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Set Down in Malice: A Book of Reminiscences
Gerald Cumberland
A candid observer moves through the literary salons, concert halls, and newsrooms of early twentieth-century Britain, measuring celebrated minds against their public reputations.
She Blows! And Sparm at That!
William John Hopkins
Young Tim leaves his home port to spend four years aboard a whaling vessel, growing into a seasoned seaman through the sheer discipline of high-seas survival.
Some Personal Recollections of Dr. Janeway
James Bayard Clark
A junior physician paints an affectionate portrait of America’s most revered diagnostician, capturing the quiet discipline, absolute integrity, and unpretentious wisdom that defined a landmark medical career.
Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land
Charles Godfrey Leland
This collection of verse captures the vanishing spirit of the nineteenth-century sailor, blending authentic maritime folklore with the tall tales of a wandering adventurer. It preserves the salty, cynical, and superstitious voice of the men who once powered the world’s sailing ships.
Tarzan and the lost empire
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A legendary hero of the jungle ventures deep into the African interior to solve a mysterious disappearance, only to stumble upon a lost world of ancient Roman soldiers clinging to life in the wilderness.
Tennyson
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
A pure lover of beauty found himself drafted into a bitter intellectual war, forced to trade the mirror of art for a musket in defense of human morality.
The Adventures of Puss in Boots, Jr
David Cory
A brave young cat puts on red-topped boots and sets out across a landscape of nursery rhymes to find his legendary father.
The American Reformed Cattle Doctor: Containing the necessary information for preserving the health and curing the diseases of oxen, cows, sheep, and swine, with a great variety of original recipes, and valuable information in reference to farm and dairy management
George H. Dadd
A practical guide to nineteenth-century livestock care champions gentle, botanical treatments over the harsh chemical purges and bloodletting common to early veterinary medicine.
The Beauties of the State of Washington: A Book for Tourists
Harry F. Giles
The grandest snowy peaks, dense evergreen forests, and endless waterways of the Pacific Northwest emerge as an interconnected haven for both industry and leisure.
The black wolf's breed
Harris Dickson
An orphaned officer leaves the wilderness of Louisiana for the glitter of Louis XIV's twilight court, only to find that the deadliest intrigue is written in his own forgotten bloodline.
The Booming of Acre Hill, and Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life
John Kendrick Bangs
Small-town pretension, marital friction, and social absurdity meet gentle satirical affection across fifteen vignette-like tales.
The Boy in the Bush
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
A young Englishman sent to 1880s Western Australia rejects conventional respectability, surviving bush dangers and personal losses to forge a fierce, independent destiny on the frontier.
The Captain of the Kansas
Louis Tracy
A disabled ocean liner drifts toward the treacherous reefs of South America, forcing its crew and passengers into an unforgiving wilderness where survival demands far more than seamanship.
The Caves of Fear: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story
Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
High in the mountains of Asia, an ancient cave conceals a rare natural phenomenon—and a ruthless criminal network that will kill to keep it secret.
The Children of the Castle
Mrs. Molesworth
A high-cliff fortress, two lonely sisters, and a spoiled cousin discover that true vision requires a transformed heart.
The Court of Boyville
William Allen White
Where the town ends and the cornfields begin, boys rule a kingdom built on mud, pride, and ancient, unwritten laws.
The Dark Frigate
Charles Boardman Hawes
A boy raised on the high seas returns to seventeenth-century England, only to be swept back out to sea aboard a treacherous frigate where mutiny, murder, and piracy wait in the shadow of the sails.
The Diverting History of John Gilpin: Showing How He Went Farther Than He Intended, and Came Safe Home Again
William Cowper
A linen-draper’s anniversary outing collapses into chaotic, high-speed hilarity when a borrowed horse bolts across the English countryside, leaving a trail of broken wine bottles, lost wigs, and wildly mistaken onlookers in its wake.
The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Volume 08
Dante Alighieri
A living traveler descends into the deeper, darker abysses of the dead, guided by a classical master through horrors where physical torment matches earthly corruption.
The End of the World: A Love Story
Edward Eggleston
A tender, sharp-eyed romance of 1840s Indiana, where religious fanaticism and petty greed threaten to tear two young lovers apart before the world even comes to an end.
The Exiles
Honoré de Balzac
Two mysterious outcasts lodge beneath Notre-Dame, bound by a vision of home that transcends the earth itself.
The Future Belongs to the People
Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht
A solitary voice speaks out against an entire nation's war machine, risking prison and dishonor to insist that the true enemy of the working person is never the worker across the border.
The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife
Edward Carpenter
A tragic collision of empires reveals the deep-rooted economic greed and militaristic pride that drive working-class citizens to slaughter one another on behalf of their rulers.
The history of Company C, Seventh Regiment, O.V.I
Theodore Wilder
A unit of college-educated idealists trades the classrooms of Oberlin for the battlefields of the American Civil War, recording their trials through capture, prison camps, and bloody Eastern and Western Theater campaigns.
