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Wanting nothing to do with men, a beautiful young woman founds a women's university, where no man can enter. But as the master Tennyson writes, "Life is brief but love is long"; love will find a way; and the prince to whom the young woman was betrothed in infancy disguises himself into a woman and enters the grounds... This classic narrative poem continues to captivate generation after generation of listeners and it is no wonder why: "Better not be at all than not be noble."

The Lucky Piece: A Story of the North Woods is a collection of adventurous and romantic stories by Albert Bigelow Paine. The tales in this prodigious work of escapist writing revolve around the lucky piece that a young man once used as payment for a hatful of berries sold to him by a girl one summer evening... Love stories, all kinds of relationships and beautiful mountain life make for a rich creative tapestry.

A corpse emerges on a New England beach, handcuffed to a raft. The whole town seems to want to cover up everything and bury the body as quickly as possible without even bothering to identify it. Our hero, Chester Kent, is determined to investigate the matter...Nothing is as it seems in this completely engrossing mystery yarn that plays out like walking inside a labyrinth! The listener comes up against constant dead-ends during the tale's unfolding, right up to the surprising and satisfying resolution.

A nautical mystery unfolds for the listener, raising more puzzling questions than immediate answers: a boat crew find themselves short of one crew member (supposedly a twin brother) after a storm.

A suspenseful and action-packed tale that chronicles the adventures of our hero, Wallace Vane, with his deepest motivations to succeed in the lumber industry.

An old-fashioned story of life in a coastal town on Long Island, filled with the air and waves of the sea! All is centered around a lighthouse and a life saving station, where Cap'n Billy Daddy works. He also takes care of Janet; whose mother is out of the picture. One day a young painter comes to the dunes to paint, sees Janet, and asks to paint her and the two fall in love...and then Janet's rich biological father shows up.

Our main character, Jimmy, doesn't know whether or not he shot and killed a Northwest Mounted while he was hunting with his friends. What follows is a story of escape and survival of our hero, in an unfamiliar and particularly challenging and taxing environment...

Is a defense attorney forced to defend his client, or should he follow his conscience, knowing that the client he is defending is essentially guilty? And if his friends believe that he may have been aware of it before the trial yet respect the man for his morals; might it not become cause for blackmail, and therefore revenge? This is the ethical quandary that the novel grapples with, as well as painting a suspenseful and mysterious atmosphere involving the attorney's background, the titular house and its white shadows.

A classic and hilarious comedy gem that has been filmed many times! The intricate storyline involves a rich businessman's son, Travers, who learns of a planned burglary of his house and decides to dress himself up as a policeman to confront the legendary criminal.

The Shores' brothers were seamen and hardworking whalers, but Mark and Joel have a disagreement about the recovery of a quantity of pearls acquired by Mark. He had buried them on a South Sea as a toll for future retrieval... This is the seed of the major conflict on board the ship.

Can the mystery of The Locks be unlocked? This detective and suspense tale is absolutely filled with goosebumps atmosphere. It features a small mysterious town, peculiar inhabitants with secrets, a lonely odd house called "The Locks", that a stranger moves into. A sole light in a single room strangely lights up every night.

In this complicated romance we follow the two main characters from their childhood through to adulthood; all the way experiencing all the many, many challenges and opposing forces to their union. The heroine of this piece, aptly named Conscience; is forced to take on a mighty giant - the puritanical values instilled by her father (a minister) and the society of the older generation - in order to thrive in life as well as in love...

Harrington Strong (pseudonym of Johnston McCulley) gives us one of his typically effective and suspenseful detective stories: our protagonist Sidney Prale returns to New York from Honduras after ten years. He has made a fortune and now wants to invest it on Wall Street...Things don't go smoothly from here on. He finds himself sabotaged at every moment and accused of murder. With a hired private investigator, he intends to get to the bottom of this mess...

A wonderfully atmospheric and suspenseful tale for aficionados of sea and mystery! Code Schofield, is quite in a predicament: he has lost his boat in an Atlantic gale a while back, and finds himself presently viewed upon with disdain and suspicion both by his community off the coast of New Brunswick, and by insurance investigators...

An epic tale of a father and son, spanning the time range of their whole lives, with existential ups and downs along the ride...This is the story of Cardigan and his son, both pioneers in the very special place of Trinidad Head. We follow their efforts and successes, both career-wise and love-wise of the father and his son.

Welcome to the world of the "Reivers", also known as "Snow-Burners" to the Native Americans of the North. Our ruthless and forceful "hero" gets assigned to run a labor camp filled with foreigners. Will he attend to business in his usual dominant ways, or could he possibly crack? This western tale by Henry Oyen is as rugged as it gets.

This story is about the elusive thief called the Black Star and his gang, leaving black stars at the crime scenes and occasional ironic notes for the police to find, standing powerless against the sophistication and professionalism of the master criminal... Along comes detective Roger Verbeck.

Meet Edgar Braine, our proficient main character, the editor of a local newspaper and a politician. Being a hardworking and centered man, having followed his old mother's advice on leading a good, ethical life; he now faces a bit of a quandary where a caveat, a warning from his mother, might come in very handy, possibly saving him from a personal catastrophe...

Welcome to the life of George Basine, and those of his family and friends; as legendary author and screenwriter Ben Hecht takes the listener through a maze of ethical struggle and identity related dilemmas involving the everlasting questions of perception and self-perception...

A moving romance with a well nuanced and observed central character that grows to a noble soul. A soldier of WWI wakes up from injury only to gradually discover through his damaged memory that his day-bride has remarried (believing him to be dead)... The soldier decides to re-invent himself and his life completely from scratch - this proves to be easier said than done.