First published in 1920, Marie Conway Oemler’s The Purple Heights is the story of the life of Peter Champneys, a fatherless boy, with black hair and hazel eyes living with…

Slippy McGee is narrated by Father Armand Jean De Rance, a Catholic priest. He lives and works in the town of Appleboro, South Carolina, where most of the ordinary townspeople…

When Sophy Smith inherits a house from her Great-Aunt Sophronisba Scarlett, there is one condition. She must live in it. If she tried to sell it or rent it, she…

When Father De Rance brought in an injured man into his house, little did he know that it was no one other than the famed burglar, Slippy McGee. But rather…

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