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Colonial Homes in North Carolina
John V. Allcott
Exploring the evolution of early American shelter reveals how landscape, craft, and human necessity forged a distinct architectural heritage.
Combed Out
F. A. (Frederick Augustus) Voigt
An unsparing account of life behind the lines, where men are ground down not by glorious combat, but by freezing mud, trivial tyranny, and the indifferent horror of the medical wards.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
Robert Alexander Craig
A thorough understanding of livestock anatomy, sanitary management, and preventive care forms the essential shield between farm animals and catastrophic disease outbreaks.
Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864: Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Various
A mid-war monthly magazine brings the intellectual fever of 1864 into sharp focus, balancing fierce Civil War politics with literary drama, scientific geography, and philosophical debates.
Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2
Alexis de Tocqueville
A nation surrenders its newfound liberty to a autocratic ruler, leaving two political thinkers across the English Channel to trace how fear and executive overreach dismantled a republic.
Education as Service
J. (Jiddu) Krishnamurti
To transform the classroom, a teacher must abandon the rod of fear and rule instead through the steady, elevated power of love.
England and Napoleon (1801-1815)
Unknown
A nation’s existence hangs in the balance as naval battles, parliamentary clashes, and bloody continental campaigns define a fierce fifteen-year struggle against French imperial ambition.
Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography
Richard Garnett
A passionate defense of scientific methodology in the preservation and classification of books reveals how administrative rigor safeguards human knowledge for posterity.
Fourth Reader: The Alexandra Readers
W. A. (William Albert) McIntyre
A wide sky, a sudden storm, and a quiet hearth frame a journey through human bravery, wild nature, and enduring moral purpose.
Garrison's finish
W. B. M. (William Blair Morton) Ferguson
A disgraced jockey loses his name, his memory, and his standing, then travels a long, uncertain road to redeem his reputation and reclaim his true identity on and off the racetrack.
Grammar of the New Zealand language (2nd edition)
Robert Maunsell
Language reveals its inner mechanics best when laid open with precise systematic care. This nineteenth-century study dissects Māori grammar to show how a living tongue organizes thought, context, and human relationships.
Holinshed's Chronicles, vol. 2 of 6, slice 05 of 12: England, 1154-1189, Henry II
Raphael Holinshed
A ambitious monarch spends decades consolidating vast territories through war and statecraft, only to see his kingdom fractured by bitter feuds with the Church and his own rebellious family.
In the Days of Poor Richard
Irving Bacheller
A young backwoods lover faces the fires of revolution, secret plots, and foreign intrigue to protect his country and win his lady.
Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
John William Burgon
A defender of traditional faith rallies high scholarship against modern skepticism, insisting that every syllable of Scripture carries divine truth.
Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries
John D. Shortridge
Behind the elegant simplicity of Renaissance and Baroque Italian keyboard instruments lies an unexpected acoustic secret: builders deliberate locked their harpsichords into specific pitch standards and transposing ranges that modern scholars have long misread as mere structural inconsistency.
Jacobean Furniture and English Styles in Oak and Walnut
Helen Churchill Candee
A quiet domestic historicism frames this reflection on seventeenth-century English furniture, tracing how royal migrations, political turmoil, and foreign motifs permanently transformed the everyday wooden surroundings of commoners and kings.
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas
W. Hastings Macaulay
Through the eyes of an observant American naval officer, this 1852 travelogue logs a years-long journey across the globe, charting the unpredictable harbors, colonial outposts, and cultural landscapes of nineteenth-century maritime Asia.
Lady Lilith
Stephen McKenna
Sensationalism, privilege, and self-destruction collide in a sharp portrait of high society teetering on the edge of the First World War.
Lectures on Landscape: Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871
John Ruskin
True landscape art is never a mere rendering of natural scenery; it is the thoughtful, passionate recording of physical conditions as they relate to human life and emotion.
Leslie's loyalty
Charles Garvice
Two lovers navigate class barriers, hidden titles, and malicious deceptions before finding their way back to one another.
Linda Condon
Joseph Hergesheimer
A aloof girl raised in transient luxury protects her cool, untouched self, only to discover her spirit transformed into immortal art.
Love Letters of a Violinist, and Other Poems
Eric Mackay
A passionate musician cycles through despair and triumph, discovering that earthly love cannot be claimed by force, but must be won through devotion and art.
Measure for Measure
William Shakespeare
When a strict leader enforces an ancient morality law, a young man faces execution, forcing his sister to choose between her virtue and his life.
Meditations on the Actual State of Christianity, and on the Attacks Which Are Now Being Made Upon It
François Guizot
Faith and intellectual inquiry collide as nineteenth-century thinkers attempt to reconcile traditional Christian doctrine with the rising tide of modern secular thought.
Meet Mr Mulliner
P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
In the snug bar-parlour of the Anglers' Rest, an endlessly inventive storyteller holding court over pint glasses weaves wild, improbable yarns detailing the absurd romantic and personal crises of his vast extended family.
