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The Rapids
Alan Sullivan
A dynamic promoter descends on a sleepy Canadian border town, intent on bending its wild river and vast forests to his industrial will, only to find that building an empire demands more than sheer force of belief.
The Red Bicycle
Fergus Hume
A mysterious murder at a secluded mansion, a missing will, and a scarlet bicycle become the center of a tangled web of secrets in this classic Edwardian mystery.
The Smuggler's Cave
George A. Birmingham
A quaint English coastal village sets out to put on a amateur historical pageant, only to stumble into a genuine contraband ring hidden right under their feet.
The Story of Charles Strange: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3)
Wood, Henry, Mrs.
A disgraced runaway on the brink of capture, a young lawyer burdened with family secrets, and a wife driven mad by suspicion collide in the dramatic conclusion to Mrs. Henry Wood's Victorian trilogy.
The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Volume 4, Nicodemus
William Wake
A dramatic ancient retelling of the trial, execution, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, this apocryphal text expands the biblical narrative with vivid courtroom dialogue, eyewitness testimonies, and a sensational descent into the underworld.
The tale of Ferdinand Frog
Arthur Scott Bailey
An impeccably dressed amphibian bounds through the woods of Pleasant Valley, using absurd flair, outrageous bravado, and unflappable cheerfulness to smooth over every blunder he creates.
The Two Dianas, Volume 2 (of 3)
Paul Meurice
A world of political betrayal, high-stakes military siege, and tragic double identity converges in this mid-sixteenth-century historical drama.
The Two Maps of Europe, and Some Other Aspects of the Great War
Hilaire Belloc
The shifting borders and military realities of the First World War define this analysis of a continent in crisis. It serves as a stark, contemporary snapshot of the conflict as it stood in the winter of 1914–15.
The Welding of the Race ("449"-1066)
Unknown
Centuries of conflict, religious conversion, and state-building transform scattered Germanic tribes into a single Anglo-Saxon kingdom before the cataclysm of 1066.
The wizard of light
David Ely
A senile optics genius sets out to destroy the art market by creating a machine that duplicates famous masterpieces down to the exact molecule.
The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Corinthians
Anonymous
A passionate leader writes to a fracturing community, wrestling with human weakness, personal rivalry, and spiritual pride to forge a unified vision of love and hope.
The Wrecking Master
Ralph Delahaye Paine
An honest, high-stakes sea adventure where teenage rivals and seasoned captains collide over a suspicious shipwreck along the Florida Reef.
Till the Clock Stops
J. J. (John Joy) Bell
A ruined heir, a room locked against time, and a green box holding either a fortune or a snare—this is high-tempo Edwardian entertainment written with a dry Scottish wit and an unyielding momentum.
Tom Slade with the Boys Over There
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
A pair of young Americans escapes a German prison camp and relies on scoutcraft, luck, and sheer nerve to survive behind enemy lines during World War I.
Ulf Van Yern, and Other Ballads
George Borrow
A son demands blood for a slain father, a knight rides toward a fatal challenge, and lovers discover their affection is forbidden by blood.
Uncle Wiggily's Airship
Howard Roger Garis
A gentler era of childhood imagination takes flight when a kindly old rabbit crafts an airship out of a laundry basket, a few colorful toy balloons, and a household electric fan.
Under the Liberty Tree: A Story of The 'Boston Massacre'
James Otis
In 1770, four Boston boys find themselves caught in the escalating tension between British troops and local citizens, culminating in a tragedy that alters the course of American history.
Via Crucis: A Romance of the Second Crusade
F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
A young English noble loses his father, his inheritance, and his faith in human honor, setting forth on a treacherous journey toward redemption through the bloody battlefields and decadent royal courts of the Second Crusade.
Walker of the Secret Service
Melville Davisson Post
On the edge of the law, a young man enters a shadowy world of train holdups, cunning evasions, and double-crosses, only to find that the true mastery of crime lies in the art of unraveling it.
Weighed and Wanting: Addresses on the Ten Commandments
Dwight Lyman Moody
A sharp, urgent study of ancient moral law brings eternal principles to bear on the compromises of daily human life.
What the Swallow Sang: A Novel
Friedrich Spielhagen
Quiet yearning collides with the ruthless greed of a changing Germany, forcing an artist to choose between an impossible past and a bitter redemption.
When the tree flowered
John G. Neihardt
In a freezing tepee on the reservation, an aging Lakota warrior shares the lost world of his youth with a sympathetic white visitor.
When the Yule Log Burns: A Christmas Story
Leona Dalrymple
A warmth that smells of cedar wood and spice carries through every line of this small, bright story of old-fashioned cheer.
Within the Capes
Howard Pyle
A quiet rural courtship shatters into a dangerous privateering voyage, a desolate shipwreck, and a backwoods murder trial.
Woman and Artist
Max O'Rell
When financial ambition and weapons speculation lure a talented London painter away from his easel, the quiet devotion of his artistic wife is pushed to the breaking point.
