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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 seco...

His Travels And Adventures The fascinating account of the life of Marco Polo who journey’s east to the court of Kublai Khan with his father and unc...

La Vie des Araignées French naturalist and entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre’s scientific and literary classic about the fascinating world of the spide...

Robinson Crusoe The story of Robinson Crusoe and his adventures during his time at sea including shipwrecks, pirates, mutineers, and cannibals.  On...

The Jungle Book A collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling about the jungles of India. Many of the characters are animals such as Baloo the bear an...

Wood Folk Series Book III in a series of nature books which describe the life, habitat, and behaviors of various woodland creatures by naturalist a...

Honor and Chivalry Set in the 15th century, a young squire, Myles Falworth, seeks to become a knight and to redeem his father’s honor. Myles trains...

Astronomy The lives and discoveries of the Great Astronomers of history. The book covers astronomers such as Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe, Galileo, N...

The Last of The Gray Dogs of Kenmuir The story chronicles the rivalry between two sheepdogs, Red Wull and Bob, son of Battle, and their masters, Ad...

Poet of Childhood A collection of poems by Eugene Field who is well known for his whimsical, yet sometimes serious, poems for children. Born in St....

Famous Deeds A retelling of such famous stories as The Battle of Thermopylae, Regulus, The Battle of the Blackwater, and Fort St. Elmo. “It is inte...

A Tale For Young People of All Ages Set in 1547 in England, the novel tells a story of two young boys who were born on the same day and are identic...

A Romance A historical fiction novel based in England during the Middle Ages. One of Sir Walter Scott’s most popular works, it has been credited wi...

Bulfinch’s Mythology The recounting of myths and stories from early British history during the reign of King Arthur. Written for a general audience...

Or, Greek Fairy Tales For My Children Kingley’s classic retelling of the Greek stories of Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The book is intended...

A Great American The life of Benjamin Franklin as told by himself. The autobiography covers Franklin's early life, work as a printer, travel to Eur...

The Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker The story of Rip Van Winkle, a villager in colonial America who who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their ...

The Faerie Queene Retold A classic retelling of Edmund Spenser’s English epic poem, The Faerie Queene. The poem is one of the longest in the Englis...

Travels Into Several Remote Nations Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift's best known work and a classic of English literature. The book satir...

The Headless Horseman A Gothic story set in the countryside of Tarry Town whose secluded glen is known for it’s ghosts and haunting atmosphere.  Ic...

Alice In Wonderland One of the best-known and most popular English novels authored by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. T...

Robin Hood and His Merry Men The story of Robin Hood and his Merry Men and their adventures in Nottinghamshire.  Robin Hood is an English outlaw wh...

Hoosier Poet Riley Child-Rhymes contains some of James Whitcomb Riley’s best known poems such as “Little Orphant Annie,“ “The Raggedy Man,” and “Ol...

The Age of Exploration An overview of the great explorers, leaders, and religious figures during the Age of Discovery in North America. Covering su...

Hundred Years’ War A historical adventure novel set in England, France, and Spain during the Hundred Years’ War against the backdrop of the campaig...

A Story of Wallace and Bruce At the end of the thirteenth century, the oppressed people of Scotland rebelled against their despised English ruler, ...

Frontier Adventures The story of rural Indiana frontier life in the early 1800’s.  Balser lives with his family in a log cabin near the Blue River....

An Epic Poem John Milton’s epic poem about the Fall of Man including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel, Satan, and their expulsion...

A Masterpiece of American Literature The story of Tom Sawyer, a young boy growing up along the Mississippi river in the fictional town of St. Peter...

The Psammead After moving from London to the countryside of Kent, a group of five siblings chance upon a Psammead while playing in a gravel pit. Th...

Peter Pan Originally published as a play in 1904 and a novel in 1911, Peter and Wendy is J. M. Barrie’s most famous work.  Both the novel and play ...

A Hand Of Silver Is Better Than A Hand Of Iron The story of Otto Conrad, the son of Baron Conrad, a German robber baron of Castle Drachenhausen (Dr...

Talk to the Animals Doctor Dolittle is a respected physician living in a small English Village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh.  Over the years his love f...

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 thir...

Or, The Parish Boy's Progress Orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver trav...

Bulfinch’s Mythology The recounting of myths and stories from Middle Ages during the time of Charlemagne. Written for a general audience, the book ...

And What Alice Found There The sequel to Alice’s Adventure In Wonderland. Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a m...

Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes The third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. ...

Told From Homer The retelling of the Iliad by Rev. Alfred J. Church.  The book is intended as an introduction to Homer’s epic poem. The writing sty...

Mediaeval Builders of the Modern World The story of the middle ages with a focus on the development of liberty and universal rights. Both Patriots ...

Told From Homer The retelling of the Odyssey by Rev. Alfred J. Church.  The book is intended as an introduction to Homer’s epic poem. The writing s...

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 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...

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...

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 ...