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 …

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 …

Plautus Plautus was a Roman dramatist who based his work on Greek comedy.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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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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Mother Lillian Clark This book, first published in the 1950s, uses the combined skill of writer and artist and publisher, all bent on interesting and enlightening the child. A delightful example of the way of teaching old truth is this book which bears the happy title I Belong to God. Here stories are told by one artist and illustrated by another. They are tales about the holiest things in all …

G.K. Chesterton Edited by George Marlin The is the second volume of Chesterton's novels in this series of his Collected Works . (Volume VI is the other book of novels.) Besides his well-known philosophical-theological writings, Chesterton's fiction is very popular ( Father Brown Mysteries, The Man Who Was Thursday , etc.) and among those who regarded him as a great literary figure are T.S. …

The poems of Francis Milton presented here form a trilogy of sonnet sequences, devoted to Mary, to the Way of the Cross, and to the mysteries of the Holy Rosary. We are given examples of both English and Italian sonnets executed with personal sensitivity, religious insight and artistic skill, which offer the Catholic reader both spiritual and aesthetic reward.

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 …

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. Sewn Softcover

Five years ago, in 1825, Missabella and her ten orphans—the “Switherby Pilgrims”—had voyaged from England to New South Wales, in primitive Australia. Missabella, now, is determined to provide for the future of her orphans according to each one’s character. Not an easy task, with such a varied, ragtag, yet lovable set of personalities and backgrounds as they …

Eugenio Corti A literary phenomenon in Italy, The Red Horse a European bast-seller, was voted the best Italian novel of the decade in a public survey. Its success had gone far beyond Italy, as the book has been translated into Spanish, French, Japanese and three other languages. This epic historical novel about World War II and after, written from the author's own personal experiences as an …

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, living that Faith to the hilt of their claymores. It includes Christian …

David Manuel "Chock-full of action and character subplots, this deput mystery (and series) is totally captivating." - Library Journal "Fast-paced, engaging... highly recommended." - The Midwest Book Review "My gut feeling is that he will be producing a distiguished body of criminous work." -Barbara Peters, The Poisoned Pen For 28 years David Manuel, author of numerous works of history and …

"I have never concealed the fact that I regarded George MacDonald as my master; indeed, I fancy I have never written a book in which I did not quote from him. …

Chesterton's commentaries on what he saw in America and Rome, plus an appendix on how America saw Chesterton.

"Next time you steal a horse, you better not steal that one.  He's the smartest horse in the world."  That's what Johnny told a horse thief about Old Sam.  Old Sam was smart, and he was fast, too, though with his disfigured back leg he didn't look like the thoroughbred-trotting champion he had once been. Old Sam helped Johnny and his brother Lee stand up tall against the …

G.K. Chesterton This volume includes the collected plays of G. K. Chesterton, his controversial writings on Bernard Shaw (who referred to GKC as a colossal genius), and a bibliography. Many of the items appear for the first time in book form. Among his plays included here are: "The Wild Knight", "Magic", "The Judgment of Dr. Johnson", "The Turkey and the Turk", and "The Surprise". Among his …

Return to Tradition , the huge, famed treasury of English language Catholic writing edited by Francis Thornton.  Essays/sermons, literature, history/biography, theology/philosophy, novels, much more, in 955 10in. x 7in. two-column pages.  A staple of Catholic high schools and colleges in the glory years of the Church in America.  Hardcover.

That Football Game is one of Fr. Finn's 27 Catholic novels for young people.  Resembling a Catholic version of Charles Dickens' stories, or even of Tom Sawyer, these books were read by hundreds of thousands of young people in the late 19th and early-to-mid 20th century. Their quaint turn-of-the-century language is part of the charm of the stories and of Fr. Finn's own brand of humor. …

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 …

From the Loyola Classics series . . . "New editions of acclaimed Catholic novels."

G.K. Chesterton Edited by George Marlin The is the second volume of Chesterton's novels in this series of his Collected Works . (Volume VI is the other book of novels.) Besides his well-known philosophical-theological writings, Chesterton's fiction is very popular ( Father Brown Mysteries, The Man Who Was Thursday , etc.) and among those who regarded him as a great literary figure are T.S. …

G.K. Chesterton Introduction by Alzina Stone Dale It is not widely known that the author of the Father Brown detective stories, Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man was also an accomplished man of letters and a literary critic of the first order. This volume brings back into print GKC's masterful Critical Study of Charles Dickens, his Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens …

Peter Milward, SJ Shakespeare, who wrote at the beginning of the long period in which the Catholic faith as violently suppressed in the British Isles, has long enjoyed an iconic status. Some readers have interpreted him as an early agnostic, expressing modern angst about whether anything exists besides "this mortal coil" that seems to be merely "full of sound and fury, …

G.K. Chesterton This volume includes the collected plays of G. K. Chesterton, his controversial writings on Bernard Shaw (who referred to GKC as a colossal genius), and a bibliography. Many of the items appear for the first time in book form. Among his plays included here are: "The Wild Knight", "Magic", "The Judgment of Dr. Johnson", "The Turkey and the Turk", and "The Surprise". Among his …

David Manuel "Either Manuel is an expert yacht racer or he knows how to pick the brains of same, becasue there's enough sea-faring action to satisfy fans of A Perfect Storm ." "A well-crafted gracefully written blending of the holy and the unholy." "Faith Abbey's Brother Bartholomew has impressed, intrigued and delighted us through the various criminal cases that have …

Lions in the City: Missionary to America A Novel by Jack Casserly American missionary Father Martin Mulloy, after laboring for 33 years in the African bush (Ghana), returns home in 1998 to die of malaria. Instead he lives to encounter the two greatest challenges of his life: the controversial changes in the Catholic Church following the Ecumenical Council of Vatican II and a soul-wrenching, …

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 …

A novel of Saint Helena and the Emperor Constantine.

Allen French Illustrated By Andrew Wyeth The Sauval brothers have begun to terrorize their neighbors in an attempt to bring the area under their control. They raid the Red Keep, in hope of gaining it for themselves, only to be thwarted by Sir Roger and young Conan. Now they plot anew to steal the Keep from its rightful owner, Lady Anne. She sets out, with Conan and her loyal followers, to …

From the Loyola Classics series . . . "New editions of acclaimed Catholic novels." Review by Fran Rutherford, of the Aquinas and More staff: "Helena shattered all of my preconceived notions about St. Constantine and St. Helen. The road to sainthood is often very rocky, and that was illustrated in this novel by Evelyn Waugh. Those were the days of early Christianity, and somehow …