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A Treatise on Bread, and Bread-making
Sylvester Graham
A passionate nineteenth-century plea for nutritional integrity, this text treats the simple, unbolted loaf as the foundation of physical health, moral character, and household virtue.
Adela Cathcart, Volume 2
George MacDonald
Listening to stories read aloud, a melancholic young woman finds her inner life quietly transformed by the moral weight and spiritual imagination of what she hears.
Advance Australasia: A Day-to-Day Record of a Recent Visit to Australasia.: Second Edition
Frank Thomas Bullen
A British maritime author ventures across Australia and New Zealand, capturing the raw energy, social experiments, and physical grandeur of a rapidly evolving colonial landscape.
Amy in Acadia: A Story for Girls
Helen Leah Reed
A girl’s firm rejection of an unwanted companion sets in motion a summer of maritime travel, historical discovery, and quiet personal growth across Nova Scotia.
An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830
John Niles Hubbard
In a young nation expanding across traditional lands, a Seneca orator fights to preserve his people's sovereignty, traditions, and territory using the power of spoken words rather than weapons.
Applied design for printers
Harry Lawrence Gage
A practical craft demands more than mere utility; true work requires an intentional arrangement of lines, masses, and historic principles on the printed surface.
Behind the Line: A Story of College Life and Football
Ralph Henry Barbour
Four high school stars move to Erskine College with big athletic dreams, but injuries, rivalries, and choices of character tested on and off the field soon force each to learn what true sportsmanship demands.
Ben, the Luggage Boy
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
Driven by a hasty impulse, a boy abandons a comfortable home for the streets of New York, only to find that surviving alone demands far more grit, enterprise, and moral stamina than he ever anticipated.
Bill Nye's Sparks
Bill Nye
A sharp, self-deprecating wit transforms the mundane struggles of nineteenth-century American life into an art form of deadpan satire and unvarnished truth.
British Canals: Is their resuscitation practicable?
Edwin A. Pratt
A rigorous, level-headed study of transport economics dismantles the romantic notion that Britain's Victorian canal system can be realistically modernized to compete with modern rail transport.
Cassell's book of birds
Alfred Edmund Brehm
Across vast forests, arid steppes, and remote ocean coastlines, the avian world unfolds as an intricate tapestry of predatory instinct, elaborate architecture, and astonishing vocal mimicry.
Celebrated naval and military trials
Peter Burke
When authority is pushed to its limits, the courtroom becomes a battleground where military discipline, personal ambition, and national honor collide.
Defenseless America
Hudson Maxim
An explosive appeal to the American conscience, this 1915 manifesto warns that unearned wealth and total military unpreparedness invite swift catastrophic conquest.
Essays on Darwinism
Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
Nature reveals its deepest secrets not to those who demand instant certainty, but to those willing to trace the quiet, steady work of time across mountain ranges, animal instincts, and the unhurried fossil records of the earth.
Follow My Leader: The Boys of Templeton
Talbot Baines Reed
Courage, foolishness, and the slow, bumpy work of learning to lead meet on equal terms in this traditional English school story.
Four Afloat: Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water
Ralph Henry Barbour
Four young companions take to the eastern seaboard aboard a gasoline launch, meeting unexpected perils, lost craft, and runaway boys.
From Paper-mill to Pressroom
William Bond Wheelwright
Bridging the historical gap between raw forest timber and the fast-moving printing press, this classic manual demystifies the practical physics, chemistry, and trade realities of modern industrial paper production.
From the Arctic Ocean to the Yellow Sea
Julius M. (Julius Mendes) Price
A journey across the frozen expanse of Siberia, through the silent desolation of the Gobi Desert, and into the heart of Imperial China reveals an unyielding, vanished world.
Hans of Iceland, Vol. 1 of 2
Victor Hugo
Shadowed by granite cliffs and swept by arctic winds, early seventeenth-century Norway becomes the backdrop for an eighteen-year-old author's wild, uninhibited maiden attempt to untangle the collisions between state power, monstrous villainy, and youthful devotion.
Holinshed's Chronicles, vol. 2 of 6, slice 08 of 12: England, 1216-1272, Henry III
Raphael Holinshed
A young boy inherits a realm torn by rebellion, initiating a fifty-six-year struggle between absolute royal privilege, papacy demands, and the rising power of English barons.
Holman Hunt
Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Coleridge
A young London clerk resolves to paint against his father's wishes, kindling an artistic revolution that challenges the brown-varnished conventions of Victorian art.
In the Brooding Wild
Ridgwell Cullum
A lone cabin in the mountain snows becomes a pressure cooker when a trader’s yarn of a mysterious woman fractures the bond between two devoted brothers.
Irish Fairy Tales
Edmund Leamy
In mossy valleys and upon enchanted lakes, mortals move through trial and enchantment toward their hearts' true desires.
Japan
Walter G. Dickson
A deep, painstaking descent into a vanished world, tracking how centuries of sacred imperial isolation and feudal clan warfare gave way to modern nationhood.
