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Cranial Osteology of the Hylid Frog, Smilisca baudini
Linda Trueb
Beneath the skin of the Neotropical tree frog lies a complex, hidden architecture of bone and cartilage waiting to be mapped.
Cube Root of Conquest
Rog Phillips
A ruthless dictator plots global conquest using a revolutionary time-and-space bridge, unaware that a brilliant scientist has engineered a trap written in the mathematics of imaginary numbers.
Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories
Frances Henshaw Baden
A collection of Victorian tales explores the quiet heartbreaks of sacrifice, romantic misunderstandings, and the subtle domestic choices that shape a lifetime.
Edward Burton
Henry Wood
A spiritual and social awakening guides a young man from orthodox confines toward universal love and inner emancipation.
Escape from East Tennessee to the federal lines
Robert A. Ragan
A young Tennessee militia officer caught behind Confederate lines risks his life guiding hundreds of loyalists across treacherous mountain ranges to the Union army.
Exit From Asteroid 60
D. L. (Daniel Lewis) James
A desperate rescue mission across the star-lanes turns into a desperate struggle for survival when an Earthman finds himself enslaved on a magnetic Martian asteroid.
Fishin' Jimmy
Annie Trumbull Slosson
A simple mountain angler finds his whole philosophy of life, faith, and grace in the clear streams and quiet woods of northern New Hampshire.
For the parson of Paradise
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
A down-on-his-luck parson, a self-important Shakespearean actor, and two wandering cowboys collide in a small Western town, turning the production of a community play into a genuine disaster. This farce captures the collision between high-minded artistic aspirations and the chaotic, irreverent reality of frontier life.
Forsyte's Retreat
Winston K. (Winston Kinney) Marks
The Mahoney-Plaza is a hotel that defies geometry, time, and sanity. When a beleaguered manager tries to escape his own life, he finds himself trapped in a temporal labyrinth where history and the present collide.
Gentlemen: please note
Randall Garrett
A young Isaac Newton applies his genius to military ballistics and wine barrels, unintentionally baffling his colleagues and the King.
Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Cratogeomys castanops, in Coahuila, México
Rollin H. (Rollin Harold) Baker
Across the diverse soils and jagged mountain ranges of Coahuila, Mexico, hidden populations of fossorial rodents trace an intricate pattern of evolutionary divergence.
Getting Together
Ian Hay
As the First World War rages, an ordinary Briton and an American sit down to clear the air, confronting the misunderstandings, grievances, and shared ideals that bind their two nations together.
Governor William Bradford's letter book
William Bradford
Surviving through fragile letters and hard-won resilience, a colonial settlement navigates debt, spiritual trials, and the birth of a new regional network.
Graveyard of Dreams
H. Beam Piper
Returning home to a decaying colonial world after years of study on Earth, a young scientist must confront his community's desperate obsession with finding a mythical wartime supercomputer.
History of the Revolt of the Netherlands
Friedrich Schiller
When a distant monarch forces rigid religious edicts upon a thriving land, a nation of proud provinces edges toward an inevitable, explosive collision with absolute power.
Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History: An address, delivered before the New York Historical
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Beneath the ancient mounds of the American continent lies a vast, obscured history waiting for patient philological and archaeological inquiry to unlock its secrets.
Is the Bible Indictable?: Being an Enquiry whether the Bible Comes within the Ruling of the Lord Chief Justice as to Obscene Literature
Annie Besant
The law often claims that morality is a matter of motive, but when the state decides that even good intentions cannot save a "cheap" book from being labeled obscene, the hypocrisy of the justice system becomes impossible to ignore. This polemic argues that if the legal standard for obscenity used against…
Jacqueline
Th. Bentzon
A proud young Parisian heiress discovers her stepmother's infidelity and undergoes a quiet collapse of her family world, navigating the cruel vanity of high-society marriage markets and the bitter consequences of her own hard-hearted vanity.
Jupiter found
Robert F. Young
Two former humans reborn as towering machines on storm-wracked Jupiter forge an independent destiny, defying corporate control to birth a new era of life.
Kenelm Chillingly
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
Returning to a society gripped by cynicism and political ambition, a young wanderer questions the worth of modern progress and the erosion of traditional honour.
Love Sonnets of an Office Boy
Samuel E. (Samuel Ellsworth) Kiser
A lovestruck office boy pours his heart into a series of sonnets, fantasizing about rescuing his older colleague from danger and eventually winning her hand.
Lucretia
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
A labyrinthine tale of buried secrets and dark inheritance, where youth's bright optimism steps unknowingly into the shadow of calculated crime and hidden vengeance.
Mammals Obtained by Dr. Curt von Wedel from the Barrier Beach of Tamaulipas, Mexico
E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall
Two researchers fly to a remote barrier beach in Tamaulipas, Mexico, in 1950 to uncover its mammalian inhabitants and determine their relationship to mainland and Texas populations.
