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The Adventures of a Cat, and a Fine Cat Too!
Alfred Elwes
Curiosity leads a headstrong kitten through foolish misadventures, painful losses, self-education, and unexpected royal favor until she earns real wisdom.
The Ancient East
D. G. (David George) Hogarth
Long before modern borders carved up Hither Asia, ancient powers raided across desert highways, leaving behind fleeting shadows of dominion rather than settled states.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860: A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics
Various
In July 1860, American intellectual culture stood at a pivotal crossroads, balancing the observational rigor of natural science against the gathering shadows of historical and political crisis.
The Bishop murder case
S. S. Van Dine
A cunning serial killer turns Manhattan into a grisly nursery-rhyme playground, mocking the district attorney with cold, mathematical precision.
The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, April 1885
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
A Gilded Age home-education journal gathers science, classical philosophy, christian devotion, and grassroots community news into a single, highly ambitious monthly guide for self-directed adult readers across North America.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 10: The Opinionator
Ambrose Bierce
A collection of caustically witty essays dismantles early twentieth-century American culture with sharp prose, targeting everything from cheap popular literature and bad art criticism to military hubris and environmental meddling.
The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Volume 2 of 2
Davies, John, Sir
An acerbic tour of Elizabethan vice gives way to delicate courtly entertainments and devout sacred verse in this second volume of Sir John Davies' collected poetry.
The Corner House Girls Under Canvas: How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward
Grace Brooks Hill
Four orphaned sisters and a giant, sweet-tempered stray dog find high adventure, coastal fires, and mysterious encounters during a summer camping trip on the New England shore.
The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 4 (of 5)
Unknown
Across wind-swept borders and cold sea channels, these traditional verses give voice to betrayed lovers, outlawed riders, and tragic queens whose fates turn on a single hasty word or violent stroke.
The farmstead: The making of the rural home and the lay-out of the farm: (5th edition)
Isaac Phillips Roberts
A thoughtfully designed home and farmstead can transform raw land into a place of health, independence, and lasting family stability.
The Hand Phrenologically Considered: Being a Glimpse at the Relation of the Mind with the Organisation of the Body
Anonymous
Looking past mystical palmistry, the physical structure of the hand offers a direct window into human temperament, intellectual tendencies, and biological character.
The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 04
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
A middle-aged Spanish country gentleman loses his wits to romances of chivalry, equips himself with rusted armor, and rides out onto the open plains to right the world's wrongs.
The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada: Which are dependent on the Province of New-York, and are a barrier between the English and the French in that part of the world
Cadwallader Colden
A sharp colonial study of diplomacy and war, this history charts how a powerful Native confederacy held the balance of power in North America.
The Honorable Miss: A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
L. T. Meade
A young woman’s steady heart exposes the vanity and desperate secrets of a proud family in a small seaside town.
The Land of the Blue Flower
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A young king raised in solitude on a mountain summit learns the quiet secrets of the earth, then descends to redeem a darkened realm through the shared cultivating of a single, radiant blossom.
The Leatherwood God
William Dean Howells
A mysterious stranger rides into an isolated frontier settlement, claims divinity, and tears a pioneer community apart through the sheer force of religious delusion.
The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas
Janet Aldridge
Courage and camaraderie meet the test of the elements when four small-town girls trade household chores for canvas tents, midnight spooks, and forest fires in an early twentieth-century summer camp.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 11: Paris and Holland
Giacomo Casanova
A man of world-wise charm navigates high-society Paris and the financial corridors of Holland with equal measures of brazen audacity, cynical romanticism, and financial opportunism.
The Napoleon of the People
Honoré de Balzac
A veteran’s campfire yarn transforms history into holy myth, reframing a emperor’s rise and fall through the blind, glowing faith of the men who bled for him.
The Phantom Ship
Frederick Marryat
A son sets out on a perilous, decade-spanning ocean quest to deliver a holy relic to his cursed father, the captain of the Flying Dutchman.
The Plow-Woman
Eleanor Gates
A resolute young woman fights to build a home on the Dakota frontier, torn between protecting her fragile sister, surviving prairie hardships, and claiming her own heart.
The Pobratim: A Slav Novel
P. Jones
Two young coastal sailors swear a sacred oath of adopted brotherhood, only to be swept into a dark vortex of murder, ancient folk superstitions, bitter blood feuds, and long-sought vengeance across the nineteenth-century Balkan landscape.
The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884: A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside
Various
A rich tapestry of Gilded Age agricultural life, this 1884 periodical weaves together cutting-edge agronomy, rural community reform, tense frontier literature, and the vibrant commercial bustle of late nineteenth-century America.
