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Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3), Essay 1: Vauvenargues
John Morley
A quiet, luminous life cuts through the harsh cynicism of eighteenth-century philosophy to restore faith in human nature.
Dave Darrin After the Mine Layers
H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
Submarines creep through dark waters, leaving explosive mines in the wake of innocent ships, until a relentless American officer turns the tide.
Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet
W. H. (William Henry) Knight
An officer’s crisp travel diary traces a summer’s trek through high Himalayan passes, detailing the rugged landscapes and isolated villages between the plains of India and the remote monasteries of Tibet.
Dr. Hardhack's Prescription: A Play for Children in Four Acts
Harriet Beecher Stowe
When a wealthy city family faces their daughter’s failing health, a blunt doctor sweeps away fashionable remedies in favor of country air, honest work, and common sense.
Drawings of Old London
Philip Norman
Gable roofs tilt against London skies, and timbered galleries look down onto empty yards where stagecoaches once pulled in. These urban scenes preserve the quiet domestic corners of a metropolis slowly replacing its timbered past with brick, stone, and iron.
Dreams and delights
L. Adams (Lily Adams) Beck
Through stories set in mountain fastnesses, island sanctuaries, and shadowy imperial courts, the human soul seeks a single timeless truth—that earthly love and divine devotion are one and the same.
Dreamy Hollow
Sumner Charles Britton
A secluded Long Island mansion, a dead woman's voice calling across the dark, and a disgraced manager driven mad by greed converge in a melodrama of obsession, spiritualism, and justice.
Droll Stories
Honoré de Balzac
In sixteen-century France, a chorus of storytellers gathers over brimming goblets to trade indecent histories of lusty kings, rogue soldiers, and sly maidens, proving that human folly never changes.
Earth's Enigmas: A Volume of Stories
Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
Deep within the wild Canadian wilderness, human ambition and raw nature clash in a series of haunting, sharply etched spectral tales.
Emergency Childbirth: A Reference Guide for Students of the Medical Self-help Training Course, Lesson No. 11
United States. Office of Civil Defense
A calm hand in a dark hour, this cold-war manual strips obstetric care down to its barest essentials.
Encyclopedia of Diet: A Treatise on the Food Question, Vol. 2
Eugene Christian
A pragmatic, early-twentieth-century guide to human nutrition argues that most common physical ailments are not random afflictions to be suppressed with pharmaceutical poisons, but direct consequences of improper fuel entering the digestive apparatus.
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
Centuries of shifting speech reveal how ancient regional tongues fractured, fused, and survived to shape modern English.
Essays in Natural History and Agriculture
Thomas Garnett
Observation, meticulous measurement, and a deep love for the local countryside converge to show how practical inquiry can transform our understanding of the natural world.
Eve's Diary, Part 3
Mark Twain
A playful yet deeply moving re-imagining of the Creation, this diary captures the wonder of discovery, the friction between two complementary minds, and the quiet weight of enduring love.
Every Man for Himself
Norman Duncan
Hard along the gale-swept rocks of Newfoundland, men haul their living from the gray sea, clinging to a stubborn, battered faith in each other and the unknown.
Faces and Places
Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir
A seasoned London journalist crisscrosses Victorian Britain and the Continent, bringing a keen reporter’s eye and dry wit to balloon launches, parliamentary debates, mountain refuges, and evangelical revivals.
Famous Firesides of French Canada
Mary Wilson Alloway
A narrative tapestry woven from three centuries of Canadian history, this work explores how the hearths and forts of Quebec forged a resilient, unified nation.
Feminism and Sex-Extinction
Arabella Kenealy
A fierce anti-feminist tract from 1920 argues that women competing with men threatens biological evolution and risks driving the human species toward extinction.
Florence on a Certain Night, and Other Poems
Coningsby Dawson
A restless soul wanders through ghost-haunted Florentine streets and quiet starlit heavens, seeking a permanent beauty to anchor the fleeting rush of youth.
For Name and Fame
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
An orphaned boy rises through the ranks of the British Army to find both honor on the battlefields of nineteenth-century Afghanistan and the long-lost identity stolen from him in infancy.
Four American naval heroes : Paul Jones, Oliver H. Perry, Admiral Farragut, Admiral Dewey
Mabel Borton Beebe
A lineage of maritime duty connects the founding of the republic to its rise as a global power, forged through shipboard discipline, tactical daring, and quiet sacrifice.
Frank Merriwell's Endurance
Burt L. Standish
High ideals meet relentless athleticism in a classic tale of clean living, competitive spirit, and unbeatable grit.
Fun and Frolic
Unknown
An idyllic collection of nineteenth-century rhymes and cautionary tales captures the gentle moral universe, domestic quietude, and innocent mischief of Victorian childhood.
