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The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
In six quiet New England tales, the domestic routine of ordinary homes is shattered when uninvited entities manifest through ordinary household objects.
The Wood Beyond the World
William Morris
When an unhappily married young merchant flees his coastal city, he strays beyond the known earth into a perilous fairy-realm of sorcery, enthrallment, and true love.
There was once a slave
Shirley Graham Du Bois
A boy born into chattel slavery looks up at the northern stars and decides that his mind, his body, and his destiny belong to no man.
Tom Swift and His Undersea Search
Victor Appleton
Deep beneath the Atlantic, a young inventor risks everything to solve two mysteries at once: locating a long-lost fortune and unmasking a ruthless fraud.
Travels in the Interior of Africa
Mungo Park
A Scottish explorer trudges across West Africa, trading cowries for passage, surviving tropical fevers, and recording the interior with observant, quiet resolve.
Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793. Vol. I
Alexander Mackenzie
Where rivers turn to ice and maps end in conjecture, an eighteenth-century fur trader sets out to find an ocean path across a continent.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05: Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the
Robert Kerr
A country won by steel is lost to greed, as the men who conquered South America turn their weapons upon one another.
Alcuin of York
G. F. (George Forrest) Browne
Through a detailed examination of early medieval manuscripts, letters, and council records, an English scholar traces the profound impact of Anglo-Saxon learning on the intellectual and ecclesiastical foundation of Continental Europe.
Ancient Egyptian legends
Margaret Alice Murray
Ancient myths reveal how early civilizations sought order, magic, and divine justice amidst the terrifying mysteries of life and death.
Bohemian Paris of To-day: Second Edition
W. C. Morrow
A young American art student plunges into the crowded ateliers, shadowy cabarets, and raucous student balls of late-nineteenth-century Paris, discovering a world where creative ambition is inseparable from pinching poverty, boisterous spectacle, and the relentless search for artistic identity.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
Archibald Forbes
An eye-witness account of war and society across the nineteenth century, written with the clear-eyed vigor of a seasoned frontline correspondent.
Children of the Frost
Jack London
A relentless Northland isolates Native dwellers and white interlopers, pitting human endurance against an unyielding wilderness and inevitable change.
Dickens
Ward, Adolphus William, Sir
The energetic spirit of the nineteenth century’s greatest storyteller finds here a measured, thoughtful portrait, revealing the man behind the legendary library of characters. It is an enduring examination of artistic genius struggling with the personal weight of fame.
Dio's Rome, Volume 2: An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form
Cassius Dio Cocceianus
A crumbling republic fractures under the weight of runaway ambition, violent party politics, and military strongmen who subvert every law designed to restrain them.
European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae
George Massee
A microscopic shift in observation exposes a vast, interconnected realm hidden right beneath our feet.
Gladiator
Philip Wylie
A biological experiment grants a man superhuman strength, but his ultimate struggle becomes finding any meaningful purpose in a world of fragile mortals.
History of Randolph-Macon College, Virginia: The Oldest Incorporated Methodist College in America
Richard Irby
A practical faith built this pioneer institution, where devotion to classical learning and evangelical duty survived financial ruin, total war, and forced displacement.
Impressions of America
Oscar Wilde
A tour through nineteenth-century America becomes a canvas for sharp wit, aesthetic philosophy, and vivid cultural observation.
Indian Birds: Being a Key to the Common Birds of the Plains of India
Douglas Dewar
A field observer flips through a quick pocket guide while standing under an Indian garden shade, spotting a flash of brilliant gold or a sudden twitching red tail.
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906: Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature
Various
The May 1906 issue of Mother Earth brings together revolutionary essays, satire, and fiction to challenge social hypocrisy and envision human freedom.
One Hundred Best Books: With Commentary and an Essay on Books and Reading
John Cowper Powys
An individual intellect confronts the grand legacy of Western letters, casting aside rigid academic canons to champion the raw, personal joy of uninhibited reading.
Peck's bad boy abroad
George W. (George Wilbur) Peck
A chaotic global tour through the eyes of an incorrigible American prankster and his long-suffering father.
Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Caine, Hall, Sir
A young acolyte steps into the shadowed Chelsea home of a dying Pre-Raphaelite master, discovering an artistic world forged in fiery passions and quiet decay.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
Marie Conway Oemler
When an injured safe-cracker wakes in a South Carolina parish house to find his leg amputated, an eccentric priest redirects the burglar’s nimble fingers toward collecting butterflies, setting off a quiet, transformative rebirth.
