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Not Quite Eighteen
Susan Coolidge
A collection of sixteen vibrant domestic tales captures the quiet dramas, unexpected adventures, and moral awakenings of young people coming of age.
Of the Injustice of Counterfeiting Books: From: Essays and Treaties on Moral, Political and various Philosophical Subjects
Immanuel Kant
Kant demonstrates why reprinting another’s published text without authorization violates fundamental principles of property and agency, framing the printed word not as a physical commodity, but as a personal, irredeemable act of public speech.
Operation: Outer Space
Murray Leinster
A rat-race advertising man, drafted to publicize a faster-than-light space drive, accidentally turns a troubled millionaire's vanity project into humanity’s first commercial interstellar empire.
Our Part in the Great War
Arthur Gleason
A eyewitness journey into the heart of the Western Front reveals the spiritual resolve of a devastated France and the stark, chilling reality of modern warfare.
Prose Idylls, New and Old
Charles Kingsley
A sharp observer of the natural world walks through woods, riverbeds, and coastal cliffs, finding in every landscape a lively argument for stopping to look closely.
Robert Moffat, the missionary hero of Kuruman
David J. Deane
A Scottish gardener’s apprentice journeys to the South African frontier, transforming a notorious outlaw into a peaceful believer and laboring fifty years to translate the Bible into Sechwana.
Royal Winchester: Wanderings in and about the Ancient Capital of England
A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan) L'Estrange
A quiet walk through an old English city becomes a journey through centuries of royal intrigue, monastic ambition, and forgotten local lore.
Satires and Profanities
James Thomson
A incisive freethought critic tears through religious orthodoxies and institutional hypocrisies with unsparing satirical wit.
Seeking Fortune in America
F. W. (Frederick William) Grey
An emigrant’s search for bread across North America reveals a land of punishing labor, casual violence, and fleeting camaraderie.
Separation
Helen R. (Helen Rose) Hull
Bound to her mother by restrictive authority and drawn toward an adult world she does not yet understand, a young girl discovers the bitter, intoxicating independence of growing up.
Snap: A legend of the Lone Mountain
Clive Phillipps-Wolley
A schoolboy prank turns into a wild, high-altitude struggle for survival across the untouched peaks of the 19th-century Canadian Rockies.
Susanna and Sue
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
A heart-weary mother flees an unhappy marriage to seek refuge among the Shakers, only to discover that healing her broken household requires courageously bringing love back into the world she left behind.
Tales From Scottish Ballads
Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Wilson) Grierson
Border raids, enchanted birds, and supernatural pacts fill these dramatic retellings of classic Scottish minstrelsy. They bring historic lore to life with directness and spirit.
The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life: By Food, Clothes, Air, Exercise, Wine, Sleep, &c. and Peptic Precepts, Pointing Out Agreeable and Effectual Methods to Prevent and Relieve Indigestion, and to Regulate and Strengthen the Action of the Stomach and Bowels
William Kitchiner
A detailed guide to daily living offers practical, unpretending wisdom on maintaining energy, protecting digestion, and extending one's years through sensible, measured habits.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
A single issue of a Civil War–era magazine captures a nation in motion through health manifestos, gothic tales, political histories, wilderness travel, and personal eulogies.
The Blight of Respectability: An Anatomy of the Disease and a Theory of Curative Treatment
Geoffrey Mortimer
Conformity disguises itself as virtue, silencing original thought and turning whole classes into anxious performers of gentility.
The Boy Travellers in the Far East, Part Third: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Ceylon and India
Thomas Wallace Knox
Two American teenagers and their mentor travel across nineteenth-century Asia, observing local customs, ancient architecture, and imperial politics while documenting their encounters with wildlife, village life, and colonial society.
The Child's World: Third Reader
Hetty Sibyl Browne
Nature winks, beasts outsmart their foes, and quiet acts of kindness ring out louder than a king's grand crown.
The Claw
Cynthia Stockley
A young Englishwoman ventures into the rugged, dangerous wilderness of pioneer South Africa, where war, heartbreak, and a fateful romantic triangle test her spirit to its limit.
The conquest of Rome
Matilde Serao
An ambitious provincial deputy arrives in Rome to conquer its political world, only to find himself consumed by the city's seductive inertia and a ruinous, unrequited passion.
The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. 01
Unknown
An extraordinary, unvarnished look at the birth of American foreign policy reveals a fledgling nation fighting for its life not only on the battlefield, but across the mahogany tables of European diplomacy.
The documents in the case
Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh) Sayers
A quiet London suburb hides an affair, a delusional houseguest, and a death by poisonous toadstools that looks entirely accidental.
The Follies of a Day
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
A restless Spanish estate turns into a battleground of wits as a valet outsmarts his master to save his wedding day.
The Free Rangers: A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi
Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
A young wilderness runner steps into a virgin forest where Kentucky's pioneers face spanish plots and tribal armies along the wide Mississippi.
