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Bowery Life
Chuck Connors
Every street has its legend, but turn-of-the-century Chatham Square belongs entirely to Chuck Connors, a prize-fighting raconteur who transforms the rowdy, smoke-filled alleys of New York’s Bowery into a theatrical stage for high-spirited survival and street-corner philosophy.
Bread Overhead
Fritz Leiber
When a corporate blunder replaces carbon dioxide with hydrogen gas in an ultra-processed bread mix, billions of loaves rise into the air and drift across the globe, sparking an international crisis and an unexpected wave of world peace.
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm
Laura Lee Hope
An earnest small boy and his bright sister venture from their seaside home across the countryside to their grandfather's farm, discovering that simple summer travels often turn into marvelous local adventures.
Captain Lucy and Lieutenant Bob
Aline Havard
An army daughter on Governor's Island watches her family scatter to the European front and learns that courage is a quiet, daily discipline.
Catalogue of the Retrospective Loan Exhibition of European Tapestries
San Francisco Museum of Art
Woven threads of wool, silk, and gold trace the shifting artistic ideals of European civilization across four centuries of monumental textile art.
Clergymen of the Church of England
Anthony Trollope
A gentle, clear-eyed examination of the nineteenth-century Victorian clergy reveals a human workforce navigating ancient hierarchies, shifting political landscapes, and the quiet absurdities of an established institution.
Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Rodents
E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall
A meticulous examination of museum specimens untangles decades of contradictory geographic ranges and overlapping labels for North American rodents.
Constance Dunlap
Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
A desperate woman turns her sharp intelligence against a dishonest world, using her mastery of forgery, disguise, and criminal psychology to save doomed men and outwit the relentless detective who pursues her.
Contes et légendes. 1re Partie
H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
A simple magic runs through these old tales, where a kind word earns a golden harvest and cruel vanity ends in the deep, cold sea.
Damned
E. S. (Ethel Smith) Dorrance
In a dark, electric-lit underworld, a newly arrived woman must narrate her earthly misfortunes to a sardonic Satan to determine her eternal destination.
Dave Dawson on the Russian Front
Robert Sidney Bowen
Behind the Eastern Front lies a shadow war of double agents, stolen identities, and high-stakes aerial reconnaissance.
Deaf and Dumb!: Third Edition
Elizabeth Sandham
A country visit connects a prosperous family with a poor cottage household whose children cannot hear or speak, sparking a determination to secure them an education.
Dick the Bank Boy
Frank V. Webster
A hard-working boy tackles odd jobs to support his widowed mother, only to find himself accused of theft when securities vanish from the bank where he works.
Doomsday on Ajiat
Neil R. Jones
A human mind preserved in a cosmic coffin wakes millions of years after Earth has died, joining a race of mechanical explorers on a journey toward a sun about to explode.
Ethel Morton's Holidays
Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith
A group of spirited, civic-minded young people discover that true holiday magic lies in quiet service to others, transforming seasonal celebrations into practical acts of generosity.
Europe—whither bound? (Quo vadis Europa?)
Stephen Graham
In the aftermath of the First World War, a traveler journeys across a fractured continent to map its physical borders, broken currencies, and wounded spirits, searching for unity in a civilization threatening to collapse.
Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 3
Lyndon Orr
Bound by a wild, perilous frontier, two lovers test the fragile boundaries between pioneer freedom and civil social rules.
Fifty Per Cent Prophet
Randall Garrett
He is a fraud whose visions keep coming true, and the government agencies watching him cannot decide whether to lock him up or make him a director.
Frank Merriwell's Reward
Burt L. Standish
An exemplary Ivy League athlete and his circle navigate rivalries, romantic entanglements, and sinister plots at turn-of-the-century Yale.
From Aldershot to Pretoria
William E. Sellers
Faith and duty collide on the dusty South African veldt as British soldiers and chaplains carry their spiritual devotion alongside their rifles.
George Washington Carver National Monument Junior Ranger Activity Book: The Scientist
United States. National Park Service
A hands-on invitation to historical discovery, this park activity book transforms young readers into active investigators of George Washington Carver’s remarkable legacy in science, agriculture, and art.
German Influence on British Cavalry
Erskine Childers
Outdated doctrines put armies at risk, and relying on foreign models can blind military leaders to hard-won practical experience.
Golden Stars, and Other Verses Following "The Red Flower"
Henry Van Dyke
Seeking peace in a world fractured by violence demands a battle between conscience and duty, where sacrifice becomes the ultimate price of liberty.
Great Porter Square: A Mystery. v. 1
B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
A dark room in a run-down London lodging house yields a corpse, setting off a sensational press frenzy that ensnares the innocent and hides a far darker web of greed, deception, and long-buried family betrayal.
Hall of Mirrors
Fredric Brown
A young mathematician vanishes from a sunny patio, only to wake in a windowless room with a letter that explains he has traveled fifty years into his own future.
