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Know Thy Neighbor
Elisabeth R. Lewis
Living in San Francisco's Tenderloin district comes with cheap rent and rowdy streets, but the real nightmare is the quiet creature creeping down the apartment hall.
Last Resort
Stephen Bartholomew
It was supposed to be a simple pinhole leak, but millions of miles from home, it becomes a slow-motion execution.
Left Behind
James Otis
When a lost, well-to-do boy is stranded on the streets of nineteenth-century New York, two street-smart newsboys take him in, sharing their cramped sleeping quarters and teaching him the art of survival.
Lignum-vitae
Samuel J. (Samuel James) Record
A dense, self-lubricating tropical hardwood underpins international maritime trade and naval operations. This study details the botany, commercial supply lines, physical mechanics, and synthetic substitutes of true lignum-vitae and its close botanical relatives.
Lord Tedric
E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
A humble blacksmith learns to forge super-steel with the help of a time traveler posing as a god, changing the fate of an ancient empire.
Madame X: a story of mother-love
J. W. McConaughy
A mother's desperate search for her son leads to a dramatic trial and a shocking revelation.
Making Up with Mr. Dog: Hollow Tree Stories
Albert Bigelow Paine
A lively forest community navigates culinary rivalries, literary ambition, and uneasy truces in these charming, episodic animal tales.
Mary Liddiard
William Henry Giles Kingston
A young missionary's daughter faces danger, loss, and adventure in the Pacific Islands, where her faith and courage are tested amidst tribal conflicts and natural disasters.
Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls
L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
High school girls on the American home front transform a small Midwestern town through organized patriotism, only to find that counteracting treason takes more than selling bonds.
Mask of Death
Paul Ernst
A mysterious figure calling himself Doctor Satan threatens a lavish Maine resort with a weapon that distorts the flow of time itself.
Mattie:—A Stray (Vol 1 of 3)
F. W. (Frederick William) Robinson
A street urchin raised in the worst slums of Victorian Southwark finds shelter in a quiet paper shop, only to be caught between her deep gratitude to her benefactors and the shadowy forces of her past.
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre
Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France
Power play, personal survival, and royal scandal collide in this vivid personal record from the heart of the sixteenth-century French court. Writing with sharp intelligence and aristocratic poise, a princess of France charts the perilous political waters of her youth.
Monkey On His Back
Charles V. De Vet
A man with no memory of his past wanders through a strange, hostile world, only to discover that the one thing he cannot escape is his own conscience.
Mr. Arnold: A romance of the Revolution
Francis Lynde
An impulsive young Virginia officer sneaks behind enemy lines on a desperate wartime gamble, only to find that catching a traitor is far easier than surviving the moral cost of the trap.
Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 88, July 5, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Various
An obscure manuscript in a fallen duke’s pocket, a centuries-old tale of a London porter turned pontiff, and the proper way to preserve the dead with salt all converge in a lively Victorian intellectual exchange.
Oakdale Boys in Camp
Morgan Scott
Six high school friends camp at a secluded Maine lake, where a fistfight, a capsized boat, and a nocturnal ghost hunt forge an unexpected bond.
Observations of a Retired Veteran
Henry C. Tinsley
A small-town Virginia editor transforms the quiet observations of his sickbed and daily strolls into warm, sharply observed meditations on human nature, aging, and the quiet dignity of ordinary life.
Oklahoma and Other Poems
Freeman Edwin Miller
A wild frontier springs to life through ringing meter, where the thunder of a land run yields to quiet farmsteads and the ache of memory.
Old Man Savarin, and Other Stories
Edward William Thomson
Against the rugged, windswept backdrops of frontier rivers and military encampments, human nature reveals its true measure through desperate choices and unexpected mercies. These tales capture the raw vitality of a young nation shaped by wilderness, war, and ancestral pride.
Old Wine and New: Occasional Discourses
Joseph Cross
A collection of mid-nineteenth-century pulpit addresses balances traditional Christian orthodoxy with lush rhetorical art, urging believers to exchange rigid ritualism for an intimate, personal relationship with the divine.
One way out
Frederick Orin Bartlett
When a quiet middle-class clerk gets fired, he avoids financial ruin by packing his bags and emigrating to the city's immigrant slums to start over as a common ditch-digger.
Pee-wee Harris, F.O.B. Bridgeboro
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
A Boy Scout's adventures in a relay race, a flivver, and the great outdoors.
Phoenix
Marion Zimmer Bradley
An ordinary young man wakes to godlike telekinetic control over energy and matter, only to find that his terrifying raw power shatters his relationship and leaves him utterly isolated.
Poems
Edward Shanks
Grief and desire clash beneath a darkening sky, where the quiet intimacy of pastoral love gives way to the harsh, marching rhythm of wartime separation.
