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All About Johnnie Jones
Carolyn Verhoeff
A quiet, gentle domesticity infuses these simple tales of childhood, where everyday choices like sharing a cookie or minding a parent build a little boy’s character step by step.
Alvira: The Heroine of Vesuvius
A. J. (Augustine J.) O'Reilly
A young woman flees her home in male attire, commits a desperate act of violence in the Alps, and ends up leading a double life as a decorated military officer before finding redemption.
Apes and Angels
Richard Edward Connell
A collection of satirical tales skewers human vanity, showing how easily serious people turn foolish when chasing clout or clinging to pride.
Aucassin & Nicolette, and Other Mediæval Romances and Legends
Eugene Mason
A pair of lovers separate under hostile eyes, taking to the forest and distant lands before fate brings them safely together.
Batting to Win: A Story of College Baseball
Lester Chadwick
A gifted pitcher’s collegiate career hangs in the balance when a mysterious accusation threatens his spot on the diamond just as the championship draws near.
Call Him Nemesis
Donald E. Westlake
A ten-year-old boy discovers he can alter the temperature of distant objects with his mind, adopting the secret persona of a comic-book hero to fight local crime.
Caw! Caw! Or, The Chronicle of Crows, A Tale of the Spring-time
R. M.
Driven by equal parts pastoral affection and severe natural justice, these verses trace a flock of spring crows from the joy of nest-building to a deadly encounter with local farmers.
Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest. Vol. 1 (of 3)
R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
A sudden tragedy breaks the harmony of an ancient estate, driving a young heir from his home under the dark suspicion of fratricide while the surrounding forest stands witness to his grief.
Deadly City
Paul W. Fairman
A night of total silence falls over Chicago as millions of residents vanish overnight, leaving behind a ghost city of unlocked doors, cold coffee, and open vaults.
Denounced: A Romance
John Bloundelle-Burton
A Jacobite refugee returns to London under a false name, only to find that political treachery and a tragic marriage threaten every life he holds dear.
Dixie Hart
Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben
Bound by an ill-fated marriage and mountain poverty, a resilient woman and her noble neighbor navigate secret devotions, ruthless schemes, and a sudden resurrection.
Don Hale with the Flying Squadron
W. Crispin (William Crispin) Sheppard
High above the trenches of France, a newly minted American aviator faces the deadliest combat of the First World War in a fight for survival, comradeship, and honor.
Elsie's Young Folks in Peace and War
Martha Finley
This chronicle follows a sprawling, affectionate family through the quiet rhythms of domestic life and the sudden, unsettling echoes of national conflict. It traces the maturation of the younger generation as they navigate courtship, faith, and the responsibilities of adulthood.
English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II
Unknown
A bird warns a noble of his lady’s secret lover, setting off a wave of murder, ghostly return, and unforgiven blood.
Fix bayonets!
Thomason, John W., Jr. (John William)
Across the torn fields of France in 1918, a single regiment of American Marines proves that shear endurance and ruthless discipline can break the line when all else fails.
Four Hundred Humorous Illustrations, Vol. 1 (of 2): With Portrait and Biographical Sketch
Unknown
A detailed biographical portrait and curated visual treasury capture the life, wild youth, and artistic evolution of Britain's most prolific nineteenth-century caricaturist.
German Atrocities: An Official Investigation
J. H. (John Hartman) Morgan
A brutal war shatters human decency as strict legal analysis exposes calculated violence against civilians and captives across the Western Front.
Historical Parallels, vol. 2 of 3)
Arthur Thomas Malkin
Courage under fire, political hubris, and social collapse echo across centuries when the moments of human crisis are placed side by side.
Historical Record of the Eighteenth, or the Royal Irish Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1684, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1848
Richard Cannon
A sprawling, meticulous chronicle traces the 164-year evolution of a legendary British infantry unit through royal successions, bloody European sieges, and colonial conflicts across the globe.
Historical Record of the Twelfth, or the Prince of Wales's Royal Regiment of Lancers: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1715, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1848
Richard Cannon
A centuries-long march through European warfare brings standard military history to life, transforming routine troop movements, shifts in uniform colors, and battlefield charges into a grand, continuous chronicle of British imperial power.
"I Conquered"
Harold Titus
When a ruined New York playboy flees to the Colorado high country to break a desperate drinking habit, he finds an unlikely soulmate in a wild black stallion who refuses to be mastered by any other hand.
Icebound: A Play
Owen Davis
A proud New England family gathers to divide an inheritance, only to find the dead matrix of their history passed over for an outsider.
In a Syrian Saddle
A. (Ada) Goodrich-Freer
Travelers cross the Jordan to navigate ancient ruins and rugged desert paths, finding history written in stone and sand. Guided by curiosity rather than comfort, they trace the quiet, enduring spaces of an older world.
In the Wars of the Roses: A Story for the Young
Evelyn Everett-Green
To brave a bitter civil war for an exiled prince, a young man must risk his life among woodland outlaws and ruthless dynastic enemies.
