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The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 980, October 8, 1898
Various
A Victorian hearth in print, where moral guidance meets suburban domesticity and high-seas adventure across serialized pages.
The Green Dream
Bryce Walton
Desperate to escape his own crimes, a ruthless colonist murders his twin brother and steals his place in a frozen-sleep experiment, unaware that his mind carries a hidden vector of total ruin.
The History of the Island of Dominica: Containing a Description of Its Situation, Extent, Climate, Mountains, Rivers, Natural Productions, &c. &c
Thomas Atwood
An eye for potential meets the realities of war in a direct, unvarnished account of an 18th-century Caribbean outpost.
The laughing bear, and other stories
Robert Bloomer Hare Bell
A sharp-toothed bear turns rescuer, a hag metamorphoses with a child's mood, and allegorical monsters stalk the forest in this spirited collection of moral fables.
The Life of Mansie Wauch: Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
D. M. (David Macbeth) Moir
A small-town tailor finds himself swept into a series of absurd, often harrowing, and frequently comical misadventures, proving that a quiet life is never truly quiet.
The Making of a Trade School
Mary Schenck Woolman
Fourteen-year-old girls in early twentieth-century New York enter high-speed factories unprepared, earning micro-wages without any path toward advance. A pioneering trade school steps into that breach to reshape industrial education for young women.
The Mean-Wells
Mabel Quiller-Couch
A spirited Cornish doctor’s daughter leads her younger sister through small domestic grudges, an ill-fated seaside adventure, and the surprising rescue of a lonely old man.
The Mettle of the Pasture
James Lane Allen
The pursuit of an untarnished ideal often masks a deeper, more fragile reality. This narrative examines how the weight of ancestry and the rigid expectations of a Kentucky society force young lovers to confront the consequences of their own pasts.
The Mislaid Uncle
Evelyn Raymond
A small girl, shipped across the continent with a luggage tag around her neck, arrives on the wrong doorstep and unlatches a rich man’s frozen heart.
The moonshiners at Hoho-hebee Falls: 1895
Charles Egbert Craddock
A runaway mountain boy, a hidden still behind a waterfall, and a hypocritical uncle seeking a free clerk converge in the high Smoky Mountain ridges.
The Motor Rangers' Cloud Cruiser
John Henry Goldfrap
A sudden Pacific storm, a vanishing volcanic island, and a missing Inca city hidden high in the Andes set the stage for an aerial expedition powered by early twentieth-century technological wonder. <Image alt="Original book cover of The Motor Rangers Cloud Cruiser showing young adventurers" caption="Original 1912…
The Mouthpiece of Zitu
J. U. (John Ulrich) Giesy
An earthbound soul projection, an alien war, and a love that bridges galaxies define this vintage planetary romance.
The mysterious tramp
Vera C. (Vera Charlesworth) Barclay
Three rebellious brothers find their wild streak tamed by scouting, only to be swept into a dark mystery involving a ruined artist, an unscrupulous squire, and a kidnapped girl.
The New Theology
R. J. (Reginald John) Campbell
A provocative attempt to reconcile traditional faith with modern scientific understanding, this work argues that the divine is not a distant judge, but a force immanent within all human life and the natural world.
The Pagan's Progress
Gouverneur Morris
A hunter discovers love and invents the bow, only to lose everything in a primitive world moving slowly toward light.
The Panama Canal
Harry Clow Boardman
A hundred-year engineering nightmare takes concrete shape as American steam shovels and calculated logistics slowly replace tropical disease, political gridlock, and financial ruin across the narrow Panamanian Isthmus.
The Puritan Twins
Lucy Fitch Perkins
A boy’s frantic ride atop a runaway horse saves him from Indian captors in colonial Massachusetts.
The raising and care of guinea pigs
Allen Christian Smith
A simple, practical guide to raising cavies reveals how these quiet, vegetarian creatures can easily transform a modest backyard, barn, or attic into a low-cost enterprise for scientific supply, household pets, or meat.
The Real Lady Hilda: A Sketch
B. M. (Bithia Mary) Croker
A young woman and her stepmother face poverty and social coldness in a English country town, until a chance encounter and a family secret alter their fortunes.
The Sea Scouts of the Kestrel: The story of a cruise of adventure & pluck in a small yacht on the English Channel
Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Youthful grit, seamanship, and sudden peril collide along the English Channel in a tale where coastal hazards demand quick wits and steady nerves.
The sprightly romance of Marsac
Molly Elliot Seawell
A pair of broke Parisian journalists invent a dead uncle and a phantom millions, only to find that cash follows reputation and love follows chaos.
The Stories of the Three Burglars
Frank R. Stockton
A homeowner captures three burglars in his library, only to find them eager to justify their criminal careers through increasingly elaborate and improbable tales of woe.
The tale of Dickie Deer Mouse
Arthur Scott Bailey
A dapper wood-mouse sets out to secure a summer home in the trees, outwitting local predators and enduring pushy neighbors along the way.
The Triflers
Frederick Orin Bartlett
Two aimless, wealthy socialites enter a marriage of convenience to preserve their freedom, only to discover that their shared charade has become an inescapable and life-altering reality.
