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The Strollers
Frederic Stewart Isham
A theater troupe on the road brings art, ambition, and secret histories into collision across an expanding nineteenth-century America.
The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado
Logan Marshall
A brutal early-spring storm unleashes nationwide devastation, drowning the towns of the Ohio River Valley and leveling Nebraska under a violent tornado.
The Vagabond and Other Poems from Punch
R. C. (Rudolf Chambers) Lehmann
Domestic tenderness, quiet nostalgia, and the dark shadow of the First World War meet in this evocative volume of verse.
The war against Germany: Europe and adjacent areas
Kenneth E. Hunter
A massive logistical machine anchors a sweeping visual record of victory, tracing the American military effort across Western Europe from base staging in Britain to total German collapse.
The Woman in the Alcove
Anna Katharine Green
A glittering diamond vanishes amidst a high-society ball, leaving a beautiful woman dead in a secluded nook and her secret admirer framed for her murder.
The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02
John Dryden
A young empire crumbles under foreign conquest while courtiers scheme in shadowed halls and lovers trade vows in secret. Out of Restoration London’s theatrical fire comes a collection where passion, betrayal, and political ambition clash on every page.
The World That Couldn't Be
Clifford D. Simak
A single rogue predator can ruin a alien harvest, but hunting it across an untamed world reveals a secret that upends everything a human planter knows about life.
The Young O'Briens: Being an Account of Their Sojourn in London
Margaret Westrup
A family of spirited young Irish siblings is transplanted to a damp, grey London residence, where their irrepressible warmth and humorous resilience transform every dreary obstacle into an adventurous triumph of heart.
Three More John Silence Stories
Algernon Blackwood
A solitary traveler steps off the path into a landscape where the solid world thins, and the human psyche gives form to ancient, forgotten terrors.
Tom Swift and His War Tank
Victor Appleton
A brilliant young inventor dedicates his workshop to building an armored war engine to aid the Allied forces, only to face relentless sabotage.
Val d'Arno: Ten Lectures on the Tuscan Art Directly Antecedent to the Florentine Year of Victories
John Ruskin
A revolution of tradesmen in Florence overthrows a feudal ruler, firing the spark that transforms medieval stonework into the sweeping spirit of European Gothic design.
Wehman Bros.' Vaudeville Jokes No. 1
Anonymous
A collection of vaudeville-era jokes, offering a glimpse into the humor of the early 20th century.
Worlds in the making: The evolution of the universe
Svante Arrhenius
A vast physical mechanism drives the universe, constantly cycling matter and energy through endless creation and decay.
6,000 Tons of Gold
Henry Richardson Chamberlain
A sudden deluge of thousands of tons of virgin gold threatens to destroy the fragile foundation of global finance.
A Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and the Second Sight: With an Original Essay on Witchcraft
Unknown
Driven by fear, politics, and local malice, a society turns its courts against its most vulnerable neighbors under the banner of divine duty.
A Garden with House Attached
Sarah Warner Brooks
A passion for growing things can transform even an ordinary patch of earth into a sanctuary of beauty, history, and deep personal memory.
A Little Tour in Ireland
S. Reynolds (Samuel Reynolds) Hole
An English traveler explores mid-nineteenth-century Ireland, turning a summer holiday into a warm, humorous portrait of landscapes, people, and changing times.
A Versailles Christmas-Tide
Mary Stuart Boyd
A sudden telegram interrupts a quiet English morning, sending two devoted parents racing across the Channel into the frosty stillness of a historic French town.
About Algeria: Algiers, Tlemçen, Constantine, Biskra, Timgad
Charles Thomas-Stanford
A traveler encounters a landscape where ancient Roman stones, medieval Arab strongholds, and French colonial ambitions converge under a brilliant North African sun.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 21 to 25
Mark Twain
A drifting raft carries a boy and an escaped slave into the dark heart of the American riverlands, where human greed and violence routinely wear the mask of respectable morality.
Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices: Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 253-372
Cyrus Thomas
A rigorous nineteenth-century study decodes the intricate mathematical systems, calendar structures, and symbolic writing preserved within pre-Columbian Central American manuscripts.
American Big-Game Hunting: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club
Boone and Crockett Club
High mountain ridges, treacherous quicksands, and vanishing herds shape a vivid chronicle of the American wilderness, captured by men who hunted, explored, and fought to preserve its final wild spaces.
Angel: A sketch in Indian ink
B. M. (Bithia Mary) Croker
A hot season in the Indian plains brings out secrets and sudden shifts of heart in a small circle of British officers and their wives.
Aubrey Beardsley
Haldane Macfall
A fragile young man with a ink-pen in his hand and a fatal illness in his chest redrew the boundaries of late-Victorian art before dying at twenty-five.
