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The Fortunes of Philippa: A School Story
Angela Brazil
A young girl leaves a sun-drenched South American estate for a strict English boarding school, discovering that fitting in requires both resilience and heart.
The Freebooters: A Story of the Texan War
Gustave Aimard
Out in the unforgiving borderlands, loyalty is pledged in blood, secret identities conceal desperate motives, and the battle for Texas turns every wilderness path into a potential death trap.
The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship
Margaret Burnham
High above Long Island Sound, a quick-witted teenager and her brother race their home-built monoplane against saboteurs, financial ruin, and the elements.
The Greater Power
Harold Bindloss
A fallen gentleman finds his true purpose in the Canadian wilderness, where clearing a river canyon reveals the bond between honest toil and enduring love.
The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 27
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Delusion and harsh reality collide on the dusty roads of Spain when a high-minded knight-errant and his earthy squire attempt to right the world's wrongs.
The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans: History, Description and Economic Aspects of Giant Facility Created to Encourage Industrial Expansion and Develop Commerce
Thomas Ewing Dabney
A high-stakes engineering feat transforms a city's swampy backyards into a deep-water arterial link, proving that human determination can conquer ancient subsoil and economic stagnation.
The Iron Trevet
Eugène Sue
A grueling, sweeping portrait of XIVth-century France, where the desperate blood of the Jacquerie peasant revolt collides with the shifting political ideals of Paris.
The Last of the Vikings
John (Novelist) Bowling
Trapped between the iron fist of William the Conqueror and their own fractured loyalties, the last free Saxons and Northmen of England make a final, blood-drenched stand for survival.
The Library Assistant's Manual
Theodore Wesley Koch
A handbook designed for early twentieth-century library workers outlines the principles, history, and daily mechanics required to transform a collection of books into a vibrant civic institution.
The Man of Letters as a Man of Business
William Dean Howells
Writing fiction or verse for money carries an inherent moral contradiction, turning a noble inner calling into a commercial transaction.
The Man Who Fell Through the Earth
Carolyn Wells
A shot rang out in a quiet office suite, and a wealthy bank president vanished into thin air.
The Motor Boys on the Pacific
Clarence Young
A wrecked motor boat, a train derailment, and an ocean duel over a floating, abandoned vessel set three American high schoolers on a high-speed chase down the California coast to recover a stolen fortune.
The Mysteries of Paris, illustrated with etchings, Vol. 3
Eugène Sue
Parisian misery and aristocratic privilege collide when a noble prince moves in secret through the city's dark underbelly to right systemic wrongs.
The Old Yellow Book: Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book
Unknown
A bloody seventeenth-century Roman murder trial steps off the dusty page as a tangle of self-serving testimonies, desperate legal briefs, and tragic human misery.
The Path of a Star
Sara Jeannette Duncan
A dramatic study of ambition, spiritual fervor, and mismatched devotions set against the humid social landscape of late nineteenth-century Calcutta.
The Path of Life
Stijn Streuvels
A young boy sits in a sunlit loft, watching a ribbon of white sand cut through the fields toward an unknown horizon.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Richard Hakluyt
Centuries of diplomatic friction, high-seas piracy, and imperial negotiation lay the foundation for England's expanding presence across foreign waters and distant courts.
The rhyme and reason of country life
Unknown
A quiet joy permeates this collection of verse and prose, where centuries of writers gather to record the rhythms, subtle beauties, and enduring solace of the natural world.
The Romance of a Plain Man
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
A boy from a Richmond tenement resolves to win wealth and the hand of a highborn woman, only to discover how easily money corrupts the love it was meant to secure.
The Rosie World
Parker Fillmore
A small girl in a working-class neighborhood fights her way through family squabbles, poor shoes, and street politics with sharp eyes and an indomitable spirit.
The Shadow Witch
Gertrude Crownfield
A gentle hearthside realm of magic unfolds where love turns shadow into light.
The Sin That Was His
Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
A fugitive in a priest’s cassock discovers that pretending to be a holy man is far easier than escaping the demands of the human heart.
The Story of the Munsters at Etreux, Festubert, Rue du Bois and Hulloch
Jessie Louisa Moore Rickard
Four bloody engagements on the Western Front transform an eager Irish battalion into a decimated, enduring force, bound together by fierce devotion, shared faith, and tragic sacrifice.
The Three Black Pennys: A Novel
Joseph Hergesheimer
In the thick woods of eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, the first dark-featured rebel of the Penny family turns his back on his father's iron furnace, setting in motion a multi-generational legacy bound to the fiery rise of American industry.
