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Birds and All Nature, Vol. 4, No. 1, July 1898: Illustrated by Color Photography
Various
Observing a courtship flight above the marsh, tracking a pack of wolves across winter plains, or tending a pet armadillo in a hospital ward all stem from the same singular impulse: the desire to witness the living world up close.
Bowery Life
Chuck Connors
Every street has its legend, but turn-of-the-century Chatham Square belongs entirely to Chuck Connors, a prize-fighting raconteur who transforms the rowdy, smoke-filled alleys of New York’s Bowery into a theatrical stage for high-spirited survival and street-corner philosophy.
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm
Laura Lee Hope
An earnest small boy and his bright sister venture from their seaside home across the countryside to their grandfather's farm, discovering that simple summer travels often turn into marvelous local adventures.
Captain Lucy and Lieutenant Bob
Aline Havard
An army daughter on Governor's Island watches her family scatter to the European front and learns that courage is a quiet, daily discipline.
Catalogue of the Retrospective Loan Exhibition of European Tapestries
San Francisco Museum of Art
Woven threads of wool, silk, and gold trace the shifting artistic ideals of European civilization across four centuries of monumental textile art.
Clergymen of the Church of England
Anthony Trollope
A gentle, clear-eyed examination of the nineteenth-century Victorian clergy reveals a human workforce navigating ancient hierarchies, shifting political landscapes, and the quiet absurdities of an established institution.
Constance Dunlap
Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
A desperate woman turns her sharp intelligence against a dishonest world, using her mastery of forgery, disguise, and criminal psychology to save doomed men and outwit the relentless detective who pursues her.
Contes et légendes. 1re Partie
H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
A simple magic runs through these old tales, where a kind word earns a golden harvest and cruel vanity ends in the deep, cold sea.
Damned
E. S. (Ethel Smith) Dorrance
In a dark, electric-lit underworld, a newly arrived woman must narrate her earthly misfortunes to a sardonic Satan to determine her eternal destination.
Dave Dawson on the Russian Front
Robert Sidney Bowen
Behind the Eastern Front lies a shadow war of double agents, stolen identities, and high-stakes aerial reconnaissance.
Deaf and Dumb!: Third Edition
Elizabeth Sandham
A country visit connects a prosperous family with a poor cottage household whose children cannot hear or speak, sparking a determination to secure them an education.
Dick the Bank Boy
Frank V. Webster
A hard-working boy tackles odd jobs to support his widowed mother, only to find himself accused of theft when securities vanish from the bank where he works.
Doomsday on Ajiat
Neil R. Jones
A human mind preserved in a cosmic coffin wakes millions of years after Earth has died, joining a race of mechanical explorers on a journey toward a sun about to explode.
Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 3
Lyndon Orr
Bound by a wild, perilous frontier, two lovers test the fragile boundaries between pioneer freedom and civil social rules.
Fifty Per Cent Prophet
Randall Garrett
He is a fraud whose visions keep coming true, and the government agencies watching him cannot decide whether to lock him up or make him a director.
From Aldershot to Pretoria
William E. Sellers
Faith and duty collide on the dusty South African veldt as British soldiers and chaplains carry their spiritual devotion alongside their rifles.
George Washington Carver National Monument Junior Ranger Activity Book: The Scientist
United States. National Park Service
A hands-on invitation to historical discovery, this park activity book transforms young readers into active investigators of George Washington Carver’s remarkable legacy in science, agriculture, and art.
German Influence on British Cavalry
Erskine Childers
Outdated doctrines put armies at risk, and relying on foreign models can blind military leaders to hard-won practical experience.
Great Porter Square: A Mystery. v. 1
B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
A dark room in a run-down London lodging house yields a corpse, setting off a sensational press frenzy that ensnares the innocent and hides a far darker web of greed, deception, and long-buried family betrayal.
Hall of Mirrors
Fredric Brown
A young mathematician vanishes from a sunny patio, only to wake in a windowless room with a letter that explains he has traveled fifty years into his own future.
Helps and hints for Hallowe'en
Laura Rountree Smith
An ancient autumn festival comes alive through classroom stages, paper cutouts, and lighthearted theatrics.
Here and There in London
J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
An observant guide wanders from the gilded halls of Parliament to the subterranean misery of cheap theaters, asking what holds a fractured metropolis together. James Ewing Ritchie maps mid-nineteenth-century London not through monuments, but through the daily routines of its politicians, journalists, traders,…
Hidden Treasure: The Story of a Chore Boy Who Made the Old Farm Pay
John Thomas Simpson
An energetic young nephew revitalizes a dilapidated Pennsylvania homestead by introducing modern engineering, systematic accounting, and forward-thinking financial strategy to his reluctant uncle.
