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Songs of Two Nations
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Light kindles from the ash of collapsed empires, and a nation long left for dead rises to claim its freedom.
Squire Arden
Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
A young man who has grown up as the undisputed heir to a proud English estate suddenly discovers that he is not the late squire’s biological son, throwing his identity into question and surrendering his fortune to a bitter cousin.
Star Pirate
Frederic Arnold Kummer
A young man waiting on a desolate asteroid finds his life upended when his long-lost father returns as a pirate to claim a fortune in stolen metal.**
Stories Pictures Tell. Book 7
Flora L. (Flora Leona) Carpenter
Art is a window into the human experience, inviting us to look past the canvas and discover the stories of the people who shaped our history. This guide offers a thoughtful path toward that deeper understanding.
The Affecting Case of the Unfortunate Thomas Daniels: Who Was Tried at the Sessions Held at the Old Bailey, September, 1761, for the Supposed Murder of His Wife
Thomas Daniels
Condemned to hang for murdering his wife by throwing her from a window, an ordinary London carpenter fought his way back from the shadow of the gallows to reclaim his innocence.
The Air of Castor Oil
Jim Harmon
Trapped between fleeting memories of the past and a shifting, synthetic present, one man risks everything to uncover why his reality is tearing at the seams.
The Alien Dies at Dawn
Randall Garrett
A frantic pilot races against a ticking clock to prevent an unjust execution, knowing that if an innocent man dies, a human colony will be wiped out in retaliation.
The American Missionary
Various
A monthly journal records the sweeping efforts of a nineteenth-century missionary association across the American South and West, documenting school anniversaries, evangelistic meetings, and financial contributions.
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 Boy Aeronauts' Club
H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler
A group of Gulf Coast teenagers form an aviation club, build an aeroplane, and set out across the waters and swamps of Florida on a grand summer adventure.
The Boy Allies with Pershing in France
Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
Trapped under collapsing debris in a front-line shell hole, two young American officers ignite their own explosives to blast a path toward the bloody, decisive battlefields of World War I.
The boys of Columbia High in track athletics
Graham B. Forbes
This story follows a group of high school friends navigating the final challenges of their senior year. Set against the backdrop of athletic rivalries and local mysteries, it captures the transition from adolescence to the responsibilities of young adulthood.
The Brighton Boys at St. Mihiel
James R. Driscoll
Through mud and artillery fire on the Western Front, three school friends face the brutal realities of combat to prove their courage.
The Butterfly Kiss
Arthur Dekker Savage
A scientist engineered for superior speed and mind-over-matter abilities infiltrates a ruthless alien regime to sabotage their war fleet before a galactic conflict wipes out human history.
The Co-opolitan: A Story of the Co-operative Commonwealth of Idaho
Zebina Forbush
This utopian fiction imagines a peaceful American revolution, where organized labor and collective economic action transform a single state into a model of shared prosperity and social justice.
The Copyright Question: A Letter to the Toronto Board of Trade
George N. (George Nathaniel) Morang
This sharp, polemical open letter defends the integrity of international copyright, urging Canadian commerce to reject restrictive, isolationist policies that threaten the rights of authors and the standing of the nation’s publishing industry.
The Disagreeable Woman: A Social Mystery
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
Severe, blunt, and secretly charitable, a mysterious boarder upends a New York lodging house, silently dispensing money to the needy while systematically deflating the pretensions of her vanity-stricken companions.
The Flying Mercury
Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram
A gifted young driver risks his life on the early dirt tracks, hiding a aristocratic lineage to build a world-class automobile and win the heart of the woman he loves.
The Freeman, and Other Poems
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
HOOK A bracing meditation on the necessity of independence, this collection finds strength in the cold clarity of loneliness and the defiant pursuit of truth, regardless of the cost.
The Gifts of Asti
Andre Norton
A priestess flees a dying city, guided by a telepathic reptilian companion to recover ancient, world-altering technology from the depths of a desolate planet.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1017, June 24, 1899
Various
A serene look into the habits and concerns of Victorian girlhood, this periodical offers a window into an era where nature, etiquette, and education were woven into the daily life of young women.
The high ones
Poul Anderson
The survivors of a fractured starship crew discover a stagnant alien civilization, forcing a reckoning between the rigid ideologies they carried from Earth and the chilling reality of a society that has surrendered its own autonomy.
The Hilltop Boys: A Story of School Life
Cyril Burleigh
The camaraderie of a private boarding school is tested when a scholarship student arrives, only to find himself the target of both a group of local bullies and a dark secret from his own past.
The Impersonator
Robert Wicks
The Earth is dying under the crushing weight of an advancing ice age, and a man named Paul Chandler is humanity’s last, desperate hope. But as he races to save the world, he discovers that his own identity is a puzzle designed by forces far beyond his control.
The Journal-Lancet, Vol. XXXV, No. 5, March 1, 1915: The Journal of the Minnesota State Medical Association and Official Organ of the North Dakota and South Dakota State Medical Associations
Various
HOOK This professional medical dispatch from 1915 captures a pivotal era of transition, where emerging laboratory science began to challenge the traditional intuition of the practicing physician.
