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Wild Oats
John O'Keeffe
An impulse of generous goodwill can transform a wandering stranger's fate before the sun goes down.
William Adolphus Turnpike
William Banks
An irreverent, wide-awake boy works his way up through the small-time politics, legal offices, and theater stages of turn-of-the-century Toronto.
William Jennings Bryan: A Concise But Complete Story of His Life and Services
Harvey Ellsworth Newbranch
A modest Illinois lawyer moves to Nebraska, captures a national political party through sheer oratorical brilliance, and challenges the moneyed interests of a rapidly industrializing nation.
Within these walls
Rupert Hughes
Driven by fear of the cholera, a young bride and groom flee to a quiet estate, only to discover that the darkest perils are those they build within their own home.
Yolanda of Cyprus
Cale Young Rice
In a sixteenth-century Cypriot castle, a young woman secretly assumes the burden of another's infidelity to safeguard her betrothed’s noble family from total ruin.
A Collection of State-papers, Relative to the First Acknowledgment of the Sovereignty of the United States of America, and the Reception of Their Minister Plenipotentiary, by Their High Mightinesses the States General of the United Netherlands
Unknown
A diplomat’s persistent petitioning sparks a groundswell of commercial and political will across Dutch provinces, transforming an outcast revolutionary movement into an officially recognized sovereign nation.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 7
Mark Twain
A modern American finds himself stranded in sixth-century Britain, where he uses nineteen-century technology and economic theories to challenge medieval custom, only to end up manacled alongside King Arthur in a slave convoy.
A Dangerous Flirtation
Laura Jean Libbey
Desperate choices, secret identities, and sudden desertions drive a vulnerable young woman into an intricate web of romantic peril.
A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco: and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation
Orin Fowler
A fiery nineteenth-century sermon turns its sights on a pervasive habit, painting tobacco as a moral poison and a quiet drain on human potential.
A Parody on Patience
D. (Davison) Dalziel
A satirical, corporate-sponsored adaptation merges Gilbert and Sullivan’s popular operetta with brazen nineteenth-century railway advertising, turning Victorian aestheticism into a commercial for Midwestern train travel.
A Prince of Cornwall: A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex
Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
A Saxon foster son and a displaced British prince navigate shifting alliances along the wild Somerset border. Bound by duty to King Ina, their shared loyalty shapes the frontier.
A Selection of Books published by Methuen and Co. Ltd., London, 36, Essex Street, W.C, September, 1911
Methuen & Co.
A dense, meticulously organized snapshot of Edwardian commercial publishing captures the reading habits, intellectual pursuits, and popular entertainments of Great Britain in September 1911.
A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland
Mary Platt Parmele
An sweeping survey traces the legislative, religious, and economic forces that forged Great Britain from three distinct island nations into a singular global empire.
A Taxicab Tangle
Unknown
A fast-paced turn-of-the-century dime novel about two resourceful youths outsmarting a syndicate of New York swindlers.
A treatise concerning the properties and effects of coffee
Benjamin Moseley
A eighteenth-century physician makes the case that a simple roasted berry can cure bodily ailments, enliven the mind, and bolster the British Empire.
A treatise on foreign teas: Abstracted from an ingenious work, lately published, entitled An essay on the nerves
Hugh Smith
A stern eighteenth-century medical warning gives way to a bold commercial pitch, insisting that daily cups of imported green and bohea tea ruin the human nervous system while offering an herbal domestic brew as the ultimate physiological salvation.
Adela Cathcart, Volume 1
George MacDonald
A dark winter depression claims a young woman until a circle of friends gathers around her hearth to cure her through the quiet magic of storytelling.
Adventures in Africa: By an African Trader
William Henry Giles Kingston
A young English schoolboy joins his uncle's trading trek across the Kalahari, where tsetse flies, charging lions, and desert thirst turn an ordinary commercial venture into a fight for survival.
All He Knew: A Story
John Habberton
A simple man returns from prison with a singular, unshakeable faith, and his refusal to complicate it quietly unmasks the hypocrisy of an entire town.
Amusement Only
Richard Marsh
A eccentric stranger with a boyish charm demands money to prevent a noblewoman from losing a limb, setting the tone for a world of absurd predicaments and cunning rogues.
An Adventure with a Genius: Recollections of Joseph Pulitzer
Alleyne Ireland
A blind, brilliant media titan rules an floating empire of intellect from the deck of his luxury yacht, driving a crew of exhausted personal secretaries to the brink of madness.
Avery
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
When a self-absorbed husband faces the imagined terror of his sick wife's death during an ether-induced hallucination, he awakens to a second chance at devotion.
Aviation in Canada, 1917-1918: Being a Brief Account of the Work of the Royal Air Force Canada, the Aviation Department of the Imperial Munitions Board, and the Canadian Aeroplanes Limited
Unknown
In the crucible of the First World War, Canada transformed raw wilderness and unproven recruits into a sprawling, highly specialized training engine for the skies.