The Vitamine Manual
Walter Hollis Eddy
HOOK This technical guide captures the urgent, evolving science of nutrition at the dawn of the 1920s, documenting the discovery of "vitamines" as the essential, invisible keys to human health.
The walls
Keith Laumer
Four walls do not a prison make—unless they look out upon a world that has ceased to exist. In this claustrophobic vision of tomorrow, an apartment becomes an inescapable cage made of synthetic lights, endless media feeds, and absolute, crushing isolation.
The Wizard of the Sea
Roy Rockwood
The ocean hides a secret far more dangerous than any storm, and for a group of schoolboys, a summer outing becomes a desperate struggle for survival against a man who rules the deep.
The World Before Them: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 3)
Susanna Moodie
A young woman of unknown parentage refuses to marry her farmer sweetheart against his father's wishes, setting off a quiet struggle between duty, pride, and self-improvement.
The Wreck of the "Royal Charter": Compiled from Authentic Sources, with Some Original Matter
Frank Fowler
The "Royal Charter" carried hundreds of gold rush emigrants homeward from Melbourne, only to disintegrate against the rocky Welsh coast during a violent storm within sight of port.
Thirty-one brothers and sisters
Reba Paeff Mirsky
An energetic ten-year-old Zulu girl longs to leave behind routine domestic chores for the thrill of the trail, eventually proving her courage to her chieftain father on a grand elephant hunt.
Tiverton Tales
Alice Brown
Across twelve connected stories, a quiet New England village reveals how domestic routines, small rebellions, and buried memories illuminate the hidden dignity of human lives.
Torchy As A Pa
Sewell Ford
When a sharp-witted young secretary starts a family in 1910s New York, domestic life brings as much chaos and comedy as the corporate ladder.
Twenty-three and a half hours' leave
Mary Roberts Rinehart
A sharp-tongued sergeant bets his troop he can sit down to breakfast with his commanding general, only to lose his clothes, stumble into a spy ring, and find love on a single day of wartime leave.
Under Canvas
Douglas, Alan, Captain
A group of young Boy Scouts camping in the woods sets out to solve the mystery of a haunted house, only to discover that the specter is a human being in need of help.
Vera Nevill
Cameron, H. Lovett, Mrs.
A lingering ache defines the lives of those caught in the orbit of a beauty they cannot possess or a past they cannot escape. It is a story of quiet, devastating choices made in the shadow of social expectation.
What I Saw in Berlin and Other European Capitals During Wartime
Piermarini
A nimble journalist crosses a continent at war, stepping through shadow-draped capitals to measure the human cost behind official lines.
White Magic: A Novel
David Graham Phillips
A determined heiress wages a relentless war of affection against a fiercely independent painter in the wild woods of northern New Jersey.
With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia: 1916—1917
Anonymous
The mud-soaked, sun-scorched story of a Highland battalion in the Mesopotamian campaign captures the brutal, unglamorous realities of a forgotten theater of the Great War. It serves as a stark, intimate record of endurance.
Women: an inquiry
Willa Muir
Men and women share a single human nature, yet an invisible current of energy divides their true creative purpose.
Workhouse Nursing: The story of a successful experiment
Florence Nightingale
In the mid-nineteenth century, a groundbreaking initiative transformed public healthcare by introducing trained Nightingale nurses into the neglected, pauper-run wards of a massive Victorian workhouse infirmary.
Yosemite Legends
Bertha H. Smith
Before the white man came with new names, the sheer cliffs and mist-veiled falls of Ah-wah-nee held the lore of the Ah-wah-nee-chees. These six traditional stories preserve the valley's sacred memory.
A Book of Cheerful Cats and Other Animated Animals
J. G. (Joseph Greene) Francis
Whimsical felines and their animated companions embark on surreal escapades, blending nursery-rhyme simplicity with a dry, observational wit that rewards the attentive reader.
A boy's text book on gas engines
Fay Leone Faurote
To demystify early motoring for the rising generation, this 1908 instructional guide breaks down complex mechanics into accessible analogies, demystifying pistons, valves, and spark plugs for young readers.
A Chapter of Adventures
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
This is an account of a young sailor’s journey from a quiet fishing village to the dangerous centers of international conflict and natural disaster. It follows a boy’s rapid maturation through peril and duty.
A Comparative View of Religions
Johannes Henricus Scholten
A journey through the history of human belief reveals a steady progression from the helplessness of nature-worship toward the internal, spiritual freedom found in the highest forms of religious life.
A Discourse on the Evils of Dancing
John F. Mesick
A rigid 19th-century pastor delivers a stern, unyielding pulpit warning against the fashionable sin of dancing. He argues that even innocent amusements drag souls straight into spiritual compromise and eternal ruin.
A Hazard of New Fortunes
William Dean Howells
A New York story of ambition, social ambition, and industrial conflict, Howells's masterpiece follows a quiet editor pulled into the orbit of a ruthless millionaire.
A Man of Honor
George Cary Eggleston
A young gentleman seeking his fortune in nineteenth-century Virginia finds himself tangled in regional customs, family obligations, fraudulent debts, and a love affair that demands absolute integrity. <Image alt="Illustration of horsemen galloping side by side in a field" caption="Riders competing during a…