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Film Truth
Anonymous
HOOK This sharp-edged, anonymous periodical offers a cynical, unvarnished look at the early motion picture industry, cutting through the glamour of silent-era stardom to expose the scams and vanity lurking behind the screen.
Flora Adair
A. M. Donelan
The quiet, introspective journey of a young woman navigating the complexities of faith, love, and social expectations, set against the evocative, sun-drenched backdrop of mid-19th-century Italy.
Fragonard
Haldane Macfall
This biographical study explores the life of Jean Honoré Fragonard, the master painter who captured the final, glittering moments of pre-revolutionary France. It follows the artist from his humble beginnings in Grasse to his rise as the darling of the Parisian court and his eventual decline as a relic of an…
Geological facts
W. G. (William Garland) Barrett
Geology serves here as a gateway to the natural world, unfolding the history of the earth not as a source of conflict, but as a testament to the order and purpose of creation.
Giants on the Earth
S. P. (Sterner St. Paul) Meek
HOOK A race of giants from Jupiter holds Earth in a brutal, iron-fisted grip until a defiant hero rises to break their tyranny.
Glimpses of Nature, and Objects of Interest Described, During a Visit to the Isle of Wight: Designed to Assist and Encourage Young Persons in Forming Habits of Observation
Mrs. (Jane) Loudon
This Victorian travelogue follows a young girl and her parents on an educational tour of the Isle of Wight, aiming to sharpen a child's ability to find wonder in the natural world.
Guy Garrick
Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
A brilliant investigator uses cutting-edge early 20th-century technology to dismantle a web of corruption, kidnapping, and high-stakes gambling threatening a young heiress.
Hawaiian Sea Hunt Mystery
Andy Adams
The Brewsters trade their Indianapolis home for the sun-drenched shores of Hawaii, only to find themselves entangled in a high-stakes race against a ruthless engineer. A simple mining conference quickly spirals into a desperate quest to rescue a kidnapped scientist and recover a fortune in rare rocket-fuel ore.
Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Volume 1 (of 2): A picture of Judaism, in the century which preceded the advent of our Savior
Friedrich Strauss
A young Egyptian Jew journeys across the desert to Jerusalem, seeking to ground his soul in the living traditions and ancient worship of his ancestors.
In Camp With A Tin Soldier
John Kendrick Bangs
A young boy’s afternoon nap turns into an extraordinary military campaign when his nursery toys come to life, beckoning him into a strange, whimsical world of tin soldiers and giant adversaries.
Indian Summer
Emily Grant Hutchings
The late-blooming of a woman’s spirit, long suppressed by the expectations of duty and the rigid conventions of a Midwestern college town, finally finds its season. This story captures the ache of a life half-lived and the transformative power of a quiet, unexpected connection.
Legend Land, Vol. 1: Being a Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway
G. Basil (George Basil) Barham
This collection of folklore bridges the gap between the ancient, oral traditions of Britain’s western reaches and the modern age of railway travel, inviting readers to explore the landscapes that birthed these myths.
Mogg's Cab Fare Distance Map and London Guide.: Index to the Streets, Squares, and Cab Stands
Edward S. Mogg
This practical guide offers an essential grid-based navigation of Victorian London, transforming the city’s vast, tangled sprawl into a precise system of letters, numbers, and cab stands.
Mollie's Substitute Husband
Max McConn
John Merriam, a quiet high school principal, finds his life upended when he agrees to impersonate a powerful, dissipated Senator to save the man’s career—and eventually, to secure his own future with the woman he loves.
Mopsa the Fairy
Jean Ingelow
A boy slips through a rift in time to find that the strangest, most enduring wonders are often hidden in the places we leave behind. This dream-like journey navigates the boundaries between childhood innocence and the looming weight of adulthood.
Motor Truck Logging Methods: Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12
Frederick Malcolm Knapp
Logging requires heavy loads and rough terrain, but innovation often begins in the woods. Motor trucks are redefining how timber moves from remote forests to the mill.
Mr. Rabbit's Wedding: Hollow Tree Stories
Albert Bigelow Paine
A gentle, fireside chronicle, these tales follow the woodland creatures of the Hollow Tree as they navigate friendship, courtship, and the delightful absurdity of community life in the Big Deep Woods.
Mrs. Farrell
William Dean Howells
A young widow’s restless search for meaning entangles two devoted friends in a psychological web, forcing them to confront the fragile boundaries of loyalty, desire, and self-deception in a quiet summer retreat.
Music and bad manners
Carl Van Vechten
The concert hall is rarely a place of civility, yet we often mistake its stifling silence for reverence. This collection of essays pulls back the velvet curtain on the erratic, often explosive world of early 20th-century music.
My Hildegarde
St. George Rathborne
This is a breathless tale of obsession, revolution, and long-deferred reconciliation set against the turbulent backdrop of a Central American port city. It captures the frantic, high-stakes energy of early 20th-century adventure fiction, where personal vendettas are settled with equal parts grit and grandiloquence.
On Digestive Proteolysis: Being the Cartwright Lectures for 1894
R. H. (Russell Henry) Chittenden
The human body’s ability to dismantle complex proteins into vital fuel remains one of the most elegant and essential mysteries of physiological chemistry. This volume captures a definitive moment in that discovery, mapping the enzymatic breakdown of food with scientific rigor.
Our Little Dutch Cousin
Blanche McManus
A young American boy travels across the Atlantic to visit his Dutch relatives, discovering a land defined by its constant, quiet struggle against the encroaching sea. This gentle travelogue captures the daily rhythms of life in the Netherlands at the turn of the twentieth century.
