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Windyridge
W. (William) Riley
Seeking respite from her cramped Chelsea lodgings, an urban woman yields to a sudden impulse, moves to a quiet moorland village, opens a portrait studio, and discovers a deeply interconnected community that alters her outlook on life.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
A child's gaze rests upon a world where mechanical ponies, ancestral ghosts, and forest miracles belong to the very same landscape.
A Study In Shadows
William John Locke
A young woman enters a pension of quiet casualties, where love and dishonor shift the ground beneath every life.
A Whim, and Its Consequences: Collection of British Authors Vol. CXIV
G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
A proud young man, ruined by a altered legacy, hides his identity behind a head gardener’s coat, only to find himself entangled in an accusation of murder.
Abury, A Temple of the British Druids, With Some Others, Described
William Stukeley
Massive megaliths scattered across the Wiltshire landscape are decoded as a deliberate, sacred monument of primordial geometry and lost ancient faith.
Allworth Abbey
Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
A young woman accused of a heinous crime finds her life saved when a courageous friend risks everything to break her out of prison.
An Irish Crazy-Quilt: Smiles and tears, woven into song and story
Arthur M. Forrester
Struggling tenants, absurd officials, and fiery patriots collide across a landscape of political upheaval, absurd local rivalries, and unyielding national pride.
An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids
Anthony Trollope
A formidable single woman tests the patience of a British family during a tour of the Egyptian Pyramids, pursuing free travel while romance quietly blossoms around her.
April twilights, and other poems
Willa Cather
Longing and memory pulse through these verses, where classical ruins, urban backstreets, and open western plains all mirror the quiet ache of human passage.
Autumnal leaves: tales and sketches in prose and rhyme
Lydia Maria Child
Tender green shoots push through prairie soil, while human hearts struggle against social constraints, cruelty, and the quiet weight of memory.
Balaam and His Master, and Other Sketches and Stories
Joel Chandler Harris
A set of regional sketches reveals the Reconstruction South through its quiet acts of loyalty, deep personal rivalries, and tragic misunderstandings.
Baseball Joe, Captain of the Team
Lester Chadwick
A veteran star pitcher faces fielding slumps, locker-room sabotage, and personal anxieties while attempting to lead the New York Giants to a National League pennant.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, Number 414, April, 1850
Various
A heated parliamentary debate on imperial economic decay yields to high-society Parisian satire, mid-century agricultural spats, poetic lamentations of Highland displacement, and an exacting textual dissection of Shakespearean stagecraft.
Bonnie Scotland and what we owe her
William Elliot Griffis
A land of rugged beauty and fiery convictions shapes a resilient people whose global influence far outweighs their native numbers.
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 19 (of 20)
Charles Sumner
An unyielding senator wages a relentless constitutional battle in post-Civil War Washington, demanding that the United States honor its founding promise of complete, uncompromising equality for every citizen.
Christianity and Problems of To-day: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William Bross
John H. (John Huston) Finley
Faith must not retreat into the shadows of personal piety, but step into the light to guide a world fractured by war and economic strain.
Cicero
W. Lucas (William Lucas) Collins
A statesman navigates the perilous collapse of a republic, wielding eloquent speech to fight political corruption, survive bloody purges, and construct an enduring philosophical legacy.
Colour Measurement and Mixture
Abney, William de Wiveleslie, Sir
A rigorous Victorian investigation into the physics of light transforms the elusive sensation of colour into an exact, measurable science through precise optical laboratory experiments.
Cork: Its Origin and Industrial Uses
Gilbert Erwin Stecher
A modest tree of the Mediterranean basin yields one of industrial history's most versatile, underappreciated natural materials.
Doing My Bit For Ireland
Margaret Skinnider
A woman rides into the fires of the 1916 Dublin Easter Rising, carrying a rifle and a camera. She leaves behind a vivid, unvarnished record of how a small band of rebels took on an empire.
Fanny Lambert: A Novel
H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
A lighthearted Edwardian romantic comedy, the book balances money troubles with sunny charm as a capering cast of artist-bohemians, eccentric elders, and rigid country gentry cross paths across London.
Florida trails as seen from Jacksonville to Key West and from November to April inclusive
Winthrop Packard
When winter falls over the Northern states, a natural philosopher turns his eyes toward the equator, following the long migration of birds along the Atlantic seaboard into the sunlit waterways of the American South.
Food for the Lambs
Charles Ebert Orr
A gentle, practical manual of early-twentieth-century Christian devotion, designed to steady the step of young believers setting out on the path of faith.
Friend Island
Francis Stevens
In a matriarchal future where women command the seas, a hardened old mariner spins a yarn of shipwreck, a sentient island, and a courtship ruined by bad manners.
