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If Your Baby Must Travel in Wartime
United States. Children's Bureau
Navigating packed trains, scarce food, and unpredictable delays with an infant requires rigorous preparation, steady nerves, and practical strategies to keep civilian life moving safely behind the home front.
James Braithwaite, the Supercargo: The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat
William Henry Giles Kingston
A young clerk embarks on a high-seas merchant voyage across the globe, braving enemy broadsides, shipwreck, and starvation while managing his firm's commercial trade.
Jim: The Story of a Backwoods Police Dog
Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
Keen scent, untamed instincts, and absolute devotion collide in a brave crossbred hound tracking down wilderness criminals across rugged backwoods trails.
Jimmy, Lucy, and All
Sophie May
The Dunlee family’s mountain summer offers a gentle glimpse into childhood, where the gravity of a lost watch or a daring climb is met with the wisdom of patient, playful adults.
Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover, volume 1 (of 2)
Dr. (John) Doran
Behind the polished exterior of the Georgian court lay a web of bitter rivalries, petty betrayals, and devastating personal sacrifices.
Mating center
Frank Belknap Long
Under a totalitarian regime that strips humanity of romance, two fugitives discover that natural passion is the ultimate act of rebellion.
Mimi at Sheridan School
Anne Pence Davis
A spirited girl brings her lively energy and protective instincts to a historic boarding school, forging deep friendships and facing unexpected emergencies along the way.
Morocco
S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan
A vivid, unsentimental portrait of a vanished world, this account captures the landscape and daily rhythms of a land poised on the brink of profound change.
Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos
Hamilton, William, Sir
A British diplomat posts himself near the glowing vents of Southern Italy, measuring pressure and collecting hot minerals while the earth shakes underfoot.
Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New-York: For encouragement of the Indian trade, &c. and for prohibiting the selling of Indian goods to the French, viz. of Canada
Great Britain. Board of Trade
In the crucible of eighteenth-century colonial expansion, the battle for North America is fought not only with muskets, but with legal statutes, trade embargos, and formal belts of wampum.
Pen and pencil sketches of Faröe and Iceland
Andrew James Symington
A journey across the dramatic, windswept volcanic landscapes of the North Atlantic reveals deep historical ties, rich local folklore, and raw natural beauty.
Penny Nichols and the Mystery of the Lost Key
Joan Clark
A mysterious key enclosed with a sudden inheritance letter plunges a high-spirited girl into the middle of a high-altitude fraud.
Persia Revisited
Gordon, Thomas Edward, Sir
A candid, observant record of a diplomat’s return to Persia, documenting the country’s modernization and the precarious transition of power following a royal assassination.
Precious Memories: Sixteenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
Unknown
An intimate look at Victorian-era conversion, this volume collects firsthand accounts of ordinary British families who abandoned their traditional lives for faith in the American West.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 19, 1916
Various
Beneath the polished front of Edwardian wit, a nation at war confronts its own anxieties through pointed satire, domestic absurdities, and trench-side humor.
Ravenna, a Study
Edward Hutton
Ravenna stands as a singular witness to the collapse of the Roman Empire and the dawn of a new European order, serving as a vital bridge between the ancient world and the medieval age.
Recruit for Andromeda
Stephen Marlowe
Every seven hundred and eighty days, Earth drafts citizens for the mysterious Nowhere Journey, a deep-space draft from which no recruit has ever returned.
Reminiscences of Charles Bradlaugh
G. W. (George William) Foote
A devoted lieutenant records the fierce trials and private warmth of the giant who spearheaded Victorian England’s fight for secularism.
Rowena & Harold: A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst
William Stephen Pryer
Feud and faith collide along the Sussex cliffs when an obdurate Norman lord drives his daughter’s Saxon lover to the Crusades.
Six little Bunkers at Cousin Tom's
Laura Lee Hope
The six little Bunkers head to the New Jersey shore to spend a golden summer digging for treasure and playing in the sand. Their seaside vacation turns into an unexpected series of small, gentle adventures.
Sowing and Sewing: A Sexagesima Story
Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
A village sermon on the Parable of the Sower prompts three young women to cultivate their spiritual lives, exposing how easily worldly motives can choke out good intentions.
Speaking of the Turks
Mufti-zada, K. Ziya, bey
A veteran returning to a foreign-occupied homeland must navigate ruined ideals, shifting social codes, and an urgent desire to set a misinformed world straight.
St. Andrews Ghost Stories: Fourth Edition
William Thomas Linskill
A series of chilling encounters unfolds across the ancient, windswept coast of Fife, where the living continuously cross paths with the restless spirits of Scotland's storied past.
Stories for Helen
Eliza Leslie
Childhood missteps carry immediate consequences in these four sharp nineteenth-century moral tales, where indiscreet words, ill-advised feasts, willful laziness, and reckless escapades regularly unravel.
