by Jules Verne

Journey to the Center of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the center of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull, encountering many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, before eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy, at the Stromboli volcano. Published in August 2018.

Price: $21.95

Genre: Adventure/Science Fiction

ISBN: 978-1-59688-222-5

by Charles Dickens

Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, this is the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to life in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met; Lucie’s marriage and the collision between her beloved husband and the people who caused her father’s imprisonment; and Monsieur and Madame Defarge, sellers of wine in a poor suburb of Paris. The story is set against the conditions that led to the French Revolution and Reign of Terror.

Published in September 2017

Price: $24.95

Genre: Classic Fiction

ISBN: 978-1-59688-209-6

by Louisa May Alcott

Little Women follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March—detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. Unlike other books for girls, it was an instant success, led to two sequels and has become a perennial favorite and an American classic on many 100 Best Novels lists. It has never been out-of-print.

Published in October 2017

Price: $28.95

Genre: Classic Fiction

ISBN: 978-1-59688-215-7

by Joseph Conrad

Jim is a member of a crew that abandons a damaged passenger ship. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with himself and his past on a remote island where he comes to be known as Lord Jim for his good works. Published in March 2018.

Price: $23.95

Genre: Classic Fiction

ISBN: 978-1-59688-217-1

by Anne Brontë

Framed as a series of letters from Gilbert Markham to his friend and brother-in-law about the events connected with the meeting of Helen, a widow at Wildfell Hall.  She tells of her husband’s alcoholic decline and her desperate attempts to save their son from his influence. Critics consider Brontë’s work to be one of the first feminist novels. Published in June 2018.

Price: $28.95

Genre: Classic Fiction

ISBN: 978-1-59688-219-5

by James Joyce

James Joyce’s first novel, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, who comes to question and rebel against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from
Ireland to Europe. Named one of the best English-language novels of the 20th century by Modern Library. Published in June 2018.

Price: $23.95

Genre: Classic Fiction

ISBN: 978-1-59688-214-0

by Zane Grey

To The Last Man follows an ancient feud between two frontier families that is inflamed when one of the families takes up cattle rustling. The ranchers are led by Jean Isbel and, on the other side, Lee Jorth and his band of cattle rustlers. In the grip of a relentless code of loyalty to their own people, they fight the war of the Tonto Basin, desperately, doggedly, to the last man, neither side seeing the futility of it until it is too late. Young Jean finds himself hopelessly in love with a girl from whom he is separated by an impassable barrier. Published in August 2018.

Genre: Western
ISBN 978-1-59688-226-3          $23.95

Edited by Thomas T. Beeler

This is an original collection of best-loved American poems and songs, the first published in large print. It is divided into five sections: Childrens’ Poems and Rhymes, Story Poems and Ballads, Patriotic Poems and Songs, Love Poems, and Songs of Self and Nature.
Children Poems includes such childhood favorites as “Mary Had a Little Lamb” by Sarah Josepha Hale, “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” by Clement Moore, “The Children’s Hour” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,” and “Being Brave at Night” by Edgar Guest.
Story poems include “Paul Revere’s Ride” and “The Wreck of the Hesparus” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” by Robert W. Service to “Casey at the Bat.”
Patriotic Poems and Songs range from “The Star-Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key to “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” to “Over There” by George M. Cohan, and include beloved songs like “America, ’Tis of Thee” and “America the Beautiful” as well as “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and Walt Whitman’s tributes to Abraham Lincoln, “O Captain! My Captain!” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.”
Love Poems include “Give All to Love” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, “I Had No Time to Hate” by Emily Dickinson and “Love Is Not All” by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Songs of Self and Nature include “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and 10 of Emily Dickinson’s best-known poems.
This is a must-have collection that will delight both poetry lovers and nostalgic readers. It includes an introduction by the editor and indexes of titles and first lines. To be published in December 2018.
Genre: Poetry
ISBN 978-1-59688-228-7          $24.95