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The Demand and the Supply of Increased Efficiency in the Negro Ministry: The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 13
Jesse Edward Moorland
A vital appeal for educational reform, this 1909 address exposes the dangerous scarcity of highly trained Black clergy and outlines a bold strategy to revitalize community leadership.
The different modes of cultivating the pine-apple: From its first introduction into Europe to the late improvements of T.A. Knight, esq
J. C. (John Claudius) Loudon
A comprehensive eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century guide reveals how European horticulturists tamed an exotic tropical fruit using ingenuity, wood-burning flues, and steaming piles of manure.
The Evolution of Sinn Fein
Robert Mitchell Henry
A nation's century-long struggle for independence finds its sharpest expression in the birth of a movement that rejects foreign rule by refusing to recognize it.
The Fascinating Stranger, and Other Stories
Booth Tarkington
Transient encounters and minor social indignities echo across mid-century America, where youth and vanity routinely collide.
The Flower of the Chapdelaines
George Washington Cable
A sudden, captivating glimpse of a refined young Creole woman in the historic streets of New Orleans sparks a young lawyer's devotion and draws him into a world of vibrant memory, community, and romance.
The Fun of Getting Thin: How to Be Happy and Reduce the Waist Line
Samuel G. (Samuel George) Blythe
A forty-three-year-old newspaperman faces down his forty-seven-pound excess, dumping complicated medical fads to test a brutal truth: the only way to lose fat is to stop putting so much in your mouth.
The Gasoline Motor
Harold Whiting Slauson
Understanding how an internal combustion engine functions requires tracing the precise sequence of mechanical and electrical events that turn raw fuel into reliable forward motion.
The Goat and Her Kid
Harriet Myrtle
A young goat’s irrepressible joy and a rescued sparrow’s quiet resilience ground this gentle collection of stories, which finds profound meaning in the small, everyday wonders of a child’s world.
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 Heart of Denise, and Other Tales
S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats
She turns from a forced marriage in the shadows of the French court to find that true honour wears a rougher coat than the gilded courtiers who courted her favor.
The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 22
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
A deluded knight and his practical squire ride across 16th-century Spain, confronting wild beasts and literary critics with equal fervor.
The last voyage of the Karluk
Bob Bartlett
A wooden ship, crushed by polar ice, sinks into the Arctic Ocean, leaving its stranded crew to brave shifting floes and frozen tundra in a desperate race for rescue.
The law of copyright
William Wordsworth
An aging poet steps out of privacy to publish a public declaration supporting parliamentary reform for authorial property rights.
The Masque of the Elements
Herman George Scheffauer
Desolation gives way to rebirth when cosmic entities speak across the empty wastes of time and space.
The Mentor: A little book for the guidance of such men and boys as would appear to advantage in the society of persons of the better sort
Alfred Ayres
Refined social success requires far more than mere ambition; it demands an deliberate mastery of personal presentation, quiet posture, table etiquette, and thoughtful conversation.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827
Various
A vibrant cross-section of early nineteenth-century British culture captures everything from urban transformations to battlefield drama in a single periodical issue.
The Molecular Tactics of a Crystal
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
A mathematical exploration of how uniform physical bodies pack and orient themselves reveals how the complex internal geometry of natural crystals produces their optical and physical properties.
The Mouse and The Moonbeam
Eugene Field
On Christmas Eve, a tiny mouse, an old grandfather clock, and a drifting moonbeam share sacred stories and moral fables in the quiet dark of a child's bedroom.
The Near East: Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople
Robert Hichens
Sunlit ruins, quiet harbors, and the heavy air of approaching war frame a journey across the Mediterranean.
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The nights of Straparola, volume 1 [of 2]
Giovanni Francesco Straparola
In the courtly night air of an Italian gathering, voices trade tales of clever thieves, cursed princes, and ordinary peasants outwitting fate.
The Ohio Journal of Science. Vol. XVI., No. 2 (December, 1915)
Various
Tiny leaf-dwelling insects shape dynamic botanical ecosystems, while advanced mathematics and regional surveys reveal hidden patterns across the landscape.
The Pagan's Cup
Fergus Hume
A stolen relic, hidden family secrets, and a sinister past disrupt an isolated English village.
The Passionate Pilgrim
William Shakespeare
Desire collides with deception across a landscape of pastoral beauty and sharp romantic disillusionment.
The pearl lagoon
Charles Nordhoff
The call of the Pacific Ocean acts as a siren song for a restless youth, leading him from a quiet California valley to the perilous, sun-drenched depths of a remote pearl lagoon.
