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  Alpine Divorce An

  Robert Barr

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  Unable to divorce his wife, a man resolves to murder her instead. “Marriage at best is but a compromise,” the author notes, “and if two people happen to be united who are of an uncompromising nature there is trouble.” This trouble takes a surprising turn when the man leads his wife out to an outlook to do the deed. Find out what happens when you dive into this story by one of Scotland’s finest fiction writers.  

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  Ghostwriter

  Travis Thrasher

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  In Ghostwriter by Travis Thrasher—the Stephen King  of Christian fiction—a successful horror writer becomes  trapped in a web of inexplicable evil. Grief-stricken and  desperate, Dennis Shore mails his publisher a novel he  didn’t write. But after his plagiarized submission receives  high praise, he encounters its aggrieved author. And as  this vengeful soul threatens his career, his sanity, and even  his life, Dennis begins to experience all the horrors of his  own fiction.  “A scary page-turner [with] an emotional wallop.”—Publishers Weekly

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  Mansfield Park

  Jane Austen

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  Mansfield Park is the third published novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton. A second edition was published in 1816 by John Murray, still within Austen's lifetime. The novel did not receive any public reviews until 1821.
  The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened family sends her at age ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle and following her development into early adulthood. From early on critical interpretation has been diverse, differing particularly over the character of the heroine, Austen's views about theatrical performance and the centrality or otherwise of ordination and religion, and on the question of slavery. Some of these problems have been highlighted in the several later adaptations of the story for stage and screen.

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  Journey to the Center of the Earth

  Jules Verne

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  In Jules Verne's classic tale Professor Von Hardwigg and his nephew Harry discover the entrance to an ancient volcanic tunnel in Iceland. They choose to explore it for the mysteries it may hold, the Professor for scientific knowledge, and Harry to prove his bravery to a beautiful girl. It is a dangerous journey that may destroy them both. As they travel deep into the caverns they encounter a subterranean world that preexisted man. It is an adventure as fascinating and strange as any explorer ever recorded. Finally, with their equipment lost and food running low they must face the consequences of a vital choice; attempt returning to the world above, or explore even deeper mysteries in hopes of rescue.

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  The Plattner Story

  H. G. Wells

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  Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels and often credited as being the father of science fiction"The Plattner Story" is the strange tale of Gottfried Plattner, the modern languages teacher at a private school in England, who while conducting a chemistry experiment, accidently causes a explosion. The results of the explosion are mysterious. First, Plattner disappears completely. Not a trace of him remains, despite the damage to the school being fairly minimal. For nine days, nothing is seen or heard of him, although many people locally have strange and very similar dreams about him. Second, after nine days, Plattner reappears in a very unusual and equally explosive manner. Third, when he reappears, he has been oddly transformed. His internal organs are all reversed. He is now left, instead of right-handed, and writes from right to left. Moreover, the tale of what happened to him during the nine days of his absence is quite extraordinary.

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  Love & Freindship

  Jane Austen

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  Love and Freindship tells the story of Laura and Marianne. These two women write to each other about romance and wild coincidences which takes place in their everyday lives.But what adds to the charm of the story is Jane Austen's inimitable wit and her parody of the traditional romantic conventions whose beginnings are visible in this early work of fiction.

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