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A Nurse's Life in War and Peace
E. C. (Eleanor Constance) Laurence
A dedicated English nurse moves steadily through municipal wards, tropical journeys, and war zones, offering an unvarnished view of early modern medicine.
A Pictorial Booklet on Early Jamestown Commodities and Industries
J. Paul Hudson
In the salt air of early Virginia, survival depended on transforming raw wilderness into utilitarian crafts, matching trial and error against an unyielding new world.
A Voyage Round the World, from 1806 to 1812: In Which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian islands, and the Sandwich Islands were Visited
Archibald Campbell
A young Scottish seaman endures shipwreck in the frigid Aleutians, severe frostbite, and life-altering amputations before finding shelter, recovery, and purpose in early nineteenth-century Hawaii.
Abe and Mawruss: Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter
Montague Glass
A look at the comical, fast-paced world of New York’s garment district reveal how pride, panic, and fierce loyalty drive two unforgettable business partners.
Agent Nine and the Jewel Mystery: A Story of Thrilling Exploits of the "G" Men
Graham M. Dean
A green G-man matches wits with a petty departmental rival, a diamond-smuggling syndicate, and a missing mentor across rain-swept Southern Limited tracks and murky coastal bayous.
An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will
Albert Taylor Bledsoe
The human mind is not a set of mechanical gears set in motion by external pulls, but an active force capable of originating its own choices without a prior efficient cause.
Antonio Stradivari
Horace Petherick
A master woodworker dispels popular myths to reveal the practical craftsmanship, deliberate choices, and collaborative workshop reality behind history’s most famous violins.
Best Stories from the Best Book: An Illustrated Bible Companion for the Home
James Edson White
Scripture comes alive through a domestic lens, transforming foundational sacred history into a gentle, accessible narrative designed for intergenerational reading around the family home.
British Political Leaders
Justin McCarthy
Behind the ornate façade of late-Victorian and Edwardian governance, political power shifts dynamically through individual character, institutional friction, and party maneuver. The true engine of parliamentary life is revealed not in grand doctrine, but in personal temperaments, private networks, and tactical clashes.
By England's Aid
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
In late sixteenth-century Europe, two country-bred brothers leave the quiet fields of Essex for the bloody sieges of Holland, discovering that survival requires courage, wits, and an unshakeable allegiance to home.
Corse de Leon
G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
A youth returns from war to claim his bride, only to be cast into a web of Italian treachery and French court intrigue.
Dorothy's Tour
Evelyn Raymond
A young violin virtuoso embarks on a high-stakes concert tour that brings artistic triumph, personal growth, and clues to a hidden inheritance.
Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, June 1885
Various
A mosaic of nineteenth-century thought, this issue spans imperial clashes on the Afghan border, radical theories of land reform, the origins of biological form, and the grueling early days of George Sand.
Essentials of woodworking
Ira Samuel Griffith
Clear, methodological guidance turns raw timber into enduring craft through disciplined tool work, structural joinery, and patient surface finishing.
Euphorion - Vol. I: Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance
Vernon Lee
A tragic mismatch between intellectual splendor and moral corruption defined the Italian Renaissance, yielding an art that was serene and a reality that was monstrous.
Eye Spy: Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things
W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson
A quiet walk through a meadow becomes a masterclass in observation, revealing how tiny lives turn ordinary grass roots into scenes of grand drama.
Fast as the Wind: A Novel
Nat Gould
An escaped convict chokes out a bloodhound on Dartmoor, flees to the coast under an assumed identity, and confronts the glamorous woman whose hidden crime cost him his freedom.
Fix Bay'nets: The Regiment in the Hills
George Manville Fenn
High in the Himalayan passes, a young officer and his Cockney orderly test their endurance against brutal terrain and hostile hill-tribes.
Four Minute Essays, Volume X
Frank Crane
A spirit of indomitable endurance shines brightest not in times of quiet luxury, but when human lives are thoroughly broken and crushed.
Frances of the Ranges
Amy Bell Marlowe
A sharp-eyed Texas girl rides out to protect her father's ranch, matching wits with border outlaws, greedy treasure-seekers, and the condescension of visiting city folk.
Harriet Beecher Stowe: a biography for girls
Martha Foote Crow
A gifted New England girl turns daily hardship, deep spiritual wrestling, and quiet literary practice into a moral voice that moves an entire nation.
Highway Pirates
Harold Avery
When a schoolboy prank leads to unexpected detention, two young friends stumble into an intricate web of coastal smuggling, hidden passages, and high-stakes inheritance theft.
Holmes' Own Story: In Which the Alleged Multi-murderer and Arch Conspirator Tells of the Twenty-two Tragic Deaths and Disappearances in Which He Is Said to Be Implicated, With Moyamensing Prison Diary Appendix
Herman W. Mudgett
In the shadows of a Philadelphia jail cell, a accused killer writes to save his neck, spinning an intricate web of insurance frauds, double identities, and phantom accomplices to explain away twenty-two missing lives.
