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A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike
Charles King
Amidst the chaos of the 1894 Pullman Strike, a soldier and a working girl must navigate the rigid barriers of class and the dangerous machinations of a self-serving agitator.
A Treatise on the Art of Dancing
Giovanni-Andrea Gallini
This eighteenth-century manifesto argues that dancing is not merely a divertissement, but a sophisticated art of expression that relies on the principles of nature and the cultivation of grace.
Across the Cameroons: A Story of War and Adventure
Charles Gilson
This adventure follows two boys from an English country estate into the heart of the Cameroons during the First World War, where they pursue a stolen artifact of immense, ancient power. It is a classic tale of colonial-era derring-do, defined by its relentless pace, high stakes, and the stark moral contrasts of a…
Across the Spanish Main: A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
Harry Collingwood
Two young men from Devon set out across the sixteenth-century seas to restore their family fortunes, only to find themselves embroiled in a perilous dance with Spanish adversaries and the secrets of a dead pirate.
Adventures in Alaska
Samuel Hall Young
These accounts of a frontier minister navigating the Alaskan wilderness offer an intimate look at the rugged, often brutal, and deeply human spirit of the Klondike gold rush and the remote life beyond.
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
John McElroy
This is a grueling, visceral account of survival inside the most notorious prison of the American Civil War. It documents not only the physical erosion of the human body but the internal politics and desperate resilience of the men confined within the stockade.
Armageddon—And After
W. L. (William Leonard) Courtney
A call to action for a generation defined by the shadow of global conflict, this work explores the path toward a permanent peace in the ruins of a fractured Europe.
Armenian Literature: Comprising Poetry, Drama, Folk-lore and Classic Traditions;: Translated into English for the First Time
Robert Arnot
The enduring spirit of an ancient culture survives in this collection of stories, dramas, and proverbs, offering a window into the life, humor, and resilient soul of a long-suffering people.
Australian Heroes and Adventurers
William T. (William Thomas) Pyke
HOOK This chronicle captures the raw, perilous spirit of colonial Australia, tracing the tragic failure of a landmark expedition and the volatile, gold-fueled birth of democratic protest.
Back at School with the Tucker Twins
Nell Speed
This narrative follows the spirited lives of boarding school students as they balance academic constraints with a penchant for elaborate, rule-defying mischief. It captures the camaraderie and shifting loyalties of adolescence in the early twentieth century.
Belshazzar: A Tale of the Fall of Babylon
William Stearns Davis
This historical novel reconstructs the final, decadent days of the Babylonian Empire, charting the clash between an arrogant, pleasure-seeking king and the rising power of the Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great. It is a tale of ancient geopolitical intrigue, courtly romance, and the inexorable moral decline of a…
Boston Neighbours In Town and Out
Agnes Blake Poor
These interconnected stories capture the quiet, often stifling rhythms of Boston’s upper-class social circles, where small-town gossip and rigid expectations define the boundaries of a life well-lived.
Brazil, the land of rubber
Brazil. Commissão, Exposição internacioncal de borracha de New York, 1912
A sweeping portrait of a nation’s industrial ambition, this account documents how a vast wilderness was mobilized to meet the global hunger for rubber at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Breakfast dainties
Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson) Murrey
The first meal of the day need not be a monotonous chore of lukewarm coffee and burnt toast. By applying professional culinary standards to home kitchens, even the most hurried morning can become an occasion for genuine refinement.
Browere's Life Masks of Great Americans
Charles Henry Hart
A skilled sculptor’s life-long quest to capture the true likenesses of early American icons through innovative plaster masks, preserved here by a devoted researcher.
Children's Stories in American History
Henrietta Christian Wright
Spanning the vast geological ages before humanity to the dawn of the American republic, this work chronicles the continent’s transformation into a nation. It offers a sweeping, episodic survey of the explorers, settlers, and conflicts that defined the early American experience.
Chile today and tomorrow
L. E. Elliott (Lilian Elwyn Elliott) Joyce
This comprehensive survey captures the landscape, history, and economic complexities of a nation at a pivotal moment in the early twentieth century. It serves as an essential primer for understanding the development of a South American republic.
Chippinge Borough
Stanley John Weyman
This historical novel captures the volatile atmosphere of 1831 England, where the passage of the Reform Bill threatens to topple the ancient, rigid social order. It is a story of political upheaval mirrored by the personal awakening of an idealistic young man.
City Crimes
George Thompson
HOOK A wealthy young man abandons his life of luxury to explore the hidden, squalid underworld of a nineteenth-century metropolis, hoping to use his fortune to save the impoverished and expose the corrupt.
Coffee and Repartee
John Kendrick Bangs
A sharp-witted boarder turns every morning meal into a theater of verbal sparring, relentlessly baiting his pompous, educated companions with absurd logic and playful defiance.
Coming Attraction
Fritz Leiber
A chilling vision of a future ruined by fear and vanity, where the survival of the species is secondary to the pursuit of dominance. This narrative explores how a society masks its own decay.
Commodore Barney's Young Spies: A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington
James Otis
A group of young sailors find themselves in the thick of the War of 1812, serving as clandestine eyes and ears for a legendary naval commander during the British assault on Washington.
Discover the Excitement of Hairpin Lace
Unknown
Hairpin lace is a rhythmic, meditative craft that transforms simple loops into intricate, woven textiles. This guide offers everything necessary to master the loom, from basic twists to complex, full-length garment construction.
Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman
Willie Walker Caldwell
Born into the rugged independence of the Virginia frontier on the eve of the American Revolution, a young man finds his path to love and duty inextricably linked to the birth of a new nation.
