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Our Little Hindu Cousin
Blanche McManus
In an Indian garden framed by broad verandas, two young cousins embark on daily adventures that take them from city bazaars to sacred riverbank pilgrimages.
Our Little Persian Cousin
E. Cutler (Ephraim Cutler) Shedd
Growing up in an early twentieth-century Persian village, a young boy navigates rigid Islamic traditions, harsh domestic discipline, and the colorful world of local government service.
Patty's Fortune
Carolyn Wells
Patty Fairfield faces a tangled web of romantic affection and sudden inheritance while navigating the social expectations of early twentieth-century upper-class life.
Peeps at Royal Palaces of Great Britain
Beatrice Home
A nation’s royal seat is rarely static, shifting across centuries from cold stone fortresses to luminous riverbank estates.
Pittsburgh in 1816: Compiled by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Granting of the City Charter
Unknown
A vibrant mosaic of historical accounts, municipal records, and period advertisements preserves the sights, sounds, and daily friction of a frontier town on the cusp of an industrial boom.
Poems
William Blake
A visionary world unfolds where innocence and experience collide, revealing the tragic fraying of the human soul.
Psycho Vox
Charles Wesley Emerson
True vocal power is not built by mechanical strain, but by aligning the mind's intent with the body's natural anatomical design.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890
Various
A satirical Victorian journal offering witty commentary on society, politics, and culture.
Rayton: A Backwoods Mystery
Theodore Goodridge Roberts
An outsider's playful introduction of low-stakes card games to a wilderness settlement unwittingly sets off a chain of dark superstitious dread, hidden rivalries, and unhinged vengeance.
Reformed Logic: A System Based on Berkeley's Philosophy with an Entirely New Method of Dialectic
D. B. McLachlan
A bold attempt to strip formal logic of its obscure academic jargon, rebuilding it upon real human perception and mental experience.
Representative British Orations Volume 4 (of 4): With Introductions and Explanatory Notes
Unknown
These speeches chart a century of British debate, capturing the exact momentum where legal argument hardens into imperial policy and moral conviction.
Return-Loads Bureaus to Save Waste in Transportation
United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
This 1918 government pamphlet lays out a practical, grassroots strategy to relieve wartime rail congestion by organizing local clearing houses that match empty motor trucks with merchants who need short-haul freight delivered.
Robert Emmet: A Survey of His Rebellion and of His Romance
Louise Imogen Guiney
A brief, doomed flash of idealism collides with an unyielding state, transforming a failed insurrection into an enduring legend of romantic self-sacrifice.
Roger Williams
May Emery Hall
Driven out of 1630s Massachusetts for defending religious freedom and native land rights, one idealist braves the winter wilderness to establish a radical colony rooted in absolute liberty of conscience.
Rome
W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler
From its origin as a riverfront settlement to its zenith as a global empire, Rome forged a civilization through sheer discipline, administrative genius, and unyielding political willpower.
Sacred Mysteries Among the Mayas and the Quiches, 11,500 Years Ago: Their relation to the sacred mysteries of Egypt, Greece, Chaldea and India. Free Masonry in times anterior to the Temple of Solomon
Augustus Le Plongeon
A millennia-old network of sacred knowledge ties the ancient Mayas directly to the foundational rites of world religion and Freemasonry.
Six One-Act Plays
Margaret Scott Oliver
Six distinct short plays capture human foolishness and passion, spanning exotic desert courts, historical Spanish ramparts, quiet working-class homes, and noisy city parks.
Studies in jocular literature
William Carew Hazlitt
Humor reveals the hidden history of human thought, transforming fleeting social quips and ancient caricatures into durable records of cultural identity.
Studies in Zechariah
Arno Clemens Gaebelein
A fiery, verse-by-verse journey through ancient vision and future glory, unravelling the divine destiny of Israel and the nations.
Survival Type
Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone
Human survival on the alien world of Niobe depends on overcoming a deadly environment, but a lone explorer discovers that true adaptation requires surrendering human pride to native wisdom.
The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair
James Otis
An ambitious farm boy sets out to clear his widowed mother's mortgage by operating a fairground game, only to wind up framed for burglary and pursued by local lawmen.
The amateur crime
Anthony Berkeley
A set of well-meaning friends stage a fake murder to shock a set bachelor into living life, only for their elaborate prank to completely unravel into real police investigations and unexpected romance.
The Baculum in the Chipmunks of Western North America
John A. White
A minute anatomical feature, invisible from the outside, becomes the master key that unpicks decades of confusion in Western chipmunk taxonomy.
The Beautiful Miss Brooke
Louis Zangwill
A young man's comfortable ideals crumble when he encounters a fiercely independent woman who refuses to play the part he has scripted for her.
