Fictional tale of a young Finnish man, Mikael Karvajalka, set in 16th century medieval Europe.

    Cissie is sent to live with her uncle on an island in Lake Erie where she helps him with his peach orchard and tries to prove that she is a good as any boy.

    Who was to succeed King Edward? From the welter of political cross-currents, rivalries, violence and intrigue set up by this question, the two dominating figures of the novel emerge - Earl Harold and Duke William of Normandy. The issue was decided at the Battle of Hastings. With her stirring account of the battle and of the invasion threat which preceded it,

    With the love of readers and the praise of critics, Norton’s books have sold millions of copies worldwide.In Scarface, Andre Norton tells the story of a swashbuckling adventure with a pirate crew on the Spanish Main!The boy Scarface watched the lights of Tortuga dim as the Naughty Lass stood out for the open sea. The Spanish Main promised rich prizes for Captain Cheap and his pirate crew. And this time Cheap had set his sights high—for no less a prey than Sir Robert Scarlett, his lifelong enemy, and Her Majesty’s fleet at Bridgetown. His plan was daring. Muskets roared and swords flashed as redcoats and pirates fought savagely. The fate of Bridgetown hung in the balance—and with it the secret of Scarface’s true identity.

    Among the onlookers at that terrible spectacle was Pierre, a frightened boy whom Hugh, the armourer, had rescued that morning on the road outside Rouen. Under Hugh's tutelage, Pierre learns the closely guarded secrets of the armourer's trade. But he is destined not to use them...

    John Goffe’s Mill is the story of his adventure in turning an obsolete rural industry into a design for happy living.When George and Connie returned to the ancestral acres, the dam was in ruins, the mill itself had tumbled in, the old house was badly in need of repairs, and soon thereafter the hurricane of 1938 wrought havoc in the little wood lot. Assisted by Louis Lavigne, a retired woodchopper, he cleaned up the wood lot and sawed enough lumber to rebuild the mill. Little by little the rest of the work was done, most of it by George himself, some of it with the help of local artisans as obsolete as the mill itself: Desidere la Tulippe, master mason of prodigious girth; Hank Gookin, alcoholic barn framer; Kitty, monosyllabic metalsmith; and other original characters of a sort only to be found in a country town.But this was only the beginning. Sometimes by barter, occasionally by purchase, George expanded his equipment. What he couldn’t swap or buy he invented and built himself, until now he can take a tree out of his own wood lot, saw it into lumber in his mill, dry the lumber in the kiln he built, and make it into furniture in his own shop — all within a radius of two hundred yards and a timespan of three weeks.Of all this, and of the life he and Connie and their four children have made for themselves, George Woodbury writes with contagious humor. His gay and unconventional outlook is suggested by some of his advertising copy: “These are the only milking stools in southern New Hampshire,” he says, “that are individually rump-fitted by a graduate anatomist.”

    In one of her most ambitious novels, Anya Seton here created one of her most memorable heroines, and one of her most varied tales.

    She knew giddy triumph -- the tinseled success of a great beauty, a triumphant woman of the world of Washington, D.C. She knew sudden ups and downs -- defeat, sorrow, loss, and retirement to her river plantation.Then, again, came a swift rise to rank higher than before -- that of a Cabinet wife, with the country's decisions being made all around her, and a part for her in the making. For a time it seemed that the White House of Washington would be her eventual home. Again, a step downward, and then up again, to the rank of the Confederacy's Lustrous Lady. Dazzling days again, and then trial and defeat -- the black hours of a fugitive, her husband facing death. In these hours she became a great personage, a human being fighting for survival: and she won.Above all, Bride of Fortune is the story of a woman in love -- a portrait of a passionate, warm-hearted woman who never faltered in her devotion. For Varina and Jefferson Davis it was one long love affair. Here is a picture of modern America in the making, of Washington and wartime Richmond from inside; and the story of the woman behind the man in the spotlight.No conventional crinolined miss, Varina was a firm-spirited, firm-minded woman who knew what she wanted her life to be and waded forth to make it that way. Some hated her; others loved her; nobody was ever neutral. And all about her moved the great of her day -- Presidents, grand dames, plantation owners, Cuban revolutionaries, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee.Here is a rich and moving story, a superbly readable one, a remarkable evocation of the native South. Harnett T. Kane, who has never written a book that wasn't a best seller, outdoes all his other successes, bringing to surging life the vivid-hued Richmond: gay-hearted Natchez on the river; lush New Orleans of the Creoles, and Washington, capital of the nation when its life was at stake.

    Penny and Peter, two little adopted brothers, don't want to go to camp at first but when they find out about all the exciting things they can do there and about the rivalry between the two camp teams, they are eager to go.

    This book explores the origins of superstitions that grew out of folklore and legends, including animals, plants, water, dreams, numbers, and wedding rituals.

    The amazing adventures and wanderings of the two heroes, David Balfour and Alan Breck, are unfolded in pictured scenes of each thrilling episode from start to finish.There are over 200 pictures that tell the great story of the wanderings of the two fugitives, hunted and harried by the Redcoat soldiers, in the wild mountains of Scotland. In many cases the pictures have been drawn in the actual setting of the Highland of Lowland countryside., exactly where they were supposed to take place. The scenes depict faithfully and truly the people and the manners and customs of the times.For younger boys or girls preparing to widen their reading, famous books in pictures will serve as admirable stepping stones to the actual reading of the original work. With this in mind, there iare sections on 'A Page of Highland History', 'The Appin Murder,' and a 'What have you learned from this book?' section.