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Old Wine and New: Occasional Discourses
Joseph Cross
A collection of mid-nineteenth-century pulpit addresses balances traditional Christian orthodoxy with lush rhetorical art, urging believers to exchange rigid ritualism for an intimate, personal relationship with the divine.
Pee-wee Harris, F.O.B. Bridgeboro
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
A Boy Scout's adventures in a relay race, a flivver, and the great outdoors.
Phoenix
Marion Zimmer Bradley
An ordinary young man wakes to godlike telekinetic control over energy and matter, only to find that his terrifying raw power shatters his relationship and leaves him utterly isolated.
Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 3
Robert Bridges
Two historical dramas explore the volatile intersections of power, duty, and identity, charting the fall of a Roman emperor and the forced coming-of-age of a legendary Greek hero.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 148, February 3, 1915
Various
A snapshot of British humor from February 1915 captures a nation maintaining its stiff upper lip through sharp satire, absurdity, and quiet resolve.
Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890
Various
A sharp satirical gaze cast upon Victorian society captures the anxieties, grand ambitions, and absurdities of a changing world. Through parodies, comic plays, and social commentary, the volume exposes the gap between high imperial pretension and mundane human frailty.
Ralph Raymond's Heir
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
Driven by sudden wealth, a desperate merchant hires a calculating drug clerk to eliminate a rival and discard his young heir, only for their dark alliance to unravel through extortion, miraculous survival, and exposed secrets.
Rhoda of the Underground
Florence Finch Kelly
Across a divided nation on the brink of civil war, a young Northern woman must choose between her devotion to a handsome Southern slaveholder and her moral duty to the Underground Railroad.
Roses
Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828
Botanical cataloging becomes poetic devotion in this meticulous survey, where rigorous science bends the knee to the undisputed queen of the garden.
Samuell Gorton: A Forgotten Founder of our Liberties
Lewis G. (Lewis George) Janes
A fiercely independent thinker steps into the wilderness of colonial New England, challenging both civil magistrates and religious authorities to demand absolute freedom of conscience and strict rule of law.
School-Room Humour
T. J. (Thomas James) Macnamara
Childhood innocence collides hilariously with rigid schoolroom lessons in a work that turns classroom blunders into pure comedy.
Secreta Monita Societatis Jesu. The Secret Counsels of the Society of Jesus, in Latin and English
Unknown
A chilling blueprint for institutional subversion, this text lays bare a calculated system designed to manipulate wealth, political power, and religious devotion for singular group advancement.
Shadows of Shasta
Joaquin Miller
In the shadow of Mount Shasta, helpless people are hunted down under the cover of law, their only crime being that their presence frustrates greedy settlers and corrupt government agents.
Shrubs for Kansas Landscapes
Gary L. McDaniel
An essential guide to deliberate yard planning, this horticultural circular shows how choosing plants for purpose, scale, and environmental hardiness transforms unpredictable prairie conditions into a thriving home landscape.
Social life in England, 1750-1850
F. J. (Frederick John) Foakes-Jackson
A centuries-old fear of hidden Papistry, a doctor's son writing verse in the Suffolk mud, and a high-society trial that captivated a nation all reveal the hidden machinery of a lost English century.
Social life in old New Orleans
Eliza Ripley
A vanished world of grand parlors, hoopskirts, and riverboats comes back to life through the sharp, affectionate eyes of a woman who lived it.
State of the Union Addresses
Woodrow Wilson
A leader guides his country through peace, global war, and messy recovery while defining a nation's modern role on the world stage.
Tama
Onoto Watanna
Alone in a foreign land, a lonely American scholar finds his isolation shattered by an elusive outcast whose untamed life holds the power to redeem them both.
The abysmal invaders
Edmond Hamilton
Beneath a modern Illinois swamp lies a long-buried subterranean world, where intelligent scaled reptiles ride bloodthirsty dinosaurs and plot the sudden, fiery re-conquest of the earth's surface.
The adventures of Hernan Cortes, the conqueror of Mexico
Francis L. (Francis Lister) Hawks
A young Spanish adventurer sets sail for the New World, overthrows an empire through sheer cunning and ruthless resolve, and ends his days forgotten by the crown he enriched.
The American Missionary
Various
This collection provides a candid, primary-source window into the late-nineteenth-century philanthropic efforts of the American Missionary Association. It serves as a vital record of the era’s shifting attitudes toward education, race, and global evangelism.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
A nineteenth-century reader opens a fresh periodical and finds a world where European woodcuts, financial ruin, natural history, and uncompromising theology all jostle for space.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
A wartime collection of literature, political argument, and narrative fiction captures a nation grappling with its own identity at the onset of the American Civil War.
The Backwoods Boy
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
Born in a humble wilderness cabin, a self-taught frontier youth works his way from manual labor and small-town law offices to the White House, guiding a fractured nation through civil war with unyielding integrity.