Fish Stories
Henry Abbott
These are not the tall tales of a braggart, but the quiet, observational accounts of a woodsman who finds that the truth of the wilderness is far stranger than any fiction.
Five Years in a Persian Town
Napier Malcolm
This observant account captures the rhythms of life in a remote desert city, offering a candid, culturally grounded perspective on the intersection of Persian daily habits and the missionary experience at the turn of the twentieth century.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
Various
This volume of a late-Victorian weekly magazine offers a vivid, multifaceted window into the past, serving as both a repository of moralistic fiction and a snapshot of Gilded Age commerce. It captures the rhythm of a bygone era, where serial stories, amateur puzzles, and earnest advertisements for everything from…
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus
Josephine Chase
A dedicated young alumna returns to her alma mater to manage a student residence, discovering that guiding a new generation of women requires as much courage as earning an education.
Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School
Josephine Chase
A steadfast circle of friends navigates the closing chapter of adolescence, balancing the pressures of academic ambition, the sting of betrayal, and the bittersweet transition toward a wider world.
Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848
Various
This collection captures the mid-19th-century American literary pulse through a curated blend of historical biography, serialized fiction, and reflective poetry.
Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl
Edgar Jepson
An orphaned girl with a talent for survival navigates the absurdities of the British aristocracy, acting as both a secret housekeeper and a high-society stand-in for a missing young noblewoman.
Hugh: Memoirs of a Brother
Arthur Christopher Benson
A devoted brother maps the vibrant, restless life of a gifted priest, capturing the intimate, unvarnished portrait of a man who moved with singular intensity through faith and art.
Jeff Briggs's Love Story
Bret Harte
The rugged, rain-lashed landscape of a California mountain pass serves as the stage for a dramatic collision between a weary, romantic innkeeper and a refined, wealthy traveler. This tale of social divides, hidden debts, and the transformative power of love captures the fading spirit of the American frontier.
Joseph Smith as Scientist: A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy
John Andreas Widtsoe
A rigorous attempt to synthesize the teachings of a nineteenth-century religious founder with the emerging physical laws of the early twentieth century.
Letters from a Cat: Published by Her Mistress for the Benefit of All Cats and the Amusement of Little Children
Helen Hunt Jackson
A devoted cat narrates her domestic trials, from accidental falls to narrow escapes, through a series of earnest, secret letters to her young mistress.
Life of Abraham Lincoln: Little Blue Book Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324
John Hugh Bowers
From the humble silence of a backwoods log cabin to the heavy burdens of the presidency, this account traces the steady, deliberate rise of a man defined by his honesty, his melancholy, and his profound empathy for humanity.
Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes
E. E. (Emma Elizabeth) Brown
A beloved physician and literary wit, this figure serves as a bridge between the intellectual rigor of early American medicine and the blossoming of a uniquely local, optimistic, and deeply humanistic literature.
Literary Hearthstones of Dixie
La Salle Corbell Pickett
These essays preserve the vanishing domestic and creative worlds of nineteenth-century Southern writers, capturing the intimacy of their homes and the flickering spirit of their vanished era.
'Lizbeth of the Dale
Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
The story of a spirited girl finding her way from a sheltered, rural upbringing to the complexities of adulthood, this narrative captures the enduring tension between family expectations and the pull of one’s own heart.
Lord John in New York
C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
A wounded veteran finds himself entangled in a sinister conspiracy of high-stakes kidnapping, ancient family curses, and a relentless criminal mastermind known as Dr. Rameses.
Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and of the Court of Queen Anne Vol. 2 (of 2)
Thomson, A. T., Mrs.
A portrait of power and its inevitable erosion, these memoirs chart the rise and fall of a woman who shaped the trajectory of a throne. They remain a sharp, unvarnished look at the architecture of eighteenth-century influence.
Miscellanea
Juliana Horatia Ewing
This collection gathers the stray threads of a prolific storyteller’s career, blending high-stakes Victorian melodrama with whimsical fables and informative cultural sketches. It serves as a rare, intimate look at the imagination of a writer who moved effortlessly between the domestic and the fantastic.
Mitch Miller
Edgar Lee Masters
In a small Illinois town, two imaginative boys chase the ghosts of Mark Twain’s frontier as they search for treasure and meaning in a landscape rapidly losing its innocence.
Modern bookbindings: Their design and decoration
S. T. (Sarah Treverbian) Prideaux
The revival of the bookbinding craft at the turn of the twentieth century marks a return to artistic integrity, where the physical object becomes a thoughtful reflection of the text it protects.
Nacha Regules
Manuel Gálvez
HOOK A compassionate idealist attempts to rescue a woman from the grim underworld of early 20th-century Buenos Aires, only to discover that societal indifference is a far more formidable opponent than individual vice.
On the right of the British line
Gilbert Nobbs
A man’s journey from the quiet anticipation of the English countryside to the harrowing front lines of the Somme, and finally into the cold reality of a German prisoner-of-war camp. This harrowing firsthand account offers an unvarnished look at the transition from civilian to soldier, the dehumanizing machinery of…
Our Little French Cousin
Blanche McManus
This gentle window into early twentieth-century Normandy introduces young readers to the daily rhythms of a French farmhouse. It blends a domestic tale of childhood with a sincere effort to foster international goodwill.
Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man
Sinclair Lewis
Our Mr. Wrenn is a gentle, imaginative clerk who longs to trade his desk for the romantic landscapes of his daydreams. His quest for a grander life reveals the quiet, often hilarious tension between the world we inhabit and the worlds we invent.