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Soldier Rigdale: How He Sailed in the Mayflower and How He Served Miles Standish
Beulah Marie Dix
A resilient young boy navigates the brutal realities of the first year at Plymouth Colony, seeking a place for himself in the shadow of the formidable Captain Miles Standish.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian
Unknown
These narratives capture the quiet gravity of Scandinavian life, exploring the tension between rigid social codes, the whims of fate, and the persistent human longing for connection and meaning.
Sudden Jim
Clarence Budington Kelland
A young man, long adrift and aimless, must reinvent himself as a hard-nosed industrialist to save a failing mill and win the respect of a formidable, tradition-bound father.
Summer
Dallas Lore Sharp
Nature is not a distant spectacle to be observed through glass, but a living, breathing presence waiting just outside the threshold of our daily lives.
The Adventures of a Suburbanite
Ellis Parker Butler
The suburban life is often painted as a tranquil retreat, but for one eager couple, it proves to be a chaotic theater of mechanical mishaps, eccentric neighbors, and a relentless, unquenchable urge to travel just eleven miles down the road.
The Adventures of Captain John Patterson: With Notices of the Officers, &c. of the 50th, or Queen's Own Regiment from 1807 to 1821
John Patterson
HOOK This memoir offers a vivid, boots-on-the-ground account of the British soldier’s experience during the Peninsular War, capturing the grim realities and fleeting camaraderie of a life spent in the service of the Queen’s Own.
The Affable Stranger
Peter McArthur
A weary writer seeks a clean slate by purging his post-war disillusionment into a book, only to find that the journey reveals the enduring, quiet pulse of humanity beneath the noise of modern life.
The Award of Justice
A. Maynard (Anna Maynard) Barbour
Two men venture into a rugged mining camp to expose a web of corporate fraud, only to uncover a long-buried secret that changes the fate of a young woman trapped by her mysterious past.
The Bay State Monthly
Various
This collection captures the spirit of late 19th-century New England, offering a mosaic of historical accounts, biographical sketches, and regional observations that preserve a vanishing way of life.
The Bishop's Shadow
I. T. (Ida Treadwell) Thurston
A neglected street boy finds a new moral compass through a chance encounter with a revered bishop, transforming his own life by attempting to pass on that same grace to others.
The Bradys Beyond Their Depth
Francis Worcester Doughty
A pair of intrepid New York detectives finds themselves outmatched in a perilous Southern marsh, where a ruthless nephew’s plot to steal a fortune forces them to confront a deadly, hidden conspiracy.
The Casque's Lark
Eugène Sue
The story of a legendary Gallic leader and the betrayal that undoes her family, this historical chronicle explores the high cost of power and the resilience of the common person.
The Complete Home
Unknown
A manual for building, furnishing, and maintaining a household, this guide balances practical economy with an aesthetic philosophy of simplicity, order, and refinement for the early twentieth-century home.
The Courier of the Ozarks
Byron A. (Byron Archibald) Dunn
A young Union captain navigates the brutal, shadow-filled guerrilla warfare of 1862 Missouri, where neighbor turns against neighbor and loyalty is measured by the flash of a blade.
The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer
Harry Collingwood
A young captain leads a daring rescue mission into the heart of the Spanish Main, risking everything to reclaim his brother from the clutches of a brutal empire.
The Double-Dealer: A Comedy
William Congreve
A web of calculated deceit threatens to ruin a young couple’s future, but the very architect of the chaos may hold the key to their salvation. This sharp, cynical satire dissects the fragile nature of trust in a world governed by appearances.
The Freedom of Life
Annie Payson Call
The path to genuine tranquility lies not in avoiding life’s inevitable frictions, but in mastering the art of non-resistance. By yielding one’s selfish will to higher laws, one transforms internal turmoil into purposeful action.
The Future of Road-making in America
Archer Butler Hulbert
The crumbling dirt paths of the early twentieth century were more than mere inconveniences; they were anchors dragging on the prosperity and spirit of the American nation. This collection of essays offers a blueprint for replacing that isolation with a modern, interconnected system of highways.
The German War
Arthur Conan Doyle
The modern era was born in the trenches of 1914, and these urgent, contemporary essays capture the fevered pulse of a civilization realizing it is being dismantled by a power it failed to understand.
The girl with the green eyes
Clyde Fitch
The girl with the green eyes is a turbulent portrait of a marriage nearly undone by the corrosive power of groundless jealousy. It captures the frantic, destructive energy of a woman who cannot trust her own happiness.
The Golden Flood
Edwin Lefevre
A young man begins depositing unimaginable quantities of gold into a Wall Street bank, terrifying the era’s most powerful financiers with the prospect of an infinite supply.
The Insurrection in Dublin
James Stephens
A civilian observer records the unfolding chaos of the 1916 Easter Rising, capturing the surreal tension of a city suddenly at war with itself.
The Intelligence Office (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The bustling, chaotic city masks a quiet, somber office where a mysterious clerk records the deepest, most desperate, and often contradictory wishes of the human heart. Here, the tangible desires of the world collide with the infinite.
The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864
Unknown
This collection of essays and documents offers a window into the intellectual and spiritual preoccupations of the mid-nineteenth-century Irish Catholic Church. It serves as both a historical record and a forum for theological discourse.
The Jungle Fugitives: A Tale of Life and Adventure in India: Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring
Edward Sylvester Ellis
Amidst the upheaval of the Sepoy Rebellion, a small group of English fugitives fights to survive the Indian wilderness while parallel tales of American grit celebrate the triumph of quick-witted youth over overwhelming odds.
