Brown, Don

A simple biography of the director whose silent films immortalized such slapstick clowns as the Keystone Kops, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and Ben Turpin.

A biography of Jim Thorpe, an American Indian athlete, who became the star of the 1912 Olympics.

Presents an illustrated account of the Titanic's deadly voyage on April 12, 1912, when two thousand passengers, rich and poor alike, fought to survive the tragedy while partially filled lifeboats launched into the night with seven hundred people as some family members stayed behind.

After a gruesome discovery escalates America's involvement in a naval war in the South China Sea, U.S. President Douglas Surber must choose to take a stand against evil or save the life of his daughter, who is stationed aboard a U.S. submarine tender.

Describes the record-breaking flight of a daring woman pilot, Ruth Law, from Chicago to New York in 1916.

Describes the life of the English girl whose discovery of an Ichthyosaurus fossil led to a lasting interest in other prehistoric animals.

A story of the newsboys (and girls) who took on the world's most powerful press barons--and won.

Shares some of the adventures of Samuel Clemens's childhood and youth in Hannibal, Missouri--the source of much of his inspiration for his writings as Mark Twain.

Tells the story of St. Columcille, a sixth-century Irish monk and scribe who instigated a terrible battle between Irish clans in his efforts to keep learning and scholarship alive during the Dark Ages.

In the 1890s, struggling to support himself and his invalid father among the gangs on New York's Lower East Side, thirteen-year-old Sam Glodsky joins mobster Monk Eastman and his own archenemy, Izzy Fink, in a plot to rescue Eastman's prize racing pigeon from a quarantined steamship.