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The Barrier: A Novel
Allen French
Driven by an unyielding ambition for public power, a financial promoter seeks to dominate both a New England city and the women of its most exclusive social circle.
The Blue Jar Story Book
Charles Lamb
A child's sudden desire turns out to carry a surprisingly heavy price, launching a series of gentle, sobering lessons about choices, self-restraint, and the true cost of impulsive longings.
The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 04
William Curtis
A detailed work of botanical taxonomy and practical horticulture, this volume meticulously catalogs foreign ornamental plants to help eighteenth-century readers identify, understand, and cultivate exotic flora.
The Boy Scouts at the Battle of Saratoga: The Story of General Burgoyne's Defeat
Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917
Young American patriots outwit British officers, hostile Tories, and treacherous wilderness roads to secure General Burgoyne's defeat during the pivotal Saratoga Campaign of 1777.
The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam
John Henry Goldfrap
A secretive government invention, ocean-bound saboteurs, and a crew of courageous Boy Scouts collide off the Atlantic coast in a high-stakes struggle to protect national interests.
The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 01, No. 08, August 1895: Fragments of Greek Detail
Various
Classical architectural perfection was forged not in tranquil isolation, but amid the high-stakes political maneuvering of ancient Athenian leaders.
The Broken Gate: A Novel
Emerson Hough
An unwed mother in a small Midwestern town fights to shield her grown son from the shame of his birth, only for a sudden trial and a small-town murder to expose the secrets of her past.
The Chronicles of Rhoda
Florence Tinsley Cox
A small girl’s vivid imagination turns the domestic world into a stage for grand anxieties, quiet victories, and sudden wonders.
The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. 10
Unknown
To build a new nation on paper requires far more than winning battles in the field; it demands the relentless, exhausting art of backroom diplomacy.
The Door into Infinity
Edmond Hamilton
Crossing into another reality is not a matter of theory; it is a hidden legacy that demands fresh blood every year.
The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney
Samuel Warren
Beneath the polished surfaces of nineteenth-century society lies a web of greed, stolen inheritances, desperate crimes, and legal maneuvers where justice hinges on a forgotten document or a sudden deathbed confession.
The Firebrand
S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
A fiery Scots swordsman and his unlikely companions plunge into the backstabbing mayhem of the Carlist War, discovering that keeping their heads requires far more than a sharp blade.
The Flaming Mountain: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story
Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
A young team of scientists races a ticking geological clock on a tropical island while sabotage and political greed threaten their high-stakes effort to save thousands of lives.
The Fortunes of the Farrells
Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
A unexpected inheritance test pits moneyed comfort against quiet integrity.
The Fourth Generation
Walter Besant
A mysterious crime committed decades ago casts a shadow over three generations of a prosperous English family, forcing a brilliant young man to confront his ancestors' dark history.
The Genera of Phyllomedusine Frogs (Anura: Hylidae)
William Edward Duellman
Vertical pupils, distinctive skin chemistry, and eggs suspended over water set the leaf frogs apart from all other tree frogs across the Neotropics.
The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn: A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia
John Randolph Spears
A cold wind sweeps through the granite channels and barren pampas of the deep South, where gold prospectors, native hunters, and earnest missionaries all seek a living at the end of the inhabited world.
The golden heart, and other fairy stories
Violet Jacob
Noble hearts, cunning sorcerers, and resourceful animal companions brave hazardous wildernesses to undo cruel curses and claim their rightful fortunes.
The Golden Magnet
George Manville Fenn
In the high Andes and tangled river-forests of nineteenth-century South America, a young English traveler and his fiercely loyal companion fight through swarming crocodiles, ancient ruins, and murderous rivals to win a hidden Inca fortune.
The Good Crow's Happy Shop
Patten Beard
A recovering young girl turns a box of wallpaper samples into a world of craft and kindness under the gentle guidance of an imaginative aunt.
The Haunted Hour: An Anthology
Unknown
Ghostly visitations are rarely about horror; more often, they are the quiet, aching echoes of love, grief, and unfulfilled longing lingering in the shadows of the living world.
The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow: A Tradition of Pennsylavania
Robert Montgomery Bird
An ancient, bloody feud over lost land and ruined lives leaves a shadow over a Pennsylvania valley, where a returning son must choose between revenge and peace.
The illustrated horse management
Edward Mayhew
A sharp critique of Victorian horsekeeping that exposes how routine care, faulty architecture, and human vanity inflict constant, silent suffering on domestic animals.
