Philip Marsham was bred to the sea as far back as the days when he was cutting his milk teeth. His mother died when he was but a child. A few years later, he ran away from school to join his father aboard the ship, Sarah. In his nineteenth year, Phil was stricken with fever while his father sailed with the Sarah. Phil was sent to regain his health at an inn owned by Moll Stevens. This was in London, England, during the reign of Charles I.
by Madeleine Wickham (Sophie Kinsella) - Strange things happen when two couples struggling with their relationships end up at the same Spanish vacation villa, owned by their mutual friend.
The fourteenth book in the Hardy Boys series, originally published in 1935. In this book, the Hardy Boys head South to settle a feud. Franklin W. Dixon is the pen name used by a variety of different authors (Leslie McFarlane, a Canadian author, being the first) who wrote The Hardy Boys novels for the Stratemeyer Syndicate (now owned by Simon & Schuster). This pseudonym was also used for the Ted Scott Flying Stories series.
Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist. Bunner Sisters is a novel about the life of two women, who owned a shop called Bunner Sisters in New York, "in the days when New York's traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse-car".