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Sarah Dillard's Ride: A Story of the Carolinas in 1780
James Otis
Two young patriots race against time to warn their neighbors of a looming British surprise attack, risking everything to outwit a treacherous local spy and change the course of the Revolutionary War.
Scheherazade: a London night's entertainment
Florence Warden
An impulsive marriage to an enigmatic heiress pulls a rigid young officer into a web of deceit, public disgrace, and eventual quiet redemption.
Shafting, Pulleys, Belting and Rope Transmission
Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin) Collins
This technical manual serves as an essential guide for engineers tasked with the installation, maintenance, and repair of mechanical power transmission systems in industrial settings.
Sir John Everett Millais
A. L. (Alfred Lys) Baldry
A child prodigy grows into a Victorian titan, revolutionizing British art through the radical Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood before evolving into a master of expressive portraiture and landscape.
Social Justice Without Socialism
John Bates Clark
This vision of a reformed industrial democracy argues that the path to a fair society lies in perfecting, rather than dismantling, the competitive market system.
Spanish bayonet
Stephen Vincent Benét
A naive young colonial heir journeys into the lush, deceptive depths of British Florida, where romantic illusions shatter against the brutally real machinery of human exploitation and impending revolution.
Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories
H. Taprell (Henry Taprell) Dorling
The North Sea in the Great War is a theater of cold iron, endless vigilance, and the peculiar, dry humor of men living in cramped quarters. These sketches capture the daily rhythm of a Navy defined not by grand clashes, but by the relentless, grinding necessity of service.
Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909
Franklin Hichborn
The halls of government are not always moved by the will of the people, but by the calculated maneuvers of those who hold the keys to power behind the scenes.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Erwin E. Klaas
This focused ornithological survey chronicles the summer breeding and life cycles of birds inhabiting the Yucatan Peninsula, filling critical gaps in regional natural history. It serves as a vital record of mid-century biodiversity in a unique ecological crossroads.
Sun-Dog trails
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
A high-stakes wagon runaway crashes directly into a stagecoach robbery, hurling two offbeat cowboys into a web of small-town corruption, hidden gold, and decades-old vengeance.
Sunday sunshine
Unknown
Self-sacrificing sailors, patient grandmothers, and seeking souls find that every life's storm bends toward peace when surrendered to divine love.
Swamp Island
Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
A young woman’s weekend excursion into a mysterious, tangled wetland turns into a high-stakes hunt for an escaped convict and a hidden fortune.
Sweet Content
Mrs. Molesworth
The story of a young girl’s awakening to her own vanity, this narrative follows a sheltered child as she learns that the measure of a person lies in grace, not status.
Texas Honey Plants
Charles Emerson Sanborn
The natural world is an intricate map of resources, and for the apiarist, the landscape is defined by the ephemeral bloom of field and forest. This work serves as a foundational guide for those seeking to understand the nectar-bearing pulse of the Texas wilderness.
The Annes
Marion Ames Taggart
A profound struggle between personal desire and moral duty consumes a young woman caught in an impossible tangle of love and obligation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
This collection of mid-nineteenth-century essays, reviews, and fiction captures a nation in the midst of rapid mechanical expansion and intense political soul-searching. It stands as a sophisticated snapshot of the intellectual preoccupations that defined an era.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
This mid-winter periodical offers a vital, immediate lens into the fractured American psyche of 1861, blending sharp political analysis with the era’s most refined literary sensibilities.
The Bandolero
Mayne Reid
A soldier in a foreign land finds his heart captured by a mystery, only to discover that love and war in the mountains are as dangerous as they are intoxicating.
The Bath Keepers
Paul de Kock
In the shifting landscape of old Paris, a web of impulsive aristocrats, desperate lovers, and wandering clerks collide in a volatile struggle for reputation and redemption.
The Bear Family at Home, and How the Circus Came to Visit Them
Curtis Dwight Wilbur
A curious young bear finds his way back from the circus to his mountain home, where he and his family create a sanctuary for his former performance companions. This gentle narrative explores the themes of domesticity, storytelling, and the lessons learned when the wild meets the tamed.
The Boy Artist.: A Tale for the Young
F. M. S.
This Victorian moral tale follows the quiet struggles of two siblings, Raymond and Madge, as they endure poverty and neglect in a search for dignity and creative fulfillment. It is a story of resilience, sibling devotion, and the unexpected kindness of strangers.
The Boy Scouts Down in Dixie
Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917
The Silver Fox Patrol ventures deep into the labyrinthine Louisiana wetlands, braving dangerous terrain and elusive outlaws to help their leader search for his long-lost sister.
The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin
Frederick Jackson Turner
The trading post was the forge of the American Northwest, a pivotal institution that transformed a wilderness of rivers into a theater for empire, commerce, and cultural upheaval.
The Chickamauga Dam and its environs
Robert Sparks Walker
A vast reservoir transforms the landscape of eastern Tennessee, submerging decades of frontier history to ignite a modernized industrial south.
The commonwealth of cells
H. G. F. (Herbert George Flaxman) Spurrell
A continuous burn of energy keeps living substance intact while constantly changing it, separating organic life from simple non-living chemistry.
