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Dangers on the Ice Off the Coast of Labrador: With Some Interesting Particulars Respecting the Natives of that Country
Anonymous
An astonishing historical account of Moravian missionaries surviving a catastrophic breakup of the Labrador sea ice, paired with a moving record of early spiritual conversions among the Inuit.
Diary of Captain John Cooke, 1794
Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County
Rain halts the earthworks at the Miami villages while a captain records the daily provisioning, discipline, and building of the remote frontier post that will bear the general's name.
Doorway to Destruction
Garold S. Hatfield
It was the doorway to Earth's destruction, and Kelvin Martin, the only man who could lock it, had lost the key.
Dough or Dynamite
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
When a greenhorn filmmaker arrives in a Montana cow town looking for authentic local color, a string of mistaken identities, runaway stagecoaches, and boxes of misplaced dynamite spark utter chaos among punchers.
DP
Arthur Dekker Savage
In a future where humanity has achieved material perfection, a restless man seeks the ultimate exit from a life of suffocating comfort. He soon discovers that the society he loathes is more fragile than he ever imagined.
Ealing and Its Vicinity
D. F. E. Sykes
Explore the quiet resilience of a London parish spared from history's worst storms, tracing centuries of local governance, school foundations, and peaceful meadows along the Brent.
Easy money
Bertrand W. Sinclair
Dismissed as a careless jester by his range boss, a young cowboy sets out to prove his worth by dismantling a brazen cattle-rustling ring on the Montana plains.
Em's husband
Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
When a city family relocates to a picturesque river island, their eldest daughter’s quiet charm captures the heart of a young naval officer, sparking a web of class friction, secret identities, and long-lost returns.
Etiquette for Little Folks
Mackarness, Henry S., Mrs.
A rigorous guide to nineteenth-century decorum, the book outlines precise behavioral rules for children and young adults navigating domestic life, social gatherings, and public spaces.
Evil Out of Onzar
Mark Ganes
Caught between an ambitious dictator and a galactic war, an undercover agent must navigate deadly betrayals and ancient religious taboos to save human civilization from total annihilation.
Felony
James Causey
A man obsessed with puzzles discovers a stranger in his factory who is building a device to escape his exile on Earth. This encounter offers the protagonist a glimpse of a world beyond his imagination.
Frank and Fanny
Moore, Bloomfield H., Mrs.
Two orphan siblings discover the quiet magic of New England farm life and learn that true happiness comes from patience, small acts of kindness, and respecting the living world.
Horsesense Hank does his bit
Nelson S. Bond
When the shock of Pearl Harbor jolts a quiet university science professor into volunteering for the war effort, his extraordinary common sense proves more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction.
In The Ranks: From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House: The War, as Seen and Experienced by a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac
R. E. (Robert Ekin) McBride
A young private leaves his quiet Pennsylvania village to join the Army of the Potomac, bearing witness to the grinding attrition of the Wilderness campaign, the tedium and terror of trench warfare around Petersburg, and the final, sweeping pursuit that culminates at Appomattox Court House.
Jean Craig Grows Up
Kay Lyttleton
When financial hardship forces a close-knit urban family to abandon their modern home for a rustic Connecticut farm, seventeen-year-old Jean discovers resilience, romance, and community in the quiet countryside.
Journey Work
Dave Dryfoos
An eighty-six-year-old wanderer dodging mandatory retirement homes risks everything to track down a classified want ad, finding his unexpected destiny in the stars.
Lightning Express
Oliver Optic
Mid-nineteenth-century corporate boardrooms meet juvenile military play on a contested New England lake, where teenage railway presidents, rival academy cadets, and loyal young engineers clash over steam power, parliamentary rules, and Christian duty.
Love Story
Cox, Irving E., Jr.
A young man raised in a matriarchal society where men are bought, sold, and supposedly enslaved by a love-potion compound discovers the staggering truth about his world and his own heart.
Lunar Station
Harl Vincent
When the moon suddenly shifts on its axis, a young lunar engineer uncovers an incredible inner world, a hidden civilization, and a mad conspiracy to conquer Earth.
Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg
Georg Ebers
A young woman in late-medieval Nuremberg navigates family loyalty, romance, and the shadow of her brother's fateful travels abroad.
Marsk Stig's Daughters, and Other Songs and Ballads
George Borrow
Two orphaned sisters navigate exile and loss across Scandinavian landscapes, while separate voices ponder mortality, freedom, and the ancient echoes of the past.
Martian Nightmare
Bryce Walton
Three cynical veterans space-wrecked on Mars discover an immortal, war-driven oligarchy harvesting human bodies, forcing them to question whether their harrowing rebellion is real or just a manufactured psychological delusion.
Matthew on Money
Lawrence Keister
Wealth and faith intersect at every turn of the gospel, revealing how material possessions test the human heart and define our ultimate allegiance to God.
