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"For Jessica Tregarth, an unexpected invitation to visit her grandfather in England is a wonderful surprise-an opportunity to open doors to a family past that have always been closed to her. But sinister acts greet her arrival. A stranger tries to steal her luggage and later accosts her in Salisbury Cathedral. Mysterious villains pursue her through Cornwall, their motive and intentions unknown. Jessica's only clue is an antique heirloom she possesses,...

First published in 1895, Time machine, follows the adventures of a hypothetical Time Traveller who journeys into the future to find that humanity has evolved into two races: the peaceful Eloi -- vegetarians who tire easily -- and the carnivorous, predatory Morlocks. After narrowly escaping from the Morlocks, the Time Traveller undertakes another journey even further into the future where he finds the earth growing bitterly cold as the heat and energy...

Malachi Constant, "the richest man in America," gives up his indulgent lifestyle to follow an urgent calling to probe the depths of space. He participates in a Martian invasion of Earth, mates with the wife of an astronaut adrift on the tides of time, and follows the lure of the "Sirens of Titan."

When postal clerk Randolph Jaffe stumbles across a dead letter room full of revelations abut a secret and awesome power known as the Art, he finds himself entangled in a battle between good and evil in a quiet California town.

Dragons in space? A preposterous legend. But when star pilot Jael defies an abusive ship's master and rigs "the mountain route" through the hyperdimensional Flux, the dragons indeed appear—and challenge her to duel. If she escapes, she would be wise never to return. But the currents of the Flux are fickle, and when fate steers her this way again, she finds Highwing the dragon under sentence of death for the kindness he showed her. Only Jael

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Serena Charters receives a strange inheritance from her grandmother: four pages from an ancient manuscript. When she takes them to Erik North, a reclusive manuscript appraiser, the two quickly discover that they face not only the mystery of a centuries-old book, but also very real danger in the present.

A doctor, living in the Brooklyn slums, conducts a one-man campaign against hoodlums.

An industrialist who has become involved in politics is accused by his wife of carrying on an affair with his daughter's nurse.

Tish Carberry and her spinster-friends Aggie and Lizze are at it again. From unknowingly backing-and then winning-crooked motorcar races to subsidizing an exploitive émigré and his bride to joining the Simple Life movement and taking up residence in the woods, life is never dull for the three women and their associates. Tish is the second book in Mary Roberts Rinehart's Tish Carberry series. It includes the stories "Mind Over Motor," "Like a Wolf...

Mara Shannon McCall returns to her family's Wyoming ranch to find it overtaken and trashed by her lawless cousins and hopes that the one man who can save her land will also love her.