Henry Carter Hull

"Bennett's medieval England comes alive in ways a reader can immediately relate to, even while being transported away from the modern world." -Christian Science Monitor The story of two sisters caught up in the maelstrom of historic events, Figures in Silk by Vanora Bennett combines the fascinating art and history of silk making with political intrigue and a sweeping, unforgettable love story. A breathing immersion into a Tudor England torn...

Seventeen-year-old Prince Edward, feeling the burden of his position in 1912, finds unexpected refuge at Snowberry Manor in the company of the four Houghton sisters, but it the youngest, Lily, who captures his heart, even though his father, King George, has other plans in mind for his son and heir.

Bernard Cornwell crafts an extraordinary story in The Archer's Tale, a grand and glorious epic concerning duty, love, and valor and set during the Hundred Years War. As dawn breaks on Easter, 1343, a band of French marauders ambushes the English village of Hookton. Only a youngster named Thomas survives, and the horrible tragedy is forever etched upon his memory. In particular, he recalls a black-clad knight, bearing a distinct flag, who is exceedingly...

Professor Challenger returns to test one of his theories by digging underground and poking the planet in this classic adventure story. In The Lost World , Professor Challenger and reporter Edward Malone found dinosaurs living in the Amazon. In The Poison Belt , they witnessed chaos as Earth passed through a cloud of poison gas. Now, with the help of Peerless Jones, an expert in Artesian boring, they seek to test the professor’s Echinus theory ....

Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II tells the story of the greatest villain of the fourteenth century, his dazzling rise as favorite to the king and his disastrous fall.Born in the late 1280s, Hugh married King Edward I of Englands eldest granddaughter when he was a teenager. Ambitious and greedy to an astonishing degree, Hugh chose a startling route to power: he seduced his wifes uncle, the young King Edward II, and became the richest and most...

Sixteen-year-old Anne, mischievous and spirited as ever, returns to Avonlea to teach in the village school where she herself was taught.

Contains three films that follow the life and adventures of Anne Shirley from her arrival on Prince Edward Island at the age of eleven, through her teaching career, her marriage to Gilbert, her work with the Red Cross during World War I, and her return to Green Gables.

"A maritime historian explores more than a century of adventure and tragedy on the waters off Prince Edward Island, from 1775 to 1899. Across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the wooden sailing ship was a vital transportation link along Canada's Atlantic coast. Self-sacrifice, daring, skill, wreck and rescue are all part of the history of these ships and the heritage of the villages that knew them. With extensive research and vivid prose,...