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The Red Hand of Ulster
George A. Birmingham
HOOK When a mysterious American millionaire begins bankrolling an armed uprising in Northern Ireland, a local landlord becomes an accidental witness to a rebellion that defies both the British government and common sense.
The reign of King Oberon
Walter Jerrold
A collection of classic fairy tales framed by the magical court of the fairy king, this work serves as an anthology of wonder, gathering timeless stories of transformation, trial, and enchantment.
The Road to Understanding
Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
A young man’s impulsive marriage to a nursemaid triggers a long, painful estrangement from his father. This story follows their separate journeys as they navigate the difficult paths of regret, pride, and eventual reconciliation.
The Secret of Life, Death and Immortality: A startling proposition, with a chapter devoted to mental therapeutics and instructions for self healing
Henry Fleetwood
This inquiry proposes that electricity is the singular, foundational substance of the universe, suggesting that all human experience, from health to immortality, is merely a matter of managing one’s personal vibratory frequency.
The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode
Marie Van Vorst
Jimmy Bulstrode is a man defined by his compulsive, quiet generosity and an enduring, unspoken devotion to a woman he cannot marry. He navigates a world of privilege, using his wealth to quietly untangle the lives of others while remaining tethered to his own singular, romantic loyalty.
The Shakespeare Myth
Durning-Lawrence, Edwin, Sir
The Shakespeare myth is a vigorous polemic that argues the man from Stratford-upon-Avon was an illiterate front for a far greater genius. It challenges the reader to look past historical assumptions and examine the physical evidence of the 1623 Folio.
The Silver Domino
Marie Corelli
This is a sharp, polemical survey of 1890s British literary and social life, composed by an anonymous voice who claims the privilege of the masked observer. It offers a bracing, if highly opinionated, tour through the scandals, pretenses, and personalities of the Victorian establishment, written with the confidence…
The speaker's ideal entertainments
George M. (George Morley) Vickers
A collection of theatrical recitations and staged dialogues designed to provide amateur performers with the tools for dramatic delivery in home, school, and community settings.
The Stowmarket Mystery
Louis Tracy
HOOK A barrister-detective hunts a shadow in an Edwardian mystery, unraveling a deadly tangle of family secrets, Japanese martial blades, and a cold-blooded murder committed in a locked room.
The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
The heart is a wild and unpredictable landscape, where love arrives not as a gentle breeze, but as a force capable of sweeping away everything in its path.
The Trouble with Telstar
John Berryman
The silent, unforgiving vacuum of space demands a kind of precision that earthly boardrooms rarely comprehend. When a satellite goes mute, the only way to fix it is to leave the ground behind and enter the void.
The United States and Latin America
John Holladay Latané
The history of hemispheric relations is a centuries-long tug-of-war between the Monroe Doctrine’s promise of protection and the reality of American expansionism. This account traces the evolving influence of the United States over its southern neighbors.
The Vortex: A Play in Three Acts
Noël Coward
A frantic, high-society mother and her drug-addicted son collide in a desperate struggle for identity. Beneath the glitter of 1920s London, they reach for a connection that neither knows how to sustain.
The Wyoming Military Establishment. A History of the Twenty-fourth Regiment of Connecticut Militia: An Address Before the Tioga Point Historical Society, Delivered December 3rd, 1901
Charles Tubbs
The history of the Connecticut settlers in Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley is a tale of forgotten service, where a dedicated militia regiment found itself caught between competing colonial claims and the brutal fires of the American Revolution.
Twenty-four Little French Dinners and How to Cook and Serve Them
Cora Moore
Cooking is an act of creative economy, transforming the mundane into the extraordinary through the artful application of seasoning and a dedicated focus on variety. This guide invites the home cook to move beyond the repetitive cycles of American kitchens by adopting the French philosophy of the "little dinner.
Two years in the French West Indies
Lafcadio Hearn
This book captures the sensory intensity and spectral beauty of the French West Indies in the late nineteenth century, offering an immersive portrait of Martinique before a volcanic cataclysm forever altered its landscape and culture.
Uncle Wiggily's Travels
Howard Roger Garis
A kind, elderly rabbit sets out on a journey through the woods to seek his fortune, encountering a series of whimsical creatures and narrow escapes along the way.
Under the Southern Cross
Elizabeth Robins
The voyage holds unexpected peril: a young traveler finds her independence challenged by an intense, enigmatic suitor whose devotion borders on obsession. This narrative offers a sharp, personal look at the frictions between cultures and the complexities of modern courtship.
Wanderings in London, Piccadilly, Mayfair, and Pall Mall
E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford) Chancellor
This is an intimate, scholarly invitation to walk the historic streets of London’s West End, tracing the ghosts of the poets, politicians, and socialites who once defined the capital.
War-time Silhouettes
Stephen Hudson
The Great War acts as a relentless filter, stripping away the pretenses of London’s social and political elite to reveal the fragile, selfish, or hollow hearts beneath. These sketches capture the dissonance of a home front where life continues in a state of suspended animation, shaped by the pervasive shadow of the…
Waring's Peril
Charles King
An officer of the U.S. Cavalry, known for his insouciant charm and penchant for trouble, finds his reputation shattered when he becomes the prime suspect in a brutal, mysterious murder.
