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The Pony Express rider
Earl C. McCain
A young rider joins the legendary Pony Express, only to find his dangerous new route tangled with a deadly outlaw from his shadowed past.
The Shining Cow
Alex James
An ordinary farm cow is irradiated by a mysterious flying saucer, glowing like a living light bulb and setting off a chaotic scientific and military investigation on a quiet rural property.
The Survivor
E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
A destitute young writer boards a train for London, accidentally invading the private car of a wealthy, enigmatic woman whose influence will shape his ruin and redemption.
The thought-feeders
R. R. (Russell Robert) Winterbotham
When an experimental flight punches through the stratosphere, two pilots are captured by a race of intelligent green clouds that feed entirely on human thought.
The World English Bible (WEB): Ephesians
Anonymous
Grace and peace from God our Father anchor this timeless letter, offering believers a profound vision of divine unity, spiritual inheritance, and steadfast daily living.
The World English Bible (WEB): Esther
Anonymous
An imperial court becomes the stage for a high-stakes struggle when an orphaned young woman risks her life to save her people from total destruction.
Then luck came in
Andrew A. (Andrew Augustine) Caffrey
A veteran aviation mechanic trapped on the ground fights an endless, bitter battle for the right to fly, only to find his denied seat in a faulty cockpit becomes a fatal twist of fate.
Tricks of the trade
Squire, John Collings, Sir
Contemporaries mocked through pitch-perfect mimicry reveal the absurdities inherent in early twentieth-century literary conventions and poetic styles.
Uncle Noah's Christmas Inspiration
Leona Dalrymple
A destitute Southern colonel and his devoted servant scheme to hide their financial ruin from the mistress on Christmas Eve, sparking a chain of tender domestic deceptions.
Wainer
Michael Shaara
In a future where cybernetic enhancements standardize humanity, a massive, unadapted outcast discovers he represents the evolutionary bridge to the stars.
Walled towns
Ralph Adams Cram
Faced with the wreckage of industrial civilization and the false promises of modernism, humanity must choose a third alternative: withdrawing to build intentional, spiritually grounded communities of a human scale.
A Blind Esperantist's Trip to Finland and Sweden, to Attend the Fourteenth International Esperanto Congress
W. Percy Merrick
This account captures the vitality of an international movement in the early 20th century, revealing how a shared language bridged the gap between cultures for a community of blind travelers.
A Catalogue of New Books and New Editions, 1896
Bliss, Sands, & Foster
This collection serves as a portal into the literary landscape of late Victorian England, revealing the diverse interests and publishing ambitions of a London firm at the close of the nineteenth century. It preserves the cultural pulse of 1896, cataloging a world of emerging scholarship, popular fiction, and…
A Golfing Idyll
Violet Flint
The Scottish links at St Andrews conceal strange wagers, where a reformed caddie recounts his midnight game of golf against the Devil.
A House Divided Against Itself
Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
Two sisters shaped by different worlds collide in London drawing rooms, where family loyalties and past choices collide with heartbreaking precision.
A Strange World: A Novel. Volume 3 (of 3)
M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
A tangled web of concealed identity, ancestral curses, and long-buried secrets unravels as forgotten truths finally come to light.
A third day in Mary Carrow's school
Anonymous
Early-nineteenth-century schoolteacher Mary Carrow guides her young rural scholars through a single summer day of lessons, nature walks, and moral instruction.
Apollonius
Bennett, E. N. (Ernest Nathaniel), Sir
Beneath the noise of modern materialism and wartime credulity lies a rigorous, neglected scientific quest to map the hidden boundaries of the human mind.
Arachne
Georg Ebers
Amid the flooded canals of ancient Egypt, a proud ship-owner's daughter falls for a charismatic Greek sculptor, only to be consumed by jealousy and dark desires for vengeance.
Bedridden and the Winter Offensive: Deep Waters, Part 8
W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
An unwilling civilian host endures a succession of eccentric military lodgers, discovering that domestic peace must surrender unconditionally to the home front.
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 50, Vol. I, December 13, 1884
Various
A quiet Swiss glacier garden, tales of mistaken identity at a mountain hotel, sunlit Sicilian railways, and the promise of Florida orange groves fill this diverse Victorian periodical.
Doctor Bolus and His Patients
Unknown
Every moral choice carries weight, and small missteps on the road of childhood lead inevitably toward sorrow or salvation.
Dreamtown, U.S.A
Leo P. Kelley
In a futuristic American city where books are banned and citizens live on constant sensory highs, a small band of rebels plots a daring uprising to reclaim history and human connection.
Fires of fate
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
When a rough-edged Montana cowpuncher joins Canada's redcoats, he finds himself framed for a drunken scandal and thrust into a violent border war against ruthless outlaws.
