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The Impostor: A Tale of Old Annapolis
John Reed Scott
A man masquerading as a titled aristocrat navigates the perilous social circles of colonial Maryland while harboring a deadly secret from his past.
The Kings of the East: A Romance of the Near Future
Sydney C. Grier
A restless, high-stakes political intrigue unfolds as a disillusioned power-broker orchestrates a grand scheme to restore a kingdom in the East. This is a story of shifting allegiances, personal redemption, and the collision between cold ambition and the stubborn persistence of love.
The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator
Abraham Lincoln
This collection offers a daily meditation on the character and philosophy of the sixteenth American president. By distilling his vast correspondence and public speeches into bite-sized axioms, it provides a quiet, accessible entry point into his statesmanship.
The lonely house
Marie Belloc Lowndes
A young woman’s visit to her aunt’s villa on the French Riviera descends into a nightmare of hidden motives, suspicious deaths, and the desperate search for safety.
The Master Detective: Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles
Percy James Brebner
A brilliant, elderly amateur sleuth and his younger police associate navigate a series of high-stakes criminal puzzles, where the truth is often hidden behind elaborate social facades and cold-blooded deception.
The Master-Girl
Ashton Hilliers
HOOK In a primeval world ruled by rigid tradition, an outcast woman discovers the transformative power of invention, forever altering the destiny of her tribe and the limits of her own existence.
The Mentor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 6, Num. 9, Serial No. 157, June 15, 1918
Sydney P. (Sydney Philip) Noe
This volume serves as a concise, educational survey of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s vast collections, offering a guided tour of its most significant paintings while exploring the intersection of aesthetic beauty and commercial value. It functions as both a historical record of the institution’s rapid rise in…
The Millennium, and Other Poems: To Which is Annexed, a Treatise on the Regeneration and Eternal Duration of Matter
Parley P. (Parley Parker) Pratt
The promise of a future, perfected world serves as the anchor for this collection of verse and theological prose, grounding spiritual hope in the very soil of the earth. It offers a rare window into the intense convictions, personal suffering, and expansive vision of a formative figure in the early Latter Day Saint…
The Mystery of Carlitos: Mexican Mystery Stories #2
Helen Randolph
Two courageous girls plunge into the rugged Mexican mountains to rescue a mysterious blue-eyed boy from a dangerous kidnapper. Their daring quest uncovers a long-lost secret hidden deep within a treacherous silver mine.
The Myth in Marriage
Alice Hubbard
This work examines the romantic illusions surrounding marriage, arguing that true partnership requires economic independence, intellectual equality, and a clear-eyed distinction between spiritual love and the practical business of domestic life.
The Needed Change in the Age of Consent: An Appeal For the Better Protection of Our Girls
Richard Arthur
This urgent appeal argues that existing laws fail to protect young women from exploitation, calling for a legislative reform to raise the age of consent to eighteen.
The northern whale-fishery
William Scoresby
The Arctic is a frontier where human resolve meets the crushing indifference of ice and the immense power of the whale. This record captures the stark reality of survival in the high northern latitudes.
The Perpetuation of Living Beings, Hereditary Transmission and Variation: Lecture IV. (of VI.), "Lectures to Working Men", at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863, on Darwin's Work: "Origin of Species"
Thomas Henry Huxley
When living organisms reproduce, two opposing forces govern their form: a conservative urge to repeat the past and a sudden, unpredictable drive to diverge.
The reigning belle
Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
A young shop-girl’s struggle for dignity in a stratified society reveals long-buried secrets, forcing a high-society matriarch to confront the moral consequences of her own past. This mid-nineteenth-century drama masterfully weaves together the lives of the impoverished and the elite.
The Spartan Twins
Lucy Fitch Perkins
Two children from a humble farm set out on an unexpected journey to the heart of ancient Greece. Their adventure weaves together the quiet life of a household with the grand, shifting politics of a legendary age.
The Story of a Genius
Ossip Schubin
A gifted musician struggles to reconcile his artistic integrity with the hollow demands of fame. This narrative explores the heavy cost of genius and the fragile nature of human connection.
The Strange Friend of Tito Gil
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
A young Spanish cobbler attempts suicide for love, only to find himself befriended by Death, who offers him instruction, political power, and a strange second chance at life.
The Strength of the "Mormon" Position
Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney
A divine restoration is underway, promising the return of ancient apostolic authority to prepare the world for a final, glorious judgment.
The tale of Jimmy Rabbit
Arthur Scott Bailey
HOOK A boastful young rabbit learns that his clever pranks and vanity often lead to unexpected, humorous consequences in his forest home.
The Three Brothers
Eden Phillpotts
HOOK Set against the vast, shifting beauty of Dartmoor, this novel explores the tangled lives, secret burdens, and quiet moral reckonings of a family bound to the stubborn soil of their Devon village.
The unlit lamp
Radclyffe Hall
The life of a young woman is systematically hollowed out by the stifling demands of her family, illustrating the high cost of filial duty. It is a quiet, devastating portrait of a woman who never manages to strike the match of her own existence.
The War of Independence
John Fiske
This concise historical narrative traces the American Revolution from its long-simmering origins in the colonial era to the post-war challenges of a fledgling, fragile nation.
Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac
Anna M. (Anna Morris) Holstein
This firsthand account chronicles the harrowing reality of Civil War field hospitals, where ordinary citizens became the essential, compassionate bridge between dying soldiers and the families they left behind.
Tirzah Ann's summer trip, and other sketches
Marietta Holley
A keen, humorous observer critiques the vanity and folly of her neighbors and her own husband, finding that the search for fashionable pleasure often ends in nothing but physical discomfort and domestic catastrophe.
