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Medical symbolism in connection with historical studies in the arts of healing and hygiene
Thomas S. Sozinskey
A scholarly examination of ancient medical iconography reveals how myth, ritual, and early scientific inquiry combined to give shape to the enduring emblems of the healing arts.
Motion Pictures, 1894-1912: Identified from the Records of the United States Copyright Office
Howard Lamarr Walls
A vast catalog of America's earliest motion pictures exposes the frantic, chaotic dawn of cinema through thousands of copyright records, revealing a lost world of staged fistfights, localized train views, and fleeting comic skits.
Napoleon and Blücher: An Historical Novel
L. (Luise) Mühlbach
Two relentless wills clash across a bleeding Europe: Napoleon Bonaparte fights to preserve his crumbling empire, while Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher charges forward with wild, unyielding devotion to liberate the German fatherland.
Paris: With Pen and Pencil: Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business
D. W. (David W.) Bartlett
Observation reveals a society caught between grand political posturing and the raw realities of daily life under autocratic rule.
Poems
Katherine Mansfield
A quiet, luminous collection of verse reveals a master story-teller capturing the fragile threshold between childhood wonder and adult grief.
Recollections of full years
Helen Herron Taft
A vibrant, eye-level view of American power at the dawn of its global role, told by a woman who helped shape it from Ohio to Manila to the Executive Mansion.
Rural Hygiene
Henry N. (Henry Neely) Ogden
This practical sanitary engineering guide exposes how rural independence often masks dangerous self-neglect, offering precise technical fixes for domestic pollution and preventable disease.
Spanish America, Its Romance, Reality and Future, Vol. 2 (of 2)
C. Reginald (Charles Reginald) Enock
A sweep across early twentieth-century South America reveals a land balancing ancient landscapes with rapid industrial ambition, where foreign capital meets isolated wilderness.
Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the Sacker of Cities
Andrew Lang
A boy grows up on a rugged Greek island, enters a decade-long war, and uses brain over brawn to tear down an invincible city.
The Allen House
T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
A life built on hollow vanity or reckless greed will inevitably crumble, while quiet integrity yields a quiet, enduring happiness.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
A nation catching its breath after civil war finds its voice across a landscape of domestic comedy, military recollection, and quiet philosophical debate.
The Black Watch at Ticonderoga and Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe
Frederick B. Richards
Highland courage meets colonial tragedy in a meticulous, document-driven history of the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment during the French and Indian War.
The Boke of Noblesse: Addressed to King Edward the Fourth on His Invasion of France in 1475
Unknown
A passionate fifteenth-century call to arms, this treatise urges an English king to reclaim lost continental territories through rigorous military preparation, disciplined leadership, and moral accountability.
The Boyhood of Great Inventors
A. Fraser Robertson
A boy sits by a hearth observing a kettle, or wanders a rocky coastline collecting stone samples; from these small, quiet sparks of early curiosity emerge the engines, statues, and light-houses that shape the modern world.
The Cooking Manual of Practical Directions for Economical Every-Day Cookery
Juliet Corson
Thrift, precision, and culinary technique can turn the most modest ingredients into nourishment that honors both the palate and the household budget.
The Cruise of the Dazzler
Jack London
A restless schoolboy flees his ordinary life for a berth on a San Francisco Bay sloop, only to learn his new crewmates are thieves.
The Cursed Patois: From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899
Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Two wilderness outfitters on Michigan’s Brevoort Lake take in a destitute French-Canadian widow and her child, only to find their rugged routine transformed by love.
The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation
Austin O'Malley
Life belongs solely to a supreme creator, making every human individual—from a single-cell embryo to a dying mother—an absolute end that can never be sacrificed for another's convenience.
The Gospel of St. John: A Series of Discourses.: New Edition
Frederick Denison Maurice
Scriptural texts are often approached as static dogma or abstract philosophy, but a true commentary treats them as a living confrontation with human nature.
The Grafters
Francis Lynde
A young lawyer discovers that saving the railroad he serves means destroying the corrupt political machine he once helped put into power.
The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)
George Burton Adams
A single crown unites two hostile cultures, setting off a century of fierce territorial expansion, constitutional clashes, and royal feuds that forge the English nation.
The land of mist
Arthur Conan Doyle
A skeptic’s grandly defensive bluster crumbles into quiet awe when the spirit world answers him directly in the dark.
The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran: Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of
Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister
A portrait of Ireland's early monastic spirit, where ordinary farmsteads, sacred fires, and wild wolves shift under the touch of the miraculous.
The Little Brown Jug at Kildare
Meredith Nicholson
A wealthy young idler and an academic finding themselves in charge of neighboring states sounds like a recipe for chaos, especially when a notorious outlaw and two fiercely loyal daughters are involved.
The mystery of Cabin Island
Franklin W. Dixon
A frozen bay, a stolen car, and an uninvited watchman set the stage for an icy island adventure filled with secret ciphers and missing fortunes.