May; vol. I
Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
A beloved son's sudden death shatters a long-enduring Scottish family, forcing a gentle daughter to navigate profound grief, shifting households, and the alien presence of new heirs.
Meeting at the Summit
Ivar Jorgensen
Confronted by an emissary from a galactic council, the President of the United States learns his world faces imminent annihilation unless humanity can rapidly elevate its spiritual maturity.
Mollie Charane, and Other Ballads
George Borrow
Dark legends and lyric echoes across northern lands breathe new life into old measures through rugged translations and verse.
More secret remedies
British Medical Association
Behind glowing promises and miraculous testimonials, early twentieth-century patent medicines offered little more than cheap alcohol, sugar, and toxic chemicals.
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land
Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner
A restless collection of frontier folklore captures the haunted rivers, vengeful spirits, and dramatic encounters of the American Central States and Great Lakes.
On the frontier
C. H. (Charles Henry) Pearson
A fragile narrator seeks health on the American frontier, finding a landscape where harsh trials of body and soul ultimately yield deep spiritual renewal.
Ports of Entry: Missionary Herald
Home Missions Council (U.S.)
At the threshold of America, a vast network of missionaries meets the tide of global immigration with practical aid, spiritual comfort, and an urgent call for Protestant unity.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891
Various
A Victorian satirist eyes the modern street, where an unstoppable runner collides with terrified citizens while the municipal authorities debate whether to arrest the athlete or ignore the chaos.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 108, February 9, 1895
Various
Wit, satire, and theatrical absurdities collide in a snapshot of late-Victorian British life, capturing the anxieties and humor of a changing world.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 13, 1917
Various
Published in the shadow of the Great War, this British periodical blends sharp political satire, light verse, and domestic absurdities to capture the resilience of wartime humor.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 11, 1890
Various
Late Victorian society glides through its high-society drawing rooms and legal halls entirely unaware of how absurd its self-serious rituals appear to a keen observer.
Queenie's whim, Volume 2 (of 3)
Rosa Nouchette Carey
A young village school-mistress discovers unexpected wealth while navigating quiet romances, sorrowful losses, and the rigid expectations of English country life.
Reminiscences of the Chattanooga campaign: A paper read at the reunion of Company B, Fortieth Ohio volunteer infantry, at Xenia, O., August 22, 1894
Isaac C. Doan
A veteran looks back across decades at the smoke, hunger, and fierce camaraderie of the American Civil War's brutal Chattanooga campaign.
Richard Carvel
Winston Churchill
An aristocratic youth is plunged from the brilliant world of colonial Annapolis and London high society into a violent web of betrayal, a brutal pirate abduction, and the gathering storm of the American Revolution.
Rob Nixon, the Old White Trader: A Tale of Central British North America
William Henry Giles Kingston
A hardened hunter, long cut off from civilization and faith, finds himself facing a solitary death on the vast North American prairie, only to be rescued and transformed by an unlikely, devout companion.
Rod of the Lone Patrol
H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody
A stray cow, a defiant hump-back toad dropped into a spinster's lap, and Morse code flashing across river fog anchor a Canadian boy's awakening into scout-honor discipline.
Ronald and I
Alfred Pretor
Deep in the English countryside and stretching to sunlit shores abroad, a series of sharply observed sketches captures eccentric villagers, youthful pranks, and the quiet weight of memory.
Sam's Ghost: Deep Waters, Part 4
W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
A night-watchman’s quiet vigil on a river wharf is shattered by the supposed haunting of a drowned mate, leading to a desperate scheme involving a disputed pocket watch and a very earthly deception.
Social-Democracy and Woman Suffrage: A Paper Read by Clara Zetkin to the Conference of Women Belonging to the Social-Democratic Party Held at Mannheim, Before the Opening of the Annual Congress of the German Social-Democracy
Klara Zetkin
Modern industrial labor transformed women's economic reality, making political enfranchisement an urgent necessity rather than a theoretical luxury.
Sophie Kennedy's experience
Lucy Ellen Guernsey
A young girl learns hard lessons about truth, duty, and the quiet grace of accepting a second mother into her fractured home.
Static
Wallace West
Disillusioned and drowning in liquor at a remote African trading post, a brilliant young inventor tests his experimental radio, only to have his native mistress betray him to a witch doctor during a dramatic acoustic showdown.
Sticky ropes
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
Awakening in a horse corral with a hangover and a new badge, Dusty Corbett steps straight into a lethal range war with the notorious Sticky Rope gang.
Stories of London
E. L. (Elizabeth Louisa) Hoskyn
This collection of historical sketches brings the sprawling, layered past of London to life for young readers. It transforms a city of stone and street names into a vibrant narrative of human endeavor, faith, and civic identity.
Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine
In these witty verse tales of mismatched marriages and wily ruses, human folly meets its match in clever deception.
The American Missionary
Various
An urgent mid-19th-century monthly chronicle details extensive missionary campaigns, educational endeavors, and financial accounts across the American South, Western territories, and overseas communities.