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Three Boys
George Manville Fenn
A fragile London youth is sent to a remote, crumbling Scottish estate, only to find his path intertwined with the fortunes of a proud, impoverished clan and his own unexpected capacity for redemption.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910: The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Benjamin Franklin Cresson
This technical account documents the monumental engineering effort required to extend the Pennsylvania Railroad into Manhattan, focusing on the complex excavation and stabilization beneath Ninth Avenue. It serves as a meticulous record of the early twentieth-century ingenuity that transformed New York’s…
Tropical nature, and other essays
Alfred Russel Wallace
Tropical environments teem with complex, interconnected life that defies simple explanation. These essays illuminate the mechanics of nature, from the habits of foraging ants to the intricate plumage of birds.
Trusia: A Princess of Krovitch
Davis Brinton
A Wall Street financier trades the chaos of the ticker tape for a dangerous quest to restore a lost monarchy, only to find that his most perilous encounter is with his own heart.
Vive la France!
E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell
This account offers a stark, firsthand look at the Western Front during the Great War, capturing the mechanical devastation of trench warfare and the enduring spirit of the French military.
Voices in the Night
Flora Annie Webster Steel
The city of Nushapore breathes with a restless, smoke-choked anxiety as the British administration and its Indian subjects drift toward a collision. A web of misunderstandings, religious tensions, and buried colonial history creates an atmosphere where an uprising feels, to many, like an inevitable, looming storm.
With the Procession
Henry Blake Fuller
The old guard of Chicago finds itself adrift as the city’s rapid expansion demands a new, more aggressive way of life. This portrait of a family caught between tradition and modernization captures the inevitable decline of an era.
Wondrous Love, and other Gospel addresses
Dwight Lyman Moody
A collection of urgent evangelical sermons, this volume offers a direct, unadorned invitation to embrace faith as a simple act of trust rather than an intellectual or emotional struggle.
Young Alaskans in the Far North
Emerson Hough
Three boys and their self-reliant uncle embark on an ambitious, multi-modal expedition across the frozen wilderness of Northern Canada and Alaska, tracing the routes of the historic fur trade.
A brand new world
Ray Cummings
When a rogue world hurtles into the solar system, it alters the Earth’s axis, plunging northern cities into eternal polar night and forcing humanity into a desperate fight for survival against a ruthless alien conqueror.
A call
Ford Madox Ford
A secret phone call, a mysterious silence, and the quiet tearing apart of upper-class London lives.
A First Reader
Frank E. (Frank Ellsworth) Spaulding
A gentle, rhythmic journey through the changing seasons invites young learners to discover the magic of reading through simple stories of nature, family, and childhood play.
A Girl in Spring-Time
Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
HOOK A headstrong schoolgirl finds her summer plans upended, only to discover that her greatest trial becomes the unexpected anchor of her life.
A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794, through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany, with a Return Down the Rhine, Vol. 2 (of 2): To Which Are Added Observations during a Tour to the Lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland
Ann Ward Radcliffe
A landscape painter's eye meets a novelist's sharp observer of human politics in this grand sweep across war-torn eighteenth-century Europe and England's quiet, dramatic northern mountains.
A letter to the Right Honorable the Lord Chancellor, on the nature and interpretation of unsoundness of mind, and imbecility of intellect
John Haslam
This professional inquiry challenges the legal definition of "unsoundness of mind," arguing that current judicial ambiguity creates dangerous confusion for both medical practitioners and the juries who must decide a person’s capacity.
A List To Starboard: 1909
Francis Hopkinson Smith
This tale of a foundering steamer captures the tension between a stoic captain and his panicked passengers, exploring the thin line between professional duty and the instinct for self-preservation. It is a bracing, tautly constructed drama of the sea.
A Little Queen of Hearts: An International Story
Ruth Ogden
A bright-eyed American girl travels to England and, through pure warmth, candid curiosity, and unselfconscious goodwill, reshapes the lives of broken families, estranged uncles, and weary strangers—including Queen Victoria herself.
A Monograph of Odontoglossum
Jas. (James) Bateman
A triumph of Victorian botanical observation, this work captures the precise moment when the elusive "cool" orchids of the high Andes were finally mastered by the gardeners of Europe. It serves as both a technical manual and a celebration of a newly accessible natural world.
A Moslem seeker after God
Samuel Marinus Zwemer
A restless search for ultimate truth drives a brilliant philosopher away from academic fame and into years of solitary pilgrimage across the medieval Islamic world.
A Young Girl's Wooing
Edward Payson Roe
A transformation of body and spirit drives this journey toward clarity, where one woman’s quiet resolve recalibrates the lives of those caught in the turbulent tides of Wall Street and the shifting social currents of the late nineteenth century.
About The Holy Bible: A Lecture
Robert Green Ingersoll
The Bible is frequently cited as a divine guide, yet a closer, critical examination of its history, morality, and internal contradictions suggests it is a human product of a long-vanished, primitive age.
Adventures and Recollections
Bill o'th' Hoylus End
This memoir captures the restless, wandering life of a self-styled "son of Mischief, Art and Guile" navigating the industrial landscape of nineteenth-century Yorkshire. It serves as a candid, vivid chronicle of a man who refused to be defined by the rigid expectations of his time.
Affinities, and Other Stories
Mary Roberts Rinehart
A weary wife stages a fake affair, a socialite tries to escape her own engagement, and a group of British activists kidnap the Prime Minister in this sparkling collection of comic misadventures.
