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Army Boys on the Firing Line
Homer Randall
Courage, friendship, and quick thinking collide on the Western Front as four young American soldiers face the desperate final offensive of the First World War.
Banks and Their Customers: A practical guide for all who keep banking accounts from the customers' point of view
Henry Warren
Navigating the opaque rules of modern banking requires a guide who knows how the machine operates and where its hidden costs lie.
Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 02 of 10: the Humourous Lieutenant
John Fletcher
A young prince fights for military glory while his royal father secretly plots to steal the woman he loves. In this classic seventeenth-century tragicomedy, courtly honor and raw desire collide on and off the battlefield.
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Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 3 [March 1902]: Illustrated by Color Photography
Various
A early spring miscellany of poetry, birdlore, and natural history invites readers into the gentle, observant world of turn-of-the-century nature writing.
Bolshevism: A Curse & Danger to the Workers
H. W. (Henry William) Lee
A fierce critique of early Soviet governance argues that absolute autocratic rule under the guise of working-class revolution betrays democratic progress, threatens established labor unions, and substitute violent tyranny for genuine social equality.
Bookbinding self taught
Ben Davidson
A modest workbench, basic household tools, and an eye for precise measurement can transform torn paperbacks into durable, beautiful volumes.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887: Volume 1, Number 10
Unknown
A mid-nineteenth-century reform periodical offers a sweeping vision of human potential, combining radical educational theory, unconventional medical discoveries, and a newly mapped blueprint of the human brain.
Calvert and Penn: Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania
Brantz Mayer
Through a study of colonial charters and religious exile, a historical address charts how two distinct American colonies transformed isolated sanctuaries of tolerance into lasting foundations of civil freedom.
Camp, Court and Siege: A Narrative of Personal Adventure and Observation During Two Wars: 1861-1865
Wickham Hoffman
When a quiet American officer keeps his head through the Union conquest of New Orleans and the bloody paralysis of the Red River campaign, only to find himself years later inside the siege lines of Paris, he leaves behind a memoir of extraordinary poise. Wickham Hoffman observes the madness of two continents with…
Canada and the States
Watkin, E. W. (Edward William), Sir
A seasoned railway executive records the frantic, transformative decades of North American expansion, offering a rare window into the boardroom politics that stitched a vast, fractured continent into a unified Dominion.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 424: Volume 17, New Series, February 14, 1852
Various
A mid-nineteenth-century British periodical weaves socio-economic critiques, personal narratives of failure, moral biographies, and observational essays into a single, vibrant snapshot of Victorian thought.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435: Volume 17, New Series, May 1, 1852
Various
In May 1852, a popular Scottish weekly gathers public controversies, social observations, personal memoirs, and literary portraits into an engaging snapshot of mid-nineteenth-century intellectual life.
Chimneysmoke
Christopher Morley
A quiet domestic warmth flickers across these pages, where daily suburban chores and small city observations are lit with steady affection.
Cities in the air
Edmond Hamilton
When colossal, anti-gravity metropolises take to the skies, global diplomacy gives way to total aerial devastation across the heavens.
Colin Clink, Volume 1 (of 3)
Charles Hooton
Born out of wedlock to a disgraced woman in rural Yorkshire, an spirited young boy faces a hostile world where those in power routinely abuse their authority.
Comet Lore: Halley's Comet in History and Astronomy
Edwin Emerson
A fiery streak across the night sky has moved humanity to prayer, terror, and scientific discovery across thousands of years.
Craft Gilds
W. (William) Cunningham
A careful study of medieval craft guilds reveals how organized labor once elevated human skill, governed quality, and shaped civic identity.
Dick Randall, the Young Athlete
Ellery H. (Ellery Harding) Clark
A homesick farm boy enters an elite boarding school and fights his way through athletic rivalries, foul play, and moral tests to win the tri-school championship.
Downstream
Sigfrid Siwertz
A decaying Swedish estate becomes the incubator for five orphaned siblings who spend their lives sacrificing affection, integrity, and one another to the relentless pursuit of material power.
Dynevor Terrace
Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
Duty, affection, and social expectation collide as two mismatched English cousins test the bounds of honor and self-denial.
Essays of Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
A quiet mind observes its own contradictions, turning away from public vanity to study the quiet mechanics of human nature.
Field Hospital and Flying Column: Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia
Violetta Thurstan
A nurse moves through the initial fires of the Western and Eastern fronts, matching the sudden horror of modern warfare with quiet competence and an unyielding spirit.
Four Hundred Humorous Illustrations, Vol. 2 (of 2): With Portrait and Biographical Sketch
Unknown
A vibrant chronicle of nineteenth-century British humor, this collection captures the artistic evolution and social satire of master caricaturist George Cruikshank.
