Audio Bookshelf

Writer John Howard Griffin decided to perform an experiment in order to learn from the inside out how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another race....

Award-winning author Erdrich weaves a vital and dramatic novel of a year in the life of a young Ojibwa girl in the mid-1800's.

The year was 1944. The village of Sighet in Hungary had been grasped by the evil and unrelenting hand of Hitler, and its people...

The shipwrecked crew of the whaleship Essex was living proof that it could when a whale displayed a fury never before witnessed, ramming and sinking their vessel in a matter of minutes in November,1820.

The Revolutionary War! A war with no clearcut loyalties -- dividing families, friends and towns. A story rich in historical detail and action as told from the viewpoint of young Tim Meeker.

A young Indian boy from Nipigon country in the Canadian wilderness carves a twelve inch canoe with a kneeling Indian figure and frees it to undertake a journey to the Atlantic Ocean in his place.

It's a survival story almost too incredible to believe, but it's the extraordinary true tale of endurance in the harshest environment on earth...

The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.

During the summer of 1916, just as railroad travel enabled city dwellers to make day-trips to the seashore and swimming in the ocean became popular, bathers along the East Coast were frightened away by a series of vicious attacks in the water.

It is hardly an exaggeration to call Mark Twain one of the true giants of American literature, a master...