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The Fifth Queen: And How She Came to Court
Ford Madox Ford
Arriving from the countryside, a proud young woman enters the treacherous Tudor court to change its history.
The Galaxy, March, 1877: Vol. XXIII, No. 3
Various
A lively slice of Victorian public discourse, this mid-1870s periodical issue pairs sharp political and social commentary with serialized fiction, literary criticism, and scientific oddities.
The Gland Stealers
Bertram Gayton
A ninety-five-year-old millionaire restores his youth through a primate gland transplant, then leads a crowd of elderly men to Africa to harvest wild gorillas for their own operations.
The Imprudence of Prue
Sophie Fisher
An impoverished London beauty marries a condemned highwayman to dump her mountain of debt onto a dead man's grave—only to find the scoundrel escaped the gallows and is very much alive.
The Intrusion of Jimmy
P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
When a charming young American millionaire accepts a ridiculous bet to commit a burglary, his ill-advised foray into crime plunges him into a tangled web of stolen jewels, mistaken identities, and unexpected romance.
The King's Mirror
Anthony Hope
A young monarch discovers that wearing a crown means trading every personal desire—for love, friendship, and self-determination—for the cold, exacting duty of the state.
The Lady of the Aroostook
William Dean Howells
A young woman from rural Massachusetts sails for Europe aboard a cargo vessel, unaware that she is the only female passenger among a crew and small circle of men.
The Legacy of Cain
Wilkie Collins
Two girls raised as sisters by a devout minister grow up unaware that one is an adopted orphan, born to a convicted murderess on the eve of her execution.
The Old Bush Songs
Unknown
A coarse, rowdy, and unexpectedly poignant choir of bushmen, convicts, and overlanders sings the true history of frontier Australia into being.
The One-Way Trail: A story of the cattle country
Ridgwell Cullum
A sudden surge of cattle rustling shatters the calm of a Montana ranch town, entangling an honest cowman and a vengeful outcast in a desperate struggle for love, honor, and survival.
The Parts Men Play
Beverley Baxter
A young American intellectual navigates London society during the First World War, torn between his passionate anti-war convictions and his growing love for an aristocratic English family.
The Personal Relation in Industry
Rockefeller, John D., Jr. (John Davison)
Industrial peace cannot be bought through traditional charity; it requires a genuine, structured partnership between capital, management, labor, and the public.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
Thomas De Quincey
A brilliant intellect turns its beam on classical antiquity, high literary philosophy, and the frailties of his own circle, extracting subtle truths from historical chaos.
The Sixth Sense: A Novel
Stephen McKenna
High society meets radical politics and uncanny intuition in a pre-war London where a young man’s strange inner vision alters every relationship it touches.
The Soul of John Brown
Stephen Graham
An English traveler journeys on foot through the American South to measure the living legacy of slavery against the promise of freedom.
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson: By One of the Firm
Anthony Trollope
A frantic satire of commercial puffery, this dry Victorian comedy tracks three ill-matched partners as their grand retail scheme collapses under absurd advertising claims and personal infighting.
Through the Postern Gate: A Romance in Seven Days
Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay
A golden summer garden becomes the battlefield for a youthful aviator determined to win the heart of an older woman within seven days.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910: The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Bertram Henry Majendie Hewett
Beneath the silt and currents of the Hudson River, engineers and laborers drove two massive iron tubes to connect New Jersey rail lines directly into the heart of Manhattan.
Trevlyn Hold: A Novel
Wood, Henry, Mrs.
In a quiet corner of Victorian England, a dispossessed heir fights for his life while the man who usurped his birthright finds that stolen land brings only fear and phantom shadows.
Turner
W. Cosmo (William Cosmo) Monkhouse
An intensely private prodigy paints his way from a Covent Garden barber's shop to the heights of European art, wrestling silently with his own genius, his critics, and the cold isolation of success.
'Twixt France and Spain
E. Ernest Bilbrough
Framed by jagged peaks and sunlit valleys, a nineteenth-century journey unfolds along the mountain border between France and Spain.
Wanderings in South America
Charles Waterton
To plunge bare-chested into the South American rainforest in search of deadly poisons, bizarre birds, and ancient legends requires a rare mix of eccentricity and unyielding curiosity.
Woodcraft
Elmer Harry Kreps
An indispensable field guide for anyone seeking self-reliance in the wild, this volume distills a lifetime of timberline experience into precise, life-saving instructions on wilderness survival, craft, and navigation.
A Description of Greenland
Hans Egede
The Arctic wilderness remains a place of profound mystery in this foundational account, which bridges the gap between ancient sagas of lost colonies and the stark reality of survival on the frozen edge of the world.
A history of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A
George Little
A volunteer artillery company marches out of an Alabama courthouse in 1861, expecting quick glory, only to find themselves enduring four years of mud, starvation, and grueling retreats across the crumbling Confederacy.
