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Tom Swift circling the globe
Victor Appleton
A young inventor takes on a global aviation challenge, braving mechanical breakdowns, hostile wilderness encounters, and sabotage to fly around the world in twenty days.
Trailin'!
Max Brand
A Eastern swell's impulsive moment in the ring plunges him into a deadly range war, where a dark family secret and an unforgiving desert force him to prove his iron grit.
Travels in Virginia in Revolutionary Times
Unknown
A world shaped by war, wilderness, and new political ideals comes alive through the eyes of European travelers traversing Virginia from the late colonial era into the early republic.
Trotwood's Monthly, Vol. I, No. 2, November 1905
Various
Only the game fish swims upstream. This simple, persistent ideal drives a turn-of-the-century collection of Southern life, land, and lore.
Truthful Jane
Florence Morse Kingsley
A proud, penniless English orphan flees her aunt’s cold household for New York, only to find that surviving as a parlor maid requires a stubborn commitment to the truth.
Vicky Van
Carolyn Wells
A young woman leads a double life just steps from Fifth Avenue, until a murder in her drawing room forces her into hiding and brings a shrewd detective to unmask the truth.
War Rhymes by Wayfarer
Abner Cosens
Poignant verses chronicle the Great War’s disruption of everyday life, blending home-front anxieties and battlefield grimness with the colloquial laments of a fictional German soldier named Fritz.
Whitehall
W. J. (William John) Loftie
A muddy Thames riverbank yields to a grand, lost royal palace through centuries of architectural ambition and political upheaval.
Who Goes There?
Charles H. Davis
Squid-like telepaths search Earth’s ocean depths for intelligent life to save their distant world, only to meet a tragic end from human weapons.
Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels
Stephen Leacock
A sharp needle of satire punctures the absurdities of popular fiction, puncturing overblown romance, imperial anxieties, and detective cliches.
With Zola in England: A Story of Exile
Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
A celebrated novelist is driven into secret exile after taking a stand for an innocent man, finding himself stranded in an unfamiliar country where he must dodge reporters, endure isolation, and quietly await his day of justice.
A biographical memoir of the late Dr. Walter Oudney, Captain Hugh Clapperton, both of the Royal Navy, and Major Alex. Gordon Laing, all of whom died amid their active and enterprising endeavours to explore the interior of Africa
Thomas Nelson
These men ventured into the vast, uncharted interior of the African continent, driven by an insatiable curiosity that ultimately cost them their lives in the pursuit of scientific and geographical discovery.
A Cigarette-Maker's Romance
F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
An impoverished Russian aristocrat clings to a delusion of returning to his lost fortune while working in a Munich cigarette factory, sustained only by the quiet devotion of a woman who loves him.
A Fall of Glass
Stanley R. Lee
Every lock has its key, but under the controlled ceiling of a fake sky, a simple obsession with weather can shatter an entire world.
A Garden of Girls
Concannon, Thomas, Mrs.
Guided by the belief that a nation’s strength is rooted in the character of its women, these historical sketches trace the education of notable girls across centuries and cultures. The portraits serve as an inquiry into the ideal of the "Valiant Woman," examining how different eras have sought to cultivate both the…
A Man of the Moors
Halliwell Sutcliffe
The moors are not merely a backdrop in this stark, rugged novel; they are a living force that shapes the souls, passions, and violent ends of those who dwell among them. It is a haunting exploration of human obsession set against the unforgiving landscape of the Yorkshire hills.
A manual of pyrotechny
G. W. Mortimer
This guide serves as a practical, technical manual for the 19th-century enthusiast, detailing the chemistry and mechanical construction required to master the art of recreative fireworks.
A Mock Idyl
Percy Ross
When a sea captain and a schoolmaster conspire to navigate the treacherous waters of Devonshire romance, their devotion to one another proves far sturdier than their erratic schemes for winning the local admiral's nieces.
A narrative of some remarkable incidents, in the life of Solomon Bayley
Solomon Bayley
Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed. This record of faith and struggle documents a life defined by the relentless pursuit of freedom and the unwavering conviction of divine providence.
A Tragic Idyl
Paul Bourget
This atmospheric drama traces the collision of desire and duty within a restless circle of European expatriates, where the ghost of a shared past haunts every present choice. It is a somber, psychological study of how secrets and romantic betrayals inevitably unravel the lives of those who attempt to outrun their…
A United States Midshipman in Japan
Yates Stirling
Youthful American naval officers thwart a diplomatic conspiracy and prevent an international conflict while serving in Japan.
A Valiant Ignorance
Mary Angela Dickens
A woman’s devotion to her son becomes a screen against a shameful past, but every effort to secure his future pulls him closer to inherited ruin.
A voice from the inner world
A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill
Hook A mining engineer broadcasts a frantic, final warning from a subterranean world, revealing how a race of giant, cannibalistic women uses electromagnetic spheres to harvest humanity from the seas.
A winter of content
Laura Lee Davidson
A woman defies the warnings of concerned friends to spend a full year alone on a small, rugged island in Ontario, trading the comforts of society for the stark silence of a northern winter.
