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The Peacock Feather: A Romance
LM (Leslie Moore)
A lone ex-convict wanders through the English countryside bearing a strange peacock feather, seeking redemption, anonymity, and the heart of a proud critic who knows him only through letters.
The radium pool
Ed Earl Repp
Beneath the desert sands and hidden dimensions lie strange realms where glowing pools of energy, telepathic aliens, and invisible thieves challenge the very fabric of reality.
The sane men of Satan
Merwin, Sam, Jr.
A sophisticated Boston banker is whisked away to an enigmatic cosmic facility, where an alien entity tasks him with erasing history's greatest visionaries to save the universe.
The Song of the Flag: A National Ode
Eric Mackay
A ringing national ode celebrating British maritime supremacy, military triumphs, and the unyielding loyalty demanded by the country's flag.
The Treasure Hunt of the S-18
Graham M. Dean
A daring flying reporter joins a desperate underwater expedition in a decommissioned submarine to recover a long-lost fortune from the Caribbean depths.
The Two Christmas Boxes: A Play for Girls
Elsie Duncan Yale
Two identical Christmas boxes swap destinations, sending a fashionable New York home a package of tattered charity cast-offs and leaving a struggling Montana missionary family with luxurious gifts.
The Ultimate Criminal
Archibald Henry Grimké
America condemns a race for its crimes while systematically manufacturing the very conditions that breed them. Who bears the true guilt for the nation's cycle of violence and oppression?
The White Lie
William Le Queux
A mysterious murder on the Norfolk coast entangles secret state affairs, a vulnerable French milliner, and a ruthless criminal hiding behind a false identity.
The Young Trawler
R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
A rugged Yarmouth fishing smack braves the turbulent North Sea while its crew battles both the treacherous elements and the temptations of the deep-sea floating grog-shops.
The young volcano explorers
Edward Stratemeyer
Five adventurous American lads and their instructor journey through the Caribbean, confronting volcanic disasters, swindlers, and perilous escapes.
This marrying
Margaret Culkin Banning
A sharp-minded young college graduate steps into the newspaper world of a changing America, torn between her modern ideals of self-reliance and the magnetic pull of competing romantic claims.
Tom Fairfield at Sea
Allen Chapman
After breaking a school strike with an effigy fire, a teenage photographer trades campus rebellion for Pacific survival when his liner explodes, casting him onto a rotting lumber hull with a disgraced professor and two resilient tars.
Travels in Nova Scotia in the Year 1913
C. G. (Charles Gilbert) Hine
An unexpected inspiration by the sea yields a leisurely, rain-drenched journey along the historic southern shore of Nova Scotia.
Two Little Confederates
Thomas Nelson Page
Two boys navigate the encroaching chaos of the Civil War from the sanctuary of their Virginia plantation, discovering that conflict transforms childhood games into grim realities. Their story offers a intimate, unsettling look at a domestic world unraveling as the lines between play and peril dissolve.
Yes and no, Volume 1 (of 2)
Normanby, Constantine Henry Phipps, Marquess of
Torn between duty and vanity, aristocratic youth navigate restless moorland retreats, bitter electoral ambition, and ghost-ridden pasts in 1820s England.
Z-Day on Centauri
Henry T. Simmons
Dragged from a dark gutter into a high-stakes interstellar rebellion, a cynical space pilot must navigate brutal gravity forces and deadly corporate mercenaries to smuggle vital atomic fuel across the galaxy.
A brief history of the Tenth Michigan Cavalry
L. S. (Luther Stephen) Trowbridge
A veteran commander traces the grueling campaigns, constant scouting, and quiet sacrifices of the Tenth Michigan Cavalry through the final years of the Civil War.
A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)
Thomas Purney
A passionate young critic reimagines pastoral poetry through the lens of psychological intimacy and acoustic tenderness, challenging Augustan conventions with radical stylistic freedom.
A mirror of Shalott
Robert Hugh Benson
Seven Catholic priests and a layman gather in a Rome presbytery to share uncanny, unsettling tales of the preternatural, probing the fragile border between the material world and the unseen.
A Modern Chronicle
Winston Churchill
A young woman's journey of self-discovery and ambition in the early 20th century.
A secret agent in Port Arthur
Wirt Gerrare
Witness the tense prelude and brutal reality of the Russo-Japanese War through the sharp, firsthand observations of a secret agent inside besieged Port Arthur.
All for a Scrap of Paper: A Romance of the Present War
Joseph Hocking
Honor and duty collide with deep personal conscience when a young Cornishman finds his pacifist beliefs tested by the sudden onset of the First World War.
Araminta and the Automobile
Charles Battell Loomis
Three humorous tales from the early twentieth century explore the unpredictable chaos unleashed when ordinary people place their trust in primitive motor-carriages.
