Dive into the Middle Ages with Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales." This collection of stories, written in Middle English, offers a vibrant tapestry of medieval life, brimming with colorful characters from various walks of life. Join a diverse group of pilgrims on a journey to the shrine of Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Each pilgrim tells a tale, ranging from bawdy humor to profound moral lessons. Chaucer's masterful storytelling paints...

An extraordinary new novel by Samantha Harvey-whose books have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize, the Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize), and the Guardian First Book Award-The Western Wind is a riveting story of faith, guilt, and the freedom of confession. It's 1491. In the small village of Oakham, its wealthiest and most industrious resident, Tom Newman, is swept away by the river during the early hours of Shrove Saturday....

Virtually nothing is said about the European scholars who came before. In reality, more than a millennium before the Renaissance, a succession of scholars paved the way for the exciting discoveries usually credited to Galileo, Newton, Copernicus, and others. In Before Galileo, physicist and historian John Freely examines the pioneering research of the first European scientists, many of them monks whose influence ranged far beyond the walls of the...

Have your readers ever dreamed of living in a castle? Life in the Middle Ages was no fairy tale. Readers will charge back in time to find out what real life was like in castles of the Middle Ages in this reluctant reader book.