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The Warfare of Science
Andrew Dickson White
Across centuries of intellectual struggle, human progress has hinged on a persistent contest between open scientific inquiry and rigid theological dogma.
The Words of Jesus
John R. (John Ross) Macduff
A quiet voice reaches through the darkness to remind a weary soul that every trial is measured by a loving hand.
The Young Captives: A Story of Judah and Babylon
Erasmus W. Jones
Two exiled Judean brothers, their sister, and their cousin Daniel navigate moral corruption, courtly intrigue, and spiritual trial in Babylon while preserving their sacred ancestral faith.
Three Apostles of Quakerism: Popular Sketches of Fox, Penn and Barclay
Benjamin Rhodes
Driven by the conviction that God communicates directly to every human soul, three seventeenth-century leaders built a revolutionary religious movement that defied priests, judges, and kings, ultimately transforming the spiritual and political landscape of their world.
Told in the Coffee House: Turkish Tales
Cyrus Adler
A collection of Turkish tales, offering a glimpse into the culture, humor, and philosophy of Ottoman society through stories told in coffee houses.
Woman in the golden ages
Amelia Gere Mason
For centuries, male historians ignored the inner lives of women or reduced them to footnotes, yet women repeatedly shaped the intellectual and moral heights of human civilization.
Wych Hazel
Susan Warner
A vibrant, headstrong heiress and her enigmatic suitor navigate the social whirlpool of nineteenth-century high society, testing the limits of independence, duty, and mutual devotion under the watchful eyes of protective guardians.
Zone therapy
Wm. H. (William Henry Hope) Fitzgerald
A simple squeeze of the fingers or a press of an aluminum comb against the skin can supposedly halt severe pain, cure obstinate ailments, and unlock the body's hidden electrical network.
A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes
Marion Harris Neil
Every day of the year receives its own distinct menu, building a complete guide to home dining that turns a manufactured vegetable fat into the foundation of American domestic economy.
A Journey to America in 1834
Robert Heywood
A quiet, methodical record of early nineteenth-century travel, this journal observes a rapidly expanding young republic through the exact, unhurried eyes of an English visitor.
A Lively Bit of the Front: A Tale of the New Zealand Rifles on the Western Front
Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
A young sheep-farmer leaves New Zealand for the trenches of the Western Front, navigating high-seas sabotage, underground dug-outs, and enemy captivity.
A Modern Aladdin
Howard Pyle
A humble peasant boy is swept into a dark world of alchemical secrets, mental mastery, and high-society deception in pre-revolutionary France.
A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, as Related by Himself
James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
Separated from his home in Africa and forced into Atlantic slavery, an prince navigates shifting fortunes, hard labor, and spiritual trials across the globe before finding faith and refuge in England.
A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824: And the journal of a residence of two years on the Mulgrave
William Lay
A brutal mutiny off a Pacific whaling ship dissolves into a fight for survival when the teenage survivors are left stranded among the isolated coral atolls of the Marshall Islands.
A Reading of Life, with Other Poems
George Meredith
Homage to the wild speed of Artemis or surrender to Aphrodite’s warmth splits the human soul, leaving it to perish unless both forces are held within one breast.
A Reversion To Type
Josephine Daskam Bacon
A quiet academic life begins to unravel when an unmarried instructor of thirty realizes that seven years of teaching have left her hollow, prompting a sudden, reckless attempt to reclaim the love she abandoned in Germany.
A Ride on Horseback to Florence Through France and Switzerland. Vol. 2 of 2: Described in a Series of Letters by a Lady
Augusta Macgregor Holmes
Crossing steep Alpine ledges and flooded Italian riverbeds on horseback, an intrepid 19th-century Englishwoman transforms a challenging Continental trek into a rich, detailed study of European landscapes, local cultures, and mountain travel.
Air Service Boys in the Big Battle
Charles Amory Beach
Two young American aviators navigate the hazards of World War I aerial combat, determined to locate a missing comrade while proving themselves in the newly formed American air force.
Akra the Slave
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Freedom, captivity, and the transcendent nature of love converge in this poetic drama set against the ancient backdrop of Mesopotamia.
An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah
Beth Ellis
Stepping ashore in a land of shimmering pagodas and impenetrable jungle, an observant young traveller brings a keen eye, sharp wit, and irrepressible humor to the unexpected realities of colonial life.
Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D.: Edited by His Daughter
Orville Dewey
A country boy rises through self-education and severe illness to become a central pulpit orator, reflecting deeply on human struggle, faith, and the nature of God across a long life.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
Various
A broad, combative panorama of mid-nineteenth-century British intellectual life, where Tory politics, dramatic history, legal biography, and military adventures collide across a single issue.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847
Various
A mid-nineteenth-century British miscellany offers a sweeping panoramic view of an empire wrestling with global expansion, literary ownership, and social hardship.
