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The pelicans
E. M. Delafield
Orphaned sisters navigate sacrifice and the pull of the Catholic Church, leading one to the convent and leaving the other to confront a devastating loss.
The Power of a Lie
Johan Bojer
A small, uncorrected falsehood spirals outward through a rural community, steadily warping public opinion, destroying families, and trapping even its perpetrators in a comforting web of self-deception.
The Scornful Lady
John Fletcher
A volatile romantic comedy of manners, this play tracks the high-stakes games of pride, courtship, and reckless excess played by two brothers and their stubborn, sharp-witted counterparts.
The Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse
Thomas Burke
The songbook of a shopkeeper adrift in London’s Limehouse district offers a quiet, observational look at the immigrant experience through the eyes of a man caught between two worlds. It is a work of gentle irony and persistent, sometimes aching, humanity.
The sting
William Le Queux
A web of aristocratic blackmail, hidden crypts, and sudden murder shatters the peace of an English country estate, drawing a shrewd old lawyer and a psycho-analyst into a desperate quest for truth.
The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn
Harry Collingwood
A lone survivor of a tragic shipwreck navigates the Pacific, unearthing ancient treasure and facing island perils with a young companion. This classic adventure tale follows a resilient officer through survival, discovery, and a final, hard-won return to civilization.
The Tallants of Barton, vol. 3 (of 3)
Joseph Hatton
The wheel of fortune turns incessantly, and those who climb to the heights must be prepared for the inevitable descent. Even the most carefully constructed lives are subject to the shifting whims of fate.
The Test Colony
Winston K. (Winston Kinney) Marks
A group of human colonists on a remote, lush planet attempts to preserve their civilization, only to find themselves outsmarted by a deceptively simple, fun-loving race of extraterrestrials.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 4
Émile Zola
A young priest’s quest to reconcile his faith with the modern world crumbles against the labyrinthine cruelty of the Vatican. This is a story of how institutions protect their power, often at the cost of the human hearts they claim to save.
The "Twenty-Seventh"
Winthrop Dudley Sheldon
Through mud, bombardment, and the tragic smoke of three major battles, a nine-month Connecticut regiment confronts the raw, unsparing realities of the American Civil War.
The Untouchable
Stephen A. Kallis
An inventor's gift becomes an unreachable paradox when a device that slips through solid matter accidentally turns itself permanently beyond human physical touch.
The Vanishing Venusians
Leigh Brackett
A cynical drifter and two companions scale a shrouded Venusian sea-cliff, stumbling onto a high, idyllic plateau ruled by deceptive, plant-like humanoids who guard their paradise with lethal telepathic power.
The Vehement Flame
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
A young man’s impulsive marriage to an older woman unravels under the weight of jealousy and a hidden past, leaving him to navigate the wreckage of his own honor and the persistence of new love.
The virgin and the gipsy
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
An untethered young Englishwoman finds herself drawn to the rugged freedom of an outcast romani man while trapped within the suffocating conventions of a dreary northern rectory.
The Way of the Wind
Zoé Anderson Norris
When prairie winds break a young couple's spirit, the husband clings to a delusional promise of future wealth while the wife retreats to the soft comforts of her Kentucky past.
The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern: Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866
William Morley Punshon
The pulpit serves as a bridge between the eternal and the immediate, capturing the earnest spirit of Victorian faith. These recorded services offer a window into the theological preoccupations and social anxieties of a congregation in 1866.
The Women Who Came in the Mayflower
Annie Russell Marble
This historical account reconstructs the daily lives of the women who established the Plymouth Colony, peeling back the layers of myth to reveal their resilience, industry, and social complexity.
Thirty Letters on Various Subjects, Vol. 2 (of 2)
William Jackson
Beneath the quiet surface of eighteenth-century correspondence lies a sharp, inquiring mind probing everything from the painter’s palette to the forgotten genius of an Elizabethan poet.
Toxin
Ouida
An opal necklace lost in the Venetian lagoon sets off a chain of events that binds a brilliant, unfeeling physiologist and a vibrant young prince in a fatal rivalry.
Two men on a mill
A. Harold Castonguay
A meticulous chronicle details the physical revival of a two-and-a-half-century-old water grist mill on Cape Cod, celebrating the enduring craftsmanship of early New England.
"Us," An Old Fashioned Story
Mrs. Molesworth
Two orphaned twins try to cover up a tiny childhood mishap, only to fall into the hands of traveling gipsies and spark an desperate, far-reaching search.
"Us, and our donkey"
Amy Le Feuvre
When a clergyman's lively children move to a new country parish, they embark on a quest to buy a donkey, only to find themselves stumbling into endless scrapes and quiet lessons in faith.
Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida
Kirk Munroe
When delicate health forces a New England family to trade icy winters for a remote Florida homestead, two children discover that taming the southern wilderness requires equal measures of hard work, courage, and curiosity.
