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The technic of the baton
Albert Stoessel
A precise manual for the orchestra pit, this practical guide transforms the invisible art of musical leadership into a physical, learnable craft.
The War of the Axe
J. Percy (John Percy) Groves
A young English emigrant steps off a merchant ship in Cape Colony, only to be swept into wild frontier hunts, mountain accidents, and the bloody chaos of the Sixth Xhosa War.
The Young Pitcher
Zane Grey
A young freshman endures relentless hazing and loneliness at a vast university, discovering his identity and purpose when he earns a spot on the school's struggling baseball team.
To The West
George Manville Fenn
A pair of abused London clerks abandon their desks for the Canadian wilderness, only to discover that the hardest part of finding gold is deciding what it is truly worth.
Turquois mosaic art in ancient Mexico
Marshall H. (Marshall Howard) Saville
Endless blue stones, set into wood, bone, and shield, mirror the Lost arts of an ancient empire.
Veronica
Johanna Spyri
A fierce Alpine wind can tear away branches and human lives alike, leaving two orphans to learn that true fortune is not found by chance, but earned through labor and faith.
Water Wizardry: A collection of tricks in which water is the chief agent
Arthur Ainslie
A turn-of-the-century parlor guide transforms household glassware and tap water into a stage for astonishing optical illusions and theatrical misdirection.
A Dash from Diamond City
George Manville Fenn
A diamond-mine clerk rides across a war-torn veldt carrying hidden military dispatches, pursued by Boer commandos and a treacherous thief.
A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'
Francis Bowen
A sweeping theory claims that all matter, life, and human intelligence evolved automatically from a single primordial dust through unassisted natural laws.
A Treatise on Bread, and Bread-making
Sylvester Graham
A passionate nineteenth-century plea for nutritional integrity, this text treats the simple, unbolted loaf as the foundation of physical health, moral character, and household virtue.
Adela Cathcart, Volume 2
George MacDonald
Listening to stories read aloud, a melancholic young woman finds her inner life quietly transformed by the moral weight and spiritual imagination of what she hears.
Advance Australasia: A Day-to-Day Record of a Recent Visit to Australasia.: Second Edition
Frank Thomas Bullen
A British maritime author ventures across Australia and New Zealand, capturing the raw energy, social experiments, and physical grandeur of a rapidly evolving colonial landscape.
All about the Klondyke gold mines
J. Armoy (John Armoy) Knox
A flash of gold from the frozen North sparks a fever that sweeps across the nation overnight.
Amy in Acadia: A Story for Girls
Helen Leah Reed
A girl’s firm rejection of an unwanted companion sets in motion a summer of maritime travel, historical discovery, and quiet personal growth across Nova Scotia.
An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830
John Niles Hubbard
In a young nation expanding across traditional lands, a Seneca orator fights to preserve his people's sovereignty, traditions, and territory using the power of spoken words rather than weapons.
Applied design for printers
Harry Lawrence Gage
A practical craft demands more than mere utility; true work requires an intentional arrangement of lines, masses, and historic principles on the printed surface.
August First
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
A young woman facing a grim diagnosis steps into an empty parish house during a midsummer thunderstorm, seeking a reason not to end her life.
Behind the Line: A Story of College Life and Football
Ralph Henry Barbour
Four high school stars move to Erskine College with big athletic dreams, but injuries, rivalries, and choices of character tested on and off the field soon force each to learn what true sportsmanship demands.
Ben, the Luggage Boy
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
Driven by a hasty impulse, a boy abandons a comfortable home for the streets of New York, only to find that surviving alone demands far more grit, enterprise, and moral stamina than he ever anticipated.
Bengal Dacoits and Tigers
Maharani of Cooch Behar Sunity Devee
Night falls swiftly over rural Bengal, bringing with it the rhythmic chant of palanquin bearers, the sudden glare of torches, and the heavy, terrifying breath of a tiger waiting outside a shuttered window.
Bill Nye's Sparks
Bill Nye
A sharp, self-deprecating wit transforms the mundane struggles of nineteenth-century American life into an art form of deadpan satire and unvarnished truth.
British Canals: Is their resuscitation practicable?
Edwin A. Pratt
A rigorous, level-headed study of transport economics dismantles the romantic notion that Britain's Victorian canal system can be realistically modernized to compete with modern rail transport.
Bunny Rabbit's Diary
Mary Frances Blaisdell
A leaf-bound notebook hidden in a hollow oak becomes the quiet canvas for three small rabbits learning to navigate the wide, unpredictable woods.
Cassell's book of birds
Alfred Edmund Brehm
Across vast forests, arid steppes, and remote ocean coastlines, the avian world unfolds as an intricate tapestry of predatory instinct, elaborate architecture, and astonishing vocal mimicry.
