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Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898
Various
A vivid mosaic of turn-of-the-century technological ambition, geographical exploration, and practical science captures an era racing toward modernization with unbridled curiosity and mechanical ingenuity.
Short History of the London Rifle Brigade
Unknown
Volunteers from London’s financial and civic heart transform into battle-tested soldiers on the Western Front, proving their resilience in the muddy trenches of Ploegsteert and the brutal, gas-choked trials of the Ypres Salient.
Small gardens, and how to make the most of them
Violet Purton Biddle
Proper planning turns a tiny, hemmed-in plot of ground into a flourishing oasis.
Snowball
Poul Anderson
A single DIY energy-storage invention unleashes total economic disruption, causing society to unravel before rebuilding itself from the bottom up.
Story-Telling Ballads: Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys' and Girls' Own Reading
Unknown
Here are seventy-seven narrative poems and ancient ballads designed to quicken the pulse and stir the imagination.
Studies in the Life of the Christian: His Faith and His Service
Henry T. (Henry Thorne) Sell
Faith is not merely a set of quiet convictions, but a force meant to transform every corner of daily existence.
Talks to Freshman Girls
Helen Dawes Brown
A collection of gentle, bracing advice, this volume serves as a guide for young women entering the academic life, urging them to pursue intellectual rigor and character with equal devotion.
The Arena, Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891
Various
A late-nineteenth-century reform periodical captures a nation wrestling with the human cost of rapid industrialization, state power, and the unfolding struggle for individual liberty.
The Bent Twig
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A young woman raised in simple, high-minded frugality finds herself torn between the intoxicating sheen of wealth and the quiet integrity of her upbringing.
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The Boy Travellers in the Far East [Part First]: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Japan and China
Thomas Wallace Knox
Two curious American boys cross the Pacific under the wing of an experienced mentor, uncovering the everyday customs, industries, and sacred sites of nineteenth-century East Asia.
The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone
Margaret A. McIntyre
A young cave boy learns to fashion tools, kindle fire, and navigate the prehistoric wilderness alongside his kin.
The Changeling
Walter Besant
A desperate secret adoption creates a web of deceit that entangles high society, an American fortune, and a cold young aristocrat's identity.
The Child of the Moat: A Story for Girls. 1557 A.D
I. B. (Ian Bernard) Stoughton Holborn
In a dangerous sixteenth-century England ruled by religious persecution, an orphaned young girl must navigate hidden passages, hostile guardians, and deadly accusations to protect the people she loves.
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The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 04 [of 13]
Enguerrand de Monstrelet
A nation tearing itself apart from within finds no relief when an aggressive foreign power invades its borders.
The Daughter of a Magnate
Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman
A young woman on a private railway car throws her heavy winter coat down to cover a sleeping, mud-splattered stranger during a mountain rainstorm, never guessing that the man in the weeds is the brilliant chief of construction who will soon hold her life in his hands.
The fetish folk of West Africa
Robert H. Milligan
An intimate record of a missionary’s years among the interior and coastal tribes of West Africa, mapping the psychological landscape of a world ruled by unseen forces.
The Gnome King of Oz
Ruth Plumly Thompson
A displaced boy, a runaway king, and a scattered quilt of travelers converge on the Emerald City in an unexpected scramble for power and home.
The great Persian War and its preliminaries
G. B. (George Beardoe) Grundy
A rigorous, field-tested re-examination of the Greco-Persian conflicts that strips away millennia of legendary embellishment to reveal the cold tactical and geographical realities of ancient warfare.
The Hall of Fantasy (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A quiet wanderer treads through a glowing, marble-paved hall where dreamers, inventors, and visionaries gather under stained-glass light.
The Hero of the Humber
Henry Woodcock
Driven by an instinct to save the perishing, a waterfront laborer hazards his life decades before finding a spiritual anchor.
The History of Sir Richard Whittington
Unknown
Driven by necessity from the country to London, a penniless youth endures hardship and abuse before a single penny's investment in a cat alters his destiny.
The House of Life
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A sonnet is framed here as a coin or a carved monument to a single hour, capturing the soul’s deepest encounters with love, memory, and mortal decay.
The Indian Scout: A Story of the Aztec City
Gustave Aimard
An empire thought long buried still breathes in the desert, guarding its secrets behind stone walls and lethal vows.
The Judgment House
Gilbert Parker
Behind the glittering drawing rooms of fin-de-siècle London and the dusty, blood-soaked kopjes of the South African War, a tempestuous marriage buckles under the weight of vanity, political intrigue, and hidden betrayal.
The Ladies' Vase
American lady
A quiet heart and self-governed mind form the true foundation of female character, turning daily duties into acts of lasting spiritual grace.
