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Beautiful Birds
Edmund Selous
Glorious plumes conceal a hidden history of bloodshed, where the world's most dazzling creatures are hunted down to decorate high-fashion hats.
Bell's Cathedrals: St. David's
Philip A. (Philip Appleby) Robson
Perched remote near the rocky Pembrokeshire coast, a solitary cathedral guards centuries of architectural transformations, surviving storm, neglect, and ambitious restoration.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 401, March 1849
Various
Amid the political tremors and industrial leaps of mid-nineteenth-century Britain, a landmark journal captures a nation fiercely debating its own future.
Bluebeard
Clifton Johnson
A dark chamber locked behind a magic key sets the stage for a wide-ranging journey through the world's most enduring folk traditions.
Cawnpore
George Otto Trevelyan
A quiet colonial station becomes the epicenter of a terrifying siege when long-brewing resentments, military neglect, and religious panic erupt into open mutiny along the banks of the Ganges.
Citizen or subject?
Francis X. Hennessy
A nation built on individual liberty cannot survive when state legislatures seize the exclusive power of the people to surrender human freedom to government control.
Coleridge
S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan
A brilliant mind yields to fragile willpower, leaving behind exquisite fragments of poetry and an enduring tragedy of wasted potential.
Collected poems of Alice Meynell
Alice Meynell
A quiet, exquisite architecture of thought where earthly landscape, human devotion, and divine mystery converge in austere, luminous verse.
Cornelli
Johanna Spyri
Cornelli is a motherless girl whose world darkens under stern guardians, until a warm-hearted family helps her reclaim her joy and her father's love.
Cousin Hatty's Hymns and Twilight Stories
Unknown
A mother or aunt sits by the fire in the soft light of evening, using short, rhythmic verses to teach a child how to live a good life.
Dick Leslie's Luck: A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure
Harry Collingwood
Washed overboard in a furious squall, a disgraced young sailor must navigate treacherous seas, murderous ship captains, and remote coral reefs to protect the woman he loves and clear his wrongfully tarnished name.
Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point
H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
A greenhorn entering West Point finds that the hardest battle is not against upperclassmen or exams, but against his own pride.
Dorothy Dixon Wins Her Wings
Dorothy Wayne
She steps into the surf to launch her skiff and ends up steering a heavy amphibian plane through a storm.
Evolution: An Investigation and a Critique
Theodore Graebner
Scientific theories often claim the authority of final truth, yet their premises crumble when subjected to rigorous empirical and logical scrutiny.
Fires - Book 2: The Ovens, and Other Tales
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
The heavy machinery of the industrial North swings out over shattered lives, casting a stark warmth across those who have nowhere else to turn.
Flaxius
Charles Godfrey Leland
An immortal Etruscan wanders through the centuries, offering sharp-witted counsel to historic figures, demons, and ordinary mortals alike while observing humanity’s slow and unpredictable evolution.
Fridtjof Nansen: A Book for the Young
Jacob B. (Jacob Breda) Bull
A boy off the Norwegian coast learns to outlast freezing weather, master ski tracks, and trust his own judgment before leading men into uncharted white horizons.
Further memories
Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron
Reflections from a quiet Cotswold bamboo grove open outward into vivid recollections of Eastern traditions, European high politics, and artistic brilliance.
Glimpses of Indian Birds
Douglas Dewar
Observation directly overrules dry laboratory theory when watching a brilliant minivet hover in an Indian forest or a red-headed merlin strike down its prey.
Guy Deverell, v. 2 of 2
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A long-buried crime in an English manor house comes to light through the calculated moves of a vengeful guest and the unwitting return of an orphaned heir.
Harry Harding's Year of Promise
Alfred Raymond
A boy learns that work is its own kind of adventure in a big department store.
Higher Education and Business Standards
Willard E. (Willard Eugene) Hotchkiss
A vision of commerce as a public service, this short volume argues that lasting business success requires replacing short-sighted exploitation with scientific management, ethical standards, and university-level executive training.
History of the Moors of Spain
Florian
The story of Islamic Spain unfolds as a magnificent, violent, and deeply cultured chronicle, tracing eight centuries of intellectual brilliance and relentless territorial loss across the Iberian Peninsula.
Hymen
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Bright floral hues and stark marble contours collision in this modern re-imagining of ancient Greek ritual and myth, turning classical figures into conduits of sharp, modern desire.
In Caverns Below
Stanton A. (Stanton Arthur) Coblentz
A descent into a subterranean world turns into a sharp, satirical tour of human absurdity buried thousands of feet below the earth.
In the Court of King Arthur
Samuel E. (Samuel Edward) Lowe
A young boy rises from an obscure position as a page to sit in the most dangerous chair in Camelot and fulfill a sacred destiny.
