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Hopalong Cassidy
Clarence Edward Mulford
Out where the Southwest meets the desert, the boundary between order and outrage is drawn in lead. One bad-man with a quick draw can turn a quiet range into a graveyard.
Horses Past and Present
Gilbey, Walter, Sir
Sir Walter Gilbey traces how royal decrees, wartime demands, and the rise of rail transport shaped the evolution of British horses over nine centuries.
Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life
Vernon Lee
Cultivating happiness requires modest boundaries, deliberate attention, and a willingness to step back from the world's exhausting clutter.
Hunger
Knut Hamsun
A young writer wanders the streets of late nineteenth-century Christiania, caught between the fever of literary creation and the slow agony of real starvation.
Impressions of great naturalists
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Twelve remarkable observers of the natural world reveal how humility, patience, and absolute devotion to truth redefine the limits of human knowledge.
In the grip of the Mullah: A tale of adventure in Somaliland
F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
A son risks everything to rescue his captive father from a fanatical warlord in the heart of East Africa.
Jewel Weed
Alice Ames Winter
Behind the gleaming facade of a booming Midwestern city lies a tangled network of municipal corruption, mismatched marriages, and self-serving ambition that threatens to derail a young man’s high ideals.
Latest Magic, Being original conjuring tricks
Professor Hoffmann
A veteran magician breaks down original illusion mechanics, offering clever theatrical patter, inventive apparatus designs, and clear practical advice to help aspiring performers master the delicate art of misdirection.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
Rex Beach
A rogue's quick wit and a heavy fist meet the unforgiving wilderness and the bustling frontier.
Mr. Isaacs, A Tale of Modern India
F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
Across the rugged hills and glittering bazaars of nineteenth-century India, an extraordinary man's quest for ultimate truth reshapes the boundaries between earthly love and spiritual awakening.
Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes
Unknown
A collection of Native American myths and legends from the Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes regions, offering a glimpse into the rich oral traditions of various tribes.
Natalie
Emma V. Hallett
An infant washed ashore in a wooden trough becomes the shining center of a Christian household, guiding lost souls from Nantucket to Italy toward spiritual peace.
New Theories in Astronomy
William Stirling
A civil engineer turns his practical sense for stresses, densities, and physical structures onto nineteenth-century astrophysics, challenging established mathematical assumptions to argue that celestial bodies are hollow.
Notes on agriculture in Cyprus and its products
William Bevan
A meticulously documented survey of early twentieth-century Cypriot agriculture, detailing the island's soil, stock, and staple crops with administrative precision and a quiet passion for rural modernization.
Old Time Wall Papers: An Account of the Pictorial Papers on Our Forefathers' Walls with a Study of the Historical Development of Wall Paper Making and Decoration
Kate Sanborn
Fascinating histories and vivid memories cling to the forgotten hand-printed wallpapers that decorated early American rooms, transforming plain plaster into scenes of myth, travel, and grand imagination.
Orientations
W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
A young man leaves his quiet village to seek his fortune in the world, only to discover that every choice carries an unforeseen toll.
Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad
Unknown
A stray bird warmed in a fur muff, a lost brother found by a parrot's call, and a schoolboy's cane that takes root to become a sanctuary for soldiers—these brief vignettes capture the quiet wonder of Victorian childhood.
Primitive art
Franz Boas
Human creativity is not a luxury of modern civilization, but a fundamental property of the shared human mind. Across every continent and culture, art springs from the exact same capacity for technical mastery, formal discipline, and symbolic expression.
Room Number 3, and Other Detective Stories
Anna Katharine Green
Greed, malice, and quiet human frailty collision across hidden rooms, stolen jewels, and deadly mechanical toys in these classic Gilded Age mysteries.
Round Games with Cards: A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice
W. H. Peel
At the close of the nineteenth century, parlor card games transformed from casual pastimes into rigorous exercises of strategy, risk, and social negotiation. Here lies a meticulous codification of the era's most fashionable games of chance.
Santa Teresa: An Appreciation: With Some of the Best Passages of the Saint's Writings
Alexander Whyte
A Spanish nun crafts a revolutionary approach to prayer while enduring deep spiritual dry spells, founding strictly reformed monasteries and writing sharp, witty classic literature along the way.
Secrets of Polar Travel
Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary
Extreme environments show no mercy to trial-and-error planning, demanding a cold, calculated alignment of mechanical design, logistical science, and native human intelligence.
Sketches from Memory (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A wanderer journeys through the majestic notch of the White Mountains and across the dark waters of the Erie Canal, capturing the changing spirit of nineteenth-century New England.
Some Poems
Walter Scott
A sweep of prophetic visions, spectral dances, and violent battlefields reveals the terrible price of human ambition and the enduring strain of martial duty across centuries of conflict.
Some Reptiles and Amphibians from Korea
J. Knox Jones
Field research conducted amidst post-war landscapes reveals how native amphibians and reptiles adapt to altered environments, military dugouts, and seasonal cycles.
Stanford Achievement Test, Ed. 1922
Lewis M. (Lewis Madison) Terman
A fascinating artifact of early twentieth-century American education, this volume offers a direct window into how standardized metrics once attempted to map, measure, and quantify the developing human mind.
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.