Frank Merriwell's Chase
Burt L. Standish
Frank Merriwell and his loyal college chums cruise the Maine coast, battling desperate villains, tracking a stolen yacht, and outwitting crooked card sharps in a high-stakes summer adventure.
Greener than spruce
Herbert Farris
A greenhorn braves the harsh Alaskan trail with a sledload of useless oil, only to outwit the territory's meanest miner in a battle of wits.
Happiness in Purgatory
Anonymous
Purgatory is not a place of aimless sorrow, but a necessary vestibule of preparation where the soul learns to shed its earthly impurities. It is a profound, meditative exploration of why suffering, when paired with the certainty of eternal love, can be a state of profound peace.
Harper's Round Table, November 3, 1896
Various
Step back into the late nineteenth century through a vibrant youth periodical filled with frontier recollections, practical crafts, heroic tales, and domestic rustic life.
In the Blue Pike
Georg Ebers
A shattered former ropedancer spends her final hours at a waystation by the Main river, striving to redeem the soul of a lost child through sacrifice before her own life ebbs away.
Jingles
Frank J. Medina
A ragged, honest collection of turn-of-the-century verse, Frank J. Medina’s book catalogs the rustic humor, bittersweet romances, and quiet disillusionments of everyday American life.
Journal of the Waterloo campaign, vol. 2 (of 2)
Cavalié Mercer
Following the smoke of Waterloo, an English artillery officer records the strange, vibrant reality of an occupied Paris and a wounded French countryside.
Leaves from the notebook of a tamed cynic
Reinhold Niebuhr
A young minister grapples with the absurdities of parish life, the compromises of modern war, and the quiet failures of a church struggling to meet the demands of a complex industrial world.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland
John Lothrop Motley
In the shadow of a brutal execution, a great republic tears itself apart, driving a grieving family from tragic martyrdom into dark, desperate conspiracy.
Lost: 1898
Edward Bellamy
A young man’s romantic, decades-long search for a lost love takes a jarring turn when he finally discovers that the girl he remembers has been erased by the passage of time.
Mitchelhurst Place: A Novel. Vol. 1 (of 2)
Margaret Veley
An amber bead catches the lamplight as a sullen stranger brings ruined boots and a dark family shadow into a spectral white English house.
Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850
Various
An 1850 periodical opens its pages to inquisitive minds, gathering curious fragments of history, forgotten etymologies, and lively scholarly debates from across the realm.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 107 July 7, 1894, by Various
Various
HOOK This collection captures the pulse of a fading Victorian summer, blending biting political satire, theatrical news, and the whimsical musings of a nation poised between tradition and the modern age.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914
Various
This collection of wit and commentary captures the pulse of a society perched on the precipice of the Great War, blending biting political satire with the absurdities of daily life. It serves as a fragmented, humorous snapshot of the British spirit in the spring of 1914.
Reminiscences of service with the Twelfth Rhode Island Volunteers, and a memorial of Col. George H. Browne
Pardon Elisha Tillinghast
A soldier's unvarnished chronicle records the arduous marches, daily camp life, and enduring camaraderie of the Twelfth Rhode Island Volunteers, alongside a loving tribute to their steadfast commander, Colonel George H. Browne.
Songs of Heroic Days
Thomas O'Hagan
A world ablaze calls forth the fierce devotion of distant lands, where poets turn martial grief into ringing testaments of duty, endurance, and sacrifice.
Spacemen Never Die!
Morris Hershman
Living in the shadow of a famous space-faring first husband tests a factory foreman's patience until a chance barroom revelation changes everything about his marriage.
Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine
A clever demon finds that hell holds nothing matching the torment of a brawling earthly wife, while rustic youths and greedy diners learn the perils of pursuing misplaced desires.
Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine
A married couple learns the dangerous folly of trading secrets, while neighborhood rogues engineer an elaborate, dark-room substitution that leaves everyone delightfully confused.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond
George Meredith
A boy’s life is a fever dream of borrowed glory and grand deception, orchestrated by a father who treats existence as a magnificent stage play.
The Aggravation of Elmer
Robert Arthur
The world would beat a path to Elmer’s door—but he had to go carry the door along with him! This story explores the perils of underestimating a child whose intellect outpaces the gravity of his surroundings.
The Caxtons: A Family Picture
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
Returning from the wild expanses of the Australian bush to an eccentric English household, a young traveler finds his true home among books, family, and a long-awaited love.
The Cursed Patois: From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899
Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Two wilderness outfitters on Michigan’s Brevoort Lake take in a destitute French-Canadian widow and her child, only to find their rugged routine transformed by love.
The Disowned
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
A young wanderer discovers he is disowned by his family, receiving a meager thousand pounds and a mandate to forge his own destiny across an unforgiving English landscape.