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Three plays by Frederic Hebbel
Friedrich Hebbel
Human tragedy unfolds when rigid honor, political ambition, and moral arrogance blind people to the quiet dignity of human devotion.
Through Apache Land
Edward Sylvester Ellis
Across the sun-baked bluffs of the Rio Gila, two seasoned scouts and a high-spirited boy wage a desperate battle for survival against a relentless Apache war party.
Thy Name Is Woman
Bryce Walton
Bound by gravity and abandoned by women who fled to Mars, Earth’s remaining men face extinction—until one soldier undertakes a harrowing bio-chemical mutation to cross the void and uncover their secret.
To the Highest Bidder
Florence Morse Kingsley
Desperate to clear her late father’s debts and keep her family farm, a proud young woman puts herself up at public auction, only to find the man who buys her contract wants far more than her labor.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3
James Athearn Jones
These gathered legends preserve the vanishing echoes of indigenous belief, weaving supernatural encounters and historical memory into a solemn tapestry of the American wilderness. They offer a window into an era where myth and landscape were inseparable.
Trial and Triumph
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
A fiery, orphaned Black girl grows into a determined young woman, fighting racial prejudice and personal heartbreak to build a life of principle, intellect, and moral purpose.
Turning Point
Alfred Coppel
In a future world controlled by fear and prejudice, a single custodian of humanity’s secret must choose between protecting a moribund human elite or unleashing the next stage of evolutionary progress.
Watching on the Rhine
Violet R. (Violet Rosa) Markham
An Englishwoman enters conquered post-war Germany not to celebrate victory, but to observe with steady compassion the human cost of defeat.
Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 1 Timothy
Richard Francis Weymouth
This foundational text serves as a direct manual for church leadership, offering timeless guidance on governance, personal conduct, and the preservation of core spiritual doctrines amidst a changing world.
Where the Path Breaks
C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
A wounded, forgotten soldier returns from the dead to write a book for the woman he loved—only to discover that his silence has set in motion a tragic second marriage.
Windyridge
W. (William) Riley
Seeking respite from her cramped Chelsea lodgings, an urban woman yields to a sudden impulse, moves to a quiet moorland village, opens a portrait studio, and discovers a deeply interconnected community that alters her outlook on life.
Yorke The Adventurer
Louis Becke
In the lawless 1870s Pacific, two traders meet a solitary seaman whose single-handed survival on a reef-broken cutter masks a past as turbulent as the surrounding seas.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
A child's gaze rests upon a world where mechanical ponies, ancestral ghosts, and forest miracles belong to the very same landscape.
A Study In Shadows
William John Locke
A young woman enters a pension of quiet casualties, where love and dishonor shift the ground beneath every life.
A Whim, and Its Consequences: Collection of British Authors Vol. CXIV
G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
A proud young man, ruined by a altered legacy, hides his identity behind a head gardener’s coat, only to find himself entangled in an accusation of murder.
Abury, A Temple of the British Druids, With Some Others, Described
William Stukeley
Massive megaliths scattered across the Wiltshire landscape are decoded as a deliberate, sacred monument of primordial geometry and lost ancient faith.
Adventures of Buffalo Bill from boyhood to manhood
Prentiss Ingraham
An action-packed dime novel chronicles the early life of William F. Cody, transforming a real frontier scout into an invincible folk hero who faces down outlaws, wild horses, Mormons, and native warriors across the American West.
Allworth Abbey
Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
A young woman accused of a heinous crime finds her life saved when a courageous friend risks everything to break her out of prison.
An Irish Crazy-Quilt: Smiles and tears, woven into song and story
Arthur M. Forrester
Struggling tenants, absurd officials, and fiery patriots collide across a landscape of political upheaval, absurd local rivalries, and unyielding national pride.
An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids
Anthony Trollope
A formidable single woman tests the patience of a British family during a tour of the Egyptian Pyramids, pursuing free travel while romance quietly blossoms around her.
Anarchism is not enough
Laura Riding
A sharp, unsparing assault on the comforting fictions of modern culture, this critical tour de force strips away social conventions to reveal the fierce independence of the individual mind.
April twilights, and other poems
Willa Cather
Longing and memory pulse through these verses, where classical ruins, urban backstreets, and open western plains all mirror the quiet ache of human passage.
Aunt Harding's Keepsakes
Anonymous
Two young sisters discover that the truest gift is not the handsome object left on a shelf, but the quiet, daily devotion that changes a human heart.
Autumnal leaves: tales and sketches in prose and rhyme
Lydia Maria Child
Tender green shoots push through prairie soil, while human hearts struggle against social constraints, cruelty, and the quiet weight of memory.
