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The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, and Other Stories
Bret Harte
California mining camps, Scottish estates, and haunted haciendas form the backdrop of these short stories, where rough-edged pioneers, eccentric lovers, and quiet hypocrites navigate love, deception, and sudden loss.
The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia
K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) Parker
Through years of quiet observation on the Narran River, a squatter’s wife documents the intricate beliefs, rituals, and daily life of the Euahlayi people of southeastern Australia.
The Gate of Appreciation: Studies in the Relation of Art to Life
Carleton Eldredge Noyes
Art opens a door to richer living, offering the untrained everyday observer a direct pathway into the transformative depth of human expression.
The Life of John Bunyan
Edmund Venables
HOOK Born to a traveling tinker in an age of revolution, John Bunyan emerged from the crucible of personal despair and long-term imprisonment to become one of the most enduring voices in the English language.
The Long Labrador Trail
Dillon Wallace
A harrowing expedition into the uncharted Labrador wilderness transforms a tragic promise into a historic triumph of survival and mapping.
The Mirror of Kong Ho
Ernest Bramah
A misinformed foreign visitor navigates the absurdities of Edwardian London, offering a absurdly polite, thoroughly confused chronicle of English life.
The Ocean and Its Wonders
R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
A gentle whisper on the beach or a roar in the tempest, the sea speaks constantly to human beings of divine power, boundless natural wonder, and unseen physical laws waiting to be understood.
The Opium Habit
Horace B. Day
A harrowing nineteenth-century collection of personal narratives and medical reflections reveals how a ubiquitous remedy turns into an insurmountable physical trap.
The Penalty
Gouverneur Morris
A maimed mastermind schemes in the New York underworld while a gifted young sculptress unwittingly offers him a path to transformation.
The Princess Casamassima (Volume 1 of 2)
Henry James
An illegitimate son of a French seamstress and a murdered nobleman navigates the deep divide of Victorian London, caught between the pull of revolutionary socialism and the alluring world of art and privilege.
The Russian Garland, Being Russian Folk Tales
Unknown
Spanning vast forests and glittering tsardomies, these vibrant 1830s chap-book tales follow wandering knights, cunning servants, and magical companions who conquer bloodthirsty armies and outwit tyrannical rulers across fantastical lands.
The Sea Lions
James Fenimore Cooper
An obsessive quest for antarctic seals and buried treasure turns into a harrowing trial of survival among polar icebergs, where human greed yields to the humbling vastness of nature and divine power.
The Sheik: A Novel
E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull
A fearless young Englishwoman rides alone into the Algerian desert, seeking absolute independence, only to be abducted by a ruthless chieftain whose violent dominance gives way to an unexpected, life-altering passion.
The Splendid Fairing
Constance Holme
A dense, suffocating mist hangs over the Cumbrian marshlands on a day when forty years of silent rivalry, poverty, and unspoken grief finally demand a reckoning between two farming families.
The Trespasser
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
An unhappily married violinist escapes to the Isle of Wight with his young pupil for five glorious days, only to find that their romantic idealization cannot survive the cold reality waiting back in London.
Trade and travel in the Far East
G. F. Davidson
A first-person record of twenty years in the Eastern trade, capturing the ports, crops, and colonial realities of a world in rapid transition.
Travels in the Interior of Brazil: Principally through the northern provinces, and the gold and diamond districts, during the years 1836-1841
George Gardner
A young Scottish botanist crisscrosses the vast wilderness of nineteenth-century Brazil, recording every plant, river, and human settlement he encounters.
Under the Prophet in Utah
Frank J. Cannon
A powerful religious hierarchy bargains its way into the American republic, trading solemn promises of reform for statehood—only to betray those pledges and establish a secretive political and financial tyranny over its devoted followers.
Vera
Elizabeth Von Arnim
When grief leaves a young woman entirely defenseless, a middle-aged suitor steps into the silence with relentless attention, offering protection that soon reveals itself to be a subtle, suffocating trap.
Vine and Olive
Oliver Optic
Two rebellious American midshipmen attempt to burn their academy ship off the Spanish coast, while a wealthy Spanish student flees a predatory guardian who claims legal custody of his vast fortune.
Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings
Andy Adams
Stranded on the Kansas plains, two teenaged brothers build an imperiled cattle empire from the discarded strays, crippled stock, and hard-won wisdom of passing trail drives.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 12
Unknown
Tragedy, comedy, and murder stalk the windswept Scottish borders, where ordinary folk and desperate wanderers battle severe winters, bitter poverty, and their own darkest impulses.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 1, part 1: George Washington
Unknown
Primary executive papers, foundational charter documents, and formal legislative exchanges trace the fragile infancy of the American republic as its first president establishes the traditions, administrative mechanics, and foreign policy of the nation.
