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Sara, a Princess: The Story of a Noble Girl
Fannie E. (Fannie Ellsworth) Newberry
Her father is an impoverished fisherman; her home is a drafty garret above the roaring tide. Yet inside this humble girl lives the heart of a ruler, governing her world not by royal blood, but by sheer force of love, quiet sacrifice, and intellect.
Second Sight
Alan Edward Nourse
A telepathic woman, locked in a research center, discovers that the unique gift hailed as humanity’s future is actually the biological side effect of her total sensory isolation.
Secrets of the Late Rebellion, Now Revealed for the First Time
Jacob R. Freese
Exploitative financial rings, covert border-crossing networks, and battlefield betrayals operated in the shadows of the American Civil War, directly undermining the Union cause from within.
Slavery
William Ellery Channing
An unyielding moral interrogation of human bondage, this treatise grounds the anti-slavery cause not in political expediency or economic interest, but in the absolute supremacy of duty and natural right over property claims.
Stepsons of Light
Eugene Manlove Rhodes
They were the men who won the West—not through flawless virtue, but through sheer persistence, humor, and a refusal to be crushed by circumstance.
Stories about Indians
Anonymous
A brief, illuminating look into Native American life, this collection presents vivid vignettes of tactical ingenuity, steadfast honor, quiet grief, and sharp wit.
Sylph Etherege: (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A tenderly nurtured orphan escapes into an ideal vision of her absent betrothed, only to have her fragile inner world shattered by a cruel deception.
The alley cat's kitten
Caroline Fuller
The story follows the adventures of a stray kitten named Weejums and her adoptive family, capturing the imaginative, often chaotic world of childhood pets. It is a gentle, episodic portrait of companionship, responsibility, and the humor found in the daily lives of animals and the children who love them.
The Amethyst Box
Anna Katharine Green
She knew the small vial contained a single drop of deadly poison, yet as she held it above her aunt’s bedside, a sudden cry shattered the midnight silence.
The Bible, King James version, Book 50: Philippians
Anonymous
Written from a Roman prison cell, this brief letter turns confinement into an radiant manifesto on joy, humility, and unwavering spiritual resilience.
The Camp Fire Girls on the March
Jane L. Stewart
Forging bonds over smoke and ashes, a group of resilient young women discovers that real strength lies in mutual service and unconditional kindness.
The Children on the Top Floor
Nina Rhoades
A fragile, crippled boy in a top-floor flat dreams of green parks while his brave sister and a generous neighbor quietly conspire to bring the wide world back into his life.
The Choir Invisible
James Lane Allen
A young wilderness schoolmaster navigates the pulls of honor, backwoods danger, and forbidden love in 1790s Kentucky.
The Comrade in White
William Harvey Leathem
A shell-shocked soldier lies bleeding in No Man's Land, expecting an enemy's knife, when a luminous figure glides through the gunfire to lift him into gentle arms. Through four quiet tales, battlefield agony yields to divine comfort.
The Ear in the Wall
Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
A high-stakes campaign against a corrupt political machine explodes when a young secretary disappears with a dangerous secret.
The Fair Dominion: A Record of Canadian Impressions
R. E. (Robert Ernest) Vernède
A traveler from the Edwardian era traverses a rapidly expanding nation, observing a land defined by its immense physical scale and the irrepressible energy of those carving out its future.
The Fête At Coqueville: 1907
Émile Zola
A storm off the Normandy coast washes a trove of fine spirits ashore, transforming an isolated, feuding fishing village into a week-long, joyful open-air bouse.
The Frontiersman: A Tale of the Yukon
H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody
A missionary’s lonely devotion to a rugged Yukon wilderness is tested by the arrival of lawless prospectors and a woman seeking her lost brother.
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 38, July 29, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
Various
This end-of-the-century news periodical delivers a clear, unfiltered glimpse into 1897, where global empire building, industrial labor strikes, and early photography merge into a single vibrant snapshot of a rapidly modernizing world.
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 56, December 2, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
Various
This Victorian newsdigest opens a vivid window into global empire, Arctic exploration, and late nineteenth-century world conflicts, making history feel as immediate and urgent as today's breaking headlines.
The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary
Robert Hugh Benson
A serene, medieval tale of a solitary mystic who leaves his peaceful cell to carry an urgent, divine warning directly to the King of England.
The Inconstant
George Farquhar
A flighty young gentleman returns to Paris convinced he can outsmart the trap of matrimony, only to be outwitted by the woman he left behind.
The Island of Gold: A Sailor's Yarn
Gordon Stables
Across shifting seas and mysterious Pacific shores, two orphaned siblings journey from a humble canal boat to a forgotten island filled with hidden treasures and deadly perils.
The Isle of Wight
G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
An island that feels like a continent in miniature, bounded by white cliffs, soft downs, and deep historical shadows.
