Reade: 121 books

Summer is getting hotter in Juniper Junction, Colorado. There's a firebug on the loose, the townspeople are nervous, and Lilly Carlsen, single mom to two teenagers, has even more to worry about. She's in charge of the Independence Day celebration, her mother's mental health is declining, and...

Jacob and Tyler have been best friends since first grade at William Dawes Elementary in Litchfield, Massachusetts. They’ve gone to each other’s birthday parties and played at recess. But the summer after fourth grade, Tyler changes and will now be known as Brianna. He’d always been a girl inside,...

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This 1859 novel is a kind of prequel to the later Hard Cash (1863)—focusing on the banking industry instead of mental institutions. It features a romance between David Dodd, a sailor, and Lucy Fountain.  Though Lucy is an independent woman who would rather be alone, David’s sincerity eventually wins her heart.

This 1869 novel was an exposé of ship-knackers—merchants who made their money from the foundering of ships, with no regard for their crews.  Robert Penfold, a young clergyman convicted of forgery, is shipwrecked while on his way to Australia and cast up, with the heroine, upon a desert island. 

Ships at anchor reared their tall masts, here and there; and the broad stream was enlivened and colored by junks and boats of all sizes and vivid hues, propelled on the screw principle by a great scull at the stern, with projecting handles for the crew to work; and at times a gorgeous mandarin boat,...