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Nouvellettes of the musicians
E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) Ellet
A brilliant flame of artistic devotion burns through these biographical tales, illuminating how music transforms fragile human lives into lasting monuments of spiritual power and beauty.
Overdue: The Story of a Missing Ship
Harry Collingwood
A seventeenth-year-old midshipman assumes command of an abandoned emigrant vessel, navigating mutiny, uncharted seas, and island exile to bring his charge home.
Quicksilver Sue
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
A passionate girl’s imagination outpaces her common sense when a stylish newcomer turns a sleepy town upside down.
Rhymes from the Russian
John Pollen
A window into the Russian soul, opened by a translator who matches strict fidelity with surprising lyricism.
Romantic Spain: A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II)
John Augustus O'Shea
Traversing the war-torn highways and sun-baked garrisons of the Iberian peninsula, John Augustus O'Shea delivers a sharp, irreverent chronicle of a land split between ancient devotions and modern violent upheavals.
Rose MacLeod
Alice Brown
Bound by New England tradition and shaken by incoming radical ideas, a quietly passionate community grapples with duty, truth, and the deceptive allure of grand romantic visions.
Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound
Alice B. Emerson
A young American nurse and a captive aviator navigate sabotage, air raids, and a treacherous ocean crossing in a high-stakes struggle to return home from the European front.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1: Great Britain and Ireland, part 1
Unknown
A thoughtful compilation of travel writing offers readers a rich virtual tour across Great Britain and Ireland, using historic architecture, literary landmarks, and natural scenery to bridge the past with the present.
Siam: Its Government, Manners, Customs, &c
N. A. (Noah A.) McDonald
A firsthand observer delivers an honest, systematic view of nineteenth-century Siamese culture, religion, and governance.
Sophia: A Romance
Stanley John Weyman
A headstrong young heiress flees an arranged marriage for a charming rogue, only to discover that the world of Georgian England is far more dangerous, and true honor far rarer, than her romantic dreams suggested.
Stan Lynn: A Boy's Adventures in China
George Manville Fenn
A English youth faces fire, water, and betrayal along the riverways of turn-of-the-century China, discovering that courage is less about wielding a rifle than staying grounded when adults lose their heads.
"Sterminator Vesevo" (Vesuvius the great exterminator): Diary of the Eruption of April 1906
Matilde Serao
As ash falls over the Bay of Naples, a writer steps onto frozen rivers of stone to record the quiet survival of those who remain.
Tales for Christmas Eve
Rhoda Broughton
The veil between the living and the dead grows thin when the candles flicker low. These accounts explore the intersection of domestic life and the inexplicable, where the certainty of Victorian comfort is fractured by the uncanny.
Tales of a Poultry Farm
Clara Dillingham Pierson
An urban schoolteacher moves his family to a run-down farm, restores his health, and wins over the farm's anxious, highly opinionated flock of poultry through patient, attentive care.
The Abandoned Farmer
Sydney Herman Preston
City life can break a young family's spirit, but moving to the country to save a child's health turns out to be a hilarious exercise in trial, error, and financial improvisation.
The Architecture of the North Louisiana River Parishes, Volume 1: Ouachita Parish
Louisiana Tech University. Department of Architecture
A geographic landscape dictates the shape of human lives and the structures built to protect them. This architectural survey reveals how a single river split a Louisiana parish into distinct worlds of timber, brick, and iron.
The Ashiel mystery
Marion Bryce
A wealthy aristocrat is shot dead in his Highland estate, leaving a trail of fabricated footprints and a family tangled in secrets. Detective Gimblet must trace the single overlooked flaw in a murderer's careful design.
The binding of the Nile and the new Soudan
Sidney Cornwallis Peel
The Nile's taming and the transformation of the Soudan under British rule.
The Boy Scouts Through the Big Timber
Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917
Lost in the Rocky Mountain foothills, a fat and clumsy tenderfoot must learn to survive on his own while his fellow Boy Scouts race against time, wild beasts, and treacherous timber thieves to rescue him.
The Buttoned Sky
Robert W. Krepps
A young miner named Revel wakes in a bleak future to discover that a single blow from his pickax can destroy the hovering, glowing globes worshiped as gods, sparking a violent revolution that shatters a feudal system enforced by gun-toting squires and six-legged alien beasts.
The Caged Lion
Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
A timid Scottish noble comes of age under the tutelage of two allied kings, trading a coward’s sanctuary for the burdens of true manhood.
The Chinese Kitten
Edna A. Brown
A quiet, golden portrait of New England childhood that captures the extraordinary weight of small everyday choices.
The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments
E. E. (Ernest Edward) Holmes
Rooted in the ancient history of the Church of England, Ernest Edward Holmes clarifies the institutional identity, essential scriptures, and foundational sacraments that define traditional English Anglo-Catholic theology.
The Curlytops at Uncle Frank's Ranch
Howard Roger Garis
A city boy and his sister set off for a summer on a Montana cattle ranch, where simple curiosity turns a wide-open landscape into an endless playground.
The Empty Sack
Basil King
A quiet, compassionate study of what happens when financial pressure tests the limits of human integrity and family devotion.