The Lady of the Barge: The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 1
W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
Rough-hewn bargemen, petty jealousies, and the unpredictable currents of Thames river life collide in a sly comedy of mistaken intentions, domestic terror, and performative drowning.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 12: Domitian
Suetonius
A dark portrait of imperial madness, this biography tracks how an isolated youth of unchecked vanity slowly transformed absolute power into a bloody, paranoia-fueled reign of terror.
The Lucky Piece: A Tale of the North Woods
Albert Bigelow Paine
A restless young heiress and an aimless man of wealth discover that true devotion requires purpose, courage, and a deep reckoning with the past. Set against the serene, shifting wilderness of the Adirondack Mountains, the story tracks a quiet transformation from idle privilege toward independent strength.
The Making of the New Testament
Benjamin Wisner Bacon
Early Christianity did not begin with a bound set of scriptures, but rather generated its texts out of intense conflicts over law, identity, and authority.
The Midnight Passenger
Richard Savage
A young New York courier carrying a fortune in cash vanishes into the damp city shadows, leaving behind a web of stolen identities, fraudulent wills, and cold-blooded murder.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829
Various
A brass-bound horn filled with traditional ale, a poet's crumbling Gothic tomb, and the dramatic abdication of an emperor all share space in this miscellany.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number)
Various
A miscellaneous harvest of early nineteenth-century prose, these extracts sweep from the enchanted, crumbling halls of the Alhambra to the grim realities of the Paris Morgue.
The modern malady
Cyril Bennett
Modern life moves at a punishing speed, draining human vitality while society dismisses real physical collapse as mere personal weakness or moral failing.
The Moral Picture Book
Anonymous
A simple stroll through the woods transforms a child's momentary disobedience into a lifelong lesson on conscience, duty, and divine forgiveness.
The Mystery of the Secret Band
Edith Lavell
Eighteen-year-old Mary Louise Gay postpones her school vacation to take a paying assignment for her father's agency, posing as an ordinary guest in a Philadelphia women's hotel to unmask a serial thief.
The Narrow House
Evelyn Scott
A house full of quiet, desperate resentments becomes a pressure cooker for three generations trapped under one decaying roof.
The Relations of the Federal Government to Slavery: Delivered at Fort Wayne, Ind., October 30th 1860
Joseph K. (Joseph Ketchum) Edgerton
The survival of the American republic hinges on leaving local domestic choices to the people, rather than yielding to federal overreach or partisan zeal on the question of human bondage.
The Retreat from Mons
George Stuart Gordon
Outnumbered and unexpectedly exposed on the Allied flank in August 1914, British soldiers turn a desperate retreat into a masterclass in discipline.
The Rocket: The Story of the Stephensons, Father and Son
Helen C. (Helen Cross) Knight
An unlettered pit-boy teaches himself to read by engine-fire, masters mechanical engineering through sheer persistence, and builds the steam locomotive that transforms global travel forever.
The Seventh Noon
Frederick Orin Bartlett
Desperate to escape a life of empty failure, a young man buys seven days of absolute, unsparing freedom by taking what he believes to be a slow-acting poison.
The song of the exile
Wilfred S. (Wilfred Stradling) Skeats
An exile sails from his native shore, carried away by a forced separation from the woman he loves and the quiet life he left behind. Across the Atlantic, his restless journey becomes a meditation on duty, faith, and the grand landscapes of a raw, burgeoning young nation.
The Spanish Chest
Edna A. Brown
An American family's winter on the Channel Island of Jersey turns into an enchanting historical mystery filled with coastal tides, old manors, and forgotten royal secrets.
The Taking of Louisburg, 1745
Samuel Adams Drake
A colonial militia of farmers and shopkeepers achieves the impossible, capturing the "Gibraltar of America" through sheer audacity and provincial grit.
The Voyage of the Rattletrap
Hayden Carruth
Three travelers roll across the nineteenth-century Dakota prairies in a covered wagon, facing prairie fires, sudden gales, and stubborn livestock with quiet humor and resourcefulness.
The White Hecatomb, and Other Stories
W. C. (William Charles) Scully
Boundless violence, ancient customs, and the friction of colonial encounters shape a world where individual choices carry heavy, irrevocable costs.
The World Decision
Robert Herrick
An eyewitness dispatch from the battlefields and political centers of Western Europe that frames the First World War not as a mere geopolitical struggle, but as a defining spiritual conflict for the soul of modern civilization.
The Young Carpenters of Freiberg: A Tale of the Thirty Years' War
Anonymous
A child dies in an isolated mill, caught between warring soldiers, while an honest apprentice carries a dangerous secret past the town gates. Outside the walls of Freiberg, an army waits to destroy everything inside.
Three Women
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A young poet, a philanthropic wife, and a worldly widow navigate the tangled boundaries of Victorian morality, romantic illusion, and personal independence.
Three Young Knights
Annie Hamilton Donnell
After finishing their grueling farm chores, three brothers take to the open road on bicycles, turning their modest hard-earned freedom into a series of quiet, good-hearted rescues and memorable adventures.