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Sustained honor: The Age of Liberty Established
John R. (John Roy) Musick
A young veteran of early American battles joins a new fight for naval independence and finds love, redemption, and a nation's true identity forged on land and sea.
The After House
Mary Roberts Rinehart
An ill-fated summer voyage turns into a bloody mystery, forcing an impoverished medical student turned deck-hand to take command of a terrified, isolated crew.
The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
Joseph Coppinger
Practical instruction meets chemical philosophy in a manual designed to revolutionize early nineteenth-century American brewing and tanning through systematic, scientific production methods.
The Bay State Monthly
Various
A landscape of memory, civic pride, and historic conflict unfolds across New England's past and rapid nineteenth-century growth.
The Bee-keeper's Manual: or Practical Hints on the Management and Complete Preservation of the Honey-bee
Henry Taylor
A practical guide to nineteenth-century apiculture offers a clear, humane roadmap for nurturing honey-bees without destroying the colony to harvest its yield.
The Black Cross
Olive M. (Olive Mary) Briggs
A violent political struggle in St. Petersburg drives a famed Polish violinist and an aristocratic revolutionary into a desperate, covert escape across snowy borders.
The Blind Man's Eyes
William MacHarg
A quiet train ride across a snowy wilderness becomes a dangerous web of deceit when a targeted assault leaves a blind powerhouse of justice fighting for his life alongside a mysterious traveler with a hidden past.
The Book of Pears and Plums
Edward Bartrum
Practical wisdom and patient observation turn the modest cultivation of orchard trees into a rigorous, rewarding craft.
The Brassbounder: A Tale of the Sea
David W. (David William) Bone
Riding the icy gales of the deep sea, a square-rigged barque battles rounding the Horn, carrying a crew of seasoned sailors and young apprentices through terror, grueling labor, and the brutal reality of merchant seafaring.
The Bravo of Venice: A Romance
Heinrich Zschokke
A mysterious figure terrorizes the Venetian republic while winning the heart of its most coveted maiden.
The Brothers' War
John C. (John Calvin) Reed
Driven by unseen evolutionary forces, two distinct American civilizations clash in an inevitable conflict.
The Burning Wheel
Aldous Huxley
An restless intellect strains against the confines of ordinary existence, seeking spiritual light while battling the earthy realities of human desire and urban squalor.
The Charm of Oxford
J. (Joseph) Wells
A walk through ancient quads, timbered halls, and shaded river paths reveals how architectural splendor and human history collide within a centuries-old seat of learning.
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The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 10 [of 13]
Enguerrand de Monstrelet
A world of shifting allegiances, bloody family feuds, and desperate betrayals unfolds across fifteenth-century France and England as royalty and nobility clash for total dominion.
The Crown Jewels of England
G. J. (George John) Younghusband
A sacred assemblage of gold, gems, and embroidered robes embodies the endurance of an empire across centuries of turmoil and transformation.
The Cruise of the "Esmeralda"
Harry Collingwood
A lost inheritance, a decoded map, and a mutinous crew set the stage for a classic Victorian sea adventure across the Pacific.
The dawn of astronomy: A study of the temple-worship and mythology of the ancient Egyptians
Lockyer, Norman, Sir
Long before modern instruments mapped the heavens, ancient builders aligned their sacred architecture to precise celestial horizons, capturing the sun and stars to order their calendars, religious myths, and social worlds.
The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea: Being The Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with Descriptions of their Old Charts
George Collingridge
European mariners spent over a century mapping the Southern Ocean, unknowingly encircling Australia while chasing trade routes and sacred gold.
The French in the Heart of America
John H. (John Huston) Finley
The long-dead voices of forest explorers and itinerant priests echoing across the vast waterways of North America are summoned to reveal how the Gallic spirit permanently shaped the continent’s industrial heart.
The German Lieutenant, and Other Stories
August Strindberg
A man's duty to his country collapses when he realizes war is only a shared delusion.
The Great War in Verse and Prose
Unknown
A solemn, urgent summons sounds across continents as a global alliance rallies to defend human liberty against an aggressive, autocratic onslaught.
The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond
William Makepeace Thackeray
Inheriting an ornate, red-haired locket transformed into a diamond pin launches an obscure London clerk into high society, fraudulent financial schemes, sudden bankruptcy, and the hard-won wisdom of modest domestic life.
The Invasion of France in 1814
Erckmann-Chatrian
When Napoleon's empire crumbles, the mountain hamlets of the Vosges learn that war is no longer something French soldiers wage on foreign soil.
The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, October, 1864
Unknown
Bound to the Roman see by ancient tradition yet isolated by modern media, Ireland's Catholic clergy turn inward to record their history, clarify their canon law, and defend their heritage.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula
Suetonius
A terrifying descent from beloved prince to erratic tyrant, Suetonius’s profile reveals how absolute power corrodes the human soul.
