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"The whip had cut him like a knife in a dozen places...." But the friar still won't talk about church gold. Is there any chance of mercy from the horrifying leader of the tomb robbers?

This Charles Dickens classic is the powerful satiric novel of selfish hypocrisy and financial speculation as it bloomed in insular England and in the spacious but narrow minds of the US. It is a novel that has relevance to today’s frequent financial crises.

Oliver Twist is an orphan, born into the world of workhouses and poverty. Apprenticed at a young age, he runs away and finds himself with a curious collection of thieves, rogues and murderers. Tragedy and death are constantly at his heels. Oliver struggles with the burden of being a child and of being poor in industrial England. In this tale, Dickens shows that poverty breeds crime and that the road from the workhouse to Fagin's vicious gang is short and straight.

Sycamore Smith has been moving from town to town in search of his brother and his girl for nearly a year. Now, while working a cattle-wrangling job with a motley crew of riders, further details of his brother’s disappearance are about to become known.

More than just a heavy metal contender, Aerosmith has legitimized hard rock as a musical genre. Listen to the band recall their early beginnings and find out about their (mis)adventures on the road to incredible success.

A "botched" hit and blackmail turn to revenge and betrayal in this gripping mystery by a master mystery writer.

Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can only imagine - along with trying to impress girls, especially Becky Thatcher; fights and stunts in the schoolyard; getting lost (and saved) in a cave; and playing on the Mississippi River.

Holmes risks his life with an astounding trick in The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone.

Moments before he is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, Oklahoma Governor Buffalo Joe Hayman falls ill. Life is never the same for lieutenant governor One-Eyed Mack, who steps in to deliver the speech that concludes with an appeal for the return of the state's missing mummy. Suddenly Mack's name is being passed around as a possible vice-president. This is a comic, clever, fast-paced satire of politics told and read by one of this county's best known commentators.

When the Gold Rush came to Murrayville, it brought with it rogues and bandits, but none of them more daring than the one who came to be called "The Ghost." He got his name from his mysterious knowledge of all the comings and goings of the town and its gold transportation. The miners and townsfolk had to band together to hire Silver Pete to take care of their ghostly problem.

An unusual sequence of events in leads the legendary Sherlock Holmes to locate the precious jewel owned by the Countess of Morcar.

In Sherlock Holmes' first mystery short story, the great detective saves the future king of Bohemia from a possible blackmailer.

The Yellow Mine Saloon was like every gambling dive Panhandle Smith had seen from Montana to Mexico. Piles of gold and greenbacks littered the roulette and faro tables. Drunken miners stamped to and from the long mahogany bar. An odor of whiskey mingled with the thick tobacco haze. Suddenly, one of the gamblers turned, and Smith recognized Dick Hardman, the man he had followed a thousand miles - to kill.

The Sea Wolf is a tale of Humphrey Van Weydon, unwilling captive and crewman on a sailing ship of cutthroats, thrown in with the treacherous outcasts that man the ship and ruled by Wolf Larsen - the Sea Wolf, a brooding, violent brute...and he is the captain.

“My last crime was a Christmas crime, a cheery, cozy, English middle-class crime; a crime of Charles Dickens. I did it in a good old middle-class house, a house with a crescent of carriage drive, a house with a stable by the side of it, a house with the name on the two outer gates, a house with a monkey tree. Enough, you know the species.” How does Father Brown solve the theft of three gorgeous, large diamonds by a boastful thief?

Born into a working class family in Seattle, Jimi Hendrix had a tough time growing up. Eventually, however, he fell in love with the guitar, and the rest is music history. This title features never-before-heard interviews with Jimi Hendrix; Noel Redding; Jimi's family, including his father Al Hendrix; Jack Bruce, Denny Laine; and Paul McCartney.

She's wild, beautiful, and he's got to have her, so Arizona college boy John Brecken cooks up one hairy plan. It might work - but dangerous outsiders are watching now, ready to step in. Things are getting far too serious.

Oklahoma lieutenant-governor One-Eyed Mack heads to France in pursuit of his chum, Luther Wallace, speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, who has disappeared, except for a message saying he won't return until he's ready.

Having located Luther but failed to convince him to return, Mack comes back to another mystery: why did a bus driver intentionally go over a bridge, killing himself and his passengers?

When the daughter of General de Merville falls under the spell of a notorious criminal, the strong soldier becomes a broken man. At the request of an anonymous client, Sherlock Holmes intervenes, in what is possibly the supreme triumph of the great detective's career.

Strange and bizarre events are occurring at the country estate known as Copper Beeches. The newly hired governess asks Holmes to unravel ghastly events and the unsavory characters who lived at the estate.