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4FOR YOUNGER AGES• Short Stories & Anthologies• Literature• Mathematical Stories• Poetry• Science

7FOR INTERMEDIATE AGES• Short Stories & Anthologies• Literature• Poetry• Comic Books• History• Science• Art

17UPPER AGES• Short Stories & Anthologies• Literature• History• Science• Commentary• Architecture• Theology• Art Appreciation• Mathematics• English Composition

& Reference works• Philosophy• Foundations

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LITERATURERoverandom J. R. R. Tolkien About a dog turned into a toy

MATHEMATICAL STORIES

What’s Your Angle Pythagoras? Julie Ellis & Phyllis Hornung

Explains the Pythagorean Theo-rem in a story. Beautifully illus-trated.

Multiplying Menace: The Re-venge of Rumplestiltskin

Pam Calvert & Wayne Geehan

Explains multiplication by whole numbers and fractions. Picture book

Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi

Cindy Neuschwander & Wayne Geehan

Explains Pi, though only as 3 and 1/7. Picture book

Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland


Explains the use of a protractor. Picture book

POETRYEric Kinkaid’s Book of Nursery Rhymes

Eric Kinkaid Beautifully illustrated

“A” series of books. Edward Lear Alphabets. Found in The Com-plete Nonsense Book

Doctor Seuss series of rhyming books.

Dr. Seuss Good Humour

Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb Al Perkins Focuses on monkeys hands and on drums

When We Were Very Young A. A. Milne Generations have enjoyed this.Now We Are Six A. A. Milne Sequel to When We Were Very

Young.Peter and Paul Lewis Carroll How Peter is forced to pay a

loan back that he never received. Humorous. Found in Sylvie and Bruno

The Pig-Tale Lewis Carroll About a pig that desired to know how to jump. Humorous. Found in Sylvie and Bruno

The Book of Nonsense Edward Lear Lymerics. Found in The Complete Nonsense Book

One Hundred Nonsense Pictures and Rhymes

Edward Lear Lymerics. Found in The Complete Nonsense Book

Laughable Lyrics Edward Lear Found in The Complete Nonsense Book

FOR YOUNGER AGESSHORT STORIES AND ANTHOLOGIES

Mr. Bliss J. R. R. Tolkien Mr. Bliss goes out in a motor car and wishes he never had.

Letters From Father Christmas J. R. R. Tolkien Written for the author’s childrenThe 500 Hats of Bartholmew Cub-bins

Dr. Seuss Every time the boy takes of his hat another appears!

Bartholomew and the Oobleck Dr. Seuss Sequel to The 500 Hats of Bar-tholmew Cubbins

The Shape of Me and Other Stuff Dr. Seuss Explores shapesAndrew Lang’s Fairy Books Andrew Lang More or less exhaustive collection

of fairy talesThe Wonder Clock Howard Pyle Stories cobbled together from

fairy talesPepper and Salt for Young Folk Howard PyleThe Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter

Crictor Tomi Ungerer About an old woman and her boa constrictor. Picture fun.

Babar (series) Jean de Bruhoff and later Laurent de Brunhoff

About the king of the elephants

Madeline (series) Ludwig Bemelmans About the little girl who fears nothing

Curious George (series) Margret & H.A. Rey This curious monkey keeps getting into such trouble

Something From Nothing Phoebe Gilman It began with a blanket, worked down to a button; then what?

Winnie –the-Pooh A. A. MilneThe House at Pooh Corner A. A. Milne Sequel to Winnie-the-PoohNonsense Songs and Stories Edward Lear HumorousThe History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple

Edward Lear Humorous

The Gift of the Magi O. Henry Twist endingThe Invisible Seam Andy William Frew

& jun MatsuokaA Japanese girl takes on the ultimate sewing challenge

The Twelve Dancing Princesses Marianna Mayer & K. Y. Craft

Beautifully illustrated

Rupert (series) Several authors. This little white bear has many and wonderful adventures

Burgess Bedtime Stories Thornton W. BurgessThe Legend of The Three Trees Catherine McCafferty Three trees get their wishes in

ways they never imaginedPaddington Bear (series) Michael BondThe Classic Fairy Tales Treasury Armond Eisen Well illustrated Beauty and the

Beast

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LITERATURERoverandom J. R. R. Tolkien About a dog turned into a toy

MATHEMATICAL STORIES

What’s Your Angle Pythagoras? Julie Ellis & Phyllis Hornung

Explains the Pythagorean Theo-rem in a story. Beautifully illus-trated.

Multiplying Menace: The Re-venge of Rumplestiltskin

Pam Calvert & Wayne Geehan

Explains multiplication by whole numbers and fractions. Picture book

Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi


Explains Pi, though only as 3 and 1/7. Picture book

Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland


Explains the use of a protractor. Picture book

POETRYEric Kinkaid’s Book of Nursery Rhymes

Eric Kinkaid Beautifully illustrated

“A” series of books. Edward Lear Alphabets. Found in The Com-plete Nonsense Book

Doctor Seuss series of rhyming books.

Dr. Seuss Good Humour

Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb Al Perkins Focuses on monkeys hands and on drums

When We Were Very Young A. A. Milne Generations have enjoyed this.Now We Are Six A. A. Milne Sequel to When We Were Very

Young.Peter and Paul Lewis Carroll How Peter is forced to pay a

loan back that he never received. Humorous. Found in Sylvie and Bruno

The Pig-Tale Lewis Carroll About a pig that desired to know how to jump. Humorous. Found in Sylvie and Bruno

The Book of Nonsense Edward Lear Lymerics. Found in The Complete Nonsense Book

One Hundred Nonsense Pictures and Rhymes

Edward Lear Lymerics. Found in The Complete Nonsense Book

Laughable Lyrics Edward Lear Found in The Complete Nonsense Book

FOR YOUNGER AGESSHORT STORIES AND ANTHOLOGIES

Mr. Bliss J. R. R. Tolkien Mr. Bliss goes out in a motor car and wishes he never had.

Letters From Father Christmas J. R. R. Tolkien Written for the author’s childrenThe 500 Hats of Bartholmew Cub-bins

Dr. Seuss Every time the boy takes of his hat another appears!

Bartholomew and the Oobleck Dr. Seuss Sequel to The 500 Hats of Bar-tholmew Cubbins

The Shape of Me and Other Stuff Dr. Seuss Explores shapesAndrew Lang’s Fairy Books Andrew Lang More or less exhaustive collection

of fairy talesThe Wonder Clock Howard Pyle Stories cobbled together from

fairy talesPepper and Salt for Young Folk Howard PyleThe Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter

Crictor Tomi Ungerer About an old woman and her boa constrictor. Picture fun.

Babar (series) Jean de Bruhoff and later Laurent de Brunhoff

About the king of the elephants

Madeline (series) Ludwig Bemelmans About the little girl who fears nothing

Curious George (series) Margret & H.A. Rey This curious monkey keeps getting into such trouble

Something From Nothing Phoebe Gilman It began with a blanket, worked down to a button; then what?

Winnie –the-Pooh A. A. MilneThe House at Pooh Corner A. A. Milne Sequel to Winnie-the-PoohNonsense Songs and Stories Edward Lear HumorousThe History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple

Edward Lear Humorous

The Gift of the Magi O. Henry Twist endingThe Invisible Seam Andy William Frew

& jun MatsuokaA Japanese girl takes on the ultimate sewing challenge

The Twelve Dancing Princesses Marianna Mayer & K. Y. Craft

Beautifully illustrated

Rupert (series) Several authors. This little white bear has many and wonderful adventures

Burgess Bedtime Stories Thornton W. BurgessThe Legend of The Three Trees Catherine McCafferty Three trees get their wishes in

ways they never imaginedPaddington Bear (series) Michael BondThe Classic Fairy Tales Treasury Armond Eisen Well illustrated Beauty and the

Beast

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FOR INTERMEDIATE AGESSHORT STORIES AND ANTHOLOGIES

Johan Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press

Bruce Koscielniak

Columbus Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire

D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire

Well illustrated

D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire

Well illustrated

Rip Van Winkle Washington IrvingThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington IrvingGrandma’s Attic series Arleta RichardsonDarby O’Gill and the Good People Herminie Templeton

CavanaghTales of King Brian Connors, the Leprechaun, and others

Darby O’Gill and the Crocks of Gold Herminie Templeton Cavanagh

More of the same

The Book of Dragons E. Nesbit Each story has at least 1 dragonOswald Bastable and Others E. Nesbit Some of these stories are about

the Batables; others are not. Read after New Treasure Seekers.

