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The straight road is shortest and surest
A. L. O. E.
A young man discovers a forgotten will that disinherits his family, attempts to conceal and destroy it in a spiral of secret terror, and ultimately learns the painful cost of forsaking duty.
The Submarine Boys and the Spies: Dodging the Sharks of the Deep
Victor G. Durham
When a cutting-edge military submarine is targeted by international agents in a sunny Florida resort, young commander Jack Benson must outwit a web of spies.
The Three Brothers
Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
Ambition chafes against domestic gravity as artists, Guardsmen, and newly minted fortunes collide in Victorian London and Berkshire drawing-rooms.
The Welsh and Their Literature: from The London Quarterly Review, January 1861, American Edition
George Borrow
Tracing an ancient migration from the East to the rugged refuge of western mountains, a proud culture preserves its venerable language through centuries of turbulent poetry and visionary prose.
The Wireless Officer
Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
A desperate night rescue at sea gives way to a perilous journey across the waves and a hidden criminal conspiracy waiting to be unmasked.
The Worlds of Joe Shannon
Frank M. Robinson
A miraculous machine promises an escape from everyday unhappiness, but empties an entire town into the infinite cosmos.
Timber line
Alida Malkus
High above the Coronado Peaks, a forest ranger's daughter and a government forester defend an unspoiled wilderness from greedy speculators while uncovering a long-lost mountain secret.
To a Youth at School
Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
A dedicated mentor addresses a student away from home, offering timeless counsel on how to balance diligent study, moral integrity, and deep spiritual devotion during formative school years.
To Geyserland: Union Pacific-Oregon Short Line Railroads to the Yellowstone National Park
Edward F. Colborn
A traveler’s guide to the wonders of Yellowstone, this work captures the spirit of early twentieth-century exploration through the lens of a luxury rail and stagecoach tour.
Told in the twilight
F. E. (Frederic Edward) Weatherly
Stepping into the quiet realm where day surrenders to evening, children and adults alike discover a world shaped by gentle verse, whimsical dreams, and timeless morals.
True to a Type, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Robert Cleland
A sun-drenched, social comedy of manners, this story captures the restless energy of vacationers bound by the rigid conventions of their class. It is a portrait of a summer sanctuary—Clam Beach—where the rigid social order of the nineteenth century meets the unpredictable impulses of the heart.
True to a Type, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Robert Cleland
A seaside resort becomes the dramatic stage where estranged couples, tangled courtships, and lingering past attachments collide under the watchful eyes of busybodies.
Wanted: One Sane Man
Frank M. Robinson
When a corporate titan who boasts that his agency can supply the man for any job is challenged to find a sane pilot for a lunar rocket, he discovers that the only person who can survive the journey is one driven by an uncompromising monomania.
Willie's Planet
Mike Ellis
A man chooses to stay behind on a sterile, fern-covered world, unknowingly bringing the very seeds of life and decay to a silent planet.
Yorke The Adventurer
Louis Becke
In the lawless 1870s Pacific, two traders meet a solitary seaman whose single-handed survival on a reef-broken cutter masks a past as turbulent as the surrounding seas.
A bankrupt heart, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Florence Marryat
From rustic convalescence and bitter vengeance in a Welsh farmhouse to aristocratic cynicism, racetrack losses, and a dramatic roadside collision, quiet heartbreaks and sharp-tongued peeresses collide.
A borrowed sister
Eliza Orne White
An only child finds her solitary world magically transformed when a serene, golden-haired companion arrives to share her room, her hearth, and her daily life for a whole year.
A crown of shame, volume 2 (of 3)
Florence Marryat
Secrets cast a long shadow beneath the orange trees of the West Indies, where a young woman’s silent sacrifice protects her adoptive sister’s social ruin.
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A history of the American people, Vol. 2 [of 5]
Woodrow Wilson
From quiet colonial beginnings through the gathering storm of revolution to the birth of a new nation, an empire of distinct settlements slowly finds its common voice and breaks free from the crown.
A Ioyfull medytacyon to all Englonde of the coronacyon of our moost naturall souerayne lorde kynge Henry the eyght: (A Joyful Meditation of the Coronation of King Henry the Eighth)
Stephen Hawes
With the ascension of a new monarch comes the promise of political renewal, spiritual unity, and cultural elevation.
A Life's Story, In Poetry. Other Poems
Dennison Woodcock
Through ninety-one years of memory and rustic toil, a lone craftsman chronicles a century of shifting landscapes, quiet sorrows, and the steady march of human progress.
A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy
James Elphinston
True spelling should mirror living speech, replacing silent letters and confusing customs with a rational harmony that lets the written word faithfully picture the voice.
A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor
Andrew Snape
Drawing a bold parallel between a biblical judicial murder and the execution of an English monarch, a historic sermon explores the heavy spiritual and political costs of rebellion.
A Son of Courage
Archie P. McKishnie
A clever Canadian farm boy, a blind former teacher, and a hidden hoard of gold collide in a lakeside settlement where old ghosts guard long-lost secrets.
A Trip to the Rockies
B. R. (Benjamin Ryder) Corwin
A private Pullman car carries a congenial group of Eastern bankers and their wives across the expanding American frontier into the heart of the majestic Rockies.
