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The Two Dianas, Volume 2 (of 3)
Paul Meurice
A world of political betrayal, high-stakes military siege, and tragic double identity converges in this mid-sixteenth-century historical drama.
The Two Maps of Europe, and Some Other Aspects of the Great War
Hilaire Belloc
The shifting borders and military realities of the First World War define this analysis of a continent in crisis. It serves as a stark, contemporary snapshot of the conflict as it stood in the winter of 1914–15.
The Welding of the Race ("449"-1066)
Unknown
Centuries of conflict, religious conversion, and state-building transform scattered Germanic tribes into a single Anglo-Saxon kingdom before the cataclysm of 1066.
The wizard of light
David Ely
A senile optics genius sets out to destroy the art market by creating a machine that duplicates famous masterpieces down to the exact molecule.
The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Corinthians
Anonymous
A passionate leader writes to a fracturing community, wrestling with human weakness, personal rivalry, and spiritual pride to forge a unified vision of love and hope.
The Wrecking Master
Ralph Delahaye Paine
An honest, high-stakes sea adventure where teenage rivals and seasoned captains collide over a suspicious shipwreck along the Florida Reef.
Tom Slade with the Boys Over There
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
A pair of young Americans escapes a German prison camp and relies on scoutcraft, luck, and sheer nerve to survive behind enemy lines during World War I.
Uncle Wiggily's Airship
Howard Roger Garis
A gentler era of childhood imagination takes flight when a kindly old rabbit crafts an airship out of a laundry basket, a few colorful toy balloons, and a household electric fan.
Via Crucis: A Romance of the Second Crusade
F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
A young English noble loses his father, his inheritance, and his faith in human honor, setting forth on a treacherous journey toward redemption through the bloody battlefields and decadent royal courts of the Second Crusade.
Walker of the Secret Service
Melville Davisson Post
On the edge of the law, a young man enters a shadowy world of train holdups, cunning evasions, and double-crosses, only to find that the true mastery of crime lies in the art of unraveling it.
Weighed and Wanting: Addresses on the Ten Commandments
Dwight Lyman Moody
A sharp, urgent study of ancient moral law brings eternal principles to bear on the compromises of daily human life.
When the tree flowered
John G. Neihardt
In a freezing tepee on the reservation, an aging Lakota warrior shares the lost world of his youth with a sympathetic white visitor.
Within the Capes
Howard Pyle
A quiet rural courtship shatters into a dangerous privateering voyage, a desolate shipwreck, and a backwoods murder trial.
Woman and Artist
Max O'Rell
When financial ambition and weapons speculation lure a talented London painter away from his easel, the quiet devotion of his artistic wife is pushed to the breaking point.
Women as army surgeons
Flora Murray
When the British War Office refused to officialize women surgeons at the outbreak of the First World War, a band of pioneer medical women simply bypassed the military hierarchy, set up their own voluntary units in France, and proved their surgical brilliance on the battlefield.
A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama during the Civil War
Parthenia Antoinette Hague
A quiet, ingenious domestic resilience transforms the hardships of total war into an extraordinary record of everyday survival in the blockaded Confederacy.
A Day with Browning
Unknown
An intimate portrait of Robert Browning’s Venetian routine reveals a life where daily habit, intense observation, and moral optimism merge into enduring art.
A Historical Sketch of Company "B," Eighteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry: Three Months Service
Jewett Palmer
When local men answer their country's call in the spring of 1861, their journey transforms raw recruits into seasoned veterans over three event-filled months.
A Mine of Faults
F. W. (Francis William) Bain
An arrogant young ruler who despises women believes himself invincible against the snares of love, only to find his defenses completely undone by a single meeting with a clever, high-altitude princess.
A modern symposium
G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson
Gathered around a Sussex terrace on a summer evening, a group of politicians, artists, and thinkers debate the soul of modern society. Their opposing worldviews collide with brilliant, civilized intensity.
A Sheaf of Verses: Poems
Radclyffe Hall
A traveler moves across forgotten forest roads and mountain slopes, watching light shift through the trees while weighing the brief spark of mortal love against the quiet certainty of loss.
A Tour to the River Saguenay, in Lower Canada
Charles Lanman
An early summer longing for wilderness angling sends a thoughtful young writer away from his New York desk and into the raw, splendid rivers of the nineteenth-century Northeast.
An Account of the Escape of Six Federal Soldiers from Prison at Danville, Va
W. H. (William Henry) Newlin
This is a harrowing, firsthand account of a desperate flight from a Confederate prison. It captures the raw mechanics of survival, the constant shadow of capture, and the profound moral cost of choosing life over a fallen comrade.
At Large
E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
A quiet Australian gold-seeker returns home to reclaim his life and his love, only to find a mysterious rival standing in his path.
Attila: A Romance. Vol. I
G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
In fifth-century Europe, the shadow of a rising conqueror falls across both the declining Roman Empire and the wild lands beyond its borders, where love and duty collide under the threat of ruin.
