Fr. Michael Giesler As the beautiful daughter of a Roman senator, Junia enjoyed the best that life had to offer in first century Rome.  She was grateful and anxious to please her family, a dutiful and obedient young woman of privilege.  That is, until a chance friendship and its abrupt end sparks an interest in a new religion that will lead to a destiny she never imagined. Junia is a …

Wilson Rawls This classic about a 10-year-old boy growing up in the Ozark mountains with his inseparable pair of coonhounds will warm the hearts of young and old alike. Great Stone Face Award.

Msgr. Robert H. Benson Perhaps the best known of Msgr. Benson's works, this novel has been reprinted many times since its publication in 1912.  The drama and the characters therein have their basis in the real life account of a Catholic family - under Elizabeth I of England.  In this story of deep tragedy and terror Msgr. Benson portrays the conflict between natural, tender human …

Ten-year-old Andries, newly orphaned, comes to join his bachelor uncle in a large, but silent and unhappy house. Across the way sits a cottage, overflowing with the lively Dykstra family. When Andries vents his loneliness in mischief, the cook is scandalized, and soon, so is the village. Then Andries makes acquaintance with the warm-hearted Dykstras. Adventures unfold as Andries' energetic and …

Meriol Trevor "Toby!" It was a man calling - the man who had got out of the window. Mel thought suddenly that she recognized that voice. "Toby! C'est moi, Raf!" Mel felt enormous relief that Raf was there. He was moving along slowly, with his hand against the roof to balance himself. Now he reached the iron railing. "Toby? You hear me?" Then at last Mel heard Toby's voice. It sounded faint and …

William E. Barrett One of the most beloved of modern classics returns with a beautiful new cover. The enchanting story of two unlikely friends, a black ex-GI and the head of a group of German nuns, The Lilies of the Field tells the story of their impossible dream--to build a chapel in the desert.

Joanne Williamson A never before published tale carries the reader back to Ancient Egypt and to the biblical Jerusalem. Around 701 B.C. Egypt is being ruled by the Kushite dynasty. Young Prince Taharka, a very minor royal son interested in healing, is content to have no principal part to play in that rule. However, it is he and not the expected Prince Shabataka who succeeds to the throne of …

Daniel Defoe This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirates, Robinson Crusoe is swept ashore in a storm, possessing only a knife, a box of tobacco, a pipe- and the will to survive. His is the saga of a man alone: a man who overcomes self-pity and despair to reconstruct his life; who …

Harry Dee  is one of "Fr. Finn's Famous Three"- Tom Playfair, Percy Wynn and Harry Dee . These were the most popular of Fr. Finn's 27 Catholic novels for young people. Resembling a Catholic version of Charles Dickens' stories, or even The Hardy Boys,  these books were read by hundreds of thousands of young people in the late 19th and early-to-mid 20th century. Their quaint …

This book, written in 1938, offers a vivid picture of an Ireland that has all but disappeared.  The O'Sullivan family invite the reader to share their many homely adventures.  Michael and Brigid brave the wilds and gypsies on an errand for their injured father and come home with a new friend; twins Liam and Francie keep everyone hopping; Mother and Father draw the family together with …

Allan French Rolf, son of Hiarandi, is a character who exemplifies the effect of Christ's teachings upon the Icelandic people during their heroic age. Christianity has come to Iceland though the old customs still linger. Hiarandi lights a signal fire on the dangerous point on his land challenging the accepted custom which places lucrative salvage at higher value than the saving of life. …

Young Simon, recently and tragically orphaned, becomes a scribe in the following of the exiled Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket.  The uncertainty of the tumultuous years leading to the infamous cathedral slaying is heightened by Simon's separation from his twin Edmund, who is in the service of King Henry II. With an expert pen Barbara Willard deftly recounts events leading to the …

Madeleine Verchere's story is based on a true account of colonial French Canada of the 1690's.  Harassed by Iroquois, the Verchere family's fort must keep a continual guard.  14-year-old Madeleine is left alone with two younger brothers and few others when the Indians attack.  We follow the brave and determined stratagems of Madeleine and her small circle.  Madeleine's …

Long John Silver Returns Leonard Wibberley Then a voice hailed me from outside, calling, "Ahoy the blockhouse. Ahoy the blockhouse. Hold your fire. I am a Christian man." "Who are you?" I cried, rushing to the door. Not a soul was to be seen in the enclosure between the stockade and the fort itself. "Friend," came back the answer from beyond the stockade. "Hold your fire." I heard some …

Owen Wister Celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2002, this powerful story of the silent stranger who rides into the uncivilized West and defeats the forces of evil embodies one of the most enduring themes in American mythology. Arriving in the Wyoming territory, the cowpuncher from Virginia sets out to win the heart of a schoolteacher and establish order in his new community. Includes an …

British airman Dym Ingleford is convinced that the young German prisoner, Max Eckermann, is his brother Anthony who was kidnapped years before.  Raised in the Nazi ideology, Tony has by chance tumbled into British hands.  Dym has brought him back, at least temporarily, to the family he neither remembers nor will acknowledge as his own.  As Tony keeps attempting to escape, his …

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. …

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 …