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White Otter
Elmer Russell Gregor
A young Sioux warrior's courage and cunning are tested as he embarks on perilous adventures to protect his tribe and honor his friendships.
White Queen of the Cannibals: the Story of Mary Slessor of Calabar
A. J. Bueltmann
A young Scottish mill girl answers a call to foreign missions, trading the harsh slums of Dundee for the uncharted jungles of Nigeria.
Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels
Stephen Leacock
A sharp needle of satire punctures the absurdities of popular fiction, puncturing overblown romance, imperial anxieties, and detective cliches.
With Drake on the Spanish Main
Herbert Strang
Cast ashore on an unknown coast, a solitary English youth must outwit hostile patrols, forge alliances in the jungle, and master the sea to win his freedom.
Woman and Her Saviour in Persia: By a Returned Missionary
Thomas Laurie
A quiet account of female education and spiritual revival among 19th-century Persian Christians.
Wonders of Creation: A Descriptive Account of Volcanoes and Their Phenomena
Anonymous
Subterranean fires, boiling mud, and rivers of glowing stone shape the surface of our planet in unpredictable and breathtaking ways.
Worrying Won't Win
Montague Glass
Taking down a nation's troubles over a cup of coffee and a newspaper, two garment traders offer a counterweight to wartime hysteria through common sense and sardonic wit.
Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series: To which is added The Cream of Wit and Humour
John Hartley
Hard work, tight budgets, and local pride shape life in the industrial North.
A Bounty Boy: Being Some Adventures of a Christian Barbarian on an Unpremeditated Trip Round the World
Frank Thomas Bullen
A raised Pitcairn islander navigates the treacherous, worldly waters of nineteenth-century deep-sea whaling, keeping his radiant faith intact.
A Little Miss Nobody
Amy Bell Marlowe
A foundling girl enters a boarding school with no name or history, only to discover that her unknown past holds the key to a hidden inheritance.
A Short List of Scientific Books Published and Sold by E. & F. N. Spon, Limited. September 1909
E. & F. N. Spon
A detailed snapshot of Edwardian technical publishing, this text gathers hundreds of practical manuals, mathematical tables, and professional reference guides into an organized marketplace of industrial knowledge.
A Thrilling Narrative of the Minnesota Massacre and the Sioux War of 1862-63: Graphic Accounts of the Siege of Fort Ridgely, Battles of Birch Coolie, Wood Lake, Big Mound, Stony Lake, Dead Buffalo Lake and Missouri River
A. P. (Alonzo P.) Connolly
Written from the front lines of the 1862–1863 U.S.–Dakota War, this participant account records the military mobilizations, sudden prairie ambushes, and painful aftermath of a regional conflict fought alongside the American Civil War.
A Veldt Official: A Novel of Circumstance
Bertram Mitford
A disgraced Englishman tries to rebuild his life in a remote South African magistrate’s court, only to find that personal rivalries, colonial violence, and an unyielding past follow him everywhere he goes.
A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter
Alice Turner Curtis
On the eve of the American Civil War, a young northern girl living in Charleston must navigate local enmities, wartime espionage, and the cruelties of slavery with courage and cross-factional kindness.
Abner Daniel: A Novel
Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben
Land, blood, and local custom bind the North Georgia mountains, where a stubborn farmer’s reckless property trades threaten to drag his family into ruin.
Adeline Mowbray
Amelia Opie
A woman's devoted practice of radical moral theory destroys her social standing and tears her life apart, proving that high-minded principle cannot protect a heart from a unforgiving world.
Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms
Guido Bruno
A wandering bookman pulls back the velvet curtain of early twentieth-century print culture, exposing the eccentric dealers, backroom schemes, and silent paper treasures hidden across America's urban centers.
All in It
Ian Hay
War is not a grand theater of glory, but a relentless routine of mud, camaraderie, and endurance, where humor is the only clean gear left to wear.
"All's Well"
Emily Sarah Holt
In sixteen-century Kent, a covertly Protestant family faces brutal Marian persecution, enduring imprisonment, betrayal, and martyrdom while discovering the quiet endurance of faith.
An Ambitious Man
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
She sacrificed her heart for political advancement, only to discover that the price of her rising star was a lifetime of bitter, inescapable regret.
Archangel: The American War with Russia
John Cudahy
Isolation, arctic frost, and political confusion collide when American soldiers find themselves fighting an undeclared, forgotten war against Bolshevik forces in the freezing wilderness of northern Russia.
Barford Abbey, a Novel: In a Series of Letters
Mrs. (Susannah) Gunning
Deep beneath the aristocratic decorum of eighteenth-century England lies a world of hidden origins, desperate romantic misunderstandings, and quiet, persistent devotion.
Boy Scouts in Glacier Park: The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies
Walter Prichard Eaton
Two young Massachusetts friends venture west to Glacier National Park, trading eastern backyard wood-piles for the towering scale, sheer precipices, and bitter winters of the high Rockies.
