TweetSound of Terror By Don Berry Download the ebook for free! Summary It is the 1950s, and Mitch, one of the first astronauts, never maked it back from the first manned space flight. All Johnny knows is that in his last moments, Mitch was driven insane by fear. When Johnny’s turn comes to attempt...
Read more →TweetThe Chink in the Armour By Marie Belloc Lowndes Download the ebook for free! Synopsis Despite a fortune-teller’s warning to stay in Paris, the young British widow Sylvia and her gambling friend Anna to the casino resort town of Lacville. There Sylvia grows close to the mysterious Count Paul, who warns her against the...
Read more →TweetA Story of the Red Cross: Glimpses of Field Work By Clara Barton Download the ebook for free! Synopsis Started in 1881, founder and first president Clara Barton reflects on the first 20 years of field work by the American Red Cross. She offers up firsthand accounts of wars and famines, of floods and...
Read more →TweetThe Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame Download the ebook for free! Synopsis One warm day, Mole lays down his spring cleaning to pursue life along the river with his friend Rat. The two of them, along with the stouthearted Badger and the incorrigible Toad, find adventures both pleasant and dangerous along the...
Read more →TweetThe Shunned House By H.P. Lovecraft Download the ebook for free! Synopsis In Providence, Rhode Island, there is a house that many consider cursed. Its cellar is full of a foul odor and a phosphorescent mold. But it’s not until the narrator and his uncle start digging into the history of the house’s residents...
Read more →TweetOne hundred years ago, on April 10, 1912, the RMS Titanic set out on its ill-fated maiden voyage. We all know the story, of course; it was supposed to be unsinkable, and there were too few lifeboats and one too many icebergs. Fourteen years before the Titanic, there was another “unsinkable” luxury cruise ship...
Read more →TweetDon Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Download the ebook for free! Synopsis After a lifetime of filling his mind with Arthurian romances, a Spanish nobleman from La Mancha decides it is his calling to revive knight-errantry. Beyond tilting at windmills, Don Quixote and his vassal/squire Sancho Panza wander for months, freeing criminals, ruling...
Read more →TweetFairy Tales from German Forests By Margaret Arndt Download the ebook for free! Synopsis A railroad engineer stumbles into the kingdom of dwarfs. Four young boys explore a local ravine and meet a dragon. On Midsummer’s Eve, a boy rides his kite to a castle in the clouds to meet the Fairy King of...
Read more →TweetStar Surgeon By Alan Edward Nourse Download the ebook for free! Synopsis In a well-populated universe, each species has its own special talent. Humans are the only race to sufficiently grasp medicine and health services, and Dal Timgar is the only alien to ever get medical training. With his own medical license, Earth’s seat...
Read more →TweetStories from Tagore By Rabindranath Tagore Download the ebook for free! Synopsis A newly-released prisoner is suddenly faced with the reality of how the world has changed. A young girl’s only friend grows sick. A father pins all his hopes of redeeming his inheritance on his son. Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European Nobel Laureate,...
Read more →TweetJohn Carter is coming out this week! Are you excited? Did you know that it’s based off a hundred-year-old tale? In 1912, the first John Carter story was published as Under the Moons of Mars in the magazine The All-Story, then republished in 1917 as A Princess of Mars. A Princess of Mars By Edgar...
Read more →TweetThe Go Ahead Boys on Smuggler’s Island By Ross Kay Download the ebook for free! Synopsis Four young men are on a fishing trip in Lake Huron when they discover a mysterious house on Cockburn Island, inhabited by a man who obviously has secrets to keep. Will strange behavior, storms, savage dogs, and shipwrecks...
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