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Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories
Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
A quiet dignity shines through these portraits of small-town dreamers, solitary spinsters, and wandering rogues who stumble into unexpected moments of grace.
Nick Carter Stories No. 160, October 2, 1915: The Yellow Label
Nicholas (House name) Carter
A slick High Society crime scheme collides with a crusader's camera war, revealing the rot hidden behind Gotham's high walls and small-town prestige.
Quicksilver Sue
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
A passionate girl’s imagination outpaces her common sense when a stylish newcomer turns a sleepy town upside down.
Red, White, Blue Socks. Part Second: Being the Second Book of the Series
Sarah L. Barrow
Armed with oversized enthusiasm and wooden muskets, a regiment of schoolboys sets up camp to play Civil War soldiers for a summer week.
Rose MacLeod
Alice Brown
Bound by New England tradition and shaken by incoming radical ideas, a quietly passionate community grapples with duty, truth, and the deceptive allure of grand romantic visions.
Skinner's Dress Suit
Henry Irving Dodge
A small lie born of marital pride spirals into a life-changing lesson in personal projection when a timid cashier invests in a tuxedo.
Tales for Fifteen
James Fenimore Cooper
Two cautionary tales explore how young women navigate the perils of romantic delusion, contrasting the pitfalls of unchecked sentimentality with the quiet dignity of a devout, unyielding devotion.
The Abandoned Farmer
Sydney Herman Preston
City life can break a young family's spirit, but moving to the country to save a child's health turns out to be a hilarious exercise in trial, error, and financial improvisation.
The Chinese Kitten
Edna A. Brown
A quiet, golden portrait of New England childhood that captures the extraordinary weight of small everyday choices.
The Empty Sack
Basil King
A quiet, compassionate study of what happens when financial pressure tests the limits of human integrity and family devotion.
The Experiences of a Bandmaster
John Philip Sousa
Behind the stately façade of American high culture lies a vibrant, unpredictable world where a bandmaster must navigate temperamental locomotives, sudden Blackouts, and vanishing musicians with equal poise.
The Holladay case
Burton Egbert Stevenson
When a prominent New York financier is found dead at his desk, suspicion falls immediately on his daughter, leaving a young law clerk to unravel a web of deceit, altered identities, and hidden family secrets.
The Morning Glory Club
George A. (George Alexander) Kyle
A small New England village turns into a battleground of manners, gossip, and local pride when a group of women decide to organize a club of their own.
The Seven-Branched Candlestick: The Schooldays of Young American Jew
Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wolf) Gabriel
Courage replaces conformity as a young American Jew navigates prejudice, loss, and the slow discovery of his own heritage across seven pivotal years of education.
Their Yesterdays
Harold Bell Wright
Childhood sweethearts grow into solitary adults in a bustling city, finding their way back to love by honoring the quiet lessons of their shared past.
Torchy As A Pa
Sewell Ford
When a sharp-witted young secretary starts a family in 1910s New York, domestic life brings as much chaos and comedy as the corporate ladder.
Up Terrapin River
Opie Percival Read
The steep, timbered hollows and fertile river bottoms of northern Arkansas frame a world where deep human loyalties, untamed country, and the struggle for self-improvement intersect in the years following the Civil War.
Viola Gwyn
George Barr McCutcheon
Shadowed by a family scandal and the myth of an unforgivable stepmother, a young pioneer rides west to claim his frontier inheritance—only to fall in love with his father’s stepdaughter.
A. D. 2000
Alvarado M. (Alvarado Mortimer) Fuller
A man awakens from a century-long slumber to find a transformed America, where advanced technology and a universal language have ushered in a new era of global stability and scientific wonder.
A Lost Hero
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The earth trembles, swallowing a savior whose name remains a mystery. In the wake of a cataclysm, a child’s testimony preserves the memory of an act that defined a man’s final, silent sacrifice.
Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin
Ralph Chaplin
Inside a steel-bound cell, an imprisoned union agitator transforms his confinement into a defiant, lyrical testimony, measuring the vast cost of economic resistance against the unquenchable human drive for total liberation.
Baseball Joe in the World Series
Lester Chadwick
A celebrated pitcher for the New York Giants must overcome a series of dangerous kidnappings orchestrated by a bitter rival to secure his team’s victory in the World Series.
Esmeralda
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A young American woman, trapped by her mother’s social ambitions in Paris, finds the strength to reclaim her lost home and the man she loves. This is a story of quiet defiance and the endurance of simple, honest bonds.
Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life
F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
Beneath a polished facade of polite society lies a network of hypocrisy, where systemic cruelty and institutional decay bind the vulnerable to the whims of the powerful.
Patty and Azalea
Carolyn Wells
A young woman from the West arrives at a refined East Coast estate, bringing with her a trail of secrets, impulsive behavior, and a dramatic flair that tests the patience and kindness of her newfound family.
