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Collectivum
Mike Lewis
HOOK In a world overrun by a hive-mind parasite, a man and a woman attempt to forge a resistance using the only weapon that can disrupt the collective: an alien form of empathy.
The Collaborators: 1896
Robert Hichens
The boundary between art and existence dissolves for two young writers whose collaborative novel begins to dictate the terms of their own reality. A haunting exploration of obsession, this narrative blurs the line between creation and catastrophe.
Michael McGrath, Postmaster
Ralph Connor
The frontier is rarely a place for nostalgia, yet here, a retired soldier turns a remote Canadian cabin into a bastion of imperial pride, clinging to a fading past through his garden, his flag, and his mail.
Precedents in Piperock
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
A wild Fourth of July in an imaginary Montana town spirals into chaos when a "safe and sane" celebration accidentally launches a local resident into the clouds via a runaway hot air balloon.
The Intriguers
Harold Bindloss
A man unfairly branded a coward finds redemption through an arduous journey into the Canadian wilderness, where duty, honor, and a dangerous new business venture collide.
Zeph
Helen Hunt Jackson
The long twilight of the Colorado frontier provides the backdrop for a quiet, intense study of devotion, moral fortitude, and the complexities of human endurance. Through the eyes of an observant, self-reliant woman, the narrative examines the quiet dignity of a man abandoned by his wife and the unlikely connection…
The Trespasser, Volume 2
Gilbert Parker
A stranger from the Canadian wilds claims his ancestral inheritance in England, only to find that blood ties and social expectations are as treacherous as the wilderness he left behind.
Carnac's Folly, Volume 2
Gilbert Parker
A man returns to his Canadian home to find his family life in ruins and his father’s business captured by an ambitious outsider. He must navigate the wreckage of past mistakes while forging a path independent of his domineering, millionaire father.
You Never Know Your Luck
Gilbert Parker
A disgraced aristocrat finds redemption on the Canadian frontier, only to have his carefully reconstructed identity challenged by the arrival of the wife he abandoned years before.
The contrast, Volume 2 (of 3)
Normanby, Constantine Henry Phipps, Marquess of
A clandestine romance bridges an unbridgeable social divide, only to founder on the jagged reefs of class snobbery and aristocratic regret.
The Reluctant Weapon
Howard L. Myers
An ancient, world-destroying weapon with a philosophical conscience seeks peace, but finds itself saddled with a stubborn Tennessee farmer.
Donovan, Volume 3 (of 3)
Edna Lyall
A hardened outcast walks a long, agonizing path of self-renunciation, finding ultimate redemption in quiet service and enduring love.
Nourmahal, an Oriental romance. Vol. 3 of 3
Michael J. (Michael Joseph) Quin
Amidst the opulent courts and perilous intrigues of Mughal India, a devoted daughter fights to preserve her family as a ruthless vizier grasps for absolute imperial power.
This One Problem
M. C. Pease
An asteroid comptroller uses cunning rather than conventional heroics to outwit space raiders and protect a critical fuel cache from falling into enemy hands.
The Bracknels
Forrest Reid
A young tutor steps into a volatile household where an imaginative boy communes with unseen forces and a domineering father drives his children to quiet desperation.
The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Volume 1
Gilbert Parker
When a charming, dying Irish aristocrat arrives in a secluded French-Canadian parish, he unwittingly disrupts local ambitions and ignites a fierce, dangerous passion.
No Hiding Place
Richard Rein Smith
An unexpected desperate gamble offers three survivors of a destroyed Earth a slim chance at vengeance and survival aboard an alien vessel.
Bransford in Arcadia
Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Beneath the vast New Mexico sky, a reckless cowboy finds himself hunted for crimes he did not commit, stumbling into a high-stakes game of wits, mistaken identity, and romance.
The Right of Way
Gilbert Parker
A brilliant, cold-hearted barrister known as Beauty Steele plunges from the heights of Montreal society into a hidden world of French-Canadian rivers after a violent, life-altering betrayal.
The Money Master, Volume 3
Gilbert Parker
When an English actor arrives in a quiet Québec parish and captures a proud man's only daughter, old wounds of desertion open afresh, leading toward an inevitable, sorrowful unraveling.
Jack Brag, vol. 2 (of 3)
Theodore Edward Hook
A social climber’s frantic schemes unravel in a whirlwind of mistaken identities, public humiliations, and unexpected family entanglements along the English coast.
The Trespasser, Volume 3
Gilbert Parker
Torn between ancestral duty and untamed impulse, a charismatic politician risks his career and high-society engagement for a passionate liaison with a former gipsy lion-tamer.
The contrast, Volume 3 (of 3)
Normanby, Constantine Henry Phipps, Marquess of
A young rural bride confronts the chilling vastness of high-society London, where her husband’s fastidious doubts and an enduring bond with a former flame test the fragile foundations of their marriage.
The Translation of a Savage, Volume 3
Gilbert Parker
An estranged husband returns from years away to claim the Indigenous wife he once treated as a chattel, forcing both to navigate a painful reconciliation amid English country life.
Sound of Terror
Don Berry
A desert launch site, a gleaming silver ship, and a pilot facing the cold, silent unknown of space.
The Translation of a Savage, Volume 2
Gilbert Parker
An unpromising marriage to an indigenous woman intended as a cruel family slight becomes a profound test of character when the neglected bride transforms into a brilliant, dignified woman.
George Loves Gistla
James McKimmey
A teenage colonist on Venus falls in love with an indigenous woman, challenging the strict social hierarchies and deep-seated prejudices of his human family.
Buzzards
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
When a sheltered young man steps out into a violent western range after his mother's death, he stumbles into a web of family secrets, murder, and shifting land claims.
Flesh
Karl Detzer
The old ways of life are often discarded for the shiny promise of efficiency, but some things possess a vitality that machines simply cannot replicate. In this story, the clash between mechanical progress and tradition finds a stubborn, human anchor.
The Devil's deputy
Erle Stanley Gardner
A solitary drifter, known only as the lethal Black Barr, wanders into a lawless mining town where greed and violence have conspired to steal a young woman’s homestead.