Futuria Fantasia, Summer 1939
Ray Bradbury
A passionate teenager gathers his friends, preaches economic revolution, and imagines the total collapse of civilization—all on a ten-cent mimeograph machine.
German Atrocities from German Evidence
Joseph Bédier
A chilling archival indictment of war, built entirely from the captured diaries, unit orders, and letters of the very soldiers committing the acts.
Granny's Wonderful Chair
Frances Browne
A poor girl, a prince lost in a velvet cushion, and a magical traveling seat transform a dreary court through the sheer power of storytelling.
Guilty Bonds
William Le Queux
A single, horrific symbol on a series of corpses plunges an English gentleman into a nightmare of Russian underground politics and framing.
Health Through Will Power
James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
A disciplined Mind can command an ailing body, transforming physical frailty into vital energy through deliberate practice and focused action.
Historia Calamitatum
Peter Abelard
Brilliant, contentious, and wrecked by his own passions, a preeminent medieval philosopher lays bare the undoing of his career and the violent ending of his grand romance.
House of Torment: A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court
Guy Thorne
A high-stakes thriller of secret identities, royal intrigue, and devotion that braves the flames of Tudor London and the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition.
How The Raven Died: 1902, From "Wolfville Nights"
Alfred Henry Lewis
A ruthless chief's fatal weakness for curiosity leads him into a trap constructed of deadly secrets and endless storytelling.
Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift (Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734)
Jonathan Swift
A fierce, brilliant campaign against economic subjugation, this collection captures a nation's desperation through unmatched satirical fury, moral clarity, and razor-sharp political prose.
Kept in the Dark
Anthony Trollope
A proud young woman keeps her broken first engagement secret from her sensitive second husband, kindling a bitter domestic crisis when the truth emerges.
Lectures on popular and scientific subjects
Caithness, James Sinclair, 14th earl of
Human ingenuity turns underground coal fields, high mountain lakes, and simple children's playthings into the vital currents of modern civilization.
Letters from a Son to His Self-Made Father: Being the Replies to Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Charles Eustace Merriman
A rich, satirical volley between a pampered son and his meatpacking magnate father, exposing the friction between inherited privilege and self-made ambition.
Life of Edwin Forrest, the American Tragedian. Volume 2 (of 2)
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
An actor’s body and voice can shake a theater, but his legacy depends on the fragile, biased memories of his contemporaries.
Life on the Mississippi, Part 12
Mark Twain
An observer tracks the swift forward march of nineteenth-century American commerce along the upper reaches of a great national river, recording both the booming modern cities and the vanishing wilderness legends in his wake.
Liza
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Quiet longing and rigid societal expectations collide in a provincial Russian town, where a second chance at happiness vanishes as swiftly as it appears.
Lost in Translation
Laurence M. Janifer
A lonely space agent uses the unyielding logic of a totalitarian alien race to paralyze their imperialist ambitions with a simple political concept.
Mantegna
N. D'Anvers
An early leap into Paduan guilds and an obsession with classical relief shaped a painter whose rigid, sculpted figures transformed the Italian Renaissance.
Mercy Philbrick's Choice
Helen Hunt Jackson
A young New England woman must choose between her unyielding moral integrity and the comforting illusions of romantic devotion.
Mingo, and Other Sketches in Black and White
Joel Chandler Harris
Deeply rooted in the shifting soil of Post-Reconstruction Georgia, these atmospheric tales examine the delicate threads of loyalty, pride, and survival binding Black and white rural southerners together after the Civil War.
Monumentum Ancyranum: The Deeds of Augustus
Emperor of Rome Augustus
A sovereign’s final accounting becomes a monumental testament, carving personal ambition directly into the permanent civic memory of Rome.
Mr. Punch with the Children
Unknown
Victoria’s golden age finds its most candid, unfiltered historians not in solemn parliamentarians, but in the nursery room, where small children routinely dismantle adult gravity with sheer logical precision.
My First Battle: A Sergeant's Story
Adam Mickiewicz
Before the smoke clears on a field of glory, a young recruit learns that his heart belongs not to abstract honor, but to an eight-pound piece of bronze.
My leper friends
Alice M. Hayes
A white woman in British India crosses class lines and bureaucratic indifference to bring clothing, advocacy, and human warmth to Calcutta’s isolated, European and Eurasian lepers.
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Natural History of the Prairie Vole (Mammalian Genus Microtus): [KU. Vol. 1 No. 7]
E. W. (Everett Williams) Jameson
Beneath the thick grass of eastern Kansas, small gray rodents build hidden engineering marvels and sustain an entire invisible network of parasites, predators, and plant life.
Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca
William Edward Duellman
In the shadows of Central American rainforests, small tree frogs navigate shifting landscapes through subtle variations in color, call, and bone structure, revealing a rich story of evolutionary adaptation.