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The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Edited by his friend Reuben Shapcott
William Hale White
An idealist's search for spiritual honesty leads him out of the narrow church of his youth and into the isolating realities of nineteenth-century London.
The Barton Experiment
John Habberton
To change a town, moral speeches matter far less than opening wallets, creating jobs, and doing the messy, daily work of human companionship.
The Bellamy trial
Frances Noyes Hart
A small-town courtroom turns into an arena of public voyeurism as two respectable lovers stand trial for a brutal midnight murder on a Long Island estate.
The Bible, King James version, Book 18: Job
Anonymous
A righteous man loses everything in an arbitrary divine wager, then sits in the dust to demand an answer from God.
The Bible, King James version, Book 41: Mark
Anonymous
The gospel of Mark chronicles the urgent, public-facing mission of Jesus Christ, emphasizing his authority, his miracles, and his eventual confrontation with the powers of his day. It stands as a foundational text of Western literature, prized for its fast-paced, breathless narrative style and its focus on the…
The Book of Town & Window Gardening
Frances A. Bardswell
Transform soot-stained ledges and tiny suburban plots into thriving green sanctuaries with practical, heartening advice for cultivating beauty in difficult spaces.
The Cruise of a Schooner
Albert W. (Albert Wadsworth) Harris
A boyhood dream of open country transforms into a grueling, cross-country trek when a banker leaves behind urban comfort to drive a horse-drawn wagon across the American West.
The Cumberland Road
Archer Butler Hulbert
Connecting the Atlantic seaboard to the expanding Western frontier, a single highway transformed early nineteenth-century America from a collection of isolated states into a unified nation.
The different modes of cultivating the pine-apple: From its first introduction into Europe to the late improvements of T.A. Knight, esq
J. C. (John Claudius) Loudon
A comprehensive eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century guide reveals how European horticulturists tamed an exotic tropical fruit using ingenuity, wood-burning flues, and steaming piles of manure.
The Evolution of Sinn Fein
Robert Mitchell Henry
A nation's century-long struggle for independence finds its sharpest expression in the birth of a movement that rejects foreign rule by refusing to recognize it.
The Fascinating Stranger, and Other Stories
Booth Tarkington
Transient encounters and minor social indignities echo across mid-century America, where youth and vanity routinely collide.
The Gasoline Motor
Harold Whiting Slauson
Understanding how an internal combustion engine functions requires tracing the precise sequence of mechanical and electrical events that turn raw fuel into reliable forward motion.
The Goat and Her Kid
Harriet Myrtle
A young goat’s irrepressible joy and a rescued sparrow’s quiet resilience ground this gentle collection of stories, which finds profound meaning in the small, everyday wonders of a child’s world.
The Heart of Denise, and Other Tales
S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats
She turns from a forced marriage in the shadows of the French court to find that true honour wears a rougher coat than the gilded courtiers who courted her favor.
The last voyage of the Karluk
Bob Bartlett
A wooden ship, crushed by polar ice, sinks into the Arctic Ocean, leaving its stranded crew to brave shifting floes and frozen tundra in a desperate race for rescue.
The Mentor: A little book for the guidance of such men and boys as would appear to advantage in the society of persons of the better sort
Alfred Ayres
Refined social success requires far more than mere ambition; it demands an deliberate mastery of personal presentation, quiet posture, table etiquette, and thoughtful conversation.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827
Various
A vibrant cross-section of early nineteenth-century British culture captures everything from urban transformations to battlefield drama in a single periodical issue.
The Molecular Tactics of a Crystal
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
A mathematical exploration of how uniform physical bodies pack and orient themselves reveals how the complex internal geometry of natural crystals produces their optical and physical properties.
The Near East: Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople
Robert Hichens
Sunlit ruins, quiet harbors, and the heavy air of approaching war frame a journey across the Mediterranean.
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The nights of Straparola, volume 1 [of 2]
Giovanni Francesco Straparola
In the courtly night air of an Italian gathering, voices trade tales of clever thieves, cursed princes, and ordinary peasants outwitting fate.
The Ohio Journal of Science. Vol. XVI., No. 2 (December, 1915)
Various
Tiny leaf-dwelling insects shape dynamic botanical ecosystems, while advanced mathematics and regional surveys reveal hidden patterns across the landscape.
The Pagan's Cup
Fergus Hume
A stolen relic, hidden family secrets, and a sinister past disrupt an isolated English village.
The Passionate Pilgrim
William Shakespeare
Desire collides with deception across a landscape of pastoral beauty and sharp romantic disillusionment.
The pearl lagoon
Charles Nordhoff
The call of the Pacific Ocean acts as a siren song for a restless youth, leading him from a quiet California valley to the perilous, sun-drenched depths of a remote pearl lagoon.
