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The Seventy's Course in Theology, Third Year: The Doctrine of Deity
B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts
The nature of the Divine is a personal encounter, not merely a theological abstraction. This curriculum seeks to ground the reader in a foundational understanding of the character and personhood of God.
The Son of Columbus
Molly Elliot Seawell
A portrait of filial devotion and historical ambition, this narrative follows the son of a legendary explorer as he navigates the dangers of the Spanish court and the anxieties of a world on the brink of discovery.
The Speeches (In Full) of the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and William O'Brien, M.P., on Home Rule, Delivered in Parliament, Feb. 16 and 17, 1888
W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone
This record captures a pivotal parliamentary confrontation over Irish autonomy, showcasing the intense rhetorical battle between a legendary statesman and a firebrand nationalist against the backdrop of late-Victorian political volatility.
The Story of "Mormonism" and The Philosophy of "Mormonism"
James E. (James Edward) Talmage
This dual work offers an authoritative, foundational explanation of Latter-day Saint history and theology, providing a primary-source perspective on the beliefs and origins of the faith. It serves as both a historical narrative and a philosophical defense for a reader interested in understanding the movement’s…
The strange people
Murray Leinster
An elusive magazine photograph leads an adventurous young man into the New Hampshire hills, where he stumbles into a isolated community's deadly clash with a tyrannical master.
The Very Black
Dean Evans
A test pilot faces a lethal, experimental flight while haunted by a malevolent, ninth-dimensional entity born from his own unchecked imagination. He must choose between cold detachment and the terrifying vulnerability of human connection to survive.
The Victorian Age: The Rede Lecture for 1922
William Ralph Inge
The nineteenth century stands as a towering epoch of unprecedented human progress, yet it remains haunted by the inevitable, turbulent consequences of its own rapid industrial and social evolution.
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The vigil [Night watches, Part 8.]
W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
The path to true love rarely runs smoothly, especially when a young man must outwit a blustering, self-important future father-in-law who believes courage is measured only by military grit and the absence of superstition.
The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent: A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year
S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
The rhythm of the Christian year serves as a vessel for these urgent, plainspoken reflections, urging readers to weigh their daily actions against the inevitable reality of judgment.
The West Point Rivals
Upton Sinclair
HOOK In the high-pressure world of the West Point summer encampment, seven inseparable underclassmen find themselves caught in a series of escalating pranks, perilous midnight encounters, and a desperate struggle against both their rivals and a mysterious, wild-eyed cave-dweller.
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The Widow [To Say Nothing of the Man]
Helen Rowland
A cynical, witty exploration of courtship, marriage, and the eternal games played between men and women. This is a playful, sharp-tongued dialogue on the art of romantic manipulation.
Three Prize Essays on American Slavery
R. B. (Richard Bowers) Thurston
Slavery represents a profound national crisis, and these essays seek a path toward resolution through the moral clarity and shared faith of the American Christian community.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910: Locomotive Performance On Grades Of Various Lengths, Paper No. 1172
B. S. (Beverly S.) Randolph
This technical inquiry into railway mechanics provides a foundational look at how grade length dictates the efficiency and load-bearing capacity of steam-powered locomotives. It serves as a rigorous investigation into the limits of engine performance on uneven terrain.
Travel Stories Retold from St. Nicholas
Various
The world is a vast, interconnected tapestry of wonders, waiting to be traversed by those with the curiosity to seek them out. This collection of accounts transforms distant landscapes into intimate, shared experiences.
Two Wonderful Detectives
Old Sleuth
A retired banker entrusts a stranger’s fortune to a detective, launching a decades-spanning search to identify the rightful heir before the money is lost to time. This mystery unfolds through the keen instincts of Jack Alvarez, a master of disguise and deduction.
Vixen, Volume III
M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Caught between the suffocating expectations of a new stepfather and the loss of her childhood friend, a young woman finds herself exiled to a distant manor, only to discover the path back to her own life.
Wanted—A Match Maker
Paul Leicester Ford
This gentle, turn-of-the-century tale explores how a chance accident can bridge the immense social chasm between a wealthy young woman and a struggling hospital physician. It is a story of quiet transformation, where class barriers dissolve through the shared care of an injured newsboy.
Well, After All--
Frank Frankfort Moore
The truth behind a tragic death and a long-deferred romance unfolds in this elegant, suspenseful Victorian drama. A woman’s quiet life is upended by the sudden return of a lover she waited for, only to find he has fallen for someone else.
When I was your age
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
A warm, candid memoir of a vibrant 19th-century childhood, this collection of recollections offers an intimate window into a household defined by intellect, public service, and boundless imagination. It serves as a gentle bridge between the past and the present, capturing the universal spirit of growing up.
William Jordan, Junior
J. C. (John Collis) Snaith
A frail, visionary youth attempts to reconcile his poetic soul with the harsh, practical demands of London office life. His journey is a quiet, devastating study of the cost of dreams in a cold world.
Zoological Illustrations, Second Series, Volume 2
William Swainson
This work serves as a meticulous, mid-nineteenth-century record of natural history, blending detailed zoological descriptions with the era’s burgeoning fascination for biological classification and global exploration.
A Century of Emblems
George Spencer Cautley
Look beneath the everyday surface of the world, and every bird, leaf, and passing shadow turns into a quiet lesson on the soul's journey.
