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Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 10 (of 20)
Charles Sumner
Deliberated in the furnace of the American Civil War, these legislative addresses and essays confront foreign interference, state destruction, and the imperative of human equality. They map a republic fighting to redefine its constitutional soul.
Color mixing guide: For artists, painters, decorators, printing pressmen, show card writers, sign painters, color mixers. Gives color mixtures by parts
John L. King
Light reflecting in specific wavelengths forms the foundation of all visual craft, where three simple primary pigments yield thousands of precise, usable shades.
Cressy & Poictiers
John G. (John George) Edgar
A young page rises from obscurity into the shadow of royalty, witnessing the grandest, bloodiest clashes of the Hundred Years' War.
Doctor and Patient
S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
A wise nineteenth-century physician reclaims medicine as an art of character, prescription, and human understanding, offering guidance for both the sickbed and the outdoors.
Dooryard Stories
Clara Dillingham Pierson
A quiet backyard turns into a vibrant universe where birds, insects, and house pets conduct their daily lives with surprising drama.
Dot and the Kangaroo
Ethel C. Pedley
A little girl lost in the Australian wilderness finds an unexpected protector in a grieving kangaroo, learning the language of the bush as she searches for her home.
Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances
Joseph Black
By measuring precise weight loss during chemical reactions, a quiet eighteenth-century Scottish doctor reveals that a invisible, elastic air lives bound inside solid stone, forever changing how science views matter.
Flower of the Dusk
Myrtle Reed
A devotion born in darkness faces the light, where a father’s long-treasured lie, a daughter’s sacrifice, and a sudden medical miracle converge upon a fragile quiet.
Further nonsense verse and prose
Lewis Carroll
A quiet Oxford don turns strict logic inside out to create a world of play where words, numbers, and social etiquette obey their own hilarious laws.
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Geology, Vol. 1 [of 3]
Rollin D. Salisbury
The constant movement of water, ice, and air slowly reshapes the solid earth, wearing down mountains and filling basins in a continuous cycle of change.
Gritli's Children
Johanna Spyri
A quiet home on the banks of the Rhine becomes a sanctuary for two mountain children, where grief, ambition, and youthful schemes collide under the gentle guidance of an affectionate aunt.
Guy Livingstone
George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
An untamed, physically overpowering aristocrat sweeps through high society, leaving broken hearts, fractured bones, and shattered lives in his wake.
He Fell in Love with His Wife
Edward Payson Roe
An unpolished farmer and a ruined woman form a practical union of convenience on a lonely hill farm, only to find an enduring, unexpected devotion growing between them.
Imperial Federation: The Problem of National Unity
George R. (George Robert) Parkin
Global power requires political cohesion, and a vast empire scattered across oceans cannot endure as a loose collection of colonies without a unified mechanism for defense and representation.
Insect Stories
Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg
A young girl and a university professor explore the hidden world of back-garden dirt, observing tiny creatures engaged in complex struggles for survival.
James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 2
Edwin James
Across dusty plains and uncharted river valleys, an American expedition sets out to map the vast expanse between the Missouri River and the glittering wall of the Rocky Mountains.
Jan and Her Job
L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker
An unselfish woman steps in to raise her orphaned relatives, discovering that true devotion requires both fierce resilience and the humility to let herself be loved.
Jerry of the Islands
Jack London
A young Irish terrier born into the brutal colonial frontier of the Solomon Islands must navigate headhunters, shipwrecks, and hostile jungles to find a master worthy of his boundless devotion.
Life and Remains of John Clare, The "Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
John Clare
A peasant poet struggles against poverty, madness, and patron censorship to capture the vanishing English countryside in verse before fading into asylum obscurity.
Life in the Backwoods
Susanna Moodie
A middle-class family trades English comforts for Canadian timber, finding that nature yields less easily than their romantic expectations promised.
Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer
Unknown
An unseen architecture binds the natural world together, turning random observations into a single coherent story of descent, adaptation, and survival.
Little Mitchell: The Story of a Mountain Squirrel
Margaret Warner Morley
A tiny orphaned gray squirrel, rescued from the slopes of a North Carolina mountain, finds safety and an affectionate home in the care of an attentive traveler.
Loyal to the School
Angela Brazil
A schoolgirl faces sudden poverty and a choice between her own creative ambitions and her loyalty to family and school.
Mediæval London, Volume 2: Ecclesiastical
Walter Besant
A vast network of churches, monasteries, and religious rites forms the quiet backbone of medieval London's daily civic and spiritual life.
