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The Pirate Island: A Story of the South Pacific
Harry Collingwood
A sunken ship off the English coast sets off a long chain of rescues, fires, pirate captivities, and subterranean perils across the Pacific.
The Portal of Dreams
Charles Neville Buck
A man flees life only to be pursued by a face that haunts him across oceans, through island reefs, and into a bloody mountain feud.
The Quest of the Golden Pearl
J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson
A pair of British teenagers on a Ceylon pearl-schooner suspect a native shark-charmer of theft and launch a hot-headed chase across dangerous waters, discovering along the way that courage counts for little without humility.
The Rebirth of Turkey
Clair Price
A nation collapses, is carved up by distant powers, and fights its way back into existence under a commander who demands total Westernization. Clair Price chronicles the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the unexpected rise of modern Turkey.
The Repairman
Harry Harrison
Fixing an interstellar beacon requires an engineer who can out-talk a boss, out-think a priesthood, and walk away with his skin intact.
The Reverberator
Henry James
Unvarnished American innocence collides with rigid Parisian aristocratic decorum when a young woman unwittingly exposes a family's private secrets to a tabloid journalist.
The silent places
Stewart Edward White
A lone traitor vanishes into the frozen wilderness, pursued by two fur-trade trackers who will follow his trail to the edge of death.
The Six Fingers of Time
R. A. Lafferty
A sudden fracture of time grants a quiet clerk total freedom, only to reveal the terrifying cost of living at sixty times the speed of the world.
The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador: A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell
Dillon Wallace
An athletic young English doctor trades a comfortable London medical practice for the icy, stormy waters of Newfoundland and Labrador, dedicating his life to serving forgotten deep-sea fishermen.
The Story of Milk
Johan Ditlev Frederiksen
An expert manual on dairy science and home economics transforms a ubiquitous kitchen staple into a marvel of biological engineering and industrial precision.
The Travels and Adventures of James Massey
Simon Tyssot de Patot
A castaway, a hidden empire, and a rational mind adrift in an irrational world combine to turn a high-seas adventure into a trenchant critique of European religion and power.
The Trial of Aaron Burr
Joseph P. (Joseph Plunkett) Brady
A towering political figure stands accused of high treason, while a sitting president directs the prosecution from afar and a resolute chief justice enforces strict constitutional boundaries inside a packed Virginia courtroom.
The triumphs of perseverance and enterprise, recorded as examples for the young
Thomas Cooper
Self-taught scholars conquer dozens of languages, sculptors toil over colossal stone, and travelers march through frozen arctic wastes. True greatness belongs to those who turn stubborn effort into lasting achievement.
The Violin and Old Violin Makers: Being a Historical & Biographical Account of the Violin, with Facsimiles of Labels of the Old Makers
A. Mason Clarke
From raw timber and delicate varnish to the grandest concert halls, the violin’s transformation is a story of craftsmanship, changing tastes, and musical genius.
The Winds of Chance
Rex Beach
An inexperienced young traveler gets swept up in the Klondike Gold Rush, discovering that surviving the trail and its characters requires more than raw optimism.
The Young People's Wesley
W. (William) McDonald
A spiritual deadness settled over eighteenth-century England, but a single parish child, snatched from a burning home, grew to kindle an unquenchable movement of faith, warm hearts, and transform millions across continents.
Thirty Years on the Frontier
Robert McReynolds
A wide-eyed Kentucky boy goes west for gold, stays to chase wild mustangs and outlaws, and ends up reflecting on a vanishing wilderness.
Two Dramatizations from Vergil: I. Dido—the Phœnecian Queen
Virgil
Fate, divine intervention, and human vulnerability clash when exiled leaders strive to build new homes from the ashes of war.
Victorian Poetry
John Drinkwater
Centuries of technical discovery and historical change shaped the tools available to nineteenth-century writers, forcing them to balance tradition against an expanding modern world.
Wayside Courtships
Hamlin Garland
Across dusty Western roads, cramped train cars, and quiet parlors, men and women encounter one another unexpectedly, forced to decide whether love can bridge the divides of class, ambition, and hard circumstance.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 06
Unknown
A mother leads a peasantry revolt against an invading garrison to save her town and claim her daughter's happiness.
With Our Soldiers in France
Sherwood Eddy
Amid the mud and artillery fire of the Western Front, an unseen battle for the souls and sanity of millions of young soldiers rages in the shadows of the trenches.
With Sully into the Sioux Land
Joseph Mills Hanson
Driven from his Minnesota homestead by the Dakota outbreak of 1862, a teenage boy joins General Sully’s western campaign to search the Northern Plains for his stolen younger brother.
