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The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge
Laura Lee Hope
A tight-knit group of friends seeks a peaceful getaway at a rustic lodge, only to be drawn into the mystery of a haunted forest and a desperate, vanished stranger.
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
This collection captures the transition from a young student’s playful experiments to the seasoned observation of an American wit, blending academic satire with a profound, lingering melancholy.
The Progress of the Women's Suffrage Movement: Presidential Address to the Cambridge Branch of the C. & U. W. F. A. at the Annual Meeting on May 23rd, 1913
Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick
This presidential address offers a measured, reflective look at the state of the women’s suffrage movement in early twentieth-century Britain. It traces the long, patient struggle for the vote, balancing hard-won optimism against the mounting tensions of the era.
The Red Gods
Jean d' Esme
HOOK Deep in the Indochinese jungle, a French administrator and a missionary track a legend of "red gods"—a lost tribe of prehistoric humans. Their obsession leads them into a primal world of stone-age terror.
The Second Mate
H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones
An aging, decrepit steamship becomes a floating trap when a mutinous crew attempts to seize it. One man must spark a desperate rebellion to save two passengers from a lethal fate.
The squaw spy
T. C. (Thomas Chalmers) Harbaugh
A desperate rescue mission unfolds in the labyrinthine caves of California, where a lone spy risks everything to undermine a legendary warrior and save a captured girl from a treacherous past.
The Star People
Gaylord Johnson
HOOK This guide transforms the vast, intimidating night sky into a familiar neighborhood of characters and animals, inviting young readers to find the stories written in the stars.
The Stellar Legion
Leigh Brackett
A disgraced soldier seeks an honorable end in a brutal frontier, but a desperate act of sabotage forces him to confront his past and choose between death and redemption in the Venusian swamps.
The Story of a Monkey on a Stick
Laura Lee Hope
Waking up unexpectedly in a pasteboard box on a breakfast table, a cheerful toy monkey begins a series of lively escapades far beyond the toy store shelf.
The Stronger Influence
F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young
The journey of the heart is rarely a straight road, and sometimes the path back to the past leads to a future that cannot be easily claimed. This story explores the enduring, often painful, pull of a first love that refuses to fade, even when life has moved on.
The Stutterer
Reuben (Reuben Robert) Merliss
An indestructible machine with a human mind flees across the galaxy, risking everything to let the world hear the truth before silence claims him forever.
The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise: The Young Kings of the Deep
Victor G. Durham
A high-stakes naval race brings young submarine commanders face to face with ruthless corporate rivals, secret sabotage, and the genuine perils of the deep.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1
Émile Zola
The Eternal City holds a mirror to the soul, reflecting both the ancient weight of tradition and the desperate, modern hunger for a rejuvenated faith.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 2
Émile Zola
The eternal city mirrors the shifting heart of a young priest, whose dream of a reformed, modern Church collides with the calcified majesty of Rome. Faith and history become inseparable as the ancient ruins speak louder than the prayers of the living.
The three strings
Natalie Sumner Lincoln
A locked-room mystery unfolds in wartime Washington, where a corpse appears in a silent mansion and secrets are hidden in the lines of illicit chess problems.
The trough of the wave
Olav Duun
The story of a proud, ancient farming lineage, this narrative follows a family caught in the shifting currents of tradition and the harsh realities of the Norwegian landscape. It is a study of endurance, legacy, and the heavy weight of bloodlines.
The Tusayan ritual
Jesse Walter Fewkes
This study examines how the extreme aridity of the American Southwest shaped the complex, weather-focused religious rituals of the Hopi people, arguing that their traditions are logical responses to a challenging desert environment.
The Ultimate World
Bryce Walton
The inhabitants of a perfect city have achieved everything, leaving them with no purpose and a society on the brink of extinction. When an explorer travels to the distant future to find a justification for life, he discovers a haunting, final answer.
The value of a praying mother
Isabel C. (Isabel Coston) Byrum
A quietly passionate plea for intentional parenting, this nineteenth-century moral guide uses real-life home dramas to argue that maternal devotion and divine guidance shape a child's destiny.
The Works of Charles James Lever: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Lever
Charles Lever
A master key unlocks the sweeping panorama of Victorian popular fiction, organizing military exploits, romantic misadventures, social satire, and high drama into an elegant structure.
The X Bar X boys in Thunder Canyon
James Cody Ferris
Two young brothers navigate the dangers of the American West, relying on grit and quick thinking to rescue their kidnapped sister from a mountain hideout.
Thoughts on Slavery and Cheap Sugar: A Letter to the Members and Friends of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
This impassioned pamphlet argues that the British movement against slavery has lost its way, contending that state-sponsored blockades and high tariffs are failing the very people they intend to protect.
Trading with Mexico
Wallace Thompson
The American business community stands at a crossroads, forced to choose between the hollow promises of revolutionary leaders and the rigorous demand for the rights of capital in a volatile, resource-rich land.
Universal peace—from a woman's standpoint
Bertha von Suttner
Universal peace is not a distant, utopian dream for the naive, but a practical necessity for a modern, rational civilization. This urgent call to action argues that the time for organized, international arbitration has finally arrived.
Vocations Explained: Matrimony, Virginity, the Religious State and the Priesthood
Dennis J. Downing
Discerning one's proper path in life requires deep reflection, spiritual clarity, and an understanding of divine calling across matrimony, virginity, the religious state, and the priesthood.
