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A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1: Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends
Thomas Clarkson
In a quiet refusal to adopt the fashions, pastimes, and speech of the surrounding world, a unique religious community establishes a total system for preserving human character and spiritual integrity.
A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe: Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations
Anonymous
An intense flame, a narrow pipe, and a handful of chemical reagents transform raw minerals into visible, definitive elements. This guide turns chemical analysis into an exacting art of heat, color, and observation.
A translation of Glanville
Ranulf de Glanville
A sharp system of royal writs, sworn juries, and strict court procedures transforms local custom into the uniform law of an empire.
A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2
James Cook
A solitary ship pushes into uncharted waters, mapping isolated Pacific islands, navigating treacherous icefields, and forever altering European understanding of the globe.
A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador
Mina Hubbard
A grieving widow leads a small expedition into the uncharted Labrador wilderness, completing the perilous mapping journey that took her husband’s life.
Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: A practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history
F. M. (Fred Maier) Hexamer
A delicate green stalk pushes through soft soil, demanding patience, rich earth, and a surprising amount of technical precision.
At the Crossroads
Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
A recovering writer stumbles into a secluded mountain hamlet, where a woman trapped in an unloving marriage must choose between keeping a sacred vow and reaching for her own freedom.
Authorised Guide to the Tower of London
W. J. (William John) Loftie
Stone walls hold centuries of monarchical ambition, state prisoner suffering, and shifting military power across eighteen acres along the Thames.
Betty's Bright Idea
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A quiet act of generosity during the holiday season ripples outward, redeeming a lost father and restoring hope to a struggling family. Harriet Beecher Stowe weaves a gentle tale of faith, compassion, and unexpected blessings.
Britain in the Middle Ages: A History for Beginners
Florence L. Bowman
A country transforms across centuries as wild forest lands yield to paved highways, rural agrarian holdings, feudal battlements, and bustling medieval craft markets.
Callias: A Tale of the Fall of Athens
Alfred John Church
Caught between political intrigue and the horrors of war, a young Athenian hero journeys across ancient battlefields while struggling to keep his honor, his love, and his city intact.
Calumet 'K'
Samuel Merwin
An unsung engineer fights bad weather, scheming unions, and corporate sabotage to construct a massive Chicago grain elevator before an unforgiving midnight deadline.
Captives of the Flame
Samuel R. Delany
A displaced convict, a kidnapped prince, and a brilliant mathematician collide as an empire lurches toward an senseless war.
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 05 (of 20)
Charles Sumner
In the mid-1850s, a nation's moral fracture finds its voice in the halls of Congress, where legal argument and fierce rhetoric collide in a desperate attempt to halt the expansion of human bondage.
Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture
Arthur Hayden
A plain-spoken yet affectionate appraisal of the native furniture built for common households over three centuries, tracing how local joiners shaped enduring forms outside the pull of high-fashion design.
Cheating the Junk-Pile: The Purchase and Maintenance of Household Equipments
Ethel R. (Ethel Rose) Peyser
A home is only as reliable as the equipment inside it, yet most buyers choose appliances based on quick sales pitches rather than mechanical sound design. This guide teaches readers how to select, inspect, and maintain every fixture to prevent premature decay.
Children of No Man's Land
G. B. (Gladys Bronwyn) Stern
An anglicized family with deep German roots discovers that three generations of allegiance cannot survive the feverish nationalism of the First World War.
Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book: Being a Practical Treatise on the Culinary Art Adapted to the Tastes and Wants of All Classes
H. J. Clayton
A practical kitchen manual written from thirty years of commercial experience, offering plain, thoroughly tested recipes that champion natural juices, proper heat management, and economical home cooking.
Dust
E. (Emanuel) Haldeman-Julius
A stark, unyielding study of Midwestern farm life, Dust traces the bleak intersection of human ambition, emotional barrenness, and the unsparing march of time on the Kansas prairie.
Explanatory Notes of a Pack of Cavalier Playing Cards, Temp. Charles II.: Forming a Complete Political Satire of the Commonwealth
Edmund Goldsmid
A forgotten deck of Restoration playing cards becomes a razor-sharp window into the bitter political satire of Interregnum England.
Frida
R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
A tale of love, betrayal, and tragedy set in 17th-century England.
Henry IV, Makers of History
John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Relentless religious strife and political intrigue tear through sixteenth-century France, leaving a fractured kingdom in their wake. Amidst this bloody chaos, one charismatic prince navigates war, betrayal, and shifting allegiances to claim a throne.
Hidden Hand
Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
When an orphan girl disguises herself as a newsboy in nineteenth-century New York, her bold spirit catches the eye of a fiery Virginian, sweeping her into a wild world of hidden inheritances, blood feuds, and forest bandits.
