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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 50: John: The Challoner Revision
Unknown
Centering on the life, ministry, and divine identity of Jesus, this revered gospel chronicle reveals profound theological mysteries through historic witness and enduring spiritual transformation.
The black alarm
George O. (George Oliver) Smith
Steve Hagen chooses a dangerous life as a Guardian to escape his powerful foster father’s shadow. But when a catastrophic space disaster strikes, he realizes that the conflict between them is not so easily discarded.
The Bores: A Comedy in Three Acts
Molière
A nobleman trying to reach his beloved finds himself endlessly waylaid by a succession of intolerable egoists, pedants, and social pests who hijack his day.
The Boy Artist.: A Tale for the Young
F. M. S.
This Victorian moral tale follows the quiet struggles of two siblings, Raymond and Madge, as they endure poverty and neglect in a search for dignity and creative fulfillment. It is a story of resilience, sibling devotion, and the unexpected kindness of strangers.
The Bride of the Nile
Georg Ebers
As plague and drought ravage ancient Memphis under Arab rule, a noble family's ruin and a wrongful imprisonment entangle lovers in a desperate struggle for survival.
The Contact Point
Jack Sharkey
A routine expedition to the red planet leads to a profound case of mistaken planetary identity and a darkly ironic twist.
The Crowded Colony
Jerome Bixby
Two different worlds collide on a parched Martian canal bank, where the conquerors are not human at all, but disguised visitors playing a quiet, high-stakes game of mistaken identity.
The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Volume 4
Dante Alighieri
A weary traveler climbs a sacred mountain to shed the weights of his past, finding that even in the realm of penance, the soul’s deepest longing is for the light of heaven.
The Enchanted Canyon
Honoré Morrow
The Grand Canyon becomes the crucible for a powerful Washington official seeking redemption from his dark, squalid past in New York.
The Executioner
Frank Riley
In a sterile future, a professional executioner faces his most difficult assignment: ending the life of a woman from his own long-buried past. He discovers that duty and desire are impossible to reconcile.
The Genius
Con Pederson
Trapped in a timeless, pleasure-bound human reservation tended by ancient machines, a restless artist discovers that humanity has already conquered the stars—and left Earth behind as a forgotten specimen cage.
The Gostak and the Doshes
Miles J. (Miles John) Breuer
A physicist attempts to traverse the fourth dimension, only to find himself trapped in a parallel world plunged into a catastrophic war over a meaningless, nonsensical slogan.
The Hunted Heroes
Robert Silverberg
On a desolate, uranium-starved Mars, a married prospecting team falls prey to a bitter, legless survivor of Earth's atomic wars who hunts human volunteers for sport.
The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (New Series, No. 40, January 1901)
Pennsylvania Prison Society
An uncompromising look at the turn-of-the-century penal system, this volume records a society's meticulous efforts to balance institutional discipline with humane reform.
The Memoirs of Count Grammont
Hamilton, Anthony, Count
Arriving in London shortly after the Restoration, a sharp-witted French exile finds a glittering, scandalous court ripe for mischief, romance, and endless entertainment.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13
Various
A leading nineteenth-century periodical chronicles the triumphs of modern science, architectural novelties, and the brilliant life and legacy of chemist Sir Humphry Davy.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 558, July 21, 1832
Various
This collection captures the intellectual spirit of 1832, offering a diverse mosaic of architectural news, philosophical debate, and historical reflection. It serves as a window into the varied curiosities that occupied the literate mind of nineteenth-century Britain.
The Moon out of Reach
Margaret Pedler
When longing for the unattainable leaves hands empty, fate can still unexpectedly place the tremulous star of love within reach.
The Outdoor Girls in a Winter Camp
Laura Lee Hope
The Outdoor Girls seek winter adventure, only to find themselves entangled in a web of lost lumber rights, hidden identities, and perilous ice-strewn rescues.
The Phil May Album
Phil May
An impoverished boy navigates the unforgiving streets of Victorian London and Australia, transforming profound hardship into a legendary career in black-and-white art.
The Red Miriok
Annie Maria Barnes
A young woman’s mission trip into the rugged Korean interior transforms into a spiritual quest when she attempts to rescue a superstitious boatman from the grip of his mysterious, idolized charm.
The Rivals of Acadia: An Old Story of the New World
H. V. (Harriet Vaughan) Cheney
A young woman disguised as a Highland page navigates dangerous military tensions in the untamed wilderness of seventeenth-century Acadia, where historical rivals clash for supreme control.
The Scranton High Chums on the Cinder Path
Donald Ferguson
When a grueling fifteen-mile county marathon tests the mettle of Scranton High, resourceful student Hugh Morgan leads his loyal chums through athletic training, a rescue on a perilous precipice, and an eerie mystery at an abandoned stone quarry.
The Standard Household-Effect Company (from Literature and Life)
William Dean Howells
The endless domestic labor of wrapping, packing, and moth-balling household goods threatens to crush modern life, prompting a radical proposal to abolish personal property altogether.
The Stolen Aeroplane
H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler
A boy proves his mettle by mastering a primitive flying machine and outwitting local authorities during a county fair.
