Henry Carter Hull

While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune as well as great danger.

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In 1872 Phileas Fogg wins a bet by traveling around the world in seventy-nine days, twenty-three hours, and fifty-seven minutes.

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteeenth century.

An American millionaire slips into South America to search for his teenage daughter he cannot believe is dead. He follows a trail of blood and graft, white powder and white slavery.

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction...

Retired CIA officer Michael Osbourne, lured back to the Agency after his father-in-law, ex-Senator Douglas Cannon, is nominated to be the American ambassador to London, discovers a plot to disrupt the peace of Northern Ireland that involves the assassination of Cannon.

Bob Lee Swagger, who served as a Marine sniper in Vietnam, has forsaken violence, retiring to the Arizona desert with his wife and child. However, when questions are raised about the murder of Swagger's dad in a shoot-out forty years ago, he is drawn once again into a life-threatening nightmare.

The Dragon Masters are still reeling from the desertion of Rori and her fire dragon Vulcan, when Mina, a Dragon Master from the far north, arrives with a problem--King Lars needs a fire dragon to defeat the Ice Giant who has frozen his kingdom; and so the Dragon Masters set out to find Rori and convince her to help.

Bess Grady, a photojournalist who has experienced the horrors of Somalia and Sarajevo, stumbles into the most terrifying experience of her life in when she arrives in the small town of Tejano, Mexico and finds all the inhabitants have died of an unknown disease.