Celebrated naval and military trials
Peter Burke
When authority is pushed to its limits, the courtroom becomes a battleground where military discipline, personal ambition, and national honor collide.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442: Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852
Various
A vibrant cross-section of mid-nineteenth-century intellectual life, this weekly journal captures a culture eagerly measuring its physical world, recording its past, and debating its daily habits.
Defenseless America
Hudson Maxim
An explosive appeal to the American conscience, this 1915 manifesto warns that unearned wealth and total military unpreparedness invite swift catastrophic conquest.
Essays on Darwinism
Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
Nature reveals its deepest secrets not to those who demand instant certainty, but to those willing to trace the quiet, steady work of time across mountain ranges, animal instincts, and the unhurried fossil records of the earth.
Follow My Leader: The Boys of Templeton
Talbot Baines Reed
Courage, foolishness, and the slow, bumpy work of learning to lead meet on equal terms in this traditional English school story.
Four Afloat: Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water
Ralph Henry Barbour
Four young companions take to the eastern seaboard aboard a gasoline launch, meeting unexpected perils, lost craft, and runaway boys.
From Paper-mill to Pressroom
William Bond Wheelwright
Bridging the historical gap between raw forest timber and the fast-moving printing press, this classic manual demystifies the practical physics, chemistry, and trade realities of modern industrial paper production.
From the Arctic Ocean to the Yellow Sea
Julius M. (Julius Mendes) Price
A journey across the frozen expanse of Siberia, through the silent desolation of the Gobi Desert, and into the heart of Imperial China reveals an unyielding, vanished world.
Hans of Iceland, Vol. 1 of 2
Victor Hugo
Shadowed by granite cliffs and swept by arctic winds, early seventeenth-century Norway becomes the backdrop for an eighteen-year-old author's wild, uninhibited maiden attempt to untangle the collisions between state power, monstrous villainy, and youthful devotion.
Helbeck of Bannisdale
Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
A young woman's fierce independence collides with an unyielding Catholic faith in a tragic conflict of love, conscience, and stubborn devotion.
Holinshed's Chronicles, vol. 2 of 6, slice 08 of 12: England, 1216-1272, Henry III
Raphael Holinshed
A young boy inherits a realm torn by rebellion, initiating a fifty-six-year struggle between absolute royal privilege, papacy demands, and the rising power of English barons.
Holman Hunt
Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Coleridge
A young London clerk resolves to paint against his father's wishes, kindling an artistic revolution that challenges the brown-varnished conventions of Victorian art.
In the Brooding Wild
Ridgwell Cullum
A lone cabin in the mountain snows becomes a pressure cooker when a trader’s yarn of a mysterious woman fractures the bond between two devoted brothers.
Irish Fairy Tales
Edmund Leamy
In mossy valleys and upon enchanted lakes, mortals move through trial and enchantment toward their hearts' true desires.
Japan
Walter G. Dickson
A deep, painstaking descent into a vanished world, tracking how centuries of sacred imperial isolation and feudal clan warfare gave way to modern nationhood.
Joseph Haydn: Servant and Master
Herbert F. (Herbert Francis) Peyser
Born to a humble rural family, a gifted boy rises through cold attic lodgings and rigid court employment to revolutionize Western classical music, transforming strict aristocratic patronage into a triumphant, self-made artistic legacy across Europe.
"Le Monsieur de la Petite Dame"
Frances Hodgson Burnett
In high-society Paris, a dismissed, self-effacing husband quietly risks his life to save his young American wife from public ruin and her own shallow self-delusion.
Life Incidents, in Connection with the Great Advent Movement, as Illustrated by the Three Angels of Revelation XIV (Volume 1)
James White
A passionate eyewitness account of a mid-nineteenth-century religious revival, detailing how thousands came to believe the second coming was imminent and endured devastating disappointment when Christ did not return.
Macleod of Dare
William Black
A high-born Highland chieftain travels to London, falls hopelessly in love with a celebrated young actress, and finds his traditional world fracturing under the strain of an impossible passion.
Making Your Camera Pay
Frederick C. Davis
A ordinary pocket camera can be transformed into a steady source of income if its owner learns to see every everyday scene through an editor’s eyes.
Marigold Garden
Kate Greenaway
Quiet domestic routines, open fields, and sudden imaginative flights shape a world where childhood is defined by small, luminous discoveries.
Mavericks
William MacLeod Raine
A high-plains range war over stolen cattle turns intimate and deadly when an undercover ranger falls for the rancher's fierce sister.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893
Various
A collection of late-nineteenth-century literature and reportage captures a changing world through intimate portraits, scientific ambitions, regional fiction, and dramatic personal reckonings.
More Tish
Mary Roberts Rinehart
A middle-aged spinster with an appetite for misadventure takes her reluctant companions on offbeat escapades, proving that determination and complete disregard for precedent can outmatch any crisis.