Adventures in Southern Seas: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
George Forbes
The vast, unforgiving expanse of the Southern Seas serves as the backdrop for a series of perilous maritime expeditions, where the pursuit of fortune and discovery collides with the raw indifference of nature and the complexities of human ambition.
Along the Mohawk Trail
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Two inseparable friends navigate the wilderness, testing their scouting mettle through daring rescues and quiet reflection along the storied Mohawk Trail.
Alton of Somasco: A Romance of the Great Northwest
Harold Bindloss
A sturdy pioneer fights for his homestead, his mineral rights, and the heart of a proud aristocrat against the backdrop of the rugged Canadian wilderness.
Anarchism is not enough
Laura Riding
A sharp, unsparing assault on the comforting fictions of modern culture, this critical tour de force strips away social conventions to reveal the fierce independence of the individual mind.
Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist
John T. (John Thomas) McIntyre
A brilliant investigator navigates a web of deceit, jewel thieves, and family secrets to exonerate the wrongly accused in this intricate puzzle of Gilded Age crime.
Ballad of the Lost Hare
Margaret Sidney
A headstrong young hare flees his comfortable home to run wild, only to find that the open world offers relentless terror instead of freedom.
Bobby in Movieland
Francis J. (Francis James) Finn
An earthquake at the beach separates an eight-year-old boy from his mother, casting him directly into the whirlwind world of early Hollywood.
Brandon of the Engineers
Harold Bindloss
A disgraced officer attempts to redeem his reputation through dangerous civil engineering in the tropics, where he discovers that honor is harder to build than railways.
Bring Back My Brain!
Dwight V. Swain
A man wakes up in a void of memory, hunted by a sinister conspiracy and a shadow-being that demands his absolute submission. He must reclaim his identity before his own creator destroys him.
"Bring Me His Ears"
Clarence Edward Mulford
The frontier is a place where a man’s reputation is his only shield, and a single insult to a powerful tyrant can turn a vast, untamed landscape into a lethal trap. Survival hinges on knowing the trail better than the men sent to hunt you down.
Campfire Girls' Lake Camp
Irene Elliott Benson
A circle of young campers stumbles into a web of deceit, taking on an unauthorized undercover mission to protect an abused child from a scheming local lawyer.
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 21, June, 1921: America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy
Various
Raucous, irreverent, and unapologetically tacky, this 1921 humor digest offers a unfiltered window into post-World War I American pop culture, Prohibition workarounds, and small-town bawdiness.
Cerebrum
Albert Teichner
A single corrupted thought-line exposes the slow decay of humanity’s organic switchboard, severing a couple from society and forcing them into a quiet underground that alone will survive the mind’s final collapse.
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 693: April 7, 1877
Various
A horse rushes into a burning building to rescue its mistress in a theatrical spectacle, while elsewhere an African expedition faces deadly fever, courtly deceptions unfold, and rural children nurse their own uncles.
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 730: December 22, 1877
Various
Different minds hold radically opposing views on human life, turning even a joyful season like Christmas into either a painful battlefield of domestic vexations or a genuinely heartening celebration of goodwill.
Chicago and its cess-pools of infamy
Samuel Paynter Wilson
This investigation serves as a stark, journalistic exposé of Chicago’s turn-of-the-century underworld. It documents the systematic entrapment of young women, the prevalence of predatory gambling, and the pervasive corruption that defined the city’s darker corners.
Colonial memories
Lady (Mary Anne) Barker
Across decades of travel and imperial service, a life unfolds in landscapes as disparate as the snowy plains of New Zealand and the sun-drenched gardens of Mauritius. These recollections offer a candid, intimate look at the domestic realities of nineteenth-century colonial life.
Conflict of Northern and Southern Theories of Man and Society: Great Speech, Delivered in New York City
Henry Ward Beecher
Two conflicting worldviews are locked in a struggle over the true nature of humanity, determining whether society exists to foster individual spiritual potential or to maintain an oppressive, power-driven hierarchy.
Critical difference
Murray Leinster
A lone survey officer on a dying, frozen world must solve a planetary-scale climate catastrophe. He finds that even the most desperate technical ingenuity requires a touch of human connection to become a miracle.
Devereux
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
A young nobleman steps into the worldly arena of Queen Anne’s England with a sharp intellect, a cold heart, and an unyielding will, only to find that every victory in politics and passion drags him closer to tragedy.
Diary of Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys
A candid, unvarnished portrait of seventeenth-century life, this record captures the inner workings of a man’s mind amidst the rise and fall of political giants and the rhythms of a changing city.
Edward FitzGerald and "Posh": "Herring Merchants"
James Blyth
The unlikely friendship between a scholarly recluse and a rugged fisherman reveals the fragile, human heart hidden behind a famous literary mask.
Elfin land: and other poems
Benjamin West Ball
Elfin land is a mid-nineteenth-century collection of poetry that seeks to reclaim the majesty of classical mythology and medieval romance. Its verses act as a bridge between the fading wonders of antiquity and the anxieties of a modern, industrializing age.
Elsie's Friends at Woodburn
Martha Finley
A young girl grapples with her own volatile temper and the complexities of growing up within a deeply affectionate, tradition-bound family. This narrative explores the delicate balance between personal autonomy and the duty of obedience.