Books tagged with Fiction[940 found]
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Once Upon a Time in Delaware
by Katharine Pyle
Categories: Fiction » Children's Books
A playful journey through Delaware’s past, this illustrated chronicle turns legends, landmarks, and state-making moments into living scenes. From native villages and Dutch traders to Quaker settlements, colonial skirmishes, and the birth of a young nation, it invites curious readers to meet the people, rivers, and tides that shaped a small state with an outsized story.
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Six Little Ducklings
by Katharine Pyle
Categories: Fiction » Children's Books
Six curious ducklings set off on charming adventures, learning lessons about courage, friendship, and the joys of discovery. Gentle mischief and heartwarming moments make this a delightful tale for young readers exploring the wonders of the natural world.
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Fairy Tales from Many Lands
by Katharine Pyle
Categories: Fiction » Children's Books
A captivating anthology of enchanting stories from diverse cultures, featuring clever heroes, magical creatures, and wondrous adventures. Each tale transports readers to far-off lands, blending imagination, courage, and timeless lessons in a celebration of folklore from around the world.
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Wonder Tales from Many Lands
by Katharine Pyle
Categories: Fiction » Children's Books
Sail from snowbound villages to desert kingdoms in this sparkling treasury of folk tales, where clever princesses, bold youngest sons, and talking beasts outwit giants, dragons, and fate itself. Magic bargains, impossible quests, and surprising twists reveal how courage and kindness can change any world, inviting readers of all ages to explore wonder.
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Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know
by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Categories: Fiction » Children's Books
A collection of enchanting stories designed to spark imagination and delight young readers. Filled with magic, adventure, and timeless lessons, each tale invites children into a world of wonder, curiosity, and moral discovery.
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The Fairy Ring
by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Categories: Fiction » Children's Books
Discover a treasury where youngest sons outwit giants, clever girls break wicked spells, and talking beasts remind us what matters. Gathered from many lands and retold with warmth, these tales tumble from hearthside to castle hall, mixing mischief, mercy, and just-right justice. Read aloud or dream alone—each story renews the hope that kindness and courage can change the world.
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Tales of Laughter
by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Categories: Fiction » Children's Books
A heartwarming collection of humorous stories that celebrate the quirks, misadventures, and joys of everyday life. With charm and gentle wit, each tale brings laughter and delight while revealing the warmth of human nature.
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The Story Hour
by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Categories: Fiction » Children's Books
In a small New England schoolroom, a spirited teacher gathers restless children for an hour of tales that become mirrors and doorways: runaways learn courage, mischief finds mercy, shy hearts discover a voice. Between chalk dust and kitchen lamps, little dramas of kindness, honesty, and imagination unfold, turning ordinary days into lessons that linger long after the books are shut.
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Tales of Folk and Fairies
by Katharine Pyle
Categories: Fiction » Children's Books
A delightful collection of magical tales where fairies, clever heroes, and enchanted creatures bring wonder and lessons to life. Full of charm and imagination, each story invites readers into a world of whimsy, adventure, and timeless folklore.
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Wounds in the Rain: War Stories
by Joseph Conrad
Amid steamy ports and gunboat patrols in a distant colonial war, sailors, officers, and exiles face ambush, fever, and moral fatigue. Through tense skirmishes, botched missions, and brief flashes of grace, these linked tales expose the hollow heroics of empire and the quiet courage it takes simply to endure and remain human.
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Youth: A Narrative
by Joseph Conrad
Categories: Fiction » Adventure
An aging sea captain recalls the voyage that shaped his spirit: a leaky coal ship, fire in the hold, storms, delays, and the stubborn hope of a green young officer. In the chaos of machinery and sea, he remembers the reckless confidence of early manhood and how one disastrous journey forged it into lasting courage he still treasures.
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Whilomville Stories
by Stephen Crane
Categories: Fiction » Humor & Comedy
In a scruffy little American town, boys test courage in street brawls, secret clubs, and dangerous dares, while adults blunder through pride, gossip, and small cruelties. Through mishaps both comic and painful, childhood innocence collides with harsh lessons, revealing how character is forged in skinned knees and stubborn hearts.
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The Escape of Alice: A Christmas Fantasy
by Vincent Starrett
Categories: Fiction » Fantasy
On a snowy Christmas Eve, a curious girl slips out of her famous pages into a bustling modern city. With a bemused bibliophile as guide, she tumbles through shop windows, tea rooms, and newspaper offices, trading riddles with Wonderland acquaintances and holiday ghosts. Streetlamps glow like lanterns of dream as whimsy, satire, and tenderness turn the winter night into a door back to wonder.
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Revolt of the Outworlds
by Stephen Marlowe
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
Far from the comfortable Inner Worlds, the mining colonies seethe under corporate rule. When a decorated pilot is sent to crush a budding rebellion, he uncovers a conspiracy pitting Earth’s profiteers against a frontier fighting to breathe. Hunted by his own command and shadowed by pirate fleets, he must choose—ignite a war that could free the outworlds or burn them all.
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The Silver Key
by H. P. Lovecraft
Middle-aged dreamer Randolph Carter finds the gates of wonder closed waking life tastes of dust, and his visions have fled. A cryptic heirloom—a silver key and a Latin riddle—promises a way back. Tracing ancestral clues to a moonlit cavern, he risks self and time, opening a door to childhood and to dream-realms where memory and identity unravel.
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From the Car Behind
by Eleanor M. Ingram
Categories: Fiction » Romance
A gripping tale of suspense and intrigue, it follows characters caught in unexpected danger while traveling. Tension, quick thinking, and courage drive the story as secrets unfold and every moment becomes a test of wits and survival.
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The Flying Mercury
by Eleanor M. Ingram
Categories: Fiction » Adventure
Roaring engines, dust, and danger chase a reckless young magnate who stakes his fortune on a brand-new racing car and a daring publicity run. With a sharp-witted stenographer as ally, he battles rival factories, roadside sabotage, and his own pride on hairpin roads. Speed becomes a test of character as the finish line promises not just victory, but a future worth braking for.
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The April Baby's Book of Tunes
by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Categories: Fiction » Children's Books
A collection of reflective and vivid sketches capturing everyday life, human quirks, and the natural world. Through humor, observation, and insight, each piece offers a glimpse into character, society, and the subtle dramas of ordinary moments.
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Recruit for Andromeda
by Stephen Marlowe
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
A restless young man is singled out by a shadowy interstellar service and hurled into rigorous training, mind-bending tests, and missions on worlds where gravity, time, and loyalty feel different. As he learns to read alien motives and survive political traps, a deeper secret about his origin emerges—forcing a choice between the planet that shaped him and the wider destiny that claims him.
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Quest of the Golden Ape
by Stephen Marlowe
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction
A man from Earth is haunted by dreams of a radiant woman and a jungle world ruled by cruel sorcery. Drawn across dimensions, he awakens to a lost heritage and a perilous hunt for a mythical golden ape whose secret can topple tyrants. With rebels, telepaths, and blade duels in alien temples, he must claim his destiny—or watch two worlds fall.
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