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A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee": From the Diary of Number Five of the After Port Gun (Russell Doubleday): The Yarn of the Cruise and Fights of the Naval Reserves in the Spanish-American War
Russell Doubleday
A group of green New York college boys and clerks step onto a converted auxiliary cruiser and transform into the battle-tested naval gunners of the Spanish-American War.
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia: With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country
Samuel Brunt
A stranded English sailor discovers an empire of giant, speaking poultry, rising through its corrupt political ranks only to embark on a desperate spaceflight to the moon.
Abraham Lincoln and the Union: A Chronicle of the Embattled North
Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson
Northern political maneuvering and administrative endurance, rather than battlefield tactics, dictate the survival of the American Republic through its greatest trial.
An Apache Princess: A Tale of the Indian Frontier
Charles King
A sun-bleached Arizona outpost erupts into suspicion, betrayal, and violence when an officer's mysterious assault collides with a deadly Apache uprising.
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews
Henry Fielding
A sharp, mercenary servant girl leverages her calculated modesty to trap a foolish young squire into marriage, exposing the hypocrisies of virtuous posturing.
An ethical problem
Albert Leffingwell
Behind closed laboratory doors, a profound moral compromise takes root when scientific ambition discards empathy. This urgent inquiry exposes the hidden cruelties of unrestrained research, arguing that human progress loses its moral authority when achieved through unmonitored pain.
Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce
Bernard Shaw
A pomposity-blinded aristocrat running a rural recruiting office attempts to demonstrate superior wartime vigilance, only to be effortlessly bamboozled by a cleverly disguised visitor.
Aylwin
Theodore Watts-Dunton
The sea erodes a eastern English cliff, dragging ancestral tombs into the deep, while a dead father’s curse follows two lovers across the Welsh mountains and into the bohemian attics of Victorian London.
Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach
Christopher Hare
Bound by honor in an age of shifting alliances, a noble knight traverses the battlefields of Renaissance Europe, proving that unwavering loyalty and quiet integrity endure longer than the conquests of kings.
Beside Still Waters
Robert Sheckley
An aging prospector seeks ultimate solitude on a half-mile slab of rock floating in space, taking along only an adaptable, standard-issue robot for company.
Betrothed for a day
Laura Jean Libbey
A high-society betrayal and an unexpected southern inheritance force a penniless hero and an unpolished heiress into a sudden marriage, testing whether love can survive deceit, mistaken identities, and financial ruin.
Bolax, Imp or Angel—Which?
Josephine Culpeper
A high-spirited young boy navigates the scrapes and temptations of childhood while growing into a compassionate, faithful young man.
By-Ways of War: The Story of the Filibusters
James Jeffrey Roche
Desperate men across the nineteenth century sought wealth and empire by private force, invading foreign nations to carve out personal realms before their lawless crusades collapsed in tragedy and blood.
Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge
Unknown
A painstaking survey of rare early English printing lays open the raw textual foundations of Elizabethan drama and Renaissance literature.
Characters from the Histories & Memoirs of the Seventeenth Century
Unknown
A monarch with oversized doublets who relies on his favorites; a king who faces execution; a general who marches under a cloud of conflicting allegiances. In this anthology, seventeenth-century England comes alive through the eyes of those who watched its tragic history unfold.
Cloud Studies
Arthur William Clayden
This elegant guide elevates the sky from a mere backdrop to a vast, observable laboratory, inviting readers to look upward with the precision of a scientist and the soul of an artist. It bridges the gap between casual observation and rigorous meteorological study, offering a detailed taxonomy of clouds that…
Danes, Saxons and Normans
John G. (John George) Edgar
Long before the Norman fleet anchors off Hastings, centuries of blood, ambition, and shifting crowns shape the British Isles. Violent dynastic rivalries, broken oaths, and bold conquests forge a single nation from hostile, warring races.
David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales
Julian Hawthorne
A clergyman unmoors his soul for a sudden fortune, while phantom lovers and secret passages entangle ordinary lives in uncanny webwork.
Dawson Black: Retail Merchant
Harold Whitehead
A young, impetuous storekeeper learns that managing a small-town hardware business takes far more than raw ambition, discovering that true commercial success depends on mastering numbers, controlling impulse, and listening to wise advice.
Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There
Emanuel Swedenborg
An extraordinary visionary account maps out the spiritual geography of the cosmos, insisting that human life is not confined to a single world.
Frederick Warne & Co.'s list of juvenile literature, prize books, and gift books for young people
Frederick Warne and Co.
This Victorian publisher’s catalogue presents an expansive, highly structured vision of moral, adventurous, and educational reading designed to mold young minds across the British Empire.
Guide to Hotel Housekeeping
Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Palmer
Managing an early twentieth-century hotel requires rigorous organization, unyielding self-discipline, and a mastery of structural maintenance.
