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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 Trimming of Goosie
James Hopper
An athletic young husband inexplicably sprouts a pair of magnificent wings, forcing his practical wife to trim them so he can remain a respectable suburban commuter.
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.
An Essay on the Trial By Jury
Lysander Spooner
Governments routinely enforce tyrannical acts by manipulating the court system, but true freedom requires that citizens retain absolute power to judge the justice of the laws themselves.
Assyria
A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
In the nineteenth century, dusty clay tablets and stone reliefs unearthed from Mesopotamian mounds began to speak, reshaping our understanding of the ancient Near East. A pioneering Oxford scholar reads these cuneiform inscriptions to reconstruct the lost world of Nineveh.
At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
A young English boy, raised as a Mahratta in secret, becomes a bridge between two warring empires.
Bee and Butterfly: A Tale of Two Cousins
Lucy Foster Madison
An impulsive young girl struggles to earn her aloof father’s affection, only to discover that character and quiet devotion matter far more than surface charm.
Black Man's Burden
Mack Reynolds
A myth of unity takes flight over the Sahara, leaving its creators no choice but to step inside the legend.
Camperdown
Mary Griffith
A sleeping gentleman awakens into a radically reformed Philadelphia, launching a collection of short narratives that reimagine civic order, social duty, and domestic life in early nineteenth-century America.
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 08 (of 20)
Charles Sumner
A single Senate chamber becomes the high-stakes battleground where legal precedent, international diplomacy, and the moral imperative to destroy human bondage collide during the darkest hours of the American Civil War.
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day: Ten Christmas stories
Edward Everett Hale
Through snowy New England drifts, crowded city tenements, and distant historical landscapes, these stories celebrate the quiet power of human connection, utility, and generous goodwill.
Classic Myths
Mary Catherine Judd
Ancient peoples looked into the night sky, watched the changing seasons, and wove stories to explain the quiet mysteries of the natural world.
Colonization and Christianity: A popular history of the treatment of the natives by the
William Howitt
This relentless catalog of global atrocity examines three centuries of European expansion to expose how professed Christian nations systematically plundered, enslaved, and exterminated indigenous populations across the globe.
Directions for Cooking by Troops, in Camp and Hospital: Prepared for the Army of Virginia, and published by order of the Surgeon General, with essays on "taking food," and "what food."
Florence Nightingale
Written with pragmatic urgency during wartime, this manual transforms mass catering into a rigorous science of survival, demonstrating that proper nutrition and meticulous nursing are as vital to military success as ammunition.
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Charles Major
She has golden hair, a fiercely independent spirit, and a father determined to break her will.
Eastern Shame Girl
G. (Georges) Soulié de Morant
Desire and deceit continuously unravel the lives of scholars, courtezans, and corrupt officials across seventeenth-century imperial China.
Etna: A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions
G. F. (George Farrer) Rodwell
Rising nearly eleven thousand feet above the Sicilian coast, Europe’s most formidable volcano has shaped regional geography, classical mythology, and human history for thousands of years.
Formation of the Union, 1750-1829
Albert Bushnell Hart
America’s transition from fragmented, squabbling colonies into a self-governing power was neither immediate nor inevitable, but a prolonged, structured evolution.
Franco-Gallia
François Hotman
A fierce, scholarly rejection of absolute monarchy, this sixteenth-century treatise unearths the constitutional roots of Western political thought.
Freedom Talks No. II
Julia Seton
Aligning human thought with universal cosmic energy releases the body and mind from disease, poverty, and suffering, transforming temporary physical struggle into an eternal, self-directed expression of divine health, peace, and absolute personal power.
Goslings
J. D. (John Davys) Beresford
A sudden plague sweeps across the globe, killing almost every man while leaving women almost entirely spared, forcing a shattered society to rebuild itself from the ground up.
Gowrie
G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
In 1600, a young Scottish nobleman returns from continental Europe to find his line threatened by political paranoia, ancient feuds, and a king determined to engineer his total destruction.
Greek and Roman Ghost Stories
Lacy Collison-Morley
A methodical survey of classical spectral lore shows how the ancient world framed its deepest anxieties around unburied bones, restless spirits, and the thin border between life and death.
Health and Education
Charles Kingsley
A vibrant plea for physical health, natural history, and sound education as the twin pillars of human progress.
Herakles, the Hero of Thebes, and Other Heroes of the Myth: Adapted from the Second Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece
Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna) Ragozin
In a ancient world shaped by divine favor and relentless monsters, mortal ambition continually tests the boundaries set by the gods.
History of the Moorish Empire in Europe, Vol. 3 (of 3)
S. P. (Samuel Parsons) Scott
A sweeping history of European Islam reveals how Moorish intellect, art, and governance shaped the Western world while medieval Christendom sank into darkness.