Books tagged: 1890s

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Angels in Hell's Kitchen    by Rachelle Reese and John E. Miller
Price: $2.99 USD. 43580 words. Published by Rachelle Reese on September 4, 2010. .

Duncan O’Malley is satisfied with his life in Hell’s Kitchen. He has the boxing gym he’d always wanted to start and a brother who cares for him, even if he does drive him bonkers sometimes. Unfortunately, his peaceful life ends when he’s ‘invited’ to become a Citizen On Patrol and discovers there are unseen dangers in the shadowed alleyways and angels who will change his world forever.
New Orleans Mysteries    by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $1.99 USD. 47930 words. Published on April 27, 2011. .

A collection of mystery stories set in New Orleans - 1940s Private-eye Lucien Caye, 1890s NOPD Detective Jacques Dugas as well as NOPD Homicide Detectives John Raven Beau and Dino LaStanza (he’s back!). There are also a couple ghost stories, a maniac story, the gold bug of Jean Lafitte, a man with moon hands and a future-cop story with a guy named Max.
The Time Star    by Georgina Lee
Price: $1.99 USD. 20770 words. Published on November 10, 2011. .

Waneeta Meadows reached for what she thought was a chunk of meteorite, that dark, winter's night on a snowmobile trail. Her world changed, but it wasn't until she returned to the present that she discovered she'd been swept back in time and swept into love. And unless she could find a way to return, her life, and those around hers would never be the same.
The Second Mate's Cup of Tea    by Jamie McNabb
Price: $2.99 USD. 7540 words. Published on November 13, 2011. .

(SHORT STORY: HISTORICAL) Queen Victoria's seventy-first birthday. An Englishman far from home and homesick. All he wanted was a cup of English tea. Served properly. On clean china. On clean table linen. In the small port of Garibaldi, Oregon, in the dining room of the town's finest hotel what he got was something annoyingly different.
"What A Dream!"    by Elizabeth & William Hicks
Price: Free! 3640 words. Published on February 20, 2012. .

"What A Dream!" is a short story about a very vivid and lucid dream in which the dreamer finds himself on a beach at Coney Island, New York, with his older brother, Joe, and they spend the day together at the amusement park. It takes place in a simpler time during the park's heyday circa 1896. The story is filled with fun facts of the day and a realism, which transports the reader to NY, 1896.
Breakfast at Midnight    by Fiona MacFarlane
Price: Free! 88570 words. Published on March 26, 2012. .

Hobart, Tasmania, 1894. From the mouldering cells of Port Arthur to the sun-dappled grounds of Wintersleigh House, Breakfast at Midnight analyses the expectations placed on young people by family members and by society as a whole. It also explores the polarised society of the mid 1890's, a time when trenchant Victorian conservatism and burgeoning feminist ideals seemed increasingly incompatible.
Unwanted Wives    by J. Gunnar Grey
Price: $0.99 USD. 8990 words. Published on April 11, 2012. .

Carlyle Harris and Robert Buchanan had several things in common. Both worked in the medical field, with Harris a medical student and Buchanan a practicing physician. Both lived in New York City in the early 1890s. And both had wives they didn't want. 5,000 words
How I Overcame My Inventor’s Block    by Hallett German
Price: Free! 2580 words. Published on May 6, 2012. .

Romy became an orphan at 17. Forced to move, she hates everything. The thing that keeps her going is the desire to invent something regardless of the implications. But she has one setback after another. An inventor's show is taking place soon in Vienna. Can she complete something in time? This is a free fantasy steampunk-inspired short story based on the characters in the Amazi Chronicles
Moonlit Days and Nights    by David Toole
Price: $3.99 USD. 122130 words. Published on May 28, 2012. .

Crime Writers of Canada winner for best first novel. Welcome to Toronto in the naughty eighteen nineties with its glorious opera houses, sumptuous brothels, underworld gangs, and drugs galore. Follow the adventure of Reginald Ravencroft - the rustic dreamer from Balls Falls as he heads off to Toronto on a mission of revenge involving burglaries, kidnapping, murder and a good deal of shopping.