The Lieutenant-Governor: A Novel
Guy Wetmore Carryl
Political corruption and industrial strife collide when an principled second-in-command is forced to choose between personal loyalties and the rule of law.
The Mad Lover, a Tragi-Comedy: The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (3 of 10)
John Fletcher
A battle-hardened general falls instantly in love with a princess, only to lose his wits and demand his own heart be cut out to prove his devotion.
The Man Who Lost Himself
H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
A penniless American promoter wakes up in a luxurious London mansion, mistaken for a disgraced English earl who looks exactly like him.
The Memoirs of an American Citizen
Robert Herrick
A young man flees small-town trouble for Chicago, where he trades his conscience for financial dominion and a seat in the United States Senate.
The moving picture boys at Panama
Victor Appleton
A runaway carriage in a small American town, a mysterious South American passenger, and a grand engineering project thousands of miles away converge into an early twentieth-century juvenile adventure.
The Negro and the elective franchise. A series of papers and a sermon
Archibald Henry Grimké
Published by the American Negro Academy in 1905, these six essays systematically dissect the disenfranchisement of Black voters in the American South, insisting that democracy itself fails when equal suffrage is denied.
The physiology of digestion considered with relation to the principles of dietetics
Andrew Combe
Ignoring the laws of biological nature forfeits human health, strength, and liberty. This nineteenth-century medical study grounds proper dietetics and everyday living in the mechanical and chemical mechanics of bodily organs.
The Real Thing
Albert Teichner
To possess the copy is to own the ideal, while the original is merely a flawed draft of reality. In a world where humanity has faded, synthetic beings strive toward a single ultimate goal: becoming the perfect imitation of their lost creators.
The Reign of Law
James Lane Allen
A young Kentuckian breaks from his inherited dogma, trading the certainty of a rural pulpit for the hard, clear light of modern thought.
The Rocky Mountain Goat
Madison Grant
Perched on high snowfields and broken crags where few predators dare follow, the mountain goat lives in near-total isolation from the lower world, an extraordinary evolutionary castaway built for America’s most unforgiving peaks.
The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth: Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat'
Awdelay, John, active 1559-1577
Before Shakespeare staged his rogues, sixteenth-century reformers mapped their underworld step by step. This volume gathers two primary Tudor treatises to uncover the hidden language, deceptive tricks, and strict hierarchies of early modern vagrants.
The Strength of the Pines
Edison Marshall
A quiet young city dweller travels to the Oregon wilderness to reclaim his father's forgotten homestead, only to find himself embroiled in a deadly feud with a ruthless mountain clan.
The Training of a Forester
Gifford Pinchot
Conservation requires a dedicated corps of disciplined practitioners who treat the wilderness not as a romantic retreat, but as a vital national asset demanding rigorous scientific management and unyielding public service.
The Two Great Republics: Rome and the United States
James Lewis
A study of ancient self-governance shows how economic disparity and partisan hatreds erode free institutions, offering a urgent historical warning to modern democracy.
The Wayfarers
J. C. (John Collis) Snaith
A young nobleman wakes from a night of heavy drinking to find himself ruined, pursued, and forced onto the open roads of eighteenth-century England in disguise.
The Web of the Golden Spider
Frederick Orin Bartlett
A young woman follows a hypnotic vision across the sea, drawing an aimless Bostonian into a deadly hunt for lost South American gold.
The works of Richard Hurd, volume 2 (of 8)
Richard Hurd
A eighteenth-century critic untangles the principles of poetry, drama, and imitation, offering a lucid framework for why imaginative literature moves the human mind.
Use of tobacco among North American Indians
Ralph Linton
Ancient inhabitants of the Americas cultivated distinct wild plants to transform smoke into sacred offerings, diplomatic treaties, and everyday comfort long before European contact.
West of the sun
Edgar Pangborn
Stranded on an alien world, six humans face the choice between repeating Earth's violent history and forging a fragile new future among giant humanoids and pygmy tribes.
Winchester, Painted by Wilfrid Ball
Telford Varley
Long before it was an ancient cathedral city, Winchester was a clearing in a green ocean of primeval forest, where marshland, chalk downs, and river converged to form the natural gateway into England's heartland.
With our army in Palestine
Antony Bluett
A soldier’s eye view of the Middle Eastern theater, this record moves from dusty desert marches to the green fields of the Levant with unvarnished candor.
A Character of the Province of Maryland: Described in four distinct parts
George Alsop
A colorful personal account from seventeenth-century America, this boisterous work details life as an indented servant in Maryland while sketching the lush landscape, local government, and surrounding Native peoples.
A History of Banks for Savings in Great Britain and Ireland
William Lewins
A single illness or missed paycheck once meant ruin for an English laborer. This study traces the long institutional experiment that transformed modest penny savings into a national safety net backed by the British Treasury.