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Gene Stratton Porter, Best-Seller
Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County
A prolific Indiana writer transformed her deep, lifelong obsession with the natural world into a series of bestselling novels that captivated fifty million readers across the globe.
George Helm
David Graham Phillips
An unpolished country lawyer enters the ruthless arena of state politics, challenging entrenched party bosses and winning the heart of a senator's independent daughter.
Grounded
William Sambrot
The desert holds more than heat and mystery; for those who fly too close to the truth, the landscape itself can become an instrument of silence.
Happy Jack, and Other Tales of the Sea
William Henry Giles Kingston
A young boy trades a comfortable home for the coal-dusted decks of a nineteenth-century brig, beginning a lifetime of perilous maritime adventures, shipwrecks, and miraculous survivals across the globe.
Harper's Round Table, October 22, 1895
Various
When a shattered sloop grounds on a desolate shore and a midnight bicycle race through a torrential rainstorm halts a runaway train, a vibrant window into late-nineteenth-century youth culture opens wide.
Harper's Young People, October 12, 1880: An Illustrated Weekly
Various
This weekly children's periodical offers a vibrant snapshot of late-nineteenth-century youth culture through stories, historical sketches, and letters.
Harper's Young People, September 28, 1880: An Illustrated Weekly
Various
A charming weekly compendium of illustrated stories, practical crafts, and global curiosities that invites young readers of the late nineteenth century to explore the wider world.
History of Farming in Ontario
C. C. (Charles Canniff) James
This account traces the transformation of Ontario’s landscape from a vast, wooded wilderness into a sophisticated agricultural powerhouse. It details the steady evolution of farming methods, the impact of shifting political boundaries, and the rise of organized rural communities.
In the Year Ten Thousand
Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben
In the year 10,000, an elderly man and his young son traverse a utopian world where humanity has achieved telepathic unity, refined physical beauty, and total transcendence of past barbarisms like war, meat consumption, and religious strife.
Indirection
Everett B. Cole
The most effective way to bury a truth is to dress it in the impossible, letting fiction act as a shield against a reality the world is not yet prepared to handle.
Interference and Other Football Stories
Harold M. (Harold Morrow) Sherman
The game of football is more than a contest of muscle; it is a crucible where character, loyalty, and nerves are tested against the backdrop of collegiate pride. This collection of short stories captures the high-stakes drama of the gridiron, exploring the internal and external pressures faced by young athletes…
Jackanapes
Juliana Horatia Ewing
A boy raised on an English village green grows into a brave cavalry officer who gives his life to rescue a childhood friend on the battlefield.
John de Lancaster: a novel
Richard Cumberland
A young man of noble spirit navigates the heavy expectations of his heritage while defending the innocent against a cruel and calculating rival. Set against the rugged backdrop of North Wales, the narrative explores the clash between traditional honor and the corruption of status.
John Enderby
Gilbert Parker
The unwavering integrity of an English squire faces the capricious demands of a King and the bitter malice of a rival in this historical drama of loyalty and loss.
Josiah's Alarm, and Abel Perry's Funeral
Marietta Holley
A frantic winter of heating alarms and a lavish, ruinous funeral reveal the absurdities of human anxiety and social pretension.
Kings in Adversity
Edward S. (Edward Sims) Van Zile
A young prince in exile finds himself caught between the democratic ideals of the New World and the heavy, inescapable crown of his ancestors.
Larry Barlow's ambition
Edward Stratemeyer
Larry Barlow is a small-town youth with a singular dream: to leave his village and join the professional ranks of the New York City Fire Department. Through a mixture of mechanical ingenuity and physical bravery, he discovers that his path to success is obstructed by a duplicitous man who has stolen his father’s…
Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia
Seba Smith
An aging rustic militia major arrives in Civil War Washington to straighten out a beleaguered president through homespun tales, heavy drafts of Old Rye, and stubborn Democratic common sense.
Life's Enthusiasms
David Starr Jordan
A vital life requires storing up pure passions early, before time and cynicism wear them away.
Liliecrona's home
Selma Lagerlöf
A fierce Christmas storm changes the life of a young peasant girl, drawing her into the complex, troubled household of a rural Swedish parsonage where old traditions and harsh new realities collide.
Little Boy
Jerome Bixby
Six years after a devastating atomic blast levels Manhattan, an eleven-year-old feral boy survives by stealth and violence in the overgrown ruins of Central Park until a chance encounter changes everything.
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan
Madame de Montespan
Within the dazzling and calculating orbit of the Sun King, ambition, secret marriages, and court intrigue dictate every breath.
Mine Pumping in Agricola's Time and Later
Robert P. Multhauf
The history of European deep-mining technology is defined not by static centuries, but by a continuous, overlooked evolution in mechanical drainage devices.
Minos of Sardanes
Charles B. (Charles Billings) Stilson
Amid the volcanic fury of the frozen Antarctic, a lost civilization faces ruin as an ancient king fights for his crown and his love.
