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The moral pirates
W. L. (William Livingston) Alden
Four boys trade their dreams of criminal piracy for the rugged reality of a rowing expedition, learning that self-reliance is the only treasure worth finding on the Hudson River.
The Mormon Prophet
L. (Lily) Dougall
A woman caught in the fervor of an emerging American faith struggles to reconcile her private conscience with the charisma and mounting violence surrounding a controversial prophet. Caught between two men—one a devoted idealist, the other a complex religious leader—she seeks a path toward personal truth.
The New Land: Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country
Elma Ehrlich Levinger
The American story, as it is often told, is a mosaic of arrivals and aspirations. Here, the focus shifts to the specific contributions, struggles, and persistent dreams of the Jewish people as they helped forge the identity of a young nation.
The Nursery, June 1881, Vol. XXIX: A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
Various
The world of children is a garden of discovery, where a sparrow’s curiosity, a fawn’s hunger, and a grandmother’s stories weave the fabric of an early, gentle education.
The people of the ruins
Edward Shanks
Waking from a mysterious sleep into a shattered London, a twentieth-century man finds a rustic, regressed civilization clinging to the ruins of the past.
The Perfectionists
Arnold Castle
HOOK A man discovers an alien infiltration scheme and turns the tables by baiting the invaders into his office, where he dispatches them to gather proof of an impending planetary takeover.
The Philistine
Various
The Philistine is a defiant, whimsical, and sharply opinionated literary magazine from the late nineteenth century. It serves as a pugnacious manifesto for independent thought, rejecting the stuffy academic conventions of its era.
The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon
Frank Gee Patchin
A group of adventurous young men travels deep into the American West, testing their courage and friendship against the formidable, awe-inspiring landscape of the Grand Canyon.
The Poorhouse Waif and His Divine Teacher: A True Story
Isabel C. (Isabel Coston) Byrum
HOOK Born into the cold neglect of a Pennsylvania almshouse, a solitary child finds his way through a world of hardship by following a silent, divine inner light.
The Puzzle in the Pond: A Judy Bolton Mystery
Margaret Sutton
A curious discovery in a beaver-built dam leads a young sleuth into a web of stolen goods, a mysterious fire, and a long-hidden family secret.
The Rebellion of Margaret
Geraldine Mockler
A lonely girl escapes her grandfather’s stifling isolation by swapping identities with a talented stranger. This impulsive deception spirals into a high-stakes drama of mistaken identity, misplaced suspicion, and unexpected familial discovery.
The Ring bonanza
Otto Binder
This story follows an aging prospector scavenging for scraps among the rings of Saturn who discovers that one man’s discarded junk is another man’s key to history. It explores the fickleness of fortune and the irony of greed in the unforgiving void of space.
The River Motor Boat Boys on the Colorado
Harry Gordon
In the blistering, sun-baked landscape of the Mexican border and the Grand Canyon, a group of resourceful teenagers navigates treacherous river currents, shadowy fugitives, and local outlaws aboard their trusty motorboat.
The Sky Trail
Graham M. Dean
In the early days of aviation, two intrepid reporters use their newspaper’s airplane to outmaneuver criminals and serve the cause of justice.
The sons of Kai
Henry Beston
Born of a mortal mother and a divine father, twin brothers set out across the vast southwestern desert to reclaim their sight and heal a broken world.
The Sunken Garden, and Other Poems
Walter De la Mare
A collection of verse written in the shadow of the Great War, these poems map the geography of the human interior. They explore the thin, porous border between our waking reality and the vast, silent regions of dream, grief, and memory.
The Tale of a Trooper
Clutha N. (Clutha Nantes) Mackenzie
The journey of a young New Zealander from the quiet of the sheep station to the brutal front lines of the Gallipoli campaign, this narrative serves as an unvarnished account of colonial youth caught in the machinery of the Great War. It is a story not of grand strategy, but of the sensory, physical, and emotional…
The Valor of Cappen Varra
Poul Anderson
A shivering southern minstrel is cast out into a freezing northern sea to find fire, stumbling instead into a monster's lair and an accidental legend.
The Van Roon
J. C. (John Collis) Snaith
This story of ambition, art, and moral clarity navigates the shadowy world of antique dealing, where the true value of an object is often obscured by the greed of those who trade in it. It remains a compelling study of how beauty can either corrupt the soul or provide a path to redemption.
The Vanisher
Michael Shaara
Plunged into a lethal cosmic conspiracy, a young officer with a strange heritage becomes the first man in history to die more than once.
The Viking's Skull
John R. Carling
HOOK A mysterious runic ring, a secret subterranean crypt, and a long-hidden family crime collide in this atmospheric mystery. Ancient Norse legends and modern aristocratic deceit intertwine to determine the rightful heir of a crumbling English estate.
The Way to Win
William Le Queux
Britain stands at a crossroads in the Great War, facing a conflict that demands total national mobilization to secure the future of civilization against imperial aggression.
The Weapons of Mystery
Joseph Hocking
A sinister mesmerist leverages his hypnotic influence to ensnare a young writer and claim the woman he loves. This Victorian mystery explores the dark intersection of occult power and personal will.