Between the Larch-woods and the Weir
Flora Klickmann
A gentle wartime sanctuary on the steep hills of the Wye Valley, where a weary London editor finds sanity and humor among larch-woods, wild birds, and domestic misadventures.
By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
A young English lad embarks on dangerous naval voyages and covert missions, risking his life to help the Netherlanders break the brutal grip of Spanish tyranny.
Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Mandating commercial software filters on library computers inevitably blocks vast amounts of constitutionally protected speech, forcing public institutions to violate the First Amendment rights of their patrons.
Chinese mettle
E. G. (Emily Georgiana) Kemp
Behind the veil of ancient traditions and political upheaval lies a land undergoing a quiet, sweeping transformation, where remote mountain paths and bustling interior cities reveal the vibrant, resilient spirit of a changing nation.
Continental stagecraft
Kenneth Macgowan
A postwar swing through Europe’s experimental playhouses reveals a theater boldly shedding illusion to discover the spiritual reality of human experience.
Crucial Instances
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's *Crucial Instances* delves into the complexities of human relationships and the pivotal moments that shape our lives.
David Blaize and the Blue Door
E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
A boy uses a wooden partridge’s pin-leg to stay awake, finds a secret door beneath his pillow, and enters a wild, absurd nocturnal wonderland.
Double Trouble
Herbert Quick
A respectable banker loses five years of his life to an altered state, waking up as a smooth-talking town boss engaged to a woman he has never met.
Encyclopedia of Diet: A Treatise on the Food Question, Vol. 5
Eugene Christian
A structured blueprint for physical health, this guide bridges nutrition, evolutionary biology, and daily exercise to turn diet into a science of longevity.
Erick and Sally
Johanna Spyri
When an orphaned boy wanders into a high mountain village carrying only a velvet suit and a forgotten hymn, a parsonage family helps him uncover his true heritage.
Florida: Past and present: together with notes from Sunland, on the Manatee River, Gulf Coast of South Florida: its climate, soil, and productions
Samuel C. (Samuel Curtis) Upham
An inviting work of promotional local history, practical agricultural advice, and personal memoir capturing the pioneering spirit of late nineteenth-century South Florida.
Great Fortunes from Railroads
Gustavus Myers
Bribed legislators, stolen public lands, and fraudulent securities laid the groundwork for America’s vast corporate empires.
Harum Scarum's Fortune
Esmè Stuart
A young heiress's generous spirit disrupts high society when she decides her fortune belongs to everyone but herself.
History of Geography
Keltie, John Scott, Sir
Humanity’s drive to comprehend the Earth evolved from primitive notions of "my land" versus "yours" into a rigorous scientific discipline, transforming how we map, measure, and understand the globe across millennia.
Homespun Tales
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
A collection of heartwarming tales set in a quaint New England village, exploring love, family, and community.
How to Teach Religion: Principles and Methods
George Herbert Betts
A comprehensive guide to teaching religion effectively, focusing on principles and methods.
Hugh Walpole: An Appreciation
Joseph Hergesheimer
An appreciative study of Hugh Walpole’s fiction argues that true creative literature requires both external realism and internal spiritual vision, celebrating an author who captures life's underlying magic.
International copyright
George Haven Putnam
A rigorous economic and ethical argument demonstrates that treating intellectual work as global property is not merely a matter of legal fairness to creators, but a fundamental requirement for sound trade, stable publishing, and public enlightenment.
Johnny Ludlow, Fifth Series
Wood, Henry, Mrs.
A quiet observer moves through provincial England and seaside exile, gathering tales of domestic friction, mysterious thefts, and ghostly anxieties that haunt ordinary lives.
Last Essays of Maurice Hewlett
Maurice Hewlett
A reflective observer wanders through English countryside, historic memoirs, and classical verse, weighing how quiet daily routines hold the same enduring weight as grand historical shifts.
Lectures on Bible Revision
Samuel Newth
A meticulous account of how the Bible reached English readers, tracing the long path from early manuscripts to modern scholarship.
Machine gun manual
H. (Composer) Douglas
A dryly thorough guide to automatic weapons on the Western Front, capturing the transition of war into an exact, unforgiving science.
Manual of Style Governing Composition and Proof Reading in the Government Printing Office
United States. Government Printing Office
Before printing presses can churn out the vast record of a nation, human hands must forge order from typographic chaos.
Mary Wollstonecraft and the beginnings of female emancipation in France and England
Jacob Bouten
Centuries of intellectual debate shaped the ideal of womanhood, but true progress required women themselves to challenge the social structures holding them back.