Homer Price Robert McCloskey Humourous

Centerburg Tales Robert McCloskey Humorous. Read after Homer Price

The Ransom of Red Chief O. HenryRetrieved Reformation O. Henry

LITERATUREThe Secret Wish of Nannerl Mozart

Barbara Kathleen Nickel

The Screwtape Letters C. S. LewisThe Chronicles of Narnia C.S. LewisOut of the Silent Planet C. S. Lewis A man is kidnapped and taken to

another planetBlack Beauty Anna SewellRose in Bloom Louisa May AlcottJack and Jill Louisa May AlcottEight Cousins Louisa May AlcottLittle Women Louisa May AlcottGood Wives Louisa May AlcottLittle Men Louisa May Alcott

SCIENCEImagining the Universe Edward Packard Explores the sizes of the micro-

scopic and the enormous by saying ‘Let us say that the Earth is the size of a baseball park.’

How Big? Nicholas Harris Facts, records, and size compar-isons of ordinary and extraordi-nary things

How Long? Nicholas Harris Facts, records, and length com-parisons of ordinary and extraor-dinary things

How Tall? Nicholas Harris Facts, records, and height com-parisons of ordinary and extraor-dinary things

How Fast? Nicholas Harris Facts, records, and speed com-parisons of ordinary and extraor-dinary things

Dragons of the Deep Carl Wieland Ocean Monsters past and Present. Creationist

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FOR INTERMEDIATE AGESSHORT STORIES AND ANTHOLOGIES

Johan Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press

Bruce Koscielniak

Columbus Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire

D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire

Well illustrated

D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire

Well illustrated

Rip Van Winkle Washington IrvingThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington IrvingGrandma’s Attic series Arleta RichardsonDarby O’Gill and the Good People Herminie Templeton

CavanaghTales of King Brian Connors, the Leprechaun, and others

Darby O’Gill and the Crocks of Gold Herminie Templeton Cavanagh

More of the same

The Book of Dragons E. Nesbit Each story has at least 1 dragonOswald Bastable and Others E. Nesbit Some of these stories are about

the Batables; others are not. Read after New Treasure Seekers.

Homer Price Robert McCloskey Humourous

Centerburg Tales Robert McCloskey Humorous. Read after Homer Price

The Ransom of Red Chief O. HenryRetrieved Reformation O. Henry

LITERATUREThe Secret Wish of Nannerl Mozart

Barbara Kathleen Nickel

The Screwtape Letters C. S. LewisThe Chronicles of Narnia C.S. LewisOut of the Silent Planet C. S. Lewis A man is kidnapped and taken to

another planetBlack Beauty Anna SewellRose in Bloom Louisa May AlcottJack and Jill Louisa May AlcottEight Cousins Louisa May AlcottLittle Women Louisa May AlcottGood Wives Louisa May AlcottLittle Men Louisa May Alcott

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An Old Fashioned Girl Louisa May AlcottThe Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

Howard Pyle

The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions

Howard Pyle

The Story of the Champions of the Round Table

Howard Pyle

Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse

Ursula Moray Williams

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis CarrollThrough the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll Sequel to Alice’s Adventures In

Wonderland.Peter Pan James M. BarrieBartlett and the Ice Voyage Odo HirschThe Tale of Despereaux Kate DiCamillo ‘Being the story of a mouse, a

princess, some soup, and a spool of thread’

The Miraculous Journey of Ed-ward Tulane

Kate DiCamillo

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald DahlCharlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Roald Dahl Sequel to Charlie and the Choco-late Factory

The BFG Roald Dahl Sophie is kidnapped by a giant; fortunately it is the Big Friendly Giant, but other tales await.

James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl James hates his life with his Aunts, and is pleasantly surprised when he goes adventuring with some gigantic insects inside a house-sized peach.

Blinky Bill Dorothy WallCassie Loves Beethoven Alan ArkinMrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Alice Hegan RiceFive Little Peppers and How they Grew

Margaret Sidney

What Katy Did (series) Susan CoolidgeA Little Princess Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett Sarah feels she must get into the

locked garden.Farmer Giles of Ham J. R. R. Tolkien How a plain farmer carved him-

self a kingdom by fighting first a giant and then a dragon.

The Hobbit J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings J. R. R. TolkienThe Littles series Roberta Carter Clark

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The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster Milo is cured of perpetual dissat-isfaction by a journey through the Lands Beyond.

The Battle For Castle Cockatrice Gerald Durrell It is up to Parrot, three children and a toad to save the world’s remaining mythological animals from cockatrice tyranny.

Complete works L. Frank Baum Wrote the Oz books and others.

The Great Good Thing Roderick Townley Shows what it is like being a char-acter in a book, or in a dream.

Ella Enchanted Gail Carson Levine Why doesn’t Cinderella just run away? Because she is under a spell causing her to do anything she is told.

The Marvellous Land of Snergs E. A. Wyke-Smith Children run away for a lark, and encounter more than they bargain for.

Watership Down Richard Adams When the rabbit Hazel is warned by his clairvoyant brother Fiver that disaster is about to hit their warren they leave with a handful of others to start a new warren in unknown territory

The Rose and the Ring W. M. ThackerayThe Best Christmas Pageant Ever Barbara Robinson The Herdmans are the world’s

worst children. Now they are taking all the major parts in the Christmas pageant.

The Best School Year Ever Barbara Robinson More Herdmans!The Magic Pudding Norman Lindsay Bunyip the koala becomes a pro-

fessional pudding owner, and the pudding in question is never all gone. This is why pudding thieves must be kept off.

Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren Pippy is a fun-loving girl with few morals, a good heart and super-human strength.

Charlotte’s Web E.B White The story of the efforts of a spider to save the life of a pig

Mr. Popper’s Penguins Richard and Florence Atwater

How a man enjoys keeping pen-guins and makes ends meet so that he may do so

An Old Fashioned Girl Louisa May AlcottThe Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

Howard Pyle

The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions

Howard Pyle

The Story of the Champions of the Round Table

Howard Pyle

Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse

Ursula Moray Williams

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis CarrollThrough the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll Sequel to Alice’s Adventures In

Wonderland.Peter Pan James M. BarrieBartlett and the Ice Voyage Odo HirschThe Tale of Despereaux Kate DiCamillo ‘Being the story of a mouse, a

princess, some soup, and a spool of thread’

The Miraculous Journey of Ed-ward Tulane

Kate DiCamillo

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald DahlCharlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Roald Dahl Sequel to Charlie and the Choco-late Factory

The BFG Roald Dahl Sophie is kidnapped by a giant; fortunately it is the Big Friendly Giant, but other tales await.

James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl James hates his life with his Aunts, and is pleasantly surprised when he goes adventuring with some gigantic insects inside a house-sized peach.

Blinky Bill Dorothy WallCassie Loves Beethoven Alan ArkinMrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Alice Hegan RiceFive Little Peppers and How they Grew

Margaret Sidney

What Katy Did (series) Susan CoolidgeA Little Princess Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett Sarah feels she must get into the

locked garden.Farmer Giles of Ham J. R. R. Tolkien How a plain farmer carved him-

self a kingdom by fighting first a giant and then a dragon.

The Hobbit J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings J. R. R. TolkienThe Littles series Roberta Carter Clark

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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Robert C. O’Brien The story of a mouse who must save her sickly son from being killed at ploughing time, and so asks the help of the rats

The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame

The Story of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting A doctor trying to make ends meet takes his parrot’s recommendation and learns to talk animal lan-guage, and treat its speakers.

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting Doctor Dolittle goes to Spider Monkey Island In search of his friend Long Arrow; a red Indian and the world’s greatest natu-ralist.

Three Terrible Trins Dick King-Smith Three mice work to rid the house of cats, and in the process rid it of class distinction too.

The Children of Odin Padraic Colum Norse myths told as a continuous narrative

Freddy the Detective Walter R. Brooks This pig solves mysteries. The Secret of Terror Castle Robert Arthur A group of boy detectives sets

out to investigate the haunting of Terror Castle.

The Railway Children E. Nesbit Some children cope with a fall in fortunes and a move to the country.

Five Children and It E. Nesbit Five children on a holiday in the country find ‘It’, which can grant wishes, and they have adventures

The Phoenix and the Carpet E. Nesbit Sequel to Five Children and It.The Story of the Treasure Seekers E. Nesbitt The Bastable children search for

treasure in hopes of restoring their family’s fortunes. Humorous.

The Woodbegoods E. Nesbitt Sequel to The Story of the Trea-sure Seekers

New Treasure Seekers E.Nesbit Sequel to The Woodbegoods.The Enchanted Castle E. Nesbitt Some children discover an

enchanted castle and a ring that grants wishes. Humorous

The House at Arden E. NesbitVarious novels Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables, etc*Swallows and Amazons (series) Arthur Ransome Mostly boat related. Tolkien liked

them.Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift

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The Search for Delicious Natalie Babbit It becomes necessary to take a poll of the entire kingdom asking what everyone’s favourite food is, for peace’s sake.

Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbit Winnie meets a family who can never die or be injured and who must keep it secret.

The Sword in the Stone T. H. White Merlin works as young Arthur’s tutor, giving him a sound educa-tion by means of magic.

Prydain series Lloyd Alexander Fantasy adventure. 5 books

The Borrowers (series) Mary Norton The Borrowers are people only six inches high who make their living taking little things like single potatoes, hair pins, and all those things just keep running out.

The Redwall series Brian Jacques Animals with mediaeval technolo-gy undertake various adventures

Tom’s Midnight Garden Philippa Pearce Every night when the clock strikes 13 Tom goes out the back door and into the garden full of Vic-torian children that magically appears.

The Indian in the Cupboard Lynne Reid Banks Omri finds his cupboard can turn plastic toys into real miniature human beings

The Neverending Story Michael End Bastian finds the book which makes whoever reads it part of itself.

Mr. Midshipman Easy Frederick Marryat Jack Easy misguidedly joins the Royal Navy in order to look for egalitarianism, for he will submit to no authority.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark TwainAdventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Sequel to The Adventures of Tom

SawyerThe Prince and the Pauper Mark TwainLife on the Mississippi Mark Twain

The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson A band of outlaws tries to see justice done to oppressors

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Swallows and Amazons (series) Arthur Ransome Some children have various sail-ing related adventures

The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare

A young woman from goes to live with her only relatives in the American colonies. She forms a friendship with a woman suspect-ed to be a witch.

Across Five Aprils Irene HuntAdam of the Road Elizabeth GrayLast of the Mohicans James Fenimore CooperAll Men are Brothers Pearl S. BuckAll-of-a-Kind Family series Sydney TaylorAndries Hilda van StockumThe Bantry Bay Series Hilda van StockumThe Michells Series Hilda van StockumThe Borrowed House Hilda van StockumAnna and the King of Siam Margaret LandonThe Bells on Finland Street Lyn CookBig Red Jim KjelgaardBlue Willow Doris GatesBorn Free Joy AdamsonBoy’s King Arthur Sidney LanierBrighty of the Grand Canyon Marguerite HenryThe Bronze Bow Elizabeth George

SpeareCalico Captive Elizabeth George

SpeareCaddie Woodlawn Carol Ryrie BrinkCall of the Canyon Zane GrayThe Children Who Stayed Alone Bonnie WorlineChosen Chaim PotokThe Cross and the Switchblade David WilkersonHey Preacher... You’re Comin’ Through

David Wilkerson

Day of Pleasure Isaac Basevis SingerThe Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Farley MowatLost in the Barrens Farley MowatOwls in the Family Farley MowatFreckles Gene Statton PorterGirl of the Limberlost Gene Statton PorterThe Good Master Kate SeredyThe Singing Tree Kate SeredyGoodbye, Mr. Chips James HiltonGuns of Navarone Alistair MacClean

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson David Balfour is set reeling when his hopes of making his fortune result in his being kidnapped.

Treasure Island Robert Louis StevensonCranford Elizabeth Gaskell Stories of the village of Cranford,

where ladies rule. HumorousThe Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy A mysterious man calling himself

the Scarlet Pimpernel is smug-gling aristocrats out of revolution-ary France

The Door in the Wall Marguerite De AngeliThe Time Machine H. G. WellsThe War of the Worlds H. G. WellsTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne

From The Earth to the Moon Jules Verne Some men plan to go to the moon in a shell fired from a gigantic gun.

Around the Moon Jules Verne Sequel to From The Earth to the Moon. The men orbit the moon.

Around the World in Eighty Days Jules VerneJourney to the Centre of the Earth Jules VerneThe Mad Scientists’ Club Bertrand R. Brinley Some boys pull the most incred-

ible pranks by means of their mechanical knowledge. Humorous

The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club

Bertrand R. Brinley

The Mysterious Benedict Society Trenton Lee Stewart Four children set out to combat a mysterious force.

Detectives in Togas Henry Winterfield Mystery in ancient Rome!The Twenty-One Balloons William Pene Dubois A man finds Krakatoa to be

inhabited by some very peculiar Americans with the world’s largest diamond mines.

The Letzenstein Chronicles Meriol TrevorThe Wolves of Willoughby Chase Joan AikenBlack Hearts in Battersea Joan AikenUncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe The story of a runaway slave in

AmericaKing Solomon’s Mines Henry Rider HaggardThe Call of the Wild Jack LondonWhite Fang Jack LondonRebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (series)

Kate Douglas Wiggen

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Swallows and Amazons (series) Arthur Ransome Some children have various sail-ing related adventures

The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare

A young woman from goes to live with her only relatives in the American colonies. She forms a friendship with a woman suspect-ed to be a witch.

Across Five Aprils Irene HuntAdam of the Road Elizabeth GrayLast of the Mohicans James Fenimore CooperAll Men are Brothers Pearl S. BuckAll-of-a-Kind Family series Sydney TaylorAndries Hilda van StockumThe Bantry Bay Series Hilda van StockumThe Michells Series Hilda van StockumThe Borrowed House Hilda van StockumAnna and the King of Siam Margaret LandonThe Bells on Finland Street Lyn CookBig Red Jim KjelgaardBlue Willow Doris GatesBorn Free Joy AdamsonBoy’s King Arthur Sidney LanierBrighty of the Grand Canyon Marguerite HenryThe Bronze Bow Elizabeth George

SpeareCalico Captive Elizabeth George

SpeareCaddie Woodlawn Carol Ryrie BrinkCall of the Canyon Zane GrayThe Children Who Stayed Alone Bonnie WorlineChosen Chaim PotokThe Cross and the Switchblade David WilkersonHey Preacher... You’re Comin’ Through

David Wilkerson

Day of Pleasure Isaac Basevis SingerThe Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Farley MowatLost in the Barrens Farley MowatOwls in the Family Farley MowatFreckles Gene Statton PorterGirl of the Limberlost Gene Statton PorterThe Good Master Kate SeredyThe Singing Tree Kate SeredyGoodbye, Mr. Chips James HiltonGuns of Navarone Alistair MacClean

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Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day Scott O’DellIsland of the Blue Dolphins Scott O’DellThe Hiding Place Corrie Ten BoomHow Green Was My Valley Richard LlewellynCaptains Courageous Rudyard KiplingThe Jungle Book Rudyard KiplingMama’s Bank Account Kathryn ForbesMara, Daughter of the Nile Eloise Jarvis McGrawThe Matchlock Gun W.D. EdwardsThe Melendy Family Elizabeth EnrightThimble Summer Elizabeth EnrightMiracle Worker William GibsonMiracles on Maple Hill Virgina SorensonThe Moffats Eleanor EstesMoonside Wilkie CollinsMy side of the Mountain Side Jean Craighead GeiorgeMythology Edith HamiltonO! Pioneers Willa CatherOdyssey of Homer Barbara Leonie PicardOf Courage Undaunted James DaughteryOld Yeller Fred GipsonOregon Trail Francis ParkmanPilgrim’s Progress John BunyanProfiles in Courage John F. KennedyThe Red Badge of Courage Stephen CraneReturn of Silver Chief Jack O’BrienRoyal Red Jack O’BrienSilver Chief Dog of The North Jack O’BrienSilver Chief To The Rescue Jack O’BrienSpike of Swift River Jack O’BrienRob Roy Sir Walter ScottScottish Chiefs Jane PorterSecond Mrs. Giaconda E. L. KonigsburgThe Secret Cave Claire Huchet BishopSmokey Will JamesSnow Treasure Marie McSwiganStar of Light Patricia M. St. JohnSummer of the Swans Betsy ByarsTevye the Dairyman Sholom AleichemTom Brown at Oxford Thomas HughesTom Brown’s School Days Thomas Hughes

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Travels in Africa Mungo ParkTrumpeter of Krakow Eric P. KellyTwo Years Before the Mast Richard Henry DanaUnderstood Betsy Dorothy Canfield FisherThe Weeping Chamber Sigmund BrouwerWhere the Red Fern Grows Wilson RawlsWhite Company Sir Arthur Conan DoyleWith Love From Karen Marie KillilesThe Yearling Marjorie RawlingsRobinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe

POETRYJabberwocky Lewis Carol Precious nonsense. From Through

the Looking GlassThe Hunting of the Snark Lewis Carroll HumorousPhantasmagoria Lewis Carroll How a man is visited by a phan-

tom, who explains ghost’s laws and customs. Humorous

Hiawatha’s Photographing Lewis Carroll A humorous poem running to the meter of The Song of Hiawatha

