In 1941, seven escapees of a Soviet labor camp in Siberia spent a year walking to freedom over four thousand miles of the most forbidding terrain on earth, always a step away from death. They had no map and no compass but only a fierce determination to survive. More...

Robin of Locksley returns from the Crusades to find his people starving and oppressed by the new Sheriff of Nottingham. Under this tyrannical regime, the slightest... More...

The tales of the Norse gods, of the giants, demons, trolls and dwarves, still have the power to fascinate more than a thousand years after they were first told. Here are the stories of the one-eyed... More...

"Distinguished...makes us feel deeply." — The New York Times Book Review "It's so cold the sun and the moon don't look natural no more." It is going to be the coldest winter ever, and... More...

Elsie Dinsmore is an endearing eight-year-old girl who is very unhappy living at her Uncle's Southern plantation. As Elsie learns to handle her problems, she begins to learn more about herself and ... More...