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Perry Parkhurst, a perfectly polished young lawyer from Toledo, reaches the end of his rope when a quarrel with his glamorous sweetheart, Betty Medill, leaves him heartbroken and humiliated. In a moment of wounded bravado, he lets himself be swept into an evening of reckless celebration—one that ends with him renting a shabby camel costume for a high-society circus ball.

Percival William Williams—better known as Wee Willie Winkie—may only be six years old, but he carries the heart of a soldier. Raised among British officers on the rugged Indian frontier, Winkie lives by military discipline, loyalty, and fierce pride in his father’s regiment. When he discovers that a young woman he admires has ridden beyond the safe boundaries of the cantonment, the little boy does the unthinkable: he breaks arrest and rides into danger to protect her.

James Achanna, weary of the shadowed island of Eilanmore, seeks a new life—and love with Katreen Macarthur. But the past will not release him. His brother Gloom, a figure of jealousy, vengeance, and spectral menace, lingers in the half-light between the living and the dead. What begins as a story of longing and devotion soon descends into betrayal, eerie music carried on the wind, and the chilling presence of fate. Steeped in Celtic atmosphere and supernatural dread, Green Branches blends folklore, romance, and Gothic terror into a timeless classic.

Jack Langdon, a reckless pursuit pilot reassigned to slow and lumbering DH two-seaters, refuses to surrender his fighter tactics. Alongside skilled gunners like Akeley and Samter, Langdon bends the rules and pushes his aircraft to the limit, striking daring blows against enemy balloons and aircraft. But his boldness sparks conflict with Lieutenant Charles Surry Mudd, a meticulous leader whose cautious style clashes with Langdon’s reckless daring.

On a cold, moonlit night in March 1873, a horrific double murder shattered the peace of Smutty-Nose Island, one of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire. In this haunting true account, Celia Thaxter—a resident of the Shoals and one of the first responders to the tragedy—recounts the chilling events with vivid clarity and emotional depth.

In The Shoes of Fortune, Hans Christian Andersen delivers a clever, darkly humorous tale of magical mishap and human folly. When a pair of enchanted galoshes appears in Copenhagen, those who wear them are instantly transported to the time, place, or life they most desire. But each new reality—whether it be a glorious medieval past, the romantic moon, or the carefree life of another person—reveals that happiness isn't always where we imagine it to be.