Hilda's Home: A Story of Woman's Emancipation
Rosa Graul
In a society bound by traditional norms, a group of brave women and men dares to break free from patriarchal coercion to establish a community grounded in self-ownership and equal liberty.
How to See a Play
Richard Burton
A spectator's guide to the theater, teaching audiences how to evaluate playwriting, appreciate staging, and demand better drama.
In Story-land
Elizabeth Harrison
Kindness and moral courage serve as quiet compasses in a series of timeless fables for young readers.
Introduction to Sally
Elizabeth Von Arnim
A shopkeeper’s daughter possesses a beauty so staggering that it attracts overwhelming crowds, drives a high-minded scholar into a frantic marriage, and throws polite society into total disarray.
King Edward's realm: Story of the making of the Empire
C. S. (Charles Sherwill) Dawe
A history of how a small island nation grew into a global realm through naval skill, trading ambition, military force, and relentless colonial enterprise.
Lawrence Clavering
A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
A greenhorn heir takes up a stolen estate and a secret cause, only to learn that the hardest debt to discharge is the one he owes to his own conscience.
Lion yarn book
Lion Brand Yarn (Company)
A series of exact geometric directives transforms simple hanks of wool into the textured, highly wearable fashions of early twentieth-century America.
Little Erik of Sweden
Madeline Brandeis
A golden-voiced peasant boy schemes to save his beloved estate and stop a high-born marriage through ghostly trickery, unexpected allies, and a journey across Sweden.
Mammals of Mount McKinley National Park
Adolph Murie
Cold tundra winds sweep across frozen subsoil where wild creatures rule without human interference. Within this subarctic refuge, every animal from giant bear to tiny shrew claims equal standing in a living ecosystem.
Manual of Ship Subsidies: An Historical Summary of the Systems of All Nations
Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe) Bacon
Across oceans and centuries, maritime powers have spent lavishly to conquer trade routes, turning national treasuries into instruments of economic and naval warfare.
Masterman and Son
W. J. (William James) Dawson
A stubborn, self-made titan of London industry clashes with his idealistic son over ethics, casting the young man into poverty and the vast expanse of North America.
Matilda Montgomerie
Major (John) Richardson
A web of tragic passion and wartime duty entangles two brothers along the Canadian border, where love for a vengeful woman proves more destructive than the clash of empires.
Mavericks
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
Shadowed by a bloody stagecoach robbery and two hundred pounds of stolen raw gold, a Southwestern valley becomes a battleground of buried parentage, range theft, and sudden murder.
Mazeppa
Frederick Whishaw
A young Cossack nobleman navigates the treacherous power struggles of seventeenth-century Russia, discovering that winning a woman's heart and surviving political intrigue require equal parts steel, luck, and cunning.
Meadowlark Basin
B. M. Bower
A quiet valley hiding stolen gold becomes the battleground for a young cowboy fighting to save an abused orphan and protect his range.
Memoirs of Doctor Burney (Vol. 2 of 3): Arranged from his own manuscripts, from family papers, and from personal recollections by his daughter, Madame d'Arblay
Fanny Burney
In the crowded drawing rooms of late eighteenth-century London, a distinguished musicologist and his sharp-eyed daughter capture the famous, the brilliant, and the eccentric at their most vulnerable.
Men of Mawm
W. (William) Riley
A scheming outsider's ambition collides with the steadfast pride of a Yorkshire village, where buried gold and bitter rivalries test the limits of love, loyalty, and redemption.
Morale: A Story of the War of 1941-43
Murray Leinster
Panic strikes the American eastern seaboard as a massive, near-invulnerable enemy war machine rolls ashore, laying waste to infrastructure and crushing civilian spirit.
More "Short Sixes"
H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner
A small-town scholar buying a home sight unseen finds himself hosting a displaced horse in his new kitchen.
Mrs Peixada
Henry Harland
A young attorney takes on a mysterious inheritance case and unwittingly falls in love with the woman he is hired to track down.
My robot
Henry Slesar
Separated from human warmth by his father's obsessive work, a young boy turns to a mechanical creation for solace and protection, discovering too late the dark cost of total obedience.
Nancy Brandon
Lilian Garis
A teenaged girl buys a sleepy village store for a summer lark, only to find herself managing neighborhood chaos, secret chimneypiece vaults, and a vanishing professor.
Not Without Thorns
Mrs. Molesworth
A young girl steps blindly into an impulsive marriage, only to discover that the romantic ideal she chased is built on quiet misunderstandings, unspoken resentments, and the painful weight of unexpected compromise.
"O Thou, My Austria!"
Ossip Schubin
A young girl’s heart breaks open against the grand, indifferent backdrop of rural estates, garrison towns, and the suffocating expectations of the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy.
Poems
William Anderson
A devout, quiet contemplation of natural landscapes gives way to a restless search for spiritual certainty and moral order.