Oliver: 3228 books

Nell is desperate to escape from her drunken, violent father and the Birmingham slum where they live. This is made possible with the help of Gwyneth, who has fled from her father, a bigoted Welsh preacher. Both want to dance, and at the studio they meet Kitty, wealthy, but neglected by her mother...

According to Wikipedia: "William Taylor Adams (July 30, 1822 March 27, 1897) was a noted academic, author, and Massachusetts state legislator. He was born in Medway, Massachusetts in 1822 to Captain Laban Adams and Catherine Johnson Adams. He became a teacher in the Boston, Massachusetts public schools...

Oliver Optic wrote the extremely popular fiction series The Blue and the Gray, with each series consisting of 6 volumes. This one covers the Civil War fighting on land. A table of contents is included.

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Jenifer's Prayer. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Oliver Crane,...

Three Regency Lords – one cannot court Elizabeth while his ward is infatuated with her young brother; one, missing after Waterloo, leaves a devastated fiancée and a cousin with his importunate family; the third, exiled for years, dead in India and impersonated by his bastard half-brother hoping...

Lord Clifford meets Elizabeth when his ward Annamarie announces she means to marry her brother Sir Henry. Not only is Henry under age, Elizabeth controls his fortune. And sixteen-year-old Annamarie has been falling in love with unsuitable men for several years. Until he can resolve this complication...

Saved from a Parisian mob, Eugenie is puzzled by her rescuer. Her parents died in Switzerland, and in order to return to England she is forced in 1812 to work in taverns and walk through France, at war with England. When threatened by a Parisian mob a stranger rescues her, and offers to help her reach...

Grandfather Joseph was always an autocrat. When he summons the widowed Louise to Bath from her Devon home he makes it impossible for her to refuse his demand she goes at once to London to supervise Matilda's come out. She is his great niece, aged seventeen, and sure she will attract many offers because...

Eve longs to escape from her rigidly disciplinarian father, and experience life away from her small Herefordshire village. Her brother James longs to join the army fighting Napoleon in the peninsula. Eve is fascinated by cider-making, and despite her father's disapproval, makes it with the...

Ladies don't propose marriage. So when Peter Stannard unexpectedly inherits an Earldom and a Yorkshire estate from his uncle, he is startled to receive such a proposal from a neighbouring landowner, the widowed Lady MacDonald. To avoid giving offence by refusing he invents, with his brother John providing...

Belle is afraid to go home to England where her cousin George will force her to marry him. She exchanges identity with her friend and is on her way to Vienna to be a governess when the coach is attacked, and her companions killed. She is saved by Count Rupert's arrival, and taken by him to his castle...

Susan Oliver says, "It takes very little for a mother and daughter to turn on each other. So much lies below the surface—hurts held for decades in clinched fists, extravagant expectations never met, and ties that bind." Once Upon a Gulf Coast Summer is about the complex relationship...

If Nancy Drew drank Jack Daniels... Meet Jessica James. If you like your sleuths fierce, funny, and female, you'll love these fast paced thrill rides from award winning author Kelly Oliver. FOX was a finalist for a Silver Falchion Award for best Suspense. JACKAL is a finalist...

If Nancy Drew drank Jack Daniels... Meet Jessica James.  Award winning author Kelly Oliver is a master of entertaining adventure in these fast-paced thrill rides.  If you like your sleuths fierce, funny, and female, you'll love Jessica. With more wit than grace, philosophy graduate...