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Reminiscences of a student's life
Jane Ellen Harrison
A fierce, joyful appetite for knowledge powers this vivid memoir of an intellectual pioneer breaking free from Victorian constraints.
Rob of the Bowl: A Legend of St. Inigoe's. Vol. 1 (of 2)
John Pendleton Kennedy
Tensions rise in colonial Maryland as political rivalries, illicit trade, and local lore collide around the quiet settlement of St. Mary's.
Schenk's Theory: The Determination of Sex
Samuel Leopold Schenk
Control the maternal diet to alter metabolic combustion, and you can reliably dictate whether a child is born male.
Self-Denial
American Sunday-School Union
A group of schoolgirls form a society to save money for missionary work, learning self-denial and compassion.
Sophy of Kravonia: A Novel
Anthony Hope
An Essex servant girl rises through chance and magnetic fortune to become queen of a turbulent Balkan kingdom, only to lose everything except her invincible spirit in the flames of revolution.
The April Baby's Book of Tunes: with the story of how they came to be written
Elizabeth Von Arnim
Confined indoors by a relentless snowstorm, three little sisters and their mother banish boredom by turning classic nursery rhymes into original musical tunes.
The Ayenbite of Inwyt (Remorse of Conscience): A Translation of Parts into Modern English
Michel, Dan, active 14th century
An exacting Middle English guide maps human frailty to apocalyptic beasts, offering a rigorous blueprint for cleansing the soul before judgment arrives.
The Borough Treasurer
J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
A web of blackmail, murder, and secrets unravels in a small town, testing loyalties and revealing dark pasts.
The Boy Slaves
Mayne Reid
Lost on the unforgiving coast of North Africa after a shipwreck, three young midshipmen and a veteran British tar face capture, starvation, and grueling servitude under rival desert factions.
The Camel and the Needle's Eye
Ponsonby, Arthur Ponsonby, Baron
The accumulation of unearned riches acts as an artificial dam on human society, suffocating the spirit of the wealthy while starving the poor.
The Coming of Evolution: The Story of a Great Revolution in Science
John W. (John Wesley) Judd
A magnificent revolution in human thought transformed our understanding of the natural world, replacing static creation theories with dynamic processes of gradual change and continuous modification over vast spans of geological time.
The daughter of the dawn
William Reginald Hodder
A lost English heiress, a dream-haunted searcher, and a ancient cavern sanctuary converge in the remote wilderness of turn-of-the-century New Zealand.
The Etchings of Charles Meryon
Campbell Dodgson
A tragic, visionary spirit casts his dark optical genius over the stone portals, winding streets, and soaring gothic monuments of a doomed, rapidly transforming nineteenth-century city.
The four Corners in camp
Amy Ella Blanchard
A warm breeze from the Maine woods, the dip of light paddles, and the buoyant clutter of four sisters growing up together define this affectionate turn-of-the-century story of family and youth.
The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life
Richard Jefferies
In the quiet coombes and shaded ash woods of nineteenth-century England, a veteran gamekeeper walks his daily rounds, observing the intricate balance between human stewardship and wild nature.
The Girl Next Door
Augusta Huiell Seaman
A shadowed window across a city garden, a secretive girl forced to run errands alone, and two locked silver bracelets: a quiet New York street yields a haunting mystery.
The High Toby: Being further chapters in the life and fortunes of Dick Ryder, otherwise Galloping Dick, sometime gentleman of the road
H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott) Watson
The dark is his element, the saddle his home, and any traveller with a heavy purse his natural prey.
The Hypocrite
Guy Thorne
A cynical student uses charm and deceit to exploit his peers, pursuing cheap thrills in London before meeting a bleak end.
The Mysterious Box: Nuclear Science and Art
Bernard Keisch
When three boys stumble upon a sun-bleached, wooden crate buried in the surf, they uncover a forgotten trove of wartime art and launch a fascinating journey into the high-tech world of nuclear authentication.
The Night Operator
Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
A high-octane collection of mountain railroading tales, where raw courage, sudden tragedy, and deep professional loyalty collide on the perilous tracks of the Canadian Rockies.
The Origin of the Red Cross: "Un souvenir de Solferino"
Henry Dunant
A single day of unimaginable slaughter in the hills of northern Italy becomes the catalyst for a global movement of mercy.
The Pacha of Many Tales
Frederick Marryat
A bored Ottoman ruler and his scheming vizier demand endless yarns from travellers, captives, and rogues, trading lives and gold for high-spirited lies.
The Price of Coal: A Play
Harold Brighouse
In a small Lanarkshire cottage, a quiet household faces the sudden shock of a mine disaster. Behind closed doors, old premonitions and young love collide under the heavy weight of pit-side life.
The Princess De Montpensier
Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) La Fayette
A young noblewoman is traded into a loveless marriage, trapped between a ruthless suitor's ambition and the quiet devotion of an elder friend.
