Silent Spring
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave

Best Short Stories of Edgar Allen Poe

This volume contains a collection of some of the best short stories ever written by Edgar Allan Poe.

A master of the macabre, Poe exhibits his literary prowess in these classic short stories.

Contained within this volume are the following: eleonora, the black cat, the masque of the Red death, the house of usher, the masque of the Red death, the murders in the Rue morg, the pit and the pendulum and the assignation.

More Adult, Non-Juvenile Books

  • In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, Jack and Mabel build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone -- but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.

  • Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 1906) overcame racism and poverty to become one of the best-known authors in America, and the first African American to earn a living from his poetry, fiction, drama, journalism, and lectures.

  • The Tradition explores cultural threats on black bodies, resistance, and the interplay of desire and privilege in a dangerous era.