COMIC BOOKSThe Smurfs and the Magic Flute Peyo First Smurfs book. Peewit, royal

jester, is robbed of a magic flute. Humorous

The Black Arrow Peyo Sir Johan and Peewit go on a mis-sion to rid the region of bandits. Humorous

Asterix series Goscinny & Uderzo HumorousTintin series Hergé Adventure and humourThe Complete Peanuts Charles M. Schulz Good Grief!The Dirty Dozen Commando War ComicsThe Hobbit: Graphic Novel J. R. R. Tolkien, David

Wenzel, Charles Dixon & Sean Deming

Very good artwork; marvellous for a comic book

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

C. S. Lewis; abridged and illustrated by Robin Lawrie

Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day Scott O’DellIsland of the Blue Dolphins Scott O’DellThe Hiding Place Corrie Ten BoomHow Green Was My Valley Richard LlewellynCaptains Courageous Rudyard KiplingThe Jungle Book Rudyard KiplingMama’s Bank Account Kathryn ForbesMara, Daughter of the Nile Eloise Jarvis McGrawThe Matchlock Gun W.D. EdwardsThe Melendy Family Elizabeth EnrightThimble Summer Elizabeth EnrightMiracle Worker William GibsonMiracles on Maple Hill Virgina SorensonThe Moffats Eleanor EstesMoonside Wilkie CollinsMy side of the Mountain Side Jean Craighead GeiorgeMythology Edith HamiltonO! Pioneers Willa CatherOdyssey of Homer Barbara Leonie PicardOf Courage Undaunted James DaughteryOld Yeller Fred GipsonOregon Trail Francis ParkmanPilgrim’s Progress John BunyanProfiles in Courage John F. KennedyThe Red Badge of Courage Stephen CraneReturn of Silver Chief Jack O’BrienRoyal Red Jack O’BrienSilver Chief Dog of The North Jack O’BrienSilver Chief To The Rescue Jack O’BrienSpike of Swift River Jack O’BrienRob Roy Sir Walter ScottScottish Chiefs Jane PorterSecond Mrs. Giaconda E. L. KonigsburgThe Secret Cave Claire Huchet BishopSmokey Will JamesSnow Treasure Marie McSwiganStar of Light Patricia M. St. JohnSummer of the Swans Betsy ByarsTevye the Dairyman Sholom AleichemTom Brown at Oxford Thomas HughesTom Brown’s School Days Thomas Hughes

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HISTORYStone Age Farmers Beside the Sea Caroline Arnold Scotland’s prehistoric village of

Skara BraeWeapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor

Dorling Kindersley Limited

Very extensive; almost entirely pictures

Diary of an Early American Boy Eric Sloane Eric Sloane produces explana-tions for peculiar entries in an old diary he found.

Our Vanishing Landscape Eric Sloane

SCIENCEDinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages

Dr. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.

Life Size: Dinosaurs David Bergen Intended to give a good idea of dinosaur size by means of life-sized pictures

The Dinosaur Heresies Robert T. Bakker Shows the dinosaurs to have been warm blooded

In Search of Noah’s Ark Dave Balsiger & Charles E. Sellier, Jr.

Cadborosaurus: Survivor of the Deep

Paul H. LeBlond & Edward L. Bousfield

About a very rare and controver-sial marine species

ARTJ. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator

Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull

The Lord of the Rings: The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring

Art from the process of making the Lord of the Rings movies

The Lord of the Rings: The Art of The Two Towers

More of the same

The Lord of the Rings: The Art of The Return of the King

More of the same

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UPPER AGESSHORT STORIES AND ANTHOLOGIES

The Cracker Barrel Eric Sloane Humorous anecdotesA Christmas Carol Charles DickensSwoop and Other Stories P.G. WodehouseThe Custody of the Pumpkin P.G. Wodehouse HumorousThe World of Jeeves P.G. Wodehouse HumorousFour Faultless Felons G. K. Chesterton Mystery stories in which everyone

is innocentThe Club of Queer Trades G. K. Chesterton Mysteries where the answer lies in

the characters’ odd professionsThe Man Who Knew Too Much G. K. Chesterton The detective solves mysteries by

his knowledge of the worldTales of the Longbow G. K. Chesterton Stories where idioms become

literalThe Complete Father Brown G. K. Chesterton All Father Brown mysteries in

(except Father Brown and the Donnnington Affair) in1 volume

The Sword of Wood G. K. ChestertonThe Poet and the Lunatics G. K. ChestertonStories, Essays And Poems G. K. ChestertonThe Paradoxes of Mr. Pond G. K. Chesterton Chesterton’s first mystery storiesThe Coloured Lands G. K. ChestertonThe Mask of Midas G. K. ChestertonA Treasury of Stephen Leacock Stephen Leacock HumorousLaugh with Leacock Stephen Leacock HumorousMy Financial Career and Other Follies

Stephen Leacock Humorous

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan DoyleMemoirs of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Doyle thought to end the series

with this one…The Return of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle …but the fans wouldn’t let him!His Last Bow Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The last Holmes storiesLady of the Tiger Frank StocktonSketch Book Washington IrvingTales of Mystery and Imagination Edgar Allen PoeMyths of the World Padraic ColumTanglewood Tales Nathaniel HawthorneWonder Book Nathaniel Hawthorne

HISTORYStone Age Farmers Beside the Sea Caroline Arnold Scotland’s prehistoric village of

Skara BraeWeapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor

Dorling Kindersley Limited

Very extensive; almost entirely pictures

Diary of an Early American Boy Eric Sloane Eric Sloane produces explana-tions for peculiar entries in an old diary he found.

Our Vanishing Landscape Eric Sloane

SCIENCEDinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages

Dr. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.

Life Size: Dinosaurs David Bergen Intended to give a good idea of dinosaur size by means of life-sized pictures

The Dinosaur Heresies Robert T. Bakker Shows the dinosaurs to have been warm blooded

In Search of Noah’s Ark Dave Balsiger & Charles E. Sellier, Jr.

Cadborosaurus: Survivor of the Deep

Paul H. LeBlond & Edward L. Bousfield

About a very rare and controver-sial marine species

ARTJ. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator

Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull

The Lord of the Rings: The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring

Art from the process of making the Lord of the Rings movies

The Lord of the Rings: The Art of The Two Towers

More of the same

The Lord of the Rings: The Art of The Return of the King

More of the same

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The Day is Done Henry Wadsworth Long-fellow

Christmas Everywhere Phillip BrooksChristopher Columbus Rosemary & Stephen

Vincent BenetPocahontas Rosemary & Stephen

Vincent BenetThe Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred Lord Tennyson

Spring Alfred Lord TennysonThe Splendor Falls on Castle Walls

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Lake Isle of Innisfree William Butler YeatsThe Night has a Thousand Eyes Francis W. BourdillonThe Old Woman of the Roads Padraic Colum

Opportunity Edward SillPoems for the innocent and Expe-rienced Travelers

Nancy Willard

Requiem Robert Louis StevensonSelections from Robert Louis StevensonSea Fever John MasefieldThe Kalevala Traditional Finnish poetryCollected Poetry G. K. Chesterton Tenth volume of Ignatius Press’s

G. K. Chesterton: Collected WorksRubaiyat Omar KhayyamAt the Long Sault: May 1660 Archibald LampmanBrebeuf and His Brethern E. J. PrattFlint and Feather E. Pauline JohnsonIn Flander’s Fields John McCraeSelections from Bliss CarmanSongs of a Sourdough Robert ServiceThe Rising Village Oliver GoldsmithThe Iliad HomerThe Odyssey HomerA Thing of Beauty John KeatsOn First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer

John Keats

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor ColeridgeHoratius Thomas Lord Macaulay

Leaves of Grass Walt WhitmanLochnivar Sir Walter Scott

The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

Mark Twain

English Fairy Tales Colected by Joseph Jacobs

Tales of All Countries –1st Series Anthony TrollopeTales of All Countries –2nd Series Anthony Trollope

Tales of All Countries –3rd Series Anthony TrollopeWhy Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and other Stories

Anthony Trollope

Lotta Schmidt & Other Stories Anthony TrollopeChristmas at Kirkby Cottage Anthony TrollopeThe Editor’s Tales Anthony TrollopeCatharine Carmichael Anthony TrollopeThe Moorland Cottage Elizabeth GaskellThe Old Nurse’s Story Elizabeth GaskellLizzy Leigh Elizabeth GaskellRound the Sofa Elizabeth GaskellLois the Witch Elizabeth GaskellA Dark Night’s Work Elizabeth GaskellVarious novels Anthony TrollopeMary Barton Elizabeth GaskellThe Luck of Roaring Camp Bret HarteNeighbor Rosicky Willa CatherLittle Bo-Peep O. HenryThe Devil and Daniel Webster Stephen V. BenetThe Most Dangerous Game Richard ConnellThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty James ThurberThe Great Stone Face Nathaniel Hawthorne

POETRYThe Lays of Beleriand J. R. R. Tolkien Silmarilion stories in verse.