After Ixmal
Jeff Sutton
Left alone on a silent, ash-covered Earth for hundreds of millions of years, an immortal artificial intelligence awakens to find it has a cosmic neighbor.
Alarm Clock
Everett B. Cole
An unjustly expelled cadet finds himself trapped in a planetary labor prison, only to discover that his grueling penal servitude is an elaborate awakening for a secret elite corps.
An account of a useful discovery to distill double the usual quantity of sea-water, by blowing showers of air up through the distilling liquor
Stephen Hales
By forcing showers of fresh air up through boiling sea-water and stagnant ship holds, a relentless eighteenth-century natural philosopher unlocks a simple method to save millions of lives at sea.
An Easter Disciple: The Chronicle of Quintus, the Roman Knight
Arthur Benton Sanford
The Roman Empire and the nascent Christian faith collide in the personal awakening of a young knight. A historical reimagining of the first Easter, this narrative traces the journey of a man who exchanges the uncertainty of pagan philosophy for a conviction in the resurrection.
Assignment on Venus
Carl Jacobi
With a sealed message bound for his own disgrace, a green colonial officer paddles deep into Venus's lethal swamps to shatter an illicit rejuvenation scheme.
Bert Wilson, Marathon Winner
J. W. Duffield
A young athlete battles the world’s finest runners and perils on the high seas to claim Olympic glory for his country.
Born to Good Luck
Self-made man
An abused farm boy escapes servitude, outwits local scoundrels through sheer business acumen, and rises to fortune and family reunion in Gilded Age New York.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422: Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852
Various
An unexpected dinner party with an eccentric optimist introduces a sprawling Victorian miscellany where railway speculation, desert survival, noble poverty in Besançon, and modern telegraph lines jostle side by side.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432: Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852
Various
This issue of a famous mid-nineteenth-century weekly miscellany examines the push and pull between romantic nostalgia and practical progress, weaving art criticism, natural history, civic duty, and tales of global discovery into a single picture of Victorian curiosity.
Company K, First Alabama Regiment
Daniel P. Smith
A stark, unsparing chronicle of an Alabama infantry company from initial muster to virtual annihilation, tracking the Civil War’s human cost through the daily labor of earthworks, sieges, prison camps, and doomed winter charges.
Diary of Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys
A detailed account of the political and social landscape of England during the Restoration period.
Dungeon Rock
N. S. (Nannette Snow) Emerson
Dungeon Rock is a curious hybrid of historical fiction and nineteenth-century spiritualism, documenting the persistent search for pirate gold beneath a Massachusetts cliffside. It bridges the gap between legend and the lived experiences of those who sought to unearth its secrets.
Famous days in the century of invention
Gertrude L. (Gertrude Lincoln) Stone
Step back into a nineteenth century where a simple train ride or a spark of electricity transformed everyday existence through human grit and ingenuity.
Forbidden Cargoes
Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell
Deep in the Central American jungle and out upon the Caribbean Sea, a desperate race for sunken wealth and hidden harvests unfolds against towering odds.
Ghost Beyond the Gate
Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
The frozen river holds a secret, and the girl who masters the ice is the only one who can navigate the dark currents of a local mystery. When an ordinary winter outing turns into a search for her missing father, nothing is as it seems.
Half Brothers
Hesba Stretton
A concealed past and a secret marriage rise from the quiet corners of English and Alpine life to shatter a wealthy family's peace.
Happy Rain Night
Dean Evans
On a dark Martian night of synthetic rain, a vengeful wife and a high-ranking security chief cross paths in a glittering city of gamblers, unraveling a web of betrayal and murder.
Harper's Round Table, May 26, 1896
Various
A restless cruiser breaks its tropical monotony with a sudden chase, launching a diverse weekly mosaic of late-nineteenth-century adventure, instruction, and amusement.
Hayslope Grange: A Tale of the Civil War
Emma Leslie
The quiet village of Hayslope becomes a crucible for conscience when a young man’s allegiance to the Parliament threatens his family’s devotion to the Crown. This domestic drama explores the heavy price of integrity during the English Civil War.
"Hey Ma, Where's Willie?"
I. M. Bukstein
A harried farmer recounts his peculiar son's mysterious disappearance amid harvest-time lights in the sky, only to discover a startling truth in the cornfield.
Historical sketch of the Fifteenth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers: First Brigade, First Division, Sixth Corps
Edward Livingston Campbell
Organized in the hill country of New Jersey, the Fifteenth Regiment earned a formidable reputation across the major campaigns of the American Civil War through extraordinary discipline and tenacity.
Holinshed's Chronicles, vol. 2 of 6, slice 02 of 12: England, 1087-1100, William II
Raphael Holinshed
The turbulent reign of William Rufus unfolds in chronicles of royal greed, bitter sibling rivalries, and the unyielding clash between crown and church.
Hymns from the Morningland: Being Translations, Centos and Suggestions from the Service Books of the Holy Eastern Church
John Brownlie
A collection of lyrical devotions, these verses bring the ancient, resonant beauty of Eastern Christian liturgy into the quiet, measured cadence of Western hymnody.