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Snow Flakes (From "Twice Told Tales")
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A quiet winter storm transforms a small New England town, calling forth deep reflections on human mortality, artistic creation, and the enduring resilience of the human spirit.
Stand Fast, Craig-Royston! (Volume II)
William Black
A young man's desperate love for an enigmatic woman collides with social prejudice, hidden shame, and the dubious reputation of her grandfather.
Stirring Incidents in the Life of a British Soldier: An Autobiography
Faughnan, Thomas, active 1835-1883
Enlisting into the ranks of the British Army, a working-class Irishman leaves behind rural hardship to spend decades marching, sailing, and fighting across the globe in service of the Empire.
Stories and ballads for young folks
Ellen Tracy Alden
Youthful innocence, historical hardship, and gentle moral wisdom intertwine when quiet domestic moments give way to sweeping tales of courage, duty, and resilience.
Stormy, Misty's Foal
Marguerite Henry
A devastating storm threatens a low-lying barrier island, testing a resilient family as their beloved, pregnant pony readies to bring new life into a bruised world.
Tales from the German. Volume I
C. F. van der (Carl Franz) Velde
The tragic death of King Charles XII of Sweden casts a long shadow across a nation torn between royal succession, bitter political betrayals, and the quiet resilience of true love.
Talkies
Eddie Cantor
The sudden arrival of sound in motion pictures destroys the last refuge of urban silence, transforming quiet picture houses into noisy arenas where every door, appliance, and screen actor clamors to be heard.
The Adventures of the U-202: An Actual Narrative
Spiegel, E. (Edgar), Freiherr von
A tense, high-stakes sea voyage told from the heart of early submarine warfare, where technical ingenuity meets constant mortal peril.
The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia
William James Miller
A practical guide to the vocabulary and traditions of the Episcopal Church, designed to help everyday readers understand the historical roots, rituals, and internal life of the faith.
The Argonauts of North Liberty
Bret Harte
A chilly Connecticut parish hides a secret romance, propelling two men and a cold, pious woman into the turbulent chaos of Gold Rush California.
The Automaton Ear, and Other Sketches
Florence McLandburgh
A scientist constructs a listening trumpet that captures every sound ever uttered in human history, only to find the overwhelming din of the past driving him to the brink of madness.
The Believing Years
Edmund Lester Pearson
Childhood summers in an old New England town unfold through small rebellions, imaginary wars, and the quiet magic of a vanishing world.
The best man
Grace Livingston Hill
Trapped by a mistaken identity at a stranger's altar, a Secret Service agent must protect a vital government secret—and the unwitting bride who accidentally married him.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias: The Challoner Revision
Unknown
A reluctant prophet delivers unheeded warnings of impending ruin to a defiant nation, bearing witness to the catastrophic fall of Jerusalem and its subsequent exile.
The book of The Cheese
Unknown
Tucked down a narrow Fleet Street alley, an ancient London tavern preserves the ghost of Samuel Johnson through sizzling steaks, long clay pipes, and a massive sixty-pound lark-and-kidney pudding.
The Border Rifles: A Tale of the Texan War
Gustave Aimard
A hunter buys a runaway slave’s freedom on the trail, setting off a chain of frontier conflicts where private honor collides with the gathering storm of Texan revolution.
The Boys' Book of Model Aeroplanes: How to Build and Fly Them: With the Story of the Evolution of the Flying Machine
Francis A. (Francis Arnold) Collins
Hands-on craftsmanship meets the dawn of aviation in a book that transforms the sky from a distant spectator sport into an open-air workshop for young minds.
The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz
Frank Fowler
Stepping straight into the shadow of the 1914 Vera Cruz occupation, three American teenagers navigate Mexican revolutionists, lost gold, and wartime chaotic intrigue across a landscape of runaway railroad cars and hidden mountain fortresses.
The Cave in the Mountain: A Sequel to In the Pecos Country
Edward Sylvester Ellis
Trapped in subterranean darkness with hostile Apaches watching the surface, two companions must outwit an unforgiving landscape to reach safety.
The Celtic Magazine, Vol. I, No. VI, April 1876: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad
Various
Voices of historic grief, cultural pride, and linguistic advocacy echo across the centuries to defend a living Highland heritage.
The Church of Sancta Sophia, Constantinople: A Study of Byzantine Building
W. R. (William Richard) Lethaby
A soaring dome hangs above light-flooded marbles to create the supreme monument of the Christian world, preserving its structural brilliance through centuries of transformation.
The crisis
Various
A vital historical document captures the early twentieth-century struggle for Black civil rights through journalism, critical essays, political reports, and community announcements.