The Origin of Species: From 'The Westminster Review', April 1860
Thomas Henry Huxley
A single scientific treatise transforms the public's understanding of life, sparking a fiery debate across Victorian society between traditional dogma and rigorous natural observation.
The Paternoster Ruby
Charles Edmonds Walk
A dying millionaire's stolen gem, a corpse in the hallway, and a secret legacy spark an intense struggle between duty, greed, and love.
The Peacemaker
Alfred Coppel
In an era of interplanetary division, a ruthless space pirate unites humanity against a common enemy: himself.
The Philanderer
Bernard Shaw
A clever, razor-sharp satire of Victorian sexual politics that tears through self-serving morality, modern intellectual posturing, and the chaotic clash between traditional expectations and newly liberated desires.
The Poems of William Watson
William Watson
A young prince leaves his father’s palace on a lonely quest for an elusive vision, crossing enchanted seas and mortal shadows to find an emerald stone and his destined home.
The Red Widow
William Le Queux
A sharp suspense story of insurance fraud and hidden identities, where an innocent young couple accidentally uncovers a deadly plot orchestrated by a calculating syndicate.
The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro
Rafael Sabatini
Stripped of his ancestral birthright, an exiled nobleman assumes the humiliating motley of a court jester, only to find himself drawn into the deadly political webs and ruthless machinations of Renaissance Italy's most treacherous rulers.
The Ship-Dwellers: A Story of a Happy Cruise
Albert Bigelow Paine
In 1909, an American humorist boards a Mediterranean cruise ship, tracing the classic path of Mark Twain's early travel writing across the historic shores of the ancient world.
The Story of the Pony Express
Glenn D. (Glenn Danford) Bradley
Across nearly two thousand miles of uninhabited prairies, deserts, and mountain passes, horse and rider carried the mail in a desperate race to connect a dividing nation before it fractured completely.
The Sunny Side of the Street
Marshall P. (Marshall Pinckney) Wilder
A warm, observant spirit sees the humor in human nature and invites the reader to walk where the sun shines brightest.
The tavern knight
Rafael Sabatini
In the wake of Worcester, a scarred, bottle-hardened Cavalier swordsman binds a shivering young Royalist to a dark oath of vengeance, setting off a perilous trek through a fractured England.
The Valley of the Giants
Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
In 1850, a lone pioneer carries his rifle and axe onto an isolated California shore, launching an empire among the ancient redwoods that his son must later risk everything to defend.
Vendetta
Honoré de Balzac
A ancestral feud between two Corsican families plays out in post-Napoleonic Paris, where a father’s unyielding pride clashes with his daughter’s devotion to the man she loves.
Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" of the North-West
Kinzie, John H., Mrs.
A refined bride leaves Eastern civil society for the raw American Northwest, recording the vanished frontier with warm observation and vivid detail.
What Prohibition Has Done to America
Fabian Franklin
When a nation elevates a mere police regulation above its own fundamental charter, it trades the enduring dignity of free government for the fleeting, tyrannical impulses of a organized statutory crusade.
With Wolfe in Canada: The Winning of a Continent
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
When Britain and France fought for North America, a young rescue from the English coast became an officer whose courage helped shape a continent.
Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey
Washington Irving
A pilgrimage to the homes of two giant literary figures reveals how landscapes, legends, and everyday acquaintances shape the enduring romance of early nineteenth-century authorial imagination.
American Unitarian Hymn Writers and Hymns
Henry Wilder Foote
A quiet revolution transforms American worship as formal theological dogmas yield to personal conscience, literary beauty, and moral imperative.
Argentina and Uruguay
Gordon Ross
A sweeping economic and socio-political analysis reveals how two South American nations balance vast natural gifts against structural deficiencies in population, infrastructure, and international trade strategy.
Autobiography of a Child
Hannah Lynch
A neglected child’s fiery spirit turns systemic cruelty and maternal coldness into an unyielding quest for independence and self-worth.
Biographical catalogue of the portraits at Longleat in the county of Wilts, the seat of the Marquis of Bath
Mary Louisa Boyle
In oil and canvas, dead monarchs and forgotten courtiers speak across centuries to reveal the quiet human drama behind English history.
Blade-O'-Grass. Golden Grain. and Bread and Cheese and Kisses
B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
A twin girl abandoned in a Victorian slum faces cold and poverty, while across London another child thrives in a loving home, testing whether human warmth can survive a brutal city.
Brazil and Her People of To-day: An Account of the Customs, Characteristics, Amusements, History and Advancement of the Brazilians, and the Development and Resources of Their Country
Nevin O. (Nevin Otto) Winter
From sprawling tropical coastlines to the rich interior, Nevin O. Winter constructs a methodical, deeply detailed observation of early twentieth-century Brazil as it navigates the transition from empire to young republic.