Bernal Diaz August 1, 1996 by Penguin

Arthur Ransome For Dick and Dorothea, newcomers to the lake, meeting up with the Swallows and Amazons sweeps them into a wild adventure where they must prove their worth to...

Karl Galinsky Grand political accomplishment and artistic productivity were the hallmarks of Augustus Caesar's reign (31 B.C. to A.D. 14), which has served as a powerful model of achievement for...

Author: LM Montgomery Anne's own true love, Gilbert Blythe, is finally a doctor, and in the sunshine of the old orchard, among their dearest friends, they are about to speak...

Author: LM Montgomery Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now, with a new baby on the way and insufferable Aunt...

Author: LM Montgomery New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With her old friend Prissy Grant waiting in...

Thomas Tryon A poor country girl joins a washed-up circus elephant on a journey through the small towns of the South to Broadway's Great White Way, with much mischief and...

JB Priestley  J.B. Priestley first made his reputation in the literary world by virtue of his essays, especially short essays that captured the essence of a moment or a taste...

Thomas Mann "Death In Venice" tells the tragic story of a man who falls into foolish, forbidden love, only to reap his own ruin. While on holiday in Venice, a...

Louise Fitzhugh With the enthusiastic help of Harriet the spy and her friends, Sport, a boy who lives with his father and manages the family money, escapes from his mother...

Elizabeth Bowen It is London in the late 1930s, and into a coterie of rather grand early-middle-aged people the sixteen-year-old orphan Portia is plunged beyond her depth. Disconcertingly vulnerable, Portia...

Mark Twain Here is one of the greatest epic journeys of all time. Funny, satiric, and human, it follows Huck from a boy's innocence to a man's wisdom. January 1,...