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Diminutive dramas
Maurice Baring
History’s most formidable figures bicker over lukewarm breakfasts, card-game tactics, and domestic slights in these razor-sharp theatrical miniatures.
Diphtheria
United States. Public Health Service
A silent threat that disproportionately targets young children finds its counterweight in disciplined sanitation, rapid clinical diagnosis, and modern immunization methods.
Dot and the Kangaroo
Ethel C. Pedley
Lost in the rugged Australian bush, a little girl finds an unlikely protector in a wild kangaroo.
Double Play: A Story of School and Baseball
Ralph Henry Barbour
At Yardley School, two unlikely friends navigate the trials of adolescence, learning that true growth comes not from athletic glory, but from the quiet, difficult work of character and reconciliation.
Dragons and Cherry Blossoms
Alice A. Parmelee Morris
A Western visitor steps past her own stubborn misconceptions into late nineteenth-century Japan, discovering a nation caught in a fascinating, sometimes awkward dance between ancient traditions and modern Western imports.
English Poems
Richard Le Gallienne
A young man weighs the dizzying rush of unlawful desire against the grounded, lasting sanctuary of domestic love.
Failure on Titan
Robert Abernathy
A megalomaniacal overseer on a frozen moon uses a telepathic slave-race to spark a solar-system crisis, only for his own subconscious passions to rebound upon him.
For Love of the King: A Burmese Masque
Oscar Wilde
The story of a king who finds solace in a forbidden love, only to discover that the demands of a throne are as relentless as the passage of time.
Four Years in the Underbrush: Adventures as a Working Woman in New York
Anonymous
A writer leaves the comfort of her literary circle to experience the harsh reality of urban labor, discovering that the most grueling challenges of city life lie hidden in the plain sight of the working class.
Fresh Air Fiend
Kris Neville
This is a story of a solitary man dying of a chronic disease on a remote, airless satellite, kept alive by a mute, devoted companion whose mind he cannot fathom. It is a haunting, claustrophobic meditation on the indifference of the universe and the desperate ways we cling to one another at the edge of existence.
Friends in strange garments
Anna Milo Upjohn
Across post-war Europe and the Levant, children encounter small tests of courage, generosity, and friendship that reveal how much they have in common despite differences in costume and custom.
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XVIII, No. 4, April 1841
Various
This vibrant collection captures the intellectual pulse of 1841, blending sharp literary criticism with the atmospheric fiction and poetry that defined the mid-nineteenth-century American magazine era.
Heartsease and Rue
James Russell Lowell
Across the late afternoon of a long creative life, a poet gathers the bright blossoms of enduring companionship and the bitter leaves of grief into a quiet, luminous final offering.
Hebrew Heroes: A Tale Founded on Jewish History
A. L. O. E.
Sacrificed to Syrian tyranny, the martyrs of Judea leave behind a shattered remnant of believers who must choose between deadly apostasy and armed resistance, finding in the house of Mattathias the faith to ignite a revolution.
Hike and the aeroplane
Sinclair Lewis
HOOK Two courageous teenagers master the skies in a groundbreaking tetrahedral aircraft, outmaneuvering villains and border rebels in a high-stakes race against time.
His Royal Nibs
Onoto Watanna
An aristocratic English veteran hides his true identity as a ranch hand in postwar Alberta, winning the heart of a spirited rancher's daughter.
Hitting the line
Ralph Henry Barbour
HOOK A headstrong boy finds his place at a storied New England boarding school, proving that true character is forged not in the classroom, but on the frozen, hard-fought turf of the football field.
Houston: The Feast Years. An Illustrated Essay
George Fuermann
This portrait of a city in the midst of a mid-century explosion captures Houston as it pivots from an oil-rich frontier town to a center of global aerospace ambition.
How to Master the English Bible: An Experience, a Method, a Result, an Illustration
James M. (James Martin) Gray
A structured method for reading whole books of the Bible in single sittings promises to reinvigorate personal faith, simplify sermon preparation, and restore scripture to its primary place in Christian life.
Indian sketches, taken during an expedition to the Pawnee and other tribes of American Indians (Vol. 1 of 2)
John Treat Irving
A young traveler joins a formal diplomatic mission to the American frontier, chronicling a journey into the heart of Pawnee territory during the early nineteenth century.
Ireland in Travail
Sydney Loch
Curfew sweeps the Dublin streets as military lorries rattle past, leaving ordinary citizens and covert agents trapped between a brutal crackdown and an uncompromising underground war.
Island honor
Murray Leinster
In a remote French colonial outpost, three American yachtsmen witness a proud native raja forced to choose between the honor of his family and the survival of his people.
It might have been worse
Beatrice Larned Massey
Traveling by motor in 1919, a couple journeys from New York to San Francisco, proving that even with mechanical mishaps, dusty detours, and aggressive wildlife, the American continent is best understood from behind the wheel.
Johnny Blossom
Dikken Zwilgmeyer
A boy of relentless spirit, Johnny Blossom is a whirlwind of mischief, sudden remorse, and grandhearted generosity who learns the weight of his own actions in a small Norwegian coastal town.
Kitty Canary: A Novel
Kate Langley Bosher
Falling in love is a messy, exhilarating business, especially for a sixteen-year-old girl who would rather face the world with grit than with the polite, performative grace expected of her. She finds herself in a small town that watches every move, proving that the most dangerous thing one can do is to be oneself.
