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In and out of Three Normandy Inns
Anna Bowman Dodd
A rare, warm-hearted travelogue through the villages and inns of late nineteenth-century France, capturing the rhythm of Norman life, the eccentricities of its people, and the enduring grandeur of its coast.
Islam, Her Moral And Spiritual Value: A Rational And Pyschological Study
Arthur Glyn Leonard
A passionate defense of a global faith written by a British army officer, this study dismantles Western prejudices by grounding religious history in psychology, geography, and human nature.
Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: January-May, 1880
Mary King Waddington
An American-born diplomat’s wife steps off the train into late-nineteenth-century Rome, recording high society, royal audiences, and scenic drives with lighthearted charm and unpretentious observational intelligence.
Jesus of Nazareth, A Biography, by John Mark
Unknown
A swift and vivid narrative captures a decisive ministry, charting a relentless course from rural miracles toward betrayal, trial, and an empty tomb.
Joscelyn Cheshire: A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas
Sara Beaumont Kennedy
A fiery Loyalist woman and a devoted Patriot soldier test the limits of devotion, duty, and pride amidst the turmoil of the American Revolution.
Letters from High Latitudes: Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856 of the Schooner Yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Meyen, and Spitzbergen
Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of
A sudden telegram shatters a hopeful departure, yet launches a magnificent northern odyssey across storm-tossed seas, ancient ice-fields, and silent polar solitudes.
Liége on the line of march
Glenna Lindsley Bigelow
Terrifying midnight bombardments force a quiet Belgian countryside household to abandon their beds and cower in the wine cellar.
Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers
Unknown
The relentless pursuit of the unknown drives men to abandon the comforts of home, choosing instead the peril of uncharted horizons and the harsh lessons of the wild.
Lover or Friend
Rosa Nouchette Carey
Bound by propriety and secret shame, a spirited young woman marries not out of grand passion, but in response to honor, gradually discovering that true love was standing quietly beside her all along.
Manco, the Peruvian Chief
William Henry Giles Kingston
High above the Pacific, where ancient Inca mountains meet Spanish rule, an English family becomes wrapped up in a dangerous native uprising.
Marmaduke Merry: A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days
William Henry Giles Kingston
High-spirited lads, towering seas, and tall tales told over grog carry this lively Victorian yarn through the perils of naval warfare.
Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 3 (of 3)
Horace Walpole
Political intrigue, military maneuvers, and court rivalries collide in this sharp account of Britain's struggle for power at home and abroad during the twilight years of King George II's reign.
Menotah: A Tale of the Riel Rebellion
John Trevena
A young Indian woman’s unreserved love for a treacherous white covert agent collides with the bloodshed of the 1885 Riel Rebellion.
Merlin: A Poem
Edwin Arlington Robinson
A great seer abandons a falling kingdom for ten years of romantic oblivion, only to discover that his foresight cannot prevent the ruin he foresaw.
Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare
Two fiercely independent wits wage a war of words while a malicious conspiracy threatens to destroy a young couple's wedding in sunny Messina.
Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat
Owen Wister
A clear-eyed journey across frozen tundras and rugged mountain peaks reveals the magnificent big game animals of North America.
My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879
Mary King Waddington
Entering the gilded salons and icy legislative halls of the Third Republic, a cosmopolitan newcomer maps the fragile rebirth of French democracy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
A towering figure of military genius and unyielding ambition faces combined Europe to rescue a fractured France from total ruin. Through icy mountain passes and bloody plains, his sheer presence commands devotion and dictates the destiny of nations.
Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819
Richard Lee Mason
A traveler rides west across a changing nation, mapping the rough roads and rougher characters of the American frontier.
Nat the Navigator. A Life of Nathaniel Bowditch. For Young Persons
Henry I. (Henry Ingersoll) Bowditch
A self-taught mathematician rises from childhood poverty in Salem to revolutionize American navigation and translate the most complex European astronomy.
Nick of the Woods
Robert Montgomery Bird
In the dark forests of revolutionary-era Kentucky, a murderous specter wages a private war against native tribes, upending the lives of settlers and savages alike.
North American Wild Flowers
Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
A deep attentiveness to the soil, shade, and seasonal shifts of the North American wilderness turns this survey of woodland and marsh vegetation into a quiet work of natural devotion.
Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Various
Centuries of curiosity meet in a single weekly issue where readers exchange historical tidbits, untangle obscure etymologies, and debate local folklore.
Oppressions of the Sixteenth Century in the Islands of Orkney and Zetland: From Original Documents
Unknown
A fragile island culture finds its ancient freedom crushed beneath the iron heel of greedy feudal lords.
