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Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884
Various
Industrial ambition and observational science meet in a weekly snapshot of late nineteenth-century invention, where practical craft and global curiosity converge.
Six little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's
Laura Lee Hope
A bustling summer in Boston brings everyday magic to a big family, where missing dolls, stray animals, and misplaced pocketbooks turn routine afternoons into grand childhood adventures.
Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889
Unknown
A meticulous window into 1880s professional baseball, combining legal frameworks, detailed statistics, commercial enterprise, and raw seasonal narrative to capture an era when America’s national pastime was rapidly codifying its identity.
Stand By: The Story of a Boy's Achievement in Radio
Hugh McAlister
A curious boy turns an antique static machine into a lifelong mastery of wireless signals that saves an Arctic expedition.
Stories for the Young
Hannah More
A sharp, moral vision of eighteenth-century English life where everyday choices carry eternal weight, tracing the narrow line between virtue and ruin.
Stories from the trenches
Carleton B. (Carleton Britton) Case
A cashiered officer redeems his name in the Foreign Legion, while home-front parents stuff a son with water and pork chops so he can pass the Navy scale.
The Academic Gregories
Agnes Grainger Stewart
A Scottish bloodline transforms from violent Highland outlawry into an unmatched dynasty of professors, mathematicians, and pioneering physicians across two centuries of university life.
The American Missionary
Various
Through financial records, field dispatches, and missionary accounts, a nineteenth-century organization reveals the expansive, gritty work of educating and evangelizing post-Civil War America.
The Apartment Next Door
William Johnston
A woman risks everything to uncover a deadly wartime plot, only to find her heart divided between duty to her country and her feeling for the suspect living right across the hall.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
A mid-century monthly opens its leaves to reveal a nation wrestling with its own soul, where domestic practicalities, literary ambitions, and the shadows of a bleeding Union collide.
The Battle of Allatoona, October 5th, 1864
William Ludlow
A remote mountain pass holds the line for an entire army. When a Confederate division moves to destroy a vital Union supply depot, a desperate seven-hour siege decides the fate of General Sherman's campaign.
The Birds' Christmas Carol
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
A sick child brings warmth to her wealthy home and spends her final Christmas creating a magnificent feast for nine poor neighbors.
The Boys and I: A Child's Story for Children
Mrs. Molesworth
A nine-year-old girl and her little brothers are uprooted to their uncle's London townhouse, where misunderstanding and domestic friction force them to find their own way toward warmth and belonging.
The Brute
Frederic Arnold Kummer
An unyielding husband and an ambitious wife clash when an unexpected fortune tests the boundaries of pride, love, and moral compromise.
The Building of Castello de San Marcos: National Park Service Interpretive Series, History No. 1
Albert C. Manucy
A pirate attack forces Spain to construct an imperishable stone fortress on the Florida coast to safeguard its colonial empire.
The Canadian Girl at Work: A Book of Vocational Guidance
Willison, Marjory MacMurchy, Lady
Practical wisdom meets moral purpose in a guide that treats a young woman's career choices as vital steps toward personal independence, personal health, and civic responsibility.
The China Painter Instruction Book
George Erhart Balluff
Grinding pigments on a clean glass slab, balancing delicate washes of metallic lustres, and mastering the heat of an oil-fired kiln demand patience, exact preparation, and absolute cleanliness.
The Daemon of the World
Percy Bysshe Shelley
An ethereal spirit descends to lift a sleeping maiden's soul into the cosmic heavens, revealing the dark errors of humanity's past and a radiant vision of future perfection.
The Dreadnought Boys on Battle Practice
John Henry Goldfrap
A wide-eyed Catskill farm boy marvels at a colorful recruitment poster in a country store, setting off a rapid chain of events that carries two mountain youths straight onto the steel decks of a giant American battleship.
The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)
George Tyrrell
Hungry for certainty, human thought repeatedly swings between dry intellectual systems and vital spiritual experience. The essays collected here explore how ancient faith adapts to modern knowledge, arguing that religion thrives by answering the soul's deepest practical and emotional needs.
The Forests of Mount Rainier National Park
G. F. (Grenville F.) Allen
Where low river valleys give way to high alpine ridges, dense evergreen foliage yields to weather-beaten spires and sprawling mountain meadows shaped by snow, fire, and climate.
The Girl from Alsace: A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade
Burton Egbert Stevenson
An inadvertent partnership forged on the eve of war plunges two strangers into a desperate trek across hostile territory.
The Girl Scouts' Good Turn
Edith Lavell
At Miss Allen’s Boarding School, dedicated sophomore Marjorie Wilkinson balances campus rivalries, social gatherings, and troop adventures while attempting to rehabilitate a troubled runaway who tests every principle of Girl Scouting.
The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 02
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
A delusional country gentleman takes up a lance, mounts a worn-out hack, and sets out across the Spanish countryside to right the world's wrongs.
