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In an Unknown Prison Land: An account of convicts and colonists in New Caledonia with jottings out and home
George Chetwynd Griffith
Journeying from American cities to the penal settlements of New Caledonia, an observant traveler confronts the stark realities of colonial exile and institutional control.
In New Granada
William Henry Giles Kingston
Caught in the turbulent South American wars of independence, a young Scottish-descended doctor's son navigates perilous jungles, narrow escapes, and fierce battles alongside family and loyal friends.
Jaywalker
Ross Rocklynne
Desperate to salvage a fractured marriage, an estranged wife boards a Moon-bound rocket using a stolen validation, risking her life and the entire vessel.
King o' the Beach: A Tropic Tale
George Manville Fenn
An ordinary passenger voyage ends in shipwreck on a volcanic shore, leaving a recovering boy, a steadfast doctor, and a gruff sailor to contend with tropical dangers and a tyrannical beachcomber.
Martha Schofield, pioneer Negro educator: Historical and philosophical review of reconstruction period of South Carolina
Matilda A. Evans
A dedicated Northern educator dedicates fifty years to founding a school in South Carolina, steering a marginalized community toward self-reliance through rigorous industrial and moral training amid the turbulence of the Reconstruction South.
Meditations and Moral Sketches
François Guizot
A century of intellectual and spiritual unrest finds its voice as a veteran statesman examines the fragile balance between human liberty and eternal faith.
Model yachts and model yacht sailing
James E. Walton
Model yachting in the nineteenth century was less a casual pastime than an exact science of wind, wood, and water.
Monument
R. W. Major
Dr. Charles King seeks to finally shed his humiliating nickname by unveiling a perpetual motion machine, only to accidentally turn the entire solar system into a swinging pendulum.
Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road
R. Henry (Robert Henry) Mainer
Her deep-lined face and gray eyes reflect a heart untouched by deceit, devoted to others across the years along a Canadian military road.
Night Court
Norman Arkawy
An ordinary night at a grotesque public spectacle reveals a chilling judicial system where gleeful spectators eventually become the next victims.
Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Various
A vibrant forum of Victorian intellectual life, this periodical gathers short essays, historical discoveries, textual debates, and urgent queries from readers across the globe.
Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Various
A Victorian intellectual crossroads where scholars untangle Shakespearean textual puzzles, ancient monastic land tenures, and the eccentric folklore of rural parishes.
On The Blockade
Oliver Optic
The young commander of the Bronx faces a treacherous test as he patrols the Southern coast, where hidden enemies aboard his own ship and daring blockade runners threaten his mission to preserve the Union.
One of three
George O. (George Oliver) Smith
When an experimental television phosphor begins to whisper from across a dimensional rift, an engineer stumbles into a deadly multi-earth conflict.
Our Pilgrim Forefathers: Thanksgiving Studies
Loveday A. Nelson
Fleeing religious persecution in England, a steadfast band of separatists carves out a new life in the wilderness of Plymouth, enduring bitter hardship to worship freely.
Out of Mind
William W. Stuart
An insufferably arrogant bureaucrat travels to a mythical planet of absolute illusion to expose its worthiness, only to find himself trapped in the ultimate projection of his own inflated ego.
Pope Adrian IV: An Historical Sketch
Richard Raby
From the impoverished charity schools of medieval England to the turbulent heights of the papal throne, a solitary Englishman navigates a world torn between imperial ambition and spiritual authority.
Popular lessons in astronomy, on a new plan
Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Grund
Journey through the cosmos using visual scale and actual comparisons rather than confusing numbers to reveal the grand architecture of our solar system.
Project Hi-Psi
Frank Riley
Kidnapped from Earth and stranded on a distant alien planet, human psychics discover that their suppressed mental gifts are the ultimate weapon in an interstellar experiment.
Proxy Planeteers
Edmond Hamilton
When mechanical mining probes on Mercury mysteriously black out, two desperate Earth operators uncover an astonishing form of indigenous life that communicates across space.
Roughing it De Luxe
Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
A middle-aged humorist takes a train across the American Southwest, discovering that modern comfort cannot completely tame the desert, the canyons, or the colorful locals.
Screen acting
Mae Marsh
Behind the flickering silent screen lies a demanding craft forged through relentless hard work, rigorous training, and genuine artistic expression.
Scrimshaw
Murray Leinster
An isolated man guarding a lunar mine uses his proximity to a hated criminal to painstakingly coax his own murdered past back out of the empty void.
Shades of Davy Crockett
Theodore Pratt
Davy Crockett returns to a world obsessed with his legend, seeking to understand the impact of his legacy.
Short Reasons for Communion with the Church of England
Thomas Tregenna Biddulph
True unity in the Christian Church flows from shared apostolic order, ancient liturgy, and the quiet steady bonds of inherited faith.
