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stra… read more
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20. The Pursuit of the House-Boat (Hades #2)
By: John Kendrick Bangs
3.32
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
Not even death can keep a good pirate down—but the world’s greatest detective might be able to give… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
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