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Up in the Clouds: Balloon Voyages
R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
A restless human longing to leave the earth drives a century of dangerous, eccentric experiments in upper-air flight.
Wanted: A Cook: Domestic Dialogues
Alan Dale
Newly married and determined to preserve their refined lifestyle, Archie and Letitia Fairfax discover that no amount of classical scholarship can save them from the brutal realities of hiring a competent cook.
Waste Not, Want
Dave Dryfoos
An eighty-six-year-old widower struggles to preserve his autonomy in a future society where citizens are legally forced to consume vast surpluses of goods.
A Chance Acquaintance
William Dean Howells
A young woman from a small Western town falls into an unexpected romance on a river voyage, only to discover how far love can stretch across social lines.
A Collection of Kachári Folk-Tales and Rhymes
J. D. (James Drummond) Anderson
Tricksters, foolish villagers, talking animals, and ancient gods wander through a rustic landscape of rice fields and dense jungle, showing how a community makes sense of its world.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 3, part 2: Martin Van Buren
Unknown
A young lawyer from Kinderhook fights his way to the White House, only to find his presidency consumed by a crushing financial panic and escalating border crises.
A forgotten Prince of Wales
Henry Curties
Caught between a cruel royal household and the cold politics of eighteenth-century London, a forgotten heir attempts to carve out a life of warmth, principle, and personal dignity.
A Picture-book of Merry Tales
Anonymous
Rogues, fools, and farmyard beasts outwit their betters in a collection where quick wits always beat high authority.
A Prince of Bohemia
Honoré de Balzac
A penniless count rules Parisian boidom with razor-sharp wit, compelling an ambitious former dancer to conquer high society just to satisfy his absurd, shifting demands.
A voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West Indies
John Atkins
A Royal Navy surgeon takes to the sea in 1721, recording the currents, coastlines, and human cruelties of the transatlantic trade with an uncommonly sharp and questioning eye.
Alexander Hamilton
Charles A. (Charles Arthur) Conant
Centralizing national power through financial genius, a brilliant strategist lays down the enduring structural foundations of American governance.
An American tragedy, v. 2
Theodore Dreiser
A young man's desperate ambition collides with a fatal secret, triggering a relentless search for truth in the shadow of American high society.
An Outcast
F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
Beneath the gloss of antebellum respectable society lies a dark network of hypocrisy, where the vulnerable are cast aside and vice finds protection behind wealth and status.
Berry and Co
Dornford Yates
High-spirited English gentry, accompanied by an indomitable Sealyham terrier, drift from absurdity to absurdity across leafy shires, motorways, and law courts with unfailing poise and bright-eyed banter.
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4: October, 1897
Various
A gentle call to awaken human empathy toward wild creatures, this issue blends ornithological facts with spirited stories to defend nature's songsters from human cruelty.
Candy Medication
Bernard Fantus
A pioneer of pediatric medicine transforms unpleasant treatments into palatable treats, offering pharmacists a practical, step-by-step blueprint to make bitter remedies appealing to sick children.
Carter, and Other People
Don Marquis
A shadow falls between who people are and what they present to the world.
Catalogue of a collection of early drawings and pictures of London: With some contemporary furniture
Burlington Fine Arts Club
A curated assembly of historical views and physical artifacts reveals how London transformed from an idealised Tudor capital into a bustling, masonry-bound metropolis of the nineteenth century.
Cats and kittens
Unknown
A vast chorus of purrs, mews, and domestic chaos unfolds across a century of verse, fable, performance scripts, and practical lore. It captures the complex bond between human household routine and feline caprice.
Crusoe in New York, and other tales
Edward Everett Hale
A solitary man builds a secret homestead on a hidden New York lot, carving out an island of self-reliance inside the bustling city.
Dawn in darkest Africa
John H. (John Hobbis) Harris
Against the backdrop of early twentieth-century West Africa, a humanitarian reformer delivers an urgent, sweeping assessment of European empire, indigenous life, and the brutal economic machinery extracting the continent's wealth.
Dry fish and wet
Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen
In a small Norwegian port where old shipping fortunes slowly fade, every neighbor's public boast conceals a very private, unpredictable ambition.
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Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 3—The Church of the Restoration [part 1]
John Stoughton
A nation fractures when its altars become political boundary stones, driving men of tender conscience into the shadows while opportunists rush to swear whatever oath the prevailing wind requires.
Elusive Isabel
Jacques Futrelle
In the diplomatic shadowland of early twentieth-century Washington, a international conspiracy threatens to reshape the global order, setting a taciturn American agent against a brilliant, mysterious foreign operative.
