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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 12, 1892
Various
A seaside resort in autumn becomes the backdrop for an awkward dance between a young woman evading her partner and a suitor outclassed by his own vanity.
Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 148, January 6th, 1915
Various
Published amidst the opening months of the First World War, this satirical periodical captures the anxious yet resolutely humorous British spirit through verse, theatrical commentary, and home-front sketches.
Ralph on the Overland Express
Allen Chapman
HOOK A young engineer navigates the dangerous world of steam locomotives, industrial sabotage, and shadowy conspiracies while striving to become a master of the rails.
Red Ben, the Fox of Oak Ridge
Joseph Wharton Lippincott
Driven by fierce mother love and unmatched cunning, a young red fox navigates the perilous woods of Oak Ridge, evading farmers, hounds, and rival predators to claim his wild freedom.
Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately published by the Rev. Mr. Maskelyne, Under the Authority of the Board of Longitude
John Harrison
A pioneering horologist fights back against institutional neglect and academic arrogance to defend his life's work of measuring time and longitude across the open sea.
Reminiscences of a Private, Company "G", First Arkansas Regiment Infantry: May, 1861 to 1865
William E. Bevens
A young Confederate private chronicles four years of grueling marches, fierce battles, and enduring camaraderie from the outbreak of the Civil War to the final postwar reunions in Arkansas.
Ruby: A Story of the Australian Bush
Molly E. Jamieson
An imaginative little girl growing up in the sun-baked Australian bush learns about love, loss, and faith through a chance encounter that bridges two worlds.
Silence, and other stories
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
A collection of sharp, evocative tales captures the quiet endurance and emotional trials of early New England life.
So Runs the World
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz's multi-faceted collection explores the soul of literature through critical essays on naturalism, dramatic clashes of love and betrayal, and the heavy cost of political ambition.
Some of Our East Coast Towns
J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
Journey through the quiet, changing boroughs of East Anglia, where ancient history, ecclesiastical memories, and modern industry quietly meet along the coast.
"Some Say"
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
A gossip-plagued minister, a quiet deaf woman, and a steadfast neighbor navigating grief each discover how small-town scrutiny shapes their domestic fates.
Sometub's cruise on the C. & O. canal
John Pryor Cowan
Trailing behind mules on a homemade motorboat, two travelers trade the modern world for the slow rhythms of America’s oldest canal.
Spillthrough
Daniel F. Galouye
A lone pilot fights to survive the mechanical death-throes of his ship while a ruthless scavenger stalks him, waiting for the inevitable moment he falls out of hyperspace.
Telephone troubles
Edward Mahon Wev
Tracing electrical faults through intricate wiring and stubborn switchboards requires patience, precise testing methods, and a disciplined ear for the subtle clicks of a telephone receiver.
Ten Kittens
G. A. Puckett
TEN KITTENS HOOK: Ten distinct feline biographies reveal the quiet dramas, deep loyalties, and gentle companionship shared between ordinary cats and the humans who loved them across early twentieth-century America.
The Argosy, Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891
Various
Secret diamonds, quiet Irish lanes, and ancient Breton towns fill the pages of this Victorian periodical, weaving together mystery, travel, and romance.
The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat
George A. Warren
When a summer scouting expedition on motorboats leads to a supposedly haunted island, a group of resourceful boys uncover the surprising scientific work behind local legends.
The book of Saint Nicholas
James Kirke Paulding
A collection of whimsical tales and legends celebrating Dutch culture and the spirit of Saint Nicholas in early America.
The Boy Allies in the Trenches
Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
Two brave American teenagers throw themselves into the fires of the First World War, defying family, surviving treacherous espionage, and holding the line against the German advance.
The Children's Portion
Unknown
Children find their deepest lessons in stories that test the heart, where humble choices and quiet virtues outlast the grandest ambitions.
The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg: Second Edition
Unknown
An anthropomorphic cast of beasts schemes, courts, and double-crosses through a series of darkly humorous, satirical woodland tales.
The coming
J. C. (John Collis) Snaith
Amid the spiritual crisis of the First World War, a gentle outsider arrives in an English village, bringing a radical message of peace that clashes with a fractured world.
The Conflict with Slavery: Part 1 from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII
John Greenleaf Whittier
An unyielding moral and political crusade demands the immediate abolition of human bondage, rejecting compromise and declaring that man can never hold property in man.
The Day of His Youth
Alice Brown
A young man raised in the silence of the woods discovers that the world is not merely beautiful, but a place of profound, irreconcilable tragedy.
The Earth Trembled
Edward Payson Roe
A devastating earthquake shatters post-reconstruction Charleston, upending bitter sectional divides and forcing proud, stubborn hearts to choose between self-righteous isolation and the redemptive grace of forgiveness.
