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  Ahead of the Army - A Boy in the...

  William O. Stoddard

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  A boy carries dispatches for the American army in Mexico in 1847, through Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo and the gates of the capital. William O. Stoddard had been Lincoln's assistant secretary and wrote boys' fiction from documents; the campaign here is accurate to the day. The Mexican side is given more room than in most American books of its date, and the ending is not triumphant. Fifty-one plates of painting, among them Remington and Homer, carry the campaign's look from campfire and trapper's camp to flight and the drawing of the black bean.

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  Dead Souls - Audiobook

  Nikolai Gogol, Classic...

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  In Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol crafts a brilliant satirical portrait of 19th-century Russian society. The novel follows the mysterious and cunning Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov as he travels from town to town, attempting to buy the ownership rights to dead serfs in order to gain wealth and status through a bizarre loophole in the Russian system.Through absurdity, irony, and vivid characterization, Gogol exposes the moral decay and bureaucratic nonsense of imperial Russia. At once comedic and deeply philosophical, Dead Souls is considered one of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, a novel that is as relevant and haunting today as it was in Gogol's time.

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  Caravan to Vaccares

  Alistair MacLean

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  From the acclaimed master of action and suspense comes this classic tale of suspense set in Provence, where an English tourist investigates a series of mysterious deaths. 
  From all over Europe, even from behind the Iron Curtain, gypsies make an annual pilgrimage to the holy shrine of their patron saint in Provence. But something is different about this year's gathering; this year people are dying. 
  Cecile Dubois and Neil Bowman are also in Provence, and discover that someone is financing the gypsies. What is the secret they are so determined to hide? As they follow the caravan, Bowman and Cecile come too close to it for safety, and before long are running for their lives. 
  What begins as a story of pilgrimage becomes a razor-edged thriller, blending mystery and suspense as Cecile and Bowman follow the caravan deeper into danger. This best-selling classic adventure novel from a top author delivers page-turning fiction with a detective’s urgency. 
  For fans of Robert Harris (Act of Oblivion), Frederick Forsyth (Revenge of Odessa), Rory Clements (Revenger), Edward Marston (Murder in Transit), and Eric Ambler (The Schirmer Inheritance). 
  HarperCollins 2025

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  The Secret of Father Brown

  G. K. Chesterton

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  The Secret of Father Brown contains 10 short stories: The Secret of Father Brown; The Mirror of the Magistrate; The Man With Two Beards; The Song of the Flying Fish; The Actor and the Alibi; The Vanishing of Vaudrey; The Worst Crime in the World; The Red Moon of Meru; The Chief Mourner of Marne; and, The Secret of Flambeau.

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  The Mystery of the Semi-Detached

  Edith Nesbit

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  The Mystery of the Semi-Detached by Edith Nesbit is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within general and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: He was waiting for her, he had been waiting an hour and a half in a dusty suburban lane, with a row of big elms on one side and some eligible building sites on the other-and far away to the south-west the twinkling yellow lights of the Crystal Palace. It was not quite like a country lane, for it had This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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  The Great Gatsby

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  The Great Gatsby, set in the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties on Long Island, New York, is a poignant critique of the American Dream. The novel is not just a love story but a tragic tale of ambition, class, and the illusion of social mobility, encapsulated in the era's excess and disillusionment. When the novel was first published in 1925, it did not enjoy immediate commercial success. Only around 20,000 copies were sold in its first year, and Fitzgerald himself considered it a commercial disappointment. By the time of his death in 1940, Fitzgerald felt his work, including Gatsby, had been forgotten, with sales being so low that he was reportedly buying copies himself to keep it in print. The novel's fortunes changed dramatically during World War II when the Council on Books in Wartime chose it for distribution to American soldiers, printing over 155,000 copies. This initiative significantly boosted its popularity and recognition, transforming it from a largely forgotten work into an American classic. Today, The Great Gatsby sells approximately 500,000 copies annually, with total sales reaching over 25 million copies worldwide since its original publication. It has become Scribner's best-selling title, illustrating its enduring appeal and commercial success. Overall, The Great Gatsby has not only achieved commercial success but has also left a profound and lasting impact on American literature and culture, embodying the complexities and contradictions of the American experience. 
  F. Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. His works are emblematic of the Jazz Age, particularly capturing the spirit and excesses of the Roaring Twenties in America. 
  Frank Marcopolos lives in Florida with his dog, Sparky.

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