Detailed description but none completed.

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil J. R. R. Tolkien Poems supposedly composed by hobbits

America For Me Henry Van DykeBe Strong Maltbie D. BabcockThe Bells Edgar Allan PoeThe Builders Henry Wadsworth Long-

fellowThe Children’s Hour Henry Wadsworth Long-

fellowHiawatha’s Childhood Henry Wadsworth Long-

fellowEvangeline Henry Wadsworth Long-

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The Day is Done Henry Wadsworth Long-fellow

Christmas Everywhere Phillip BrooksChristopher Columbus Rosemary & Stephen

Vincent BenetPocahontas Rosemary & Stephen

Vincent BenetThe Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred Lord Tennyson

Spring Alfred Lord TennysonThe Splendor Falls on Castle Walls

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Lake Isle of Innisfree William Butler YeatsThe Night has a Thousand Eyes Francis W. BourdillonThe Old Woman of the Roads Padraic Colum

Opportunity Edward SillPoems for the innocent and Expe-rienced Travelers

Nancy Willard

Requiem Robert Louis StevensonSelections from Robert Louis StevensonSea Fever John MasefieldThe Kalevala Traditional Finnish poetryCollected Poetry G. K. Chesterton Tenth volume of Ignatius Press’s

G. K. Chesterton: Collected WorksRubaiyat Omar KhayyamAt the Long Sault: May 1660 Archibald LampmanBrebeuf and His Brethern E. J. PrattFlint and Feather E. Pauline JohnsonIn Flander’s Fields John McCraeSelections from Bliss CarmanSongs of a Sourdough Robert ServiceThe Rising Village Oliver GoldsmithThe Iliad HomerThe Odyssey HomerA Thing of Beauty John KeatsOn First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer

John Keats

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor ColeridgeHoratius Thomas Lord Macaulay

Leaves of Grass Walt WhitmanLochnivar Sir Walter Scott

The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

Mark Twain

English Fairy Tales Colected by Joseph Jacobs

Tales of All Countries –1st Series Anthony TrollopeTales of All Countries –2nd Series Anthony Trollope

Tales of All Countries –3rd Series Anthony TrollopeWhy Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and other Stories

Anthony Trollope

Lotta Schmidt & Other Stories Anthony TrollopeChristmas at Kirkby Cottage Anthony TrollopeThe Editor’s Tales Anthony TrollopeCatharine Carmichael Anthony TrollopeThe Moorland Cottage Elizabeth GaskellThe Old Nurse’s Story Elizabeth GaskellLizzy Leigh Elizabeth GaskellRound the Sofa Elizabeth GaskellLois the Witch Elizabeth GaskellA Dark Night’s Work Elizabeth GaskellVarious novels Anthony TrollopeMary Barton Elizabeth GaskellThe Luck of Roaring Camp Bret HarteNeighbor Rosicky Willa CatherLittle Bo-Peep O. HenryThe Devil and Daniel Webster Stephen V. BenetThe Most Dangerous Game Richard ConnellThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty James ThurberThe Great Stone Face Nathaniel Hawthorne

POETRYThe Lays of Beleriand J. R. R. Tolkien Silmarilion stories in verse.

Detailed description but none completed.

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil J. R. R. Tolkien Poems supposedly composed by hobbits

America For Me Henry Van DykeBe Strong Maltbie D. BabcockThe Bells Edgar Allan PoeThe Builders Henry Wadsworth Long-

fellowThe Children’s Hour Henry Wadsworth Long-

fellowHiawatha’s Childhood Henry Wadsworth Long-

fellowEvangeline Henry Wadsworth Long-

fellow

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Love George HerbertThe Pulley George HerbertMurder in the Cathedral T. S. EliotNarrow Road to the Deep North Matsuo BashoSelections from John DonneSelections from Lord ByronSelections from Percy Bysse ShelleySelections from Robert BurnsSelections from W. B. YeatsSelections from Wilifrid OwenSelections from Robert FrostSelections from Emily DickensonSongs of Innocence and Expres-sion

William Blake

Sonnets William ShakespeareSonnets from the Portuguese E.B. BrowningThe Daffodils William WordsworthThe Flute Wilfrid GibsonWhen I was One and Twenty A.E. Housman

LITERATUREThe Stoneholding James G. Anderson &

Mark SebancLegacy of the StoneharpBook 1

Darkling Fields of Arvon James G. Anderson & Mark Sebanc

Legacy of the StoneharpBook 2.

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Jerome K. Jerome They just can’t stop bumbling, except to tell humorous stories and some odd history.

Swiss Family Robinson Johann Wyss AdventureMansfield Park Jane Austen Years ago Fanny was taken in by

her rich uncle, but she has never felt herself an equal to the rest of the family.

Persuasion Jane Austen Years ago Anne Eliot refused an offer of marriage on her best friend’s advice. Now her former love has returned.

Northanger Abbey Jane Austen Catherine has lived in a world constructed from the reading of gothic novels all her life.

Pride and Prejudice Jane AustenSense and Sensibility Jane Austen

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A Murder is Announced Agatha Christie ‘A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th ...”

They Do it with Mirrors Agatha Christie The murder seems impossible, just like a conjuring trick.

A Study in Scarlet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes Solves the mystery of a series of murders by poisoning.

The Sign of Four Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Watson falls in love in this one.The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe Valley of Fear Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The body of a country gentleman

is found. Sherlock Holmes is called in.

Mr. Dickens Hits Town Jan Mark & Regolo Ricci When Charles Dickens came to Canada

Robinson Crusoe Daniel DefoeThe Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor HugoIvanhoe Sir Walter ScottThe Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre DumasThe Three Musketeers Alexandre DumasDavid Copperfield Charles Dickens The story of the life and loves of

David CopperfieldGreat Expectations Charles Dickens Pip is astonished to find himself

suddenly a gentleman, and with great expectations!

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Charles Darnay is detrmined to do right in the midst of the turmoil of the French Revolution.

Bleak House Charles Dickens Esther wishes to do well by her friends, but she also wants to learn the truth of her parentage.

Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 23 years ago Amy (Little) Dorrit was borne in the Marshalsea debt-or’s prison. This is her story.

Oliver Twist Charles DickensNicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens Mr. Pickwick and his fellow Pick-wick Club members tour England having adventures.

The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens Little Nell must care for her senile gambler grandfather as they walk across England, and all the while her health is failing.

Love George HerbertThe Pulley George HerbertMurder in the Cathedral T. S. EliotNarrow Road to the Deep North Matsuo BashoSelections from John DonneSelections from Lord ByronSelections from Percy Bysse ShelleySelections from Robert BurnsSelections from W. B. YeatsSelections from Wilifrid OwenSelections from Robert FrostSelections from Emily DickensonSongs of Innocence and Expres-sion

William Blake

Sonnets William ShakespeareSonnets from the Portuguese E.B. BrowningThe Daffodils William WordsworthThe Flute Wilfrid GibsonWhen I was One and Twenty A.E. Housman

LITERATUREThe Stoneholding James G. Anderson &

Mark SebancLegacy of the StoneharpBook 1

Darkling Fields of Arvon James G. Anderson & Mark Sebanc

Legacy of the StoneharpBook 2.

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Jerome K. Jerome They just can’t stop bumbling, except to tell humorous stories and some odd history.

Swiss Family Robinson Johann Wyss AdventureMansfield Park Jane Austen Years ago Fanny was taken in by

her rich uncle, but she has never felt herself an equal to the rest of the family.

Persuasion Jane Austen Years ago Anne Eliot refused an offer of marriage on her best friend’s advice. Now her former love has returned.

Northanger Abbey Jane Austen Catherine has lived in a world constructed from the reading of gothic novels all her life.