The Economic Functions of Vice
John McElroy
Excess human life is culled not by nature's predators, but by the very vices of the unfit, which act as a merciful, self-administered filter for the species.
The First White Man of the West: Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky
Timothy Flint
This biography chronicles the life of the legendary frontiersman who forged a path into the American wilderness, charting the transformation of Kentucky from an untamed forest into an settled territory.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1027, September 2, 1899
Various
A sprawling Victorian periodical mirrors the domestic anxieties, romantic trials, and spirited independence of late-nineteenth-century girlhood through serial fiction and practical advice.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 994, January 14, 1899
Various
The magazine opens windows onto late-Victorian life, capturing the quiet struggles, legal puzzles, and artistic pursuits of turn-of-the-century women and detainees.
The Gist of Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
The Divine is not a distant abstraction but a present, accessible reality, revealed through a lifetime of labor dedicated to mapping the unseen landscape of the soul and its eternal progression.
The Glebe 1913/12 (Vol. 1, No. 3): The Azure Adder
Charles Demuth
In a stark white New York studio, a circle of aspiring bohemian artists obsess over the birth of an ultra-modern, short-lived literary magazine while tangling in fragile romances.
The Glory of the Conquered: The Story of a Great Love
Susan Glaspell
When a brilliant scientist loses his sight and his career, his artist wife attempts to defy fate by mastering his laboratory work. It is a story of how love survives the ultimate collapse of human potential.
The Gray Goose's Story
Amy Prentice
A barnyard goose recounts the gossip, rivalries, and cautionary tales of the farm to a patient human listener.
The Grip cartoons: vols. I & II, May 1873 to May 1874
J. W. (John Wilson) Bengough
Satirical cartoons and sharp commentary trace the high-stakes political scandals, elections, and parliamentary battles of early post-Confederation Canada.
The heathery
Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828
A concise greenhouse companion catalogs the extensive tribe of heaths, capturing every known species from the Cape of Good Hope with precise botanical descriptions.
The Law-Breakers and Other Stories
Robert Grant
These stories navigate the friction between personal integrity and the rigid expectations of early 20th-century American society, where the weight of social standing often threatens to crush the individual spirit.
The Lighted Match
Charles Neville Buck
An obscure European throne, a quiet American suitor, and a princess caught between statecraft and her own heart set the stage for an old-world romance of intrigue, masquerade, and sudden violence.
The Lost Faith, and Difficulties of the Bible, as Tested by the Laws of Evidence
Thomas S. (Thomas Spencer) Childs
Spiritual doubt grips the children of the faithful, leaving them adrift on a shoreless sea of skepticism until they test their inherited beliefs against the calm, unyielding rules of legal evidence.
The lost race
Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard
A lone traveler in an ancient forest stumbles into a hidden world of primitive remnants, enduring curses, and timeless vengeance.
The Man Outside
Evelyn E. Smith
When descendants from a war-torn future travel back in time to protect their young ancestor from an idealist assassin, they inadvertently seal their own vanishing fate.
The Mannion Court-Martial
Randall Garrett
Accused of a violent android mutiny and facing the total erasure of his memories, a devoted space officer struggles against a rigged military trial to reclaim his stolen identity.
The Masked World
Jack Williamson
A seven-man survey crew lands on a hostile, alien planet wearing a terrifying mask of jungle and monstrous genes, only to discover a chilling message encoded inside the very DNA of its mutant flora.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 23: English
Giacomo Casanova
In eighteenth-century London, an Italian adventurer finds himself snared by an elusive beauty and the labyrinthine hazards of a foreign metropolis.
The Mentor: Game Animals of America, Vol. 4, Num. 13, Serial No. 113, August 15, 1916
William T. (William Temple) Hornaday
Once numbering in the millions across vast North American landscapes, the continent's magnificent big game now faces a stark and accelerating crisis of extinction.
The Midlander
Booth Tarkington
A restless dreamer risks everything to build a booming midwestern metropolis, colliding with conservative elders and his cultured, homesick Eastern wife.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 269, August 18, 1827
Various
A fleeting window into early nineteenth-century British culture, this miscellany captures a world balancing classical architectural elegance with the oddities of everyday life.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 322, July 12, 1828
Various
A miscellany of Regency curiosity and satire offers a window into the eclectic reading habits of nineteenth-century Londoners.
The Nothing Equation
Tom Godwin
The vast, uncaring void of intergalactic space waits patiently for a single, hairline fracture to end a human life. This chilling examination of isolation explores how the terror of the unknown can dismantle a rational mind.