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The Captivity of Mary of Scotland Historical fiction based on the life of Mary of Scotland during the reign of her cousin Queen Elizabeth and the s...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the four...

The Adventures of David Balfour A historical fiction novel set in the 18th century around Scottish events. The story is narrated by David Balfour, ...

The Autobiography of a Horse The first person memoirs from Black Beauty. Beginning with his days as a colt on an English farm with his mother to hi...

The Three Chimneys The story of a family who moves to a home near a railway after their father is imprisoned after being falsely accused of spying....

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the nint...

Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life A first-person account of a 2-month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, & Kansas in ...

Being a Ghost Story of Christmas The story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob M...

A Story The first book in the What Katy Did trilogy. Katy Carr is a twelve-year-old American Girl living in the fictional town of Burnet, Ohio. She...

A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby A children’s novel about a young chimney sweep named Tom who falls into a river after encountering an upper-class girl...

Tom Sawyer’s Comrade Huckleberry Finn and his friend, Tom Sawyer, have each come into a considerable sum of money as a result of their earlier adve...

The Secret Garden The story of Mary Lennox, a 10 year old girl, and her time after the death of her parents in India. Mary is sent to live with her...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the seve...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the sixt...

The Boy Scouts From the Author: The Boy Scouts series of books has been written with a twofold purpose: To stimulate on the part of every one of my...

A Shakespearean Comedy A ship is caught in a powerful storm and the vessel is shipwrecked on an island. The storm, it turns out, is a magical creat...

Arabian Nights Andrew Lang’s retelling of the famous stories of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic) also known as Arabian Nights (English). The wo...

The Oldest Old Thing in England A historical fantasy book containing a series of short stories set in different time periods of English history inc...

Christian Pioneer and Explorer David Livingstone was a Scottish Congregationalist and pioneer of Christian medical missionary work in Africa.  Mr. ...

An English Classic Follow Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger on their adventures in the English countryside. These stories are for those “who keep the spi...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the twel...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the tent...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the eigh...

The Aesopica A collection of fables credited to Aesop, an ancient Greek slave and storyteller who lived between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins...

By the Sieur Louis de Conte Mark Twain’s last completed novel, it is presented as a translation by “Jean Francois Alden” of memoirs by Louis de Con...

A Story The third book in the What Katy Did trilogy. Katy Carr is off to Europe with Amy and her mother Mrs. Ashe. Initially reluctant to go, Katy ...

A Story The second book in the What Katy Did trilogy. Katy Carr and her little sister, Clover, are off to a girls boarding school in New England. A...

Or The Mutiny of The Hispaniola A coming-of-age adventure novel narrating a tale of buccaneers and buried gold. The book had an enormous influence ...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the fift...

A Tale, Supposed to be written by Himself The Vicar, Dr. Charles Primrose, lives an idyllic life in a country parish with his wife Deborah, son Geo...

Father Brown A collection of 12 short stories based on the fictional character Father Brown. A Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective, Father ...

A Village Story Jack Minot and Janey Pecq are best friends and are always seen together; so much so that Janey receives the nickname “Jill” to mimi...

It was the best of times... Dicken’s best-known work of historical fiction and regularly cited as the best-selling novel of all time. The novel tel...

Mediaeval Builders of the Modern World A series of stories about the early period of the Middle Ages in Europe. The book focuses on the wandering n...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the elev...

A True Blue Story A semi-autobiographical portrayal of the author’s own childhood with the main character, Laddie, named after Porter’s favorite br...

A War Novel Henry Fleming, a young private in the Union Army, deserts his regiment and flees during his first battle in the American Civil War. Ove...

A Return to Primitivism The story of Buck, a powerful St. Bernard-Scotch Collie mix, who lives happily in California as a pampered pet of Judge Mil...

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Ernest Shackleton describes leading his second expedition to Antarctica from 1914-1917. The expedition is consi...

From His Own Letters and Journals Edward Everett Hale’s recounting of the life of Christopher Columbus. Hale uses Columbus’s own writings as his pr...

Or, Life in the Woods. Written by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, the book is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundin...

A Collection of Essays The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay u...

The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tale of Troy Padraic Colum’s classic retelling of the Odyssey and the Iliad for children. Included are such famo...

A Dog The adventures of Lad, a rough collie, who lives at the Place. Lad is based on Terhune’s real life collie who was born in 1902. The book is o...

Those fields, colored by various grains! The story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants farming the Nebraska prairie at the turn of the ...

The First Glad Book The story of Pollyanna Whitter, an eleven-year-old orphan who goes to live with her wealthy, but stern and cold Aunt Polly.  To...

A Narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper’s best known novel and second volume in his pentalogy the Leatherstocking Tales. Set during the French an...

A Shakespearean Comedy Set in Athens and consisting of several plots connected by the celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the ...