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The Re-echo Club
Carolyn Wells
A witty collection of literary parodies, this book imagines famous poets reimagining the same trivial subjects, from a purple cow to a Cubist painting, with hilarious and often biting results.
The Return of Tharn
Howard Browne
A prehistoric warrior traverses a perilous landscape of jungles and cities to rescue his captured beloved. He finds himself caught in a complex web of political betrayal involving a powerful king and a scheming nobleman.
The Seventy's Course in Theology, Third Year: The Doctrine of Deity
B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts
The nature of the Divine is a personal encounter, not merely a theological abstraction. This curriculum seeks to ground the reader in a foundational understanding of the character and personhood of God.
The Son of Columbus
Molly Elliot Seawell
A portrait of filial devotion and historical ambition, this narrative follows the son of a legendary explorer as he navigates the dangers of the Spanish court and the anxieties of a world on the brink of discovery.
The Speeches (In Full) of the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and William O'Brien, M.P., on Home Rule, Delivered in Parliament, Feb. 16 and 17, 1888
W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone
This record captures a pivotal parliamentary confrontation over Irish autonomy, showcasing the intense rhetorical battle between a legendary statesman and a firebrand nationalist against the backdrop of late-Victorian political volatility.
The strange people
Murray Leinster
An elusive magazine photograph leads an adventurous young man into the New Hampshire hills, where he stumbles into a isolated community's deadly clash with a tyrannical master.
The Victorian Age: The Rede Lecture for 1922
William Ralph Inge
The nineteenth century stands as a towering epoch of unprecedented human progress, yet it remains haunted by the inevitable, turbulent consequences of its own rapid industrial and social evolution.
The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent: A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year
S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
The rhythm of the Christian year serves as a vessel for these urgent, plainspoken reflections, urging readers to weigh their daily actions against the inevitable reality of judgment.
The West Point Rivals
Upton Sinclair
HOOK In the high-pressure world of the West Point summer encampment, seven inseparable underclassmen find themselves caught in a series of escalating pranks, perilous midnight encounters, and a desperate struggle against both their rivals and a mysterious, wild-eyed cave-dweller.
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The Widow [To Say Nothing of the Man]
Helen Rowland
A cynical, witty exploration of courtship, marriage, and the eternal games played between men and women. This is a playful, sharp-tongued dialogue on the art of romantic manipulation.
Three Prize Essays on American Slavery
R. B. (Richard Bowers) Thurston
Slavery represents a profound national crisis, and these essays seek a path toward resolution through the moral clarity and shared faith of the American Christian community.
Travel Stories Retold from St. Nicholas
Various
The world is a vast, interconnected tapestry of wonders, waiting to be traversed by those with the curiosity to seek them out. This collection of accounts transforms distant landscapes into intimate, shared experiences.
Well, After All--
Frank Frankfort Moore
The truth behind a tragic death and a long-deferred romance unfolds in this elegant, suspenseful Victorian drama. A woman’s quiet life is upended by the sudden return of a lover she waited for, only to find he has fallen for someone else.
When I was your age
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
A warm, candid memoir of a vibrant 19th-century childhood, this collection of recollections offers an intimate window into a household defined by intellect, public service, and boundless imagination. It serves as a gentle bridge between the past and the present, capturing the universal spirit of growing up.
William Jordan, Junior
J. C. (John Collis) Snaith
A frail, visionary youth attempts to reconcile his poetic soul with the harsh, practical demands of London office life. His journey is a quiet, devastating study of the cost of dreams in a cold world.
Zoological Illustrations, Second Series, Volume 2
William Swainson
This work serves as a meticulous, mid-nineteenth-century record of natural history, blending detailed zoological descriptions with the era’s burgeoning fascination for biological classification and global exploration.
A Century of Emblems
George Spencer Cautley
Look beneath the everyday surface of the world, and every bird, leaf, and passing shadow turns into a quiet lesson on the soul's journey.
A Chicago Princess
Robert Barr
A rich young American heiress, accustomed to treating the world as her personal playground, tests the patience of absolute monarchs and long-suffering companions alike on an erratic cruise through Asia.
A second reader
Frank E. (Frank Ellsworth) Spaulding
A foolish crow steals bright peacock feathers to masquerade as royalty, only to be stripped bare and cast out by the very birds he tried to copy.
After the Divorce: A Romance
Grazia Deledda
A wrongful murder conviction shatters a young Sardinian family, triggering a chain of legal abandonment, desperate remarriage, and a quiet, inescapable moral reckoning.
An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre: An Account of the Expedition in Pursuit of the Hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the Spring of 1883
John Gregory Bourke
Deep in the rugged Sierra Madre, a small American force risks everything to hunt an elusive, feared enemy on its own ground.
Andrée and His Balloon
Henri Lachambre
Three men step into a wicker car beneath a mountain of varnished silk, drift northward past the crags of Spitzbergen, and melt into the Arctic mist.
At the North of Bearcamp Water: Chronicles of a Stroller in New England from July to December
Frank Bolles
A keen-eyed naturalist steps into the New Hampshire mountain wilderness to record six months of shifting light, migratory wings, hidden animal trails, and seasonal quiet.