An Address, Delivered Before the Was-ah Ho-de-no-son-ne or New Confederacy of the Iroquois: Also, Genundewah, a Poem
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
HOOK This collection captures a pivotal mid-19th-century effort to preserve the history and legends of the Iroquois Confederacy, blending scholarly address with mythic verse.
Barbara Ladd
Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
A headstrong, wild-hearted girl grows into adulthood in pre-Revolutionary Connecticut, torn between her affection for loyal friends and her devotion to the gathering storm of American independence.
Begin to Knit: All the Basic Stitches
American Thread Company
Picking up a pair of needles for the first time turns out to require less courage than clarity, provided the instructions respect the beginner’s intelligence.
Betting & Gambling: A National Evil
Unknown
An insidious epidemic of speculative greed sweeps early twentieth-century Britain, quietly dismantling working-class households, corrupting public institutions, and transforming sport into a venue for economic ruin and fraud.
Black Treasure: Sandy Steele Adventures #1
Robert Leckie
A teenage science enthusiast finds himself in the sun-baked landscapes of the American Southwest, where he must navigate corporate intrigue, frontier history, and the dangerous machinations of a ruthless land speculator.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845
Various
This collection of mid-nineteenth-century essays and reviews captures the Victorian intellectual appetite for global travel, literary critique, and the burgeoning mysteries of the human mind. It serves as a window into the era’s diverse and often conflicting cultural obsessions.
Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women
Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
This collection of biographies chronicles the lives and struggles of Native American leaders as they faced the expansion of the United States, offering a perspective centered on their defense of ancestral lands and autonomy.
British freewomen
C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
English legal tradition did not always exclude women from public authority; over centuries of statute and custom, their rights were systematically eroded until modern law codified their subjection.
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 3, No. 31, March, 1922: America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy
Various
A vibrant time capsule of 1920s American pop culture, this monthly digest captures the irrepressible energy, irreverent humor, and brassy charm of Prohibition-era entertainment.
Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer
George Manville Fenn
The young men of a colonial farm are thrust into the brutal uncertainty of war when a local agitation turns into an armed uprising. Loyalty, duty, and the desperate instinct to survive drive these characters across the vast, unforgiving veldt.
Conjuror's House: A Romance of the Free Forest
Stewart Edward White
Beyond the mapped limits of civilization lies a frozen wilderness where the Hudson Bay Company exerts absolute, unforgiving authority. In this stark northern expanse, a young adventurer defies the local tyrant, igniting a high-stakes struggle of wills that pulls an isolated girl into a dangerous, life-altering romance.
Crankisms
Lisle de Vaux Matthewman
A collection of cynical observations, these meditations on human vanity and social artifice suggest that while we may not be able to change our nature, we might at least learn to laugh at it.
Cupid's Middleman
Edward B. (Edward Burcham) Lent
A bungling amateur matchmaker finds his own life and his friend's romance nearly destroyed when his overblown love letters fall into the wrong hands.
Curly: A Tale of the Arizona Desert
Roger Pocock
A lone cowboy rides into the Arizona desert seeking adventure, only to be swept into a deadly frontier feud between an Irish lord and the ruthless enemy out to destroy him.
Dangerous Ground
Lawrence L. Lynch
A high-stakes game of shadows and secrets unfolds as two rival detectives race to uncover the truth behind a mysterious woman, a missing child, and a decades-old crime.
Dead Shot
Albert W. Aiken
Bound for the Montana goldfields along the Yellowstone River, an overland wagon train faces a deadly conspiracy from within its ranks and a relentless pursuit by a legendary Crow warrior who shares a uncanny resemblance to its young guide.
Defenders of Democracy: Contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy
Militia of Mercy (U.S.). Gift Book Committee
This collection of voices stands as a historical testament to a singular moment, gathering the era’s most prominent literary figures to champion a cause of international solidarity. It serves as both a cultural artifact of the First World War and a heartfelt call to action for the home front.
East of the sun and west of the moon
Kermit Roosevelt
A journey over the highest passes on earth testing endurance against mountain walls, raging rivers, and biting cold to pursue rare game across Central Asia.
Emilie the Peacemaker
Geldart, Thomas, Mrs.
This narrative explores the quiet, transformative power of patience and kindness within a domestic circle, illustrating how one person’s steady character can shift the tempers of those around her.
Europe from a Motor Car
Russell Richardson
Steering a touring automobile through early twentieth-century Europe offers an intimate look at a continent balancing ancient charm and impending modernity.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI
Alexander Maclaren
These sermons illuminate the profound intimacy between a teacher and his followers, revealing a relationship that transcends physical presence to become an enduring, inward reality.
Father Stafford
Anthony Hope
The struggle between personal desire and rigid duty unfolds with quiet intensity in a country house, where the rigid vows of a clergyman collide with the vibrant, messy reality of romantic love.
Food and Health
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company
A blend of household management and health advocacy, this volume serves as a curious bridge between domestic utility and the era of patent medicine. It offers a window into the daily lives and health concerns of women in the early twentieth century.
Fort Lafayette or, Love and Secession: A Novel
Benjamin Wood
The shadows of the American Civil War fall heavy upon personal loyalties in this tale of fractured kinship and ideological strife. It captures the desperate struggle to maintain love and individual conscience when a nation descends into violent, brother-against-brother conflict.
From Seven to Seventy: Memories of a Painter and a Yankee
Edward Simmons
A New England painter looks back on a life spent chasing color, from childhood among Concord’s sages to the studios of Paris and the boomtown energy of Gilded Age America.