The kitchen garden and the cook
Cecilia Maria de Candia Pearse
This collection serves as both a practical manual for the vegetable gardener and a creative guide for the home cook. It bridges the gap between the soil and the table, offering a complete seasonal roadmap for cultivating and preparing fresh produce.
The Lighter Side of English Life
Frank Frankfort Moore
This observation of English life explores the peculiar, often absurd social rituals of provincial towns, where the arrival of a stranger or the installation of a shop window becomes a matter of grave public importance.
The lost hunter: A tale of early times
John Turvill Adams
A solitary figure living on the fringes of civilization becomes the catalyst for a community’s moral reckoning, forcing neighbors to confront their prejudices and the vanishing remnants of the past.
The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan: As Told in the Camps of the White Pine Lumbermen for Generations During Which Time the Loggers Have Pioneered the Way Through the North Woods From Maine to California. Collected from Various Sources and Embellished for Publication
William B. Laughead
A mythical giant of the North Woods, Paul Bunyan turns the daunting labor of the American frontier into a series of impossible, larger-than-life feats performed with a blue ox and a sense of humor.
The Master-Knot of Human Fate
Ellis Meredith
An unexpected cataclysm leaves a man and a woman as the sole survivors of their world, forcing them to confront the isolation of existence and the nature of human connection.
The Matsuyama Mirror
James, T. H., Mrs.
A mirror becomes a sacred bridge between the living and the dead, transforming a simple domestic object into a vessel for grief, memory, and the enduring power of maternal love in rural Japan.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 08: Convent Affairs
Giacomo Casanova
This memoir captures the breathless, transgressive pace of 18th-century Venetian life, where the sacred and the profane collide within the walls of a convent. It is a portrait of an adventurer whose appetites for beauty, risk, and philosophy are as insatiable as they are self-destructive.
The Moon Rock
Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees
This mystery unfolds in the bleak, windswept landscapes of the Cornish coast, where an atmosphere of deep-seated dread hangs over a family burdened by secrets. It is a tale of obsession, where a long-sought inheritance and a dark, violent past collide, leaving a trail of death in their wake.
The Motor Boys in Mexico
Clarence Young
Three teenage adventurers and their eccentric naturalist friend chase a map to a hidden ancient city, battling persistent rivals and the perils of the Mexican wilderness in their trusty automobile.
The MS. in a Red Box
John A. (John Arthur) Hamilton
A young man is hunted through the marshlands of seventeenth-century England by a powerful, jealous rival who seeks to claim his life and the woman he loves.
The New Heavens
George Ellery Hale
This observational chronicle captures the transition from the era of visual stargazing to the dawn of modern astrophysics, detailing how the construction of massive new telescopes fundamentally altered our understanding of the universe.
The Peace Egg and Other tales
Juliana Horatia Ewing
Christmas carries weight beyond the season’s merriment, grounding family bonds and childhood imagination in the enduring traditions of play, performance, and the simple act of belonging.
The Pirate Woman
Aylward Edward Dingle
A lawless queen of the Caribbean pirates stakes her life and soul on a desperate bid for freedom, using beauty as a weapon to enslave the men she intends to use for her escape.
The Preaching Tours and Missionary Labours of George Müller (of Bristol)
Susannah Grace Sanger Müller
A lifelong preacher steps out from his settled life to traverse the globe, sharing a message of faith and service across five continents in his final decades.
The Rainbow Book: Tales of Fun & Fancy
M. H. (Mabel Henrietta) Spielmann
Imagination and reality dance a delicate waltz in this collection of tales, where the boundaries between the nursery floor and the realms of high fantasy dissolve into one another.
The Riflemen of the Ohio: A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River"
Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
The Ohio River serves as both a highway for settlers and a theater of war where young scouts must match wits against a formidable Wyandot chief. This tale follows a band of frontier youths navigating the perils of the wilderness to protect a beleaguered fort and their vital river fleet.
The Rover Boys in Alaska
Edward Stratemeyer
The Rover brothers must set aside their college studies and family business to rescue their adventurous brother, whose mysterious head injury has driven him to seek gold in the frozen, dangerous wilderness of Alaska.
The Rover Boys in Business
Edward Stratemeyer
Brothers leverage their sharp wits and adventurous spirits to thwart a treacherous business conspiracy, proving that family loyalty is the ultimate investment.
The Rustler of Wind River
George W. (George Washington) Ogden
This story of the American frontier follows a man standing alone against the powerful cattle barons who control the land, and the woman who defies her own social circle to stand with him.
The Second Funeral of Napoleon
William Makepeace Thackeray
The return of Napoleon Bonaparte’s remains from St. Helena to Paris in 1840 serves as the stage for a meditation on the nature of history, the vanity of pomp, and the absurdity of hero-worship.
The Secret Power
Marie Corelli
The world is on the precipice of a scientific revolution, but the power to create or destroy lies in the hands of those who command the hidden forces of nature.
The Sheriff's Son
William MacLeod Raine
A young man returns to a lawless mountain territory, haunted by his father’s legacy, only to find himself entangled with the very family that shattered his past.
The Soul Scar: A Craig Kennedy Scientific Mystery Novel
Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
A pioneering professor-detective applies the budding science of psychoanalysis to solve a high-society murder, proving that even the most carefully guarded secrets are written on the soul.