The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants, Comprehending the most Eminent Cheats of Both Sexes: The Third Part
Richard Head
A pregnant wife fabricates a tale of black cravings to hide her child’s true parentage, while innkeepers, pickpockets, and privateers turn every human encounter into a profitable swindle.
The Experiences of a Bandmaster
John Philip Sousa
Behind the stately façade of American high culture lies a vibrant, unpredictable world where a bandmaster must navigate temperamental locomotives, sudden Blackouts, and vanishing musicians with equal poise.
The Game-Birds of the Coasts and Lakes of the Northern States of America: A full account of the sporting along our sea-shores and inland waters, with a comparison of the merits of breech-loaders and muzzle-loaders
Robert Barnwell Roosevelt
An impassioned defense of wild game conservation framed as a technical manual, this nineteenth-century sporting guide champions sustainable hunting practices while evaluating the emerging technology of the shotgun.
The Goddess of Reason: A Drama in Five Acts
Mary Johnston
A wild Breton peasant girl and a doomed aristocrat clash across the bloody divide of the French Revolution, bound by a fierce love that brings them together only at the river’s brink.
The Golden Boys and Their New Electric Cell
L. P. (Levi Parker) Wyman
Two inventive brothers in rural Maine devise a revolutionary battery cell, only to find themselves hunted by opportunistic local rivals and ruthless kidnappers.
The High Place: A Comedy of Disenchantment
James Branch Cabell
A nobleman who dreams of absolute beauty and holiness awakens a legendary princess, only to find that securing his highest ideals delivers none of the fulfillment he expected.
The history of Bannock County, Idaho
A. C. (Arthur Charles) Saunders
A record of regional growth, Arthur C. Saunders’s history captures the transformation of southeastern Idaho from a rugged, isolated wilderness into a bustling network of rail lines, farms, and modern civic institutions.
The Honeymoon: A comedy in three acts
Arnold Bennett
A newlywed English aviator and his charming bride find their quiet seaside escape shattered on their very first day of marriage when professional duty, overbearing parents, and an absurd legal mistake threaten their future together.
The Honour of the Clintons
Archibald Marshall
A landed English family's cherished reputation is put to the test when a high-society theft, a quiet blackmail scheme, and a tragic death threaten to unravel their gilded world from within.
The Invention of Typography: A Brief Sketch of the Invention of Printing and How it Came About
Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
The invention of typography, a cornerstone of modern civilization, is shrouded in debate. This book challenges the Gutenberg legend, arguing for a Dutch inventor and placing the story in the broader context of 15th-century Europe.
The Knave of Diamonds
Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
A wild heart will break or bend under the hand of the only man he respects.
The Last Tenant
B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
A spectral cat guides an unsuspecting suburban husband into a web of medical villainy and forgotten identity.
The Lost Parchment: A Detective Story
Fergus Hume
A quiet English village becomes a tangled web of greed and suspicion when a hidden parchment threatens a wealthy young squire’s fortune, leading directly to a midnight murder.
The Morning Glory Club
George A. (George Alexander) Kyle
A small New England village turns into a battleground of manners, gossip, and local pride when a group of women decide to organize a club of their own.
The mother
Grazia Deledda
A young priest and his mother arrive in a remote, windswept Sardinian village, where a secret passion threatens his vows and destroys their fragile world.
The Pilgrim of Castile
Lope de Vega
A sea wreck on the Catalan coast casts up a lover disguised as a pilgrim, sparking a dizzying chain of mistaken identities, sea-bound catastrophes, and madness.
The professor's experiment: A novel, Vol. 1 (of 3)
Duchess
A dying girl saved by a professor’s scientific breakthrough finds herself at the center of romantic misunderstandings, local gossip, and social friction in rural Ireland.
The Seven-Branched Candlestick: The Schooldays of Young American Jew
Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wolf) Gabriel
Courage replaces conformity as a young American Jew navigates prejudice, loss, and the slow discovery of his own heritage across seven pivotal years of education.
The Social Direction of Evolution: An Outline of the Science of Eugenics
William E. (William Erskine) Kellicott
A early twentieth-century academic effort to apply the mechanics of biology to human society, this treatise argues that managing reproduction is essential to preserving the future of the human species.
The Son of His Mother
Clara Viebig
When childless Berliners adopt a babe found frozen on the high moors, they believe love and privilege can bend any nature, only to watch bloodlines outrun nurture as the years slip away.
The Southern States, March, 1894: An illustrated monthly magazine devoted to the South
Various
A promotional regional periodical from 1894 blends romantic landscape descriptions, agricultural cheerleading, and corporate investment dispatches to coax Northern dollars and European settlers into the post-Reconstruction American South.
The Staying Guest
Carolyn Wells
An orphaned girl with no name she recognizes arrives uninvited at a quiet New England mansion, where two elderly sisters are forced to choose between strict propriety and an irresistible child who simply refuses to leave.
The wanderings and fortunes of some German emigrants
Friedrich Gerstäcker
Disillusioned by grand promises of American abundance, a band of German pioneers confronts the harsh realities of the nineteenth-century wilderness.