The Cuckoo in the Nest, v. 1/2
Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
A young woman’s calculated marriage to a simple-minded heir threatens a fading aristocratic household. This is a story of social displacement, where the desperate scramble for security turns the domestic sphere into a battlefield of class and legacy.
The Diamond Ship
Max Pemberton
A gentleman scientist pursues a criminal mastermind across the globe to recover stolen jewels and save an innocent woman from a life of maritime piracy.
The Divining Rod: Virgula Divina—Baculus Divinatorius (Water-Witching)
Charles Latimer
This inquiry challenges the boundaries of nineteenth-century science, arguing that the ancient practice of dowsing is not mere superstition, but a phenomenon governed by the measurable laws of electromagnetism.
The Double Traitor
E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
The calm of a summer evening is only a thin veil over the gathering storm of a continent on the brink of total war. A young diplomat discovers that the polite world of international travel is a front for a sprawling, invisible conflict.
The Dreadnought Boys on a Submarine
John Henry Goldfrap
Two young sailors prove the worth of a revolutionary submarine while outmaneuvering corporate spies and saboteurs in this brisk, turn-of-the-century maritime adventure.
The Ethic of the Assassin
Hayden Howard
A physician on a colonized planet fights a cold, ritualized death sentence hanging over his pregnant wife, only to find that his only hope lies in operating on the legendary, sightless assassin who holds the contract.
The Flight of the Eagle
Alfred Coppel
A space-faring crew risks everything to transport a sentient, weather-altering plant from Venus to a starving Earth. Their desperate mission hinges on a navigator with a unique, mutated gift.
The Giant Hands
Alfred Crowquill
A young boy sets out to relieve his mother’s poverty, discovering that the path to prosperity is paved by the invisible, supernatural strength of his own character. This moral tale is a simple, earnest fable about the rewards of diligence.
The Glorious Return: A Story of the Vaudois in 1689
Crona Temple
The "Glorious Return" of 1689 marks the definitive moment when a persecuted people reclaimed their ancestral Alpine homes through faith and sheer tenacity. This historical narrative documents how a small, beleaguered band of Vaudois exiles defied the geopolitical machinations of kings to secure their religious freedom.
The golden story book
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
A child outbraves a troop of reivers, a drummer boy saves his entire regiment with a sudden roll of his drum, and a lonely girl carries her sister down a dark mountain.
The Great Conspiracy, Volume 2
John Alexander Logan
The secessionist movement was no sudden accident of 1860, but the result of a deliberate, thirty-year conspiracy to dismantle the American Republic. This work chronicles the collapse of civil discourse and the descent into the Civil War.
The Grim House
Mrs. Molesworth
A young woman’s curiosity about a reclusive, mysterious family leads to a life-changing discovery, proving that secrets, no matter how deeply buried, often find their way into the light.
The Inglises
Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
HOOK This story traces the quiet fortitude of a widowed mother and her children as they navigate poverty, loss, and the demanding path of faith in a stern, beautiful landscape.
The Isles of Sunset
Arthur Christopher Benson
The Isles of Sunset is a collection of allegorical tales that explore the quiet, often painful, intersections of human ambition, spiritual longing, and the search for peace. It serves as a meditation on the necessity of sacrifice and the ultimate futility of earthly pride.
The Joss: A Reversion
Richard Marsh
A cursed idol transforms an inheritance into a harrowing trap, forcing its claimants to confront the dark, supernatural price of their newfound fortune.
The Layton Court mystery
Anthony Berkeley
A country-house gathering turns tense when an unlikable host is found shot to death inside a locked library.
The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant
A. J. (Alexander Johnstone) Wilson
A scathing indictment of Victorian class injustice, this narrative follows a Warwickshire peasant’s struggle to retain his humanity while the machinery of church and state conspires to grind him into the dust.
The Lion and the Mouse
Charles Klein
This story explores the collision between unchecked corporate power and individual integrity, centered on a young woman who inadvertently finds herself dismantling the empire of the man who ruined her father.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 14: Switzerland
Giacomo Casanova
A traveler traverses 18th-century Switzerland, navigating the complexities of romance, theology, and high-society artifice with an unflinching eye for the absurdities of the human condition.
The Midnight Guest: A Detective Story
Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White
A mysterious kidnapping and a trail of stolen portraits unravel a decades-old vendetta, forcing a young man to confront the dark history of his guardian.
The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III: A Novel in Three Volumes
Sophia Reeve
This novel of manners and moral reckoning navigates a labyrinth of inheritance disputes, parental tyranny, and the eventual triumph of virtue over calculated malice. It is a work that captures the intense emotional anxieties and the intricate social codes of its era through a complex, multi-generational web of…
The Mystery of Lincoln's Inn
Robert Machray
A solicitor’s sudden disappearance in the sweltering heat of London triggers a frantic investigation into a massive financial crime, a tragic death, and a web of double lives.
The Native Races of British North America
Wilfrid D. (Wilfrid Dyson) Hambly
This survey explores the traditional lives, social structures, and mythologies of Indigenous peoples in British North America, framing their diverse cultures through the lens of early twentieth-century anthropological thought. It serves as a window into the daily realities and spiritual landscapes of these…