The Book of Courage
John T. (John Thomson) Faris
A singing canary in a frozen schoolroom, a ruined historian writing through a wire frame, and an heir who gave away a fortune all point to a single truth: life is won by those who refuse to surrender.
The Boy Aviators with the Air Raiders: A Story of the Great World War
John Henry Goldfrap
A high-flying juvenile adventure captures the early, chaotic months of the First World War through the eyes of daring young American inventors.
The Children of France: A Book of Stories of the Heroism and Self-sacrifice of Youthful Patriots of France During the Great War
Ruth Royce
Across the shattered landscapes of World War I, young boys and girls step forward to defend their homeland with startling bravery.
The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism: Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries
T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
A rigorous historical defense demonstrates that the early Church operated as an episcopal college, free from absolute papal monarchy.
The Collectors: Being Cases mostly under the Ninth and Tenth Commandments
Frank Jewett Mather
Obsession with rare art and antiques reveals the curious, covetous depths of human nature across seven ironic tales and witty reflections.
The Cottage on the Fells
H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
A severed head in a black leather bag, a shattered marble bust, and a trail of unexplained murders connect a wealthy London banker to an impossible crime on the desolate Cumberland fells.
The Cricket's Friends: Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan
Virginia W. (Virginia Wales) Johnson
On a drafty hearth, domestic utensils and curious insects gather to swap wide-ranging tales of adventure, enchantment, and moral instruction.
The curse of Clifton
Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
A stoic girl bound by honor and a prideful Virginia heir test whether devotion can endure deceit, warfare, and the heavy chains of rank.
The Dumpling
Coulson Kernahan
An insane idealist wages open war against the British Empire, leaving a young investigator to unravel a vast, chaotic conspiracy.
The evolution of general ideas
Th. (Théodule) Ribot
Human thought ascends in a steady, unbroken line, transforming raw bodily perception into high abstractions that need no physical form.
The flying carpet
Unknown
A vast array of childhood wonder unfolds within a single volume, where whimsical verse, historical drama, and fairy-tale enchantments collide.
The Fourth-Dimensional Reaches of the Exposition: San Francisco, 1915
Cora Lenore Williams
Walking through the fairgrounds of a world’s fair, an observant thinker perceives that physical architecture can serve as a doorway into higher dimensions of human consciousness.
The Golden Book of Springfield
Vachel Lindsay
A mystic in 1920 falls into a visionary trance, awakening nearly a century later in a transformed, utopian Illinois.
The great fraud of Ulster
T. M. (Timothy Michael) Healy
A meticulous exposure of legal maneuvering, this historical investigation lays bare how seventeenth-century administrators dismantled Irish land ownership through manufactured titles, forged patents, and judicial complicity.
The Great Intendant
Thomas Chapais
A dying outpost of empire is transformed into a thriving society through one administrator's relentless drive, administrative genius, and vision for the future.
The hermit hunter of the wilds
Gordon Stables
A boy leaves his Scottish home for a life at sea, braving mutiny, wild jungles, and shipwreck on a remote island before uncovering the fate of a lost friend.
The Ivory Trail
Talbot Mundy
A hunt for hidden treasure across East Africa sets four adventurers against German officers, ruthless rivals, and a unforgiving wilderness.
The Kernel and the Husk: Letters on Spiritual Christianity
Edwin Abbott Abbott
Faith does not crumble when miracles fall away; stripped of physical wonders, a deeper, non-miraculous worship of Christ emerges.
The land of hidden men
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Lost in the Cambodian jungle, a modern man steps through the green veil of the forest to find that the ancient Khmers never perished, but still wage their ancient, brutal dynastic wars.
The Life of David
Anonymous
An irreverent, iconoclastic eighteenth-century tract strips away pious tradition to examine the reign of Israel’s most famous monarch through a lens of unsparing political skepticism.
The Log of a Privateersman
Harry Collingwood
Every stroke of luck on the high seas demands its price in blood, fire, and cold calculation.
The Milkmaid of Montfermeil (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XX)
Paul de Kock
A charming blend of romance and social satire, this story follows a handsome but reckless officer whose chaotic love life collides with the unassuming goodness of a country girl.
The Pansy Magazine, May 1886
Various
A child’s forgotten duty leads to a day of rough-dried clothes, while a snowbound kitchen turns emergency into an unexpected feast. Moral lessons and vivid scenes meet in a Victorian magazine designed to build character.
The Popular Science Monthly, June, 1900: Vol. 57, May, 1900 to October, 1900
Various
Turn-of-the-century scientific inquiry bridges rigorous laboratory observation, natural history, and urgent social debate across twelve distinct domains of research.