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  The Lost World

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Lost World is the original classic Dinosaur adventure story! Written by Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this story set the standard for globe-trotting archaeological and anthropological heroes. Join Professor Challenger and his team as they follow the writings of a diary filled with stories of giant lizards and flying reptiles. Their search takes them to South America, and a plateau separate from world evolution by millions of years. Join them as they try to explore - and escape - The Lost World!

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  The Meeting Place (Song of...

  Janette Oke, T. Davis Bunn

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  A Chance Encounter Forever Changed Their Lives--and Destinies.Crafted by two masters of inspirational fiction--Janette Oke and T. Davis Bunn--and combining the engaging historical settings, rich characterization, and heartwarming messages quintessential to both authors, The Meeting Place is another timeless story for you to cherish.Set along the rugged coastline of 18th century Canada in what was then called Acadia (now Nova Scotia and New Brunswick), The Meeting Place re-creates a world that was home to native Indians, French settlers, and English garrisons. Such diverse populations did not live in accord, however. Instead, they were isolated within their own groups by a brewing political tension under the difficult English rule. Amid such chaotic times two women, both about to become brides and both trying to live lives of quiet peace, meet in a lush field of wildflowers. Louisa, a Frenchwoman, and Catherine, who is English, continue to meet secretly through the seasons, sharing both friendship and growing faith. The outside world does not mirror their own tranquil happiness, and the dreaded crackdown by the English throne threatens far more than their growing bond. In the face of a heart-wrenching dilemma, Louisa and Catherine strive to maintain their faith and cling to their dreams of family and home.Winner of the Christy Award, presented by the Christian Bookseller Association to honor the best in Christian fiction.

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  The Last Line

  GaGa Gabardi, Judilee Butler

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  High In the Rocky Mountains, the small mining town of Oresville, Colorado, awakes on Tuesday to the insidious impact of a death, maybe a kidnapping. Deputy Sheriff, Phoebe Korneal, is charged with solving a crime this town has never seen. The players are here—best friends, boyfriend, State Police, FBI. Phoebe’s relentless investigation is stressed to the max. 
  The elephant in the room is the special election for a new sheriff. Vote for Phoebe! No more old white guys in charge! As always, there is much going on—a wild, crazy one week adventure. 
  A nearly naked man hanging from a zipline? 
  Where’s the girlfriend? 
  Will Phoebe be the first female Sheriff? 
  Career change for Bart? 
  What about Old Al’s gold? 
  Will Phoebe declare love. . .finally? 
  Septuagenarian award-winning co-authors, Butler and Gabardi, use technology to collaborate seamlessly while migrating between their homes in Colorado, Wyoming, and Florida. This cozy mystery resonates with all ages and audiences—whether on the beach or in front of the fireplace. Read on!

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  Kenilworth

  Sir Walter Scott

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  An Elizabethan era historical novel by Scotland's master of fiction, Sir Walter Scott. With a cast of historical and created characters, including the Queen herself, Scott presents the sad history and tragic consequences of the secretive marriage of young Amy Robsart and the Earl of Leicester. (Summary by SK)

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  Death at Brighton Pavilion

  Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley

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  When Captain Gabriel Lacey finds himself standing over a dead body in Brighton Pavilion, bloody sword in hand and no memory of how he got there, he immediately fears he is a murderer. 
  The dead man is Colonel Hamilton Isherwood, a man Lacey clashed with after the battle of Salamanca in Spain seven years before. As Lacey tries to piece together the events of the previous night, he discovers he’d promised to help a Quaker gentleman find his missing son, and that the Society of Friends might know far more about his strange night out than anyone else. 
  With the help of Brewster, Grenville, and his wife, Lacey races to save himself from arrest, even it means bringing to light painful scandals from his own past.

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  Mór Jókai - A Short Story...

  Mor Jokai

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  Móric Jókay de Ásva was born on the 18th February 1825 in Komárom, then in the Kingdom of Hungary but now part of Slovakia.  
   
  Due to his timid and delicate constitution he was educated at home until the age of 10 and then sent away to complete his studies at the Calvinist college at Pápa. 
   
  At 12 his father died, and he was pushed to honour him by replicating his career as a lawyer.  He studied hard and completed the curriculum at Kecskemét and Pest.  He won his first case as a newly graduated lawyer. 
   
  But he found a career in law to be dull and, encouraged by the positive reaction to his first play, he moved to Pest in 1845.  There he published, first in a newspaper, and then as a novel ‘Hétköznapok’ (‘Working Days’).  It was acclaimed as a masterpiece.  To add to his promise he was appointed as the editor of Életképek, the leading Hungarian journal. 
   
  In 1848 he married the actress, Róza Laborfalvi.  That same year Europe was awash with revolutions and Jókai, a moderate Liberal, enthusiastically supported the nationalist cause and its decision to depose the Habsburg dynasty.  The attempt failed. 
   
  He was now classed as a political suspect and threw himself into his literary career, writing dozens of novels, many of them masterpieces, stories, essays and the like.  In total he wrote several hundred volumes, many of them in the local Magyar language which helped arrest its declining relevance in society.  
   
  By 1867 the political temperature had cooled, and he entered parliament as well as becoming the editor a government journal he had founded.   His skills were much admired and helped the government navigate through several difficult matters.   
   
  His wife died in 1886 but although grief-stricken he continued to work and to write.  
   
  In 1897 the king appointed him a member of the upper house.  Two years later he caused a minor scandal by marrying the young 20-year-old actress, Bella Nagy.  At the time he was 74. 
   
  Mór Jókai died in Budapest on the 5th May 1904.  He was 79.

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