Somewhere in Red Gap
Harry Leon Wilson
In the rugged cattle country of Washington State, an unsentimental ranch woman with a razor-sharp tongue observes the antics, delusions, and quiet transformations of her eccentric Western neighbors.
Tell Me Another Story: The Book of Story Programs
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
A carefully arranged sequence of stories transforms simple listening into an active process of mental growth and focused attention.
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The Bible in Spain, Vol. 1 [of 2]
George Borrow
A Protestant missionary rides through nineteenth-century Spain with saddlebags full of Testaments, turning an obscure religious mission into an unforgettable, wild travel adventure.
The Black Buccaneer
Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader
A young boy is torn from his lonely Maine island by notorious buccaneers, launching a perilous journey through capes, sea battles, and hidden gold.
The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln
Helen Nicolay
A quiet pioneer lineage gives rise to an extraordinary American life, forged in backwoods labor and tested by national catastrophe.
The Boys of '61
Charles Carleton Coffin
A front-line reporter watches the American republic fracture and rebuild itself through four years of relentless fire, recording the mud, blood, and quiet human courage that defined a nation's fiercest struggle.
The Charterhouse of Parma, Volume 1
Stendhal
A young aristocrat sets out in search of Napoleonic glory, only to find himself entangled in the silent, lethal web of a restoration Italian court.
The Danube
Walter Jerrold
A sweeping journey along Europe’s grandest river reveals a landscape alive with ancient Roman ruins, medieval legends, and dynamic cities.
The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies
Walter Besant
An early death cut short a life of quiet observation, but a fellow writer stepped forward to record the singular spirit and solitary vision that transformed English nature writing into visionary art.
The Inside of the Cup
Winston Churchill
A comfortable Midwestern rector loses his easy faith, looks closely at the wealthy donors who support his parish, and decides to preach a radical gospel that shatters his church.
The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq.: Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself
John Galt
A farm boy in backwoods Pennsylvania uses wild berries and horsehair to paint his first pictures, setting off an improbable journey toward becoming president of the Royal Academy of Arts.
The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
Richard de Bury
Bound in pigskin or buried in dust, forgotten pages hold the only human thoughts that outlast the crumbling stone of empires and the forgotten names of kings.
The marines have landed
Giles Bishop
A young boy searches for his place in the military, trading the comforts of home for the harsh discipline and global battlefields of an elite fighting force.
The New North
Agnes Deans Cameron
A lone traveler leaves the comforts of civilization behind to trace Canada’s ancient northern waterways, discovering a vast, self-reliant wilderness on her journey toward the Frozen Ocean.
The Voice in Singing
Emma Seiler
A rigorous scientific mind unravels the physical mechanics of the human vocal apparatus to rescue an ancient art from modern neglect and superficial applause.
Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive
Victor Appleton
A young inventor races against corporate saboteurs to build a two-mile-a-minute electric engine and save a struggling Western railroad.
When God Laughs, and Other Stories
Jack London
Fate plays a cold, indifferent game against human drive, mocking every attempt to outsmart starvation, mortality, and the passage of time.
A Catechism of Familiar Things;: Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery
Anonymous
This XIX-century educational guide turns the everyday environment into an endless source of wonder through structured, question-and-answer explorations of history, science, and trade.
Bibliographic Notes on One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature
Henry Watson Kent
A physical volume is never just a neutral container for words, but the dynamic record of human labor, mechanical craft, and legal conflict.
Echoes of Old Lancashire
William E. A. (William Edward Armytage) Axon
A localized world of forgotten scoundrels, devout radicals, and ancient landed families comes alive through meticulous antiquarian research.
Eothen
Alexander William Kinglake
Traveling on horseback across the Ottoman Empire, an English youth matches his cool insolence against desert heat, quarantine, and local grandees.
Fiesco
Friedrich Schiller
In a Republic teetering on the edge of tyranny, a brilliant nobleman wears the mask of a dissolute playboy to cover his designs on power. Ambition, honor, and republican ideals collide in a nocturnal coup where every victory demands a devastating sacrifice.
Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Dorothy Wordsworth
Sharp mountain air, rugged glens, and quiet encounters fill an observant traveller's notebook. Everyday moments of nineteenth-century journeys come alive through exact observation, unhurried prose, and a profound eye for landscape and human dignity.
Madame Chrysanthème
Pierre Loti
Enchanted by a delicate vision of the Orient, a French naval officer buys a temporary Japanese bride, only to find that exotic illusion yields to dull routine, quiet alienation, and an unflinching commercial transaction.