Songs at the Start
Louise Imogen Guiney
Driven by the fierce will of the sea and the quiet dignity of historic grief, these verses map a restless journey across human devotion and memory.
Story of the Riot
Unknown
In the stifling heat of August 1900, New York City police officers transformed a neighborhood dispute into a reign of terror against innocent Black citizens.
Surprising Stories about the Mouse and Her Sons, and the Funny Pigs.: With Laughable Colored Engravings
Unknown
An adventurous mouse and a succession of fashion-conscious pigs learn through bitter experience that ignoring maternal wisdom and leaving home leads directly to disaster.
The Altar of Freedom
Mary Roberts Rinehart
As the shadow of a great conflict falls across the nation, mothers stand ready to offer their sons to the service of a higher ideal.
The art of lead burning
C. H. Fay
Mastering the dangerous yet essential craft of lead burning requires meticulous preparation, rigorous safety precautions, and steady hands.
The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line
Ralph Marlow
The Great War serves as the backdrop for a trio of American teenagers whose motorcycles carry them from the streets of Antwerp into the heart of the Battle of the Marne.
The Brighton Boys at Chateau-Thierry
James R. Driscoll
When an American youth joins the ambulance service in France during World War I, he finds himself tracking enemy spies while evacuating wounded soldiers under heavy shellfire.
The Chinese Exclusion Act: Report and Resolutions Adopted by the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York
New York Chamber of Commerce
An official report and resolution from late-nineteenth-century New York merchants scrutinizes the diplomatic damage and commercial folly of barring Chinese laborers from the United States.
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 10. October, 1880
Various
This periodical from 1880 mounts a vigorous, combative defense of Christianity, using common-sense reasoning and biblical exegesis to challenge both scientific skepticism and prevailing theological traditions.
The Dancers
Margaret St. Clair
The sun went out because humanity stopped dancing, leaving a shipload of exiled astronomers stranded on a dark, windy world with a terrible realization.
The danger and immodesty of the present too general custom of unnecessarily employing men-midwives: Being the letters which lately appeared under the signature of a man-midwife. With an introduction, a treatise on the milk, and an appendix
Anonymous
A passionate argument against the use of male midwives, advocating for the safety and modesty of female midwives.
The Feeling
Roger D. Aycock
As humanity takes its first hesitant leap toward Mars, a four-man crew discovers that the deepest barrier to space travel is not technological, but biological—an overwhelming, agonizing psychic pull tethering human beings to their home planet.
The Finding of Haldgren
Charles Willard Diffin
An SOS from a dead lunar crater pulls a master pilot across space, plunging him into a hidden subterranean world where a lost expedition fights for survival.
The Flag, and Other Poems, 1918
Amy Redpath Roddick
A nation finds its voice amid global conflict, weighing the sacred bonds of empire against the quiet pull of nature and memory.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 366, January 1, 1887
Various
A new year begins with verses of blessing while young women navigate the delicate balance of domestic duty, intellectual curiosity, and professional life in Victorian England.
The Industrial Condition of Women and Girls in Honolulu: A Social Study
Frances Blascoer
Beneath the sunlit tranquility of the Hawaiian islands, a quiet industrial awakening is drawing women and young girls into canneries, laundries, and shops to test the limits of their endurance.
The Kentucky Ranger
Edward T. Curnick
Camp-meeting evangelism clashes with Appalachian moonshiners and frontier romance in antebellum Kentucky.
The Leech
Robert Sheckley
A dormant extraterrestrial organism drops onto a New York farm and begins devouring everything it touches, growing larger and more insatiable with every attempt to destroy it.
The long patrol
Albert M. (Albert McKune) Treynor
Deep in the snowy northern Rockies, a solitary mounted policeman stumbles upon a chilling murder and a mysterious woman running for her life.
The Loss of His Majesty's Frigate Anson: Which was Wrecked within Three Miles of Helston, December 28, 1807 ... Also, an Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the Sidney, Which Ran upon a Dangerous Rock or Shoal, May 20, 1808
Unknown
A sudden gale, navigational errors, and fierce breakers drive a British frigate onto the Cornish shore, while elsewhere, desperate crews face uncharted reefs, hostile shores, and agonizing starvation at sea.
The Mighty Dead
William Campbell Gault
In a galaxy where near planets are conquered and books are outlawed by a paranoid, lobby-backed censorship coalition, a government security officer travels to a quiet Wisconsin hamlet to squash illegal literature—and finds himself changing sides.
The Mother
Norman Duncan
A mother lives two lives: one a devoted, sheltering sanctuary for her son, the other a desperate, hidden existence in the city's underbelly. Their bond endures as she struggles to give him a future she cannot share.
The Mud Larks
Crosbie Garstin
Amid the mud and nitro-glycerine of the Western Front, soldiers carve out pockets of absurdity, transforming the grim machinery of the First World War into an endless theatre of eccentric pranks and defiant humor.