Bread and cake baking
Frederick D. Hauptmann
A practical 1877 manual for commercial and domestic bakers, offering real-world formulas, technique guidance, and workplace advocacy from an experienced craftsman.
Children of the Market Place
Edgar Lee Masters
A young Englishman arrives in nineteenth-century Illinois and witnesses the raw expansion of America through the life and political rise of Stephen A. Douglas.
Christ, Christianity and the Bible
Isaac Massey Haldeman
A fiery early-twentieth-century fundamentalist treatise mounts an uncompromising defense of orthodox Christian doctrine, declaring that Jesus Christ must be recognized as literal God or dismissed as a fraud, and that the Bible is the direct, unassailable word of the Creator.
Cobb's Bill-of-Fare
Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
A humorist's battle against cold-storage turkeys, impenetrable opera, and modern art proves that simple, old-fashioned pleasures beat pretension every single time.
Companionable Books
Henry Van Dyke
Reading is more than passive leisure; at its best, it becomes a living dialogue where the author’s spirit speaks directly to your own.
Courts, Criminals and the Camorra
Arthur Cheney Train
A hard-headed New York prosecutor pulls back the curtain on early twentieth-century American justice, showing how police routine, press sensationalism, and imported Italian secret societies turn the noble ideal of legal fairness into an unpredictable theater.
Deep Moat Grange
S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
A missing carrier's cart triggers a descent into a labyrinth of hidden passages, stolen inheritances, and violent insanity on the English border.
Dialstone Lane, Part 2
W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
Conspiring for a buried treasure on a distant island, three improbable adventurers map out a desperate voyage from their quiet English seaport.
Dick Hamilton's Steam Yacht
Howard Roger Garis
When young millionaire Dick Hamilton buys a steam yacht for a carefree cruise, he unwittingly steers straight into a whirlpool of kidnappers, stolen vessels, and marooned tropical adventures.
Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune: A Tale of the Days of Saint Dunstan
A. D. (Augustine David) Crake
Brother turns against brother and a young king wages war on the Church in an tenth-century England torn between duty, dark revenge, and sacred vow.
Eli: First published in the "Century Magazine"
Heman White Chaplin
An honest Cape Cod fisherman single-handedly holds out against a hostile jury to save an innocent neighbor from prison.
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697)
Samuel Wesley
Can a Christian poet abandon classical myths, embrace sacred truth, and construct an enduring epic around the life of Jesus Christ?
Eric, or Little by Little
F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
A bright, noble-hearted boy enters an island boarding school full of promise, only to be dragged down by small moral compromises into ruin and tragedy.
Following the Flag, from August 1861 to November 1862, with the Army of the Potomac
Charles Carleton Coffin
A eye-witness view of blood, mud, and military hesitation reveals the grinding reality of the American Civil War's eastern front.
Frank Brown, Sea Apprentice
Frank Thomas Bullen
A young lad enters the merchant service and learns that the sea demands everything a boy can give before it makes him a man.
Frank Merriwell's Backers
Burt L. Standish
A fearless young prospector defends his Arizona gold mine against outlaws, corrupt syndicate agents, and deadly betrayals in the rugged American Southwest.
Gloriana
Dixie, Florence, Lady
A brave woman disguises herself as a man to enter public life, leading a movement for total equality between the sexes against a corrupt establishment.
Glyn Severn's Schooldays
George Manville Fenn
An Indian prince's jewelled heirloom vanishes from an English school. Two friends who know wild beasts and distant lands better than their classmates set out to quiet an escaped elephant and clear an innocent name.
Gold Seekers of '49
Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
A snowy doorway in St. Louis yields a dying stranger’s secret, launching a boy and his ailing father on a hazardous journey toward the California gold fields.
Goya
François Crastre
Charcoal sketches scrawled across a roadside wall by a fifteen-year-old peasant boy ignite one of the most fiery, unyielding careers in European art.
Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848
Various
A vivid mosaic of nineteenth-century American imagination, this issue blends Venetian romance, high-seas action, quiet domestic tragedy, and sharp literary criticism into a single, vibrant monthly canvas.
Harpsichords and Clavichords
Cynthia A. (Cynthia Adams) Hoover
Intricate mechanical craft meets musical evolution in an era when finger pressure and plucked quills dictated the boundaries of keyboard expression.
Harrison's Amusing Picture and Poetry Book
Unknown
With a turn of the page, a child steps into a bright world of rhyming fables, cautionary tales, and quiet observations on nature.
Hetty's Strange History
Helen Hunt Jackson
Love can sacrifice every claim except the truth, yet a mistaken heart will sometimes throw even life away to prove its devotion.
Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece
George Greenwood
A clear-headed cavalry officer dismantle the myths of Victorian horsemanship, replacing rigid military dogma with a gentle, two-handed approach to riding grounded in plain physics and animal psychology.