The Daughter of the Storage: And Other Things in Prose and Verse
William Dean Howells
A young woman stands inside a Manhattan storage facility, trying to recall a long-forgotten childhood encounter while her mother obsessively sorts through old household trunks.
The Dominant Strain
Anna Chapin Ray
High society and artistic ambition collide when a refined woman marries a charming man to save him, only to face the limits of her influence.
The Escorial: A Historical and Descriptive Account of the Spanish Royal Palace, Monastery and Mausoleum
Albert Frederick Calvert
An austere gridiron of granite rises against the Castilian mountains, built to align a king's religious devotion with the absolute power of his empire.
The evolution of religion
Lewis Richard Farnell
A comparative examination of ancient rites reveals how primitive taboos and magical spells slowly evolved into refined moral codes and spiritual communion.
The flame-gatherers
Margaret Horton Potter
A soul cursed by passion and betrayal seeks redemption across the span of centuries and reincarnations in medieval India.
The Golden Judge
Nathaniel Gordon
A flippant suggestion made during a sweltering UN armistice meeting unexpected transforms global diplomacy by proving that nations respect the outcome of a fair bet far more than formal treaties.
The Great Fortress
William Wood
A lone stone citadel on the fog-shrouded shores of Cape Breton holds the key to an empire, serving as the sole Atlantic gateway between France and its vast American wilderness.
The Happy Adventurers
Lydia Miller Middleton
A housebound young girl steps through the glass of a family photograph album into nineteenth-century Australia, discovering a world of sunlit gardens, lost diamonds, and timeless bonds.
The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 39
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
An aging knight wanders Spain chasing courtly phantoms, accompanied by a peasant whose stubborn common sense repeatedly collides with his master's delusions.
The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 41
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Deluded by romance, a defeated knight errant and his shrewd squire ride home toward reality, bargaining over magical lashes and confronting fake histories.
The House of the Wolf: A Romance
Stanley John Weyman
A high-spirited teenage nobleman leads his brothers into the madness of 1572 Paris, risking everything to rescue their cousin's Protestant lover from the deadly clutches of an implacable rival.
The Indian Drum
William MacHarg
Across the stormy, ice-bound waters of Lake Michigan, an unseen drum marks every life lost to the waves, keeping count of a dark tally that one ambitious man will do anything to hide.
The Iron Woman
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
Youth, passion, and stubborn pride collide in a industrial river town where four childhood friends discover how easily a single hasty decision can shatter multiple lives.
The Italian, Volume 1 (of 3)
Ann Ward Radcliffe
A sinister monk stalks a noble Neapolitan youth to thwart his passion for an orphaned noblewoman.
The King of Arcadia
Francis Lynde
A remote Colorado valley becomes a deadly battleground when an ambitious irrigation project collides with an unyielding cattle baron's private wilderness kingdom.
The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 6, December 1837
Various
This 1837 issue captures the burgeoning literary spirit of nineteenth-century America through a rich mixture of travelogues, historical speculation, moral fiction, and social criticism.
The Kopje Farm
William Johnston
A Highland teenager defends his family's South African farm during the Boer War, uncovering an immense fortune in diamonds amid the clash of arms.
The Last Miracle
M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
Forged miracles, stolen clerics, and a grand, ruthless conspiracy collide in a twilight Europe where a dying faith is systematically dismantled by a single terrifying will.
The Lucky Seventh
Ralph Henry Barbour
A makeshift ball club, a stubborn town patriarch, and a crippling injury conspire against a high school baseball team fighting to keep its home field.
The Making of Species
Douglas Dewar
A rigorous critique of post-Darwinian evolutionary theories that challenges rigid dogmas while offering a fresh, empirical vision of species formation.
The Man from Mars: His Morals, Politics and Religion
William Simpson
A recluse observing nature through a telescope meets a Martian visitor who reveals how an advanced society solved Earth's worst systemic failures.
The Marx He Knew
John Spargo
A reverent old cigarmaker passes down the unwritten history of socialism's foundational theorist through the intimate memories of a lifelong friendship.
The Mind Master
Arthur J. Burks
Trapped inside a giant ape's body, a man fights to stop a mad scientist from replacing New York's leaders with mind-controlled beasts.
The missing chums
Franklin W. Dixon
When a summer boat trip turns into a abduction, two teenage brothers race to rescue their lost friends from a ruthless gang hiding on a desolate island.
The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. I., No. 2, April, 1889
Various
A grand survey of physical landmasses, oceanic depth, and global atmosphere unfolds alongside the formal administrative birth of a newly organized scientific institution.
The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 5, April, 1891
Various
A young scientific institution charts its administrative growth while venturing beyond the lecture hall into bold Alaskan field exploration.