A History, of the War of 1812-15 Between the United States and Great Britain
Rossiter Johnson
A young republic risks its survival on land and sea against the world's greatest empire, fighting internal division and desperate battles across a sprawling frontier.
A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53
Clacy, Charles, Mrs.
A sharp-eyed young woman leaves Victorian England for the Australian goldfields, capturing the mud, chaos, and raw human ambition of the 1852 rush with lively, unflinching precision.
Anchorite
Randall Garrett
A solitary space-tug captain jests with his imaginary alter ego while performing lethal orbital maneuvers—and inadvertently defends human independence against a smothering Earth bureaucracy.
Anthropology
R. R. (Robert Ranulph) Marett
Human history unfolds through physical evolution and cultural adaptation as populations continuously tackle their surroundings, build societies, and invent new tools.
Aspects of nature, in different lands and different climates (Vol. 2 of 2): with scientific elucidations
Alexander von Humboldt
A quiet, rigorous passion drives this inquiry into how the natural world structures itself across vertical heights, vast oceans, and varying climates.
Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse: Prepared for use of Members of the Family
Charles Clinton Nourse
A young lawyer ventures onto the frontier of 1850s Iowa, where he helps build a new political party and navigates the fierce legal and moral battles of a rapidly expanding nation.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 08: Great Rulers
John Lord
A sweeping chronicle of statecraft and ambition, this volume examines how singular individuals have forged nations, reshaped borders, and redirected the flow of European history through sheer force of will.
Bevis: The Story of a Boy
Richard Jefferies
A wooden case yields only a picture, but two boys turn its box into a hut, a stream into the Nile, and an English farm into the vast, wild unknown.
Blind Love
Wilkie Collins
When an impulsive Irish aristocrat entangles the woman who loves him in a web of political violence, sham deaths, and insurance fraud, devotion becomes a quiet form of self-destruction.
Brief guide
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
A grand marble monument on the National Mall holds a collection assembled entirely by private generosity for the public good. It opens its doors to every visitor seeking to understand European and American art.
Clio
Anatole France
This collection of historical sketches and essays serves as a meditation on the persistence of human memory and the fragility of worldly power. It remains a work of quiet elegance, bridging the distance between the ancient world and the French seventeenth century through a series of evocative, loosely connected…
Cloudy Jewel
Grace Livingston Hill
For a woman whose life has been spent as a tireless, unpaid caretaker, an unexpected proposal offers the chance to run her own household. When her orphaned niece and nephew ask her to play "mother" at college, her world expands into an enduring journey of family, faith, and practical grace.
Days of the Discoverers
Louise Lamprey
Through episodic narratives spanning three centuries, this collection breathes human life into the perilous sea voyages, territorial rivalries, and quiet discoveries that shaped the mapping of the New World.
Deserts: Geology and Resources
A. S. (Alta Sharon) Walker
Covering a third of the Earth’s surface, deserts are dry, fragile environments where planetary wind patterns, ancient lakes, and shifting sands shape rich mineral deposits and delicate human landscapes.
Famous Discoverers and Explorers of America: Their Voyages, Battles, and Hardships in Traversing and Conquering the Unknown Territories of a New World
Charles H. L. (Charles Haven Ladd) Johnston
This collection chronicles the daring and often ruthless saga of those who charted the Western Hemisphere, tracing a path from the first landfall of the Genoese explorer to the icy quests for the North Pole.
Fiction Writers on Fiction Writing: Advice, opinions and a statement of their own working methods by more than one hundred authors
Unknown
This collection offers a rare, granular look at the craft of fiction through the candid responses of over one hundred working authors from the early 20th century. It serves as a practical, unvarnished field guide to the labor behind the stories.
Froebel's Gifts
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
A geometric progression of playthings guides the human mind from its earliest tangible instincts to abstract thought.
Gold Elsie
E. (Eugenie) Marlitt
A golden-haired maiden brings warmth to an old Thuringian forest while quietly defying the rigid pride of the local aristocracy.
Hints on Dairying
T. D. (Thomas Day) Curtis
A practical 1885 treatise on North American agriculture exposes how neglect, improper feeding, and chemical ignorance ruin dairy yields, offering clear scientific methods to elevate small farm butter and cheese production.
Hints on Mountain-Lion Trapping
Stanley Paul Young
A precise manual of frontier control, this short federal text converts apex wilderness ecology into a methodical science of livestock protection.
History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome: Barnum's Connection with the Yankee Clock Business
Chauncey Jerome
Driven by a relentless urge to make timepieces cheap and accessible, an early nineteenth-century Connecticut joiner transforms custom woodwork into mass-market manufacturing.
In God's Garden: Stories of the Saints for Little Children
Amy Steedman
A gentle introduction to Christian lore presents holy men and women as bright blooms in a divine landscape, cultivating virtues of humility, courage, and selflessness.
In the Amazon Jungle
Algot Lange
A journey into the Amazon basin turns into a desperate fight against disease, starvation, and the relentless forest itself.