The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit
Richard Harris
Litigation turns a dispute over a pig into a vortex of legal fees that consumes a farmer's entire life.
The Jack-Knife Man
Ellis Parker Butler
A gentle Iowa craftsman transformed by an orphaned boy learns that a quiet life, a sharp pocketknife, and an unexpectedly fierce heart are enough to build a real family.
The Land of Fire: A Tale of Adventure
Mayne Reid
Stranded along the frozen coasts of Tierra del Fuego, a lost American crew must rely on an old sailor's wilderness lore to survive hostile weather and native encounters.
The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others
Georgiana Fullerton
Physical life yields entirely to the spirit in these lives of Christian ascetics, where bodily torment and ecstasy meet in quiet Rome.
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The Little Treasure of Prayers: Being a Translation of the Epitome from the German Larger "Treasure of Prayers" ["Gebets-Schatz"] of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
Anonymous
An enduring collection of nineteenth-century Lutheran devotions, this volume guides believers through the quiet rhythms of daily work, sudden crises, and the final passage of life.
The Long Dim Trail
Forrestine C. (Forrestine Cooper) Hooker
A weary young mother on an isolated Arizona homestead faces the terror of an Indian raid while her volatile husband leaves her to bear the brunt of frontier life.
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The 'Look About You' Nature Study Books, Book 3 [of 7]
Thomas W. Hoare
Curious children uncover the quiet wonders of nature alongside their knowledgeable uncle, learning to observe the wild world in their own backyard with patience, scientific precision, and deep respect.
The Man Who Rocked the Earth
Robert Williams Wood
When a mysterious dictator of human destiny weaponizes the earth's axis to force an end to global warfare, humanity faces a terrifying choice between perpetual peace and planetary annihilation.
The maternal management of children, in health and disease
Thomas Bull
A mother’s steady, vigilant care is framed as the ultimate defense against childhood illness in this authoritative nineteenth-century guide to domestic hygiene and pediatric care.
The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught
Charles C. Nott
A forgotten delegate leaves behind a draft of the Constitution that disappears into history, only to reappear decades later and ignite an intense debate over who truly shaped the American republic.
The Recitation
George Herbert Betts
A thoughtful teacher provides clear, practical guidance on how to make the classroom period an inspiring, purposeful environment for learning.
The Rival Campers Afloat
Ruel Perley Smith
Two rival groups of Maine teenage boys spend a lively summer racing sailboats, settling small-town squabbles, and uncovering a dark mystery aboard a sunken yacht.
The romance of the animal world
Edmund Selous
A small wasp flies into a shaded veranda carrying glistening spheres of mud, building an intricate architecture designed for a dark and violent purpose.
The Rubicon
E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
A cynical young woman marries for social position, only to find that her callous indifference to life wrecks the happiness of everyone around her.
The Soul of Nicholas Snyders
Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
A bitter Dutch miser buys a young man’s generous soul, only to discover that the burden of loving someone else is far more agonizing than his original greed.
The Spell of the Rockies
Enos A. Mills
A firsthand journey through the rugged wilderness of the American West reveals a world of untamed beauty, where high alpine storms, vast forests, and quiet animal societies shape the grand landscape.
The Walking Delegate
Leroy Scott
A corrupt labor boss uses his union as a personal gold mine until a principled steelworker decides to risk his livelihood, his marriage, and his reputation to bring him down.
The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolfe
William Wood
A frail, ambitious young commander dies in the moment of his greatest victory, securing a continent for an empire through a brilliant combination of naval power and bold amphibious tactics.
Theological Essays and Other Papers
Thomas De Quincey
A fierce intellect dissects 19th-century church schisms, ancient wardrobes, world-conquerors, and Alexander Pope's malicious satires with devastating precision.
Through British Guiana to the summit of Roraima
Clementi, Cecil, Mrs.
Unbroken rainforests give way to sunlit tablelands and sheer vertical cliffs as a journey into South America’s hidden interior reveals the ancient, mist-shrouded summit of Roraima.
Tomlinsoniana
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
A rogue's guide to human nature reveals that the quickest way to govern men is to master the hidden mechanics of their hypocrisy.
Tried for Her Life: A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave"
Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
A falsely accused heroine escapes a death sentence, survives a harrowing wilderness flood, and endures years of exile before a dying confession clears her name.
True Detective Stories from the Archives of the Pinkertons
Cleveland Moffett
A methodical detective agency relentlessly pursues 1870s bank robbers, train wreckers, and express thieves across North America, unraveling elaborate criminal conspiracies through forensic patience, undercover infiltration, and psychology.
Turandot, Princess of China: A Chinoiserie in Three Acts
Carlo Gozzi
Cruel beauty meets stubborn devotion under the shadow of the Peking scaffold.