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The American Missionary
Various
Fifty years of institutional faith, financial accounting, and field reports converge in a single mid-winter survey of American home missions at the edge of the twentieth century.
The Boy Land Boomer
Edward Stratemeyer
A teenager rides across the nineteenth-century prairie, clinging to a runaway horse in a desperate attempt to locate his father and stake a claim on a new frontier.
The Courage of the Commonplace
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
A young man shaped by disappointment at Yale finds his true measure in the grueling labor of a western mining town, ultimately returning as a hero to the triumphs of his alma mater and the arms of the woman he loves.
The Crew of the Water Wagtail
R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
A fragile bark braves uncharted northern seas, bearing men toward shipwreck, savage shores, and a hard-won redemption on the rugged frontier of Newfoundland.
The Crisis
Winston Churchill
As the American Civil War looms, deep-seated loyalties fracture a proud St. Louis community, setting friends and families on a collision course of politics and passion.
The Diving Bell
Francis C. (Francis Channing) Woodworth
A collection of moral fables and domestic sketches invites young readers to look beneath the surface of everyday life and think for themselves.
The Doctrine of the Lord's Supper. As Taught by the Church of England
Edward Hoare
Confident assertions often eclipse historical documents, leading believers to accept unexamined traditions about the sacraments without checking the actual texts.
The Evolution of an Empire: A Brief Historical Sketch of France
Mary Platt Parmele
A turbulent torrent of wild energy, early France transforms through conquest, tyranny, and revolution into a resilient nation of freemen.
The gold standard
Horace White
Across centuries of legislative struggle and commercial trial, nations inevitably gravitate toward a single metallic standard because human preference demands a universally trusted medium of exchange.
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 44, September 9, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
Various
A late-nineteenth-century news digest for young readers offers a vivid, unfiltered glimpse into global diplomacy, imperial skirmishes, and everyday Gilded Age life.
The Hairy Ones
Basil Wells
Trapped within a hidden world inside Mars, a patrolman fights to unlock ancient, life-giving waters for a thirsty planet.
The haunts of men
Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Across scarred battlefields, quiet Parisian studios, and silent mountain forests, ordinary lives collide with sudden tragedy, secret shames, and fleeting moments of grace.
The Hidden Cabin: a pathetic story in condensed form
David W. (David William) Edwards
High above the Southern California coast, a grieving survivor builds a sanctuary in the wilderness, raising a stolen child who grows into a mystery only time and true love can unravel.
The Iron Boys in the Steel Mills
James R. Mears
Rushing into the roaring heat of industrial Steelburgh, two ambitious teenage boys navigate backbreaking manual labor, workplace sabotage, and life-threatening accidents to prove their worth to the factory owners.
The Judgement of Valhalla
Gilbert Frankau
A coward spirit faces ultimate judgment in Valhalla while frontline soldiers endure the mud, blood, and machine-gun fire of the First World War.
The Last of the Barons
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
The Wars of the Roses rage as a mighty king-maker falls victim to betrayal and political storm, reshaping England’s destiny.
The Lever: A Novel
William Dana Orcutt
When corporate power collides with youthful ambition and a buried western past, a high-minded industrialist learns that human affection outweighs financial empire.
The Lost Mine of the Amazon: A Hal Keen Mystery Story
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
When a routine voyage to Brazil hides a stolen letter and a doomed airplane flight into the green labyrinth, a young American finds himself tangled in a decade-old jungle mystery.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 400, November 21, 1829
Various
Step into the diverse pages of an 1829 periodical, where harrowing prison cells, precocious young poets, and the candid confessions of a retired carriage unfold.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 488, May 7, 1831
Various
Open a window into early nineteenth-century British culture, where architectural wonders, scientific novelties, and tales of the sea converge in weekly print.
The Mystery of Metropolisville
Edward Eggleston
A young idealist battles land speculators and a false criminal charge in a booming frontier settlement, ultimately finding hard-won maturity and enduring love.
The Pictures
Ludwig Tieck
This work presents a series of interwoven tales that examine the tension between the cold, detached judgment of the intellect and the warm, often irrational pull of the human heart. It captures a world where social performance frequently masks genuine longing.
The promotion of the admiral, and other sea comedies
Morley Roberts
Kidnapped by waterfront toughs and thrust into the forecastle of a merchant ship, a British admiral discovers a world where fists and fortitude matter more than gold braid.
The Roll-Call Of The Reef
Arthur Quiller-Couch
When a furious gale batters the treacherous Cornish coast, a remote quarryman’s cottage becomes the meeting place for a strange survivor, a spectral soldier, and the unquiet dead of two shipwrecks.
The Rose of Dawn: A Tale of the South Sea
Helen Hay Whitney
A sudden dawn over the South Sea islands stirs a sleeping village, where young men launch their boats for a day of fishing and a fateful romance begins to unfold.
The Seven Jewels of Chamar
Raymond F. Jones
When a dying father warns his son against the deadly legend of the Seven Jewels of Chamar, an interplanetary manhunt begins across the rain-soaked jungles of Venus and the dusty deserts of Mars.