Memoir of Jared Sparks, LL.D
Brantz Mayer
Driven by an unyielding desire for knowledge, a poor New England carpenter’s apprentice walks hundreds of miles to earn an education, ultimately rising from deep obscurity to become Harvard’s president and the foundational editor of early American history.
Old Judge Priest
Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
A quiet Southern town relies on its oldest judge to untangle its secrets, preserve its memories, and quietly steer its people toward mercy.
Out Like a Light
Randall Garrett
A mysterious rash of thefts around New York City leads to an absurd discovery: the culprits are teenage gang members who can magically vanish into thin air.
Pimpernel and Rosemary
Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
Coupled with the ghost of an ancestral legend, a post-war romance swept up in European political crosscurrents turns on an agonizing choice between personal honor and human life.
Plays of Near & Far
Lord Dunsany
A collection of six singular plays captures the ridiculous, tragic, and magnificent ways human beings invent rules, chase illusions, and mistake their own narrow horizons for the universe.
Poems of Giosuè Carducci, Translated with two introductory essays:: I. Giosuè Carducci and the Hellenic reaction in Italy. II. Carducci and the classic realism
Giosuè Carducci
A fiery reclamation of classical beauty strikes through the gloom of rigid dogma and forgotten national pride.
Pogonologia
J.-A. (Jacques-Antoine) Dulaure
A century of shaving has erased the visible boundary between sexes, leaving men as smooth-skinned, soft, and indecisive as the women they seek to command.
Richard Vandermarck: A Novel
Miriam Coles Harris
A young orphan girl, raised without love in her rich uncle’s loveless home, steps blindly into a glittering world of social rivalry, tragic misplaced passion, and painful self-discovery.
Road Guide to Lassen Volcanic National Park
Paul E. Schulz
An ancient mountain collapses, a violent eruption reshapes the earth, and nature slowly reclaims a scorched landscape along a single winding road.
Round the Sofa
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
An invalid recovering in an Edinburgh lodging house finds solace in a collection of fireside tales that span generations, countries, and social classes.
Science of Trapping: Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits and Distribution, with Practical Methods for Their Capture
Elmer Harry Kreps
The scent of woodsmoke, iron, and damp earth fills a guide that turns the cold wilderness into a landscape of precise, practical opportunity.
Self-Development and the Way to Power
L. W. (Louis William) Rogers
Humanity suffers not by divine decree, but through pure ignorance of the natural laws governing evolution.
Standard Catholic Readers by Grades: Fifth Year
Unknown
This collection of stories, poems, and historical sketches offers young readers a rich, thoughtful look into Christian virtue, natural wonder, and classic literature.
Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits
Thomas Bingley
Through a series of conversational fireside tales, a knowledgeable mentor reveals to his young listeners the astonishing ingenuity, emotional depth, and varied survival strategies found across the animal kingdom.
Sylvia & Michael: The later adventures of Sylvia Scarlett
Compton MacKenzie
Left stranded by broken vows and a world sliding into total conflict, a fiercely independent woman wanders across war-torn Eastern Europe, trading her safety to shelter the vulnerable and learning what it truly means to preserve the human soul.
Tales of the Chesapeake
George Alfred Townsend
Sunlit tidewaters, coastal pine groves, and quiet Maryland towns frame a world where small lives collide with sweeping shifts of regional history.
The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch
Talbot Baines Reed
An old silver timepiece narrates its journey through mid-nineteenth-century Britain and India, tracking the lives of the schoolboys who buy, lose, and rediscover it.
The Aeroplane Speaks
H. (Horatio) Barber
When the principles of flight gather after hours to air their grievances, the mechanics of early aviation acquire a surprisingly human voice.
The Alhambra and the Kremlin: The South and the North of Europe
Samuel Irenæus Prime
The Alhambra and the Kremlin offers a sweeping, mid-nineteenth-century window into the starkly different cultures of southern and northern Europe, mapping the transition from the decaying grandeur of Spain to the stern, rising power of Russia.
The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant and: Solemn League and Covenant
Reformed Presbytery of North America
A handful of believers gathers in open Scottish fields to pledge their lives to an uncompromising divine order.
The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History
Myrtle Reed
A lighthearted spoof of turn-of-the-century nature writers, this parody follows a bumbling observer's encounters with woodland creatures whose humanlike intelligence reaches absurd, impossible heights.
The Coast of Chance
Esther Chamberlain
An exquisite sapphire ring vanished into San Francisco’s shadows, binding a willful heiress, her compromised fiancé, and a charming stranger in a web of theft and deception.
The Confessions of a Daddy
Ellis Parker Butler
When a carefree Colorado couple boasts about avoiding the expense and mess of children, life takes a quiet, devastating turn when they look across the fence and realize exactly what they are missing.