Tar and feathers
Victor Rubin
Tar and Feathers is a 1924 social-problem novel that examines the intersection of post-WWI disillusionment and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the United States. Through the eyes of a returning soldier, it explores how racial and religious prejudice manifests in a society struggling to reconcile its democratic…
The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona
Cora Marsland
A dedicated teacher arrives in an Arizona mining camp, where her compassion and moral influence transform the lives of rough-hewn settlers and a young Indian boy.
The Little Colonel's Holidays
Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
The Little Colonel’s holidays are a series of sun-drenched, sentimental adventures in a Kentucky valley where the values of home, heritage, and kindness define the rhythm of every passing season.
The Song of Hugh Glass
John G. Neihardt
The American West is not a wilderness to be conquered, but a crucible for the human spirit, where survival is merely the beginning of an arduous journey toward reconciliation. This epic narrative captures the raw, unforgiving majesty of a landscape that demands everything from those who dare to traverse it.
The Third Degree: A Narrative of Metropolitan Life
Charles Klein
Howard Jeffries, a man adrift in the relentless machinery of the city, finds himself ensnared in a lethal web of past indiscretions and brutal police interrogation. Forced into a confession for a murder he did not commit, he faces the ultimate test of survival in an unforgiving metropolitan underworld.
A Struggle for a Fortune
Harry Castlemon
A resourceful boy struggles to protect an old man’s legacy from his greedy, abusive guardians in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
A Victorious Union
Oliver Optic
The seas of the American Civil War provide the backdrop for a young officer’s rapid ascent through the ranks of the Union Navy. Through daring ruses and strategic command, he secures his ship’s legacy and his own future.
An Unwilling Maid: Being the History of Certain Episodes during the American Revolution in the Early Life of Mistress Betty Yorke, born Wolcott
Jeanie Gould Lincoln
HOOK A headstrong young woman finds her loyalties tested when she saves an enemy officer from drowning, sparking a romance that defies the bitter divisions of the American Revolution.
Angelica
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
HOOK A young woman navigates the crushing poverty of New York to chase a dream of refinement, only to find that the social ladder she climbs is built on the ruins of her own integrity.
Bart Stirling's Road to Success
Allen Chapman
Bart Stirling, a diligent young man, must step into his injured father’s shoes to navigate the cutthroat world of the railroad express business, where loyalty and quick wits are the only currency that matters.
Combat
Mack Reynolds
A diplomat finds his rigid worldview shattered when extraterrestrials land in Moscow, forcing him to navigate a high-stakes espionage game that ultimately reveals the obsolescence of earthly power struggles.
Dotty Dimple At Home
Sophie May
A volatile, high-spirited child struggles to master her own fierce temper while navigating the trials of a family displaced by fire. This intimate portrait captures the raw, internal battle between impulsive defiance and the desire to be good.
Eneas Africanus
Harry Stillwell Edwards
A man disappears into the chaos of the Civil War with a trunk of family silver, only to spend years wandering the South, convinced he is still running an errand for his master.
Flaming Youth
Samuel Hopkins Adams
This portrait of a restless, affluent family captures the friction between generational expectations and the fast-living, boundary-testing impulses of the early 1920s. It is a candid, clinical, and often biting examination of a social class that possesses everything except a clear sense of purpose.
Lodusky
Frances Hodgson Burnett
This haunting tale of temptation and self-betrayal follows an artist who, while engaged to a refined woman, becomes dangerously obsessed with a mysterious, beautiful girl in the North Carolina mountains. It is a stark, psychological exploration of how easily a man’s moral compass can shatter when confronted with…
Meg of Mystery Mountain
Grace May North
HOOK A spoiled young woman finds her humanity in the rugged silence of the Rocky Mountains, where long-lost family secrets and hard-won friendships await in the shadows of a defunct gold mine.
On Christmas Day In The Evening
Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond
A family reunion takes a turn for the transformative when a group of city-dwelling siblings decides to revive a long-shuttered, conflict-ridden country church on Christmas Eve.
Peggy Raymond's Way
Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith
This story follows four inseparable young women as they navigate the transition from school life to adulthood, balancing the demands of romance, social etiquette, and their own emerging identities.
Rainbow Hill
Josephine Lawrence
The Willis sisters discover that the true treasure of a summer in the country is not found in golden pots, but in the quiet, transformative power of kindness.
The Actress' Daughter: A Novel
May Agnes Fleming
The stormy, untamed child of a fading actress finds her life irrevocably entwined with the fortunes of a proud, aristocratic family, setting the stage for a long, arduous journey toward maturity and grace.
The Boss of the Lazy Y
Charles Alden Seltzer
A man returns home to a broken legacy, only to find his path toward redemption guarded by a woman who refuses to let him succumb to his own destructive nature.
The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross
Gertrude W. Morrison
A jewelry store ledger, a mysterious hit-and-run, and a school play collide to drive a spirited group of students toward a noble goal.
The Making of an American
Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
A Danish immigrant navigates the harsh realities of late 19th-century New York to become a crusading journalist, eventually finding his true identity through a lifetime of public service and a steadfast devotion to his adopted country.