Ethel: 266 books

Jonathon often babysat the neighbors' daughter, Lisa. Her hair was never comb and she was always dirty from playing in the dirt. He wondered what she would look like when she grew older. She was pitiful looking now. He often took her to his garage because the neighbors' needed a baby sitter. Lisa...

It is October and the mountains are waking from their short winter sleep.

The Book that Inspired the Making of Three Movies The Setting As Professor Sebastian Warren battens down the shutters and locks all the doors of their isolated country house, the eight occupants start to feel safe. Somewhere outside lurks a murderer of young girls, the latest only an...

The events of the story „"Wax"” take place in the town of Riverpool, where the wax museum is located. In this museum, several people died under mysterious circumstances. Sonia Thompson is an abmicious journalist who wants to understand these riddles. Therefore, she decides to spend the night there alone. And this was not the best idea, it seems...

When you come to reflect that there are only a few planks between you and the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, it makes you feel sort of pensive. "I beg your pardon?" The stranger, smoking his cigarette in the lee of the deck-cabins, turned his head sharply in the direction of the voice. He...

A great shout of applause went through the crowded hall as the Dragon-Fly Dance came to an end, and the Dragon-Fly, with quivering, iridescent wings, flashed away. It was the third encore. The dance was a marvellous one, a piece of dazzling intricacy, of swift and unexpected subtleties, of almost...

Fast-paced and wildly romantic, The Lamp in the Desert follows beautiful young Stella as she travels to British Colonial India to visit her brother, marries a man with an existing secret marriage—only to face even worse problems. Meanwhile, a dashing captain has fallen in love with her, but he must leave on a military mission. Will he return and marry Stella?

Powerful Historical Fiction From the European ReformationIn The Maiden's Sword, Pieter-Lucas and Aletta struggle to find their way in a world at war. Pieter-Lucas believes his calling is to save lives, not destroy them, but must decide whether he will support the war effort as a secret messenger for...

Compelling Historical Fiction from the 16th-Century ReformationIn this third story, the Dutch revolt against the occupation and religious oppression of Spain moves into full engagement. Pieter-Lucas van den Garde continues to run messages for Willem of Orange. In the midst of the uncertainties of war,...

It was certainly not Caesar's fault. Caesar was as well-meaning a Dalmatian as ever scampered in the wake of a cantering horse. And if Mike in his headlong Irish fashion chose to regard the scamper as a gross personal insult, that was surely not a matter for which he could reasonably be held responsible....

She always liked bossing. There were two girls there, younger than herself who were her great friends. It was not long before I dubbed them her “body-guard”—she lived under the fallacy that she was so delicately constituted psychically, that she must be protected. No strange person of the street...