Fall River imprint: 140 books

Thrills and chills galore await you in Great Thrillers, a connoisseur’s collection of suspenseful stories steeped in mystery and the macabre. Filled with fateful encounters, inescapable intrigues, and hair’s-breadth escapes, these tales defy you not to keep turning their pages to see their final...

A Treasury of Favorite Poems celebrates the rich poetic legacy of America and England with more than 400 poems that span more than four centuries. The poets represented are acknowledged as among the world’s greatest: William Shakespeare, John Milton, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, John Keats, Emily...

Let’s Talk Mandarin Chinese!   Too many foreign language books start off with everything that you don’t need to know right away. Of course, to understand any language you need to learn its grammar, sentence structure, and idiosyncrasies. No foreign language can be learned overnight. But what...

The myths of Greece and Rome have provided us with timeless tales of the ancient past, when the world was young and the gods and goddesses shared it with men and women. Classical Mythology provides a complete panoply of these colorful myths, including those that have become familiar references in...

Stories of Gods and Monsters   Scandinavians of the Viking era explored the mysteries of life through their sagas. Folklorist Helene Adeline Guerber brings to life the gods and goddesses, giants and dwarves, and warriors and monsters of these stories in her classic Tales of Norse Mythology.   Ranging...

Heroism, Valor, and Sacrifice When most people think of mythology, the Greek gods and heroes first come to mind. But just as important to Western culture are the stories of the great heroes and villains of the Middle Ages, whose deeds have reverberated through the centuries. This thrilling...

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American essayist and poet. One of the young nation’s first recognized public intellectuals, he championed the writing of Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman and opined on everything from...

Love has fascinated writers since men and women first found words to express their romantic yearnings. Tales of passion, affection, and romance are a cornerstone of world literature and represent some the finest fiction ever written.Love Stories features work of some of the greatest writers of the nineteenth...

Poems That Will Change Your Life is a book that delivers what its title promises: poems that will inspire you take the ideas they express to heart and change your outlook. It features more than 150 poems by some of the world’s best-loved poets—Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, John Keats, William...

Through his fiction, H.G. Wells transformed some of the most pressing social, political, and cultural issues of his day—class struggle, colonial imperialism, nation building, uncontrolled scientific experimentation—into the raw material of brilliant speculative fables. The six novels collected...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was L. Frank Baum's most magical literary creation, but that novel was only the first book in a multi-part epic that has become one of the best-loved sagas in fantasy fiction. The Emerald City of Oz continues the entertaining adventures collected as The Wizard of Oz: The...

The Easy Guide to the U.S. Constitution gives you the complete texts of the Constitution, the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence, and the Gettysburg Address on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand modern translation on the right. Inside you will...

“The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach.” —Obergefell v. Hodges   In the United States of America, the legislative branch is responsible for creating legislation, while the executive branch is responsible for signing that legislation and enforcing it. But how do senators,...

Hans Holzer's Real Hauntings continues his account of true, authenticated case histories of haunting throughout the United States. From the restless shade of a sea captain on Cape Cod, to the remorseful parishioner at St. Mark's in New York who is unable to forget her extramarital affair, to the little...