The Reason Why
Elinor Glyn
Desperate circumstances drive a proud woman into a arranged marriage with an unsuspecting aristocrat, leading to a fiery war of pride, silence, and secret heartbreak before true devotion is revealed.
The Rector of St. Mark's
Mary Jane Holmes
A young clergyman's secret love and a series of quiet misunderstandings test the fragile bonds between duty and desire in a small town.
The Relations Between Religion and Science: Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year 1884
Frederick Temple
A quiet harmony exists between the relentless order of the physical world and the unbending imperative of human conscience.
The religion of Plutarch
John Oakesmith
In an age of shifting beliefs, a priest of Delphi seeks to harmonize ancient faith with cool reason.
The Romance of War
James Grant
The Scottish Highlands meet the heat and peril of the Peninsular War in this sweeping chronicle of military ambition, divided loyalties, and the heavy price of personal honor.
The Sea Fairies
L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
Deep beneath the Pacific waves, a young girl and a veteran sailor shed their terrestrial lives to wander an enchanted ocean kingdom full of wonders, monsters, and unexpected magic.
The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air
Jane Andrews
A gentle, wide-eyed journey across the globe that teaches children how love, nature, and shared humanity unite young lives in every climate.
The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. IV. Being the Second of the Second Voyage
James Cook
Navigating unmapped Pacific waters and the icy southern latitudes, an eighteenth-century naval expedition measures island borders, tests human endurance, and establishes precise geographic coordinates across uncharted oceans.
The Touch of Abner
H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody
The unlikely hero of this tale is an eccentric, plain-spoken farmer who proves that a sharp wit and a generous heart are more powerful than city money and legal maneuvering.
The Trumpeter Swan
Temple Bailey
A young woman who has mistaken superficial charm for devotion must choose between the glamorous illusions of the city and the quiet, enduring love rooted in her Virginia home.
The Wolf Demon
Albert W. Aiken
A shadow glides across the moonlit Scioto valley, striking down frontier warriors with a single, savage blow.
The Young Outlaw
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
A boy who would rather be a pig than hoe a potato runs away from his strict rural guardian, only to find that surviving on the streets of New York takes far more hustle than farming.
Time and Tide: A Romance of the Moon
Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball
The pull of the moon on our oceans acts as a continuous brake on the earth’s spin, gradually slowing our days while casting the moon into a ever-widening orbit.
Travels into North America, Volume 1 (of 3)
Pehr Kalm
A Swedish naturalist moves through the eighteenth-century American colonies, recording everything from native trees and local agriculture to the strange habits of squirrels and the spread of religious sects.
Van Dyck: A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation
Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
A balanced tour through early modern elegance and devotional drama reveals how one Flemish master captured the quiet vanity, spiritual longing, and royal poise of a turbulent seventeenth-century Europe.
Washington's Birthday
Unknown
A nation’s memory of its founding leader shifts over time from a stiff, mythic bronze statue into a living portrait of a passionate, human commander and statesman.
Wright Brothers National Memorial, North Carolina
Omega G. East
Driven by methodical curiosity rather than fortune, two bicycle mechanics from Ohio isolate themselves on a windswept barrier island to unravel the engineering secrets of human flight.
A Broken Journey: Wanderings from the Hoang-Ho to the Island of Saghalien and the Upper Reaches of the Amur River
Mary Gaunt
Driven by an insatiable wanderlust, an intrepid Australian writer sets off across remote Chinese borderlands and wartime Siberia, discovering that the true hardship of travel lies not in physical deprivation, but in the unpredictability of human nature.
A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar: Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken
George Bethune English
An artillery officer in the service of Egypt tracks a imperial army through scorching sands and violent rapids to conquer the unknown territories of the Upper Nile.
A Waif of the Plains
Bret Harte
Two abandoned children struggle across the 1852 American plains, fighting for survival as their wagon train leaves them behind in the vast wilderness.
A Window in Thrums
J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
A crippled mother watches the world from a tiny weaver's cottage window in nineteenth-century Scotland, holding her family together through fierce devotion until sudden tragedies break their small haven apart.
A Woodland Queen ('Reine des Bois')
André Theuriet
In the dense forests of eastern France, a timid heir's quiet isolation gives way to the vibrant rhythm of country life and unexpected love.
Adopting an Abandoned Farm
Kate Sanborn
A weary city woman rents a dilapidated New England farm for forty dollars a year, setting off a season of hilarious misadventures with stubborn livestock, shady auctioneers, and overambitious rustic decor.
Among the Forces
Henry White Warren
Visible and invisible forces pulse through the physical world, operating as obedient agents ready to serve humanity’s highest practical, scientific, and spiritual endeavors.
An Autobiography
Catherine Helen Spence
A nineteenth-century Scottish girl arrives in young South Australia and spends seven decades shaping its schools, courts, press, and parliament.