Modern Icelandic Plays: Eyvind of the Hills
Jóhann Sigurjónsson
These two plays offer a stark, unsparing window into the remote Icelandic landscape, where human resilience clashes with unforgiving nature and rigid social judgment. They capture the weight of isolation and the intensity of choices made in the shadow of the mountains.
Mona
Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.
A chance meeting in Chicago and a diamond merchant's search set off a labyrinth of hidden identities, secret captivities, and long-buried hatreds.
Monitress Merle
Angela Brazil
When Mavis steps down from her monitress-ship so her capable sister Merle can channel her fierce energy into saving a reorganized school, a Devonshire term fills with music, mischief, and local legend.
Mr. Carteret and Others
David Gray
Across English country estates and foreign temples, clever expatriates navigate the absurdities of social custom, fox-hunting mishaps, and delayed romances.
My country's part
Mary Synon
Grounded in the memory of the First World War, an aging grandmother passes down a timeless creed of civic duty to her young grandson, framing America as a sanctuary of liberty worth any sacrifice.
Myers' Grand Hippodrome
Anonymous
Step inside a colossal travelling world of trained elephants, soaring acrobats, and fearless lion-tamers that once captivated the capitals of Europe.
Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher
W. H. (William Henry) Withrow
The borders of a young nation fray under the pressures of imperial conflict, testing the resolve of those caught between ancestral loyalties and the immediate demands of faith and home.
Nick Carter Stories No. 143, June 5, 1915: The sultan's pearls
Nicholas (House name) Carter
HOOK A master detective arrives in San Juan to hunt a cunning criminal who has stolen a fortune in jewels and assumed a false identity to evade capture.
Not in the Rules
Mack Reynolds
When a third-rate Terran gladiator is thrust into a lethal interplanetary death match on Mars, his only weapons are antique strategy and a stubborn refusal to die.
Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850
Various
This collection serves as a Victorian-era clearinghouse for historical, literary, and folk-tradition curiosities. It offers a fascinating glimpse into the intellectual networking of the mid-nineteenth century, where readers traded information with the precision of a scholarly ledger.
Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 83, May 31, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Various
This mid-nineteenth-century repository serves as a communal clearinghouse for historical, literary, and antiquarian minutiae, inviting readers to document the ephemeral details of their world. It is a mosaic of curiosity, where the profound meets the trivial.
Pattern
Robert H. Rohrer
In the empty void of deep space, a stranded human pilot and a starving, disembodied alien lifeform engage in a silent battle of mutual consumption.
Pelle the Conqueror
Martin Andersen Nexø
From the heavy shadow of a prison gate to the burgeoning life of a workers' cooperative, an ordinary man traces the arduous path toward collective dignity and self-discovery.
Peter Pettigrew's prisoner
Nelson S. Bond
A meek civilian defense volunteer on night watch accidentally captures the mythical Sandman just as real enemy saboteurs infiltrate a vital military armory.
Poppa Needs Shorts
Walt Richmond
Oley, a curious four-year-old, treats the world as a giant laboratory for his developing mind. By misinterpreting adult conversations about electrical "shorts," he accidentally stumbles into a series of dangerous domestic experiments that ultimately save his father's life.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31
Various
A sharp, laughing look at post-war Britain, where returning soldiers, overwhelmed husbands, and harassed citizens navigate bureaucratic absurdities, modern technology, and the subtle absurdity of everyday domestic life.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920
Various
A quintessential snapshot of British life in 1920, this collection captures the post-war transition through biting satire, whimsical verse, and the weary, sharp-eyed observations of a society finding its footing in a "new world.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892
Various
A Victorian mirror of shifting wit and social foible, this volume captures the pulse of late-nineteenth-century London through enduring satire, verse, and theatrical absurdities.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917
Various
In the dark winter of 1917, these pages capture the British spirit at war, balancing biting political satire with the absurd, domestic minutiae of a nation struggling to keep its humor amidst global catastrophe.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870
Various
This seventeenth issue of a late-Victorian satirical weekly captures the frantic, witty, and often biting spirit of Gilded Age New York. It functions as both a literary laboratory and a sharp-eyed mirror held up to the political and social absurdities of 1870.
Religion and Theology: A Sermon for the Times: Preached in the Parish Church of Crathie, fifth September and in the College Church, St Andrews
John Tulloch
Intellectual uncertainty need not erode the core of one's faith, as the essence of the religious life resides in a simple, personal connection to Christ rather than in the mastery of complex theological systems.
Søren Hjorth: Inventor of the Dynamo-electric Principle
Sigurd Smith
A forgotten pioneer struggles against the limitations of his era to conceptualize the engine that would eventually power the modern world. This biography documents the life of a man whose brilliance was obscured by his own reach.
Shall Turkey Live or Die?
Thomas Carlyle
As a looming European conflict threatens the stability of the continent, observers debate the fate of the Ottoman Empire against a backdrop of religious destiny and shifting political alliances.
She's All the World to Me
Caine, Hall, Sir
HOOK Set on the rugged, mist-shrouded coast of the Isle of Man, this haunting tale follows a broken-hearted boy whose unrequited love and sacrifice lead him into a dark, unfolding tragedy upon the pitiless sea.