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  • Maria Chapdelaine

    Louis Hemon

    Paperback (Book Jungle, Oct. 22, 2008)
    First published in 1914 Maria Chapdelaine is considered to be a classic in Canadian literature. Maria Chapodelaine is a lyrical love story set in the harsh environment of nineteenth-century Quebec. Maria awaits the return of François, her lover. She is a young farm girl who evokes the spirit of the French families breaking land and building homes in the Hinterlands of 19th century Quebec.
  • The Wreck of the Titan

    Morgan Robertson

    Paperback (Book Jungle, Sept. 8, 2009)
    Morgan Robertson (1861-1915) was a well-known American author of short stories and novels. Futility, published in 1898, is his best known work. The Wreck of the Titan has many similarities to the sinking of the Titanic. The Titan was supposed to be unsinkable. In April the Titan hits an iceberg killing almost everyone aboard. This collection of short pieces contains The Wreck of the Titan, The Pirates, Beyond the Spectrum, and In the Valley of the Shadow.
  • Right Ho, Jeeves

    P.G.Wodehouse

    Paperback (Book Jungle, Sept. 6, 2007)
    Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (October 15, 1881 - February 14, 1975) was an English comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Wodehouse was an acknowledged master of English prose, admired both by contemporaries like Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers like Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse said he believed was "meant to be complimentary", and which he used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend, which was published in 1953. Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song "Bill" in Show Boat.
  • The Bridge-Builders

    Rudyard Kipling

    Paperback (Book Jungle, Aug. 3, 2009)
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) was an English author and poet. He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English language writer to receive the prize, and to date he remains its youngest recipient.
  • A Peep Behind the Scenes

    Mrs. O. F. Walton

    Paperback (Book Jungle, Feb. 4, 2010)
    O F Walton (1849 - 1939) also known as May Walton was a British author. She wrote Christian books for children and teens. Rosalie is envied by the girls in her town. They are convinced her life must be better than theirs. They see her beautiful white dress and her graceful dance moves but do not look any deeper. One day, Rosalie is given hope when an old man gives her a picture of a shepherd who loves her. As she meets hurting people along the way, her new mission is to tell them about the Shepherd who loves them too. This is a wonderful book for a family to read together.
  • The Brownies and Other Tales

    Juliana Horatia Ewing

    Paperback (Book Jungle, April 27, 2009)
    Juliana Ewing gives her readers a collection of charming 19th century stories suited for a relaxing afternoon of reading under a shade tree. Juliana Horatia Ewing was a 19th century writer of children's books. Her books were considered to be the first really well written books for children in English literature. The table of contents includes THE BROWNIES, THE LAND OF LOST TOYS, THREE CHRISTMAS TREES, AN IDYLL OF THE WOOD, CHRISTMAS CRACKERS, and AMELIA AND THE DWARFS.
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  • In the Irish Brigade

    G. A. Henty

    Paperback (Book Jungle, Dec. 31, 2008)
    G A Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. While most of the 122 books he wrote were for children, he also wrote adult novels, non-fiction such as The March to Magdala (1868) and Those Other Animals (1891), short stories for the likes of The Boy's Own Paper and edited the Union Jack, a weekly boys magazine. In the Irish Brigade was written in 1914 and tells an adventure story during the war with Flanders and Spain. This was a time of religious persecution, poor government, secular hatred, and general oppression. The Irish soldiers left Ireland to fight in the French army and were some of the best soldiers fighting at that time.
  • With Wolfe in Canada the Winning of a Continent

    G. A. Henty

    Paperback (Book Jungle, Jan. 28, 2008)
    G. A. Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. Henty said that his love of story telling began in his childhood when his family told tales after dinner. The British and French were struggling for power in North America. When Quebec fell the English would become supreme. The Anglo-Saxon race would be predominant in the New World. English commerce. Language, and literature would spread around the world. In With Wolfe in Canada James Walsham leaves England as a young man in 1755 and finds himself in the French and Indian War. Like most of Henty's novels this is a true adventure novel filled with historical detail.
  • Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

    Hearn Lafcadio Hearn, Lafcadio Hearn

    Paperback (Book Jungle, Dec. 24, 2007)
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  • Sky Island

    L. Frank Baum

    Paperback (Book Jungle, Oct. 8, 2009)
    Frank Baum was a famous author of children's books. He is best noted for his book The Wizard of Oz. Baum used several pen names when writing different series. He used the pen name Edith van Dyke when writing books for adolescent girls. Sky Island is the sequel to The Sea Fairies published in 1911. Trot lives in southern California where she meets a little boy with an umbrella. Button Bright uses his family's magic umbrella to go on adventures. The children want to visit a near by island but end up literally in an island in the sky. The three travelers land on the blue side of Sky Island, which is a grim country ruled by a sadistic tyrant, the Boolooroo of the Blues. They escape through a fog and end up in the pink half of the island. The pink country is a much friendlier and more relaxed place than the blue side, with cheerfully chubby residents.
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  • New Atlantis - Bacon

    Francis Bacon

    Paperback (Book Jungle, Sept. 6, 2007)
    The New Atlantis is a utopian novel written by Francis Bacon in 1626. Bacon depicts in his novel a mythical land, Bensalem, to which he sailed, that was located somewhere off the western coast of the continent of America. He recounts the description by one of its wise men, of its system of experimentation, and of its method of recognition for inventions and inventors. In Bensalem, marriage and family are the basis of society and family ties are celebrated in state-sponsored holidays...
  • American Indian Stories

    Zitkala-Sa

    Paperback (Book Jungle, July 28, 2008)
    Ztkala-Sa was a Sioux Indian. She was one of the first to write down the stories of her tribe. The first group of stories is autobiographical. At eight she leaves on the Iron Horse to go to school in the East against her mother's objections. She later becomes a teacher. The book concludes with stories of her family's oral history and traditions.