The luck of the bean-rows, a fairy tale
Charles Nodier
The Luck of the Bean-rows is a whimsical, dream-like fable about a foundling boy whose modest life of toil is transformed by magic and the weight of his own kind heart. It explores the tension between simple contentment and the dizzying, often hollow, promise of the wider world.
The Mentor: Chinese Rugs, Vol. 4, Num. 2, Serial No. 102, March 1, 1916
John Kimberly Mumford
A quiet dignity radiates from these woven masterworks, where simple grounds of soft gold and luminous indigo command respect without ever shouting for attention.
The Method by Which the Causes of the Present and Past Conditions of Organic Nature Are to Be Discovered
Thomas Henry Huxley
All scientific reasoning, from unraveling the deepest mysteries of organic evolution to identifying the thief who stole the household silverware, relies on the exact same everyday operations of induction, deduction, and relentless experimental verification.
The Mission
Frederick Marryat
An elderly baronet seeks closure regarding his lost family, sparking a perilous expedition into the African interior where colonial history, natural wonders, and the hazards of the wild test the endurance of three determined men.
The modes of origin of lowest organisms: including a discussion of the experiments of M. Pasteur
H. Charlton Bastian
A nineteenth-century British physician mounts a rigorous empirical challenge against atmospheric germ theory, arguing through careful laboratory experiments that microscopic life can emerge directly from non-living chemical solutions under the right physical conditions.
The moving picture boys and the flood
Victor Appleton
A runaway Mississippi River threatens to drown an entire region, leaving two young newsreel cameramen to battle raging currents, house fires, and shipwrecks to rescue a stranded theater troupe.
The New Teaching of History: With a reply to some recent criticisms of The Outline of History
H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
To reshape how the world understands its past, one must first dismantle the narrow, insular traditions of classroom instruction. Universal history acts as the essential framework for a future of global cooperation and peace.
The old vicarage
Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback
The lives of a devoted daughter and her siblings entwine with a series of suitors and tragic secrets in this quiet, observational study of duty, faith, and the long-reaching consequences of romantic obsession.
The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote
Charles Dudley Warner
To understand the genius of Shakespeare, one must step into the muddy, vibrant streets of the sixteenth century and meet the people who first filled the wooden playhouses of London.
The Rendezvous: 1907
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
A solitary observer hidden in an autumn forest witnesses a painful, quiet tragedy between two young lovers. This brief encounter captures the stark, unvarnished reality of rural life and the profound imbalance of human affection.
The Rover Boys on Sunset Trail
Edward Stratemeyer
HOOK Four brothers embark on a summer trip to the American West, only to find themselves hunted by vengeful criminals from their past.
The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 09 (1820)
Various
This nineteenth-century American periodical gathers practical agricultural advice, moral essays, global economic data, and literary curiosities into a single monthly miscellany for rural households.
The sea girl
Marguerite Aspinwall
The sea is a restless calling for a Nantucket girl, and for one spirited teenager, the distance between her island home and the vast horizon of China feels like a barrier meant to be broken.
The Secret Way
Zona Gale
The veil between the mundane and the miraculous is thinner than we imagine, waiting for the quiet observer to recognize the light hiding in plain sight.
The Silver Caves: A Mining Story
Ernest Ingersoll
A struggling mining camp in the Colorado Rockies faces total ruin until three determined young men risk their last resources on an abandoned shaft and uncover a hidden fortune.
The Star Woman
H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones
A resolute adventurer navigates the brutal wilderness of the North American frontier in search of a legendary woman, his fate tethered to a mysterious, enchanted jewel.
The story of a woolly dog
Laura Lee Hope
A beloved toy embarks on a series of harrowing adventures, from being sliced open by a curious child to surviving a tumble into a snowy wilderness.
The Texas Hawks
Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger
A band of ruthless outlaws haunts the Texas frontier, but a spectral woman rider lures an unwary hunter into a subterranean trap that threatens to ignite a war with the Kiowa.
The Third Violet
Stephen Crane
A poor young painter falls in love with an heiress at a summer resort, only to find that winning her heart requires confronting his own fierce pride and the stark realities of his poverty.
The Undesirable Governess
F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
A clever young woman transforms herself into a grotesque, limping servant to secure a position in a household, only to orchestrate a brilliant, unconventional path to her own marriage.
The Unnecessary Man
Randall Garrett
A cynical exploration of power and loyalty, this story reveals how an imperial government maintains control through the calculated sacrifice of its own servants.
The Valley of Content
Blanche Upright
A modest bungalow in an California town gives way to New York society, exposing how wealth can fracture a family before hard-earned humility leads them back to what truly matters.
The Warlock of Sharrador
Gardner F. (Gardner Francis) Fox
The fate of the galaxy hinges on a humble musician, a captive soul, and a cosmic struggle between god-like entities. A lone spacefarer must resist the siren call of absolute power to save his people from an ancient, parasitic evil.