THE NATIONAL REVIEW TREASURY OF CLASSIC CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Selected BY WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. This wonderful collection opens a treasure chest containing some of the most precious gems of American children ' s literature, originally published in St. Nicholas Magazine. National Review has rediscovered and polished these literary jewels, in many cases forgotten over the decades, so that they …
Sister M. Imelda Wallace, S.L. Favorite of young and old! For sixty years acclaimed by Catholic youth across America as the story they read and re-read and lived so vividly it remains with them always. Here is the high tension story of God’s “outlaws” fighting for their Catholic Faith in seventeenth-century Scotland and living that Faith to the hilt of their claymores. Suspense, keyed like a …
Maureen Daly Illustrated by Wesley Dennis Timeline 1944, Italy Donkeys by the hundreds! Twelve-year-old Chico Filippo, whose own donkeys were confiscated years before by the German army, can’t stay away from the newly set up American Remount Depot. Here, in the last months of World War II in Italy, thousands of supply mules and donkeys are processed and sent onto the fierce mountain fighting …
Christine Marlin Illustrated by Hilda van Stockum T HIS SHORT FULLY ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVE takes us into the eternal present of one absorbing series of moments in a child's life. Expect to smile as young Pamela prepares and carries out an activity she has carefully thought through. A book to read aloud, it is written by Christine Marlin with the same attentive understanding of children as the …
Fr. Owen Francis Dudley Fr. Dudley's 2nd book, however the first on the series in novel format. This novel furnishes an answer to the problems with human happiness. It is applicable now as when it was first released. Reprint from 1945 edition.
G.K. Chesterton Throughout his life, Gilbert Chesterton always had a propensity for throwing his genius around. As a result of this tendency, Chesterton penned articles, essays, stories, and poems for so many periodicals that it was almost impossible to keep track of them. In this volume, Dr. Denis J. Conlon, Professor of English Literature at the University of Antwerp, has compiled …
Edmund A. Walsh This unique little “novel” will be a refreshing treat to all who read this beautifully written book. It is the story of a woodcarver’s family in the Tyrol area (Brenner Pass) in the mountains of northern Italy. Maria Manzl and her son Konrad are you and your son, or you and your mother, so universal is this wayside tale of love, selflessness and religious devotion. A …
From the Loyola Classics series . . . "New editions of acclaimed Catholic novels."
Echo Lewis Welcome is Maggie's beloved town and “Tara” is her home and refuge where she and her mother, Mara, have lived since the death of her father. Maggie realizes that some change is inevitable now that her mother is about to marry Bartholomew Britt, a rugged carpenter from the Yukon. She likes him though he definitely takes some getting used to. However, it's when Mara and Bartholomew …
Constance Savery The Revolutionary War is seen through the eyes of a British family to whom an American prisioner of war has been entrusted. Technically the young prisioner is in Uncle Lawrence's custody, but the children soon forge a forbidden friendship with him. He becomes The Reb and they, his Redcoats. After the Reb nearly dies, even Uncle Lawrence, embittered by the unjust death of a …
G.K. Chesterton Edited by Aidan Mackey The first of two volumes of Chesterton's poetry, many of which have never been published before. Mackey, a Chesterton expert, has been collecting GKC's poems over a period of years and he has arranged them by subject. There are also alphabetical indexes by title and by the first line to aid the reader. Chesterton was the poet of the ordinary, denying that …
Beautifully written and illustrated, The Mask of Ollock is an intelligent and captivating foray into a fantastic world of powerful wizards, demonic spirits, desperate battles and political treachery. In hopes of perpetually extending his royal line, Olgo, the elderly mage-king of Umbra, fashions an enchanted golden mask for Ollock, his beloved heir. Yet Olgo's fatherly eyes are blind to the …
G.K. Chesterton This seventh volume of the Collected works of G.K. Chesterton brings together three of this most acclaimed works of fiction, with introduction and notes by Chesterton scholar Iain Benson. A must for serious fans of Chesterton, this features the same quality and sturdy binding as the other volumes in this series. Hard Softcover
Elizabeth Yates Son of a French nobleman and a Chippewa Indian woman, Guillaume has spent half of his life in his father's Montréal château, half in his mother's village. When his father returns to France, the sixteen-year-old is determined to make his own way in the world. He signs up to journey into the wilds of Canada to bring back the rich furs that have made New France prosperous. The …
In his books and articles, Thomas Howard has never been one to shy away from controversy. While attending the Evangelical Church of his parents and teaching English at an Evangelical college, Howard wrote his provocative best seller Evangelical is Not Enough . Soon after entering the Anglican Communion, Howard began asking the kinds of questions that would eventually lead him into the …
Andre Norton 1590 B.C: Rahotep, captain of the Nubian Desert Scouts, is heir to the Nome of the Striking Hawk, which, with all of Egypt, has been under the harsh rule of the Hyksos. Accused of a crime he didn't commit and driven out of Nubia by his scheming half-brother, Rahotep flees north to Thebes, accompanied only by a loyal band of Nubian archers. Here he takes refuge in the court of the …
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