Pride and Prejudice Jane AustenSense and Sensibility Jane Austen

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Brothers Karamozov Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and Punishment Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace Leo TolstoyThe Return of Don Quixote G. K. ChestertonThe Phantom of the Opera Gaston LerouxBlack Tulip Alexandre DumasAge of Innocence Edith WhartonAll Creatures Great and Small James HerriotAll Quiet on the Western Front Erich RemarqueAnimal Farm George OrwellAnna Karenina Leo TolstoyBabbit Sinclair LewisCandide VoltairCrucible Arthur MillerCry, the Beloved Country Alan PatonDay in the Life of Ivan Deniso-vich

Alexandre Solzhenitzein

Dead Souls Nikolai Vasilievich GogolDeath Comes for the Archbishop Willa CatherDeath of Ivan Ilyitch Leo TolstoyThe Death of Socrates PlatoThe Deerslayer James F. CooperThe Diary of Anne Frank Anne FrankDivine Comedy Dante AlighieriDon Quixote Miguel de CervantesEducation of Henry Adams Henry AdamsEmma Jane AustenFaerie Queene SpenserFall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen PoeFarewell to Arms Ernest HemingwayFathers and Sons Ivan TurgenevFifth Business Robertson DaviesHeart of Darkness Joseph ConradHouse of Mirth Edith WhartonHouse of Seven Gables Nathaniel HawthorneThe Ides of March Mary RayThe Invisible Man Ralph EllisonJane Eyre Charlotte BronteJoan of Arc Mark TwainJoseph Andrews Henry FieldingThe Kitchen Madonna Rumer GoddenLast of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper
















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After the Flood Bill Cooper Proves the pagans of Europe themselves traced their ancestry to Noah.

Travels Marco PoloJesus College MS LXI Walter of Oxford; Trans-

lated by Wm R CooperThe history of the Britons from their origins to the crowning of Athelstan

The Story of CanadaWhy We Can’t Wait Martin Luther King JrThe Guillotine and the Cross Warren H. CarrollRed Banners White Mantle Warren H. CarrollRed Banners White Mantle Warren H. CarrollOur Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest ofdarkness

Warren H. Carroll

The Last Crusade Warren H. CarrollThe History of The Church A Complete Course

The Didache Series

A Journey from Prince of Wales Fort in Hudson Bay to the North-ern Ocean

Samuel Hearne

Account of the Second Voyage of the Navigationof 1535 and 1536

Jacques Cartier

Alberta History Books Series from Can MediaBritish North America ActBush Garden:Essays on the Cana-dian Imagination

Northrop Frye

Canada and the Two World Wars J.L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton

Canadian Exploration Literature Edited by Germaine Warkentin

Canada’s First Nations: A His-tory of Founding Peoples From Earliest Times

Olive Patricia Dickason


Canadian History: A Reader’s Guide Vol. 1 Beginnings to Con-federation

Edited by M. Brook Taylor

Canadian History: A Reader’s Guide Vol. 2 Confederation to the Present

Edited by Doug Oram

The Canadian Prairies: A History Gerald FriesenCanadian Settler’s Guide, Back-woods ofCanada

Catherine Parr Trail

Les Miserables Victor HugoLife of Samuel Johnson James BoswellLooking Backward Edward BellamyLorna Doone Richard BlackmoreMiddlemarch George ElliotMill on the Floss George ElliotMoby Dick Herman MelvilleMy Antonia Willa CatherMy Heart Lies South Elizabeth Borton de

TravinoMutiny on the Bounty Charles Nordoff & James

Norman HallNative Son Richard WrightNineteen Eighty-Four George OrwellParadise Lost John MiltonPolitics PlatoPrisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope HawkinsRed and the Black StendahlRed Badge of Courage Stephan CraneRiders of the Purple Sage Zane GreyScaramouche Ragael SabatiniShadows on the Rock Willa CatherSilas Marner George ElliotSnow Walker Farley MowatThe Stranger AlbertSuch Is My Beloved Morley CallaghanUnder a Changing Moon Margot Benary-IsbertVirginian, The Owen WisterTwo Years Before the Mast R. H. DanaWar & Peace Leo TolstoyWhite Company, The Sir Arthur Conan DoyleWuthering Heights Emily BronteDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert L. Stevenson

HISTORYThe Forgotten Arts and Crafts John Seymour Looks at old professions and ways

of keeping house. Out of print. The second half; is in print.

Do’s and Don’ts of Yesteryear Eric Sloane A Treasury of Early American Folk Wisdom

God’s Battalions Rodney Stark A history of the Crusades as they really were. Pro-Crusader.

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After the Flood Bill Cooper Proves the pagans of Europe themselves traced their ancestry to Noah.

Travels Marco PoloJesus College MS LXI Walter of Oxford; Trans-

lated by Wm R CooperThe history of the Britons from their origins to the crowning of Athelstan

The Story of CanadaWhy We Can’t Wait Martin Luther King JrThe Guillotine and the Cross Warren H. CarrollRed Banners White Mantle Warren H. CarrollRed Banners White Mantle Warren H. CarrollOur Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest ofdarkness

Warren H. Carroll

The Last Crusade Warren H. CarrollThe History of The Church A Complete Course

The Didache Series

A Journey from Prince of Wales Fort in Hudson Bay to the North-ern Ocean

Samuel Hearne

Account of the Second Voyage of the Navigationof 1535 and 1536

Jacques Cartier

Alberta History Books Series from Can MediaBritish North America ActBush Garden:Essays on the Cana-dian Imagination

Northrop Frye

Canada and the Two World Wars J.L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton


Canada’s First Nations: A His-tory of Founding Peoples From Earliest Times

Olive Patricia Dickason


Canadian History: A Reader’s Guide Vol. 1 Beginnings to Con-federation

Edited by M. Brook Taylor

Canadian History: A Reader’s Guide Vol. 2 Confederation to the Present

Edited by Doug Oram

The Canadian Prairies: A History Gerald FriesenCanadian Settler’s Guide, Back-woods ofCanada

Catherine Parr Trail

Les Miserables Victor HugoLife of Samuel Johnson James BoswellLooking Backward Edward BellamyLorna Doone Richard BlackmoreMiddlemarch George ElliotMill on the Floss George ElliotMoby Dick Herman MelvilleMy Antonia Willa CatherMy Heart Lies South Elizabeth Borton de

TravinoMutiny on the Bounty Charles Nordoff & James

Norman HallNative Son Richard WrightNineteen Eighty-Four George OrwellParadise Lost John MiltonPolitics PlatoPrisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope HawkinsRed and the Black StendahlRed Badge of Courage Stephan CraneRiders of the Purple Sage Zane GreyScaramouche Ragael SabatiniShadows on the Rock Willa CatherSilas Marner George ElliotSnow Walker Farley MowatThe Stranger AlbertSuch Is My Beloved Morley CallaghanUnder a Changing Moon Margot Benary-IsbertVirginian, The Owen WisterTwo Years Before the Mast R. H. DanaWar & Peace Leo TolstoyWhite Company, The Sir Arthur Conan DoyleWuthering Heights Emily BronteDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert L. Stevenson

HISTORYThe Forgotten Arts and Crafts John Seymour Looks at old professions and ways

of keeping house. Out of print. The second half; is in print.

Do’s and Don’ts of Yesteryear Eric Sloane A Treasury of Early American Folk Wisdom

God’s Battalions Rodney Stark A history of the Crusades as they really were. Pro-Crusader.

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Canadians, 1867-1967 Edited by J. M. S. Care-less and R. Craig Brown

Flames across the Border: 1813-14

Pierre Burton

Fur Trade in Canada: An Intro-duction to Canadian Economic History

Harold Innis

Geological Survey of Canada: Report of Progress from Its Com-mencement to 1863Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of TypographicalMan

Marshall McLuhan

History of Canada Desmond MortonIllustrated History of Canada R. Craig BrownIndian Legends of Canada Ella E. ClarkInvasion of Canada: 1812-13

Pierre Burton

John A. MacDonald The Young Politician and The Old Chieftain

Creighton

Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881- 85

Pierre Burton

Last Good War: An llistrated History of Canada in the Second World War, 1939-1945

J. L. Granatstein

Military History of Canada Desmond MortonNational Dream: The Great Railway,1871-81

Pierre Burton

Report on the Affairs of British North America

Lord Durham

Riel: A Life of Revolution Maggie SigginsShattered City: The Halifax Ex-plosionand the Road to Recovery

Janet Kitz

Two Solitudes Hugh MacLennanWho Killed Canadian History? J. L. GranatsteinTen Lost Years: 1929-1939 Barry BroadfootWinter Studies and Summer Ram-bles in Canada

Anna Bronwell Jameson

Works of Samuel de Champlain Samuel de Champlain1066: The Year of Conquest Howartz DandA History of Europe SchevillA Little History of the World E. H. GombrichAbraham Lincoln: The War Years Carl SandburgAztecs Spaniards Albert Marrin

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Bede’s History of the English People BedeCur Deus Homo AnselmDeclaration of Independence Alexis de ToquevilleDemocracy in America Albert MarrinEmpires Lost and Won: The Spanish Heritage in the Southwest

