Joseph Conrad - Nostromo: Relato Del Litoral / A Tale of the Seaboard

First published in 1904, this book deals with Latin America. It offers a picture of an insurrectionary society and the opportunities it provides for moral corruption.

Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Siege: Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign, 1814

Sharpe's mission seems simple: capture a defenseless French coastal fort, cripple Napoleon's supply lines, and retreat across the sea. But old enemy Pierre Ducos lies in wait behind the lines with a ...

Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Enemy: Richard Sharpe and the Defense of Portugal, Christmas 1812

Embattled once again, this time in the mountains of western Spain near the pass called the Gateway of God, Richard Sharpe faces a redoubtable array of opponents, including an army of deserters, ten ...

Virginia Woolf and Mark Hussey - Orlando

Based on the life of Vita Sackville-West, a close friend of the author, this novel pays tribute to their passionate friendship. At the beginning of the book Orlando is a young, melancholic, ...

John Scalzi - Old Man's War

Enlisting in the army on his seventy-fifth birthday, John Perry joins an interstellar war between Earth and alien enemies who would stake claims on the few existing inhabitable planets, unaware that ...

Hendrik Willem Van Loon and John Merriman - Story Of Mankind

First published in 1921 The Story of Mankind has charmed generations of readers of all ages with its warmth simplicity and wisdom. Beginning with the origins of human life and sweeping forward to ...

Sir Walter Scott - Count Robert of Paris

Michael Flynn - Eifelheim: Library Edition

Tom, a modern-day historian, and his girlfriend Sharon, a theoretical physicist, search for the truth about the 1349 disappearance of the small German town of Eifelheim as the Black Death strengthens ...

Tereska Torres, Joan Schenkar, Judith (AFT) Mayne - Women's Barracks

Elizabeth Palmer - The Dark Side of the Sun

Nettie Harding and Mary Fox, her governess's daughter, become friends, beginning in the 1920s and continuing throughout their tumultuous lives, which include cross-cultural romances, illegitimate ...