Balaam and His Master, and Other Sketches and Stories
Joel Chandler Harris
A set of regional sketches reveals the Reconstruction South through its quiet acts of loyalty, deep personal rivalries, and tragic misunderstandings.
Baseball Joe, Captain of the Team
Lester Chadwick
A veteran star pitcher faces fielding slumps, locker-room sabotage, and personal anxieties while attempting to lead the New York Giants to a National League pennant.
Bijou
Gyp
A bright stem of provincial high society conceals a quiet, devastating force in this sharp nineteenth-century study of vanity.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, Number 414, April, 1850
Various
A heated parliamentary debate on imperial economic decay yields to high-society Parisian satire, mid-century agricultural spats, poetic lamentations of Highland displacement, and an exacting textual dissection of Shakespearean stagecraft.
Bobby of the Labrador
Dillon Wallace
A young boy found adrift in an Eskimo skiff grows into a self-reliant hunter in the unforgiving Canadian Arctic.
Bonnie Scotland and what we owe her
William Elliot Griffis
A land of rugged beauty and fiery convictions shapes a resilient people whose global influence far outweighs their native numbers.
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 19 (of 20)
Charles Sumner
An unyielding senator wages a relentless constitutional battle in post-Civil War Washington, demanding that the United States honor its founding promise of complete, uncompromising equality for every citizen.
Christian's Mistake
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
A young woman's second marriage to a much older man brings her into a household of motherless children, where she must navigate family tensions and her own past to find her place.
Christianity and Problems of To-day: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William Bross
John H. (John Huston) Finley
Faith must not retreat into the shadows of personal piety, but step into the light to guide a world fractured by war and economic strain.
Cicero
W. Lucas (William Lucas) Collins
A statesman navigates the perilous collapse of a republic, wielding eloquent speech to fight political corruption, survive bloody purges, and construct an enduring philosophical legacy.
Colour Measurement and Mixture
Abney, William de Wiveleslie, Sir
A rigorous Victorian investigation into the physics of light transforms the elusive sensation of colour into an exact, measurable science through precise optical laboratory experiments.
Company K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry: Roster and Record, April 24, 1861-July 16, 1865
Andrew Brown
One company of Midwestern volunteers leaves home in 1861, fighting through the bloody center of the American Civil War until its survivors return to farm, build, and age across the expanding nation.
Concerning "Bully" Hayes: From "The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton, and Other Stories" - 1902
Louis Becke
A glimpse into the adventurous life of "Bully" Hayes, a notorious yet charismatic figure of the Pacific in the 19th century.
Cork: Its Origin and Industrial Uses
Gilbert Erwin Stecher
A modest tree of the Mediterranean basin yields one of industrial history's most versatile, underappreciated natural materials.
Doing My Bit For Ireland
Margaret Skinnider
A woman rides into the fires of the 1916 Dublin Easter Rising, carrying a rifle and a camera. She leaves behind a vivid, unvarnished record of how a small band of rebels took on an empire.
Essays on early ornithology and kindred subjects
James Roxburgh McClymont
A meticulous examination of historical bird lore and early maritime logs reveals how empirical observation gradually disentangled real avian species from the webs of myth and linguistic confusion.
Fanny Lambert: A Novel
H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
A lighthearted Edwardian romantic comedy, the book balances money troubles with sunny charm as a capering cast of artist-bohemians, eccentric elders, and rigid country gentry cross paths across London.
Fate Knocks at the Door: A Novel
Will Levington Comfort
A far-ranging soul wanders from Asian trails to Manhattan salons before confronting his true destiny in love and spiritual purpose.
Florida trails as seen from Jacksonville to Key West and from November to April inclusive
Winthrop Packard
When winter falls over the Northern states, a natural philosopher turns his eyes toward the equator, following the long migration of birds along the Atlantic seaboard into the sunlit waterways of the American South.
Food for the Lambs
Charles Ebert Orr
A gentle, practical manual of early-twentieth-century Christian devotion, designed to steady the step of young believers setting out on the path of faith.
Friend Island
Francis Stevens
In a matriarchal future where women command the seas, a hardened old mariner spins a yarn of shipwreck, a sentient island, and a courtship ruined by bad manners.
Geographic Distribution and Taxonomy of the Chipmunks of Wyoming
John A. White
Across the high plains and alpine peaks of the American West, tiny mammals map the subtle shifts of geography, altitude, and deep evolutionary time.
Geordie's Tryst: A Tale of Scottish Life
Janet Milne Rae
Driven by a quiet impulse, a young Scottish girl sets out into a chilly spring wind, seeking to change a life she barely knows.
Gettysburg: Stories of the Red Harvest and the Aftermath
Elsie Singmaster
War arrives not as a distant political abstraction, but as a sudden, physical shock that tears through kitchens, shatters quiet pastures, and echoes down through half a century of human memory.