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  Photographing Fairies - A Novel

  Steve Szilagyi

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  In 1920s England, an American photographer is out to capture proof that fairies are real—despite the opposition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the 1920s, a country policeman, Constable Michael Walsmear, pushes his way into the London studio of Charles Castle, the world‑famous American photographer, to show him some pictures. What Castle sees in Walsmear’s pictures is incredible. When he goes to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for verification of the faerie images found on the negatives, Doyle tries to bribe Castle to destroy the pictures. But Castle will not be bought; he is out to discover the truth. And it is truth he finds in the small village of Burkinwell, a village built upon secrets, strange sexual practices, beautiful gardens, and true human nature.

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  Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures...

  Herman Melville

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  Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is Herman Melville's sequel to Typee, and, as such, was also autobiographical. After leaving Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel which makes its way to Tahiti, after which there is a mutiny and the majority of the crew are imprisoned on Tahiti. The book follows the actions of the narrator as he explores Tahiti and remarks on their customs and way of life. 
   
  Many sources incorrectly assert that Omoo is based on Melville's stay in the Marquesas. The novel is, in fact, exclusively based on his experiences in the Society Islands. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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  Something Worth Doing

  Jane Kirkpatrick

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  Some things are worth doing—even when the cost is greatIn 1853, Abigail Scott was a nineteen-year-old school teacher in Oregon Territory when she married Ben Duniway.Marriage meant giving up on teaching, but Abigail always believed she was meant to be more than a good wife andmother. When Abigail becomes the primary breadwinner for her growing family, what she sees as a working womanappalls her—and prompts her to devote her life to fighting for the rights of women, including the right to vote.Based on a true story, Something Worth Doing will resonate with modern women who still grapple with the pullbetween career and family, finding their place in the public sphere, and dealing with frustrations and prejudices whencompeting in male-dominated spaces.

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  The Gods of Gotham

  Lyndsay Faye

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  1845. New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two seemingly disparate events will change New York City. Forever. Timothy Wilde tends bar near the Exchange, fantasizing about the day he has enough money to win the girl of his dreams. But when his dreams literally incinerate in a fire, he finds himself disfigured, unemployed, and homeless. His older brother obtains Timothy a job in the newly minted NYPD, but he is highly skeptical of this new 'police force.' One night while making his rounds, Wilde literally runs into a little slip of a girl, not more than ten years old, dashing through the dark in her nightshift...covered head to toe in blood.

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  Captured by the Highlander

  Julianne MacLean

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  Lady Amelia Templeton would rather die than surrender to a man like Duncan MacLean. He is the fiercest warrior of his clan-her people's sworn enemy-and tonight he is standing over her bed. Eyes blazing, muscles taut, and battle axe gleaming, MacLean has come to kill Amelia's fiancé. But once he sees the lovely, innocent Amelia, he decides to take her instead...Stealing the young bride-to-be is the perfect revenge against the man who murdered Duncan's one true love. But Lady Amelia turns out to be more than a pawn of vengeance and war. This brave, beautiful woman touches something deep in Duncan's soul that is even more powerful than a warrior's fury. But when Amelia begins to fall in love with her captor-and surrenders in his arms-the real battle begins.

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  Kipling - Collection

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Kipling - Grand Collection: 
      Novels:
      The Light That Failed
      Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks
      Kim
      The Naulahka: A Story of West and East
      Stalky and Co.
      Short Story Collections:
      The City of Dreadful Night
      Plain Tales from the Hills
      Soldier's Three (The Story of the Gadsbys)
      Soldier's Three - Part II
      The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories
      Under the Deodars
      Wee Willie Winkie
      Life's Handicap
      Many Inventions
      The Jungle Book
      The Second Jungle Book
      The Day's Work
      Just So Stories
      Traffics and Discoveries
      Puck of Pook s Hill
      Actions and Reactions
      Abaft the Funnel
      Rewards and Fairies
      The Eyes of Asia
      A Diversity of Creatures
      Poetry Collections:
      Departmental Ditties
      Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads
      The Seven Seas
      An Almanac of Twelve Sports
      The Five Nations
      Songs from Books
      The Years Between
      How Shakespeare Came to Write the Tempest
      Military Collections:
      A Fleet in Being
      France at War
      The New Army in Training
      Sea Warfare
      The War in the Mountains
      The Graves of the Fallen
      Travel Collections
      American Notes
      From Sea to Sea
      Letters of Travel: 1892-1913

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