Family Album is a sweeping, emotional bestselling novel written by master storyteller Danielle Steel, originally published in 1985. Spanning several decades, the novel traces the triumphs, heartbreaks, scandals, and enduring bonds of a remarkable American family navigating the highs and lows of Hollywood fame, changing cultural eras, and deeply personal crises.
The story is set in the fictional, wealthy village of Highbury and follows Emma Woodhouse: twenty-one, handsome, clever, rich, and remarkably self-satisfied. Having successfully engineered the marriage of her former governess, Miss Taylor, to the local widower Mr. Weston, Emma fancies herself a brilliant matchmaker. Despite gentle warnings from her sensible neighbor and lifelong friend, Mr. …
Published in 1905, The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 short stories that famously brought the world’s most famous detective back from the dead after Arthur Conan Doyle had killed him off in The Adventure of the Final Problem.
The story begins in British India, where Mary Lennox is a spoiled, disagreeable, and neglected ten-year-old girl born to wealthy, distant parents who pay little attention to her. When a sudden outbreak of cholera claims the lives of both her parents and all the household servants, Mary is left completely alone. She is sent away from India to live in England with her enigmatic and grieving un…
A Study in Scarlet is the inaugural detective novel by Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originally published in 1887. Commissioned for Beeton's Christmas Annual, this historic tale introduced the world to the legendary consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his loyal friend and chronicler, Dr. John H. Watson. The novel is famous for establishing the iconic dynamic between Holmes and…
Eruption is the second book in the thrilling middle-grade action-adventure series Storm Runners, written by acclaimed author Roland Smith. Published in 2012, the series follows young Chase Masters, a resourceful teenager who travels the country with his father working on disaster-cleanup crews, constantly finding himself thrust directly into the path of extreme natural catastrophes.
" I suppose I might call you Dear Mr. Girl-Hater. Only that's sort of insulting to me. or Dear Mr. Rich Man, but that's insulting to you. but at least you will stay tall all your life! so I've decided to call you Dear Daddy-Long-Legs. I hope you won't mine "
Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed up on the strange island of Liliput, a land inhabited by quarrelsome miniature people. On his travels he continues to meet others who force him to reflect on human behaviour - the giants of Brobdingnag, the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos. In this scathing satire on the politics and moral of the 18th Century, Swift's condemnation of…
Inferno is an epic narrative poem written by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri in the early 14th century (roughly between 1308 and 1314). It constitutes the first part of Dante's monumental three-part masterwork, the Divine Comedy (followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso). Written in the vernacular Italian rather than Latin, the poem tells the allegorical story of Dante’s journey through the nine …
The Man in the Iron Mask is the final, dramatic section of the classic 1847 historical adventure novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne (often published as a standalone book or split volume) by the legendary French author Alexandre Dumas (famous for The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers). Set in 17th-century France during the reign of the young, extravagant King Louis XIV, the story weave…