The King of Gee-Whiz
Emerson Hough
Two mismatched twins set sail on an enchanted submarine, landing on a far-off island where nonsense rules, magic is real, and trouble follows.
The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope
Unknown
A grand family archive opens its leaves to reveal the vibrant chatter, geopolitical anxieties, and social maneuvering of Regency and early Victorian England.
The Life of George Washington. In Words of One Syllable
Josephine Pollard
Written entirely in words of a single syllable, this unique biography turns the foundation of American history into a simple, rhythmic, and surprisingly moving portrait of leadership, duty, and quiet resilience.
The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval
Adrien Leblond
A solitary churchman shapes a wild continent through absolute faith, opposing merchants and governors to establish an enduring Catholic society in the wilderness of New France.
The Master of Greylands: A Novel
Wood, Henry, Mrs.
A quiet English coastal village becomes a shadow-land of missing heirs, nocturnal smuggling, and ruined cloisters when a young Frenchman arrives to claim his ancestral estate.
The Odes of Casimire, Translated by G. Hils
Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski
Ancient Horace finds a surprisingly devout rebirth in the verse of a seventeenth-century Polish Jesuit whose lines turn classic Latin meters into Christian prayer and quiet rural retreat.
The Old Soak, and Hail And Farewell
Don Marquis
A hilarious, heart-wrenching lament for the saloon, this book captures an era when Prohibition turned ordinary drinkers into nostalgic philosophers overnight.
The Recollections of a Drummer-Boy
Henry Martyn Kieffer
A boy slips away from school to join the Union army, carrying a drum into the bloodiest fields of the American Civil War.
The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible
Richard Heber Newton
An urgent call for a rational, reverent approach to sacred text, this collection of sermons challenges rigid, literalist views of Scripture to reveal a dynamic, evolving record of human spiritual growth.
The Silver Poppy
Arthur Stringer
Driven by ambition and a hunger for artistic prestige, a young Southern woman in New York repeatedly steals an unsophisticated author's original manuscripts to publish under her own name, leaving them both entangled in deceit.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912
Roald Amundsen
A white, frozen plain stretches to the horizon, broken only by towering blue glaciers, yawning crevasses, and a tiny line of men and dogs moving steadily toward the southernmost point on Earth.
The Tinder-Box
Maria Thompson Daviess
A young woman returns from Europe to her small Tennessee town pledged to court men on equal terms, setting off a quiet revolution in her romantic community.
The Training of Wild Animals
Frank Charles Bostock
A man holds a chair before a raging lion in a narrow cage, counting on a few inches of wood and two taps to the nose to keep himself alive.
The Tribune of Nova Scotia: A Chronicle of Joseph Howe
W. L. (William Lawson) Grant
A young printer’s apprentice in nineteenth-century Halifax rises to become the undisputed voice of his native province, fighting for self-government before navigating the complex promises and perils of Canadian Confederation.
The tunnel
Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson
A young woman navigates the noise, independence, and quiet interior light of turn-of-the-century London, finding her identity in the routine of self-support.
The Undercurrent
Robert Grant
A abandoned wife struggles against poverty and strict religious dogma in early-twentieth-century industrial America, choosing human love and real life over an unyielding, high-society ideal.
The Veterinarian
Charles James Korinek
When livestock fall ill, swift practical action separates recovery from ruin; this comprehensive 1912 manual offers direct, no-nonsense medical directives for keeping farm animals alive.
The White Rose of Langley: A Story of the Olden Time
Emily Sarah Holt
A orphan child and a royal princess navigate the treacherous courtyards of medieval England, where faith and dynastic ambition clash.
Third biennial report of the Oregon State Highway Commission
Simon Benson
Over rugged mountain passes, across wide rivers, and through dense coastal rain forests, a burgeoning state struggles to carve out a modern transportation system amid the severe labor and resource shortages of the First World War.
Three Prayers and Sermons
Jonathan Swift
Grounded in religious duty and civic necessity, these writings weigh the fragility of human life against the structural demands of moral order.
Towards an enduring peace
Unknown
A collection of wartime essays and peace manifestos reveals how statesmen, publicists, and ordinary citizens attempted to construct a permanent global order before the first World War had even drawn to a close.
Travels in Morocco, Volume 1
James Richardson
A solitary traveler moves through a land protected by snow-capped mountains and sea-swept sand dunes, where imperial pride resists the encroaching influence of Christian Europe.
Twenty-Two Goblins
Arthur W. (Arthur William) Ryder
A nocturnal king, a hanging corpse, and twenty-two unanswerable riddles where a single mistake guarantees a shattered skull.
Under Lock and Key: A Story. Volume 2 (of 3)
T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight
Behind the quiet facade of Dupley Walls, a twenty-year-old deathbed curse collides with a stolen Indian diamond, entangling a mistreated orphan, a secretive Russian, and an unscrupulous father-son pair of sleuths.