The Pilgrims of Hope and Chants for Socialists
William Morris
A country romance transforms into a stark encounter with urban poverty and revolutionary struggle, binding personal devotion to a grand vision of human liberation.
The Piper: A Play in Four Acts
Josephine Preston Peabody
When a wandering player rids a medieval town of its plague of rats, the greedy burgesses refuse to pay him his thousand guilders—so he pipes their children away to a mountain hideout.
The Plague
Teddy Keller
A sudden, invisible illness incapacitates the country, leaving a forgotten military office to trace a mystery that evades every standard epidemiological rule.
The Planet with No Nightmare
Jim Harmon
Bound by low gravity and lower light, a three-man mapping expedition encounters a landscape where native animals instantly drop dead, only to rise again when left unobserved.
The Prisoners of Mainz
Alec Waugh
A captive’s life turns on small things—a line of poetry, a tin of dried vegetables, and the slow, inevitable approach of peace.
The Privateersman
Frederick Marryat
A sailor recounts a turbulent life defined by capture, survival, and the blurred lines between legal privateering and the desperation of the high seas.
The real Australia
Alfred Buchanan
An unvarnished, direct study of early twentieth-century nationhood that strips away romantic myth to examine the emerging character of a continent.
The reformation in Poland
Paul Fox
A shift in religious thought and political power swept sixteenth-century Europe, but its course in Poland followed a unique path shaped by social and economic realities.
The Rising Tide
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
A headstrong young woman’s fierce fight for personal independence crashes into the quiet routines, rigid expectations, and unspoken heartbreaks of her traditional family.
The sacred theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 2)
Thomas Burnet
A grand natural history of the universe envisions the Earth melting into a fiery ruin before rebuilding itself into an everlasting paradise.
The Scarecrow, and Other Stories
G. Ranger (Gwendolyn Ranger) Wormser
Bound by the quiet terror of human isolation, these tales explore how fragile the mind becomes when confronted with the uncanny, the unseen, and the unspoken.
The Secret Play
Ralph Henry Barbour
A sidelined teenager with a sharp mind and a quiet will takes the reins of his high school football team, transforming a disorganized squad through intellect, strategy, and sheer tactical patience.
The Sheep Eaters
William A. (William Alonzo) Allen
High in the crags of the Rocky Mountains, an extinct civilization left its history etched onto granite walls, guarded by a single surviving elder.
The Subspecies of the Mountain Chickadee
Joseph Grinnell
A examination of avian geographic variation reveals how mountain ranges shape subtle evolutionary boundaries across Western North America.
The Thirty Years War
Friedrich Schiller
When a local Bohemian revolt escalates into a continent-wide struggle, European princes and foreign powers clash across decades of devastation in a ruthless bid for religious dominance and political survival.
The Time of Roses
L. T. Meade
A young woman who sells her authorial voice to survive in London finds that deceit pays high immediate dividends but exacts a terrible toll on the soul.
The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ: A Devotional History of Our Lord's Passion
James Stalker
A quiet gravity hangs over this deliberate step-by-step examination of the most painful hours in the Gospels.
The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D.: Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection. Carefully Reported, and Compiled from the Written Statements of the Court and the Counsel
Unknown
A Northern physician visits Washington, D.C., carrying private botanical samples and anti-slavery pamphlets, only to find himself arrested, targeted by a mob, and tried for inciting a violent slave rebellion.
The War-Workers
E. M. Delafield
Self-sacrificing patriotism becomes an instrument of vanity when a Director’s real devotion is reserved for her own image.
The Wentworth Letter
Smith, Joseph, Jr.
A young farm hand seeks religious truth, encounters heavenly messengers in upstate New York, unearths an ancient recorded history on golden plates, and constructs a resilient, rapidly spreading faith amidst relentless frontier persecution.
The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 131, February, 1909
Various
A lone bull whale flees as a pack of thresher sharks tears his mate to pieces in the open ocean; thousands of miles away, an English gentleman perches atop a bookcase in the dead of night to escape twenty squirming coral snakes flung through his bedroom window. Across the globe, high-altitude Lakeland mountaineers…
The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys
Gulielma Zollinger
Determined to keep her family together after her husband's death, an impoverished Irish widow guides her seven sons through the trials of hard work and self-reliance in a small Midwestern town.
The Yellow House
E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
A dark secret pulls a quiet English village into a tangled net of unspoken pasts, hidden identities, and sudden violence.
Thoth: A Romance
J. Shield (Joseph Shield) Nicholson
A mysterious emissary offers safety from a dying city, drawing an Athenian woman into a hidden world where supreme intellect has declared war on human emotion.