Adrienne Toner: A Novel
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
When an enigmatic American heiress steps into an aristocratic English family, her radiant self-certainty disrupts lives, dismantles marriages, and ultimately transforms the quiet London cynical scholar who set out to study her.
Anthem
Ayn Rand
A young man raised in a collectivist dystopia where even the word "I" is forbidden discovers electric light and flees into the wilderness to claim his own identity.
Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies
K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) Parker
An ancient landscape shapes its creatures, and every bird, beast, and star carries the memory of an ancestor who broke a sacred law.
Big Bend National Park, Texas
United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications
In a stark landscape defined by heat and isolation, human history and deep natural forces carve out a fragile, magnificent sanctuary.
Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S.: A Story of the Great War
Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
A young British aviator takes to the clouds, facing down Zeppelins and secret agents to defend his country.
Business Correspondence, Vol. 1: How to Write a Business Letter
Anonymous
Before the inbox became a digital battlefield, early twentieth-century trade moved across the country through folded sheets of paper, six-cent postage, and the quiet power of a persuasive pen.
By Veldt and Kopje
W. C. (William Charles) Scully
An unsparing portrait of South Africa’s wilderness and human settlements shows how colonial ambition, ancient custom, and unforgiving nature collide.
Cerebrum
Albert Teichner
A single corrupted thought-line exposes the slow decay of humanity’s organic switchboard, severing a couple from society and forcing them into a quiet underground that alone will survive the mind’s final collapse.
Claverhouse
Mowbray Morris
A career soldier returns to a divided homeland, where enforcing a rigid regime's decrees earns him enduring infamy as a ruthless oppressor, until a final, desperate gamble transforms him into a fallen hero of romance.
Creation and Its Records: A Brief Statement of Christian Belief with Reference to Modern Facts and Ancient Scripture
B. H. (Baden Henry) Baden-Powell
A Victorian civil servant and naturalist tackles the late-nineteenth-century clash between scripture and science, arguing that nature and the Bible reveal the exact same designing Mind.
East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon
Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen
Magic, mischief, and rugged resilience collide across the mountains and hearths of traditional Norway.
Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered)
John Gay
A playful, instruction-laden niece inspires her uncle to adapt classical fables into a lively collection of verse that skewers human vanity, political corruption, and social pretense through the sharp dialogue of animals and allegorical figures.
Fairy Tales from Many Lands
Katharine Pyle
A magical journey through world folklore reveals timeless human truths through talking beasts, perilous quests, and enchanted transformations.
Iole
Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
In a satire of the Arts and Crafts movement, an eccentric patriarch raises eight daughters on Greek grammar and pink bloomers, only to watch them fall for pragmatic suitors.
Jane Lends A Hand
Shirley Watkins
A young girl's unquenchable curiosity and penchant for meddling transform the lives and fortunes of her sprawling small-town family.
Karl Marx
Achille Loria
A privileged scholar breaks with his class to forge a revolutionary critique of wealth, tracing how capital exploits human effort and setting the stage for global social upheaval.
Life of John Knox, Fifth Edition, Vol. 2 of 2: Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland
Thomas M'Crie
A fierce religious transformation transforms a kingdom as an uncompromising preacher confronts monarchs, councils, and assassins to establish a reformed church.
Live toys
Emma Davenport
A tender domestic memoir tracking a Victorian childhood through its menagerie, where animal antics and sudden tragedies teach two siblings the responsibilities of love and ownership.
Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu
Constance Fenimore Woolson
A bright, observant Mediterranean travelog follows an American party through the sun-drenched coastal paths of Mentone, the crowded bazaars of Cairo, and the myth-laden shores of Corfu.
More Goops and How Not to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Impolite Infants
Gelett Burgess
Delightfully instructive and playfully direct, Gelett Burgess’s guide uses catchy verse and cautionary tales to teach young readers how bad habits and thoughtless antics transform ordinary children into dreaded Goops.
My Friend Annabel Lee
Mary MacLane
A miniature Japanese statue becomes a living companion and mirror for a young woman processing her sharp, unvarnished inner life.
Nat Goodwin's Book
Nat. C. (Nathaniel Carll) Goodwin
A legendary American comedian pulls back the velvet curtain to deliver a witty, unsparing, and nostalgic tour of nineteenth-century theatrical life.
North of Fifty-Three
Bertrand W. Sinclair
When a woman is forced out of her quiet life by social hypocrisy and the cold calculations of a city, she finds herself stranded far beyond the reaches of civilization—where survival demands a brutal choice between pride and freedom.
Pansy's Sunday Book
Unknown
A child's small world expands through everyday choices, quiet self-denials, and unexpected encounters, revealing that character is shaped in the subtle, ordinary moments of growth.
Peck's Bad Boy with the Cowboys
George W. (George Wilbur) Peck
A young rascal drags his gullible father through the American West, turning every wild adventure into a chaotic masterpiece of slapstick, trickery, and near-disaster.