The Use of a Box of Colours, in a Practical Demonstration on Composition, Light and Shade, and Colour
Willson, Harry, active 19th century
A clear, practical guide transforms the mystery of watercolor painting into accessible principles of balance, light, and tone for the aspiring artist.
The Wampanoags in the seventeenth century
Catherine Marten
A careful synthesis of Seventeenth-century New England records restores a detailed picture of Wampanoag life, mapping the delicate balance of seasonal migrations, intricate trade, and fragile political alliances before war reshaped their world.
The White Conquerors: A Tale of Toltec and Aztec
Kirk Munroe
A young Toltec noble escapes the Aztec sacrificial stone to guide Spanish steel against his people’s ancient oppressors.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 09: Cuyler to Van Dyke
Unknown
A series of powerful voices wrestles with the weight of existence, offering a steady anchor for the human spirit across changing times.
Tragedies of sex
Frank Wedekind
A youth’s raw, suppressed vitality clashes with a cold, unyielding society, unleashing a chain reaction of tragedy and ruin.
Weeds
Edith Summers Kelley
A poignant tale of rural life in Kentucky, where the struggles of farm families are as persistent as the weeds in their fields.
Whittier-land: A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected
Samuel T. (Samuel Thomas) Pickard
A quiet New England landscape comes alive through the memory of its most devoted poet, bridging the distance between rural heritage and literary legacy.
Why we are at war
Woodrow Wilson
A nation shifts from reluctant neutrality to total war, tracing the solemn intellectual and political journey of a president forced to abandon his hopes for international arbitration.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 7, part 2: Rutherford B. Hayes
Unknown
To step inside these official papers is to observe the immense, tedious machinery of nineteenth-century American governance at work, where high constitutional battles collide with itemized ledger entries.
A History of Greek Art: With an Introductory Chapter on Art in Egypt and Mesopotamia
F. B. (Frank Bigelow) Tarbell
A marble block holds the ideal human form, waiting only for an eye trained enough to see it and a hand steady enough to carve it away.
An Address to Men of Science: Calling Upon Them to Stand Forward and Vindicate the Truth
Richard Carlile
A call to arms for scientists to challenge superstition and religious dogma, advocating for a rational and enlightened society.
An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)
Corbyn Morris
A rigorous mid-eighteenth-century attempt to categorize the mechanics of comedy shows how distinct rhetorical devices shape human laughter and literary craft.
An introduction to the theory of value
William Smart
Price reflects human desire bounded by scarcity, not the inherent work required to bring a commodity to market.
Ancient history from the monuments: Greek cities & islands of Asia Minor
W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright) Vaux
Ancient archaeological remains across Asia Minor illuminate how classical Greek colonies, local Anatolian kingdoms, and early Christian communities shaped the Mediterranean world.
Base-ball
John Montgomery Ward
Underneath the modern pageantry of America’s summer pastime lies a rigorous craft built on physical discipline, strategic mind games, and evolving administrative order.
Ben Pepper
Margaret Sidney
A quiet twelve-year-old boy shoulders the heavy emotional and practical burdens of his extended household, quietly steadying every crisis while everyone else gets the credit.
Best Stories of the 1914 European War
Various
Fleeing Belgian civilians, battered French infantry, and stoic British troops converge in a raw collection of dispatches capturing the terrifying opening months of the Great War.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Various
A vibrant miscellany of nineteen-century literature, science, and political rhetoric captures the intellectual currents of Victorian Britain.
Canada in Flanders, Volume III
Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
A brutal, meticulously recorded chronicle of Canadian soldiers enduring the mud and artillery of the Somme in 1916. It captures modern industrial warfare at its most ruthless and precise.
Cathedral Cities of France
Marshall, Herbert, R. W. S.
A cathedral's towering silhouette, rising high above narrow medieval streets or rolling riverbanks, captures centuries of French art, architecture, and civic life.
Coca and Cocaine
William Martindale
A meticulous survey of a South American leaf turns into a breakthrough in modern medicine, tracing how a forgotten indigenous staple became a premier surgical anesthetic.
Come Rack! Come Rope!
Robert Hugh Benson
In the shadow of Elizabeth I’s anti-Catholic statutes, a young Derbyshire couple chooses between their devotion to each other and the deadly calling of an outlawed faith.
Deep-Sea Plunderings
Frank Thomas Bullen
A collection of twenty-four short stories and sketches of life on the high seas, combining raw maritime violence, weird supernatural occurrences, and deep oceanic natural history.
Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations
A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
A comprehensive exploration of the ancient history of Israel and its neighboring nations, shedding light on the cultural, political, and religious developments of the region.