Balancing and Shoeing Trotting and Pacing Horses
William J. Moore
HOOK This manual offers a craftsman’s precise, grounded approach to balancing and shoeing trotting and pacing horses to ensure peak performance and physical comfort.
Ballades & Rhymes from Ballades in Blue China and Rhymes a la Mode
Andrew Lang
A delicate, erudite collection, this volume invites readers to step away from the noise of the modern world into a quiet, finely crafted sanctuary of verse. It offers a graceful meditation on how the elegance of the past can persist within the rhythms of the present.
Barney Blake, the Boy Privateer
Herrick Johnstone
A spirited young sailor boards an American privateer in 1813 to chase British shipping across two oceans, encountering sharks, bullfights, and mirages.
Between the Dark and the Daylight
Richard Marsh
A collection of quick-witted, dark, and lively short stories unveils the chaotic underbelly of late-Victorian society through bizarre legal scrambles, unexpected spectral encounters, and high-stakes social embarrassments.
Blood Royal: A Novel
Grant Allen
A family's belief in its royal lineage sustains them through poverty, only to unravel under the weight of truth.
Bohemian San Francisco: Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining
Clarence E. (Clarence Edgar) Edwords
This is an immersive, nostalgic guide to the golden age of San Francisco dining, capturing the spirit and the recipes of a city defined by its love for the table.
Captivity and Escape
Jean Martin
Captured during the war’s opening months, a wounded French sergeant endures the brutality of German prison camps before executing a daring escape across northern Europe to freedom.
Chunky, the Happy Hippo: His Many Adventures
Richard Barnum
A young hippopotamus explores his native African river, encounters jungle animals, gets captured by hunters, and travels across the ocean to find his place in a city circus and park menagerie.
Dan Carter and the Cub Honor
Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
A quiet neighborhood church basement turns into a battleground for young honor when a broken window and a missing set of ice cream freezers leave a Cub Scout den taking the blame for someone else’s malice.
Dark Reality
Robert Moore Williams
A mysterious compulsion forces a 1940 physicist to build a strange machine that sweeps ordinary people into an earth two million years in the future.
Discovery at Aspen
Sophie (Sophie Z. Liebowitz) Ruskay
A teenage girl spends a pivotal summer surrounded by music, ghost towns, and newfound independence in the Colorado Rockies.
Exit Betty
Grace Livingston Hill
A young bride flees her own altar, swapping her white satin for a borrowed coat, to escape a coerced marriage and discover true faith and love in a quiet village home.
Fires - Book 3: The Hare, and Other Tales
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
A young man saves a terrified runaway girl on the high moors, only to find their shared future hinges on loosening his own desperate grip.
First Steps to Bell Ringing: Being an Introduction to the Healthful and Pleasant Exercise of Bell Ringing in Rounds and Changes upon Church Bells
Samuel B. Goslin
A clear, sensible guide to standard church bell ringing that transforms a potentially dangerous and bewildering belfry ritual into an orderly, accessible discipline.
Frank Nelson in the Forecastle
Harry Castlemon
Abducted on the San Francisco docks, a young sportsman must navigate a brutal whaling captain, a mutinous crew, and a deadly hunt on the open ocean to earn his way home.
Frédérique, vol. 1
Paul de Kock
Men, women, and the chaotic space between them cross paths in mid-nineteenth-century Paris, where an idle bachelor navigates middle-class ballrooms, illicit suppers, and the hidden struggles of vulnerable women.
Fromentin
Georges Beaume
A sensitive artist transforms personal heartbreaks and regional horizons into a refined aesthetic vision, bridging the worlds of French literature and Orientalist painting.
Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 2/2: Sketches of a Cruise to the West Indies and the Spanish Main
Ida May Hill Starr
A cruise ship glides through turquoise waters to reveal lush botanical gardens, bustling markets, and black lakes of natural pitch. Beyond the sea-sprayed docks lie mountain railways, Dutch canal-ports, and quiet places of memory.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the High Sierras
Josephine Chase
A quiet mountain excursion erupts into a high-altitude game of cat and mouse when a group of seasoned young travelers stumbles across train robbers in the California wilderness.
How to plan a library building for library work
Charles C. (Charles Carroll) Soule
A library building must be designed around the daily labor of librarians and readers rather than the aesthetic whims of an ambitious architect.
Intelligence in Plants and Animals: Being a New Edition of the Author's Privately Issued "Soul and Immortality."
Thomas G. (Thomas George) Gentry
A grand survey of natural history seeks to erase the line between human and animal minds, finding spiritual purpose in every living creature.
Joan Haste
H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
A dark, sacrificial storm of secret parentage, class barriers, and tragic devotion in Victorian East Anglia.
King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1
Bernhard Severin Ingemann
In a land fractured by church spires, outlawed nobles, and royal ambition, a young king tries to build an empire while his kingdom burns from within.
Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity
Kirsopp Lake
A study of early Christianity reveals a movement constantly reshaping itself, transforming from an apocalyptic Jewish sect into a Greek mystery cult, and finally into a sophisticated system of Roman ethics and Platonic metaphysics.
Laperouse
Scott, Ernest, Sir
A legendary French navigator vanishes into the Pacific, leaving behind a mystery that haunts maritime history for generations. This account reconstructs the life and final, ill-fated expedition of an Enlightenment-era explorer.