fiction

Alessandra Cecchi becomes enchanted with a young painter her father has brought back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo, but their relationship is interrupted when Alessandra's parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy older man.

In their final adventure, the four Musketeers plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.

Relates the story of the life of Joan of Arc, as seen through the eyes of the fictional narrator Sieur Louis de Conte, Joan's childhood friend and secretary.

A moral allegory, set in ancient India, about one soul's quest for the ultimate answer to the enigma of man's role in the world. The hero, Siddhartha, undergoes a series of experiences to emerge in a state of peace and wisdom.

Forced from power, General Simon Bolivar embarks on a seven months' voyage down the Magdalena River, reflecting along the way on his life of campaigns and battles, love and loss.

The boy King, Edward VI of England, and a poor boy accidentally change places.

Provides a fictionalized account of Jemmy Button, a native boy from Tierra del Fuego who was brought to London to be educated and then returned home to his island.

Anya, an eighteen-year-old Russian orphan with no memory of her past, sets out for Paris where she hopes to find her family.

One starry night, as all sorts of animals watch over their young, Mary and Joseph watch over their baby boy, Jesus, in Bethlehem.

Larry Daley, who used to be the night guard at the Museum of Natural History in New York City, is aided by Amelia Earhart in his attempts to rescue his friends from the Smithsonian in Washington D.C., and battle against Kahmunrah, the ancient Egyptian ruler.