In Pastures New
George Ade
An American abroad is a creature of endless confidence and total confusion, marching through the ancient world with a guide book in one hand and a yearning for home cooking in the other.
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson
Rough dust, sun-bleached tracks, and the quiet dignity of working outcasts shape an unsparing portrait of Australia’s bush. These gathered works record the humor, heartbreak, and fierce companionship of people trying to survive at the edge of the world.
Jap Herron: A Novel Written from the Ouija Board
Unknown
The dead speak, but they still need an editor.
Left on Labrador
C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
Four young men buy a schooner, set sail for Hudson Strait, and find themselves marooned on the icy, wind-swept coast of Labrador.
Life of George Washington, volume 3 of 5
Washington Irving
The middle years of the American Revolution demanded a commander whose patience matched his fortitude, turning endless retreats and political interference into a quiet, enduring victory.
Loyola and the Educational System of the Jesuits
Thomas Hughes
Before the great universities ceded their monopoly on learning, a wounded Spanish soldier laid down his armor to erect a global pedagogical network based on rigor, free instruction, and strict centralization.
Marjorie Dean, College Junior
Josephine Chase
Underneath the polite routines of campus life, a quiet battle for the soul of Hamilton College plays out through seasonal tradition, earnest charity, and hidden malice.
Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 3: The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by the Author
Benjamin Rush
A physician’s rigorous, firsthand account of the devastating yellow fever epidemics in late 18th-century Philadelphia, documenting his controversial pursuit of a cure amidst public panic and professional discord.
Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4
Charles Robert Maturin
A damned soul wanders the earth for centuries, desperate to trade his immortal torment for any human spirit weak enough to accept it.
Memoirs of Arsène Lupin
Maurice Leblanc
This is the story of a young man’s first steps into a life of shadow, chronicling the formative, high-stakes duel between a burgeoning mastermind and a legendary temptress. It explores the dawn of a career defined by audacity, wit, and a refusal to be mastered by anyone.
Money for nothing
P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Resting beside the Skirme, Rudge-in-the-Vale moves at the pace of a cat stropping its back; only the local chemist keeps the world turning until an exploding oak tree shatters the summer calm.
Natural Philosophy
Wilhelm Ostwald
A single, coherent scientific worldview emerges when human thought abandons loose speculation and anchors itself to empirical laws.
Overland Red: A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail
Henry Herbert Knibbs
An adventurous, poetry-quoting vagabond and his young companion crisscross the Southwest, dodging the law while pursuing a hidden gold claim that will change their fortunes forever.
Palmetto-Leaves
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Escaping the harsh winters of the North for a sunny refuge along the St. Johns River, a writer discovers that building a home in Florida requires equal parts patience, labor, and quiet wonder.
Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer
Charles Sotheran
Poetic genius often masks a radical political and philosophical mind, transforming a celebrated artist into an ardent champion of human liberation.
Peter Ruff and the Double Four
E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
A high-stakes game of international espionage hinges on a master of disguise who turns the criminal underworld upside down to secure his own fortune and power.
Polly and Her Friends Abroad
Lillian Elizabeth Roy
A wealthy mother attempts to force her unassuming daughter into European nobility, but a lively crew of American art students intervenes with good humor and unexpected detours.
Polly Oliver's Problem
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Confronted by family hardship and sudden grief, a young woman transforms her love of storytelling into a life-sustaining vocation.
Queechy
Susan Warner
A orphan's quiet strength carries her family through ruin and disgrace, while an English nobleman's silent devotion waits for her to claim her place.
Randy and Her Friends
Amy Brooks
In a sunlit New England village, a generous farm girl brings quiet warmth to everyone she touches, whether sharing simple pleasures at home or stepping into city life.
Rezanov
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
A Russian diplomat hazards a forbidden courtship in Spanish California, risking empire and pride for a young woman who holds the key to his survival.
Round the year with the stars: The chief beauties of the starry heavens as seen with the naked eye
Garrett Putman Serviss
No specialized optical gear or complex equations are required to unlock the deep wonder of the night sky; it calls only for open eyes, a reflective spirit, and an appreciative guide to point out its shifting seasonal treasures.
Selections from Erasmus: Principally from his Epistles
Desiderius Erasmus
Human connections, intellectual disputes, and everyday travel hazards define a scholar navigating the high expectations and turbulent waters of Renaissance Europe.
Sheila of Big Wreck Cove: A Story of Cape Cod
James A. Cooper
A young woman, falsely accused and seeking a clean start, assumes another girl’s identity on Cape Cod, only to discover that love and honesty demand a far harder reckoning.
Sketches of Young Gentlemen
Charles Dickens
A gallery of absurdity, this satire turns a sharp eye on the social posturing and vanity of nineteen-century British manhood.
Smoking and Drinking
James Parton
A sharp, mid-nineteenth-century examination of human habits reveals how tobacco and alcohol quietly dismantle personal ambition, family life, and social progress.