Woman free
Ellis Ethelmer
A sweeping nineteenth-century poetic argument charts humanity's journey from primeval tyranny to an enlightened future of total equality, framed by scientific progress and moral law.
Woven with the Ship: A Novel of 1865: Together with certain other veracious tales of various sorts
Cyrus Townsend Brady
A stranded wooden vessel on a lonely point holds an old admiral, a devoted sailor, and a young woman whose rescue of a stranded officer sets off a flurry of romantic and dramatic complications.
Wyoming
Edward Sylvester Ellis
A frantic young soldier rides into a burning valley to save his family, only to find himself trapped in a deadly game of wilderness hide-and-seek.
Yesterdays
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A soul-bare collection of youthful verse captures the fleeting tragedies of broken vows, lost innocence, and the sudden, quiet turn toward resilience.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
Daniel Young
A vast mid-nineteenth-century repository of practical craft knowledge reveals how early industrial workers, artisans, and homemakers solved technical challenges using raw chemical compounds, domestic ingredients, and precise manual methods.
A book of images
Unknown
Seeking to define the boundary where mystical vision meets black-and-white ink, this slim volume pairs twenty-four enigmatic drawings with a seminal essay on the enduring power of symbolic art.
A Breath of Prairie and other stories
Will Lillibridge
These tales of the American prairie capture the raw, desperate, and often tragic intersections of ambition, isolation, and the stubborn persistence of the human heart.
A Chilhowee Lily: 1911
Charles Egbert Craddock
When rumor sweeps through a remote Appalachian gap that a forgotten chest lies buried beneath a wild white bloom, every idle hand takes up a pickaxe, and one young woman must decide whether her word is worth more than her lover's trust.
A Crooked Mile
Oliver Onions
A young suburban couple and their avant-garde friends attempt to remake marriage, parenthood, and politics, only to find that their radical grandstanding collapses under the quiet weight of ordinary human nature.
A dreadful temptation
Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.
A young woman sells her youth to an aging millionaire for revenge, only to find that every trick she plays traps her further in her own deceit.
A Georgian Pageant
Frank Frankfort Moore
A vivid portrayal of 18th-century British society, blending biography, social history, and dramatic narratives of love, scandal, and intrigue.
A Handbook for Latin Clubs
Susan Paxson
A comprehensive guide to organizing and enriching Latin clubs in secondary schools, blending historical context, literary selections, and practical activities.
A horse book
Mary Tourtel
Young children learning about the animal world will find here a simple, affectionate taxonomy of equine life.
A Love Story Reversed: 1898
Edward Bellamy
A woman risks her dignity to confess her feelings to an ordinary man, launching a quiet social experiment that completely upends Victorian courting etiquette.
A Man: His Mark. A Romance: Second Edition
W. C. Morrow
A man and a woman, strangers to each other, are trapped in a mountain cabin after a devastating avalanche.
A Turkish Woman's European Impressions
hanoum Zeyneb
A young Turkish noblewoman risks her life escaping the Sultan's strict regime to find freedom in Western Europe, only to discover that Western progress hides its own spiritual decay and social traps.
Aaron the Jew: A Novel
B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
An infant secret, born of desperate grief and cold rain, ripples through two decades of English lives to test whether human devotion can survive its own pious lies.
Andreas Hofer: An Historical Novel
L. (Luise) Mühlbach
A simple Tyrolese innkeeper leads his countrymen in a heroic, desperate uprising to restore their land to the Austrian crown.
Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress
Bernard Shaw
A royal fugitive turns a chaotic military headquarters upside down, using raw nerve and a stolen uniform to rally a shattered army for the revolution.
Australia, New Zealand and some islands of the South seas
Frank G. (Frank George) Carpenter
A detailed, firsthand observation of human industry, vibrant settlements, and wild landscapes across the Antipodes reveals how communities adapt to isolated environments and transform untamed lands into modern societies.
Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal: Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published
Maria Monk
A sensational nineteenth-century expose detail public accusations of secret abuse, forced obedience, and murder inside a Montreal convent.
Beyond The Rocks: A Love Story
Elinor Glyn
Caught between a mercenary family duty and the pull of forbidden devotion, a gentle young beauty faces the heartache of an impossible choice.
Black Jack
Max Brand
A young man raised under an assumed name discovers he is the son of an infamous outlaw and runs wild to embrace his violent inheritance.
Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846
Various
This Victorian miscellany serves as a diverse literary mirror, blending political commentary, historical analysis, and imaginative fiction into a singular, vibrant portrait of the mid-19th-century British intellectual landscape.
Boy Scouts in Southern Waters
G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson
Out on the open waters of the Gulf, a crew of quick-thinking youths faces fog, treacherous rivals, and sunken fortunes with only their Scout training to steer them true.