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The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 4 (of 6): New Complete Library Edition
Unknown
A family of ambitious gentry fights to defend its newly acquired estates across decades of civil strife, betrayal, and relentless courtroom warfare.
The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland
Unknown
A forgotten county's verse reveals how ordinary rural lives, small-town griefs, and quiet local pride find unexpected immortality through communal song.
The Sacred Beetle, and Others
Jean-Henri Fabre
A tiny engineer labors in the dust, rolling a sphere of dung much larger than itself. This patient, observant natural history examines the intricate domestic lives and instinctive intelligence of earth’s humblest creatures.
The Wonders of Pompeii
Marc Monnier
Buried beneath volcanic ash for eighteen centuries, a forgotten Roman city reemerges to reveal the intimate, everyday rhythms of ancient life.
The works of the Rev. John Wesley, Vol. 04 (of 32)
John Wesley
Belief without practical action is an empty shell, and a life devoted to God demands strict stewardship of one's money, speech, time, and relationships in an indifferent world.
Valere aude (dare to be healthy)
Louis Dechmann
Humanity's suffering from bodily ailments can be cured not through drugs or germ-hunting, but by restoring proper mineral balance to the blood and soil through a precise system of cell-food therapy and natural hygiene.
Watson's Magazine, Vol. IV, No. 2, April, 1906
Various
A fiercely opinionated artifact of American Populism captures the raw economic anxiety and political rebellion of the early twentieth century.
Woodrow Wilson's Administration and Achievements
Frank B. Lord
An idealist scholar enters the American presidency to reform national finance, only to be forced onto the global stage by world war and a tragic struggle for international peace.
A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 4
George Müller
A life of radical, deliberate financial vulnerability reveals what happens when a person resolves never to ask for a penny. This ledger of answered prayers tracks every farthing that sustains hundreds of parentless children.
A Roman Singer
F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
An impoverished Italian scholar narrates how his peasant foster son rises to international operatic fame while braving dark rivalries, imprisonment, and duels to rescue the noble German woman he loves.
A Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699
William Dampier
A three-year voyage to chart uncharted southern waters turns into a masterclass in patient observation, tracking everything from Brazilian timber to tail-less Australian lizards.
Arabic Authors: A Manual of Arabian History and Literature
F. F. Arbuthnot
A vast, untamed landscape of poetry, philosophy, and history lies waiting for those brave enough to look past the Western canon.
Aunt Friendly's Picture Book.: Containing Thirty-six Pages of Pictures Printed in Colours by Kronheim
Unknown
A quiet charm runs through this Victorian compendium, where familiar nursery rhymes and timeless fables sit alongside vibrant color illustrations to introduce young readers to the joy of printed stories.
Dio's Rome, Volume 4: 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 senate debates whether to abandon absolute power, unaware that the Republic is already dead and the Principate is born.
Finn the wolfhound
A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
An Irish Wolfhound bred in Sussex faces theft, betrayal, and the harsh Australian wilderness before finding his way home.
Hamlet: The First ('Bad') Quarto
William Shakespeare
A grief-stricken prince unravels a web of betrayal at court after learning his uncle murdered his father, feigning madness to execute a desperate scheme of revenge.
Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition: For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing
William Norman Brown
Mastering durable industrial finishes requires a balance of chemical understanding, meticulous surface preparation, and heat regulation across wood, leather, and metal.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852
Various
A vast, sprawling canvas of mid-nineteenth-century thought and story captures a rapidly changing world through biographical sketches, serial fiction, natural history, political reportage, and satirical social commentary.
History of Scotland
Margaret MacArthur
A harsh northern landscape yields centuries of unrelenting political friction, transforming tribal feuds and foreign over-lordship into a distinct national identity forged in the crucible of war.
History of the United States, Volume 5
Elisha Benjamin Andrews
At the turn of the twentieth century, an expanding United States grapples with its rapid industrial transformation, newly acquired overseas territories, and the turbulent political shifts that redefine modern American identity.
Is Life Worth Living?
W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock
When modern science strips the universe of sacred meaning, can human life retain any genuine, objective worth?
Library Bookbinding
Arthur Low Bailey
A practical handbook detailing the structural mechanics, material selection, and administrative routines required to keep library books durable under heavy public circulation.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 6, October, 1908
Various
A turn-of-the-century cultural tapestry capturing American life through public art, international warfare, industrial legislation, and the quiet struggles of everyday people.
Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe: Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bt., Ambassador from Charles II to the Courts of Portugal and Madrid
Ann Fanshawe
Faithful companions through exile, war, and foreign courts, a royalist couple navigates the collapse and resurrection of the Stuart monarchy.
Parsifal: A Mystical Drama by Richard Wagner Retold in the Spirit of the Bayreuth Interpretation
Richard Wagner
A pure-hearted youth wanders into a sacred forest, unaware that his innocence holds the key to healing a broken kingdom and redeeming a fallen world.
Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 1 (of 2)
Harriet Martineau
A single transatlantic voyage opens into an expansive journey across nineteenth-century America, where wild landscapes and urban ambitions collide.
Seed-time and Harvest: A Novel
Fritz Reuter
Grief and ruin strip an honest tenant farmer of his estate, yet the quiet rhythm of rural life keeps spinning around him. Across the estate houses and village parsonages of Pomerania and Mecklenburg, human folly continuously tussles with steady decency.
Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862
Henry Morford
Set against the backdrop of a nation torn by Civil War, Henry Morford’s 1863 novel captures the home-front anxieties and military conflicts of a defining era.
Stories from the Greek Tragedians
Alfred John Church
Fate, divine commands, and human passions collide in dramatic retellings that strip ancient theater down to its essential, unforgettable narratives.
The Boy Scouts on the Range
John Henry Goldfrap
Across the sun-baked, red-dust expanses of northern Arizona, a group of Eastern boys learns to ride, rope, and navigate the unforgiving frontier while battling rustlers and local tribes.
The Bright Face of Danger: Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire
Robert Neilson Stephens
A young nobleman sets out on a ridiculous duel of pride, only to be swept into a dark vortex of domestic tyranny, treason, and deadly peril.
The Common Sense of Socialism: A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg
John Spargo
Written as a direct epistolary address to an American factory worker, this plain-spoken treatise dismantles the economic status quo to argue that true democracy requires collective ownership of the nation's industrial wealth.
The Community Cook Book
Anonymous
A pragmatic collection of early twentieth-century American recipes offers an honest, reliable window into the heart of domestic life and community nourishment.
The Insect Folk
Margaret Warner Morley
An inviting field guide to the insect world uses conversational rambles around ponds and meadows to teach children how to observe nature closely.
The Little House in the Fairy Wood
Ethel Cook Eliot
An abused orphan escapes a harsh human household into a realm of forest spirits, where a fairy mother and child teach him how to see the magic of the wild world.
The Messenger
Elizabeth Robins
A young woman’s unwavering personal devotion collides with the icy reality of wartime espionage, testing whether trust can survive when patriotism turns every intimacy into a weapon.
The Mysterious Rider
Zane Grey
On a high mountain ranch in Colorado, a waif’s devotion to her adopted father is tested when she is bound to marry his worthless son.
The Quest: The authorized translation from the Dutch of De kleine Johannes
Frederik van Eeden
A young boy leaves behind his childhood garden to wander through a world of fairies, cold science, and social struggle, searching for the ultimate truth that can reconcile the beauty of nature with human suffering.
The Riddle and the Ring
Gordon MacLaren
A penniless man in wintertime New York steps out of desperation and straight into a web of mistaken identity, high-society intrigue, and dangerous international secrets.
The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace
Horace
Wisdom arrives when we trade the reckless ambition of youth for a quiet place in the countryside and a well-curated shelf.
The Voice on the Wire
Eustace Hale Ball
An aristocratic criminologist and a stage performer match wits against a sinister mastermind who uses high-tech telephony and a city-wide criminal network to terrorize New York's wealthiest elite.
Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman: Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West
Austin Steward
Born into Virginia slavery, Austin Steward endured twenty-two years of brutal bondage before gaining his freedom, establishing a business, and eventually helping lead an ambitious colony for fugitive slaves in Canada West.
Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: Literature
William Ernest Henley
This critical collection strips away Victorian pretense to evaluate literature through an unyielding, craftsmanlike lens. It delivers sharp, unfiltered judgments on the great writers and cultural icons of the modern era.
Bahaism and Its Claims: A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha
Samuel Graham Wilson
This polemical survey investigates the origins, theological claims, and internal history of a religious movement emerging from nineteenth-century Persia, challenging its self-presentation as a universal faith for the modern age. It acts as a critical counter-narrative, scrutinizing the movement's growth and its…
Mysteria
Otto Henne am Rhyn
A quiet hunger for secrecy drives human history. Otto Henne am Rhyn traces how esoteric rites, hidden orders, and mystical dogmas evolved from ancient temple sanctuaries into modern political fraternities.
Ayala's Angel
Anthony Trollope
She chases an impossible dream of perfection until she learns that real love wears an surprisingly human face.
Carried Off: A Story of Pirate Times
Esmè Stuart
An English farm boy and a young Spanish noble are drawn together across the divide of captivity, war, and the bloody rampages of Henry Morgan's buccaneers.
History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America
John K. (John Kerr) Tiffany
A chronicle of administrative ambition, technical trial, and aesthetic change reveals how localized postmaster decisions evolved into a vast federal apparatus for prepaid postage across nineteenth-century America.