To The West
George Manville Fenn
A pair of abused London clerks abandon their desks for the Canadian wilderness, only to discover that the hardest part of finding gold is deciding what it is truly worth.
Tommy Remington's Battle
Burton Egbert Stevenson
A coal miner’s son discovers that the power of the written word is the only tool strong enough to break the cycle of poverty and lift him out of the darkness of the mines.
Tomorrow's tangle
Geraldine Bonner
A young woman’s hidden past collides with her sudden rise to prominence, forcing a reckoning with the secrets that defined her mother’s life. This narrative maps the distance between the hardscrabble pioneer trail and the gilded aspirations of San Francisco.
Two Ghostly Mysteries: A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The shadows of an Irish manor conceal secrets more lethal than any ghost. Two women, trapped by the machinations of powerful men, must confront the terrifying realization that the real monsters are those who share their blood and home.
Up the ladder
Madeline Leslie
Hard work and moral vigilance serve as the only reliable path to prosperity in this didactic tale of two boys. Success and ruin are presented as the inevitable harvests of one's own habits and choices.
Viola Gwyn
George Barr McCutcheon
Shadowed by a family scandal and the myth of an unforgivable stepmother, a young pioneer rides west to claim his frontier inheritance—only to fall in love with his father’s stepdaughter.
Wind of destiny
Sara Lindsay Coleman Porter
A teacher living a stifled life in the mountains finds her world upended by a correspondence with a famous, charming author who remembers her from a long-lost childhood.
A bitter reckoning
Collins, E. Burke, Mrs.
A desperate mother, a dark secret, and a daughter marked for ruin collide in the shadows of a Louisiana estate. Beneath the veneer of Southern society, a ruthless schemer weaves a web of kidnapping and forced marriage.
A Book of Poems, Al Que Quiere!
William Carlos Williams
The world, in all its gritty and unadorned specificity, is a marvel waiting to be noticed by those willing to look past the conventional. This collection serves as a vital bridge between traditional verse and the raw, observant pulse of modern life.
A Gallant of Lorraine
H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams
A man of immense charm and varying fortune, this seventeenth-century courtier navigates the dangerous currents of French royal politics with the poise of a soldier and the wit of a diplomat.
A Modern Legionary
John Patrick Le Poer
A sixteen-year-old runaway finds a new, brutal home in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion, trading the comforts of his Irish youth for the harsh realities of desert warfare and colonial duty.
A Song of the Open Road, and Other Verses
Louis J. McQuilland
The restless, lyrical spirit of a displaced Irishman, this collection of verse captures the tension between the yearning for a lost, mythic home and the practical demands of an adopted metropolitan life.
A Traitor in London
Fergus Hume
A young couple’s desperate attempt to marry is thwarted by a sinister foreign agent, sparking a high-stakes game of shadows that stretches from the quiet English countryside to the violent front lines of the Boer War.
A treatise on the culture of the tobacco plant with the manner in which it is usually cured: Adapted to northern climates, and designed for the use of the landholders of Great-Britain
Jonathan Carver
This practical guide offers a window into the historical quest for agricultural self-sufficiency, framing the cultivation of tobacco not merely as a habit, but as a potential pillar of the British economy during a time of colonial unrest.
American Independence and the French Revolution (1760-1801)
Unknown
The turbulent transition from the American Revolution to the French Revolution reshaped the modern world through radical shifts in governance, liberty, and global conflict. This collection of primary source documents illuminates that era's volatile spirit.
An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol 2 (of 2): Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce
Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga
This detailed chronicle documents the colonial administration, volatile internal politics, and geopolitical struggles of the Philippine Islands during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It serves as an essential record of a complex era in Spanish maritime governance.
An Obscure Apostle: A Dramatic Story
Eliza Orzeszkowa
The quest of a young man to bridge the chasm between tradition and the modern world unfolds as a quiet, urgent plea for human understanding. It is a story of faith, intellectual longing, and the courage required to break ancestral chains.
At the Point of the Sword
Herbert Hayens
Young Jack Crawford finds his boyhood in Peru abruptly transformed into a struggle for survival and liberty as the Spanish empire crumbles. He is swept into the thick of the South American wars of independence, where loyalties shift, borders blur, and the fate of a nation hinges on the courage of those who refuse…
Baseball Joe, champion of the league
Lester Chadwick
A legendary pitcher faces more than just opposing batters when a mysterious scientific device threatens to sabotage his team’s run for the championship.
Ben Stone at Oakdale
Morgan Scott
The shadows of a troubled past haunt a young runaway struggling to find his footing in a new school, where the cruelty of a bitter rival threatens to expose his secret fears and ruin his future.
Betrayed Armenia
Diana Agabeg Apcar
A nation’s survival hangs in the balance as an ancient people face systematic annihilation, abandoned by a world that values political convenience over human lives. This urgent account exposes the reality behind the massacres of the early twentieth century.
Beyond the Black Waters
A. L. O. E.
A devoted wife follows her husband into the isolation of exile, choosing the uncertain path of companionship over the comforts of her former life. This Victorian narrative explores the weight of past sins, the strength of marital loyalty, and the redemptive power of faith amidst the rugged landscapes of Burma.
Bob Steele in Strange Waters
Donald Grayson
In a world of shifting allegiances and hidden dangers, a young man must navigate a submarine through hostile waters to fulfill a mission of national consequence.
Boer War Lyrics
Louis Selmer
The struggle for justice against the weight of empire finds a raw, poetic voice in these verses, which confront the moral costs of the South African War.