Martyr's Flight
Hank Searls
High above a fractured Earth, a dedicated crew aboard a space station faces the ultimate choice when nuclear war reaches the heavens.
Monsieur de Camors
Octave Feuillet
A ruthless aristocrat inherits a cynic's code and a shattered fortune in Paris, discovering that complete emotional detachment ultimately leads to profound isolation.
Myths and Legends of Christmastide
Bertha F. Herrick
An exploration of international folklore, ancient customs, and religious traditions illuminates the historical roots of the midwinter holiday season.
New Subspecies of the Rodent Baiomys from Central America: University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History
Robert L. (Robert Lewis) Packard
This technical report identifies two previously unknown subspecies of the southern pygmy mouse, Baiomys musculus, based on skeletal and pelage analysis of field specimens from Guatemala and Nicaragua.
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 127, April 3, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Various
Step into a bustling nineteenth-century marketplace of ideas, where Victorian scholars, antiquaries, and curious readers gather to solve historical puzzles, debate translations, and trace obscure family lineages.
Phyllis, a twin
Dorothy Whitehill
Bound together after years apart, twin sisters navigate high school social politics and a city detective plot in early twentieth-century New York.
Piccaninnies
Isabel M. (Isabel Maud) Peacocke
When human encroachers shatter their forest home, tiny wild babies must adapt to a changing world of fashion, distant foods, and sudden fire.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893
Various
This collection of weekly satire captures the Victorian era’s pulse through a sharp, irreverent lens. It offers a window into a world where political cartoons, light verse, and parody served as the primary tools for dissecting the day’s most pressing—and ridiculous—affairs.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 12, 1891
Various
A mirror of late-Victorian domestic life, political theater, and urban anxieties held up through the sharp lens of satire.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 4, 1892
Various
A strand of lost luggage on a foreign shore sets a tone of quiet frustration, soon eclipsed by the clamorous absurdities of Victorian public life.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 28, 1917
Various
Amid the stark realities and daily trials of the First World War, a renowned British periodical finds biting wit, absurd bureaucracy, and resilient humor in the unlikeliest of places.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 14th, 1920
Various
A satirical chronicle of post-war British life, this collection captures the skepticism, absurdity, and dry wit of a nation attempting to normalize itself in the summer of 1920.
Rebuttal
Betsy Curtis
A space mission discovers a dead civilization and loses its faith, until a hospital pathologist demonstrates that cellular biology holds the secret to eternal purpose.
Reform and Politics: Part 2 from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII
John Greenleaf Whittier
Progress often begins as a dreamer's folly, yet patient reform gradually transforms utopian visions into the everyday structures of a just society.
Replace the horse
Laurence M. Janifer
An unscrupulous inventor and an unsuspecting trainer try to outsmart the racetrack using secret antigravity saddles, proving that no scientific trick can outrun human error.
Revolution
Mack Reynolds
A Cold War operative infiltrates the Soviet Union to spark a revolution, only to realize the rebels he is helping might be a greater threat to Western interests than the regime they intend to replace.
Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy
Richard Le Gallienne
Far from his northern home, a master dreamer sleeps beneath strange southern stars, leaving a grieving world to ponder the enduring magic of art and memory.
Robinson Crusoe, Jr
Oliver Optic
A boy’s romanticized reading of a classic tale leads him to attempt an ill-conceived island exile, only to discover the cold, hungry reality of isolation.
Rules to be observed by masters and pilots of vessels, arriving at the port of Philadelphia,: established by the health law, and regulations of the Board of Health, to which is annexed, a supplement to the health law, passed on the 2d day of April, 1821
Philadelphia. Board of health
Strict maritime rules and quarantine mandates govern vessels entering Philadelphia to protect the port from contagious disease.
Saddle room songs and hunting ballads
Frederick C. Palmer
The crisp morning air carries the baying of hounds and the thundering of hooves across open pastures, where every fence and field tests the mettle of horse and rider alike.
Sagittulae, Random Verses
Edward Woodley Bowling
Light arrows of verse fired from Cambridge halls track the absurdities of academic life, alpine climbs, and rural courtship with wit and gentle satire.
Saknarth
Donald A. Wollheim
A solitary astronomer on a dying world risks his life to peer at a distant blue planet and discovers a long-hidden truth that threatens to shatter the absolute power of his planet's ruling priesthood.
Scent Makes a Difference
James Stamers
When a physicist takes strong new tranquilizers to cure his insomnia, his sleeping mind begins plucking alternative versions of himself—and their breakfasts—straight out of other probabilities.
Selenium cells
Thomas William Benson
Discover the fascinating science of building light-sensitive electrical cells from humble materials, copper plates, and elemental selenium.
Sequel
Ben Smith
Washed out of the Academy and cast out into the vacuum by mutineers, a disgraced engineer faces his final hours on a lonely asteroid.