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Having had a great time during a previous stay at Camp Rest-a-While, the Brown family decides to return to the woods for part of the summer, exploring the forest beyond the camp they stayed at before. Their trip brings encounters with new people and animals -- as well as a few close calls for the children.

In the first volume of the beloved "Outdoor Girls" series, readers are introduced to Mollie Billette, Betty Nelson, Amy Stonington, and Grace Ford, a group of friends who love outdoor adventures so much that they decide to start their own club for hiking, camping, sports and more. As they plan their...

Against the backdrop of the wild and lawless Old West, author R. B. Townshend spins an exciting yarn about a quest to locate a long-lost mine that, according to legend, is home to untold riches. Along the way, an unlikely romance blooms. With something to engage every reader, Lone Pine is a classic action-adventure novel worth your time.

Experience the exhilarating pleasure of life in the great outdoors without leaving the comfort of home. In Rocky Mountain Boys: Camping in the Big Game Country, author St. George Rathborne spins a rip-roaring yarn about a group of intrepid youngsters who set out for a once-in-a-lifetime adventure -- and learn some vitally important life lessons along the way.

The figure of Jesus is of singular significance in the modern Christian tradition -- but what do we actually know about his life as a man? In this wide-ranging review of the literature, journalist and politician John Mackinnon Robertson digs into the historical record to create a composite vision of Jesus and assess the credibility of the scant information we do have.

Ironically, the tales of fantasy and the supernatural collected in the volume The Isles of Sunset, which would become some of Arthur Christopher Benson's best-known work, were probably never intended for publication. Found by his brothers after Arthur's death, it is believed that he penned these tales...

Against all odds, Scottish-born writer Margaret Oliphant made a name for herself as a major literary voice in the Victorian era. Through her writing, she was able for a time to provide financial security for a large extended family amidst a series of grave circumstances and unspeakable tragedies. The...

American poet and writer Carolyn Wells penned a series of mystery novels that are sure to please fans of Agatha Christie and others from the classic era of the genre. In the page-turner The Come Back, supernatural elements ratchet up the psychological suspense even more.

This charmer geared for younger audiences will draw in even reluctant readers. Fed up with the rat race and hassle of life in the big city, four children and their doting, adventurous grandmother take up residence in an abandoned hotel. Though teamwork, perseverance, trial and error, and some good luck, the scrappy family toughs it out and makes the Dorrance Domain a cozy home.

Dubbed "The Wickedest Man In the World", Aleister Crowley is best known for his occult writings and interests, but in a seemingly contradictory and bewildering list he also dabbled as a poet, mountaineer, chess player, painter, astrologist, spy, yogi, hedonist, bisexual, drug-taker and critic of society....

The Jezreel Valley in present-day Israel is a fertile basin surrounded by mountain ranges that is home to several sites featured in the Bible. In 1852, American poet and travel writer Bayard Taylor undertook an arduous journey across a number of regions in the Middle East and Africa, part of which is recounted in this engrossing volume.

This novel spurred a controversy upon its initial publication in 1913, with some libraries and bookstores refusing to sell it on moral grounds. Although author Hall Caine addressed aspects of women's rights in some of his previous works, he tackles the issue head-on in this nuanced, emotionally resonant...

Due to a series of unfortunate circumstances, young Lilian Boyd and her mother have found themselves in desperate straits. They're teetering on the verge of bankruptcy when Lilian hatches an audacious plan to help them get back on the right track. Will this ambitious, hard-working young woman be able to pull it off?

Humankind's excursion to the moon in the mid-twentieth century was hailed as a major technological achievement. In the version of events that unfolds in Jack Sharkey's tale "Old Friends Are the Best," a souvenir of that renowned moonwalk is brought back to Earth -- with dire and far-reaching consequences that no one could have predicted.