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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.
Merkland
Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
A quiet Scottish parish hides an eighteen-year-old murder that broke two families, drove an innocent heir into exile, and left a silent culprit praying for a redemption he cannot buy.
My Year of the Great War
Frederick Palmer
A veteran correspondent tracks the first year of the Great War, discovering that the mechanical reality of modern combat strips away all romantic illusions of battle.
Niebuhr's lectures on Roman history, Vol. 1 (of 3)
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Out of the dust of lost records and fragmented chronicles, a master historian reconstructs the living machinery of the ancient Roman world.
Nightmare Planet
Murray Leinster
In a world dominated by giant insects, a terrified man discovers that a broken beetle leg can be used as a weapon, altering the course of human destiny.
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Hester Lynch Piozzi
Torrents of lava light up the midnight sea as a formidable storm threatens to extinguish the last flickering guides in the streets of Naples.
Outspinning the Spider: The Story of Wire and Wire Rope
John Kimberly Mumford
A fine strand of drawn metal can outspin the spider, carrying the weight of modern civilization on invisible, unbreakable threads.
Poems of American Patriotism
Unknown
A nation’s history echoes not merely in its recorded battles, but in the enduring lyrics born from its most desperate hours and quietest sacrifices.
Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough
Arthur Hugh Clough
Beliefs falter and certainty dissolves, yet life moves forward through the daily necessity of choice, work, and honest, unpretentious human connection.
Pomander Walk
Louis Napoleon Parker
Set in a tranquil riverfront enclave, this Regency romance explores how old secrets, eccentric neighbors, and rekindled flames reshape a quiet London street.
Pride: One of the Seven Cardinal Sins
Eugène Sue
A wealthy heiress hides her identity, a proud hunchback fights for orphans, and two sisters unwittingly race toward the truth of their shared bloodline in 1830s Paris.
Prize Money
Quincy Wright
How state authority seized control of private naval warfare, transforming sea plunder from legal piracy into a strictly regulated instrument of public law.
Psychology and parenthood
H. Addington (Henry Addington) Bruce
Every child possesses hidden mental reserves that remain largely untapped because typical home environments fail to nurture them properly.
Rollo at Play
Jacob Abbott
A young boy's adventures teach valuable lessons about responsibility and nature.
Rudder Grange
Frank R. Stockton
An improvised houseboat on a abandoned canal barge becomes the comic launching pad for a young couple’s domestic misadventures.
Rudolph Eucken
Abel J. (Abel John) Jones
A human life cannot find its true meaning in naturalistic routine or social utility alone, but only through a conscious, heroic struggle toward a higher, universal spiritual reality.
Sea Poems
Cale Young Rice
A solitary watcher stands where the rising tide hits the rocks, seeking a quiet mind within the endless, churning rhythm of the ocean.
Shavings: A Novel
Joseph Crosby Lincoln
In a coastal Massachusetts village, a gentle eccentric who carves wooden windmills finds his quiet life upended when he shelters a young widow, her child, and a secret that threatens the entire town's peace.
Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)
William Dean Howells
To step into these pages is to wander through a vanishing turn-of-the-century America with a quiet observer who catches the exact weight of frozen brine on an East River pier and the soft hypocrisy of modern life.
Sky Island: Being the further exciting adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after their visit to the sea fairies
L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
A magical umbrella whisks a boy away on a fantastical adventure to Sky Island, where he meets a sailor, a girl, and a host of colorful characters.
Social Life in England Through the Centuries
H. R. Wilton Hall
A silent, centuries-old hollow in the turf turns out to be an ancient hearth, revealing how the everyday physical spaces of the past shape the modern social landscape.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, September 1878, No. 11
Various
A bound treasury of nineteenth-century imagination offers young readers an eclectic mix of whimsical poetry, instructive natural science, serialized domestic adventures, and moral fables.
Stand by for Mars!
Carey Rockwell
Three disparate teenagers enter Space Academy, face ruthless exams, survive a harrowing rescue mission, and endure a grueling march across the Martian desert to become a unified rocket crew.
Stories of the Gorilla Country, Narrated for Young People
Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu
A traveler ventures into the little-known forests of nineteenth-century Equatorial Africa, recording encounters with fierce wildlife, unfamiliar human cultures, and the legendary giant ape that haunts the dense jungle canopy.
Studies in Life from Jewish Proverbs
W. A. L. (William Alexander Leslie) Elmslie
Old maxims are treated not as stale rules but as vivid, living footprints left by real people surviving turbulent historical change.
The Bab Ballads, with Which Are Included Songs of a Savoyard
W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
In a world where pomposity reigns supreme, logical absurdity becomes the only sensible response.
The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, December 1884, No. 3
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
This Victorian monthly guide balances rigorous classical study with practical household management and community updates for ambitious self-directed readers.
The Communistic Societies of the United States: From Personal Visit and Observation
Charles Nordhoff
A firsthand exploration of America's communistic societies in the 19th century.
The Fall of British Tyranny
John Leacock
British intrigue encounters American resolve across a continent at war in a fiery political drama. Written during the dawn of the American Revolution, this satirical play transforms military clashes and cabinet schemes into a rallying cry for independence.
The Feeding of School Children
M. E. (Mildred Emily) Bulkley
The challenge of ensuring children are nourished enough to learn remains a quiet but urgent social struggle. This study traces the historical transition from indifferent charity to a recognized public responsibility.
The Girls of St. Cyprian's: A Tale of School Life
Angela Brazil
Driven by a dead father's legacy, a gifted young violinist navigates boarders' rivalries, artistic rivalries, and family claims at an English girls' school to earn a career in music.
The Great American Canals (Volume 2, The Erie Canal)
Archer Butler Hulbert
A single engineered ditch across the New York wilderness re-routed the trade of a continent, reshaping American commerce and political geography through sheer mechanical ambition and stubborn legislative will.
The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons
William Z. Foster
A grueling twelve-hour workday, seven days a week, meets the unyielding wall of corporate monopoly in a battle for the soul of American labor.
The hand of power
Edgar Wallace
A treacherous gale on Dartmoor launches an orphan into a labyrinth of identity theft, criminal cults, and ocean-going murder.
The Harvest of Ruskin
John W. (John William) Graham
An impassioned Victorian social critic challenges the moral foundations of industrial capitalism, arguing that a nation's true wealth resides not in standard economic ledgers, but in the spiritual integrity and physical vitality of its people.
The Harwich Naval Forces: Their Part in the Great War
E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight
Nightly sirens pierce the coastal air, driving officers from quiet drawing rooms to the violent, unpredictable waters of the North Sea.
The Herd Boy and His Hermit
Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
A young herd boy's journey to reclaim his noble birthright during the Wars of the Roses.