18th century

When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva, Victor Frankenstein embarks on a quest to create the Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.

Chronicles the history of the French Acadians, the French-speaking Catholic inhabitants of eighteenth-century Nova Scotia, and their expulsion by the colonial governments of Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, which lasted from 1755 to 1763.

Describes ships, men, and main strategies and campaigns of the British Royal Navy that defeated the French in the Napoleonic Wars.

An unabridged republication of five nonfiction, satirical works by English author Jonathan Swift, written between 1697 and 1729.

After being kidnapped by his villainous uncle, sixteen-year-old David Balfour escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

Tells the love story of eighteenth-century European couple Isabela and Jean Godin, who were reunited after a twenty-year separation in South America when Isabela traversed the Andes and the Amazonian jungle to reach Jean, outliving everyone in her traveling party.

A sixteen-year-old orphan is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

While vacationing in Scotland in 1945, Clare stumbles upon an ancient stone circle and is hurled back in time two hundred years where she discovers a new life and a timeless love.

When Chad and his family flee to a fort in the Tennessee wilderness to escape an attack by Chickamauga Indians, the presence of the family of a white renegade who joined the Indians causes additional tensions.