The romance of the Canadian Pacific Railway
R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth
A country's survival hinges on a line of steel cut through raw wilderness, built by men whose vision outpaced their era's bitter doubts.
The Rover Boys in New York
Edward Stratemeyer
College students racing through the skies in a homemade biplane find themselves dragged into a shadowy world of corporate swindlers, staged jailbreaks, and missing fathers.
The Story of a Lover
Hutchins Hapgood
A man’s decades-long search for a total, transcendent connection with his wife tests the absolute limits of love, jealousy, and spiritual devotion in marriage.
The Temptress
William Le Queux
A glamorous web of crime, extortion, and secret identities spans the continent as a charismatic femme fatale ensnares an innocent Englishman into her deadly, intricate schemes.
The Three Days' Tournament: A Study in Romance and Folk-Lore: Being an Appendix to the Author's 'Legend of Sir Lancelot'
Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston
A recurring motif in medieval literature—a knight appearing incognito on three consecutive days of a tournament—reveals the deep roots linking chivalric romance to older, oral folk traditions.
The Water Ghost and Others
John Kendrick Bangs
Every Christmas Eve, a spectral figure dripping with icy lake water materializes at Harrowby Hall to drench the current heir, initiating a sequence of absurd encounters between stubborn mortals and deeply practical ghosts.
The Way Out
Emerson Hough
A man born into poverty and violence discovers a higher calling, only to find that escaping his past requires confronting the deep-seated sins of his mountain home and his own soul.
The Weird Sisters: A Romance. Volume 2 (of 3)
Richard Dowling
A country town shaken by secret financial ruin and sudden tragedy forms the setting of this nineteenth-century sensational romance, in which respectability mask deep moral collapse.
The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 130, January, 1909
Various
A lone doctor adrift on an offshore ice-floe waves a flagpole crafted from the bones of his slaughtered dogs. In this collection of real-world trials, survival hinges entirely on grit, impulse, and resourcefulness.
The Young Woodsman
J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley
A young boy faces the deep Canadian forest to support his widowed mother, proving his mettle against bitter winters, human malice, and the wild dangers of a lumber camp.
Theory of circulation by respiration
Emma Willard
A bold, singular claim that heat and steam generated within the lungs—not the mechanical pumping of the heart—drive the movement of human blood.
Thursday Evening: A Comedy in One Act
Christopher Morley
A young married couple on the brink of domestic exhaustion lets a mountain of dirty dishes turn a quiet evening into a marital battlefield.
Trench Ballads, and Other Verses
Erwin Clarkson Garrett
In the mud and mist of the Western Front, an American infantryman records the visceral reality of the trenches with unvarnished candor, simple rhyme, and unflinching detail.
Two Weeks in August
Frank M. Robinson
When a weary desk jockey invents a fictional vacation to Mars to outsmart his insufferable coworker, his harmless lie turns into a jaw-dropping reality.
Unfinished Rainbows, and Other Essays
George Wood Anderson
A soul's journey toward spiritual completion requires gathering every daily spark of faith, turning quiet daily trials into imperishable moral strength.
Weather Warnings for Watchers
Anonymous
A careful reader can turn the sky into a readable map by pairing systematic observation with the right mechanical instruments.
What to drink : The blue book of beverages
Bertha E. L. (Bertha Edson Lay) Stockbridge
A clever reinterpretation of Omar Khayyam’s famous verse sets the tone for a domestic manual born of historical necessity. When Prohibition reshaped American entertaining, home cooks needed a new vocabulary for hospitality.
Wild Flowers of Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks and Cedar Breaks National Monument
Carl E. Jepson
A botanical journey through southern Utah’s red-rock country reveals an extraordinary range of life, tracing a path from hot desert floors up to high alpine meadows.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 9
Mark Twain
A 19th-century American time-traveler pits his modern technological genius against the medieval order, culminating in an apocalyptic clash with the Arthurian world.
A History of Deerpark in Orange County, N. Y
Peter E. Gumaer
A small pocket of Dutch and French Huguenot refugees transforms a dense, mountainous river valley into a resilient border town, defending their homes through decades of isolated wilderness living and revolutionary warfare.
A Little Maid of Province Town
Alice Turner Curtis
A lonely orphan on the windswept sands of Cape Cod finds a home, faces down local bullies, and accidentally carries a crucial secret for the American Revolution.
A Story Garden for Little Children
Maud Lindsay
A gentle garden of simple tales opens its gates to nurture the wonder of early childhood.
A Summer in a Canyon: A California Story
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
A group of teenagers and their guardians leave city life behind to set up a summer camp in a Southern California canyon, turning a simple vacation into an unforgettable rite of passage.
A Treatise on Fever
Southwood Smith
Fever is not a scattered collection of unrelated symptoms, but a single, ordered sequence of physical changes that begins in the nervous system and moves inexorably into vascular inflammation.