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Mad Shepherds, and Other Human Studies
L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks
A eccentric shepherd looks up at the English night sky, indifferent to the gossip of the village tavern because his mind is wandering through the rings of Saturn.
Married life
May Edginton
Expectations collide with hard realities when romantic ideals enter the grind of domestic life and financial strain.
Meeting of the Minds
Robert Sheckley
A long-dormant Martian entity stows away to Earth, seeking to unify all living creatures into a single hive mind—starting with an isolated island treasure-hunting expedition.
Monsieur Lecoq, v. 2
Emile Gaboriau
Driven by political fury, secret shame, and relentless jealousy, two noble families and an army of conspirators tear themselves apart in post-Napoleonic France.
Moral Tales
Madame (Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline) Guizot
Everyday domestic choices become the true crucible of character in this French collection, where childhood errors carry real weight and quiet integrity quietly prevails.
Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
Ruth McEnery Stuart
A month after burying her husband, a plantation widow plans a remarriage while stubbornly guarding her full year of grief, setting off a collection of wry, tender tales.
My Escape from Donington Hall, Preceded by an Account of the Siege of Kiao-Chow in 1915
Gunther Plüschow
A solitary German aviator wages an aerial campaign over a besieged Chinese outpost, falls into British hands, and pulls off a daring escape through the heart of wartime London.
My Escape from Germany
Eric A. Keith
A stubborn civilian prisoner navigates false leads, wet woods, and cold cells to outwit his captors and slip across the border into Holland.
Nature and Art
Mrs. Inchbald
Two brothers choose radically different paths in eighteenth-century England—one climbing the ranks of social ambition through rigid conformity, the other raising a son in wild innocence far from worldly corruption.
Neighbours on the Green
Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
Quiet observers know that small towns keep big secrets. In this nineteenth-century Surrey enclave, gossipy warmth masks deep griefs, secret pasts, and quiet sacrifices.
Neva's three lovers: a novel
Harriet Lewis
A orphaned heiress navigating a labyrinth of forged letters, treacherous step-parents, and competing suitors must unearth the truth about her past to secure her future.
Next Door Neighbours: A Comedy
Mrs. Inchbald
Boundaries melt when a paper-thin wall is all that separates a realm of ruinous aristocratic luxury from a cold room where an impoverished family starves.
Notes on the History of Argentine Independence
Charles W. Whittemore
South America’s march toward freedom begins not in sudden ideological thunder, but in an expansive geographical reversal that turns a colonial commercial outpost into an invincible continental liberator.
Old Melbourne Memories: Second Edition, Revised
Rolf Boldrewood
Boundless open pastures, violent frontier skirmishes, and the heady thrill of building a colony from scratch animate this rich pastoral memoir. Rolf Boldrewood captures the untamed spirit of early Victoria through vivid, authentic recollections.
Pirate tales from the law
Arthur M. (Arthur Merton) Harris
Eighteenth-century pirates step out of romantic legend and into the harsh light of courtroom records, where sworn testimonies reveal their actual lives, petty squabbles, and eventual walk to the gallows.
Robert Annys: Poor Priest. A Tale of the Great Uprising
Annie Nathan Meyer
A devoted fourteenth-century reformer finds his spirit torn between the quiet purity of the sanctuary, the fiery demands of a peasant uprising, and the agonizing call of human desire.
Roman life in the days of Cicero
Alfred John Church
An eye for detail and a knack for human drama bring first-century Rome to life through the public speeches and private correspondence of its greatest orator.
Sonnets and Canzonets
Amos Bronson Alcott
Through quiet verse and earnest portraits, a New England elder reflects on a long life shaped by love, philosophical friendship, and the American struggle for freedom.
Spiritual Adventures
Arthur Symons
A strange, quiet child watches his parents, learns he has no home to anchor him, and discovers that the only real life he possesses is the life going on inside his head.
Storm Warriors
John Gilmore
Men battle furious seas off the English coast to rescue strangers stranded upon shifting quicksands.
Taras Shevchenko, the poet of Ukraine
Taras Shevchenko
A bound nation’s agony and hunger for freedom find their enduring voice in the verses of a former serf turned poet.
That Stick
Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
An unexpected inheritance lifts a modest, middle-aged clerk into the British peerage, forcing an unpretentious couple to navigate elevated social duties while protecting their young heir from envious family scheme.
The Banner Boy Scouts
George A. Warren
An eager small-town teenager rallies his friends into a newly formed Boy Scout patrol, leading them through midnight practical jokes, lost-child hunts, and local rivalries to claim their county’s top banner.
The Barren Ground of Northern Canada
Warburton Pike
A journey beyond the tree line becomes a test of sheer physical endurance in the raw, unforgiving wilderness of northern Canada.