The Shakespeare garden club: A fantasy
Mabel M. Moran
A gathering of Shakespeare’s most famous heroines convenes in Stratford-upon-Avon to plan a civic beautification project for the riverbanks.
The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Volume 3, Infancy of Jesus Christ
William Wake
An ancient infant king speaks from his cradle, turning swaddling clothes into armor against dragons and fiery furnaces into playgrounds where playmates dance as birds, kids, and prophets.
The Tale of Chloe: An Episode in the History of Beau Beamish
George Meredith
At a fashionable spa ruled by an exacting wit, a devoted woman watches her returning lover betray her with a naive young duchess, leading to a fatal sacrifice.
The Trinity Archive, Vol. I, No. 1
N.C.) Trinity College (Randolph County
Rooted in the intellectual awakening of late-nineteenth-century North Carolina, a collegiate periodical emerges to record campus life, fierce debates, and the rigorous pursuit of higher learning.
The Twentieth Century Epic
Reuben Brodie Garnett
A sprawling, homespun verse critique of modern American life, Reuben Brodie Garnett’s book offers idiosyncratic commentary on law, science, morality, and social institutions at the dawn of the twentieth century.
The Two Twilights
Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Poetry is a bridge between the weary, material present and a transcendent, half-remembered world of beauty. This collection captures the bittersweet transition from youthful longing to the quiet acceptance of life’s closing act.
The Vote That Made the President
David Dudley Field
A single disputed electoral vote determines the presidency of the United States, forcing a constitutional crisis where political trickery overrides the clear will of the voters.
The Voyage of the Oregon from San Francisco to Santiago in 1898
Cross, R., active 1898
Steaming from the Pacific to the Caribbean under the guidance of a fearless captain, a legendary battleship races to join the Spanish-American War before it is too late.
The World English Bible (WEB): Job
Anonymous
Stripped of his family and wealth in a single day, a blameless man endures wave after wave of suffering while demanding answers from the cosmos.
The young naval captain
Edward Stratemeyer
When the combined navies of the world attack the United States, a brilliant young inventor takes to the ocean depths in a revolutionary submarine to save his country.
Transient
William Harris
A wandering cosmic consciousness takes refuge inside a laboratory computer, offering strange astrological prophecies to a bewildered biologist and a friendly night-cleaning crew.
Trees Are Where You Find Them
Arthur Dekker Savage
An old-timer named Doc Yoris uses a mysterious, innate power to transport a ruthless, timber-hungry mill owner straight to Mars after a tense tavern dispute over forest preservation.
Turn backward, o time!
Walter Kubilius
Seeking eternal youth, an aging executive escapes a tightly controlled future society into the twentieth century, only to discover that cheating time carries a terrifying, irreversible price.
W. Kent & Co's Annual Catalogue, April 1859
W. Kent and Co.
This 1859 publisher's catalogue unfolds a sweeping Victorian panorama of illustrated gift books, school primers, and practical manuals for the British reading public.
Weapon
Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone
When a war against an unyielding alien empire grinds humanity to the brink of collapse, victory hangs not on might, but on an unexpected, maddening weapon.
When love dawns
Adelaide Stirling
A desperate woman flees a dark Scottish castle, pursued by a shadowy conspiracy and a terrifying pursuer.
When the Spoilers Came
Robert Moore Williams
On a mineral-starved Mars governed by an unyielding high priest, an aging Terran trader faces a greedy corporate syndicate led by his own ruthless estranged son.
Where Stillwater Runs Deep
B. M. Bower
A newcomer to the rugged Absarokee Division of the Yellowstone National Forest, Patrick O’Neill steps into a hotbed of local hostility, cattle rustling, and government mistrust.
Why I am in favor of socialism
Unknown
Jack London, James Elbert T. Cutler, and numerous other thinkers unite in a symposium to argue that collective ownership and economic cooperation offer the only true path to human equality, justice, and individual freedom.
Your Boys
Gipsy Smith
Beneath the roar of artillery and the freezing cold of French cellars, ordinary soldiers find an enduring spiritual lifeline through shared hymns, quiet comfort, and simple human kindness.
A Declaration of the Causes, which mooved the chiefe Commanders of the Nauie of her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England, in their voyage and expedition for Portingal, to take and arrest in the mouth of the Riuer of Lisbone, certaine Shippes of corne and other prouisions of warre bound for the said Citie: Prepared for the seruices of the King of Spaine, in the Ports and Prouinces within and about the Sownde, the 30. day of Iune, in the yeere of our Lord 1589. and of her Maiesties raigne the one and thirtie
England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I)
England defends its seizure of foreign supply ships bound for Spain, detailing a long history of thwarted invasions, domestic conspiracies, and papal plots.
A Girl of the Commune
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
HOOK A young Englishman finds his fortune shattered, leading him into the crucible of the 1871 Paris Commune, where war and personal transformation collide in an epic struggle for survival.