Beaufort Chums
Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
Two Midwestern boys, a brave pointer named Bob, and the wide Mississippi River share a year of adventure, growing up through floods, fights, and quiet losses.
Beyond Bedlam
Wyman Guin
A world that chemically splits human minds into two distinct personalities might seem orderly, but for one rebellious man, living half a life proves worse than death.
Blue trousers
Murasaki Shikibu
In a refined world of lacquered screens and seasonal rituals, love is less a quiet sanctuary than a turbulent force that reshapes every domestic boundary.
Born Again
Alfred W. (Alfred William) Lawson
A man unearths an ancient utopian civilization, inherits its lost wisdom, and returns to modern society to wage a peaceful, uncompromising war against human greed, superstition, and hypocrisy.
Browning and Dogma: Seven Lectures on Browning's Attitude Towards Dogmatic Religion
Ethel M. Naish
A rigorous study of spiritual uncertainty, this literary critique explores how seven landmark poems interrogate the boundaries between blind dogmatism, intellectual doubt, and living faith.
Cactus and pine: Songs of the Southwest
Sharlot Mabridth Hall
Boundless horizons, harsh wilderness, and the relentless march of time shape this sweeping verse collection. It captures the rugged majesty of the Southwestern frontier through the voices of its pioneer miners, lone cowboys, and enduring natural landscapes.
Camp Mates in Michigan
St. George Rathborne
A wilderness paddle through the Michigan peninsula becomes a test of woodcraft and nerve when three boys cross paths with a pair of desperate poachers.
Clendenen's detective manual
Rufus Howard Clendenen
In the rugged hills and booming industrial towns of early twentieth-century West Virginia, crime is evolving fast—and only disciplined observation, cool common sense, and modern investigative techniques can bring lawbreakers to justice.
Dan Carter-- Cub Scout
Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
A muddy river, a locked shed full of stolen game birds, and a missing Scout badge test the honor of Den 2. Mildred A. Wirt’s classic tale delivers an earnest, atmospheric mystery where young boys face down adult suspicion with quiet resolve.
Draw Swords! In the Horse Artillery
George Manville Fenn
Set in mid-nineteenth-century British India, this classic military adventure tracks a spirited young officer whose courage, horse mastery, and steady integrity transform a rogue gunner and win the trust of a royal court.
Extra-galactic nebulae
Edwin Hubble
A quantitative taxonomic survey maps distant star systems across the heavens, transforming apparent brightness and geometric form into a concrete gauge of cosmological space.
Flying the Coast Skyways
Ambrose Newcomb
A pair of daring young secret agents takes to the southern skies to dismantle a massive, high-tech smuggling syndicate hiding in the coastal swamps.
German Spies in England: An Exposure
William Le Queux
Rampant international intrigue, complacent government officials, and a hidden network of enemy agents threaten Britain from within during the opening months of the First World War.
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XX, No. 4, April 1842
Various
A single monthly issue of a nineteenth-century American periodical captures a culture in transition, balancing dark gothic romance, local satire, high-seas adventure, and sharp literary criticism.
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 5, November 1849
Various
A varied tapestry of nineteenth-century American imagination offers a vivid snapshot of a nation wrestling with passion, domestic duty, financial anxiety, and the quiet hauntings of memory.
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 5, May 1850
Various
An omnibus of nineteenth-century American taste offers a lively cross-section of high literature, dramatic serials, intimate lyrics, and practical country pastimes.
"Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects): The New Testament, with a Sketch of the Subsequent History of the Jews
Ross, Mary, Lady
A motherly Victorian voice retells the Gospels and traces two thousand years of Jewish exile, framing both as a single, unfolding lesson in divine providence and moral duty.
Hills of the Shatemuc
Susan Warner
Two farm-reared brothers pursue radically different paths to adulthood, bound by the quiet moral weight of their rural New York home.
Historical record of the Thirteenth, First Somerset, or the Prince Albert's Regiment of Light Infantry: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685, and of its subsequent services to 1848
Richard Cannon
Forged in the turbulence of 1685 and hardened across two centuries of international conflict, a single British infantry regiment marches from the bogs of Ireland to the mountain passes of Afghanistan.
How to become an actor
Aaron A. Warford
Behind the footlights of the late nineteenth century lies a world of ingeniously simple mechanics, painted canvas, and brass-ring pulleys.
Hymns and Poems
A. L. O. E.
An angel whispers patience to the afflicted, an Indian maiden steps between a captive and a club, and a penitent convict prays for mercy.
In the Royal Naval Air Service: Being the war letters of the late Harold Rosher to his family
Harold Rosher
Letters written in haste from cold tents, coastal aerodromes, and drafty hotel rooms capture the daily hazards of early military aviation. A young pilot logs the routine terror of engine failure, foggy crossings, and sudden combat, transforming the dawn of aerial warfare into an intensely personal record.
John Deane of Nottingham: Historic Adventures by Land and Sea
William Henry Giles Kingston
A young man from Nottinghamshire leaves his home to work the roads and trade routes of England, only to find himself swept through high-seas warfare, Jacobite conspiracies, and a sprawling journey toward late-earned peace.