Our Little Hungarian Cousin
Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
Separated from her wealthy family as a toddler, a lost girl travels with a kindly Gypsy boy across the Hungarian countryside, discovering traditional village customs before a twist of fate reveals her true noble heritage.
Perch of the Devil
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
A restless young miner seeks fortune in the Montana copper hills while his ambitious wife transformed by social training navigates love and class in Butte.
Picture Posters: A Short History of the Illustrated Placard with Many Reproductions of the Most Artistic Examples in all Countries
Charles Hiatt
Ephemeral printed announcements on city walls transformed into highly prized objects of fine art, changing streetscapes and modern advertising forever.
Postmark Ganymede
Robert Silverberg
Demoted to a routine outer-system mail run, a bitter space patrol officer proves that delivering letters to dangerous alien frontiers requires the same grit and daring as combat duty.
Prophecies of Robert Nixon, Mother Shipton, and Martha, the Gypsy
Anonymous
A shadow of coming events darkens these pages, where rural idiots, demonic infants, and vengeful outcasts see through the veil of time.
Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 38, December 17, 1870
Various
This single issue of a Gilded Age comic weekly captures high-spirited Nineteenth-Century American satire at its most chaotic, irreverent, and sharply observational.
Recollections of a Pioneer
J. W. (J. Watt) Gibson
A lone Missouri farmer rides across thousands of miles of wilderness, drives cattle through hostile territories, survives civil war skirmishes, and returns to the soil with his quiet dignity intact.
Remodeled Farmhouses
Mary Harrod Northend
Weather-worn timbers and low-studded ceilings hold an enduring charm for anyone dreaming of a quiet life in the countryside.
Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest
Alice B. Emerson
A young film writer and her courageous Indian star navigate wild horses, runaway logging drives, and an vengeful showman in the American West.
Salt and the salt industry
Albert Frederick Calvert
From ancient iron kettles and Medieval monastic grants to collapsed underground mines and modern brine pipelines, this 1912 industry survey reveals the hidden history, science, and ruthless commercial politics of England's salt trade.
Simon Eichelkatz
Ulrich Frank
Faith and lineage collide with modern life in two poignant tales of 19th-century German-Jewish identity.
Sixty Squadron R.A.F.: A History of the Squadron from its Formation
A. J. L. (Alan John Lance) Scott
A band of young aviators takes to the sky, forging the deadly art of aerial combat from the ground up over Western Europe.
Slim Evans and His Horse Lightning
Graham M. Dean
A young cowboy and his red sorrel mare head into a shadow-drenched mountain basin to break up a ruthless cattle-rustling ring.
Sources of the Synoptic Gospels
Carl S. (Carl Safford) Patton
Underneath the familiar surface of the Gospels lies an intricate literary puzzle: how two distinct writers independently combined identical early sources to build their accounts.
Survivor
Cox, Irving E., Jr.
A man strips away his humanity in the name of raw survival, only to meet the tragic logic of a world where everyone else is doing the same.
T. B. Peterson's List of Publications (1857)
Pa.) T.B. Peterson & Brothers (Philadelphia
Mid-nineteenth-century American readers hunger for affordable, sensational stories, and a Philadelphia publisher steps forward to organize, package, and deliver popular literature directly to their doorsteps.
Tales from the Arabic
John Payne
A web of nested fables, sovereign whims, and desperate gambits reveals a world where a misplaced word costs a head and a clever ruse buys a kingdom.
Teaching the Child Patriotism
Kate Upson Clark
Civic devotion is not an accident of nature; it is a quiet habit of the heart, carefully built line by line in the routine of everyday life.
The American Missionary
Various
Across late-nineteenth-century America, dedicated reformers fight to build schools, organize congregations, and provide material aid to marginalized communities amidst deep economic strains and systemic racial barriers.
The American Missionary
Various
A quiet, steady chronicle of northern benevolence moving southward and westward, this periodical records the slow work of building schools and churches in the decades following the American Civil War.
The American Missionary
Various
A collection of reports, letters, and financial receipts reveals how Northern reformers and Southern Freedmen built schools, churches, and civic institutions during Reconstruction.
The Art of English Poetry (1708)
Bysshe, Edward, active 1702-1712
This technical guide sets out to discipline English poetry by establishing rigid structural rules, metric precision, and systematic standards for syllable counts and rhyme schemes.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
A perpetual tug-of-war between property and poverty shapes human history, leaving every generation to negotiate its own boundaries between wealth, civil order, and personal freedom.
The Badger: A Monograph
Pease, Alfred E. (Alfred Edward), Sir
Through quiet observation and arduous subterranean sport, a Victorian naturalist mounts a passionate defense of Britain's last remaining wild bear-tribe relative.