Chambers: 1114 books

Our narrator is hired by the New York Zoological Society to assist a professor who is in charge of their gardens and exhibits. He embarks on his search for a Great Auk, a species that was extinct for fifty or so years.

SCENE: A handsome sitting-room in a bachelor's apartments on the first floor of a house in Piccadilly, opposite the Green Park. It is obviously the room of a man of comfortable means and good taste. The decoration and furniture are of the Adams period. (For details of scene see accompanying plan.)...

Seventeen year old Aaron Stevens stumbles into the aftermath of a five million dollar bank heist gone wrong. Hiding under a canoe, Aaron partially catches the eye of one of the robbers. In the chaos he sneaks away with the money and heads straight for the closest place of safety, his high school. Terrified,...

A May/December romance is out of the question for Gracie Lawson. Apart from the age thing, she's not looking to settle down with anyone; she's just starting to spread her wings. Fourteen years ago, Roger had worshipped Gracie from afar. Now, the worship is up close and personal, but she won't...

Pioneering novel of lesbian literature, first published in 1919. Bibliographies of the trilogy are somewhat inexact, but this edition is apparently the first two volumes of Der Skorpion, telling the bourgeois upbringing of Metta Rudloff, her early love for Olga Rado, and the suffering Metta must endure.

A very real warning that designer gear is not only harmful to your health it can actually be fatal.. Laura is a lonely young woman trying to find her way in a new town. Her world is turned upside down when she finds a designer bag. Strange events start to occur shortly after her find and things...

As an immigrant and a newcomer to the United States, he started as an inspector in a plant run by the Ford Motor Company in the Chicago area manufacturing jet engines during the Korean war. He eventually became a citizen and continued in industry until he retired in 1985 as Vice President of a company based in Bridgeport Connecticut. It could only happen in America.

"Funny, romantic, easy going" ~ annon When Lucy and Dan's ship sunk, Lucy went unconscious and Dan was there to save her and pull her into the life raft. They are both drifting aimlessly in the sea, hoping they will be rescued before they run out of water. Tensions rise and...

No undue liberties with history have been attempted in this romance. Few characters in the story are purely imaginary. Doubtless the fastidious reader will distinguish these intruders at a glance, and very properly ignore them. For they, and what they never were, and what they never did, merely sugar–coat...

It may, I fear, be taken as a truism that “the man in the street” (collectively, the “general public”) knows little and cares less for what is called physical science. Now and again when something remarkable happens, such as a great thunderstorm, or an earthquake, or a volcanic eruption, or...

This story involves natives of High Glen, or those that have come to love the area. An unsolved mystery plagues some of its people along with a claim of inheritance by others. Some have ties to Scotland and this is depicted through out the story. High Glen, NC may have the flavor of a Norman Rockwell...

Nally-Enska smiled as she sang. Her voice blended with hundreds of voices, bouncing off the mountains of Haiti and filling the village of Lastic with beautiful music. Everywhere she looked, people smiled and laughed with joy. While Nally-Enska watched, flowers began to grow and bloom! Reds, blues,...

Sentenced to life after a bank robbery gone bad, Cornell thought his worst nightmare had come true—and that he deserved it. After a stint in solitary, though, he learned his nightmare had only started: While Cornell rotted in isolation, all around the world the dead had returned to life. Inside...

Granville Barker on Theatre brings together some of the most important critical theatrical writings of Harley Granville Barker, a major figure of 20th-century British theatre. Known as a pioneer of the National Theatre and Repertory Movement, and remembered mainly for his Prefaces to Shakespeare,...