Tales by Polish Authors
Else C. M. (Else Cecilia Mendelssohn) Benecke
A landscape of hardship, exile, and human endurance unfolds across these classic Polish stories translated for an English audience.
The Arena, Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
Various
A collection of fierce reformist intellects turns its gaze upon late-nineteenth-century American society, challenging entrenched dogma across literature, economics, religion, and human consciousness.
The Battle of Atlanta: and Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc
Grenville Mellen Dodge
A Union general looks back across decades of fire and prairie, setting down the brutal, unglamored mechanics of how a nation was held together.
The Blower of Bubbles
Beverley Baxter
Amid the shadows of the First World War, these five vignettes observe how ordinary lives are transformed by compassion, sacrifice, and the quiet weight of conflict.
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, June, 1880
Various
A vigorous nineteenth-century journal confronts the rising tides of secularism and dogmatic tradition, calling readers back to reason, evidence, and historical Christian faith.
The Dyer's Guide: Being a compendium of the art of dyeing linen, cotton, silk, wool, muslin, dresses, furniture, &c. &c
Thomas Packer
Transforming raw plant extracts, metallic salts, and pungent vats into brilliant, lasting hues requires equal measures of empirical rigor and manual dexterity.
The Economic Functions of Vice
John McElroy
Excess human life is culled not by nature's predators, but by the very vices of the unfit, which act as a merciful, self-administered filter for the species.
The Gold-Headed Cane
William Macmichael
A gold-headed cane, once the constant companion of London’s most celebrated physicians, recounts the shifting fortunes and quiet triumphs of the medical profession across two centuries. This silent witness preserves the private conversations and public legacies of the healers who carried it.
The Heart of the Desert (Kut-Le of the Desert)
Honoré Morrow
HOOK A young woman is abducted by a man who bridges two worlds, forcing her to confront the raw, unforgiving majesty of the American Southwest and the hidden depths of her own character.
The High School Boys' Canoe Club
H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
Six inseparable friends find their summer transformed after purchasing a neglected, twenty-eight-foot Indian war canoe at an auction. Their journey tests their grit against rivals and the demanding currents of Lake Pleasant.
The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 15
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
A deluded knight-errant and his pragmatic squire wander through a landscape of harsh reality and romantic fantasy, transforming the mundane mishaps of their travels into grand, chivalric adventures.
The House of Dreams-Come-True
Margaret Pedler
A young woman travels to England with a hopeful heart, only to find her heart’s desire entangled in a web of family secrets, fierce rivalries, and sudden tragedy.
The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, March 1865
Unknown
A Catholic periodical defends the Church against Protestant claims of anti-biblical bias while documenting medieval Irish episcopal successions and the Holy See’s historical role.
The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter
F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
A man of grandiose delusions abandons his quiet village to become a politician and general, only to discover that the world of power is built on farce, bribery, and the hollow echoes of his own ego.
The Man from Bar 20: A Story of the Cow Country
Clarence Edward Mulford
A lone cowboy rides into a lawless valley, mistaken for a notorious gunfighter and hunted by rustlers, only to turn the rugged terrain into his own personal battleground.
The Manatitlans
R. Elton Smile
Miniature moralists mount roaches to preach peace, transforming coarse sailors and scholars into enlightened citizens through strict diet and baby censors.
The Mayor of Warwick
Herbert M. (Herbert Müller) Hopkins
An ambitious small-town mayor, a bishop’s proud daughter, and a newly arrived astronomer collide across the rigid class lines of a New England college town.
The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and the Masterpiece
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
A dying husband, an interior designer out-maneuvered, and a tragic triangular love affair reveal the quiet, desperate struggles hidden behind polite Edwardian façades.
The Night Horseman
Max Brand
A mysterious wanderer, followed by a loyal wolf-dog and a horse named Satan, tests the boundaries of human connection while pursued by a man who lives only for the violence of a final, fatal confrontation.
The Queen's Scarlet: The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne
George Manville Fenn
Behind the glitter of brass instruments and military dress lies a dark story of family jealousy, mistaken identity, and a quiet lad forced to fight for his stolen life.
The Queen's Twin and Other Stories
Sarah Orne Jewett
A collection of quiet, observant tales captures the resilient spirits, gentle humor, and enduring dignity of late nineteenth-century New England village life.
The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border
Gerald Breckenridge
Three athletic young men employ their mastery of early radio technology and aviation to rescue a kidnapped father from a dangerous faction of Mexican rebels.
The Ralstons
F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
A secret marriage, an agonizingly slow deathbed, and an eighty-million-dollar estate set a prominent New York clan against itself in a struggle where cold calculation battles headlong devotion.
The Spirit-Filled Life
John MacNeil
Spiritual fullness is not reserved for an elite clergy; it is a vital necessity commanded of every ordinary believer.