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Poet-Lore: A Quarterly Magazine of Letters. April, May, June, 1900
Various
A fallen prince wanders through dark forests seeking three magic feathers, unaware that his true redemption lies in accepting the love and responsibilities he leaves behind.
Presidential Candidates:: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860
D. W. (David W.) Bartlett
This collection of biographical sketches captures the political landscape of a nation on the precipice, profiling the ambitious men vying to lead a fractured United States toward the pivotal election of 1860.
Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy
John M. (John Mullin) Batten
A young naval surgeon encounters the quiet drudgery and sudden brutality of gunboat warfare along the muddy rivers of the Union blockade.
Rubber Hand Stamps and the Manipulation of Rubber: A practical treatise on the manufacture of India rubber hand stamps, small articles of India rubber, the hektograph, special inks, cements, and allied subjects
T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor) Sloane
Raw latex yields to hand-built presses, turning sticky sap into sharp, functional stamps through home workshop ingenuity.
San Xavier Del Bac, Arizona: A Descriptive and Historical Guide
Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Arizona
Against the bare, cloudless expanse of the Santa Cruz Valley stands an isolated monument of glistening white plaster, built from red clay and desert stone.
Santa Fé's Partner: Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town
Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
A sharp-witted gambler and his equally resourceful female companion turn a lawless New Mexican railhead into their personal theater of staged hoaxes and tall tales.
Sermons for the Times
Charles Kingsley
When religion becomes a matter of distant theory, it forfeits its power over everyday human life.
Social Work
Richard C. (Richard Clarke) Cabot
A physician’s vision of healthcare transformed through empathy, rigorous inquiry, and the active partnership of trained humanitarians.
Spain in 1830, vol. 2
Henry D. (Henry David) Inglis
A traveller's view of a nation on the brink, capturing the textures, sounds, and stark political tensions of nineteenth-century Spain.
State of the Union Addresses
Herbert Hoover
A president fights a worsening depression by deploying federal aid, cutting government budgets, and pleading for public confidence.
Sterne
H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill
An eccentric parson leaps overnight from Yorkshire obscurity to London fame, trailing a brilliant, rambling masterpiece, a scandalized clergy, and a chaotic life of misplaced sentiment.
Stray Pebbles from the Shores of Thought
Elizabeth Porter Gould
A quietly radiant collection of Victorian verse turns a gentle eye toward the small, sacred moments of daily life, where nature, grief, and faith intersect.
That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3
Frances Eleanor Trollope
A young woman standing firm against her mercenary family, an ambitious bachelor pursuing social standing, and an unexpected late-in-life match reshape a network of English lives across class divides.
The Adventures of Paddy Beaver
Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
Paddy the Beaver works untiringly deep in the forest, felling trees to construct a sanctuary where he can survive the coming winter.
The Alo Man
Louise Lamprey
When a mysterious storyteller visits a Central African village, evening animal fables and daily trading life weave together into a clever plot against an unlawful slave trader.
The Argentine Republic
Anonymous
Written as a comprehensive souvenir volume for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, this official survey outlines the rapid modernization, vast natural resources, and growing geopolitical importance of early twentieth-century Argentina.
The Atom and the Ocean
E. W. Seabrook Hull
As humanity simultaneously unlocks the secrets of nuclear fission and ventures into the opaque depths of the sea, atomic technology becomes the essential key to understanding, mapping, and responsibly exploiting our planet’s vast oceanic wilderness.
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The Bedbug [1934]
C. L. Marlatt
Driven from hiding by prolonged hunger, the bedbug will abandon its nocturnal habits to attack sleeping prey in broad daylight.
The Cabots and the Discovery of America: With a Brief Description and History of Brandon Hill, the Site of the Cabot Memorial Tower
Hodges, Elizabeth, active 1895-1897
A quiet effort of archival justice reshapes a city’s memory by stripping away centuries of self-serving legend to honor the forgotten mariner who actually claimed a continent.
The Cat
Violet Hunt
A domestic Persian cat recounts his upbringing, travels, and quiet observations of the humans who house him.
The City of Masks
George Barr McCutcheon
A disguised British aristocrat works as a chauffeur in New York City, shielding his identity while falling for a high-spirited governess who harbors her own secrets.
The Compleat Cook: Expertly Prescribing the Most Ready Wayes, Whether Italian
W. M.
In an age before standardized measurements or electric ranges, a seventeen-century kitchen relied on aromatic spices, heavy earthenware, and the artful handling of fire and sugar.
The Dare Boys in Virginia
Stephen Angus Douglas Cox
Two teenage brothers plunge into the backcountry of Revolutionary Virginia to outwit Benedict Arnold’s redcoats, rescue captured patriots, and defend vulnerable frontier settlements.
The Dare Boys of 1776
Stephen Angus Douglas Cox
A thrilling tale of teenage brotherhood, patriot duty, and covert espionage along the eastern front of the American Revolution.
