Mitch Albom - The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Killed in a tragic accident at a seaside amusement park while trying to save a little girl, Eddie, an elderly man who believes that he had lived an uninspired life, awakens in the afterlife, where he ...

James Patterson - Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment

After a short stay with an FBI agent who gives them a chance to attend school and live a normal life, the six genetically-altered, winged youths head toward Florida and Max's ultimate destiny--to save ...

Jane Green - The Beach House

Disregarding local gossip that pegs her an eccentric, sixty-five-year-old Nantucket widow Nan skinny-dips in unattended pools and steals her neighbors' flowers before her dwindling funds force her to ...

Gulliver'S Travels: 1400 Headwords

Both a satire on human nature and a parody of the " travellers' tales " literary sub-genre. Swift's masterpiece is his most celebrated work and one of the indisputable classics of the English ...

Jules Verne and Jane Bingham - Around the World in Eighty Days: 5 Weeks in a Balloon

Countless generations have thrilled to these stirring tales of adventure and derring-do. The Whole Story series adds to these enduringly popular tales with extended captions that provide the ...

Celia Rees - Witch Child

In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.

Jim Stovall - The Ultimate Gift: Library Edition

Treasure Island

Piracy and adventure on the high seas provide a striking contrast between the evil of Long John Silver and the good of young Jim Hawkins.

Pat Frank and David Brin - Alas, Babylon

A story of a group of people who rely on their own courage and ingenuity to survive in a town which escaped nuclear bombing.

Alexandre Dumas, Karen Holmes, Margaret Brantley, Robin Waterfield - The Count of Monte Cristo: Level Three

Edmund Dantes, unjustly convicted of aiding the exiled Napoleon, escapes after fourteen years of imprisonment and seeks revenge in Paris.