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The Day We Met (One True Love Series Book 1)

19 year old Madison Hill was a smart girl and put all her focus on her schoolwork so she can graduate & live a wonderful life. 20 year old Nicholas grey, football player & party boy. He was nice and got good grades, but he also loved to have fun with his friends. When her friends lured her into...

Taylin J.

added by NovelsbyTaylin
3 years ago

Alamo ghost hunt, (paranormal boys book 1)

My first paranormal hunt and the start of my team, starting in the historic Alamo first starts off as a tour then grows as a real hunt as me and my friend do a private hunt of our own

Dr. Melgren

added by Dr.Melgren
4 years ago

Lottie Loveheart Dream Series

Lottie Loveheart goes on a quest where she meets the boy without a name. The weather lord casts a weathery spell over the tuffets, so Spindley can enjoy the season of winter. Will they be able to spin the snow globe and land it on the meadows in time?

Crystal E Lake

added by submissions
4 years ago

The Forbidden

With his boat caught in a typhoon, Ling finds himself marooned on a forbidden island. There he discovers Rupe, who everyone thinks is dead. Will they escape the brutality of this uncontacted tribe?

R.K. Mullins

added by submissions
4 years ago

The Trial

The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor t...

Franz Kafka

added by davidb
4 years ago

The Art of War

The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period. The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted to an aspect of warfare and how it applies to military strategy a...

Sun Tzu

added by acronimous
4 years ago

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself is an autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author. Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent.

Harriet Jacobs

added by acronimous
4 years ago

Armazindy

James Whitcomb Riley poems book published in the 1894 book Armazindy and received very negative reviews that referred to poems like "The Little Dog-Woggy" and "Jargon-Jingle" as "drivel" and to Riley as a "worn out genius". Most of his growing number of critics suggested that he ignored the quali...

James Whitcomb Riley

added by acronimous
4 years ago

Beowulf

Beowulf is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important works of Old English literature. The date of composition is a matter of contention among scholars; the only certain dating pertains to the manuscript, which was produced between 975 and 1025.

John Lesslie Hall

added by acronimous
4 years ago

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialization in The American Magazine. Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptatio...

Frances Hodgson Burnett

added by acronimous
4 years ago

Morgue Ship

This was Burnett's last trip. Three more shelves to fill with space-slain warriors--and he would be among the living again.

Alice MacGowan

added by acronimous
4 years ago

100 LESSONS EVERY GREAT MAN WANTS YOU TO KNOW

100 LESSONS EVERY GREAT MAN WANTS YOU TO KNOW is a book of advice written from a great man's point of view to those who want to know how to succeed and how to be prosperous. This book offers wisdom to those who want to get to the top, to those who are on their way to the top, and to those who wan...

Matshona Dhliwayo

added by Matshona
4 years ago

A Doll's House

A Doll's House is a three-act play written by Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is set in the home of the Helmer family in an unspecified Norwegian town or city, circa 1879 and focuses on...

Henrik Ibsen

added by acronimous
4 years ago

Kari the Elephant

A nine-year-old boy raises and trains Kari the elephant, learning about the law of the jungle and the intelligence and the dignity of elephants.

Dhan Gopal Mukerji

added by acronimous
4 years ago

Lucy In The Sky

Lucy Noel, a young adult diagnosed with lung cancer, is ready to make peace with the world. But once she finds her beau, Arlen James, she finds that life is worth living, even if you’re dying. Make the best of your life on the planet so you can go out with a bang.

Karianne Gabaldon

added by MissKari
4 years ago

The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine. In October 1898 it appeared in The Two Magics, a book published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London.

Henry James

added by acronimous
4 years ago

Anthem

Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in the United Kingdom. The story takes place at an unspecified future date when mankind has entered another Dark Age.

Ayn Rand

added by acronimous
4 years ago

Little Women

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the book over several months at the request of her publisher.

Louisa May Alcott

added by acronimous
4 years ago

On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection

On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process o...

Charles Darwin

added by acronimous
4 years ago

The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction.

Mark Twain

added by acronimous
4 years ago

The Souls of Black Folk

The Souls of Black Folk is a 1903 work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology and a cornerstone of African-American literature. The book contains several essays on race, some of which the magazine Atlantic Monthly had previously published.

W. E. B. Du Bois

added by acronimous
4 years ago

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head on 21 January 1921.

Agatha Christie

added by acronimous
4 years ago

WHEN THE FIREFLY IS GONE

WHEN THE FIREFLY IS GONE is a book, significantly and distinctively diverging from the contest of domestic and even regional - Balkan, literary publications by being written in three languages: in Serbian, English and Arabic. WHO IS THE POET, DE FACTO? Saša Milivojev, acts from the shadow, from...

Saša Milivojev

added by Sasa-Milivojev
4 years ago

Noli Me Tángere

Noli Me Tángere, Latin for "Touch me not", is an 1887 novel by José Rizal, one of the national heroes of the Philippines during the colonization of the country by Spain, to describe perceived inequities of the Spanish Catholic friars and the ruling government.

José Rizal

added by acronimous
4 years ago

A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction.

Arthur Conan Doyle

added by acronimous
4 years ago

The Eagles Gather

Continues the story of the Bouchard family begun in "Dynasty of death."

Taylor Caldwell

added by acronimous
4 years ago

The Jungle

The Jungle is a 1906 novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.

Upton Sinclair

added by acronimous
5 years ago

Common Sense

Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian g...

Thomas Paine

added by acronimous
5 years ago

Ethan Frome

Ethan Frome is a 1911 book by American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film, Ethan Frome, in 1993.

Edith Wharton

added by acronimous
5 years ago

Essays of Michel de Montaigne

The Essays of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. They were originally written in Middle French and were originally published in the Kingdom of France.

Michel de Montaigne

added by acronimous
5 years ago

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a gothic story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was fir...

Washington Irving

added by acronimous
5 years ago

Middlemarch

Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by the English author George Eliot, appearing in eight instalments in 1871 and 1872. Set in a fictitious Midlands town from 1829 to 1832, it follows distinct, intersecting stories with many characters.

George Eliot

added by acronimous
5 years ago

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