The Pilgrims of Hope and Chants for Socialists
William Morris
A country romance transforms into a stark encounter with urban poverty and revolutionary struggle, binding personal devotion to a grand vision of human liberation.
The Piper: A Play in Four Acts
Josephine Preston Peabody
When a wandering player rids a medieval town of its plague of rats, the greedy burgesses refuse to pay him his thousand guilders—so he pipes their children away to a mountain hideout.
The Prisoners of Mainz
Alec Waugh
A captive’s life turns on small things—a line of poetry, a tin of dried vegetables, and the slow, inevitable approach of peace.
The Privateersman
Frederick Marryat
A sailor recounts a turbulent life defined by capture, survival, and the blurred lines between legal privateering and the desperation of the high seas.
The real Australia
Alfred Buchanan
An unvarnished, direct study of early twentieth-century nationhood that strips away romantic myth to examine the emerging character of a continent.
The reformation in Poland
Paul Fox
A shift in religious thought and political power swept sixteenth-century Europe, but its course in Poland followed a unique path shaped by social and economic realities.
The Rising Tide
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
A headstrong young woman’s fierce fight for personal independence crashes into the quiet routines, rigid expectations, and unspoken heartbreaks of her traditional family.
The sacred theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 2)
Thomas Burnet
A grand natural history of the universe envisions the Earth melting into a fiery ruin before rebuilding itself into an everlasting paradise.
The Scarecrow, and Other Stories
G. Ranger (Gwendolyn Ranger) Wormser
Bound by the quiet terror of human isolation, these tales explore how fragile the mind becomes when confronted with the uncanny, the unseen, and the unspoken.
The Secret Play
Ralph Henry Barbour
A sidelined teenager with a sharp mind and a quiet will takes the reins of his high school football team, transforming a disorganized squad through intellect, strategy, and sheer tactical patience.
The Sheep Eaters
William A. (William Alonzo) Allen
High in the crags of the Rocky Mountains, an extinct civilization left its history etched onto granite walls, guarded by a single surviving elder.
The War-Workers
E. M. Delafield
Self-sacrificing patriotism becomes an instrument of vanity when a Director’s real devotion is reserved for her own image.
The Wentworth Letter
Smith, Joseph, Jr.
A young farm hand seeks religious truth, encounters heavenly messengers in upstate New York, unearths an ancient recorded history on golden plates, and constructs a resilient, rapidly spreading faith amidst relentless frontier persecution.
The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 131, February, 1909
Various
A lone bull whale flees as a pack of thresher sharks tears his mate to pieces in the open ocean; thousands of miles away, an English gentleman perches atop a bookcase in the dead of night to escape twenty squirming coral snakes flung through his bedroom window. Across the globe, high-altitude Lakeland mountaineers…
The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys
Gulielma Zollinger
Determined to keep her family together after her husband's death, an impoverished Irish widow guides her seven sons through the trials of hard work and self-reliance in a small Midwestern town.
The Yellow House
E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
A dark secret pulls a quiet English village into a tangled net of unspoken pasts, hidden identities, and sudden violence.
Thoth: A Romance
J. Shield (Joseph Shield) Nicholson
A mysterious emissary offers safety from a dying city, drawing an Athenian woman into a hidden world where supreme intellect has declared war on human emotion.
Three plays by Frederic Hebbel
Friedrich Hebbel
Human tragedy unfolds when rigid honor, political ambition, and moral arrogance blind people to the quiet dignity of human devotion.
Through Apache Land
Edward Sylvester Ellis
Across the sun-baked bluffs of the Rio Gila, two seasoned scouts and a high-spirited boy wage a desperate battle for survival against a relentless Apache war party.
Thy Name Is Woman
Bryce Walton
Bound by gravity and abandoned by women who fled to Mars, Earth’s remaining men face extinction—until one soldier undertakes a harrowing bio-chemical mutation to cross the void and uncover their secret.
To the Highest Bidder
Florence Morse Kingsley
Desperate to clear her late father’s debts and keep her family farm, a proud young woman puts herself up at public auction, only to find the man who buys her contract wants far more than her labor.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3
James Athearn Jones
These gathered legends preserve the vanishing echoes of indigenous belief, weaving supernatural encounters and historical memory into a solemn tapestry of the American wilderness. They offer a window into an era where myth and landscape were inseparable.
Watching on the Rhine
Violet R. (Violet Rosa) Markham
An Englishwoman enters conquered post-war Germany not to celebrate victory, but to observe with steady compassion the human cost of defeat.
Where the Path Breaks
C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
A wounded, forgotten soldier returns from the dead to write a book for the woman he loved—only to discover that his silence has set in motion a tragic second marriage.