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Peace Like a River is Leif Enger's extraordinary debut novel-a heroic quest, a tragedy, a love story, and a haunting meditation on the possibility of magic in the everyday world.Sku: 9780802139252
Peace Like a River
By: Leif Enger$27.95 -
A twelve-year-old Iroquois boy searches for peace in this historical novel based on the creation of the Iroquois Confederacy.Sku: 9781984815392
Peacemaker
By: Joseph Bruchac$10.99 -
Sketcher, adventurer, disguiser, and sneaker Ollister B. Pembrick roamed all of Skree with a sketchbook and pen, searching behind every tree stump and under every stone, in every river and on every hill, to discover and document the endless living wonders of the Maker's world. He risked life and limb--quite literally--to compile sketches and details of the creatures of Skree, usually from the cover of a hollow log, a hedge, or a pile of leaves.Sku: 9780525653646
Pembrick’s Creaturepedia
By: Andrew Peterson$19.99 -
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests.Sku: 9780140446456
Pensees
By: Blaise Pascal$17.50 -
The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom.Sku: 9780743234917
Perelandra
By: C. S. Lewis$23.50 -
Experience the life of Joan of Arc told through the eyes of her fictionalized page, Louis de Contes. Originally published as a magazine serial, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, is broken into three sections.2 Grades
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
By: Mark Twain$26.50 – $42.95 -
Joan of Arc, a peasant girl in 15th century France, rose up to hold supreme command of the military forces of France at the age of seventeen. Inspired by visions and voices of angels, Joan led French troops to lift the siege of Orléans ensuring Charles VII was crowned King of France in 1429. Twain traveled to France’s National Archives to personally study the transcripts of Joan’s trial. Immerse yourself in her story, told by one of America’s finest writers.
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
By: Mark Twain$24.50 – $37.95 -
The book is about the narrator’s (Anodos) dream-like adventures in fairyland, where he confronts tree-spirits and the shadow, sojourns to the palace of the fairy queen, and searches for the spirit of the earth. The tale is vintage MacDonald, conveying a profound sadness and a poignant longing for death.Sku: 9780802860606
Phantastes
By: George MacDonald$26.50 -
A truthful and absorbing narrative of life in Connecticut in 1830. Phebe Fairchild travels alone by stagecoach from her home in New Haven to spend a year with her country cousins, while her sea-captain father has taken her mother on a long voyage. Through the many adventures of that year and her struggles to keep her greatest treasure—a beloved book—she learns to understand her father’s parting advice, “You’ll need patience and courage a-plenty, but do as you’re told and never be afraid.” Lois Lenski devoted many months of enthusiastic research to making her story rich and accurate in background. She brings to life for young people as well as older readers a fascinating period of New England life. The book is noteworthy as to format, being designed by the artist, and generously illustrated in a manner suggestive of the period. A Newbery Honor book.Sku: 9781948959193
Phebe Fairchild: Her Book
By: Lois Lenski$24.50 -
In the early 1900s, Pumphrey, a primary school teacher, compiled stories from a number of original sources, including William Bradford's diary Of Plymouth Plantation and Edward Winslow's journal Good Newes from New England--stories of faith, courage, and joy that became the seeds of a great nation.Sku: 9781893103245
Pilgrim Stories
By: Margaret Pumphrey$16.50 -
Written by Carlo Collodi in 1883, Pinocchio is an adventure-filled fairy tale with an important moral. Will Pinocchio ever learn to do what is right and become a real boy? Collodi’s timeless story teaches valuable lessons of goodness, hard work, and diligence.Sku: 9781547705504
Pinocchio
By: Carlo Collodi$17.95 -
This instant New York Times bestselling novel is an intoxicating, hypnotic book set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.Sku: 9781635577808
Piranesi
By: Susanna Clarke$23.99 -
At the start of 1991, eleven-year-old Ali Fadhil was consumed by his love for soccer, video games, and American television shows. Then, on January 17, Iraq’s dictator, Saddam Hussein, went to war with thirty-four nations led by the United States.Sku: 9780358108825
Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein
By: Jennifer Roy, Ali Fadhil$12.50 -
Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time.Sku: 9780375756764
Plutarch’s Lives – Volume 1
By: Plutarch, Translated by John Dryden$27.99 -
Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time.Sku: 9780375756771
Plutarch’s Lives – Volume 2
By: Plutarch$28.00 -
In 1607, when John Smith and his "Coatmen" arrive in Powhatan to begin settling the colony of Virginia, their relations with the village's inhabitants are anything but warm. Pocahontas, the beloved daughter of the Powhatan chief, Mamanatowic, is just eleven; but in spite of her age, this astute young girl acts with wisdom and compassion, and plays a fateful, peaceful role in the destinies of two peoples.Sku: 9780152054656
Pocahontas
By: Joseph Bruchac$10.95