The White Kami: A Novel
Edward Alden Jewell
A young man’s impulsive, accidental journey across the globe forces him to confront his own shallow vanities and the harsh, unpredictable realities of human connection. Through a series of sweeping, exotic, and often tragic encounters, the narrative maps the distance between the comfortable, stifling lives we…
The Yellow Pearl: A Story of the East and the West
Adeline M. (Adeline Margaret) Teskey
A young woman born of two worlds navigates the alienation of her new home in America, searching for a place where her mixed heritage is not a stigma but a source of strength.
Thornley Colton
Clinton H. (Clinton Holland) Stagg
Blind, wealth-favored, and possessing an astonishingly acute sensorium, an extraordinary investigator solves New York's most baffling mysteries using sheer intellect.
Through Welsh Doorways
Jeannette Augustus Marks
In the quiet villages of rural Wales, the smallest doorways hold the heaviest secrets, where life, death, and the weight of tradition press upon the hearts of the humble.
Tom Slade on Overlook Mountain
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
A veteran scout stumbles into a mystery involving a displaced wanderer and the shadows of a decade-old crime in the Catskill Mountains.
Tongues of the Moon
Philip José Farmer
When atomic war reduces Earth to a dying cinder, rival ideological factions on the Moon battle for survival, control, and the keys to an interstellar future.
Transplanted
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Divided by an ocean and contrasting worlds, a spirited California belle and a rigid English heir discover whether love can bridge two entirely different civilizations.
Travels in Eastern Africa, volume 1 (of 2)
Lyons McLeod
An Englishman's critical account of his journey to and tenure as consul in East Africa, exposing regional slave trade networks and colonial neglect.
Troubled Waters
William MacLeod Raine
A young range rider in love with life and a hasty sheep-and-cattle war draw innocent people into a web of silence, loyalty, and frontier justice.
Two brave boys, and, The wrong twin
Mary E. (Mary Emily) Ropes
Two sets of children navigate perilous winters and domestic estrangement, proving that courage and deep compassion can redeem even the most desperate circumstances.
Up the River
Oliver Optic
A young captain navigates the treacherous currents of the Mississippi River, racing a rival yacht while outmaneuvering villains in a high-stakes journey home.
What Prohibition Has Done to America
Fabian Franklin
When a nation elevates a mere police regulation above its own fundamental charter, it trades the enduring dignity of free government for the fleeting, tyrannical impulses of a organized statutory crusade.
With the Connaught Rangers
Edward Herbert Maxwell
From Irish garrison towns to the snowy Himalayan peaks, a British officer chronicles decades of military life, foreign travel, and rugged adventure across an expanding empire.
Ye Sundial Booke
T. Geoffrey W. (Thomas Geoffrey Wall) Henslow
This collection offers a contemplative look at the history, mechanics, and poetic resonance of the sundial, blending technical instruction with a nostalgic appreciation for the passage of time.
A City Near Centaurus
William R. Doede
On an ancient world of a distant star, an Earth archaeologist trespasses in a dead city guarded by a singular native who fears the return of long-gone spirits.
A dictionary of scientific terms
Leo Markun
Leo Markun’s compact reference work maps the language of physics, chemistry, and biology, offering clear definitions for the curious reader navigating the boundaries of early-twentieth-century science.
A Little Book of Christmas
John Kendrick Bangs
A collection of four gentle, interconnected tales, this volume explores the transformative power of kindness during the Christmas season. It captures the spirit of early twentieth-century New York through stories of compassion, charity, and unexpected connection.
A Ride Across Palestine
Anthony Trollope
A chance meeting in Jerusalem draws a lonely traveller into an extraordinary desert masquerade when a seemingly bashful young man in male disguise joins him on a pilgrimage across the Jordan.
Alien
George O. (George Oliver) Smith
A Boston police lieutenant investigates a violent tavern disturbance involving a mysterious man whose head is covered not in hair, but in living feathers.
All in It
Ian Hay
War is not a grand theater of glory, but a relentless routine of mud, camaraderie, and endurance, where humor is the only clean gear left to wear.
An overland journey, from New York to San Francisco in the summer of 1859
Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley journeys across the expanding American continent in the summer of 1859, recording the raw realities of the western overland trail from New York to San Francisco.
Anxious Audrey
Mabel Quiller-Couch
Uprooted from the quiet peace of her grandmother’s home, a proud young girl must learn to find her place amid the noisy, crowded reality of a bustling vicarage family.
Apis Mellifica
C. W. Wolf
The bee represents a profound medicinal mystery, offering a potent therapeutic agent that, when handled with precision, serves as a "best little friend" to humanity in the battle against internal and external maladies.
Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, on H. R. 11943, to Amend Title 60, Chapter 3, of the Revised Statutes of the United States Relating to Copyrights: May 2, 1906
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents
When a congressional committee convenes in 1906 to debate copyright law, composers, publishers, and music librarians clash over whether renting sheet music destroys an American art form.
As the hart panteth
Hallie Erminie Rives
A gifted young violinist struggles against isolation and heartbreak, torn between her devotion to an older mentor and her fierce ambition in New York.