The Illustration of Books: A Manual for the Use of Students, Notes for a Course of Lectures at the Slade School, University College
Joseph Pennell
An unsparing, practical guide to book and newspaper illustration, this manual strips away romantic illusions to expose the technical craftsmanship and commercial realities of nineteenth-century print media.
The Light of the Star: A Novel
Hamlin Garland
Behind the electric signboards of Broadway, a fiery young playwright and a brilliant stage star clash over art, compromise, and commercial success, discovering that their fiercest professional battles mirror a dangerous, irreversible attraction.
The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 2 (of 3)
James Augustus St. John
Across deserts, mountain peaks, and storm-tossed seas, early European explorers charted the contours of a rapidly expanding world while testing the absolute limits of human endurance.
The Lord of Misrule, and Other Poems
Alfred Noyes
A choir of English voices—may-dancers, doomed lovers, navy gunners, and ghostly highwaymen—cries out against a world rapidly sliding into war.
The Missionary
George Chetwynd Griffith
A childhood scuffle on the deck of a homeward-bound ocean liner casts a long shadow across three families, hardening over the decades into secret parentage, social ruin, and a desperate test of faith.
The Peacock 'At Home:': A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball
Catherine Ann Turner Dorset
When the insect kingdom's lively festivities spark jealousy among the feathered tribes, an aristocratic peacock hosts a grand party to reassert avian superiority.
The Princess Aline
Richard Harding Davis
A dashing young American painter chases an ideal across Europe, only to find that the real thing was standing beside him all along.
The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland
Andrew Lang
A king gives away his unborn child for a baby's laugh, leading a humble prince across enchanted lands to rescue a lost princess.
The Religious Tract Society Catalogue - 1889
Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
A single publisher's nineteenth-century catalogue reveals the full scope of Victorian moral instruction, domestic entertainment, and imperial ambition bound in gilt edges and cheap paper.
The Return of Peter Grimm
David Belasco
Bound by a well-meaning promise to a dying patriarch, a young woman faces a loveless marriage until an extraordinary spirit returns to undo his earthly mistakes.
The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution
George John Romanes
A clear, rigorous overview of evolutionary theory demonstrates how disparate biological facts converge on a single natural law.
The Sea Bride
Ben Ames Williams
A young woman marries a formidable whaling captain and takes to the sea, only to watch her husband's strength and sanity collapse under the harsh demands of the voyage.
The Soul Stealer
Guy Thorne
A mad scientist invents a machine that can read and display human thoughts, then secretes his rival in a basement dungeon to harvest his mind.
The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare
Two sharp-witted outsiders battle for dominance in a fiercely sharp marriage of convenience, while a web of elaborate disguises entangles the suitors of Padua.
The Tiny Picture Book
Anonymous
A simple alphabet verse collection uses everyday objects, animals, and moral lessons to teach young readers their letters while guiding them toward quiet obedience, gentle conduct, and religious devotion.
The Way to God and How to Find It
Dwight Lyman Moody
The love of God is an unreachable height, a fathomless depth, and an ever-present refuge for the weary.
The Wicked Marquis
E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
A lordly debtor faces the man he wronged decades ago, only to discover that revenge takes form not in blood, but in balance sheets.
The works of Plato (Vol. 1 of 6)
Plato
A relentless pursuit of truth demands questioning every unexamined assumption, even when the search ends in uncertainty or death.
The Yellow Streak
Valentine Williams
A sudden death in an English country house uncovers a tangled web of deceit, blackmail, and international conspiracy.
Within the Rim, and Other Essays, 1914-15
Henry James
Across the narrow stretch of blue water, an old empire's tranquil summer breaks against the sudden, monstrous shock of continental war.
Wolf Breed
Jackson Gregory
A stubborn prospector finds fortune in the northern wilderness, only to risk his life, his sanity, and his soul chasing the woman who played him for a fool.
Yorktown and the Siege of 1781
Hatch, Charles E., Jr.
Entrenched along the York River, a weary imperial army faces an encircling coalition of land and naval forces in the quiet tidewater backwater that will ultimately decide the fate of a fledgling American republic.
A Book of Nimble Beasts: Bunny Rabbit, Squirrel, Toad, and "Those Sort of People"
Douglas English
A quiet walk through English fields and hedgerows reveals a hidden, bustling world of miniature predators, patient architects, and nimble escape artists.
A drunk man looks at the thistle
Hugh MacDiarmid
A drunk man lies out on a cold Scottish hillside at night, fixated on a jagged thistle under the moon as his mind lurching through alcohol, memory, and metaphysics.
A History of Mourning
Richard Davey
An exploration of how human societies mark the passage of life into death reveals how deeply our deepest griefs are bound to fashion, ritual, and civic order.