The German Army in Belgium, the White Book of May 1915
Germany. Auswärtiges Amt
A nation’s wartime self-defense hardens into a dense dossier of sworn affidavits, legalistic countercharges, and desperate justifications.
The Grey Room
Eden Phillpotts
A grand English manor house conceals an elegant bedroom that leaves its occupants dead by morning with no sign of violence, baffling police, scientists, and clergymen alike until an old Italian nobleman uncovers its centuries-old, lethal origin.
The Humour and Pathos of Anglo-Indian Life: Extracts from his brother's note-book, made by Dr. Ticklemore
J. E. Mayer
A sharp-eyed tour of British military and civilian stations in nineteenth-century India, framed through the genial banter and shared yarns of shipboard travelers.
The humour of Italy
Unknown
A vibrant journey through centuries of laughter reveals how Italian satire uses sharp wit, irreverent trickery, and human vulnerability to illuminate society.
The Jenolan Caves: An Excursion in Australian Wonderland
Samuel Cook
Deep beneath the Australian mountains lies a hidden labyrinth of towering stone arches, underground rivers, and dazzling alabaster palaces created over centuries by the quiet work of dripping water.
The Lamp of Fate
Margaret Pedler
A young woman born to an English aristocrat and a French-Russian dancer navigates the heavy expectations of her family, her own meteoric rise as a world-famous artist, and the destructive fallout of her refusal to love.
The Lovels of Arden
M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
A father's financial ruin forces his daughter into a mercenary marriage with the wealthy buyer of her ancestral home, kindling an agonizing conflict between duty, love, and maternal devotion.
The Maid of Maiden Lane
Amelia E. Barr
A courtship disrupted by secret longings and misunderstandings unfolds against the backdrop of 1790s New York, where post-revolutionary pride and lingering European ties clash.
The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South
Dixon, Thomas, Jr.
A family tears itself apart over a cause built on human bondage, while a nation marches toward the bloody anvil of war.
The Mistakes of Jesus
William Floyd
Questioning traditional authority often demands a calm, rigorous examination of long-held assumptions rather than mere empty skepticism.
The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer, for the Rugeley Poisonings, which lasted Twelve Days
Anonymous
When a young turf enthusiast dies in agony at a provincial inn, suspicions of foul play immediately point to his closest companion, a debt-ridden country surgeon whose financial salvation depends entirely on the dead man's fortune.
The Motor Boys in Strange Waters
Clarence Young
A trio of teenage chums launch their motorboat into the uncharted, shiftless waterways of the Florida Everglades, where shifting islands, hostile local factions, and unpredictable wild weather threaten to swallow them whole.
The Pioneer Boys of the Missouri
St. George Rathborne
Two teenage cousins ride into the untamed American West to secure a vital land signature before a scheming rival robs their families of their homesteads.
The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales")
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Before a young colonial couple weds, a brilliant European painter captures a terrifying future in their portraits—a dark glimpse of human passion that threatens to fulfill its own dark prophecy.
The Pursuit of the House-Boat: Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq
John Kendrick Bangs
When a band of historical rogues abducts the afterlife's favorite club, the greatest minds of the past must team up with Sherlock Holmes to navigate chaos on the high seas.
The Reclaimers
Margaret Hill McCarter
Jerry Swaim leaves her comfortable Philadelphia home for a windswept Kansas homestead, determined to turn a dusty claim into a thriving estate.
The Rescue
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
In an old-fashioned drawing-room, a fastidious man falls in love with the photograph of a woman taken thirty years before, setting out to find the living original.
The Road to the Open
Arthur Schnitzler
A young Austrian aristocrat moves through late-nineteenth-century Vienna, indulging his musical ambitions and gentle romances while the world around him slowly fractured into personal tragedies and ideological divides.
The Slaves of the Padishah
Mór Jókai
Trapped between the crushing ambition of the Ottoman Empire and the cold expansion of the Habsburgs, a small seventeenth-century principality turns its court, its battlefields, and its prisons into a high-stakes arena of survival.
The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q"
Arthur Quiller-Couch
A classic Latin hymn to love pairs with original verse and dramatic theater to celebrate human devotion against the relentless passage of time.
The Wheel of Life
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
A sensitive woman's ideal of love fractures against the reality of a selfish world, driving her through heartbreak toward an quiet, enduring self-discovery.
The Wild Olive: A Novel
Basil King
A fugitive in the Adirondacks finds shelter in a judge's home, escaping through the courage of a mysterious girl who hides his true identity.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X)
Unknown
A vibrant mosaic of early twentieth-century American humor, gathering satirical verse, parlor comedies, tall tales, and political roasts into a single slice of turn-of-the-century popular culture.
Those barren leaves
Aldous Huxley
A grand Italian villa gathers privileged cynics, self-styled romance addicts, and exhausted intellectuals to talk endlessly of art, passion, and meaning, while life quietly slips past them.