Assignment's End
Roger D. Aycock
The human mask is a fragile thing, easily discarded once the true self remembers its origin among the stars. To be human is a temporary assignment, one that ends in either tragic madness or a long-awaited homecoming.
Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation
L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
A summer retreat in upstate New York turns into a trial by printer's ink when three wealthy young women set out to run a small-town newspaper.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 79, No. 485, March, 1856
Various
Exploring ancient battlefields, Victorian journalism, and stormy northern seas, this eclectic Victorian periodical captures a changing world through sharp critique and vivid history.
Blunders in behaviour corrected
Observer of men and things
True politeness requires more than fashionable pretense; it demands an upright heart, calm self-restraint, and thoughtful consideration for everyone around us.
Boy Scouts on the Great Divide
Archibald Lee Fletcher
A group of Boy Scouts, on a mission in the Wyoming wilderness, find themselves entangled in a web of train robberies, escaped convicts, and mysterious disappearances.
Brought Forward
R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham
The shadow of a great global conflict falls across distant lands and quiet Scottish shores, binding the fate of restless wanderers, gauchos, and humble workers to an unforgiving age.
Captain of the Kali
Gary Wright
Dropped into a distant ocean-world war, a weary tactical advisor must teach a proud, song-singing alien race the grim reality of military strategy.
Chambers's journal of popular literature, science, and art, fifth series, no. 145, vol. III, October 9, 1886
Various
Explore hidden priest-holes, Victorian serialized drama, coal-mining subsidences, and literary ambitions within the pages of an 1886 periodical.
Colombine
Reginald Arkell
On an ancient downland beacon, two rustic labourers and a timeless fairy circle provide the unlikely stage where traditional theatrical figures debate love, war, and the passage of time.
Comb Honey
Geo. S. (George S.) Demuth
Precise management of hives, supers, and colony populations transforms erratic swarming instincts into a predictable, maximum yield of delicate comb honey.
Day of the Druid
Knut Enferd
A towering Viking warrior crosses stormy seas to rescue a legendary maiden from alien-descended Druids who draw bloodthirsty magic from the alignment of ancient stones.
Do you believe in fairies?
Leonora de Lima Andrews
A whimsical, imaginative journey through childhood fancies, grown-up realism, and the delicate borderlands where fairy tales meet everyday life.
Eidola
Frederic Manning
Amid the mud and horror of the First World War, classical myth and fragile nature offer a desperate sanctuary for the human spirit.
Emmanuel Appadocca
Maxwell Philip
A brilliant, cold-hearted pirate captain relentlessly stalks his father across the Caribbean, driven by a vow of vengeance born from a blighted life and a mother's tragic memory.
Escape and fantasy
G. Rostrevor (George Rostrevor) Hamilton
Between the humdrum ledger books of the daytime and the phantom flowers of twilight lies a borderland where the human soul slips its daily bonds to wander through timeless realms of myth, nature, and quiet ecstasy.
Eunice
Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
A quiet, purposeful young woman finds her calling in the service of others after the loss of the sister who shaped her ideals. This narrative traces a life defined by duty, faith, and the quiet beauty of a New England landscape.
Floating Fancies among the Weird and the Occult
Clara H. Holmes
Across misty northern fjords, quiet mountain valleys, and ghostly Victorian parlors, ordinary lives brush against hidden spiritual realms where old sorrows and deep longings refuse to stay buried.
Florida Salads
Frances Barber Harris
A crisp, imaginative guide to turn local Sunshine State fruits and vegetables into refined, beautiful meals.
Halftripper
Mack Reynolds
An immortal space baron, shattered by a centuries-old tragedy, wanders the planets of the solar system in an endless quest for redemption while his unrecognizable brother lives secretly among the broken wrecks of space travel.
Harper's Round Table, January 19, 1897
Various
From rugged western ranchlands to historic naval wrecks and quiet New England gardens, a turn-of-the-century weekly magazine captures the diverse adventures of its era.
Hetty Gray
Rosa M. (Rosa Mulholland) Gilbert
An orphaned village girl with an artist’s heart is thrust into a life of cold luxury, only to discover that her true identity lies buried in the secrets of a tragic shipwreck.
History of the recent discoveries at Cyrene
R. Murdoch (Robert Murdoch) Smith
A silent and neglected landscape hides the remnants of a magnificent Hellenic capital, waiting for a daring reconnaissance to unearth its buried sculptures and ancient tombs.
History of the United Netherlands, 1590a
John Lothrop Motley
A detailed account of the Eighty Years' War, focusing on the struggle for independence and the complex political and military strategies of the United Netherlands.
Holiday House: A Series of Tales
Catherine Sinclair
Left to their own devices, two rambunctious Scottish children turn their home into a chaotic test ground for every absurd idea that enters their heads.
It Takes a Thief
Walter M. Miller
Hanged by his wrists on a dying planet, a young thief discovers that survival demands stealing the lost science of ancient gods.