The doctor, &c., vol. 1 (of 7)
Robert Southey
A quiet Yorkshire home nurtures an eccentric, deeply curious mind through books, folklore, and rural routines. This sprawling, digressive chronicle follows the growth of young Daniel Dove as his world expands toward medicine and love.
The Energy System of Matter: A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena
Weir, James, active 1883-1912
A planet’s spin, heat, and falling rain belong to a single, self-sustaining loop that never loses a drop of power.
The Exhibition Drama: Comprising Drama, Comedy, and Farce, Together with Dramatic and Musical Entertainments
George M. (George Melville) Baker
An ambitious collection of dramatic entertainments offers amateur troupes a flexible, highly theatrical repertoire designed for nineteenth-century classrooms, community halls, and holiday stages.
The family at Misrule
Ethel Turner
Life at a rambling Australian home is defined by the messy, boisterous, and often tragic realities of growing up without a mother. This narrative captures the friction between childhood rebellion and the sudden, heavy responsibilities of adulthood.
The Fathers of New England: A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths
Charles McLean Andrews
A handful of English Puritans cross a dangerous ocean to build a godly wilderness, only to spend the next century fighting each other, the native tribes, and the royal crown over how that holy experiment should run.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1000, February 25, 1899
Various
A late-Victorian periodical offers a vivid window into the moral, social, and practical lives of young women at the turn of the century.
The Heart of Hyacinth
Onoto Watanna
A young white woman, raised as Japanese in coastal Sendai, must choose between her adoptive heritage and her biological father when foreign intrusion disrupts her home.
The Initials: A Story of Modern Life
Tautphoeus, Jemima Montgomery, Baroness
An upper-class young Englishman moves into a middle-class Munich household to master German, only to find his domestic education complicated by two very different sisters and the sharp-tongued family relative chronicling his every misstep.
The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada
Josiah Henson
Born into Maryland slavery, Josiah Henson survives brutal physical violence and systemic betrayal to purchase his freedom, only to be deceived, stolen from, and slated for sale in New Orleans before executing a daring escape to Canada.
The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation
Anonymous
A young French widow forsakes her family, survives the wilderness, and establishes a lasting institutional foothold in the frozen frontier of New France.
The Long Shadow
B. M. Bower
When the sweeping open range yields to barbed-wire fences and changing times, a top-hand cowboy must choose between fleeing the encroaching civilization and making a home with the woman he loves.
The Master of Man: The Story of a Sin
Caine, Hall, Sir
When an impetuous young judge commits a dark, secret transgression with a rural girl, his rise to judicial power sets up a harrowing collision between the demands of public justice and the agonizing weight of his own hidden guilt.
The Meeting-Place of Geology and History
Dawson, John William, Sir
Science and sacred tradition meet at the edge of the glacial past, where deep earth history yields to human memory.
The mother's recompense
Edith Wharton
A woman’s past return to destroy her second chance at motherhood when her former lover woos her grown daughter.
The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio
A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
These pages open a window onto the damp forest floors of nineteenth-century Ohio, where tiny slime molds transform rotting wood into microscopic masterpieces.
The New Forest
Elizabeth Godfrey
Over eight centuries of royal protection created an English sanctuary where medieval timber rights, wild ponies, and ancient oaks survive modern suburbia.
The palm tree blessing
William Edward Shepard
The palm tree serves as a divine template for the soul, offering a living blueprint for the believer to cultivate a life of resilience, sweetness, and unwavering holiness. This meditation explores the spiritual vitality required to bloom in the deserts of human experience.
The Pioneer Boys of the Mississippi
St. George Rathborne
Swollen rivers and forest shadows frame an eighteenth-century journey westward, where two young brothers rely on sharp instincts and hidden allies to keep their family safe.
The Pioneer Boys on the Great Lakes
St. George Rathborne
A frontier boy steps between a crouching assassin and a powerful sachem, choosing mercy over advantage in the deep woods of the Northwest. That quick impulse alters the course of a perilous rescue mission across the wilderness.
The Right of American Slavery
T. W. (True Worthy) Hoit
An urgent pro-slavery treatise from 1860 uses pseudo-philosophical logic to argue that human bondage is a benevolent, necessary force that preserves the American Republic from imminent collapse.
The School Queens
L. T. Meade
A high-spirited girl must choose between status and integrity when her mother’s sudden second marriage threatens to ruin her reputation at an exclusive boarding school.
The sea mystery
Freeman Wills Crofts
A fisherman's line snags a heavy wooden crate in the shallow waters of a Welsh inlet, pulling up a battered, unrecognizable body that challenges the local police.
The skeleton crew
Anonymous
A phantom captain marshals an army of spectral ghouls to destroy a noble line, while living rogues plot for gold and women in eighteenth-century England.
The Snowbank Orbit
Fritz Leiber
An ancient, desperate fleet hurtles toward Uranus at a hundred miles a second, forced into a lethal atmospheric dive that is their only hope of survival.