Wigwam stories told by North American Indians
Unknown
This collection of folklore and cultural observations offers a window into the diverse traditions of North American indigenous peoples as recorded at the turn of the twentieth century. It serves as an ethnographic mosaic, preserving stories, customs, and histories that capture the spirit and social structure of…
Winston of the Prairie
Harold Bindloss
A desperate, impoverished rancher assumes a dead man’s identity to escape ruin, only to find that his new life demands a moral courage he never expected to possess.
100 professions for women
Betty Van Deventer
An era of rapid change opens up a landscape where women no longer need to depend on relatives for support. This 1928 guide maps a hundred paths toward economic independence, offering practical advice on salaries, training, and self-reliance.
A Bevy of Girls
L. T. Meade
A household of young sisters grapples with the burdens of a sickly parent and the chaotic impulses of their own growing-up years. Amidst the tension between duty and desire, a sudden disappearance forces a reckoning that changes their family forever.
A Book of Bryn Mawr Stories
Unknown
The quiet intensity of a women’s college education meets the enduring pull of personal ambition and friendship in these candid, atmospheric glimpses of campus life.
A Boy Knight
Martin J. (Martin Jerome) Scott
A young man chooses integrity over popularity, learning that true courage often requires silent suffering and the heavy burden of keeping a promise.
A Bullet for Cinderella
John D. (John Dann) MacDonald
A man burdened by war brings home a dead friend’s secret, only to find that searching for buried fortune forces him to confront the wreckage of his own soul.
A Bundle of Ballads
Unknown
These verses preserve the echoes of a vanishing world, where wandering minstrels and village storytellers turned the tragedies of history and the whims of the heart into enduring song.
A Gallery of Children
A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
These twelve whimsical sketches capture the bright, unbothered logic of early childhood, where a simple trip to the beach can provoke tears, a missed day turns into a second birthday, and toys serve as weary confidants.
A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II
Francis Parkman
The map of North America once hung in a delicate balance, where imperial ambitions, indigenous sovereignty, and provincial grit collided in a long, bloody struggle for a continent that neither side truly understood.
A Phyllis of the Sierras
Bret Harte
A young English traveler finds himself nursed back to health by a mysterious household in the California mountains, only to trigger a complex web of social ambitions, hidden wealth, and class-conscious rivalries.
A Princess of Thule
William Black
A young Highland woman leaves her remote Hebridean island for London society, only to discover that her romantic urban husband values her as an exotic trophy rather than a living partner.
A Treatise on Tobacco, Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate
Simon Paulli
This seventeenth-century medical inquiry challenges the burgeoning European obsession with exotic stimulants, arguing that local flora might better serve the human constitution than the costly, adulterated imports arriving from distant lands.
A West Pointer with the Boers
John Y. Fillmore Blake
A American cavalry lieutenant leaves his military career behind, heads to South Africa, and leads an Irish unit fighting alongside Boer burghers against the British Empire during the South African War.
Aboriginal American Weaving
Mary Lois Kissell
The ingenuity of the human hand bridges the gap between raw natural fibers and complex geometric design. This examination of early textile traditions reveals how limited tools can produce results of breathtaking sophistication.
About Paris
Richard Harding Davis
Paris serves as a grand, glittering stage for both the earnest traveler and the idle dreamer, yet it remains a city that ultimately cares little for those who surrender their identity to its fleeting charms.
Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America: To which are added, the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China
William Coxe
This volume offers a meticulous survey of Russian maritime expansion into the Pacific and the establishment of overland trade with China, charting an era of ambitious discovery and frontier commerce. It acts as a comprehensive chronicle of the eighteenth-century Russian reach toward the North American coast.
After the Pardon
Matilde Serao
A piercing study of the wreckage left by an affair, this narrative follows two former lovers who discover that, though their passion has vanished, the emotional ghosts of their betrayal remain inescapable.
America: A history
Robert Mackenzie
This expansive historical survey traces the growth of free institutions across the Americas, framing the development of these nations as an essential, often turbulent education in the spirit of human liberty.
An illustrated commentary on the Gospel according to St. John
Lyman Abbott
An attentive, scholarly voice guides the reader through the Fourth Gospel, unlocking its ancient context to reveal a deeply intimate, living faith.
Ancient and Modern Physics
Thomas Edgar Willson
The universe operates as a nested system of vibrations, where physical reality serves as only the densest layer of a much larger, interconnected mechanism of life and mind.
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
James Fenimore Cooper
This tale traces the life of a single embroidered handkerchief as it moves from the hands of a struggling French noblewoman to the vanity of New York’s social elite. It serves as a curious, enduring satire on human value and the shifting tides of wealth.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Various
Great Britain in 1843 stands at the summit of imperial power, a nation of both profound responsibility and restless internal critique. These collected pages offer a vital, unfiltered portrait of a society at a turning point.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66, No 409, November 1849
Various
This nineteenth-century periodical offers a fascinating, unfiltered window into the Victorian mind, balancing urgent political debates on crime and empire against sophisticated, spirited literary criticism of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies.
By Desert Ways to Baghdad
Louisa Jebb Wilkins
Unfettered by European convention, two British women set out on horseback and raft to navigate the ancient, fading routes of the Ottoman Empire.
Chip, of the Flying U
B. M. Bower
A reserved cowboy and a spirited, newly minted doctor navigate the dust, dangers, and unspoken tensions of a Montana ranch in this classic tale of the American West.
Cleopatra's needle
Wilson, Erasmus, Sir
Standing prostrate in the Alexandrian sand, a three-thousand-year-old monolith awaits its journey across the ocean to take up a new life on the banks of the Thames.