"I'll Leave It To You": A Light Comedy In Three Acts
Noël Coward
An extended family learns that sudden financial independence is not a gift handed down from above, but a discipline forged under pressure.
Impressions of Spain
Albert Frederick Calvert
A seasoned traveler captures the spirit of a nation, blending vivid descriptions of ancient landscapes with a pragmatic assessment of its industrial potential at the dawn of the twentieth century.
In a Hollow of the Hills
Bret Harte
In the shadowy, treacherous passes of the California mountains, an honest man's devotion and a stranger's romantic obsession unravel a hidden world of outlaws, buried silver, and double lives.
In and out of Three Normandy Inns
Anna Bowman Dodd
A rare, warm-hearted travelogue through the villages and inns of late nineteenth-century France, capturing the rhythm of Norman life, the eccentricities of its people, and the enduring grandeur of its coast.
Islam, Her Moral And Spiritual Value: A Rational And Pyschological Study
Arthur Glyn Leonard
A passionate defense of a global faith written by a British army officer, this study dismantles Western prejudices by grounding religious history in psychology, geography, and human nature.
Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: January-May, 1880
Mary King Waddington
An American-born diplomat’s wife steps off the train into late-nineteenth-century Rome, recording high society, royal audiences, and scenic drives with lighthearted charm and unpretentious observational intelligence.
Joscelyn Cheshire: A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas
Sara Beaumont Kennedy
A fiery Loyalist woman and a devoted Patriot soldier test the limits of devotion, duty, and pride amidst the turmoil of the American Revolution.
Letters from High Latitudes: Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856 of the Schooner Yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Meyen, and Spitzbergen
Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of
A sudden telegram shatters a hopeful departure, yet launches a magnificent northern odyssey across storm-tossed seas, ancient ice-fields, and silent polar solitudes.
Liége on the line of march
Glenna Lindsley Bigelow
Terrifying midnight bombardments force a quiet Belgian countryside household to abandon their beds and cower in the wine cellar.
Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers
Unknown
The relentless pursuit of the unknown drives men to abandon the comforts of home, choosing instead the peril of uncharted horizons and the harsh lessons of the wild.
Lover or Friend
Rosa Nouchette Carey
Bound by propriety and secret shame, a spirited young woman marries not out of grand passion, but in response to honor, gradually discovering that true love was standing quietly beside her all along.
Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 3 (of 3)
Horace Walpole
Political intrigue, military maneuvers, and court rivalries collide in this sharp account of Britain's struggle for power at home and abroad during the twilight years of King George II's reign.
Menotah: A Tale of the Riel Rebellion
John Trevena
A young Indian woman’s unreserved love for a treacherous white covert agent collides with the bloodshed of the 1885 Riel Rebellion.
Merlin: A Poem
Edwin Arlington Robinson
A great seer abandons a falling kingdom for ten years of romantic oblivion, only to discover that his foresight cannot prevent the ruin he foresaw.
Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare
Two fiercely independent wits wage a war of words while a malicious conspiracy threatens to destroy a young couple's wedding in sunny Messina.
Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat
Owen Wister
A clear-eyed journey across frozen tundras and rugged mountain peaks reveals the magnificent big game animals of North America.
My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879
Mary King Waddington
Entering the gilded salons and icy legislative halls of the Third Republic, a cosmopolitan newcomer maps the fragile rebirth of French democracy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
A towering figure of military genius and unyielding ambition faces combined Europe to rescue a fractured France from total ruin. Through icy mountain passes and bloody plains, his sheer presence commands devotion and dictates the destiny of nations.
Nat the Navigator. A Life of Nathaniel Bowditch. For Young Persons
Henry I. (Henry Ingersoll) Bowditch
A self-taught mathematician rises from childhood poverty in Salem to revolutionize American navigation and translate the most complex European astronomy.
Nick of the Woods
Robert Montgomery Bird
In the dark forests of revolutionary-era Kentucky, a murderous specter wages a private war against native tribes, upending the lives of settlers and savages alike.
North American Wild Flowers
Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
A deep attentiveness to the soil, shade, and seasonal shifts of the North American wilderness turns this survey of woodland and marsh vegetation into a quiet work of natural devotion.
Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Various
Centuries of curiosity meet in a single weekly issue where readers exchange historical tidbits, untangle obscure etymologies, and debate local folklore.
Oppressions of the Sixteenth Century in the Islands of Orkney and Zetland: From Original Documents
Unknown
A fragile island culture finds its ancient freedom crushed beneath the iron heel of greedy feudal lords.
Our Little Hungarian Cousin
Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
Separated from her wealthy family as a toddler, a lost girl travels with a kindly Gypsy boy across the Hungarian countryside, discovering traditional village customs before a twist of fate reveals her true noble heritage.
Perch of the Devil
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
A restless young miner seeks fortune in the Montana copper hills while his ambitious wife transformed by social training navigates love and class in Butte.