Insanity: Its Causes and Prevention
Henry Putnam Stearns
Modern civilization places severe structural demands on the human mind, turning daily living into a high-stakes competition that strains vulnerable nervous systems.
Jewish fairy stories
Gerald Friedlander
A hidden worm splits stones without metal, a bride outsmarts the law of separation, and a raven learns the heavy cost of pride.
Kirkcaldy of Grange
Louis A. Barbé
A soldier-statesman’s loyalty is tested as his country fractures, forcing him to choose between the crown he served and the cause he helped create.
Lodges in the Wilderness
W. C. (William Charles) Scully
The harsh, haunting beauty of the Bushmanland desert serves as both a physical destination and a philosophical crucible for a man seeking to escape the encroaching, mechanical rot of modern civilization.
Market Harborough, and Inside the Bar
G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
A country squire takes a costly plunge into the fast-paced Leicestershire hunting scene, where social maneuvering proves as treacherous as high timber fences.
Martha of California: A Story of the California Trail
James Otis
A young girl leaves her familiar Missouri home behind, trading safety and soft beds for a harrowing two-thousand-mile trek toward an uncertain future.
Mary Rose
J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
A girl vanishes from a Hebridean island, returns completely unchanged, and later vanishes again—leaving behind a haunting legacy of lost time, aging loved ones, and a gentle ghost who has forgotten what she is searching for.
Maximina
Armando Palacio Valdés
A young woman’s gentle spirit anchoring an impulsive journalist through the treacherous politics and social ladder-climbing of late nineteenth-century Madrid.
Mildred Arkell: A Novel. Vol. 1 (of 3)
Wood, Henry, Mrs.
A proud cathedral town divided by class, a rash elopement that shatters multiple families, and a quiet woman who sacrifices her social standing to survive: Mrs. Henry Wood's nineteenth-century tale turns provincial respectable society inside out.
Ministry of Disturbance
H. Beam Piper
An empire built on five centuries of total stagnation begins to rot from within unless someone intentionally stirs the ashes.
Mr. Punch in Wig and Gown: The Lighter Side of Bench and Bar
Unknown
Lawyers are often seen as solemn figures, but here they are stripped of their dignity through sharp satires and legal parodies.
My life in Sarawak
Brooke, Margaret, Lady
A young Englishwoman journeys to nineteenth-century Borneo to become the Ranee of Sarawak, discovering a world of dense jungle, river travel, and deeply cherished local friendships.
Mysterious Mr. Sabin
E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
A enigmatic foreigner moves through high-society London with a stolen secret, setting off a quiet war of ciphers, diplomatic intrigue, and high-stakes surveillance.
New Collected Rhymes
Andrew Lang
A collection of poems turns historical sorrow, literary satire, and personal obsessions into formal, hauntingly melodic verse.
Nick Carter Stories No. 124, January 23, 1915: The girl kidnaper
Nicholas (House name) Carter
When high-society hotel guests vanish behind locked doors without a trace, famed detective Nick Carter steps in to untangle a scheme involving knock-out gas, secret aliases, and a daring offshore rescue.
Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes
Charles Darwin
An anatomical duel over the folds of the primate brain reveals that human and ape neuroanatomy differ in degree rather than kind, exposing an undeniable evolutionary continuum across species.
Notes and Queries, Number 171, February 5, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Various
A dynamic exchange of nineteenth-century intellectual curiosity, this weekly periodical gathers readers into an unscripted, sprawling seminar on the minutiae of history, language, and everyday tradition.
Old Sports and Sportsmen
John Randall
Deep in the ancient royal forests of Shropshire, generations of woodsmen, squires, and eccentric clergymen turned the chase into a way of life, forging a local culture defined by wilderness, hound, and horn.
On Everything
Hilaire Belloc
Hope did not stay behind when Pandora opened her cursed container, for human survival has always relied on song to endure despair. Where singing dies, society falls into the icy hands of the wealthy and the cold.
Our Story Book: Jingles, Stories and Rhymes for Little Folks
Various
Simple nursery tales and playful verses capture the innocence, mischief, and gentle lessons of childhood.
Palaces and Courts of the Exposition: A Handbook of the Architecture, Sculpture and Mural Paintings, with Special Reference to the Symbolism
Juliet Helena Lumbard James
An alabaster city rises along the Pacific shore, inviting visitors to decode its towering arches, glittering domes, and symbolic friezes before time sweeps the brief vision away.
Papers from Overlook-House
Frederic W. Beasley
A winter snowfall outside a cozy hearth sets the stage for a family gathering where stories, poems, and personal memories unfold line by line.
Papuan Pictures
H. M. Dauncey
Life in coastal Papua moves to the rhythm of games, string cradles, and local custom, yet sits under the constant shadow of sorcery.
Pioneer Saturn Encounter
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
A six-year voyage across a billion miles of space culminates in humanity's first close look at a gas giant's silent rings.