Inventors & Inventions
Henry Robinson
A practical, deeply cynical, yet fiercely loyal manual for the mechanical mind, revealing how brilliant designs are routinely wrecked by raw business greed.
It Might Have Happened to You: A Contemporary Portrait of Central and Eastern Europe
Coningsby Dawson
Dispatches from the shattered cities of Central Europe reveal that human suffering is rarely a matter of merit, but of geography.
Jack Sheppard: A Romance, Vol. 3 (of 3)
William Harrison Ainsworth
With rapid pace and sensational flair, the story follows a doomed young thief whose miraculous prison escapes, deep maternal devotion, and relentless feud with the monstrous thief-taker Jonathan Wild make him an unforgettable, tragic underdog.
Jill's Red Bag
Amy Le Feuvre
Three unruly siblings turn their high-spirited games toward heaven after their new governess shares a simple lesson on faith, launching a town-wide transformation one coin at a time.
Key-Notes of American Liberty: Comprising the most important speeches, proclamations, and acts of Congress, from the foundation of the government to the present time
Various
A nation's identity reveals itself through its foundational texts, charting a turbulent passage from revolutionary ideals to the devastating trial of civil war.
Ladies Must Live
Alice Duer Miller
A cynical social satire turns on an unexpected hinge when two mercenary high-society players drop their defenses and fall in love. In 1910s New York, staying wealthy is a full-time job.
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Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests
Henri de Crignelle
In the granite heart of central France, ancient forests and wild torrents frame a world where rustic hunters track fierce boars through sun-dappled glades and ancient customs remain untouched by modern life.
Letters of Felix Mendelssohn to Ignaz and Charlotte Moscheles
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
An intimate, lifelong dialogue in ink traces the bright rise and quiet, untimely twilight of a nineteenth-century musical genius. Through candid correspondence, two masters share the triumphs, exhaustion, and domestic quiet that shaped classical music's romantic age.
Local option in Loco-Land
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
When two dry-prospecting panners return to town, they stumble right into the crossfire of a local prohibition campaign and an election that no one seems to understand.
Lodore, Vol. 1 (of 3)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Longing for domestic peace, an exiled nobleman creates a pristine world for his daughter in the American wilderness, only to find that no wall can keep out the past.
Making Home Profitable
Kate V. (Kate Vandenhoff) Saint Maur
A city couple trades overcrowded flat life for a small farm, systematically turning back-yard agriculture, livestock, and homemade produce into a reliable, self-sustaining livelihood.
Mandalay to Momien: A narrative of the two expeditions to western China of 1868 and 1875 under Colonel Edward B. Sladen and Colonel Horace Browne
John Anderson
This record details the perilous nineteenth-century pursuit of a trade route between British-controlled Burma and the interior of China. It serves as both a scientific survey of a rugged borderland and a sobering account of colonial diplomatic failure.
Mari, Our Little Norwegian Cousin
Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
Life on a remote Scandinavian farm unfolds through the seasons as a young girl learns the quiet rhythm of traditional Norse domesticity and community life.
Medical investigation in seventeenth century England
Charles W. Bodemer
In a century split between ancient scholastic logic and modern observation, natural philosophers struggled to understand how living bodies develop and how remedies actually heal human illness.
Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
An indefatigable seeker of truth transforms open inquiry into scientific discovery, enduring political persecution to defend civil liberty and rational faith across two continents.
Menhardoc
George Manville Fenn
A high-spirited pair of town-bred twins spend a summer along the rugged Cornish coast, finding their soft manners tested by the sea, the mines, and a local boy who knows the water.
Mrs. Dud's Sister
Josephine Daskam Bacon
A quiet, reflective man stumbles away from a glittering estate party and finds, tucked behind a high green hedge, a sanctuary of memory, fresh cookies, and the possibility of a late-in-life love.
Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy
Charles Dickens
A big-hearted London landlady journeys to France after receiving a mysterious deathbed inheritance, only to find herself confronting a haunting ghost from her past.
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land
Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner
These stories capture the restless spirit of a young nation, blending the ghosts of the American frontier with the echoes of colonial history and ancient indigenous lore.
Natural history, lore and legend
F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme
A wide-eyed trek through old bestiaries, travelogues, and folklore exposes how our ancestors mapped their world using equal parts keen observation, pious moralizing, and wild imagination.
Nearest the Pole: a narrative of the polar expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906
Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary
A relentless push across frozen ocean leads, jagged pressure ridges, and howling Arctic blales leaves a team stranded at the edge of human reach.
Nooks and Corners of Old London
Charles Hemstreet
Through narrow alleys, ancient churchyards, and forgotten taverns, the ghosts of poets and kings still walk the pavement of a changing city.