Monsieur Bergeret in Paris
Anatole France
An ironical portrait of fin-de-siècle Paris, where political conspirators, urban intellectuals, and domestic pets all navigate the ridiculous, fractured realities of a society undergoing intense ideological upheaval.
My Japanese Wife: A Japanese Idyl
Clive Holland
An English expatriate marries a young Japanese woman in Nagasaki and navigates the subtle, charming, and precarious dynamics of their cross-cultural love before bringing her back to England.
Nooks and Corners of Shropshire
H. Thornhill (Henry Thornhill) Timmins
A lone wanderer traverses forgotten borderlands, mapping the quiet corners where ancient stone, timbered manors, and wild hills whisper the enduring secrets of Old England.
Old Man Savarin Stories: Tales of Canada and Canadians
Edward William Thomson
A collection of short stories capturing the frontier grit, quiet heroism, and dry humor of nineteenth-century Canadian life.
Our Army at the Front
Heywood Broun
A sudden leap across an ocean turns an untried civilian nation into a decisive force on the Western Front.
Personal sketches of his own times, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Barrington, Jonah, Sir
An Irish judge watches high society duel, starves, and collapse before fleeing to France just in time to witness Napoleon's brief, electrifying hundred days.
Poison mysteries in history, romance and crime
C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel) Thompson
A drop of hemlock, a pinch of white arsenic, or a stray phial of bacteria: the history of human malice is written in quiet, tasteless lethal doses.
Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran
Joseph Jocelyn Anderson
A lifetime of military service comes down to sheer survival, quiet discipline, and the unpredictable turns of imperial duty.
Rose à Charlitte
Marshall Saunders
An American traveler seeks to make amends in coastal Canada, where a beautiful Acadian widow guards her heart behind quiet devotion.
Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation
James Buckman
A rigorous scientific guide to mid-Victorian agriculture demonstrates how empirical experimentation elevates practical farming from mere tradition into an exact, highly profitable discipline.
Shepp's Photographs of the World
James W. Shepp
A single camera can capture what words lose in retelling, preserving the physical memory of a rapidly changing nineteenth-century world.
Side Lights
James Runciman
A sharp, humane intelligence turns its light on Victorian society, offering unsparing observations on literature, poverty, domestic life, and the quiet dignity of human resilience.
Talks with Tolstoi
Aleksandr Borisovich Golʹdenveĭzer
A young pianist steps into a famous writer’s home, notebook in hand, quietly recording the daily thoughts, casual arguments, and private contradictions of an aging titan who is slowly stripping away the illusions of art, science, and family life.
The Adventure of Princess Sylvia
A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
A headstrong princess disguises her identity to win an emperor's genuine love as a private individual, risking heartbreak and diplomatic scandal in a daring romantic gamble.
The Alien
Raymond F. Jones
In the icy, silent reaches of space, an ancient jewel hides a half-million-year-old secret capable of conquering death or destroying humanity.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4
American Anti-Slavery Society
A uncompromising collection of nineteenth-century abolitionist tracts exposes how American law, scripture, and political compromise were weaponized to sustain human bondage.
The artillerist's manual and British soldier's compendium
F. A. (Frederick Augustus) Griffiths
A comprehensive nineteenth-century military manual detailing artillery management, infantry formations, equipment logistics, and field geometry for Victorian military officers.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
Essays, fiction, and cultural critiques converge in this 1860 periodic miscellany to examine a rapidly modernizing world and the complex human nature navigating it.
The Bad Boy at Home, and His Experiences in Trying to Become an Editor: 1885
Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
A mischievous youth documents his hilarious, chaotic misadventures navigating low-level newspaper work and political schemes in late nineteenth-century New York.
The Education of Eric Lane
Stephen McKenna
A London playwright seeking calm is drawn into a tumultuous relationship with a mercurial aristocrat whose reckless passions threaten to consume his life and work.
The Enchanted Castle: A Book of Fairy Tales from Flowerland
Unknown
Flowers carry secret histories, quiet origins, and enchanted origins hidden just beneath their seasonal blooms.
The Fortieth Door
Mary Hastings Bradley
A quiet young American archeologist, who prefers buried mummies to living company, steps into a Cairene masquerade and accidentally sets off a high-stakes, life-or-death rescue.
The Gods: From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'
Robert Green Ingersoll
Courageous inquiry breaks the shackles of ancient fear, replacing blind obedience to terrible heavens with the noble pursuit of human progress on earth.
The Hidden Servants and Other Very Old Stories
Francesca Alexander
A collection of traditional Italian folk tales rendered in simple verse, where hidden acts of mercy outshine visible piety.