"The Trial" is a remarkable work by Charlotte M. Yonge which depicts the moral conflict of sheltered lives. Like Yonge's other famous works, this work encompasses Victorian problems of urban pollution, sanitary reform, and cholera and typhoid epidemics. She demanded social, economic, and medical reform of dirt-ridden Victorian cities.

The new series, Colton's Time Machine books, are spin-offs from the original Colton's Pocket Dragon books. Colton felt it was time for his dragons to get a little education about history, so he built a machine that would take all of them back in time. In this book Colton and his dragons will travel back in time to 1789, in Philadelphia, to ring "The Liberty Bell" with President George Washington. Then Colton and the dragons will go to 1782, in Philadelphia,...

Paul Gerrard, the Cabin Boy is about the dangerous nautical journey of the ship the Cerberus and the adventures of those onboard. Excerpt: ""I will enter as a cabin-boy; I will work my way upwards. Many have done so, why should not I?" he exclaimed with enthusiasm; "I will win wealth to support you all, and honors for myself. 'Where there's a will there's a way.' I don't see the way very clearly just now, but that is the opening through which I am...

Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield' is a romance novel by David Christie Murray. The story unfolds in the year eighteen hundred and twenty, where for many years before and after, Abel Reddy farmed his own land at Perry Hall End, on the western boundaries of Castle Barfield. He lived at Perry Hall, a ripe-coloured old tenement of Elizabethan design, which crowned a gentle eminence and looked out picturesquely on all sides from amongst...

"Sowing and Sewing" is a coming to age novel with a religious theme. Rose Lee had been a sewing maid, and, being clever, had become a very fair dressmaker; so she took in needlework from the first, and when good old master Lee died, and the children had grown old enough to be more off her hands, she became the dressmaker and seamstress of the place, since there was no doubt that all she took in hand would be thoroughly well turned out of hand. One...

The Grip of Desire: The Story Of a Parish-Priest by Hector France is a detailed collection of portraits of significant figures and aspects of the Catholic church. Excerpt: "I do not assert that all the personages in this story are models of virtue. To some of them has been given a part which severe morality reproves. But I am a realist and not an idealist, and for that, I beg the reader a thousand pardons. I have tried to paint what I saw and not...

The Poor Plutocrats' also often referred to as 'The Poor Rich' is an adventure-mystery novel by Mór Jókai. The story centers on a conflict between a number of families and a group of bandits led by Fatia Negra.

Wolves of the Sea is a fascinating and fun romp through the seas. This swashbuckling adventure will have you jumping out of your seat for more nautical narratives. Excerpt: "Knowing this to be a narrative of unusual adventure, and one which may never even be read until long after I have departed from this world, when it will be difficult to convince readers that such times as are herein depicted could ever have been a reality, I shall endeavor to...

"The Master's Violin" is a novel by the author Myrtle Reed. Lynn is a young man who has only recently been reunited with his mother and he relishes the opportunity to spend time with her and her aunt. But he is also seeking to be taught to play the violin by the great violinist Herr Franz Kaufmann. The lessons with Kaufmann however, will reveal some startling truths about his mother's past and about the identity of his true father…

In Madeira Place is about the various soldier inhabitants of a big house in the French countryside. Excerpt: "At the supper-table, all is joy, even with the hopeless. Fidèle beams with good humor, and not infrequently is called on to describe, amid a general hush, for the benefit of some new-comer from "la belle France" the quarterly receipt of the communication from Washington: how he stays at home that day, and shaves, and waits at the door for...