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The First Landing on Wrangel Island: With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants
Irving C. (Irving Collins) Rosse
An intrepid exploration of the high Arctic, this account chronicles the first successful landing on the mysterious, ice-bound shores of Wrangel Island. It documents a late-nineteenth-century expedition’s struggle against the elements and provides a detailed, if period-bound, sociological portrait of the northern…
The First Little Pet Book with Ten Short Stories in Words of Three and Four Letters
Aunt Fanny
A collection of moral tales uses strict constraints on word length to teach tiny readers lessons about obedience, kindness, and safety.
The Forbidden Room
Phoebe Allen
A lively summer visit to a quiet English farm descends into chaotic rivalry, ill-advised chivalric crusades, and a disastrous encounter with a long-kept secret.
The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 7 (of 7)
Arthur Thomas Malkin
An expansive gallery of historical figures comes to life through rigorous biographical sketches, capturing the delicate intersection of individual character, intellect, and public duty.
The Geneva Protocol
David Hunter Miller
A rigorous legal analysis examines whether global peace can be codified through compulsory arbitration, mutual security guarantees, and structured disarmament.
The Governess
Julie M. Lippmann
A stubborn, wild-tempered girl wages a silent war against the new governess hired to tame her, only to discover that her strict guardian hides a selfless devotion and a secretive past tied to her own family.
The Harmsworth Magazine, Vol. 1, 1898-1899, No. 6
Various
A late-Victorian monthly miscellany offers a vivid cross-section of imperial British tastes, blending serialized fiction, quirky human-interest reporting, and popular science.
The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
In colonial Virginia, a convict tutor endures public disgrace to shield the fiery young heiress he loves from her own dangerous political rebellions.
The manufacture of earth colours
Josef Bersch
Industrial chemistry demands both raw natural geology and exact human processing to yield enduring, stable color.
The Meaning of the War: Life & Matter in Conflict
Henri Bergson
Modern industrial conflict is not merely a clash of opposing armies, but a fundamental collision between the vital, self-renewing spirit of human freedom and the rigid, consuming momentum of pure mechanical force.
The Men Who Wrought
Ridgwell Cullum
A fragile peace offers no guarantee against future total war, but a revolutionary underwater technology could change the balance of global power forever.
The Million Dollar Mystery: Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan
Harold MacGrath
A secret society pursues a missing fortune while a missing heiress tries to stay alive.
The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel
Selma Lagerlöf
Earthly suffering and heavenly grace cross paths on the sun-baked slopes of Mount Etna.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 265, July 21, 1827
Various
This early nineteenth-century miscellany gathers local history, eccentric profiles, Whitsuntide revels, and global travel in a lively snapshot of Georgian popular culture.
The Mother's Recompense, Volume 1: A Sequel to Home Influence
Grace Aguilar
A devoted mother guides her children through the emotional minefields of London society, learning that true maternal love requires equal parts gentle discipline, deep forgiveness, and patient faith.
The night wire
H. F. (Henry Ferris) Arnold
A quiet graveyard mist creeps across an isolated city, consuming its inhabitants as two telegraph typewriters record their final screams.
The Old Sixth Regiment, Its War Record, 1861-5
Charles K. Cadwell
A soldier’s unvarnished journal records the full trajectory of a Union infantry unit through disease, siegecraft, and the grinding realities of the American Civil War.
The Path Of Duty
Henry James
Bound by rigid aristocratic expectations, a charismatic Englishman surrenders his heart’s true desire to preserve an innocent woman's life, only to find that doing the noble thing leaves everyone involved quietly, permanently broken.
The Ranche on the Oxhide: A Story of Boys' and Girls' Life on the Frontier
Henry Inman
Four young siblings face the perils and unexpected rewards of pioneer life on the 1860s Kansas prairie.
The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1795-1813: A Short Account of the Early Development of the Modern Kingdom of the Netherlands
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
When foreign conquest strips a nation of its sovereignty, the slow return to self-governance demands unexpected sacrifices and painful political compromises.
