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The Egyptian Conception of Immortality: The Ingersoll Lecture, 1911
George Andrew Reisner
A centuries-long obsession with the afterlife was not born of darkness, but of an intense, persistent love for everyday existence on earth.
The Eight-Oared Victors: A Story of College Water Sports
Lester Chadwick
A swollen river brings the chance to row, but stolen trophies and a missing pin threaten to ruin the season before it starts.
The flow of time in the Connecticut valley
George W. (George William) Bain
Behind the quiet orchards, river bends, and stone walls of central Massachusetts lies an ancient, violent history written directly into the earth by shifting continents, roaring volcanoes, and grinding continental ice.
The Fox That Wanted Nine Golden Tails
Kathleen Gray Nelson
The quest for status can be a heavy burden, as one vain creature learns when his long-awaited transformation brings only isolation and physical decay.
The Furnace
Rose Macaulay
A pair of young English expatriates scrape together a living on the margins of Naples, test their easygoing bond against rigid British tourists, and face the sudden disruption of an erupting Vesuvius.
The Great Dome on Mercury
Arthur Leo Zagat
An Earthman risks everything to defend a vital mining outpost under the blazing Mercurian sun from an alien saboteur and his bloodthirsty horde.
The Last Stetson
Fox, John, Jr.
A young boy bearing the secret burden of a feud's final killing seeks redemption through self-sacrifice as a wandering preacher brings a fragile peace to the Kentucky mountains.
The Life of Mr. Richard Savage: Who was Condemn'd with Mr. James Gregory, the last Sessions at the Old Baily, for the Murder of Mr. James Sinclair, at Robinson's Coffee-house at Charing-Cross
Unknown
A bastardized son of the nobility spends his youth cast off by his wealthy mother, turns to writing plays for bread, and suddenly finds himself sentenced to hang for a midnight tavern brawl.
The Little City of Hope: A Christmas Story
F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
A struggling inventor and his spirited young son build a miniature toy town out of scrap paper and paste while holding fast to their final dream of success.
The Little Indian Weaver
Madeline Brandeis
An orphaned corn ear doll, a missed composition prize, and an unexpected radio bridge the gap between a young Navajo weaver and an inquisitive white boy in 1920s Arizona.
The Marriage of Elinor
Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
A fiery young woman marries a charming scoundrel against every warning, only to spend the next two decades shielding her son from the bitter truth of his father's disreputable past.
The Marryers: A History Gathered from a Brief of the Honorable Socrates Potter
Irving Bacheller
A Connecticut lawyer takes his client’s family to Europe, where he must protect an heiress from titled fortune-hunters while steering her toward an honest American heart.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 20: Milan
Giacomo Casanova
A glittering 18th-century world opens through the eyes of a self-styled nobleman whose currency is charm, cash, and sheer audacity. Every encounters—whether in highborn salons, gambling dens, or cheap inns—becomes a canvas for endless intrigue.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 21: South of France
Giacomo Casanova
A gentleman adventurer crisscrosses the eighteenth-century Mediterranean, navigating high-stakes card games, extravagant occult frauds, and intricate romantic affairs with equal parts audacity and charm.
The Mentor: Angels in Art, Vol. 1, Num. 40
John C. Van Dyke
A striking study of how Christian painters transformed ancient pagan icons into divine messengers, tracing the angel's journey from earthly models to soaring symbols of faith.
The Millionaire Baby
Anna Katharine Green
A vanished heiress, a dark web of old secrets, and a web of deception spinning along the Hudson.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 274, September 22, 1827
Various
A nineteenth-century cabinet of curiosities offers a window into an era's mind, capturing its architectural debates, comic verse, military martyrdom, and medical eccentricities in a single weekly gathering.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 547, May 19, 1832
Various
A single misstep over a hot kitchen pot plunges a parish minister into absurd peril, setting the tone for a lively collection of nineteenth-century miscellanea.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 548, May 26, 1832
Various
A curious snapshot of Georgian life, this miscellany captures a society straddling ancient tradition and industrial momentum with quiet charm and restless intellect.
The Moon Destroyers
Monroe K. Ruch
A catastrophic earthquake lays waste to New York City, leading scientists to discover that lunar gravitational tides threaten to shatter the Earth's fractured crust. Humanity's only salvation is a high-stakes expedition to literally vaporize the moon.
The Moon Metal
Garrett Putman Serviss
A sudden flood of Antarctic gold renders the global economy worthless until a mysterious scientist offers a strange, opalescent metal extracted from the heights of the Wyoming mountains.
The Ne'er-Do-Well
Rex Beach
A spoiled American heir is marooned penniless in Panama, where hard work, political intrigue, and sudden love turn a wasted life into something real.
The Nursery, February 1873, Vol. XIII.: A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
Various
A charming window into nineteenth-century childhood, this monthly periodical uses gentle stories, rhymes, and direct addresses to teach kindness, curiosity, and generosity to early readers.