Alexander Hamilton, Madison, Jay

Federalist PapersGettysburg Address Abraham LincolnGulag Archipelago Aleksandr SolezhenitsynLife in a Medieval Barony William Stearns DavisLife in Elizabethan Days William Stearns DavisMagna Carta James DaughteryNew History of the World J. M. RobertsNight Elie WIeselThe Old Regime and the French Revolution

Tocqueville

On American Taxation Edmund BurkeRights of Man Thomas PaineSelected writings Thomas JeffersonThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

The Christian History Project Series Albert MarrinU.S. ConstitutionUnconditional Surrender: U. S. Grant and the Civil War

Albert Marrin

Virginia’s General: Robert E. Lee Albert MarrinWar for Independence Albert MarrinThe Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution

Warren H. Carroll

Isabel of Spain the Catholic Queen Warren H. Carroll“Horatius” from The Lays of Ancient

RomeThomas Lord MacaulayThe Roman Army Peter ConnollyEmpires and Barbarians (Usborne)Eagle of the Ninth Rosemary SutcliffThe Silver Branch Rosemary SutcliffThe Latern Bearers Rosemary SutcliffLives from Plutarch: The Modern American Edition of Twelve

Edited by John McFarland

Canadians, 1867-1967 Edited by J. M. S. Care-less and R. Craig Brown

Flames across the Border: 1813-14

Pierre Burton

Fur Trade in Canada: An Intro-duction to Canadian Economic History

Harold Innis

Geological Survey of Canada: Report of Progress from Its Com-mencement to 1863Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of TypographicalMan

Marshall McLuhan

History of Canada Desmond MortonIllustrated History of Canada R. Craig BrownIndian Legends of Canada Ella E. ClarkInvasion of Canada: 1812-13

Pierre Burton

John A. MacDonald The Young Politician and The Old Chieftain

Creighton

Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881- 85

Pierre Burton

Last Good War: An llistrated History of Canada in the Second World War, 1939-1945

J. L. Granatstein

Military History of Canada Desmond MortonNational Dream: The Great Railway,1871-81

Pierre Burton

Report on the Affairs of British North America

Lord Durham

Riel: A Life of Revolution Maggie SigginsShattered City: The Halifax Ex-plosionand the Road to Recovery

Janet Kitz

Two Solitudes Hugh MacLennanWho Killed Canadian History? J. L. GranatsteinTen Lost Years: 1929-1939 Barry BroadfootWinter Studies and Summer Ram-bles in Canada

Anna Bronwell Jameson

Works of Samuel de Champlain Samuel de Champlain1066: The Year of Conquest Howartz DandA History of Europe SchevillA Little History of the World E. H. GombrichAbraham Lincoln: The War Years Carl SandburgAztecs Spaniards Albert Marrin

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The Truce of the Games Rosemary SutcliffRoman People Olivia CoolidgeCaesar’s Gallic Wars Olivia CoolidgeLives of Famous Romans Olivia CoolidgeThe Aeneid for Boys and Girls A.J. ChurchMen of Rome Olivia CoolidgeJulius Caesar John GuntherSt. Helena and the True Cross Louis De WohlBlood Feud Rosemary SutcliffChrist the King Lord of History Ann CarrollFamous Battles by Land & Sea Edited by Thomas Bailey

AldrichLiving in Roman Times Jane ChisholmRoman Engineers L.A. and J.A. HameyThe Roman Army John WilkesThe Young Carthaginian G.A. HentyThe Romans and their Empire Trevor CairnsAugustus Caesar Monroe StearnsJulius Caesar Manuel KomruffLegions of the Eagle Henry TreeceRome and Romans (Usborne)Ancient Rome Simon James (Eye Witness

Books)Two Thousand Years Ago A.J. ChurchThe Greek Army Peter ConnollyThe Histories Herodotus (Translated by Aubrey

DeSelincourt -Penguin Books) Read the follow-ing parts:Bk. VI,PP.384-404 (Marathon) Bk. VII, PP.413-584(Thermopylae) (PP.499-539, 544, 547-550)(Salamis)(PP.551-584) (Plataea)

Temple on a Hill Ann RockwellMen of Athens Olivia CoolidgeTheras and His Town Caroline SnedekerThe White Isle Caroline SnedekerThe Spartan Caroline SnedekerThe Exploits of Xenophon Geoffrey HouseholdThe Trojan War Olivia CoolidgeThe Golden Days of Greece Olivia CoolidgeGreek Myths A Wonder Book Nathaniel HawthorneThe Tale of Troy Roger Lancelyn GreenTales of the Greek Heroes Roger Lancelyn GreenDolphin Rider Bernard Evslin

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The Golden God Doris GatesThe Greek Gods Bernard Evslin Dorothy Evslin &

Ned HoopesHeroes and Monsters of Greek Myth

Bernard Evslin Dorothy Evslin & Ned Hoopes

The Story of the Greeks J. A. GuerberChildren of the Dawn Elsie Finnimore BuckleyThe Heroes Charles KingsleyThe Adventure of Ulysses Gerald GottliebFifteen Decisive Battles of the World

Edward Creasy (Marathon)

The Walls of Windy Troy Marjorie BraymenHow We Learned the Earth was Round

Patricia Lauber

Black Ships Before Troy Rosemary SutcliffGreek and Roman Plays Albert CullumAugustine Comes to Kent Barbara WillardFingal’s Quest Madeleine PollandThe King’s Thane Charles BradySon of Charlemagne Barbara WillardMission to Cathay Madeleine PollandIf All the Swords in England Barbara WillardThe Two Trumpeters of Vienna Hertha PauliA Trumpet Sounds Henry GarnettThe Blue Gonfalon Margaret HubbardWhere Valour Lies Adele and Cateau DeLeeuwWilliam the Conqueror Thomas B. CostainMan with a Sword Henry TreeceSwords from the North Henry TreeceSong of Roland (Unknown)Idylls of the King Alfred Lord TennysonYoung Folk’s History of England Charlotte YongeBoy Knight of Reims Eloise LownsberyJoy in Stone Sabra HolbrookThe Crusaders A.J. ChurchThe Crusades Anthony WestWe Were There With Richard the Lionhearted

Robert Webb

St. Louis and the Last Crusade Margaret HubbardCastles Ladybird BookThe Story of a Castle John GoodallSir Gawain and the Green Knight J.R.R. TolkienOtto of the Silver Hand Howard Pyle

The Truce of the Games Rosemary SutcliffRoman People Olivia CoolidgeCaesar’s Gallic Wars Olivia CoolidgeLives of Famous Romans Olivia CoolidgeThe Aeneid for Boys and Girls A.J. ChurchMen of Rome Olivia CoolidgeJulius Caesar John GuntherSt. Helena and the True Cross Louis De WohlBlood Feud Rosemary SutcliffChrist the King Lord of History Ann CarrollFamous Battles by Land & Sea Edited by Thomas Bailey

AldrichLiving in Roman Times Jane ChisholmRoman Engineers L.A. and J.A. HameyThe Roman Army John WilkesThe Young Carthaginian G.A. HentyThe Romans and their Empire Trevor CairnsAugustus Caesar Monroe StearnsJulius Caesar Manuel KomruffLegions of the Eagle Henry TreeceRome and Romans (Usborne)Ancient Rome Simon James (Eye Witness

Books)Two Thousand Years Ago A.J. ChurchThe Greek Army Peter ConnollyThe Histories Herodotus (Translated by Aubrey

DeSelincourt -Penguin Books) Read the follow-ing parts:Bk. VI,PP.384-404 (Marathon) Bk. VII, PP.413-584(Thermopylae) (PP.499-539, 544, 547-550)(Salamis)(PP.551-584) (Plataea)

Temple on a Hill Ann RockwellMen of Athens Olivia CoolidgeTheras and His Town Caroline SnedekerThe White Isle Caroline SnedekerThe Spartan Caroline SnedekerThe Exploits of Xenophon Geoffrey HouseholdThe Trojan War Olivia CoolidgeThe Golden Days of Greece Olivia CoolidgeGreek Myths A Wonder Book Nathaniel HawthorneThe Tale of Troy Roger Lancelyn GreenTales of the Greek Heroes Roger Lancelyn GreenDolphin Rider Bernard Evslin

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The Crusades Hillaire BellocWilliam the Conqueror Hillaire BellocLooking into the Middle Ages Huck Scarry

Spice Ho! A Story of Discovery Agnes HewesGhengis Kahn & the Mongol Horde

Harold Lamb

The Bayeaux Tapestry Norman Denny and Josephine Filmersankey

The Age of Chivalry National GeographicThe War of the Roses Elizabeth HallamThe Plantagenet Chronicles Elizabeth HallamFour Gothic Kings Elizabeth HallamFifteen Decisive Battles of the World

