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Selections from Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes and USDA Favorites
Ruth Van Deman
This 50th-anniversary volume bridges broadcast history and practical home cooking, preserving early federal radio recipes alongside modern, laboratory-tested updates.
Six Girls and the Tea Room
Marion Ames Taggart
When a family’s financial survival depends on grit, affection, and enterprise, opening a shop on a fashionable Manhattan street turns a winter of uncertainty into an overwhelming flood of grace.
Slavery Ordained of God
F. A. (Frederick Augustus) Ross
A Southern minister builds an aggressive scriptural defense of American slavery, insisting God ordained human inequality to preserve social order and keep the Union intact.
Specimens of British Trench Orders
Army War College (U.S.)
Behind the cold mechanics of military administration lies a raw, meticulous portrait of human survival in the mud of the Western Front.
Sunday at Home (From "Twice Told Tales")
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A reclusive observer sits hidden behind his window curtain on a summer Sunday, watching the quiet pulse of a New England town as it gathers, worships, and scatters around the parish church.
Telempathy
Vance Simonds
A mid-century satiric sci-fi tale where ruthless ad executives meet telepathic networks, leading to a explosive collision between political demagoguery and psychic feedback.
The Airship Boys' Ocean Flyer
H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler
Three young aeronauts race across the Atlantic to deliver news matrices, proving that human ingenuity can conquer high-altitude flight.
The Armourer's Prentices
Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
A forest upbringing breaks against sixteenth-century London, where two orphaned brothers must forge new lives through sword-steel, printing presses, and courtly danger.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
A rich panorama of mid-nineteenth-century thought, this issue gathers fiction, cultural commentary, poetic lament, and technical analysis into a single vibrant conversation.
The Bay State Monthly
Various
A quiet ambition drives these pages, where regional heritage, commercial enterprise, and polite storytelling converge.
The Boys of Crawford's Basin: The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado
Sidford F. (Sidford Frederick) Hamp
Two hardworking young men face backbreaking labor, local villainy, and mountain hazards to carve out a secure future in 1870s Colorado.
The Buffalo Runners: A Tale of the Red River Plains
R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Bitter cold, human malice, and a harsh frontier test a fledgling Canadian settlement to its absolute limits. Only resilience and cross-cultural camaraderie can save the community from total collapse.
The Captain's Toll-Gate
Frank R. Stockton
A spirited young woman takes refuge at her uncle's tollhouse, where her refusal to be managed sets off a flurry of suitors and misunderstandings.
The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall: Divers Sketches and Studies
Thomas Taylor
The early Christian history of Cornwall is often clouded by romantic myth, but rigorous historical study reveals a distinct monastic tradition deeply connected to Celtic Britain and Armorica.
The Collected Writings of Dougal Graham, "Skellat" Bellman of Glasgow, Vol. 2 of 2
Dougal Graham
Rough, earthy, and relentlessly funny, these 18th-century Scottish chapbooks expose the bawdy, unvarnished realities of peasant life, parish discipline, and rural folklore through high-spirited dialogue and sharp vernacular wit.
The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut
M. Louise (Maria Louise) Greene
M. Louise Greene details Connecticut’s long, steady transition from an uncompromising Puritan church-state to full religious tolerance, tracing how reasonable government, economic shifts, and stubborn dissenters slowly dismantled compulsory church support and political privilege.
The evolution of the oil industry
Victor Ross
A sweeping study of petroleum's rise reveals how a crude subterranean liquid reshaped international trade, global warfare, and daily human life.
The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin: Being a Chronicle of Sir Nigel de Bessin, Knight, of Things that Happed in Guernsey Island, in the Norman Seas, in and about the Year One Thousand and Fifty-Seven
William John Ferrar
Out of the sea mists of eleventh-century Guernsey comes a forgotten tale of Norman iron, pirate fortresses, and a young man's leap into the medieval world.
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 Importance of the Proof-reader: A Paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston, by John Wilson
John Wilson
A practical printer makes the case that behind every great work of literature stands a vigilant reader correcting bad handwriting, untangling faulty grammar, and preserving the author's true meaning from ruin.
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 Pearl Box: Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People, by a Pastor
Anonymous
Through dozens of brief vignettes, moral lessons, and reflective poems, a pastor gathers timeless scenes of childhood choices, quiet acts of charity, and the delicate beauty of everyday life.
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 Village Convict: First published in the "Century Magazine"
Heman White Chaplin
A young man returns from prison to his coastal New England village, where quiet perseverance slowly rewrites his place among a wary community.
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.