Halsey & Co
H. K. (Harvey King) Shackleford
A street-smart newsboy stops a bank heist on Broad Street and uses his reward money to conquer Wall Street alongside his fellow messenger boys.
Helps and hints for Hallowe'en
Laura Rountree Smith
An ancient autumn festival comes alive through classroom stages, paper cutouts, and lighthearted theatrics.
Here and There in London
J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
An observant guide wanders from the gilded halls of Parliament to the subterranean misery of cheap theaters, asking what holds a fractured metropolis together. James Ewing Ritchie maps mid-nineteenth-century London not through monuments, but through the daily routines of its politicians, journalists, traders,…
Hidden Treasure: The Story of a Chore Boy Who Made the Old Farm Pay
John Thomas Simpson
An energetic young nephew revitalizes a dilapidated Pennsylvania homestead by introducing modern engineering, systematic accounting, and forward-thinking financial strategy to his reluctant uncle.
Higgins, a Man's Christian
Norman Duncan
A physically imposing minister trudges through Minnesota snowstorms to drag drunk lumberjacks out of mud and saloon trapdoors, risking his own life to show abandoned, roughened men that someone still values their souls.
Hilda's Home: A Story of Woman's Emancipation
Rosa Graul
In a society bound by traditional norms, a group of brave women and men dares to break free from patriarchal coercion to establish a community grounded in self-ownership and equal liberty.
How to See a Play
Richard Burton
A spectator's guide to the theater, teaching audiences how to evaluate playwriting, appreciate staging, and demand better drama.
In Case of Fire
Randall Garrett
A delicate balance of human frailty keeps the gears of interstellar politics spinning.
In Story-land
Elizabeth Harrison
Kindness and moral courage serve as quiet compasses in a series of timeless fables for young readers.
Introduction to Sally
Elizabeth Von Arnim
A shopkeeper’s daughter possesses a beauty so staggering that it attracts overwhelming crowds, drives a high-minded scholar into a frantic marriage, and throws polite society into total disarray.
King Edward's realm: Story of the making of the Empire
C. S. (Charles Sherwill) Dawe
A history of how a small island nation grew into a global realm through naval skill, trading ambition, military force, and relentless colonial enterprise.
Lawrence Clavering
A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
A greenhorn heir takes up a stolen estate and a secret cause, only to learn that the hardest debt to discharge is the one he owes to his own conscience.
Lion yarn book
Lion Brand Yarn (Company)
A series of exact geometric directives transforms simple hanks of wool into the textured, highly wearable fashions of early twentieth-century America.
Little Erik of Sweden
Madeline Brandeis
A golden-voiced peasant boy schemes to save his beloved estate and stop a high-born marriage through ghostly trickery, unexpected allies, and a journey across Sweden.
Mammals of Mount McKinley National Park
Adolph Murie
Cold tundra winds sweep across frozen subsoil where wild creatures rule without human interference. Within this subarctic refuge, every animal from giant bear to tiny shrew claims equal standing in a living ecosystem.
Manual of Ship Subsidies: An Historical Summary of the Systems of All Nations
Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe) Bacon
Across oceans and centuries, maritime powers have spent lavishly to conquer trade routes, turning national treasuries into instruments of economic and naval warfare.
Masterman and Son
W. J. (William James) Dawson
A stubborn, self-made titan of London industry clashes with his idealistic son over ethics, casting the young man into poverty and the vast expanse of North America.
Matilda Montgomerie
Major (John) Richardson
A web of tragic passion and wartime duty entangles two brothers along the Canadian border, where love for a vengeful woman proves more destructive than the clash of empires.
Mavericks
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
Shadowed by a bloody stagecoach robbery and two hundred pounds of stolen raw gold, a Southwestern valley becomes a battleground of buried parentage, range theft, and sudden murder.
Mazeppa
Frederick Whishaw
A young Cossack nobleman navigates the treacherous power struggles of seventeenth-century Russia, discovering that winning a woman's heart and surviving political intrigue require equal parts steel, luck, and cunning.
Meadowlark Basin
B. M. Bower
A quiet valley hiding stolen gold becomes the battleground for a young cowboy fighting to save an abused orphan and protect his range.
Melbourne House
Susan Warner
A lonely, deeply principled young girl quietly resolves to live by her faith in a worldly nineteenth-century family, triggering a bitter domestic struggle over her obedience, her conscience, and her right to her own mind.
Memoirs of Doctor Burney (Vol. 2 of 3): Arranged from his own manuscripts, from family papers, and from personal recollections by his daughter, Madame d'Arblay
Fanny Burney
In the crowded drawing rooms of late eighteenth-century London, a distinguished musicologist and his sharp-eyed daughter capture the famous, the brilliant, and the eccentric at their most vulnerable.