Way of a Rebel
Walter M. Miller
The decision to rebel against a total war arrives for a lone submariner not through long contemplation, but in a sudden, visceral rejection of the machinery of mass destruction.
When hearts are trumps
Tom Hall
This collection of verse captures the fleeting, often stingingly clever spirit of Gilded Age courtship, where a well-turned phrase could win a heart or ruin a reputation.
When the Cock Crows
Waldron Baily
A solitary, grizzled fisherman living on a precarious island finds his quiet life upended when a series of desperate strangers and a kidnapping plot pull him into a world of mystery and redemption.
With Axe and Rope in the New Zealand Alps
George Edward Mannering
The towering ice-seamed crags and hidden crevasses of the Southern Alps demand physical endurance, courage, and a deep, reverent love for untamed wilderness.
A Christian But a Roman
Mór Jókai
Amid the glittering decay of the Roman Empire, a noble soldier seeks vengeance against a decadent emperor while torn between a scandalous courtesan and a martyred saint.
A voyage to South America, with an account of a shipwreck in the river La Plata, in the year 1817
George Fracker
A midnight shipwreck shatters a peaceful voyage, leaving one lone survivor to wash ashore upon a desolate South American beach and fight for his life against cold, despair, and hostile wanderers.
A Woman's Part in a Revolution
Natalie Harris Hammond
A woman navigates the harrowing uncertainty of the 1895–1896 Johannesburg political uprising, finding herself caught between the clash of empires and the personal agony of her husband’s imprisonment.
Alexander Crummell: An Apostle of Negro Culture: The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 20
William Henry Ferris
A fiery, high-minded defense of the Black intellect, this portrait of a forgotten scholar reveals how the pursuit of pure learning becomes an act of defiance.
An Old Chester Secret
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
The secret of a child’s birth forces a collision between the woman who raised him and the parents who abandoned him. It is a quiet study of integrity, maternal instinct, and the long shadow of pride.
Anne Severn and the Fieldings
May Sinclair
Childhood bonds deepen into lifelong passions and painful loyalties across English country estates and the shadows of the Great War.
Bobby and Betty with the workers
Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
Two young children explore their neighborhood trades, visiting bakers, tailors, and merchants while learning the rhythms of daily community life.
Boer Politics
Yves Guyot
The bitter confrontation in South Africa exposes deep fractures between imperial ambition and entrenched pastoral autonomy.
Branded
Francis Lynde
A young man wrongly imprisoned for embezzlement must outrun a relentless past and the shadow of his own criminal record to find redemption in the rugged West.
By Right of Purchase
Harold Bindloss
A proud Englishwoman marries a rugged Canadian prairie farmer out of financial duty, only to discover a profound test of endurance and unexpected devotion against the vast, unforgiving landscape.
Cargo to Callisto
Jerome Bixby
When vicious alien criminals escape captivity on Mars by possessing human bodies, a mild-mannered regional buyer discovers a bizarre mental block that makes him their ultimate target.
Catalysis
Poul Anderson
On a freezing, desolate outpost of Triton, a sudden and mysterious drop in temperature threatens a community of isolated scientists with a silent, frozen death.
Children of the Chronotron
S. J. (Stuart James) Byrne
When a doomed alien race hurls an emissary through the corridors of time, a civilian transport flight is accidentally swept into a perilous future of eternal daylight and cosmic war.
Chums in Dixie
St. George Rathborne
A pair of adventurous Northern boys journey down a remote Florida river in a motorboat, facing dangerous wildlife and hostile squatters to bring peace to a disputed family estate.
Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold
Archibald Murray Howe
A resolute soldier and early champion of New England democracy faces betrayal, bureaucratic indifference, and a fatal ambush while trying to expose a famous traitor.
Crack of doom
Stephen Marlowe
An ordinary suburban morning turns surreal as an average man discovers the human race has been quietly replaced by something vastly superior—and utterly heartless.
Derrick Sterling: A Story of the Mines
Kirk Munroe
Deep beneath the Pennsylvania mountains, a courageous boy navigates the perils of the coal mines, facing bitter rivalries and underground floods to forge a lasting friendship.
Despotism and Democracy: A Study in Washington Society and Politics
Molly Elliot Seawell
Beneath the glittering surface of Washington politics, ambition, compromise, and long-delayed romance shape the lives of lawmakers and society figures.
Dick Merriwell's Backers
Burt L. Standish
Beneath the polished facade of college sports and grand estates, a relentless vendetta tests a young freshman's mettle, pitching skills, and sheer survival instincts.
Dotty Dimple At Home
Sophie May
A volatile, high-spirited child struggles to master her own fierce temper while navigating the trials of a family displaced by fire. This intimate portrait captures the raw, internal battle between impulsive defiance and the desire to be good.
Elsie at Home
Martha Finley
The narrative centers on the domestic sphere of an affluent, tight-knit clan, where the comforts of a secure home are framed by the steady, guiding hand of a patriarch. It offers a glimpse into a world where personal happiness is inextricably linked to familial devotion and religious faith.