The Nursery, February 1881, Vol. XXIX: A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
Various
Softly tinted woodcuts, domestic vignettes, and rhyming nursery verses come together to form an intimate snapshot of Victorian childhood.
The path of honor: A tale of the war in the Bocage
Burton Egbert Stevenson
A nobleman bound to an arranged marriage finds his devotion tested when revolution tears France apart and he is forced to protect an alluring companion through a landscape of mob violence and mortal danger.
The Philadelphia Housewife
Hodgson, Mary, active 1855
Good cooking rests on clean equipment, exact timing, and plain, unpretentious ingredients that respect a household's financial means.
The pirate's gold
Gordon Stables
An old piratical log leads three Highland companions across the Atlantic, where hidden Spanish doubloons and a tense high-seas chase await.
The Playwork Book
Ann Macbeth
A child’s creative impulse can transform discarded scraps into a world of vibrant, independent play.
The Postal Service (Fifth Edition)
Unknown
An obscure 1912 study manual turns civil service preparation into a vivid portrait of American bureaucracy, civic ambition, and the meticulous mechanics of municipal communication.
The Priestly Vocation: A Series of Fourteen Conferences Addressed to the Secular Clergy
Bernard Ward
A seasoned bishop guides diocesan priests through the quiet trials of parish life, offering practical wisdom on money, solitude, prayer, and daily duty.
The Ranger
Edward Sylvester Ellis
A single nighttime raid destroys a family estate on the frontier, sparking a desperate, multi-pronged chase across the Ohio wilderness to rescue two captives from their Shawnee captors.
The Rose of Paradise: Being a detailed account of certain adventures that happened to captain John Mackra, in connection with the famous pirate, Edward England, in the year 1720, off the Island of Juanna in the Mozambique Channel
Howard Pyle
A honest sea captain loses his ship to bloody pirates, recovers an empty jewel box, and must risk his life and honor to track down a fabulous missing ruby.
The Secret Pact
Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
A high-spirited teenage girl uncovers a web of arson, blackmail, and riverfront secrets after launching her own newspaper in a rival's abandoned plant.
The Spoilers
Rex Beach
A lawless Alaskan gold rush, a stolen mine, and a man torn between revenge and a young woman’s idea of honor.
The Story and Song of Black Roderick
Dora Sigerson Shorter
A cold chieftain's pride breaks a gentle bride's heart, but her enduring love pursues his lost soul across the borders of death, hell, and paradise to claim his ultimate redemption.
The tale of Mrs. Ladybug
Arthur Scott Bailey
An industrious beetle works tirelessly to protect an orchard, only to find her vanity, gossip, and pride challenged by every neighbor on the farm.
The Torch Bearer: A Camp Fire Girls' Story
I. T. (Ida Treadwell) Thurston
A group of city girls learns that courage, work, and steady kindness can remake difficult young lives.
The Truce of God
Mary Roberts Rinehart
A stubborn feudal lord risks his marriage and his soul over his desperate longing for a heir, until a quiet Christmas miracle leads him back to the family he cast aside.
The Ways of War
Tom Kettle
A voice of fierce moral clarity challenges the idea that any nation can remain neutral when brute force threatens human freedom.
The White Feather Hex
Don Peterson
A sinister visitor tricks a Pennsylvania Dutch farmer into revealing a deadly curse, only to realize the dark power will consume them both.
The Wide, Wide World
Susan Warner
Separated from her dying mother, a young girl must learn to navigate a cold, demanding world while clinging to her faith and forming her character through hardship, duty, and quiet resilience.
The woman of to-morrow
Helen M. (Helen Maria) Winslow
A thoughtful call to equilibrium, this essay collection envisions a future where female civic ambition and deep inner serenity nourish rather than destroy one another.
The Yellow Dove
George Gibbs
A suspected slacker risks everything high above the battlefields of Europe to prove his devotion to country and the woman he loves.
Thoughts upon slavery
John Wesley
A blazing moral broadside strips away the legal and economic excuses for human bondage, demanding an immediate end to the atrocity.
Trip to the West and Texas: comprising a journey of eight thousand miles, through New-York, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana and Texas, in the autumn and winter of 1834-5
A. A. (Amos Andrew) Parker
A single traveler sets off into the untamed American West in 1834, observing with plainspoken clarity how small towns, wild rivers, and dynamic frontiers are rapidly changing the face of a young nation.
Up for Renewal
Lucius Daniel
Aging can be turned backward at a price, but when a man's life span reaches its limit, the ultimate treatment becomes a gamble against instant death.
Vanishing Point
C. C. (Charles Clarence) Beck
A practical painter tries to explain why his intellectually obsessed associate suddenly fled their joint studio, leaving behind a bizarre machine that challenges the physical rules of geometry, spatial perspective, and consensus reality itself.
Why We Love Lincoln
James Creelman
Beneath the polished cynicism of modern power, an enduring love for an unadorned cabin boy reveals the true heart of the American experiment.