Charles Dickens The epic story of two cities and two men. Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton are alike in appearance, very different in character, but in love with the same woman. Darnay, who has abandoned the cruelty of the French nobility for London, must return to Paris during the violent Revolution to rescue his faithful servant from the guillotine. But what part does Carton play in the …
Michael O'Brien , presents his second novel in his Children of the Last Days series, Plague Journal. The central character is Nathaniel Delaney, the editor of a small-town newspaper, who is about to face the greatest crisis of his life. As the novel begins, ominous events are taking place throughout North America, but little of it surfaces before the public eye. Set in the …
J.R.R. Tolkien This four volume boxed set contains The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King. Each book features the famous cover art of Alan Lee.
Allen French Martin, son of Sir Anselm of the Hollow, risks his life in more ways than one in this fast-paced story of Cornwall in the year 1200. King Richard is dead and John is King, a ruler ever ready for more money in his treasury whether it comes there honestly or not. When the Baron Eric mysteriously disappears, his young daughter Rosamund must bear the increasing burden of his absence. …
Riddle 165. To cross the water, I’m the way, For water I’m above: I touch it not, and, truth to say, I neither swim nor move. Answer Key #156 If you ever find yourself on the edge of an inky-black lake in the deepest part of a cold, dark cavern, and you meet a ravenous creature with pale, glowing eyes who wants to play the riddle game... ... will you be prepared? Nearly 180 riddles are …
Alfred Noyes An unusual story. Your first guess is it's about squirrels and chipmunks and porcupines and weasels. Well, it is and it isn't -- and are they animals? Halfway through you conclude that it is about Indians and white men in colonial times. . . . A story of adventure and mystery -- with a difference. And it is the "secret", elusive and priceless, that spells the difference between …
Plautus Plautus was a Roman dramatist who based his work on Greek comedy.
Michael D. O'Brien In this fast-paced, reflective novel, (the second in a trilogy following Strangers and Sojourners ) Michael O'Brien presents the dramatic tale of a family that finds itself in the path of a totalitarian government. Set in the near future, the story describes the rise of a police state in North America in which every level of society is infected with propaganda, confusion and …
David Manuel "An intriguing and shapely mystery... Brother Bartholomew is a thoroughly modern character who just happens to live in a monastery on Cape Cod." - Chicago Tribune "My gut feeling is that he will be producing a distiguished body of criminous work." -Barbara Peters, The Poisoned Pen "Well developed characters, an authentic eastern Massachusetts location and a complex plot make …
David Manuel In A Matter of Time , the third Faith Abbey Mystery, Brother Bartholomew finds himself in Bermuda for a much needed spiritual retreat. But before long, he is swept up in solving a brutal case of torture and murder, set against the glamorous backdrop of the annual Gold Cup Regatta. "An intriguing and shapely mystery." -The Chicago Tribune "Manuel is well on his way to making …
Fr. Gerald T. Brennan The day to day diary of an eighth-grade boy. Of all of Fr. Brennan’s great and popular books, this is the one we have had the most requests to reprint. Grade school and Jr. High boys will love, treasure, guard and re-read this favorite many times. Of course, all young Catholics will enjoy this very special book. Any parent who ever attended the old-style Catholic grade …
Stephen Meader; Illustrated by Frank Beaudouin and others Stephen Meader takes the reader in four separate books across fifty years of American life upon the sea. Clear for Action! begins in the spring of 1812 when Jeff Robbins is forced from a Yankee merchant schooner to serve on a British frigate-only weeks before the United States declares war on England. In Whaler 'Round the Horn, Rodney …
From the Loyola Classics series . . . "New editions of acclaimed Catholic novels."
Eleanore M. Jewett Illustrated by Frederick Chapman Amidst great mystery, Hugh is left in the care of Glastonbury Abbey by his father who must flee England too swiftly to be burdened by a crippled son. Ashamed of his physical weakness, yet possessed of a stout heart, Hugh finds that life at the abbey is surprisingly full in this year 1171, in the turbulent days of King Henry II. Hugh, his …
G.K. Chesterton Introduction by Dr. Denis Conlon, University of Antwerp T.S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, C.S. Lewis and W.H. Auden all recognized Chesterton as a giant literary figure. This volume contains G.K. Chesterton's earliest and greatest novels. The reader will encounter characters that defend with great vigor the diginity of the person and fundamental Christian beliefs. This volume is graced …
Roger B. Thomas What would happen if ... a society ever actually succeeded in eliminating its undesirable members? ... a man was asked to travel through a land he did not know to bring a prisoner before a king he had never seen? The tales in The Last Ugly Person and Other Stories explore these and other themes using a variety of mythological settings. Both entertaining and thought provoking, …
Mary Ray Hylas is young Greek slave in the household of Caius Pomponius, a Roman Senator involved in political schemes. When the senator is found mysteriously murdered, the household slaves (including Hylas and his mother) fall under suspicion. Hylas escapes capture long enough to enlist the aid of a young tribune, Camillus Rufus. The desperate attempt to unravel the threads of the political …
Marcus: A Novel Depicting the Lives of the Early Christians in Rome Michael Edward Giesler In second-century Rome, Marcus tries to resume his life as a student of philosophy at the Athenaeum. His sister, Juania, had been executed in the Ampitheater for the crime of becoming a Christian. A few weeks after her death, Marcus himself is saved from being run over by a reckless …
G.K. Chesterton The Innocence of Father Brown The Wisdom of Father Brown The Donnington Affair G.K. Chesterton, one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century, is most famous for a series of mystery stories and novelettes that feature the Roman Catholic priest, Fr. Brown. Adapted for stage, radio and film, the Fr. Brown stories have proved to be enduringly popular. But like Chesterton's …
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