The Bible, King James version, Book 42: Luke
Anonymous
An orderly history of divine promise and radical mercy, this narrative charts a life that begins in a manger and ends in an ascension.
The botanist's repository for new and rare plants
Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828
Unfolding through detailed Latin classifications and English translations, this work offers an exquisite botanical survey that captures the delicate, fleeting splendour of rare global flora in cultivation.
The Cause of the Charge of Balaclava
Thomas Morley
A former cavalry sergeant sets out to dismantle the romantic myths surrounding a legendary military disaster, offering a blunt, eyewitness correction to official history.
The crooked cross
Charles J. (Charles Judson) Dutton
A small-town summer vacation turns deadly when an eminent scientist is found murdered inside his locked octagon-shaped library.
The decadent
Ralph Adams Cram
An idealist surrenders to the beauty of a dying world, choosing art and stillness over a hopeless war for reform.
The Desert Trail
Dane Coolidge
Across a sun-baked border, two distinct worlds face each other: an American frontier town buzzing with fortune-hunters and a Mexican landscape torn apart by violent political upheaval and coveted gold.
The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock
Anna Katharine Green
A midnight gun fires in a quiet New York block, leaving a neighbor dead and a blind physician confessing to a crime no one believes he could physically commit.
The Economical Jewish Cook: A Modern Orthodox Recipe Book for Young Housekeepers
May Henry
In late-nineteenth-century London, a modest manual reframes traditional Jewish cookery through the lens of modern domestic science, proving that keeping a strictly kosher, observant home can be achieved on a tight budget.
The Experienced Angler
Robert Venables
A patient hand and a quiet mind will catch more fish than the most expensive tackle, provided you understand the water and respect the creature.
The First Man-Carrying Aeroplane Capable of Sustained Free Flight: Langley's Success as a Pioneer in Aviation: From the Smithsonian Report for 1914, pages 217-222, Publication 2329, 1915
Albert Francis Zahm
A luckless accident in 1903 sidelined a pioneering craft, but its design harbored the mechanics of true sustained flight.
The frontiersmen
Gustave Aimard
An adventurous traveler in the eighteenth-century wilderness meets a pioneer family whose quiet home on the border of Iroquois territory is about to become a battleground.
The Gilded Age, Part 7
Mark Twain
Speculative madness and political grift collide in a society where fortunes are chased on paper, laws are bought in secret, and moral ruin awaits anyone naive enough to believe the promises of the age.
The Girl Scout Pioneers
Lilian Garis
A small-town troop of Girl Scouts discovers that following their code leads to real-world mystery, missing badges, and forgotten girls in need of rescue.
The higher education of women
Emily Davies
Denying women a rigorous education wastes their intellect and leaves them adrift in adulthood with no meaningful outlet for their energies.
The Loss of the Australia: A narrative of the loss of the brig Australia by fire on her voyage from Leith to Sydney
Adam Yule
A night fire in the mid-Atlantic reduces a vessel to ashes, casting survivors into open boats with minimal water, where only discipline and faith stand between them and a desperate death upon the sea.
The Making of William Edwards
Banks, G. Linnaeus (George Linnaeus), Mrs.
When a grieving widow faces a steep Welsh mountain with five children and a farm to work, her young son’s silent fixation on stones and structure slowly lays the groundwork for a legendary architectural triumph.
The Mansion
Henry Van Dyke
The mansion of one’s soul is not built of stone, nor is it measured by the ledger of one’s earthly success. A life defined by careful calculation finds its true, humble inventory only when all worldly credit is stripped away.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829
Various
Demolishing a famous London landmark, soaring over the city in a hot-air balloon, and debating the proper way to steep a cup of tea all share equal space in this vintage snapshot of Regency-era British culture.
The New Ideal in Education: An Address Given Before the League of the Empire on July 16th, 1916
Nikolaj Velimirović
To end global conflict, humanity must stop trying to reform corrupted adults and instead re-engineer the way children are taught across the globe.
The Putnam Hall Cadets
Edward Stratemeyer
A boarding school filled with adventure, mystery, and the challenges of growing up.
The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition
Gerald Breckenridge
Three teenage chums join a Northern expedition, relying on their custom radio gear to navigate deadly wilderness ambushes, rogue outlaws, and sudden Arctic blizzards.
The Red Bicycle
Fergus Hume
A mysterious murder at a secluded mansion, a missing will, and a scarlet bicycle become the center of a tangled web of secrets in this classic Edwardian mystery.
The Smuggler's Cave
George A. Birmingham
A quaint English coastal village sets out to put on a amateur historical pageant, only to stumble into a genuine contraband ring hidden right under their feet.
The tale of Ferdinand Frog
Arthur Scott Bailey
An impeccably dressed amphibian bounds through the woods of Pleasant Valley, using absurd flair, outrageous bravado, and unflappable cheerfulness to smooth over every blunder he creates.