The Oxford Circus: A Novel of Oxford and Youth
Hamish Miles
An opulent youth swaggers through Oxford and London on a wave of self-regard, unbothered by reality until life demands a final reckoning.
The Princess Sophia
E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
A spirited Balkan sovereign chooses the thrill of the gaming table over the burdens of statecraft, setting off a battle of wits that stretches across generations.
The Radio Amateur's Hand Book: A Complete, Authentic and Informative Work on Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony
A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins
A comprehensive guide to early twentieth-century radio technology transforms complex electrical physics into accessible instructions for building, tuning, and operating home wireless stations.
The raid of the guerilla, and other stories
Charles Egbert Craddock
A harsh mountain war, an accidental infant in the mail, a fugitive haunted by dog tracks, and a girl who steps into a cage with a muzzled lion—all belong to the rugged, isolated world of Charles Egbert Craddock’s late short stories.
The Return of Peter Grimm: Novelised From the Play
David Belasco
A dead nurseryman returns as a ghost to mend the lives he inadvertently ruined by forcing his earthly will upon those he loved.
The Romance of the Woods
Frederick Whishaw
The northern wilderness is a place of infinite quiet, where a hunter may lie waiting through the dusk while ancient stories stir the pine-scented air.
The Shadow of Ashlydyat
Wood, Henry, Mrs.
A quiet provincial bank crumbles under the reckless hand of a charming partner, leaving an ancient family ruined, a sweet young wife broken-hearted, and an entire English town reckoning with the gap between social appearance and moral truth.
The Third Volume
Fergus Hume
Unresolved bloodstains and missing identities collide when an old tragedy resurfaces to unravel a Victorian family's carefully constructed illusions.
The Way of the Strong
Ridgwell Cullum
Driven by ambition, greed, and a long-buried secret, a northern wilderness outlaw rebuilds himself into a western wheat king, only to face his past when labor strikes and family ties converge.
The Wreck of the Golden Mary
Charles Dickens
A dark, blinding fog hides an iceberg from a dedicated crew carrying forty-four passengers and a fortune in gold toward the promise of California.
The Yellow Poppy
D. K. (Dorothy Kathleen) Broster
Courage, sacrifice, and the quiet persistence of devotion illuminate D. K. Broster’s gripping tale of war, hidden treasure, and rekindled love set against the twilight of the French Revolution.
The Young Emigrants
Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick
Bound by a common destination, a small band of hopeful travellers turns away from the familiar shores of home to build a new existence in the wild, open spaces of the American continent.
Three Hats: A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts
Arthur Shirley
A case of mistaken identities, lost hats, and romantic entanglements leads to a farcical comedy of errors.
Three Thousand Dollars
Anna Katharine Green
A criminal plot, a secret mechanism, and a brave stenographer intersect in a high-stakes New York office drama.
Tom Slade
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
The story of a young delinquent’s transformation proves that a boy’s roughest edges can be reshaped when given purpose, trust, and real responsibility.
Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat
Victor Appleton
A brilliant young inventor down to his last options takes a sub-sea gamble for three hundred thousand dollars in gold.
Universal Brotherhood, Volume XIII, No. 10, January 1899: A Magazine Devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, the Theosophical Movement, Philosophy, Science and Art
Various
A turn-of-the-century collection of essays and stories maps the human spirit through the combined lenses of Theosophical doctrine, political biography, and practical ethics.
Velazquez
S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan
An artist of quiet perfection navigates the rigid ceremonial of an empire in decline, transforming court constraint into silver-toned masterpieces that outshine the fame of kings.
Voyage of the Paper Canoe: A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, During the Years 1874-5
Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop
A sole traveler glides through the inland waterways of a changing continent, navigating treacherous bays, quiet canals, and murky cypress swamps in a fragile craft made of paper.
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde": An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama
George Ainslie Hight
The mind must entirely change its attitude when encountering Richard Wagner’s art, shifting away from superficial operatic spectacles toward a deep, organic unity of drama and music.
Wang the Ninth: The Story of a Chinese Boy
B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
A street-wise boy navigates the brutal collapse of nineteenth-century China, surviving famine, wall-climbing smugglers, and siege warfare with unyielding grit.
Years of My Youth
William Dean Howells
Setting ink into type at the printer's bench before sunrise, a young boy learns that words carry the power to shape both a quiet home and a rising nation.
A Catalogue of Books Published by Methuen and Co., October 1909
Methuen & Co.
An exhaustive trade publication captures the immense range of Edwardian print culture, preserving a precise inventory of active titles, subject series, price points, and author rosters at the end of the decade.