Edward Creasy

In the Days of King Hal Marion TaggertThe Fall of Constantinople Bernadine KieltyMaster Skylark John BennetThe Life of Thomas More William RoperA Proud Tale of Minerva and Scarlet

E.L. Konigsburg

The Golden Book of the Renais-sance

(Golden Press)

Adam of the Road Elizabeth GraySt. George and the Dragon Margaret HodgesCanterbury Tales Barbara CohenBeowulf Ian SerraillierJackaroo Cynthia VoigtThe Adventures of Robin Hood Roger Lancelyn GreenKing Arthur & His Knights of the Round Table

Roger Lancelyn Green

I, Juan De Pareja Elizabeth Borten De TrevinoDon Quixote and Sancho Panza Margaret HodgesOutline of History H. G. WellsNew History of the World J. M. RobertsStory of Civilization Will and Ariel DurantThe Annals of the World James UssherA Day in Old Athens William S. Davis

SCIENCEStar Names: Their Lore and Meaning

Richard Hinckley Allen

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Echoes of Ancient Skies E. C. Krupp The Astronomy of Lost Civiliza-tions

365 Starry Nights Chet Raymo An Introduction to Astronomy for Every Night of the Year

The Messier Objects Stephen James O’mearaThe Caldwell Objects Stephen James O’mearaThe Modern Moon Charles A. WoodThe Pyramids: An Enigma solved David Hatcher Childress This book demonstrates that the

stones of the Pyramids were cast like concrete.

Fingerprints of the Gods Graham Hancock Evidence of ancient knowledge of a remarkable character.

The Message of the Sphynx Graham Hancock More of the sameDead Men’s Secrets Jonathan Gray Catalogue of astounding ancient

technology (space travel, nuclear war, etc*)

Buried Alive: The Startling Truth about Neanderthal Man

Dr. Jack Cuozzo Shows the physical superiority of Neanderthals to modern men, and their 200 year+ lifespans.

Starlight and Time D. Russell Humphreys Solving the Puzzle of Distant Starlight in a Young Universe

The Elegant Universe Brian Greene Explores string theory

In the Beginning Walt Brown Gives a coherent theory explain-ing huge numbers of the world’s mysteries by beans of his deluge theory; the Hydroplate Theory

Darwin’s Black Box Michael Behe How the workings of the cell disprove Darwinism

Noah’s Ark: A Feasibility Study John Woodmorappe Categorically refutes every objec-tion ever made to the possibility of life surviving a global flood by means of the Ark.

The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It

John Seymour All one needs to know in order to set up a self sufficient, organic farm.

Aphorisms HippocratesBanting: A Biography Michael BlissDialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Galileo

Division and Method of Sciences AquinasElements of Chemistry Antoine LavoisierFearfully & Wonderfully Made Paul Brand & Philip

YancyOn Floating Bodies ArchemidesOn the Equilibrium of Liquids Pascal

The Crusades Hillaire BellocWilliam the Conqueror Hillaire BellocLooking into the Middle Ages Huck Scarry

Spice Ho! A Story of Discovery Agnes HewesGhengis Kahn & the Mongol Horde

Harold Lamb

The Bayeaux Tapestry Norman Denny and Josephine Filmersankey

The Age of Chivalry National GeographicThe War of the Roses Elizabeth HallamThe Plantagenet Chronicles Elizabeth HallamFour Gothic Kings Elizabeth HallamFifteen Decisive Battles of the World

Edward Creasy

In the Days of King Hal Marion TaggertThe Fall of Constantinople Bernadine KieltyMaster Skylark John BennetThe Life of Thomas More William RoperA Proud Tale of Minerva and Scarlet

E.L. Konigsburg

The Golden Book of the Renais-sance

(Golden Press)

Adam of the Road Elizabeth GraySt. George and the Dragon Margaret HodgesCanterbury Tales Barbara CohenBeowulf Ian SerraillierJackaroo Cynthia VoigtThe Adventures of Robin Hood Roger Lancelyn GreenKing Arthur & His Knights of the Round Table

Roger Lancelyn Green

I, Juan De Pareja Elizabeth Borten De TrevinoDon Quixote and Sancho Panza Margaret HodgesOutline of History H. G. WellsNew History of the World J. M. RobertsStory of Civilization Will and Ariel DurantThe Annals of the World James UssherA Day in Old Athens William S. Davis

SCIENCEStar Names: Their Lore and Meaning

Richard Hinckley Allen

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On the Natural Faculties GalenOn the Revolutions of the Heav-enly Spheres

Copernicus

Parts of Animals AristotlePhysics AristotlePrinciples of Psychology William JamesRelativity Albert EinsteinWild Animals I Have Known Ernest Thompson Seton

COMMENTARYThe History of Middle Earth (series)

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Atlas of Middle Earth Karen Wynn Fonstad

ARCHITECTURECathedral David Macaulay Illustrated seriesCastle David Macaulay Illustrated seriesCity David Macaulay Illustrated seriesBuilding Big David Macaulay Illustrated series

THEOLOGYThe Holy BibleCity of God AugustineConfessions AugustineMere Christianity C.S. LewisOn the Incarnation AthanasiusOrthodoxy G. K. ChestertonPilgrim’s Progress John BunyunSumma Theologica AquinasThe Varieties of Religious Expe-rience

William James

ART APPRECIATIONPenguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs

Edith Fowke

Story of Art E. H. GombrichGroup of Seven: Art for a Nation Charles Hill

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MATHEMATICS Elements of Geometry EuclidOn Conids & Spheroids ArchimedesOn the Sphere & the Cylinder ArchimedesPrincipia Mathematica Isaac Newton

ENGLISH COMPOSITION & REFERENCE WORKSElements of Style Strunk and WhiteOn Writing Well William ZinnserHow to Read a Book Mortimer J. AdlerA Grammar of the English Language

William Cobbett

Fowler’s Modern English Usage FowlerThe Trivium Sister Miriam JosephShakespeare Use of the Arts of Language

Sister Miriam Joseph

Rhetoric AristotleOn Poetics AristotleRulebook for Arguments Anthony WestonClassical Rhetoric for the Modern Student

Edward P. J. Corbett and Robert J. Connors

PHILOSOPHYCategories AristotleAnalytics AristotleConsolation of Philosophy BoethiusEssay Concerning Human Un-derstanding, Second Treatise of Govern

John Locke

Everlasting Man G. K. ChestertonBrave New Family G. K. ChestertonWhat’s Wrong With the World G. K. ChestertonIon PlatoMeno PlatoProtagoras PlatoApology PlatoCrito PlatoPhaedo PlatoRepublic Plato

On the Natural Faculties GalenOn the Revolutions of the Heav-enly Spheres

Copernicus

Parts of Animals AristotlePhysics AristotlePrinciples of Psychology William JamesRelativity Albert EinsteinWild Animals I Have Known Ernest Thompson Seton

COMMENTARYThe History of Middle Earth (series)

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Atlas of Middle Earth Karen Wynn Fonstad

ARCHITECTURECathedral David Macaulay Illustrated seriesCastle David Macaulay Illustrated seriesCity David Macaulay Illustrated seriesBuilding Big David Macaulay Illustrated series

THEOLOGYThe Holy BibleCity of God AugustineConfessions AugustineMere Christianity C.S. LewisOn the Incarnation AthanasiusOrthodoxy G. K. ChestertonPilgrim’s Progress John BunyunSumma Theologica AquinasThe Varieties of Religious Expe-rience

William James

ART APPRECIATIONPenguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs

Edith Fowke

Story of Art E. H. GombrichGroup of Seven: Art for a Nation Charles Hill

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Symposium PlatoLeisure, The Basis of Culture Joseph PieperNovum Organum Roger BaconOn Duties, On Friendship CiceroOn Liberty; The Subjection of Women

John Stuart Mill

Pragmatism; Four Essays from The Meaning of Truth

William James

Selected Writings Thomas AquinasSelf-Reliance Ralph Waldo EmersonUtopia Thomas MoreLeviathan Thomas Hobbes

FOUNDATIONSAnnals of TacticusArt of War Sun-TzuDe Republica CiceroEpic of GilgameshEthics AristotlePolitics AristotleOn Poetics AristotleHistory of the Peloponnesian War ThucydidesMedea EuripidesMeditations Marcus AureliusMetamorphoses OvidMorte d’Arthur MaloryOedipus Rex SophoclesOn the Nature of Things LucretiusThe Aeneid VirgilThe Frogs AristophanesThe Prophecy of Socrates Plato

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