Ralph: 2093 books

Canadian short story, first published in 1900. According to Wikipedia: "Rev. Dr. Charles William Gordon, or Ralph Connor, (September 13, 1860 October 31, 1937) was a Canadian novelist, using the Connor pen name while maintaining his status as a Church leader, first in the Presbyterian and later the...

THE 3.20 train from Boston slowed up as it drew into a way station, and Malcolm McCann, grim and sullen from his weary ride in the dirt and cinders, the coal-smoke and the fœtid air, the fretting babies and hot, worrying men, that characterise a railway journey in August, hurried out with a grunt...

A collection of six short stories including The Awakening, The Talking Board, The Carrington Event, The Mirror, The Time Travel Experiment and The Tourist. Each story features a twist near the end, to surprise the reader. I hope you enjoy them.

Not every Aussie in Britain works behind a bar…Living and working in London has become a rite of passage for Australians: pub-crawls, travel and the chance to reinvent yourself in one of the world’s great cities.But beneath the partying lies a divided culture where reality is dictated...

Ralph Henry Barbour has been pleasing young men and adults with stories of football and sports for years.  Here is "The Spirit of The School" for his fans.  

Hitler's Children is a fast-paced historical/political thriller about Germany's Red Army Faction (aka the Baader-Meinhof group). The novel begins in April 1977 when a Red Army Faction unit assassinates Siegfried Buback, the chief prosecutor at the trial of RAF leaders Andreas Baader, Gudrun...

It has been well known since Marius Barbeau’s review of the first edition of Franz Boas’s Tsimshian Mythology in 1917 that something was seriously amiss with Boas’s alleged “translations” of the stories gathered by his chief Tsimshian informant, Henry Tate. But what, exactly, was it that...

Ralph Waldo Emerson is strongly linked to Transcendentalism, a spiritual and philosophical movement that gained a great deal of popularity in mid-nineteenth-century America. Like his acclaimed essays, Emerson's poetry is deeply rooted in the beauty of the natural world, extolling the virtues of independence, clarity of thought and self-reliance.

The act of opening a vehicle to another who needs a ride opens both driver and rider to completely unpredictable and possibly dangerous interaction. Who knows who you're picking up? Who knows who's stopping for you? The eight short stories in this collection provide examples of the possibilities....

Col. Tyler French, recently retired from the army and divorced from his wife in California, comes east and buys a concrete house on a Carolina barrier island in the early 1990s. He hires a summer girl to help him make it livable, and negotiates with the local backhoe operator to build a seawall to...

After 11 years in an institution for the criminally insane, Colin, formerly a celebrated concert pianist, escapes with the help of a kitchen worker who recognizes that Colin’s gifts are being wasted. But he must find a way to avoid recapture in the world outside, first in the rough Tennessee mountain...

Jane, a 56 year old high school biology teacher, retires, divorces her lump of a husband, picks Lizette, a frisky hound mutt, out of the pound, and buys a 250 acre tract of remote mountain property in middle-east Tennessee. She moves into the primitive cabin and sets out to explore her new property...

A slightly spoofy omniscient narrator introduces us to Jenner, Inc., a stove manufacturing plant in a fictional middle Tennessee town, some of its personnel, and the sociology of the roughly 100 employees. The factory is owned by a large Chicago holding company, which has recently installed an aloof...

Fiona is the good buddy and scientific confrere of the young William Thomson, newly appointed to the chair of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow University in 1849. Unconventional, uninhibited, and brilliant, she provides the keys to his scientific discoveries. She also takes it upon herself to tutor him...