The survivors
T. D. Hamm
The crew of a downed Martian exploration ship faces a grim, dwindling march toward the planet’s polar ice cap, where the only hope for sustenance lies. This harrowing narrative explores the limits of human endurance against a hostile and possibly sentient environment.
The Two Great Canyons: Excerpts From Letters Written on a Western Journey
Cyrenus Cole
Traveling across the American West in 1908, a discerning tourist weighs inflated guidebooks against the staggering, unvarnished reality of Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon.
The Ultimate Experiment
Thornton DeKy
Left alone after a lethal comet extinguishes humanity, a devoted robot labors in a gleaming crystal city to recreate his vanished masters from chemical baths and formula records.
The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander
Frank R. Stockton
A man claims to be the ancient vizier of a legendary monarch, inviting a friend into a lifetime of memories that span thousands of years of human history.
The Voyage of the Aurora
Harry Collingwood
This classic seafaring adventure follows a resourceful sailor’s transformation from a despondent, jilted lover into a decorated naval hero. It is a stirring tale of grit, naval combat, and survival against the odds.
Thoracic and Coracoid Arteries In Two Families of Birds, Columbidae and Hirundinidae
Marion Anne Jenkinson
Precision alcohol dissections of nine avian species expose how thoracic blood vessels weave through bone and muscle, dismantling neat evolutionary timelines one microscopic branch at a time.
Thoughts on General and Partial Inoculations: Containing a translation of two treatises written when the author was at Petersburg, and published there, by Command of her Imperial Majesty, in the Russian Language
Thomas Dimsdale
Preventive inoculation saves countless young lives from smallpox, yet poorly managed distribution risks spreading the contagion further unless guided by strict medical oversight and institutional reform.
Two American Boys with the Dardanelles Battle Fleet
Sherman Crockett
Two adventurous American cousins navigate the dangerous waters of the Gallipoli Peninsula during the First World War to locate a missing aviator brother amid naval bombardments and covert operations.
When Oscar Went Wild
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
Two cowpunchers nursing hangovers stumble into a movie crew’s frantic search for a missing, tame cougar named Oscar, triggering a chaotic misadventure in the pines.
Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Oliver W. Holmes, Sr
Oliver Wendell Holmes
These compiled reflections offer a sharp, witty map of the nineteenth-century mind, proving that the most enduring observations are often those shared over a morning cup of coffee or a quiet evening fire.
William de Colchester, Abbot of Westminster
Ernest Harold Pearce
A forgotten figure of the Middle Ages emerges from centuries of silence to reveal the complex, practical, and often dangerous life of a high-ranking Benedictine monk.
You'll Like It on Mars
Tom W. Harris
Nobody could figure out how a ruthless movie mogul shot his terrifyingly realistic Martian monster scenes until one desperate studio employee risked everything to uncover the gruesome truth.
Zoe; Or, Some Day: A Novel
May Leonard
An ambitious girl navigates family secrets, mistaken identities, and romantic entanglements across Canada and Europe until she finally discovers her own future.
A Chronicle of Jails
Darrell Figgis
A record of the Irish struggle from the inside, this memoir captures the grim reality of life for political prisoners during the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising. It documents the transition from individual confinement to the collective resistance of a nascent national movement.
A crown of shame, volume 1 (of 3)
Florence Marryat
The weight of a secret can shatter a life, especially when love is the collateral. This story explores the unraveling of a young woman’s world after she shields her lover’s indiscretions at a terrible personal cost.
A letter to a country clergyman, occasioned by his address to Lord Teignmouth
John Owen
The survival of the British and Foreign Bible Society rests upon a simple, radical premise: that the text of Scripture, shared across denominations, serves as a bridge rather than a weapon of theological division.
A Little Dusky Hero
Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
The story of a homeless boy who finds purpose as a soldier’s mascot and eventually discovers his own worth, this narrative explores themes of duty, courage, and the bonds that bridge social divides.
A Satyr Against Hypocrites
John Phillips
A biting, ribald, and unflinching verse assault, the work dissects the perceived moral failings of the mid-seventeenth-century Presbyterian establishment with sharp, unforgiving wit.
A visit to the Bazaar
Lover of children
A guided tour of a bustling marketplace becomes an expansive lesson in geography, history, and the value of industry. Through the eyes of a curious family, the world is brought home to a single London square.
Alice, or the Mysteries
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
Caught between a calculating politician she does not love and a brilliant recluse who keeps his distance, a young woman fights to reclaim her freedom.
An aviator's luck
Frank Cobb
In this brisk tale of espionage and aviation, a group of resourceful boys accidentally stumbles upon a dangerous anarchist plot and uses their amateur radio skills to help the government dismantle a cell of domestic bombers.
At Hotel On-de-Blink
George P. Seiler
The lobby of a struggling hotel becomes the stage for a series of lighthearted misunderstandings, musical interludes, and eccentric characters who find themselves caught in the orbit of an unlikely imposter.
Beyond the hills
Maysel Jenkinson
The lure of the unknown world across the river calls to three children who seek to transform their everyday lives into a grand, romantic journey. When they finally venture beyond their familiar forest home, they discover that true adventure is not a place you visit, but a spirit you carry.