Letters from England, Volume 2 (of 3)
Robert Southey
A pseudonymous Spanish traveller journeys across early nineteenth-century England, recording sharp observations on industrial expansion, university life, religious enthusiasm, and the dramatic landscapes of the Lake District.
Making Good on Private Duty: Practical Hints to Graduate Nurses
Harriet Camp Lounsbery
A steady hand guides the newly minted graduate nurse across the daunting threshold of the private home, turning professional training into compassionate, orderly practice.
Mammals of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
Sydney Anderson
The rugged canyons and sloping plateaus of southwestern Colorado shelter a surprising diversity of life, from the smallest shrew to the wandering black bear. This detailed survey catalogs the mammalian inhabitants of a landscape defined by both its ancient human history and its enduring natural wilderness.
Men of Marlowe's
Dudeney, Henry, Mrs.
The inhabitants of a secluded London Inn find their lives entwined by the stifling atmosphere of their historic chambers. These connected tales reveal how the weight of tradition and the isolation of city living slowly unmake the men who reside there.
Miss Devereux, spinster
Agnes Giberne
A fragile house, a dutiful niece, and the quiet weight of social expectations shape a world where love must fight past misguided virtue to find its ground.
Motor Matt's Double Trouble
Stanley R. Matthews
A missing ruby, a stolen blue automobile, and a cross-country pursuit through the Catskill Mountains send a resourceful young mechanic and his cowboy partner scrambling to outwit a gang of determined rogues.
My heart and my flesh
Elizabeth Madox Roberts
A woman's soul is not destroyed by the rot of her lineage, but carved clean through the raw, quiet endurance of her own flesh.
My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 1. September 29, 1900.: From Farm to Fortune
Lurana Sheldon
A restless farm girl ventures into the city to rescue her kidnapped sister, trading rural isolation for the perilous, glittering promise of an urban future.
Name Your Symptom
Jim Harmon
A psychiatrist who fashions mechanical "Cures" for the neuroses of a crumbling society realizes that his own medical practice is merely fueling a collective descent into madness. He decides to discard his own crutch, with fatal consequences.
Navajo weavers: Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-'82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 371-392
Washington Matthews
The Navajo loom is a marvel of simplicity and precision, a testament to a culture that creates complex, durable art with little more than wood, wool, and patience. This account offers an intimate look at the transformation of raw fleece into masterfully woven textiles.
Nevada
George M. (George Melville) Baker
In a remote mining camp, a forgotten identity and a lost vein of ore bind a band of rough prospectors, traveling women, and fugitive souls together.
Note-book No. 1 of the Kickapoo Club
Kickapoo Club
In the early twentieth century, a group of Midwestern amateur historians sets out across central Illinois to gather the scattered remnants of indigenous life before modern agriculture erases them completely.
Notes on the Bibliography of Yucatan and Central America: Comprising Yucatan, Chiapas, Guatemala (the Ruins of Palenque, Ocosingo, and Copan), and Oaxaca (Ruins of Mitla)
Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
Centuries of forgotten manuscripts, dusty church archives, and conflicting colonial chronicles guard the secrets of southern Mexico and Central America's most mysterious stone ruins.
Old Bear-Paw, the trapper king
Henry M. Avery
A wilderness adventure turns desperate as two frontier scouts, a Blackfoot chief, and a captive maiden navigate the treacherous, gold-laden passes of the Black Hills under siege from hostile braves.
Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems
Isabella Valancy Crawford
Nature—both the untamed, rugged landscape of the Canadian frontier and the internal, elemental forces of human desire—drives this collection of verse. It captures a world where the wilderness is not merely a setting, but a living, breathing participant in the lives of those who inhabit it.
On the apostolical succession: Parochial lectures, second series
William J. (William Josiah) Irons
A rigorous nineteenth-century defense of the Christian ministry, this work argues that the authority to preach and administer sacraments depends on an unbroken historical line from the original Apostles.
Oriental Encounters: Palestine and Syria, 1894-6
Marmaduke William Pickthall
A young man finds his true education not in the halls of London, but while wandering through the sun-drenched landscapes of late nineteenth-century Palestine and Syria.
Paul Clifford
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
A spirited lad raised among criminals is wrongfully jailed, turns highwayman, and faces a hanging sentence from a judge with whom he shares a secret, life-altering bond.
Peril of the Blue World
Robert Abernathy
A Martian expedition lands in medieval England expecting a simple conquest, only to flee in terror after mistaking human folklore for scientific reality.
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 3
Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant
A calm, methodical mind works through the chaos of war, relying on practical logic and absolute clarity to solve the deadly puzzle of the Mississippi River.
Pet Farm
Roger D. Aycock
A human surveying crew lands on a deserted alien world only to fall under the euphoric, parasitic spell of its nocturnal wildlife—and the ancient biological trap left behind by their insectoid enemies.
Poems
Josephine Daskam Bacon
Restless wanderers, grieving mothers, and forgotten spirits haunt this lyrical collection, where domestic tenderness collides with an unyielding urge to break free.
Poems, translated and original
E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) Ellet
This collection of verse and drama explores the weight of tradition, the fragility of personal agency, and the inescapable gravity of fate within the rigid, often unforgiving, structures of historical society.