Joseph Haydn: Servant and Master
Herbert F. (Herbert Francis) Peyser
Born to a humble rural family, a gifted boy rises through cold attic lodgings and rigid court employment to revolutionize Western classical music, transforming strict aristocratic patronage into a triumphant, self-made artistic legacy across Europe.
Life Incidents, in Connection with the Great Advent Movement, as Illustrated by the Three Angels of Revelation XIV (Volume 1)
James White
A passionate eyewitness account of a mid-nineteenth-century religious revival, detailing how thousands came to believe the second coming was imminent and endured devastating disappointment when Christ did not return.
Macleod of Dare
William Black
A high-born Highland chieftain travels to London, falls hopelessly in love with a celebrated young actress, and finds his traditional world fracturing under the strain of an impossible passion.
Making Your Camera Pay
Frederick C. Davis
A ordinary pocket camera can be transformed into a steady source of income if its owner learns to see every everyday scene through an editor’s eyes.
Marigold Garden
Kate Greenaway
Quiet domestic routines, open fields, and sudden imaginative flights shape a world where childhood is defined by small, luminous discoveries.
Mavericks
William MacLeod Raine
A high-plains range war over stolen cattle turns intimate and deadly when an undercover ranger falls for the rancher's fierce sister.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893
Various
A collection of late-nineteenth-century literature and reportage captures a changing world through intimate portraits, scientific ambitions, regional fiction, and dramatic personal reckonings.
More Tish
Mary Roberts Rinehart
A middle-aged spinster with an appetite for misadventure takes her reluctant companions on offbeat escapades, proving that determination and complete disregard for precedent can outmatch any crisis.
Old Caravan Days
Mary Hartwell Catherwood
When an elderly matriarch packs up her Ohio homestead in 1857 to move west, she transforms a simple journey into a grand, unhurried adventure across the changing American landscape.
On building a theatre: Stage construction and equipment for small theatres, schools and community
Irving Pichel
A thoughtful guide to designing performing spaces, this text strips away hollow theatrical traditions to prioritize clear sightlines, functional back-stage layouts, and expressive lighting.
Oral Tradition from the Indus: Comprised in Tales to Which Are Added Explanatory Notes
John Frederick Adolphus McNair
In a riverside Punjabi village, common villagers, clever tricksters, wandering fakirs, and imperious rulers cross paths in nineteen traditional folk stories.
Original Penny Readings: A Series of Short Sketches
George Manville Fenn
A world of working-class struggle, modest joys, and quiet domestic tragedies reveals itself through the everyday voices of Victorian London.
Our town and civic duty
Jane Eayre Fryer
The virtuous life is built upon the small, consistent acts of a good neighbor. This guide for young citizens illustrates how personal integrity and community service form the bedrock of a stable society.
Pee-wee Harris Adrift
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
A small boy loses his scout patrol, claims a drifting patch of earth, and turns an accidental river voyage into a community event.
Piccadilly: A Fragment of Contemporary Biography
Laurence Oliphant
Behind the polished bay windows of high Victorian London, a manic social reformer conducts a desperate, chaotic experiment in unmasking the hypocrisy of his own class.
Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 4
Robert Bridges
Across two multi-act verse dramas, heroic action and romantic duty are stripped of simple grandeur and weighed against the quiet, stubborn sacrifices demanded by love, honor, and home.
Presidential addresses and state papers, Volume 3 (of 7)
Theodore Roosevelt
Governing a rapidly expanding industrial power demands a firm balance between absolute national strength and self-restrained moral civic duty.
Recalled to Life
Grant Allen
A terrifying flash of light, a dead body, and total amnesia start this Victorian mystery of identity, deep trauma, and hidden domestic secrets.
Reube Dare's Shad Boat: A Tale of the Tide Country
Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
A young man buys a shad boat to pay for his blind mother's medical care, but local rivalries, mud flats, and dangerous tides turn his summer's work into a fight for survival.
Saratoga National Historical Park, New York
Francis Wilshin
A brilliantly planned wilderness campaign collapses through miscommunication and stubborn resistance, turning a remote New York plateau into the pivotal battleground of the American Revolution.
Selections from the Observator (1681-1687)
L'Estrange, Roger, Sir
When a nation fractures, words become weapons, and the printing press transforms into the primary battleground for the soul of the state.
Seven years in Vienna (August, 1907-August, 1914), a record of intrigue
Anonymous
Inside the gilded saloons and police-ringed resorts of Austria-Hungary, an anonymous insider watches an imperial power structure slide toward self-destruction.
Snarleyyow
Frederick Marryat
A tyrannical naval commander, a resilient cabin boy, and a surprisingly indestructible dog clash in an eighteen-century tale of maritime intrigue, smuggling, and vengeance.
Studies on Epidemic Influenza: Comprising Clinical and Laboratory Investigations
University of Pittsburgh. School of Medicine
A deadly respiratory contagion sweeps through a world unprepared for its speed, leaving medical experts scrambling to understand its transmission and mortality.