Our sentimental journey through France and Italy: A new edition with Appendix
Elizabeth Robins Pennell
A lighthearted travelogue that trades the stuffy comfort of a train carriage for the grit and grace of a tricycle, this account captures the late nineteenth-century urge to reclaim the slow, sensory discovery of the European landscape.
Party sweets
Mary Blake
Sweetness is a science, and with the right pantry staple, even the most daunting candy-making tasks become reliable, everyday successes.
Poems on Golf
Unknown
A collection of verse both humorous and earnest, these pages capture the spirit of an era when golf was as much a social ritual as a test of skill. Through heroic couplets, sonnets, and spirited songs, the game emerges not merely as a sport, but as a central pillar of community, health, and Scottish identity.
Progress in the household
Lucy Maynard Salmon
The household is not a private refuge beyond scrutiny, but an industrial workplace. To modernize the home, we must abandon sentimentality and apply the same scientific rigor used to improve the factory or the shop.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, June 15th, 1895
Various
A snapshot of Victorian life through a satirical lens, capturing the shifting social landscape, political absurdities, and the relentless pulse of London’s humor.
Roses: Four One-Act Plays: Streaks of Light—The Last Visit—Margot—The Far-away Princess
Hermann Sudermann
The hidden burdens of the heart often reveal themselves in the most quiet rooms, where the weight of a secret can be heavier than the truth itself.
Sanitation of Mofussil Bazaars
G. W. (George William) Disney
A practical guide for municipal officers, this manual offers concise, actionable advice on maintaining hygiene in Indian bazaars. It serves as a technical bridge between administrative theory and the physical realities of public health maintenance.
Sketches of the War: A Series of Letters to the North Moore Street School of New York
Charles C. Nott
A soldier’s honest reflection on the reality of the American Civil War, these letters capture the quiet tension and sudden violence of a cavalry officer’s life on the front lines.
Some Famous Women
Louise Creighton
Courage, self-sacrifice, and quiet duty unite twelve women who reshaped the world not through luck, but through sheer force of character.
Tea and the effects of tea drinking
W. Scott (William Scott) Tebb
This examination explores the historical rise and physiological consequences of tea consumption in Britain, offering a clinical perspective on a beverage once considered a medicinal necessity.
Tea, Its Mystery and History
Samuel Phillips Day
The humble tea leaf serves as a bridge between ancient Eastern tradition and the modern rituals of the Western parlor, promising both physical vitality and social harmony in every cup.
Terrain Exercises
William H. (William Henry) Waldron
Success in the field demands more than memorizing regulations; it requires the ability to apply tactical principles to the physical reality of the ground beneath one's feet.
The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shôn Catti: Descriptive of Life in Wales: Interspersed with Poems
T. J. Llewelyn (Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn) Prichard
The legend of a Welsh trickster comes to life in these pages, blending rural folklore with the sharp wit of a man who outsmarts the powerful to champion the downtrodden.
The Arctic regions and the northern whale-fishery
William Scoresby
Exploring the frozen frontiers of the North, this account navigates the intersection of perilous whale-fishing, rigorous scientific observation, and the vast, unforgiving beauty of the Arctic wilderness.
The Betrothal: A Sequel to the Blue Bird
Maurice Maeterlinck
This fairy play follows a young man’s quest to find his true love, exploring the idea that our most significant life choices are guided by the unseen voices of our ancestors and our future descendants. It is a work of gentle symbolism, grounding grand metaphysical questions in the simple, rustic setting of a…
The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road
Hildegard G. Frey
HOOK A determined young teacher finds her true calling by organizing her difficult rural students into a Camp Fire Girls group during the height of the Great War.
The Challenge of the Country: A Study of Country Life Opportunity
George Walter Fiske
This urgent call to action invites college-educated youth to revitalize American rural life by rejecting the city’s allure in favor of dedicated service as leaders in farming communities.
The Conquest of Plassans (La Conquête de Plassans)
Émile Zola
A subtle invasion of domestic life by a predatory priest unravels a provincial family, illustrating how quiet, calculated influence can be more destructive than any open revolution.
The Cost of Kindness
Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
A well-meaning act of superficial polite hypocrisy backfires completely, trapping a quiet village with the very rector they were desperate to see depart.
The Death Ship: A Strange Story, Vol. 3 (of 3)
William Clark Russell
This atmospheric maritime novel depicts a terrifying encounter with the legendary Flying Dutchman, exploring the psychological toll of immortality and the desperate struggle for human survival against a supernatural, ageless curse.
The Fleets Behind the Fleet: The Work of the Merchant Seamen and Fishermen in the War
W. MacNeile (William MacNeile) Dixon
The merchant sailor is the unsung architect of victory, a figure whose courage in the face of invisible peril quietly sustains the very existence of a nation under siege.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
Hulbert Footner
In the rugged expanses of the Canadian Northwest, a young fur trader battles a corrupt monopoly and his own complex feelings for the daughter of his most formidable rival.
The Ghetto: A Drama in Four Acts
Herman Heijermans
This drama follows the collision between an aging miser’s rigid religious devotion and his son’s yearning for a life defined by art, honesty, and a love that transcends the barriers of the Ghetto.
The Girl and Her Fortune
L. T. Meade
The sisters Brenda and Florence Heathcote finish school, only to learn their inheritance is gone. They must navigate a precarious, sudden poverty to discover who truly loves them for themselves and who is merely chasing a fortune.
The happy tree
Rosalind Murray
A young woman watches yellow leaves drop onto a suburban street, tracing the quiet path that brought her from an idyllic childhood to a muted, sensible adulthood.
The Letters of Her Mother to Elizabeth
W. R. H. (William Rutherford Hayes) Trowbridge
This sharp, cynical correspondence offers a rare glimpse into the maneuvering of the British upper class at the turn of the century. It serves as a witty, unsparing companion piece to the social world of its predecessor.