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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.
Gibraltar
Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
The solitary cliff at the edge of the world becomes a bustling nexus of global empires, where military discipline meets the quiet routines of an isolated garrison town.
Good Intentions: Ship's Company, Part 3
W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
A night-watchman’s scheme to save a slippery sea captain from two simultaneous courtships collapses into a tangle of absurd misunderstandings, locked doors, and an extraordinarily furious wife.
Head of the Lower School
Dorothea Moore
When a poor Scottish girl wins a scholarship to a grand boarding school on the treacherous Lincolnshire coast, her initial struggle to fit in uncovers a sinister plot of local espionage.
Henry the Second
Alice Stopford Green
A monarch who spoke no English and spent his life in foreign camps inadvertently built the legal, judicial, and political foundations of the modern English-speaking world.
Herd Record of the Association of Breeders of Thorough-Bred Neat Stock: Short Horns, Ayrshires and Devons
Various
Behind the meticulous lineage of nineteenth-century livestock lies a quiet, determined crusade to map the pure bloodlines that transformed American agriculture.
History of "Billy the Kid"
Charles A. Siringo
Born in the New York slums and dead before twenty-two, Billy the Kid blazed a trail of cold-blooded kills and impossible escapes across the Southwest. Charles A. Siringo tells his story with the lean, unvarnished grit of a man who rode the same trails.
History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 2 (of 3): Third Edition
Kaye, John William, Sir
An empire overreaches, a puppet king falters, and a retreating army perishes in the icy mountain passes. Sir John William Kaye’s masterly chronicle captures the full, horrifying trajectory of Britain’s disastrous intervention in nineteenth-century Afghanistan.
Hugo: A Fantasia on Modern Themes
Arnold Bennett
Behind the colossal retail palace of London's west end, an obsessive shopkeeper constructs a private paradise that proves entirely vulnerable to passion, intrigue, and crime.
In Wicklow and West Kerry
J. M. (John Millington) Synge
A wandering writer travels through remote Irish hills and coastal fringes, recording the voices, weather, and enduring traditions of isolated communities.
Is sex necessary?
James Thurber
Sex has become unnecessarily complicated, turning a simple biological impulse into an exhausting, paper-heavy obsession.
Left on the Labrador: A Tale of Adventure Down North
Dillon Wallace
A young boy's adventure in the rugged wilderness of Labrador, where survival, friendship, and courage shape his journey.
Lightning Jo, the Terror of the Santa Fe Trail: A Tale of the Present Day
Edward Sylvester Ellis
A desperate courier, a besieged pioneer train, and a bare-knuckled prairie scout collision in a whirlwind of frontier peril.
List of post offices in Canada, with the names of the postmasters ... 1864
Canada. Post Office Department
An official record of infrastructure and human connection, this 1864 directory catalogs the post offices, local postmasters, and operational shifts shaping Canada’s expanding communication network at the midpoint of the nineteenth century.
Married Life
T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
A young bride hides her face in a bedroom pillow to test her husband's sympathy, only to listen in silent dismay as he falls fast asleep.
Marvel Carbureter and Heat Control: As Used on Series 691 Nash Sixes Booklet S
Anonymous
A clear eye for the mechanics of internal combustion guides every page of this manual, turning cold cast iron and fuel line adjustments into a study in physical precision.
Moment of Truth
Basil Wells
A young woman wakes into a comforting childhood memory, unaware that her mind is building a sanctuary to hide her from a bleak life on Mars.
Motor Boat Boys on the Great Lakes
Louis Arundel
A summer voyage across unpredictable Great Lakes waters tests a crew of teenage boys as they navigate sudden storms, wild animal encounters, and rival boaters.
Motor Boat Boys' River Chase
Louis Arundel
A spring cruise down the Mississippi River turns into a high-stakes pursuit when six teenage chums cross paths with a pair of fugitive bank robbers.
Mrs. Ames
E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Behind the trimmed hedges and polished front doors of an Edwardian English town, everyday life unfolds as a low-stakes battlefield of social standing and hidden longings.
My empress
Marfa Mouchanow
An intimate, clear-eyed record of court life, this memoir follows Russia’s last Empress through the quiet friction, private griefs, and total political collapse that defined her reign.
My Impressions of America
Margot Asquith
A swift, sharp-eyed chronicle of a whirlwind lecture tour that captures a nation in the throes of Prohibition and booming modernity.
Observations on insanity
John Haslam
Observations of human minds unraveling reveal how thin the boundary remains between clear reason and unseated thought.
Ole Mammy's Torment
Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
A bright, energetic boy tests his grandmother's patience, until a dying mentor's quiet example gives his boundless spirit a lasting, noble purpose.