From the Lips of the Sea
Clinton Scollard
Listen closely to the ocean, for its darkling lips murmur the forgotten legends of antiquity and the infinite secrets of eternity.
Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880: An Illustrated Weekly
Various
This nineteenth-century issue captures a vivid cross-section of Victorian childhood, blending historical drama, practical science, light verse, and interactive play into a single weekly installment.
Harper's Young People, May 25, 1880: An Illustrated Weekly
Various
A late-nineteenth-century child’s magazine offers a window into an era that balanced stern moral instruction with innocent, high-spirited play.
Henry Clay's Remarks in House and Senate
Henry Clay
When executive overreach threatens to dismantle republican norms, the boundary between law and unbridled power depends entirely on the courage of a nation's legislative assembly.
Heroic Romances of Ireland, Translated into English Prose and Verse
Arthur Herbert Leahy
Through verse and prose, these early Irish tales capture a heroic world where chivalry, tragic love, and supernatural shadow collide.
History of King Charles the Second of England
Jacob Abbott
A young prince is cast into exile by political violence, only to return years later as a monarch who prefers immediate pleasure to the heavy obligations of the crown.
In and Out
Edgar Franklin
A eccentric bachelor tries to force an opportunity onto a street youth, only to find himself trapped in a farce of secret identities, missing heirs, and wild accusations.
In the Rocky Mountains: A Tale of Adventure
William Henry Giles Kingston
Driven across the American wilderness by calamity, a resilient pioneer family and a handful of soldiers struggle against hostile raiders, unforgiving terrain, and surprising mountain hazards in a quest to survive and rebuild their frontier home.
Indian Legends and Other Poems
Mary Gardiner Horsford
Tragic legends of loss and longing meet domestic quietude in a mid-nineteenth-century volume where mortal lives dissolve quickly into memory, spirit, and star.
Innocent
Marie Corelli
A young girl raised on an isolated farm discovers the secret of her birth, step by step casting aside the false claims that shadowed her childhood only to face the harsh realities of the wider world.
Inside the Russian Revolution
Rheta Childe Dorr
Dispatches from the front line of political collapse reveal how quickly a grand revolution degrades into mob rule, institutional breakdown, and daily chaos when idealists surrender authority to reckless zealots.
Jack Archer: A Tale of the Crimea
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Boys caught in the great game of European empire find that courage matters less than luck when the big guns open.
John Bull
George Colman
A hot-tempered brazier faces ruin when his daughter disappears, triggering a collision between the rigid morality of the working class and the careless indiscretions of the landed gentry.
John Gabriel Borkman
Henrik Ibsen
A fallen financier locked in self-imposed exile faces the bitter winter air and the unresolved loves of his past. He must choose between clutching his grand illusions and confronting the devastating human cost of his ambition.
Kate Meredith, Financier
C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
Courage, enterprise, and red hair collide in the West African bush, where trade and love are both fought for with equal ferocity.
Keep Out
Fredric Brown
Humanity bioengineers a new generation of children to inherit Mars, only to discover that adapting their bodies also redefines their loyalties.
Last Days in a Dutch Hotel (from Literature and Life)
William Dean Howells
A chilly September wind blows across the North Sea as an American traveler lingers through the dying days of the tourist season at a grand resort in Scheveningen.
Life in the sick-room
Harriet Martineau
Long confinement and physical suffering strip away the noise of daily life, forcing a quiet, inescapable reckoning with what truly lasts.
Life Is a Dream
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
A prince chained in a dark tower learns that power is a shadow, and that the only true king is the man who can govern his own impulses.
Little Nobody
Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.
A stolen bride, a shadowy prison, and a legacy of lies clash when a young woman escapes the South only to face heartbreak in the North.
Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A lonely child's desperate attempt to live out her strict religious ideals brings her face to face with real-world suffering in a city she barely understands.
Maid Sally
Harriet A. (Harriet Anna) Cheever
A poor, neglected girl hiding in a garden hedge hears a young gentleman reading stories, and that single spark kindles a lifelong determination to educate herself, claim her true heritage, and stand as his equal.
Manners Makyth Man: Ship's Company, Part 12
W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
A weary night-watchman finds his peace disrupted by a prankster and his clever sister, leading to a long night of fruitless errands and a ghostly encounter. It is a classic tale of comeuppance set against the rhythmic, working-class backdrop of London’s riverside.
Mappo, the Merry Monkey: His Many Adventures
Richard Barnum
A wild monkey leaves the safety of the jungle canopy and ends up on a long, globe-trotting journey into the human world.
Maradick at Forty: A Transition
Hugh Walpole
A summer holiday in a medieval Cornish coastal town shakes a respectable London businessman out of his rigid midlife routines, entangling him in the turbulent lives, romances, and eerie atmosphere of those around him.