Geographic Distribution and Taxonomy of the Chipmunks of Wyoming
John A. White
Across the high plains and alpine peaks of the American West, tiny mammals map the subtle shifts of geography, altitude, and deep evolutionary time.
Geordie's Tryst: A Tale of Scottish Life
Janet Milne Rae
Driven by a quiet impulse, a young Scottish girl sets out into a chilly spring wind, seeking to change a life she barely knows.
Gettysburg: Stories of the Red Harvest and the Aftermath
Elsie Singmaster
War arrives not as a distant political abstraction, but as a sudden, physical shock that tears through kitchens, shatters quiet pastures, and echoes down through half a century of human memory.
Gibraltar
Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
The solitary cliff at the edge of the world becomes a bustling nexus of global empires, where military discipline meets the quiet routines of an isolated garrison town.
Head of the Lower School
Dorothea Moore
When a poor Scottish girl wins a scholarship to a grand boarding school on the treacherous Lincolnshire coast, her initial struggle to fit in uncovers a sinister plot of local espionage.
Henry the Second
Alice Stopford Green
A monarch who spoke no English and spent his life in foreign camps inadvertently built the legal, judicial, and political foundations of the modern English-speaking world.
Herd Record of the Association of Breeders of Thorough-Bred Neat Stock: Short Horns, Ayrshires and Devons
Various
Behind the meticulous lineage of nineteenth-century livestock lies a quiet, determined crusade to map the pure bloodlines that transformed American agriculture.
History of "Billy the Kid"
Charles A. Siringo
Born in the New York slums and dead before twenty-two, Billy the Kid blazed a trail of cold-blooded kills and impossible escapes across the Southwest. Charles A. Siringo tells his story with the lean, unvarnished grit of a man who rode the same trails.
History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 2 (of 3): Third Edition
Kaye, John William, Sir
An empire overreaches, a puppet king falters, and a retreating army perishes in the icy mountain passes. Sir John William Kaye’s masterly chronicle captures the full, horrifying trajectory of Britain’s disastrous intervention in nineteenth-century Afghanistan.
Hugo: A Fantasia on Modern Themes
Arnold Bennett
Behind the colossal retail palace of London's west end, an obsessive shopkeeper constructs a private paradise that proves entirely vulnerable to passion, intrigue, and crime.
Is sex necessary?
James Thurber
Sex has become unnecessarily complicated, turning a simple biological impulse into an exhausting, paper-heavy obsession.
Lightning Jo, the Terror of the Santa Fe Trail: A Tale of the Present Day
Edward Sylvester Ellis
A desperate courier, a besieged pioneer train, and a bare-knuckled prairie scout collision in a whirlwind of frontier peril.
List of post offices in Canada, with the names of the postmasters ... 1864
Canada. Post Office Department
An official record of infrastructure and human connection, this 1864 directory catalogs the post offices, local postmasters, and operational shifts shaping Canada’s expanding communication network at the midpoint of the nineteenth century.
Motor Boat Boys on the Great Lakes
Louis Arundel
A summer voyage across unpredictable Great Lakes waters tests a crew of teenage boys as they navigate sudden storms, wild animal encounters, and rival boaters.
Motor Boat Boys' River Chase
Louis Arundel
A spring cruise down the Mississippi River turns into a high-stakes pursuit when six teenage chums cross paths with a pair of fugitive bank robbers.
Mrs. Ames
E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Behind the trimmed hedges and polished front doors of an Edwardian English town, everyday life unfolds as a low-stakes battlefield of social standing and hidden longings.
My empress
Marfa Mouchanow
An intimate, clear-eyed record of court life, this memoir follows Russia’s last Empress through the quiet friction, private griefs, and total political collapse that defined her reign.
My Impressions of America
Margot Asquith
A swift, sharp-eyed chronicle of a whirlwind lecture tour that captures a nation in the throes of Prohibition and booming modernity.
Observations on insanity
John Haslam
Observations of human minds unraveling reveal how thin the boundary remains between clear reason and unseated thought.
Ole Mammy's Torment
Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
A bright, energetic boy tests his grandmother's patience, until a dying mentor's quiet example gives his boundless spirit a lasting, noble purpose.
On With Torchy
Sewell Ford
A witty office boy navigates love, work, and mischief in early 20th-century New York.
Perry's Saints
James Moses Nichols
A devoted Methodist minister leaves his pulpit to lead nine hundred recruits through four years of brutal coastal blockades, bloody assaults, and devastating attrition.
Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 2 (of 4)
Unknown
Anonymous traditional singers and broadside printers preserve centuries of British life, capturing a shared heritage of murder, romance, and spectral encounters.
Raw Material
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A raw, unfiltered view of human existence reveals how ordinary lives hold the ultimate stuff of art.