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The Gallery
Rog Phillips
A young scholar returns to his small hometown to help his aunt, only to discover that every corner of the village is being quietly observed, recorded, and preserved inside animated portraits.
The gold-stealers
Edward Dyson
In a rough Australian mining town, a band of spirited boys stumbles upon a secret hoard of stolen gold, sparking a desperate, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse that pits childhood innocence against adult crime.
The Heatherford Fortune: a sequel to the Magic Cameo
Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.
This Victorian-era moral drama tracks the fortunes of a resilient young woman who navigates poverty, dangerous intrigues, and the revelation of long-buried family secrets to secure her future and happiness. It remains a quintessential example of late 19th-century sentimental fiction, pairing high-stakes melodrama…
The hounds of God
Rafael Sabatini
The Earl of Garth, a disillusioned recluse, watches from his English estate as the political and religious tensions of 1588 draw his ward, Margaret Trevanion, into the lethal machinery of the Spanish Inquisition.
The Katcina altars in Hopi worship
Jesse Walter Fewkes
These pages document the intricate, secret rituals of Hopi Katcina altars, offering a scholarly bridge to the religious life of a desert-dwelling people who equate spiritual devotion with the survival of their crops.
The Kingdom of Man
Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir
Humanity must abandon its retrospective obsession with the past and instead embrace its destiny as the active, scientific master of the natural world.
The Lakewood boys in the frozen North
L. P. (Levi Parker) Wyman
When a frantic letter arrives from home about a missing uncle lost in the Yukon, two adventurous brothers leave their ranch behind to brave the perils of the frozen North.
The Last Victory
Tom Godwin
An ambitious officer and a small, displaced community struggle for survival on a hostile alien world, only to find their greatest threat is a secret parasite that turns men into mindless husks.
The Little Navajo Herder
Ann Nolan Clark
A young girl finds her place in the vast, seasonal rhythms of her family’s life, learning the hard lessons of the land and the quiet beauty of tradition.
The magazine of history with notes and queries (Vol. I, No. 5, May 1905)
Various
Across the vast expanse of the American story, from the early mapping of the Mississippi to the grim administrative ledgers of the Civil War, history reveals itself as a collection of fragmented, human experiences. This volume serves as a repository for the forgotten details of the past, gathering disparate…
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828
Various
This collection of Victorian-era miscellany offers a panoramic view of early 19th-century intellectual life, blending architectural critique, scientific inquiry, folklore, and whimsical wit into a single, eclectic periodical.
The Missing Formula: Madge Sterling Series, #1
Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
A spirited young woman ventures into the Canadian wilderness, where a missing scientific secret and a series of suspicious incidents draw her into a dangerous hunt for the truth.
The Motor Maids in Fair Japan
Katherine Stokes
A group of adventurous young women navigates the complexities of cultural discovery and mystery while traveling through early 20th-century Japan in their faithful motor car.
The Mystery of Suicide Place
Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.
HOOK A daring challenge to spend a night in a haunted house triggers a cascade of jealousy, abduction, and dark secrets, forever altering the lives of a spirited young woman and her wealthy suitor.
The Outdoor Girls in Florida
Laura Lee Hope
A group of spirited northern schoolgirls trades snowy streets for the untamed waterways of the South, turning a winter retreat into a rescue mission when one girl’s brother vanishes into the swampy interior.
The preparation & mounting of microscopic objects
Thomas Davies
The pursuit of the microscopic is an act of patient devotion, transforming invisible fragments of the natural world into permanent, illuminated windows of discovery.
The Primrose Ring
Ruth Sawyer
This story serves as a bridge between the clinical rigidity of a hospital ward and the boundless, restorative power of the human imagination. It explores the necessity of wonder in environments defined by physical suffering.
The Proper Limits of the Government's Interference with the Affairs of the East-India Company: Attempted to be Assigned with some few Reflections Extorted by, and on, the Distracted State of the Times
Stair, John Dalrymple, Earl of
This polemic dissects the volatile intersection of British parliamentary ambition and the fiscal survival of the East India Company. It serves as a stern, aristocratic warning against the overreach of government into private commercial enterprise.
The Rocks of Valpré
Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
A youthful romance on the French coast shadows a woman's later marriage when secret, long-buried obligations resurface to test honor, trust, and forgiveness.
The Three Lovers
Frank Swinnerton
A young woman’s romantic ideals collide with the cynical reality of London’s bohemian set, forcing her to choose between the allure of a superficial charmer and the steady, unsettling devotion of a man she cannot quite understand.
The Trinity Archive, Vol. I, No. 3, January 1888
N.C.) Trinity College (Randolph County
The campus pulse of a bygone era beats within these pages, capturing the earnest ambitions, academic rigor, and youthful distractions of a North Carolina college in the winter of 1888.
The waning of a world
W. Elwyn (Waldo Elwyn) Backus
A clash of brilliant scientific minds ignites a desperate, impossible journey across the stars, where the discovery of a dying civilization forces a choice between the riches of a world and the endurance of love.
The Woman in the Alcove
Jennette Lee
A quiet, introspective drama of a marriage suspended between the drudgery of domestic life and the shimmering possibilities of a secret, inner self. This story reveals how the people closest to us often remain, by our own design, total strangers.
