Museum Collections

The Ultimate Political Pamphlet Collection gathers eleven influential works of revolution, reform, socialism, anarchism, civil liberty, and political dissent. This collection presents political writing at its most urgent, polemical, and consequential.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was a British writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary critic. Chesterton wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, several plays, plus 4,000 essays and newspaper columns. He was a columnist for the Daily News and The Illustrated London News.

A charming collection of the first three installments in the brilliantly funny murder mystery series by comedian and writer Alasdair Beckett-King that BBC Radio called “Knives Out meets Poirot—but for children!” Bonnie Montgomery is the world’s greatest detective. Not that anyone—other...

The Ultimate Science Fiction Mega Collection contains 24 of the greatest science-fiction works ever written.

Maplewood Museum’s most despised security guard drops dead after dessert. When the coffee froth and glitter settles, the only thing missing is the museum’s prized artifact…and everyone’s alibi. Hattie Calder planned to spend the evening serving coffee, not stumbling into chaos. But when whispers of theft, blackmail, and betrayal echo through the gala hall, the barista with a talent for noticing what others miss becomes the prime candidate to untangle the truth. Armed with her quick wit, her friend Liam’s tech savvy, and her cat Beans’ uncanny knack for being in the wrong place ...

Stoicism, a school of Hellenistic thought founded in Athens in the third century BC, was one of the most sublime philosophies in the history of Western civilization. It is a way of living that focuses on reality instead of fantasy or idealism. According to its teachings, the path to peace and happiness is found in accepting the moment as it presents itself, by not allowing oneself to be ruled by the desire for pleasure or by the fear of pain.

A heart-stopping novel of adventure and suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins—the first in his critically acclaimed Sigma Force series A freak explosion in the British Museum in London ignites a perilous race for an earth-shaking power source buried deep beneath the...

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics and government.

The saints, the heroes of the Roman Catholic faith, lived lives of holiness, dedicated to serving God. The saints lived at different times in different places throughout history, but they all shared a love of God that has been documented through the teachings of the Church. Today, the saints serve as examples for all Catholics, showing the believers how to lead a more spiritual life. Catholic devotions are particular customs, rituals and practices of worship or in honour of the saints that are in addition to the liturgy of the Catholic Church.

The Big Game Hunting Collection contains three classic accounts of dangerous animals, wilderness travel, and hunting in Africa and India. These works belong to the older tradition of exploration and hunting memoir, combining adventure, natural observation, colonial-era travel, and the constant tension between human beings and the wild.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963), was an author, scholar, sociologist, historian, Pan-Africanist, and civil rights activist. After completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, he became a professor of history, sociology, and economics at Atlanta University.

An epic poem is a lengthy narrative poem, usually set in a time beyond living memory in which the extraordinary ancestors, in their dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants, the poet, and his audience in order to understand themselves as a people.

Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was an educator, author, intellectual and orator, who founded Tuskegee University in 1881. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the most prominent leader in the African American community.

This is a nine-book bundle on the Pacific War, the theatre of World War II that was fought in Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and Oceania. The Pacific War saw the Allies pitted against Japan, aided by Thailand and its Axis allies, Germany and Italy. Fighting included some of the largest naval battles in history, and the war culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Andrew Murray (1828-1917) was a South African writer, teacher, and Christian pastor. This Best Of collection comprises seven of his most trenchant books.

The pioneering advocate of wilderness preservation, John Muir (1838-1914) was influential in the creation of many national parks.

The Novella Masterworks Collection gathers seventeen classic short novels and novellas from world literature.

The Ultimate Evangelical Classics Collection gathers thirty works of Puritan, Baptist, Reformed, and evangelical devotion.

The Reconstruction Essentials Collection gathers ten works on slavery, emancipation, race, memory, leadership, and the long aftermath of the Civil War. This collection offers a powerful body of testimony and historical reflection on the central struggles of nineteenth-century America.

The New England Masterworks Collection gathers ten works connected with New England life, literature, history, reform, and imagination.