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Blind Spot
Bascom Jones
A colonial overseer on Mars discovers that his own life is built upon a foundation of institutional cruelty he has long refused to acknowledge.
Blotted Out
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
The world is a cold place for a man who demands to be left alone, until he is drawn into a web of secrets that demands he forfeit everything to save a stranger.
Bowdoin Boys in Labrador: An Account of the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador led by Prof. Leslie A. Lee of the Biological Department
Jonathan Prince Cilley
A wooden schooner pushes into northern mists, carrying seventeen undergraduates intent on measuring mountains, collecting seabirds, and tracking untamed rivers into the subarctic wilderness.
Concerning Belinda
Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
A young teacher navigates the stifling decorum of a private boarding school, finding that life among adolescent girls is as unpredictable as it is demanding.
Daffydowndilly and the Golden Touch
Alpha Banta Benson
This collection presents two classic moral fables designed for early readers, exploring the hazards of greed and the inevitability of work. These simple, rhythmic tales offer a gentle look at childhood growth and the lessons learned through experience.
Death in Transit
Jerry Sohl
This story is a stark study of isolation and obsession, charting the psychological disintegration of a deep-space captain after the sudden, accidental death of his wife.
Death of a Spaceman
Walter M. Miller
A former space blastman faces his final hours in a shabby apartment, clinging to his memories and his stubborn pride while his family and neighbors prepare for the future.
Death Walks on Mars
Alan J. Ramm
The unforgiving Martian landscape becomes a stage for a slow, agonizing retribution after a prospector’s husband is murdered. A grieving widow lures his killers into a deadly, circuitous journey across the red desert, weaponizing the environment itself to exact her revenge.
Donna Teresa
Frances Mary Peard
HOOK Two sisters navigate the complexities of love and loss under the sweltering, unforgiving sun of Italy. A delicate balance of affection and regret defines the bond between a spirited widow and her innocent younger sibling.
Five Nights: A Novel
Victoria Cross
The nights of a life are painted in shifting, vivid colors, each marking a transformative moment of passion or despair. This narrative traces the arc of an artist’s volatile search for beauty, fidelity, and the elusive spirit of the women he pursues.
Flint Hills Cook Book
Iowa) Christ Church Episcopal (Burlington
This collection of recipes offers a candid glimpse into the domestic life of a late nineteenth-century Midwestern parish, where the labor of the kitchen was considered a profound moral and social necessity.
For Better or Worse: Ship's Company, Part 10
W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
The long-lost husband returns to find his wife, but discovers that his own past, his threadbare appearance, and a clever game of cat-and-mouse stand in the way of a reunion.
From Yauco to Las Marias: A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of Brig. General Schwan
Karl Stephen Herrman
This account follows a professional brigade’s rapid march through the mountains of western Puerto Rico during the final days of the Spanish-American War, capturing a narrative of military duty, tactical caution, and colonial ambition.
Garry Grayson's football rivals
Edward Stratemeyer
This is a classic 1920s sports novel about a high-school quarterback navigating the intense rivalries, moral dilemmas, and athletic challenges of the football season. It focuses on the struggle for fair play in a world where underhanded tactics threaten the integrity of the game.
Government and Rebellion: A Sermon Delivered in the North Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Sunday Morning, April 28, 1861
E. E. (Ezra Eastman) Adams
This urgent 1861 sermon frames the looming American Civil War not merely as a political fracture, but as a moral crusade demanding the defense of righteous government against the sin of rebellion.
His Sombre Rivals
Edward Payson Roe
Two lifelong friends love the same woman, only for war to shatter their triangle and leave the survivor to rescue her from the brink of total madness.
Hope Leslie
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
A young woman defies the rigid piety of 17th-century Massachusetts to rescue an Indigenous friend, challenging the narrow moral boundaries of her colonial society.
In the three zones
Frederic Jesup Stimson
This collection of three distinct narratives explores the collision between human passion and the cold, unyielding structures of the world—whether they be mechanical, social, or historical.
Jim Long-Knife
Florance Walton Taylor
Young Jim Hudson finds himself thrust into the heart of the American Revolution when his family is captured on the Kentucky frontier. His survival depends on his wits, his drum, and his unlikely friendship with a Potawatomi boy.
Lefty o' the training camp
Burt L. Standish
The life of a professional baseball player is rarely as simple as a nine-inning game, especially when the diamond is haunted by an enigma with a dual personality.
Legend Land, Vol. 4: Being a Further Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Nearer Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway
G. Basil (George Basil) Barham
The English landscape hides ancient, restless spirits in its folds, waiting for travelers to look beyond the modern rail lines. These tales transform quiet hills and forgotten ruins into haunted stages of history and myth.
Leonore Stubbs
Lucy Bethia Walford
HOOK A young widow returns to her father’s house only to find herself trapped in a web of family greed and a forbidden, unspoken attraction to her sister’s fiancé.
Life and Travel in Lower Burmah: A Retrospect
C. T. (Charles Thomas) Paske
This memoir captures the fading echoes of a colonial officer’s life in Lower Burma, offering a contemplative look at a world transformed by the arrival of steam, telegraphy, and imperial expansion.
Marion Darche: A Story Without Comment
F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
A woman trapped in a loveless marriage to a deceitful financier must navigate the wreckage of his public disgrace and the lingering, dangerous presence of his past.