Vortigern
W. H. (William Henry) Ireland
HOOK A notorious literary deception, this tragedy exists as a monument to a young man’s audacious attempt to invent a lost Shakespearean masterwork, only to see his ambition collapse under the weight of its own performance.
Walls of Acid
Henry Hasse
A lone, disembodied brain recounts a forgotten history of interplanetary war against a terrifying, insectoid species that turns out to be humanity itself.
Walter Sherwood's Probation
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
Thrown out of college after his fortune vanishes, a pampered student discovers that true worth is earned, not inherited, through a rugged year of self-reliance on the American frontier.
Werwile of the Crystal Crypt
Gardner F. (Gardner Francis) Fox
A seasoned space explorer encounters the last survivor of an ancient civilization, leading to a desperate, dimension-hopping conflict against an immortal tyrant.
What the Negro Has Done for Liberty in America
Moore, John, Prof.
African American soldiers have consistently fought for a liberty that frequently denied them basic humanity, proving their loyalty and valor on the battlefield while confronting deep-seated systemic injustice within the nation they served.
What Will He Do with It?
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
A man of immense wealth and hardened solitude confronts the ghosts of his own past when a spirited young relative unexpectedly enters his secluded life. This sprawling narrative explores whether a life defined by power and ambition can ever truly find peace.
Zehru of Xollar
Hal K. Wells
Vibrant infra-bass vibrations drag three New Yorkers across dimensions to the purple-hued world of Xollar, where a tentacled outlaw scientist plans to steal a human body to conquer Earth.
Zen
Jerome Bixby
A paleontologist exploring a barren asteroid discovers the ultimate survivor of a shattered world: a tiny, immortal alien desperately begging for death.
A Choice of Miracles
James A. Cox
The line between salvation and finality often rests on the thinnest of human connections. In a moment of absolute isolation, a desperate man discovers that the greatest miracle is not survival, but the presence of another soul.
A line o' gowf or two
Bert Leston Taylor
The obsession of the links is captured here with the biting wit of a newspaperman who knows that, while golf is a game of skill, it is practiced primarily as a religion of frustration.
A mediaeval burglary
T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Tout
A medieval criminal turns the king’s treasury into his own personal bank, triggering a scandal that shakes the foundations of Westminster Abbey and exposes the chaotic, easy-going nature of life under Edward I.
A Modern Chronicle
Winston Churchill
The trajectory of an ambitious woman’s life, framed by the restrictive social codes of the early twentieth century, is charted through her search for meaning and stability.
A notched gun
Walt Coburn
A notorious outlaw attempts a final act of redemption, trading his life to secure help for his only friends during a brutal winter storm.
A Romany of the Snows, vol. 2: Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre
Gilbert Parker
This collection of stories explores the harsh, elemental landscapes of the Canadian North, where the lives of outcasts, hunters, and dreamers intersect under the watchful eyes of a mysterious wanderer. It is a portrait of a frontier defined as much by its moral intensity as by its sub-zero temperatures.
A Strike in Santa Land: A Play in One Act
Effa E. (Effa Estelle) Preston
A roomful of toys decides to protest their inevitable departure to the human world, forcing Santa Claus and his wife to reconcile the toys’ grievances with the urgent needs of children waiting far away.
Alias Santa Claus
Percival Wilde
HOOK A lonely young millionaire boy finds his Christmas miracle not in his mountain of expensive toys, but in the arrival of a hungry intruder disguised as Santa Claus.
American Dangers and Duties
A. D. (Amory Dwight) Mayo
America’s national crisis finds its roots not in accidental politics, but in an irreconcilable clash between the rising spirit of nineteenth-century Christian democracy and an entrenched, aristocratic system of slave labor.
An American Crusader at Verdun
Philip Sidney Rice
The Great War reaches far beyond the front lines, yet for many, it remains defined by the mud, the shelling, and the singular, quiet heroism of those who drove the wounded to safety. This narrative captures the visceral reality of service as an American volunteer in France, documenting the transition from civilian…
An essay on combustion, with a view to a new art of dying and painting
Fulhame, Mrs. (Elizabeth), active 1780-1810
A meticulous scientific investigation, this work challenges the prevailing chemical theories of the late eighteenth century through a series of ingenious experiments in metallic reduction. By documenting the transformation of salts into vibrant, shimmering metallic films on cloth and paper, the author provides a…
Angel's Brother
Eleanora H. Stooke
This story follows a young girl’s devotion to her brother as their family navigates grief, poverty, and the moral temptations of a new life in the country. It is a gentle, earnest exploration of character and redemption.
At Sunwich Port, Part 4.: Contents: Chapters 16-20
W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
In a seaside town defined by deep-seated grudges, a young man orchestrates a complicated scheme to outwit his father’s rivals and win the hand of a stubborn, high-spirited captain’s daughter.
At the Ghost Hour. The House of the Unbelieving Thomas
Paul Heyse
HOOK A centuries-old haunted house in a German town becomes the stage for a clash between human longing and the petty, invisible machinations of the restless dead.
Bellingrath Gardens, Mobile, Alabama
Anonymous
Bellingrath Gardens represents a mid-century portrait of a private landscape transformed into a public sanctuary. It captures the deliberate cultivation of Southern beauty, framing the natural world as a perpetual, seasonal performance.