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First published in a 1844 literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1845, The Purloined Letter is the third and final story that features Poe's detective, C. Auguste Dupin.

Robinson Crusoe is the classic tale about one man's lust for adventure. Crusoe leaves his parents and hometown for the open sea in the year 1651.

Here in one recording are both of L. Frank Baum's Santa Claus stories: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, and A Kidnapped Santa Claus.

This classic novel takes place in Lantern Yard, a slum street in an unnamed city in Northern England, during the early 19th century.

When Mark Twain's daughter Susie wrote a letter to Santa Claus, her father wrote back, signing Santa's name.

First published in a 1843 edition of The Pioneer, The Tell-Tale Heart is one of Poe's best-known stories.

When war breaks out in Europe - modern, aerial war whose tactics include displacing entire populations - British civilization collapses overnight.

When three adventurers, Bastin, Bickley, and Arbuthnot, are marooned on a South Sea island, they discover an ancient crystal sepulchre.

Rudyard Kipling's thrilling science fiction novella follows the exploits of an intercontinental mail dirigible battling foul weather.

Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer and the couple moves into the

Diamonds and Pearl is a gritty, compelling novel from #1 Essence bestselling author K'wan.They say that good girls like bad boys, and this was especially true for Pearl Stone, a child born of privi

Ireland, 1912. Young Maggie Murphy sets sail on Titanic, though her sweetheart stays behind.

Jim Marlowe and his strange-looking Martian friend Willis are only allowed to travel so far.

A mercenary, a postulant, and a slave all seek the sixteen stones touched by Oum'ilah, the God of Gods.

Annie and her new neighbor must solve the mystery of what connects them before one of them is convicted of a murder that has yet to happen--and somehow already did.