'Jena' or 'Sedan'?
Franz Adam Beyerlein
German army life near the turn of the twentieth century exposes a deeply fractured peace.
Lachesis Lapponica
Carl von Linné
A journey through the subarctic wilderness reveals a world of extreme environments, specialized survival strategies, and unexamined natural phenomena.
Lectures on Art
Washington Allston
A foundational treatise on aesthetics, painting, and the human soul, exploring how true beauty reflects immutable moral truths rather than fleeting fashions.
Life on the Mississippi, Part 1
Mark Twain
A young dreamer abandons his wild ambitions of exploring the Amazon to pursue the true pinnacle of 19th-century American prestige: mastering the erratic, dangerous Mississippi as a steamboat pilot.
Lost in the Jungle
Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu
An American explorer leads young readers deep into the West African wilderness, braving gorilla attacks, treacherous rivers, and unmapped forests alongside his native guides.
Making His Way
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
A disinherited orphan is forced to make his own living in the city, unaware that a forged will stands between him and his rightful fortune.
Mosby's War Reminiscences
John Singleton Mosby
A sharp, firsthand reckoning with the cavalry skirmishes of Northern Virginia, where surprise, swift saddles, and raw nerve routinely overturned the textbook math of military power.
Mother West Wind's Children
Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
A small meadow mouse learns that a short tail is a tiny price to pay for a life filled with daily sunshine, good neighbors, and gentle laughter.
Next Door, Next World
Robert Donald Locke
A faster-than-light journey through hyperspace slips an astronaut across parallel universes, stranding him on an Earth identical to his own in every detail except for the presence of the woman he loves.
Obiter Dicta: Second Series
Augustine Birrell
To read with real pleasure, a book needs no grand ambition beyond bringing light to quiet hours and life back to old favorites.
Old Junk
H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
A quiet observer moves through a world shifting from the peaceful routines of early twentieth-century life to the sudden, horrifying ruin of the First World War.
Poor and Proud
Oliver Optic
A spunky young girl in antebellum Boston builds a small candy business to support her bedridden mother and learn the true meaning of pride.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 21 1890
Various
Victorian society turns its mirror upon itself through quick-witted verse, Parliamentary gossip, and sharp satire of daily urban life.
Rosemary
Josephine Lawrence
When their mother leaves for a distant sanatorium to recover from an illness, three sisters navigate childhood, school, and household squabbles under the care of their older brother, learning that maturity requires balancing self-will with duty.
Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders
T. Eric (Thomas Eric) Peet
Across wind-swept hills, ancient coastal paths, and desert plains, massive stone slabs stand fixed in silence, guarding the forgotten graves and sacred gathering grounds of a unified prehistoric civilization.
Scott Greenwood and Co. Catalogue of Special Technical Works, 1903: For Manufacturers, Students, and Technical Schools, by Expert Writers
Greenwood & Co. Scott
A window into the industrial engine of 1903, this volume presents a comprehensive inventory of practical knowledge designed to equip the modern technician, chemical engineer, and trade student.
Snow-Bound at Eagle's
Bret Harte
A high-altitude snowstorm traps two wanted fugitives inside an isolated Sierran estate with three women who have no idea who their guests really are.
Stories of the Wagner Opera
H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
A guide to the sweeping grand operas of Richard Wagner, mapped scene by scene to reveal the myths, tragic loves, and heroic quests that define his stage works.
Tarzan and the Ant Men
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Deep in an uncharted African forest lies a world where human scale is turned entirely upside down, and survival depends on navigating miniature empires, monstrous insects, and fierce matriarchies.
That Lass O' Lowrie's: 1877
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Deep in the grim pit-towns of Lancashire, a fierce mine girl shields her heart against abuse and hardship until a quietly determined engineer shows her that a different life is possible.
The Adventures of a Forty-niner: An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days
Daniel Knower
An easterner set out for the gold fields, only to discover that the real fortune of early California lay in the explosive, unpredictable pulse of San Francisco itself.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
Across essays, poetry, and war-era drama, this mid-nineteenth-century magazine issue captures an American republic in crisis while debating the enduring laws of literature, nature, and human society.
The Biological Problem of To-day: Preformation Or Epigenesis?: The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development
Oscar Hertwig
An egg cell divides, but whether its unfolding trajectory relies on a rigid internal blueprint or a flexible response to its environment remains one of biology's most provocative questions.
The Carpet from Bagdad
Harold MacGrath
A rare oriental carpet stolen from a palace in Cairo tangles an idealistic American merchant, a sharp-witted young woman, and a charming rogue in a desperate, globe-trotting Arabian desert adventure.
The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872
Luigi Palmieri
When magma forced its way through the flanks of Mount Vesuvius in April 1872, one man refused to abandon his post at the edge of the crater.