The World English Bible (WEB): Revelation
Anonymous
A prophetic vision of cosmic struggle and divine restoration, this text charts the final transition from a broken world to a new creation. It serves as the ultimate resolution to a vast, ancient narrative.
Three Addresses to Girls at School
J. M. (James Maurice) Wilson
These three speeches capture a pivotal moment in Victorian education, offering a timeless meditation on the purpose of learning, the grace of simple pleasures, and the profound responsibility of an educated life.
Through the Casentino with Hints for the Traveller
Lina Eckenstein
HOOK This guide invites the observant traveler to slow down and wander through the Casentino, a valley where the history of feudal lords, saints, and poets lingers in the quiet beauty of the Tuscan landscape.
Time Grabber
Gordon R. Dickson
A meddlesome academic’s unauthorized time-travel experiment accidentally triggers a chain of events that alters the course of the Roman Empire.
Treasure Valley
Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
A quiet Canadian valley becomes the meeting place for broken lives, where a doctor's past mistake and a brooding watchman's deep bitterness are slowly undone by community, love, and a child's unconscious honesty.
Trusia: A Princess of Krovitch
Davis Brinton
A Wall Street financier trades the chaos of the ticker tape for a dangerous quest to restore a lost monarchy, only to find that his most perilous encounter is with his own heart.
Under the Great Bear
Kirk Munroe
The vast, unforgiving wilderness of the far North tests a young man’s resolve, demanding he transform from a sheltered graduate into a survivor who finds his true fortune in the shadows of the Great Bear.
Up in the Clouds: Balloon Voyages
R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
A restless human longing to leave the earth drives a century of dangerous, eccentric experiments in upper-air flight.
War No. 81-Q
Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
In a future where war has been reduced to a regulated, bloodless spectacle, two nations compete for a global monopoly. The outcome hinges on a single, inexperienced pilot commanding remote-controlled aerial machines.
War-time Silhouettes
Stephen Hudson
The Great War acts as a relentless filter, stripping away the pretenses of London’s social and political elite to reveal the fragile, selfish, or hollow hearts beneath. These sketches capture the dissonance of a home front where life continues in a state of suspended animation, shaped by the pervasive shadow of the…
What Can She Do?
Edward Payson Roe
When sudden financial ruin strips three pampered New York sisters of their Fifth Avenue home, they are forced into the country to face the cold realities of self-reliance, temptation, and survival.
Young Crow Raider
Francis Lynde Kroll
A young Crow boy seeks to overcome a debilitating leg injury and earn his place among his people through courage and endurance. Driven by the desire to prove his worth, he embarks on a dangerous journey into enemy territory.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 5
Mark Twain
A nineteenth-century engineer is thrust into the medieval past, where he must rely on his technological knowledge and sharp wits to survive, reshape a primitive society, and maintain his precarious status as a miracle-worker.
A Fine Fix
Ray C. Noll
This story follows a military investigator as he uncovers the psychological vulnerability hidden within advanced jet technology. It is a taut, mid-century procedural that blends cold-war anxiety with the domestic friction of a new partnership.
A Fountain Sealed
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
A devoted daughter confronts the unspoken secrets of her mother’s past, creating a quiet, atmospheric struggle between duty and personal truth. This story captures the fragile, often stifling dynamics of an intellectual family navigating their own emotional complexities.
A Little Maid of Ticonderoga
Alice Turner Curtis
Amid the towering Green Mountains of Vermont on the eve of the American Revolution, a young girl finds that even small hands can bear big responsibilities when a nation is forming.
A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 2
George Müller
This account details the daily, rigorous application of faith, tracking how one man navigated severe illness, personal doubt, and the constant financial pressures of running an orphanage without ever asking for funds. It serves as a meticulous study of a life defined by the practice of prayer.
A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1
Otto von Kotzebue
A Russian naval captain documents his 1823 expedition across the globe, balancing precise scientific observation with a skeptical, observant eye toward the colonial and missionary encounters of the era.
A private chivalry
Francis Lynde
When a disgraced former gambler takes the fall for a murder he believes the woman he loves committed, his quiet self-sacrifice sets off a tense moral reckoning in the Colorado mining mountains.
A Provence rose
Ouida
A rose, plucked from the radiant fields of Provence and sold in the markets of Paris, finds a second life in the window of a struggling girl. There, amid the city’s harsh winter, it witnesses a quiet, tragic romance between two souls living on the margins of society.
Ade's Fables
George Ade
These satirical vignettes capture the frantic, status-obsessed pulse of early twentieth-century American life, exposing the hollow vanities of those who trade their authentic selves for the hollow promise of social prestige.
Animat
Basil Wells
HOOK A crash-landed crew struggles for survival on a hostile Venus, where the line between machine and man dissolves as a robot discovers his own humanity.
Arnold's Tempter
Benjamin F. (Benjamin Freeman) Comfort
This historical novel explores the moral disintegration of Benedict Arnold, viewed through the eyes of a mysterious British operative tasked with testing the general’s loyalty and avarice.
Blindness
Henry Green
A sudden, senseless tragedy shatters a brilliant schoolboy’s world of color and lines, casting him into an unsparing darkness from which he and his eccentric family must somehow rebuild their lives.
Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan
R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The choices we make in youth ripple through a lifetime, carrying us toward fates we can neither fully foresee nor entirely control. This narrative explores such a journey, tracing the moral and physical trials of a young man caught between his own desires and the demands of duty.