Poems
Marietta Holley
A quiet collection of nineteenth-century verses where domestic tenderness, coastal mourning, and spiritual longing converge under the gentle shadow of loss.
Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 3
Robert Bridges
Two historical dramas explore the volatile intersections of power, duty, and identity, charting the fall of a Roman emperor and the forced coming-of-age of a legendary Greek hero.
Potts's Painless Cure: 1898
Edward Bellamy
A heartless college experiment in romantic disenchantment backfires spectacularly when a young man tries to save his sweetheart from a broken heart.
Prince and Rover of Cloverfield Farm
Helen Fuller Orton
Gentle farm animals and watchful children share a quiet, sunlit world where simple duty and kindness carry every day.
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 27, 1893
Various
A sharp, light-hearted satire of 1890s Victorian society, where high-born politicians, pretentious art gallery patrons, and fashionable snobs are systematically stripped of their solemnity by the razor-sharp wit of London’s premier humor magazine.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914
Various
Satirizing the anxieties, routines, and absurdity of early World War I, this historical issue captures a nation adjusting to home-front reality with dark humor and fierce camaraderie.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 148, February 3, 1915
Various
A snapshot of British humor from February 1915 captures a nation maintaining its stiff upper lip through sharp satire, absurdity, and quiet resolve.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 29, 1890
Various
An inside look at Victorian society during a week of political tension, social satire, and high-spirited sport.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 18, 1891
Various
A keen-eyed slice of late-Victorian society, where political posturing, theatrical pretensions, and civic absurdity are exposed with relentless, witty clarity.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917
Various
During the grimmest days of the First World War, an iconic British periodical serves up satire, domestic comedy, and quiet observational humor to keep home-front morale intact.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919
Various
A nation emerging from four years of war finds itself suspended between relief and absurdity, where global peace conferences share page space with the exasperating bureaucracy of military demobilization.
Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890
Various
A sharp satirical gaze cast upon Victorian society captures the anxieties, grand ambitions, and absurdities of a changing world. Through parodies, comic plays, and social commentary, the volume exposes the gap between high imperial pretension and mundane human frailty.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 6, 1890
Various
From high-society double standards to parliamentary backstabbing, this 1890 periodical exposes Victorian London’s anxieties and absurdities through razor-sharp satire.
Ralph Raymond's Heir
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
Driven by sudden wealth, a desperate merchant hires a calculating drug clerk to eliminate a rival and discard his young heir, only for their dark alliance to unravel through extortion, miraculous survival, and exposed secrets.
Rhoda of the Underground
Florence Finch Kelly
Across a divided nation on the brink of civil war, a young Northern woman must choose between her devotion to a handsome Southern slaveholder and her moral duty to the Underground Railroad.
Roses
Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828
Botanical cataloging becomes poetic devotion in this meticulous survey, where rigorous science bends the knee to the undisputed queen of the garden.
Roughing It, Part 7
Mark Twain
A restless narrator wanders from California’s exhausted goldfields to the lush ports of the Hawaiian Islands, recording the absurdities, eccentricities, and cultural clashes of the nineteenth-century Pacific world.
Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp
Alice B. Emerson
A run-in with a furious pasture bull sets a winter vacation in motion, launching a group of boarding school friends into a high-stakes northern wilderness adventure.
Samuell Gorton: A Forgotten Founder of our Liberties
Lewis G. (Lewis George) Janes
A fiercely independent thinker steps into the wilderness of colonial New England, challenging both civil magistrates and religious authorities to demand absolute freedom of conscience and strict rule of law.
School-Room Humour
T. J. (Thomas James) Macnamara
Childhood innocence collides hilariously with rigid schoolroom lessons in a work that turns classroom blunders into pure comedy.
Secreta Monita Societatis Jesu. The Secret Counsels of the Society of Jesus, in Latin and English
Unknown
A chilling blueprint for institutional subversion, this text lays bare a calculated system designed to manipulate wealth, political power, and religious devotion for singular group advancement.
Shadows of Shasta
Joaquin Miller
In the shadow of Mount Shasta, helpless people are hunted down under the cover of law, their only crime being that their presence frustrates greedy settlers and corrupt government agents.
Shrubs for Kansas Landscapes
Gary L. McDaniel
An essential guide to deliberate yard planning, this horticultural circular shows how choosing plants for purpose, scale, and environmental hardiness transforms unpredictable prairie conditions into a thriving home landscape.
Sixty years with Plymouth Church
Stephen Morrell Griswold
A eyewitness account of a famous Brooklyn congregation captures six decades of American spiritual life, political upheaval, and pulpit eloquence.