Women as army surgeons
Flora Murray
When the British War Office refused to officialize women surgeons at the outbreak of the First World War, a band of pioneer medical women simply bypassed the military hierarchy, set up their own voluntary units in France, and proved their surgical brilliance on the battlefield.
A Bilateral Division of the Parietal Bone in a Chimpanzee
Aleš Hrdlička
An anatomical investigation reveals how a rare cranial anomaly in a famous circus primate helps untangle developmental secrets of the mammalian skull.
A Charmed Life
Richard Harding Davis
A young war correspondent leaves for the Spanish-American War armed with a playful vow: that his lover's devotion forms an invincible talisman shielding him from harm.
A Day with Browning
Unknown
An intimate portrait of Robert Browning’s Venetian routine reveals a life where daily habit, intense observation, and moral optimism merge into enduring art.
A Jongleur Strayed: Verses on Love and Other Matters Sacred and Profane
Richard Le Gallienne
A wandering minstrel offers timeless verse for every lover, weaving romantic devotion, nature’s healing magic, and spirited defense of life's classic pleasures against a changing modern world.
A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend,: with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver
Anonymous
A fierce anonymous tract from 1726 unveils how Jonathan Swift’s newly published fantasy masked a bitter partisan attack on the English monarchy, church, and ministry.
A Mine of Faults
F. W. (Francis William) Bain
An arrogant young ruler who despises women believes himself invincible against the snares of love, only to find his defenses completely undone by a single meeting with a clever, high-altitude princess.
A modern symposium
G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson
Gathered around a Sussex terrace on a summer evening, a group of politicians, artists, and thinkers debate the soul of modern society. Their opposing worldviews collide with brilliant, civilized intensity.
A Sheaf of Verses: Poems
Radclyffe Hall
A traveler moves across forgotten forest roads and mountain slopes, watching light shift through the trees while weighing the brief spark of mortal love against the quiet certainty of loss.
A Temporary Dead-Lock: 1891
Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
Separated by mislaid addresses, crossed wires, and their own comedic absent-mindedness, a Minneapolis rector and his devoted wife spend two agonizing days marooned directly across the street from one another in New York City.
Adventures in the Land of Canaan
R. L. (Robert Lee) Berry
The journey from spiritual bondage to complete holiness is mapped as an inner expedition through an allegorical promised land, where faith becomes the ultimate weapon against internal giants of doubt and discouragement.
An Account of the Escape of Six Federal Soldiers from Prison at Danville, Va
W. H. (William Henry) Newlin
This is a harrowing, firsthand account of a desperate flight from a Confederate prison. It captures the raw mechanics of survival, the constant shadow of capture, and the profound moral cost of choosing life over a fallen comrade.
An Isle in the Water
Katharine Tynan
Remote, wind-battered, and tightly bound by faith and gossip, an Irish island community unfolds through its stark joys, secret sins, and enduring tragedies.
At Large
E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
A quiet Australian gold-seeker returns home to reclaim his life and his love, only to find a mysterious rival standing in his path.
Battles with the Sea
R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
HOOK This is a vivid, urgent dispatch from the front lines of a relentless, centuries-old conflict against an invincible adversary: the sea.
Begumbagh: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny
George Manville Fenn
Amidst the terror and smoke of a besieged outpost, a soldier discovers that courage is rarely about glory, and far more about the quiet determination to protect the people walking alongside you.
Betelguese
Jean DÉsque
A vision of damnation located within a dying star, where sinners endure endless torment among grotesque monsters, ruined temples, and subterranean seas of blood.
Born Again
Alfred W. (Alfred William) Lawson
A man unearths an ancient utopian civilization, inherits its lost wisdom, and returns to modern society to wage a peaceful, uncompromising war against human greed, superstition, and hypocrisy.
Browning and Dogma: Seven Lectures on Browning's Attitude Towards Dogmatic Religion
Ethel M. Naish
A rigorous study of spiritual uncertainty, this literary critique explores how seven landmark poems interrogate the boundaries between blind dogmatism, intellectual doubt, and living faith.
Camp Mates in Michigan
St. George Rathborne
A wilderness paddle through the Michigan peninsula becomes a test of woodcraft and nerve when three boys cross paths with a pair of desperate poachers.
Catalogue of Messrs Blackwood and Sons' Publications: Published in 1868 as a Part of The Handy Horse-Book by Maurice Hartland Mahon
William Blackwood and Sons
A comprehensive Victorian trade catalog offers a vivid snapshot of nineteenth-century intellectual life, commercial publishing, and cultural priorities.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447: Volume 18, New Series, July 24, 1852
Various
A single mid-nineteenth-century issue of a popular Victorian periodical provides a sharp, varied, and entertaining window into the social debates, colonial ambitions, financial scandals, and cultural pleasures of its day.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453: Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852
Various
A single issue of a mid-Victorian weekly magazine captures a civilization balancing scientific wonder, social reform, and human drama.