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The Miracle Man
Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
A cynical confidence man discovers that the power of faith can perform miracles he never intended to orchestrate. This transformation of a heart—and a life—is the core of a story that lingers long after the final page.
The Naturewoman
Upton Sinclair
A woman raised in the South Seas attempts to liberate a stifled Boston family from their conventional lives, only to discover that the weight of their social customs is far heavier than she imagined.
The Nautilus. Vol. XXXI, No. 2, October 1917: A Quarterly Journal Devoted to the Interests of Conchologists
Various
This journal offers a rigorous, specialized look at early 20th-century malacology, capturing the meticulous field observations and taxonomic debates of researchers dedicated to the study of mollusks.
The Pagans
Arlo Bates
The web of our life is a mingled yarn, good and ill together. The lives of a small circle of artists and bohemians in late nineteenth-century Boston unravel through ambition, infidelity, and the persistent pull of the past.
The pathology of influenza
M. C. (Milton C.) Winternitz
This clinical account documents the devastating physical transformation of the human lung during the 1918 influenza pandemic, offering a precise, unflinching look at a disease that defied conventional medical understanding.
The Poors
Harry Lorayne
A visiting diplomat from another planet discovers that humanity’s social hierarchy is determined entirely by the outcome of televised game shows. He learns that in this society, wealth and poverty are not conditions of birth, but labels earned or lost under the glaring lights of a television studio.
The Radio Boys with the Border Patrol
Gerald Breckenridge
The Radio Boys are back in the cockpit, this time navigating the treacherous, sun-drenched borderlands of the American Southwest to dismantle a dangerous human-smuggling ring threatening the stability of the frontier.
The Reign of Gilt
David Graham Phillips
The American landscape is a battlefield where the insatiable hunger for inherited status clashes with the raw, leveling power of democratic progress. This work serves as an unflinching dissection of those competing forces.
The room
G. B. (Gladys Bronwyn) Stern
A young woman maneuvers her own scandalous ruin to liberate her husband, only to discover that the romantic heroism she craves is merely a hollow imitation of life.
The Second Voice
Mann Rubin
An acclaimed ventriloquist agrees to lend his unique performance range to a military scientific test, only to discover that broadcasting into deep space carries consequences no one anticipated.
The Sling and the Stone
Michael Shaara
Pyotr Diavilev, a brilliant but cowed scientist, finds himself drafted into a terrifying Soviet plot to weaponize a natural satellite. He must decide whether to serve his captors or orchestrate a final, desperate act of defiance.
The Story of Glass
Sara Ware Bassett
The Story of Glass weaves together the history of a sophisticated craft and the personal journey of an orphaned girl finding her place in a world of family, industry, and home.
The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Volume 9, Hermas
William Wake
A man encounters the divine through a series of visions, receiving strict moral instructions for a community struggling to maintain its faith in a rapidly changing world.
The tale of old Mr. Crow
Arthur Scott Bailey
A self-proclaimed outlaw and neighborhood nuisance, a boisterous crow spends his summers outwitting a frustrated farmer, only to find himself challenged by a clever newcomer who threatens his long-held status.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2
Émile Zola
A priest struggles to reconcile his disintegrating faith with the radical, dangerous utopianism of his brother in a city teetering on the edge of social collapse. This searching narrative captures the volatile intersection of science, anarchy, and human longing in the final years of the nineteenth century.
The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ: A Devotional History of Our Lord's Passion
James Stalker
A quiet gravity hangs over this deliberate step-by-step examination of the most painful hours in the Gospels.
The Undetected
George O. (George Oliver) Smith
A police detective tracking a murderer who possesses impossible psychic powers must bait a trap that forces the killer to reveal himself, even if it risks his own life.
The Witch-Maid, & Other Verses
Dorothea Mackellar
The vast, sun-drenched plains of Australia find a fierce and lyrical voice in this collection, where the landscape is not merely a setting, but a living, breathing participant in the human experience.
The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 1, October 1922)
Various
This artifact of 1922 campus life offers an unfiltered glimpse into the intellectual anxieties and aesthetic ambitions of a generation defining itself against the fading shadows of the Victorian era.
The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 5, February 1923)
Various
This collection of student writing captures the intellectual restlessness of a post-war generation, balancing the fervor of youthful ambition against a dawning, weary realization of life’s complexity.
Third Base Thatcher
Everett Scott
A high-stakes baseball hero finds his integrity tested both on the diamond and in the classroom, proving that character matters more than the final score.
Traits of American Humour, Vol. 2 of 3
Unknown
This collection serves as a vibrant, kaleidoscopic survey of 19th-century American identity, captured through the regional tall tales, vernacular sketches, and character studies that defined the nation’s burgeoning literary humor.
Trial and Triumph
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
A fiery, orphaned Black girl grows into a determined young woman, fighting racial prejudice and personal heartbreak to build a life of principle, intellect, and moral purpose.
Unwelcome Tenant
Roger D. Aycock
The first human to travel deep into space discovers a terrifying truth about humanity. As he breaks free from the invisible shackles of his mind, he realizes that liberation is far more precarious than he imagined.
Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition): How to Cook and Use Rarer Vegetables and Herbs
Anonymous
This practical guide offers a glimpse into the diverse, creative, and often labor-intensive world of early 20th-century home vegetable cookery. It serves as both a manual for the aspiring gardener-cook and a time capsule of culinary traditions that have largely faded from the modern kitchen.
Welcome to Paradise
Allyn Donnelson
A simple factory worker accidentally triggers a secret military teleportation device, uncovering a miraculous medical discovery on a hidden satellite that challenges the government’s obsession with total secrecy.
A Capillary Crime, and Other Stories
Francis Davis Millet
This collection of tales captures the transient, often shadowed lives of expatriate artists in the late nineteenth century, mapping the fine line between bohemian romance and genuine psychological unease.
A Daughter of Witches: A Romance
Joanna E. (Joanna Ellen) Wood
A sensitive, idealistic minister finds his life and faith undone when he marries into a family haunted by deep-seated, ancestral superstitions.
A Journey to America in 1834
Robert Heywood
A quiet, methodical record of early nineteenth-century travel, this journal observes a rapidly expanding young republic through the exact, unhurried eyes of an English visitor.
A Manifest Destiny
Julia Magruder
A young American woman bets her beauty on the chance to secure a grand life in England, only to find the reality of her ambition is a hollow trap. This story traces the arc of an unlikely marriage and the search for redemption.
A Pair of Them
Evelyn Raymond
A resilient girl born into poverty and physical disability finds a transformative friendship that bridges the vast social divide between her dingy alleyway and a wealthy child’s world.
A Star for a Night: A Story of Stage Life
Elsie Janis
This narrative captures the frantic, glittering, and often precarious world of early 20th-century New York theater, where young women arrive with big dreams and find their paths paved by the whims of wealthy, possessive "angels." It is a candid look at the intersection of ambition, art, and the transactional nature…
A start in life. A journey across America. Fruit farming in California
C. F. (Charles Finch) Dowsett
Overcrowded cities and meager returns drive a London estate agent across the Atlantic to evaluate fruit farming in California as a practical blueprint for ambitious English emigrants seeking financial independence.
A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865: being a record of the actual experiences of the wife of a Confederate officer
Myrta Lockett Avary
In these intimate, vivid recollections, a young Confederate officer’s wife chronicles the humor, heartache, and harrowing logistics of survival during a war that transformed her world.
A Yankee Flier in the Far East
Rutherford G. (Rutherford George) Montgomery
Three ace fighter pilots navigate the sweltering skies and shifting loyalties of the Far East during World War II, battling both an encroaching enemy and a treacherous commander in their own ranks.
Above the French Lines: Letters of Stuart Walcott, American Aviator: July 4, 1917, to December 8, 1917
Stuart Walcott
HOOK A young pilot’s final months unfold in this collection of letters, capturing the exhilarating, precarious dawn of aerial warfare on the Western Front.
Advanced Chemistry
Jack G. Huekels
A scientist discovers an "immortal fluid" capable of reanimating the dead through electrical stimulation. This unsettling short story explores the thin line between scientific breakthrough and absolute catastrophe.
After Taps
George M. (George Melville) Baker
This dramatic work centers on the shifting loyalties and hidden conspiracies within a Civil War-era household, where honor and truth are tested by the influence of a calculating deceiver. It captures the tension of a family torn apart by war, suspicion, and a persistent, dangerous ambition.
Alpine flora of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Stewardson Brown
A botanical guide to the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks, this volume offers a precise, descriptive survey of the region’s diverse mountain flora. It serves as an essential field companion for identifying plant life amidst varied high-altitude climates.
Amelia
Henry Fielding
A portrait of domestic struggle in eighteenth-century London, this story follows a virtuous wife and her flawed, impulsive husband as they navigate the treacherous waters of poverty, debt, and societal corruption.
American Literary Centers (from Literature and Life)
William Dean Howells
American literature possesses a unique, decentralized spirit that defies the gravity of a single capital city. By tracing the movement of writers across the continent, this essay examines how regional voices shaped a national identity.
An Essay on Papal Infallibility
John Sinclair
The quiet, earnest search for religious certainty often drives the anxious soul toward the promise of an infallible guide, yet that very search may be the beginning of a profound intellectual awakening.
Anderby Wold
Winifred Holtby
A strong-willed woman attempts to impose her vision of order upon a changing Yorkshire farming community, only to find that progress and personal desire are forces beyond her control.
At Whispering Pine Lodge
Lawrence J. Leslie
A group of adventurous boys ventures into the Adirondack wilderness to find a missing youth, only to stumble upon a secret fur farm and a dangerous, hidden conspiracy.
Backlash
Winston K. (Winston Kinney) Marks
This story of a quiet, domestic takeover by alien "servants" serves as a cold reminder that the most dangerous traps are those we set for ourselves.
Bébée
Ouida
A child found drifting among water-lilies grows into a creature as pure as her garden, only to discover how cruelly the world treats such devotion.
Between You and Me
Lauder, Harry, Sir
A world-famous entertainer reflects on the lessons of the Great War, urging the "plain folk" of the world to maintain the spirit of unity and sacrifice that emerged from the darkest days of global conflict.
Bill Bolton and Hidden Danger
Noel Sainsbury
HOOK When a midnight sniper shatters his bedroom window, a young aviator is thrust into a dangerous web of kidnapping and international intrigue.