Empty chairs
Squire Bancroft
A lifetime upon the stage yields a quiet parlour of memories, where every guest of distinction has left a seat now permanently unoccupied.
French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America
Evelyn Everett-Green
The wilderness of North America becomes a crucible for two young men caught between the rival ambitions of empires. Their journey reflects the violent, transformative struggle that eventually redraws the map of a continent.
Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors: For Young Folks
James Johonnot
A quiet garden path or a farmyard fence turns out to be a crowded, highly dramatic city if a child learns to slow down and look.
Gaspar the Gaucho: A Story of the Gran Chaco
Mayne Reid
This Victorian adventure follows a courageous band of companions through the mysterious, untamed wilderness of the Gran Chaco as they struggle to rescue a kidnapped young woman.
Great Ralegh
Hugh De Sélincourt
A bold, brilliant courtier outlives his glorious era, only to be crushed by the small-minded politics of the age that follows.
Hawaiian Historical Legends
W. D. (William Drake) Westervelt
An ocean voyage yields to royal battles, broken taboos, and a newly hoisted flag as an island nation transforms across generations.
Held for Orders: Being Stories of Railroad Life
Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman
The iron rails of the West End stretch across desert and canyon, where life hinges on the swing of a lantern, a split-second order, or a heart that refuses to yield.
Hocus Pocus
Henry Dean
A manual of eighteenth-century stage magic details the mechanical devices, sleights of hand, and physical theater required to convince an audience that the natural laws of the world have been temporarily suspended.
Homes and Careers in Canada
Harry Jeffs
An extensive ten-thousand-mile journey across early twentieth-century Canada reveals a rapidly industrializing Dominion reshaping its open prairies, youthful cities, and immigration policies to build a modern nation.
Idylls of the Sea, and Other Marine Sketches
Frank Thomas Bullen
The sea is an infinite theatre of tooth and claw, where majestic leviathans descend into ink-black depths to battle ancient, tentacled horrors.
In the Palace of the King: A Love Story of Old Madrid
F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
A tale of love, intrigue, and honor set in the court of King Philip II of Spain.
Inquiries and Opinions
Brander Matthews
A quiet masterclass in literary craft, these essays probe the mechanics behind enduring prose and the stage's physical machinery.
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Organist and His Works for the Organ
André Pirro
A musician's genius is not a sudden, isolated miracle, but the disciplined culmination of heritage, technical mastery, and structural architectural vision.
Julian Home
F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
Youthful ambition, moral hazard, and the quiet triumph of virtue collide across the ivy-draped quadrangles of nineteenth-century university life.
Kid Scanlan
H. C. (Harry Charles) Witwer
A fighter's left hook proves far more effective than high-minded intellect in navigating the chaotic, fledgling world of early Hollywood silent filmmaking.
Lafayette
Martha Foote Crow
Born into high French nobility, a young marquis risks his fortune, royal favor, and life to cross the ocean and serve a struggling foreign cause, returning home to navigate the stormy tides of his own nation's revolution.
Life in a Tank
Richard Haigh
Before the heavy iron hulls ever rolled into combat, a small contingent of British soldiers traded open infantry lines for claustrophobic steel boxes, learning to master the terrifying power and volatile mechanics of the early armored tank.
Little Wideawake: A story book for little children
Barker, Sale, Mrs.
A rich, varied collection of Victorian children’s lore blends playful rhymes, gentle moral lessons, natural history, and magical adventures into a single warm-hearted volume.
London and Its Environs Described, vol. 6 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
Anonymous
A meticulously detailed gazetteer captures eighteenth-century London at the height of its expansion, mapping everything from royal palaces to obscure alleyways with quiet, structural precision.
Making Money
Owen Johnson
A young man steps off a train into Gilded Age New York, entirely untroubled by money, and sets out to discover whether a life built on pure ambition can survive the machinery of Wall Street.
Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
Juliana Horatia Ewing
Looking through a nursery window, a lonely child finds comfort in the daily routine of an elderly neighbor, eventually stepping across the street to form a warm, lasting friendship rooted in shared stories.
"My beloved poilus"
Agnes Warner
A devoted American nurse records her relentless labor across French and Belgian field hospitals during the early years of the First World War.
Noble Deeds of the World's Heroines
Henry Charles Moore
From fiery London tenements to dangerous mission posts in the Yoruba country and the battle-wrecked banks of the Beresina, ordinary women display extraordinary courage when faced with sudden ruin, war, or martyrdom.
Old Court Life in France, vol. 2/2
Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot
Behind the gleaming gilded doors and heavy velvet curtains of the French court lies a volatile world where personal caprice dictates national destiny and devotion is routinely rewarded with betrayal.