The Beggar Man
Ruby M. (Ruby Mildred) Ayres
She married a mysterious stranger to save her family from poverty, only to discover he might be the very man who ruined them.
The Carter Girls' Week-End Camp
Nell Speed
When their father falls ill and money runs out, four Virginia sisters take their family's survival into their own hands by opening a mountain resort for summer boarders.
The cave dwellers of Southern Tunisia
Daniel Bruun
An expedition across rugged drylands reveals communities living inside subterranean courtyards, subterranean crypt-like mills, and sheer mountain cliffs.
The Dardanelles: Colour Sketches From Gallipoli
Norman Wilkinson
Naval artist Norman Wilkinson records the 1915 Gallipoli campaign from the water, capturing the smoke of Allied bombardments, the chaos of Suvla Bay, and the quiet resilience of sailors and soldiers in a doomed theater of war.
The Dark Other
Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) Weinbaum
A dark, brooding presence threatens to shatter a young woman's world as her brilliant companion succumbs to an inexplicable, violent alternate identity that hungers for control.
The Diary of a Turk
Çerkesseyhizade Halil Halit
A provincial boy leaves his ancestral home in Asia Minor to navigate the autocracy of Constantinople, only to choose exile over submission.
The Dramatization of Bible Stories: An experiment in the religious education of children
Elizabeth Miller Lobingier
Children naturally express deep emotional truths when given the freedom to act out ancient narratives in their own words, transforming rigid institutional lessons into lived personal experiences.
The Evolution of the Country Community: A Study in Religious Sociology
Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson
A sociological study of the evolving country community, focusing on its religious and economic foundations.
The Flaming Forest
James Oliver Curwood
A hunter of men is felled in the wilderness, only to be nursed back to health by the very woman he ought to arrest.
The historical novel
Herbert Butterfield
Fiction acts as a magnifying glass for time, rescuing human life from cold analytical charts and turning dead historical facts into vivid personal drama.
The Horse's Friend: The Only Practical Method of Educating the Horse and Eradicating Vicious Habits
O. S. Pratt
A compassionate Nineteenth-Century manual replaces brute force with psychological training, showing how quiet authority, simple mechanical levers, and consistent rewards can gentle the wild field colt and reform the most dangerous runaway.
The Last Straw
Harold Titus
When an heir to a struggling cattle outfit arrives in the mountain West to turn the ranch into quick cash, she finds a world that measures a person not by inherited fortune, but by grit.
The Little Moment of Happiness
Clarence Budington Kelland
A young American officer stationed in Paris during the First World War discovers that the rigid moral code of his upbringing falls apart when confronted with the complex, gentle reality of French love.
The Man Who Ended War
Hollis Godfrey
A mysterious, anonymous force threatens to annihilate every warship on Earth unless the nations of the world disarm within a single year.
The Man with the Clubfoot
Valentine Williams
An Allied secret agent risks everything to slip into wartime Germany, pursuing his missing brother and outwitting the Kaiser's most formidable spy master.
The Native Born
I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie
A English officer falls in love with an Anglo-Indian woman in a remote garrison town, sparking a fatal clash between colonial ambition, native rebellion, and personal honor.
The philosophy of Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard
A spirited crusade against rigid dogma, this collection of essays urges humanity to abandon institutional fear and embrace a life of active work, open air, and personal responsibility.
The Pigeon Pie
Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
In the wake of the Royalist defeat at Worcester, a family of young loyalists must protect their fugitives from Parliamentarian redcoats, learning that survival demands quick thinking and genuine kindness over childish bravado.
The pleasant and surprising adventures of Robert Drury, during his fifteen years' captivity on the island of Madagascar
Robert Drury
A teenage castaway endures fifteen years of captivity in eighteenth-century Madagascar, navigating tribal wars, harsh enslavement, and complex court politics to earn his freedom.
The Popular Science Monthly, July, 1900: Vol. 57, May, 1900 to October, 1900
Various
This volume offers a compelling snapshot of human curiosity at the turn of the twentieth century, capturing a world rapidly transforming through laboratory discoveries, astronomical expeditions, and global health breakthroughs.
The Setons
O. Douglas
A glimpse into the lives of a Scottish family, where love, faith, and community intertwine amidst the challenges of early 20th-century Glasgow.
The Snare
Richard Rein Smith
A party of moon-walkers stumbles into an ancient alien trap that snatches them into hyperspace, forcing them to find a way out of an impossible cage.
The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 3, November, 1834
Various
A vibrant mosaic of nineteenth-century American thought, this periodical captures a young nation wrestling with its literary identity, historical inheritance, and cultural ambitions.
The Story of Newfoundland
Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of
An isolated rock in the North Atlantic becomes the site of a centuries-long struggle between migratory merchants, stubborn settlers, and competing global empires.