Brother Jonathan
Hezekiah Butterworth
Courage and quiet faith sustain a Connecticut community as it serves as the secret engine of the American Revolution.
Cape of Storms: A Novel
Percival Pollard
Youthful ambition burns bright, but the cynicism of the modern city proves a dangerous reef for a tender heart.
Celtic religion in pre-Christian times
E. (Edward) Anwyl
Ancient Europe’s native devotions reveal a layered human attempt to find safety, honor the earth, and balance the terrifying forces of nature.
Chats to 'Cello Students
Arthur Broadley
Mastering the violoncello demands both physical discipline and musical intelligence. This 1899 manual breaks down every technical hurdle for the aspiring student, from purchasing a first instrument to delivering a soulful concert performance.
Cheap Jack Zita
S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
A fierce young woman bound to a travelling peddler's van finds herself stranded amidst the social unrest and treacherous, ice-bound marshes of nineteenth-century Cambridgeshire.
Child's Story of the Bible
Mary A. (Mary Artemisia) Lathbury
Simple narrative clarity transforms ancient scriptural heritage into an intimate household journey.
Children of the Old Testament
Anonymous
An elder brother's coat of many colors stirs violent jealousy, leading to a betrayal that spans decades, kingdoms, and the miraculous survival of a scattered people.
Chitta Ranjan
Sukumar Ranjan Das
A lifetime of intellectual brilliance and material wealth yields to a higher calling when a master of the bar surrenders his fortune to lead a non-violent revolution for his country's soul.
Dab Kinzer: A Story of a Growing Boy
William O. Stoddard
Fast-growing, easily overlooked, and awkward in his clothes, fifteen-year-old Dabney Kinzer finds himself suddenly propelled toward adulthood through small-town changes and unpredictable seaside adventures along Long Island's south shore.
Dahcotah: Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling
Mary H. (Mary Henderson) Eastman
This vivid 1849 chronicle captures nineteenth-century Dakota life, blending garrison observation, spiritual lore, tragic romance, and cultural portraiture along the Upper Mississippi.
Daisy
Marshall Saunders
A young clerk loses his footing in a foreign town until an unlikely child turns his heart back to where it belongs.
Daughters of Destiny
L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
A secret ruler, a hidden identity, and a struggle for an Eastern throne collide in a tale of high adventure and unexpected love.
Dave Dawson on Convoy Patrol
Robert Sidney Bowen
Tense ocean skies hold the line as two young pilots risk everything to bait a killer sea raider into the open.
Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 34, August 23, 1914
Various
Simple everyday moments transformed into gentle moral lessons invite young readers to see how small choices shape a cheerful heart.
Dialogue
Anthony Hope
Dialogue is a sophisticated inquiry into the mechanics of fictional speech, exploring how writers use talk to define character, advance plot, and resolve the paradox of authorship. It serves as a masterclass in literary craft.
Drowsy
John Ames Mitchell
A gifted, daydreaming boy discovers he can transmit thoughts and manipulate physical forces, leading him from a quiet village to an astonishing flight across the solar system.
Elizabeth Visits America
Elinor Glyn
An aristocratic young English wife, parted from her husband by a petty quarrel, sets sail for Edwardian America and records the headlong collision of European refinement with raw Western vitality.
Expedition to discover the sources of the White Nile, in the years 1840, 1841, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Ferdinand Werne
An intrepid observer navigates the treacherous, shifting currents of the White Nile, capturing a vanishing world through the lens of a nineteenth-century European expedition. This record serves as a bridge to a frontier defined by both scientific curiosity and the brutal realities of imperial expansion.
Fifty soups
Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson) Murrey
A master caterer reveals the art of constructing rich, balanced soups through foundational techniques, disciplined stock-making, and precise culinary harmony.
Fishy-Winkle
Jean C. Archer
Mistress O'Hara sets out to punish her three runaway children, only to discover they have befriended an stranded mer-baby named Fishy-Winkle.
Flop Ear, the Funny Rabbit: His Many Adventures
Richard Barnum
Separated from his forest burrow by a hunter’s gun, a young rabbit with a single drooping ear wanders into a series of domestic and wild encounters as he tries to find his way back home.
Georgie's Present, or, Tales of Newfoundland
C. L. (Cecilia Lucy) Brightwell
A ten-year-old boy spends his birthday listening to his grandmother tell true tales of the rugged, frostbitten, and brave lives led by missionaries and rescue dogs in nineteenth-century Newfoundland.
Greuze
Alys Eyre Macklin
A young painter captures eighteenth-century Paris with moral domestic drama, but his enduring legacy belongs to the luminous, voluptuous maidens who outlived his fleeting fame.
Growing Up: A Story of the Girlhood of Judith Mackenzie
Conklin, Nathaniel, Mrs.
A young girl faces life's small daily choices with an earnest heart, learning that true growth comes from yielding her self-will to faith and service.
Gypsy's Cousin Joy
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
A spirited country girl must share her room and her routines with a newly orphaned city cousin, turning their sharp daily friction into a deep, enduring bond.