Blanco y Colorado: Old Days among the Gauchos of Uruguay
William C. Tetley
Civil war turns pastoral life into a high-stakes survival test across the open grasslands of nineteenth-century Uruguay.
Boy Scouts in the Philippines
G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson
Courage, woodcraft, and keen observation face off against an international conspiracy in the tropical wilds of the Pacific.
Capture and Escape: A Narrative of Army and Prison Life
John Azor Kellogg
A officer is dragged from the Virginia pine thickets into the dark heart of the Confederacy, where survival means picking locks with fingernails and trusting strangers in the night.
Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery
Filson Young
In a world swept by the wild fever of discovery, an obscure Genoese navigator risks everything on a grand geographic delusion.
Conditions in Utah: Speech of Hon. Thomas Kearns of Utah, in the Senate of the United States
Thomas Kearns
A retiring senator issues a scathing farewell indictment against a powerful religious hierarchy, accusing its leaders of betraying their promises to the nation to secure statehood.
Cousin-hunting in Scandinavia
Mary Wilhelmine Williams
An American traveler journeys through Scandinavia to explore the ancestral lands of her heritage, recording intimate observations of daily life, historic sites, and local kin in a series of letters home.
Crossroads of Destiny
H. Beam Piper
Late at night in a train's club car, five strangers casually discuss alternate timelines, completely unaware that a quiet passenger beside them has slipped across the boundary from a vastly different reality.
Defending the Island: A story of Bar Harbor in 1758
James Otis
A frontier settlement transforms into a desperate fortress when children must defend their coastal homestead against an impending assault.
Double Take
Richard Wilson
An ordinary drive becomes a high-speed nightmare of hidden plans, disguises, and space travel—until the boundaries between story, cinema, and reality collapse.
Ecclesiastical Curiosities
Unknown
Beyond the solemn stillness of stone arches lies a forgotten landscape of medieval superstition, craft secrets, and eccentric parish oddities.
Emblematic Illumination
Unknown
A Victorian guide transforms the art of scriptural illumination from empty ornament into a disciplined act of faith, balancing technical craft with theology.
English Coast Defences: From Roman Times to the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century
George Clinch
An intricate coastline leaves a nation uniquely vulnerable, requiring millennia of architectural and tactical ingenuity to secure its shores against constant invasion.
Fombombo
T. S. (Thomas Sigismund) Stribling
A brash American salesman walks straight into a Venezuelan revolution with an ironclad faith in commerce and leaves with his certainties completely undone.
Futility
William Alexander Gerhardie
An absurd, aimless war sweeps across a collapsing empire, but one hapless family is far too busy with its own exquisite, self-inflicted domestic entanglements to notice.
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, August 1850
Various
A vibrant snapshot of mid-nineteenth-century American popular print culture, this issue blends lofty aesthetic criticism, dramatic historical fiction, domestic romance, field sports, and literary reviews.
Harper's Young People, September 14, 1880: An Illustrated Weekly
Various
A late-nineteenth-century weekly magazine offers a captivating snapshot of American childhood, balancing serialized fiction with nature studies, historical adventures, and energetic reader exchanges.
Here, There and Everywhere
Hamilton, Frederic, Lord
A globe-trotting British aristocrat recounts his worldwide wanderings, blending dry Victorian humor with vivid historical vignettes from Indian jungles to the Caribbean sea.
Historical Record of the Fifth, or Princess Charlotte of Wales's Regiment of Dragoon Guards: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685
Richard Cannon
A single British cavalry regiment rides across one hundred and fifty years of European conflicts, changing its weapons and names while forging an unbroken record of discipline, sacrifice, and tactical triumph.
How to Teach Manners in the School-room
Julia M. Dewey
Etiquette is not merely a list of rigid rules, but a practical language of kindness that must be actively modeled and explicitly taught to the young.
Humanly Speaking
Samuel McChord Crothers
When human logic rigidifies into uncompromising dogma, only an injection of humor, flexible common sense, and lively observation can restore balance to a rapidly shifting modern world.
In Honour's Cause: A Tale of the Days of George the First
George Manville Fenn
A father's sudden fall from royal favor forces a young page to choose between absolute courtly obedience and the fierce, dangerous demands of family honor.
In Secret
Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
A secret route through the Swiss Alps, a code hidden in a yellow envelope, and two agents racing to dismantle a hidden German stronghold before their own past catches up with them.
Is Life Worth Living Without Immortality?: A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society, Chicago
M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian
Physical vitality and earthly devotion provide more than enough purpose for human existence, making the distant promise of an afterlife entirely unnecessary.
Jacques Bonneval
Anne Manning
A young French Protestant faces the violent fallout of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, enduring torture and separation to shepherd his family toward safety.
John Ingerfield, and Other Stories
Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Money, duty, and quiet tragedy interweave across nineteenth-century London and desolate foreign landscapes, where pride continuously wars with human warmth.