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia
John McKinlay
This account offers a stark, unadorned window into the brutal realities of nineteenth-century Australian exploration. It functions as a meticulous record of survival, documenting a journey where the primary objective is less about discovery than it is about enduring an unforgiving and indifferent landscape.
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI
Mme. Du Hausset
HOOK This intimate chronicle offers an insider’s view of the French monarchy’s final, crumbling days, as witnessed by a devoted confidante within the Queen’s private circle.
Messenger
Joseph Samachson
A cosmic traveler, stripped of his memory by a stellar explosion, wanders the galaxy for eons to find a world in desperate need of a final, world-altering signal.
Motorland, September-October, 1955
California State Automobile Association
This mid-century periodical serves as a time capsule for the American road trip, offering a snapshot of California’s mid-1950s infrastructure, tourism, and motoring culture. It blends practical advice for drivers with a romanticized vision of the state’s coastal geography.
Mr. Crewe's Career
Winston Churchill
A wealthy amateur politician attempts to reform a state government dominated by a railroad monopoly, setting the stage for a collision between naive idealism and entrenched, cynical power.
My days and dreams
Edward Carpenter
The recollections of a Victorian-era social reformer and poet, this memoir tracks a lifetime spent challenging the rigid conventions of British society, religion, and industry while pursuing a life of manual labor, radical politics, and personal liberation.
My Literary Zoo
Kate Sanborn
This collection gathers the spirited, devoted, and sometimes eccentric animal companions of history’s most celebrated literary figures. It offers a window into the intimate, often poignant bonds shared between the famous and their pets.
"My Novel"
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
This sprawling Victorian narrative interweaves the lives of English aristocrats, Italian exiles, and ambitious social climbers, exploring how the weight of the past shapes the pursuit of power and love.
Notes and Queries, Number 215, December 10, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Various
A weekly miscellany from December 1853 opens a window onto Victorian intellectual curiosity, where scholars, antiquaries, and amateur enthusiasts gather to trade precise notes, unravel historical riddles, and debate obscure etymologies.
Out of Death's Shadow
Nicholas (House name) Carter
A master of deduction confronts a web of deception, navigating elaborate disguises and cold-blooded schemes to unmask a killer hiding in plain sight.
Paula Monti
Eugène Sue
A web of secret correspondence, misdirected daggers, and obsessive, fatal attachments ensnares a group of Parisian socialites, leading them toward a tragic reckoning in the shadows of the city's grandest estates.
Pen Pictures of British Battles
Various
The Great War is a landscape of industrial devastation and human endurance, captured here in a series of dispatches that move from the high seas to the churned-up mud of the trenches.
Planet of No-Return
Wilbur S. Peacock
A veteran space pilot and his rookie companion must survive a lethal, water-covered planet after their ship crashes, only to discover that their standard-issue weapons are useless against the world’s terrors.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 107, September 8, 1894
Various
This collection of late-Victorian satire captures the frantic, witty, and often cynical spirit of London’s high-society life and professional anxieties at the end of the nineteenth century. It serves as both a cultural mirror and a humorous critique of a class preoccupied with its own status, manners, and the…
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 148, February 10, 1915
Various
This collection of late-Victorian and Edwardian satire captures the frantic, fearful, and absurd atmosphere of London during the early months of the First World War. It is a chronicle of a society attempting to maintain its composure through biting wit while the world burns around it.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841
Various
This inaugural collection of a legendary satirical periodical serves up a biting, irreverent chronicle of 1841 London. Through sharp wordplay and relentless mockery, it exposes the absurdities of the Victorian establishment with unsparing precision.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 10, 1917
Various
A nation under stress meets crisis with a wink, transforming the hardships of war into sharp, persistent laughter.
Rocky Mountain Boys
St. George Rathborne
Two young cousins venture into the untamed Wyoming wilderness to test their grit, only to find that surviving the Rockies requires more than just modern rifles and youthful bravado.
Ross Grant, Tenderfoot
John Garland
A young medical student arrives in the Wyoming wilderness to manage mining claims, only to be stranded by a mysterious guide and forced to survive a brutal winter in the isolation of the mountains.
S.O.S. Aphrodite!
Stanley Mullen
HOOK A grizzled patrolman and a haughty socialite are forced into a marriage of convenience aboard a doomed vessel, hurtling toward a violent confrontation with a ring of ruthless space pirates.
Santa Claus' Sweetheart
Imogen Clark
A young girl wanders into the snowy wilderness and finds the spirit of the season in the company of a man who believes he is Santa Claus. Their journey together transforms a lonely lumber camp and reunites a fractured family.
Soldiers unmasked
William Addleman Ganoe
The soldier is a figure often misunderstood, yet the history of his service reveals a record of building, protection, and life-saving that remains largely unknown to the American public.
Songs of the Silent World, and Other Poems
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The barrier between the living and the dead is porous, held thin by the persistent, aching persistence of human love. These verses reach across that chasm, seeking to translate the profound silence of loss into a language of hope.
Stories and Tales of the Irish: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions
William Carleton
A sweeping chronicle of nineteenth-century Ireland, these narratives capture the desperate struggles, fervent beliefs, and rugged resilience of a society caught between ancient tradition and the crushing weight of systemic upheaval.