A Chicago Princess
Robert Barr
A rich young American heiress, accustomed to treating the world as her personal playground, tests the patience of absolute monarchs and long-suffering companions alike on an erratic cruise through Asia.
A Drift from Redwood Camp
Bret Harte
A cowardly California outcast drifts downstream on a log into an Indian village, where he is mistaken for a prophesied ruler.
A second reader
Frank E. (Frank Ellsworth) Spaulding
A foolish crow steals bright peacock feathers to masquerade as royalty, only to be stripped bare and cast out by the very birds he tried to copy.
After the Divorce: A Romance
Grazia Deledda
A wrongful murder conviction shatters a young Sardinian family, triggering a chain of legal abandonment, desperate remarriage, and a quiet, inescapable moral reckoning.
Alien Offer
Al Sevcik
A reluctant human military leader must decide whether to entrust the surviving children of a doomed Earth to secretive alien traders offering evacuation.
Amos Kilbright
Frank R. Stockton
A man long since drowned at sea is accidentally materialized by spiritualists and must navigate Victorian social norms, employment, and love while dodging a German scientist intent on dematerializing him.
An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre: An Account of the Expedition in Pursuit of the Hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the Spring of 1883
John Gregory Bourke
Deep in the rugged Sierra Madre, a small American force risks everything to hunt an elusive, feared enemy on its own ground.
Andrée and His Balloon
Henri Lachambre
Three men step into a wicker car beneath a mountain of varnished silk, drift northward past the crags of Spitzbergen, and melt into the Arctic mist.
At the North of Bearcamp Water: Chronicles of a Stroller in New England from July to December
Frank Bolles
A keen-eyed naturalist steps into the New Hampshire mountain wilderness to record six months of shifting light, migratory wings, hidden animal trails, and seasonal quiet.
Balancing and Shoeing Trotting and Pacing Horses
William J. Moore
HOOK This manual offers a craftsman’s precise, grounded approach to balancing and shoeing trotting and pacing horses to ensure peak performance and physical comfort.
Ballades & Rhymes from Ballades in Blue China and Rhymes a la Mode
Andrew Lang
A delicate, erudite collection, this volume invites readers to step away from the noise of the modern world into a quiet, finely crafted sanctuary of verse. It offers a graceful meditation on how the elegance of the past can persist within the rhythms of the present.
Barney Blake, the Boy Privateer
Herrick Johnstone
A spirited young sailor boards an American privateer in 1813 to chase British shipping across two oceans, encountering sharks, bullfights, and mirages.
Between the Dark and the Daylight
Richard Marsh
A collection of quick-witted, dark, and lively short stories unveils the chaotic underbelly of late-Victorian society through bizarre legal scrambles, unexpected spectral encounters, and high-stakes social embarrassments.
Blood Royal: A Novel
Grant Allen
A family's belief in its royal lineage sustains them through poverty, only to unravel under the weight of truth.
Bohemian San Francisco: Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining
Clarence E. (Clarence Edgar) Edwords
This is an immersive, nostalgic guide to the golden age of San Francisco dining, capturing the spirit and the recipes of a city defined by its love for the table.
Boy Scouts on a Long Hike
Archibald Lee Fletcher
A high-stakes hike across Indiana tests eight Boy Scouts when a series of unexpected emergencies turns their routine trophy attempt into a true wilderness rescue mission.
Captains All: Captains All, Part 1
W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
Three aging sailors find their shore leave turned into a frantic, competitive courtship, discovering too late that a domestic prize often comes with a much larger crew than anticipated.
Captivity and Escape
Jean Martin
Captured during the war’s opening months, a wounded French sergeant endures the brutality of German prison camps before executing a daring escape across northern Europe to freedom.
Chunky, the Happy Hippo: His Many Adventures
Richard Barnum
A young hippopotamus explores his native African river, encounters jungle animals, gets captured by hunters, and travels across the ocean to find his place in a city circus and park menagerie.
Civilization the Primal Need of the Race, and The Attitude of the American Mind Toward the Negro Intellect: The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3
Alexander Crummell
True liberation requires more than manual training or material wealth; it demands the cultivation of the high intellect, scientific rigor, and artistic achievement through a dedicated leadership of scholars.
Dan Carter and the Cub Honor
Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
A quiet neighborhood church basement turns into a battleground for young honor when a broken window and a missing set of ice cream freezers leave a Cub Scout den taking the blame for someone else’s malice.
Dark Reality
Robert Moore Williams
A mysterious compulsion forces a 1940 physicist to build a strange machine that sweeps ordinary people into an earth two million years in the future.
Diana of the Crossways
George Meredith
A brilliant, mercurial woman navigates the treacherous social landscape of Victorian England, striving to maintain her independence while battling the constraints of a stifling marriage and the weight of public scandal.
Discovery at Aspen
Sophie (Sophie Z. Liebowitz) Ruskay
A teenage girl spends a pivotal summer surrounded by music, ghost towns, and newfound independence in the Colorado Rockies.
Dorothy at Oak Knowe
Evelyn Raymond
When American teenager Dorothy Calvert arrives late to an elite Canadian boarding school, her impulsive warmth quickly shatters the rigid decorum of her new teachers and classmates.
Exit Betty
Grace Livingston Hill
A young bride flees her own altar, swapping her white satin for a borrowed coat, to escape a coerced marriage and discover true faith and love in a quiet village home.