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Enchantment
Harold MacGrath
The magic of chance turns everyday Manhattan streets into stage sets for romance, mix-ups, and sudden midnight rescue.
Exposition of the Apostles' Creed
James Dodds
A systematic, sentence-by-sentence journey through historic Christian confession offers a steady, thoughtful guide to understanding the central pillars of traditional faith.
"Fin Tireur": 1905
Robert Hichens
A sun-baked roadside post becomes a psychological arena as an isolated French exile reveals the horrific, impulsive act that sealed his permanent desert solitude.
First harvests
Frederic Jesup Stimson
A biting portrait of Gilded Age ambition, this novel follows the intersection of high-society climbers, cynical financiers, and the disillusioned souls who drift in their wake. It is a sharp, atmospheric examination of a society discarding its old moral foundations for the cold, glittering allure of wealth.
Frank and Fanny
Moore, Bloomfield H., Mrs.
Two orphan siblings discover the quiet magic of New England farm life and learn that true happiness comes from patience, small acts of kindness, and respecting the living world.
From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War
G. W. (George Warrington) Steevens
A journalist travels to South Africa on the brink of conflict, recording a nation’s slide into open warfare with sharp observation and mounting dread.
Geographic Variation in the Harvest Mouse, Reithrodontomys megalotis, On the Central Great Plains And in Adjacent Regions
J. Knox Jones
Across the expansive grasslands of the American West, a quiet tiny rodent reveals how subtle geography shapes the living world.
Grace Harlowe's Problem
Josephine Chase
When a high-minded young woman puts her duty to others above her own happiness, she risks losing the very life she was trying to protect.
Guilt of the Brass Thieves
Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
A fiery river emergency, stolen factory metals, and two fiercely competitive teenagers converge in this fast-paced mid-century mystery.
Harper's Young People, November 2, 1880: An Illustrated Monthly
Various
Lighthearted entertainment and practical instruction meet in an illustrated Victorian periodical designed to inform, amuse, and connect late-nineteenth-century children across a rapidly changing American landscape.
Her own people
B. M. (Bithia Mary) Croker
A polished young heiress leaves the brilliant ballrooms of European society for an Anglo-Indian outpost, only to discover that her true origin is tied to the very family she believes she is visiting as an outsider.
His Sombre Rivals
Edward Payson Roe
Two lifelong friends love the same woman, only for war to shatter their triangle and leave the survivor to rescue her from the brink of total madness.
History of the Catholic Church in Paterson, N.J.: with an Account of the Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Establishment of St. John's Church
Charles A. (Charles Anthony) Shriner
Driven by steady Irish and German immigration, a small silk-manufacturing town in northern New Jersey transforms its humble, single-room mission into a thriving network of cathedrals, parochial schools, and civic institutions.
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Bret Harte
Bret Harte
The life of the California frontier is captured here through the eyes of a master storyteller who saw both the grit of the mining camp and the fading elegance of the Spanish missions. This collection serves as a comprehensive gateway to an expansive body of work that defined the Western literary imagination.
Inside Earth
Poul Anderson
Under deep cover on Earth, an alien agent orchestrates a human rebellion designed to fail, only to fall in love with one of its leaders.
John Herring: A West of England Romance. Volume 2 (of 3)
S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
A proud, displaced heiress navigating mid-nineteenth-century Devonshire finds her delicate sensibilities tested by predatory swindlers, broken engagements, and the unspoken sacrifices of a devoted suitor.
Jovinian: A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome
William Henry Giles Kingston
A gripping tale of faith, corruption, and resilience in early Christian Rome.
Junior Achievement
William M. Lee
An everyday junior high science teacher steps in to supervise a summer business club, expecting to make simple wax polishes, only to find his young students quietly revolutionizing commercial tech.
Kinship and Social Organisation
W. H. R. (William Halse Rivers) Rivers
Societies across the globe invent drastically different words for relatives, and those choices directly mirror their fundamental social systems, marriage rules, and legal obligations.
Landscape and Song
Unknown
A delicate interplay of nature's beauty and human emotion lingers long after the final verse fades away.
Launch the lifeboat!
Walton, O. F., Mrs.
A child’s innocent question on a sunny beach opens the door to a quiet, profound reflection on survival, memory, and faith.
Life on the Mississippi, Part 6
Mark Twain
A vast, mud-stained river sweeps through a changing South, carrying memory, tragedy, and the quiet joke of a altered world.
Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe
Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
A solitary child, confined to a quiet room by illness, travels the globe through the power of a giant sphere and her own vivid imagination.
Mary Louise at Dorfield
Emma Speed Sampson
Postwar quiet comes slowly to a small town where ambitious young women, a clever girl detective, and a pair of charming swindlers collide over stolen goods and wedding plans.
Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718)
Daniel Defoe
A Scottish soldier spends twenty-eight years serving foreign powers, slowly discovering that the crown he fights for is merely a pawn in another nation’s political games.
Miss Lochinvar: A Story for Girls
Marion Ames Taggart
An unpretentious girl from a small Kansas town brings warmth, practical sense, and steady affection into her wealthy, distant relatives' cluttered New York home.
Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories
Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
A quiet dignity shines through these portraits of small-town dreamers, solitary spinsters, and wandering rogues who stumble into unexpected moments of grace.
More Cricket Songs
Norman Gale
A joyful, nostalgic celebration of English cricket, this collection captures the game’s simple pleasures, crisp sunny mornings, dynamic heroes, and enduring camaraderie through energetic light verse.
More E. K. Means: Is This a Title? It Is Not. It Is the Name of a Writer of Negro Stories, Who Has Made Himself So Completely the Writer of Negro Stories That This Second Book, Like the First, Needs No Title
E. K. (Eldred Kurtz) Means
A sleepy Louisiana hamlet becomes a stage where local white authority and an interconnected Black community test boundaries through comedic misunderstandings, runaway panics, and absurd schemes.
Music in Medicine
Sidney Licht
A clinical proposal to treat the human body with melody and rhythm instead of mere sentiment.
Nick Carter Stories No. 160, October 2, 1915: The Yellow Label
Nicholas (House name) Carter
A slick High Society crime scheme collides with a crusader's camera war, revealing the rot hidden behind Gotham's high walls and small-town prestige.
Normandy Picturesque
Henry Blackburn
Old timber-framed dwellings leaning across shadow-drenched riverways and ancient cathedral towers give way to dusty country roads, quiet market stalls, and seaside cliffs. A journey through nineteenth-century Normandy reveals a landscape caught between rustic tradition and modern change.
Nouvellettes of the musicians
E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) Ellet
A brilliant flame of artistic devotion burns through these biographical tales, illuminating how music transforms fragile human lives into lasting monuments of spiritual power and beauty.
Over the Top With the Third Australian Division
G. P. (George Percival) Cuttriss
Bound by an unshakeable belief in their cause, soldiers transform the terror and dirt of Western Front trenches into a testament of resilience, camaraderie, and sudden, unexpected warmth.
Overdue: The Story of a Missing Ship
Harry Collingwood
A seventeenth-year-old midshipman assumes command of an abandoned emigrant vessel, navigating mutiny, uncharted seas, and island exile to bring his charge home.
Paying Off: Deep Waters, Part 2
W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
A self-important London night-watchman gets tricked into paying off the petty financial losses of a schooner's crew under the guise of an elaborate stolen-money scheme.
Prize Money: Sailor's Knots, Part 10
W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
A scheming cottager dupes his village neighbors twice over in a hilarious game of wits spun inside an English country pub.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914
Various
A weekly kaleidoscope of Edwardian Britain at its zenith, this satirical issue captures a society blithely poking fun at its own grandest institutions and smallest absurdities.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28
Various
A satirical slice of post-World War I British life captures the absurdities, social anxieties, and everyday trivialities of a nation attempting to rebuild its normal routine.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 12, 1891
Various
A mirror of late-Victorian domestic life, political theater, and urban anxieties held up through the sharp lens of satire.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919
Various
A country emerging blinking into the light of post-war peace finds itself caught between solemn democratic ideals and the sheer, chaotic silliness of everyday domestic life.
Quicksilver Sue
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
A passionate girl’s imagination outpaces her common sense when a stylish newcomer turns a sleepy town upside down.
Red, White, Blue Socks. Part Second: Being the Second Book of the Series
Sarah L. Barrow
Armed with oversized enthusiasm and wooden muskets, a regiment of schoolboys sets up camp to play Civil War soldiers for a summer week.
Rhymes from the Russian
John Pollen
A window into the Russian soul, opened by a translator who matches strict fidelity with surprising lyricism.
Romantic Spain: A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II)
John Augustus O'Shea
Traversing the war-torn highways and sun-baked garrisons of the Iberian peninsula, John Augustus O'Shea delivers a sharp, irreverent chronicle of a land split between ancient devotions and modern violent upheavals.
Rose MacLeod
Alice Brown
Bound by New England tradition and shaken by incoming radical ideas, a quietly passionate community grapples with duty, truth, and the deceptive allure of grand romantic visions.
Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound
Alice B. Emerson
A young American nurse and a captive aviator navigate sabotage, air raids, and a treacherous ocean crossing in a high-stakes struggle to return home from the European front.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1: Great Britain and Ireland, part 1
Unknown
A thoughtful compilation of travel writing offers readers a rich virtual tour across Great Britain and Ireland, using historic architecture, literary landmarks, and natural scenery to bridge the past with the present.