The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2
Joel Tyler Headley
Reliving the final, brutal campaigns of the War of 1812, this history turns dusty treaties into an intense study of military desperation, political fracturing, and raw human endurance across land and sea.
The Story of Patsy
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
A battered, street-wise boy finds a moment of beauty and belonging in a crowded San Francisco classroom.
The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island
Lawrence J. Leslie
A daring bet sends five small-town boys into a haunted wilderness, where mysterious midnight attacks, creeping shadow prowlers, and a long-hidden tragic past test their courage to the limit.
The Strange Little Girl: A Story for Children
V. M.
A lonely soul leaves a realm of eternal bliss to take on mortal flesh, guiding forgotten children toward unity through ancient wisdom.
The Trespasser, Complete
Gilbert Parker
Bound to no single world, a wild-souled heir from the Canadian wilds claims an English estate, only to find that blood, memory, and ancient ancestral vices yield a far fiercer inheritance than land.
The Two Captains
La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de
A knightly oath forged in the heat of duel turns two fierce rivals into brothers-in-arms, binding their destinies together across Spanish courts and African battlefields.
The voyage of the "Deutschland"
Paul König
Under the shadow of a world war, an unarmed commercial submarine slips through enemy blockades, risking the deep Atlantic to open a secret trade route between nations.
The war chief
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Born white but raised Apache, a warrior defends his adopted people while navigating a blood-soaked frontier and a forbidden love.
The Watsons
Jane Austen
A young woman returned to a family she barely knows must navigate shallow suitors, snobbish relatives, and her own fastidious heart.
The Weird of the Wentworths: A Tale of George IV's Time, Vol. 2
Johannes Scotus
Driven by family curse, lawless violence, and forbidden longing, a Scottish dynasty unravels across Regency Europe as an outlawed heir returns to claim what is his.
The works of the Rev. John Wesley, Vol. 09 (of 32)
John Wesley
A rich portrait of early Christian practice sits alongside urgent, practical pastoral instructions designed to strip away religious complacency and point souls directly toward grace.
They Also Serve
Donald E. Westlake
An alien base commander on the Moon waits impatiently as humanity edges toward nuclear self-destruction, desperate to claim Earth’s resulting radioactive fallout for his own species' expansion.
Tor, a Street Boy of Jerusalem
Florence Morse Kingsley
A blind street child navigates the turbulent alleys of Jerusalem during the final days of Jesus, searching for belonging in a world of cruelty, betrayal, and sudden grace.
War Rhymes by Wayfarer
Abner Cosens
Poignant verses chronicle the Great War’s disruption of everyday life, blending home-front anxieties and battlefield grimness with the colloquial laments of a fictional German soldier named Fritz.
Why I am opposed to socialism
Unknown
A single sweeping political promise cannot undo the realities of human diversity, personal ambition, and natural law.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 14
Unknown
Love and war collide across the Scottish Border, where human devotion faces historical upheaval.
Withered Leaves: A Novel. Vol. 2 (of 3)
Rudolf von Gottschall
A woman torn between a mystical religious cult and the man she loves leaves behind a trail of secrets that haunt her daughter’s life. In this mid-century German drama, past devotions and secret sins collide along Baltic shores.
Wonder Tales from Tibet
Eleanore Myers Jewett
A collection of Tibetan folk tales filled with magic, adventure, and moral lessons.
Zone Policeman 88
Harry Alverson Franck
A roving traveler takes a job as a census taker and plainclothes police officer in the Panama Canal Zone, mapping its human diversity and day-to-day realities.
A Close Encounter: The Marine Landing on Tinian
Richard Harwood
This military history chronicles the meticulously planned amphibious assault on the island of Tinian, a decisive maneuver that provided the U.S. with crucial airfields for the strategic B-29 bombing campaign against mainland Japan.
A Hero of the Pen
E. Werner
A fierce, romantic tale of hidden identities and clashing loyalties, this narrative follows a strong-willed American heiress into the heart of wartime Germany to uncover a family secret. The story explores how love and duty collide when the old world’s rigid traditions encounter the relentless, modern spirit of an…
A Journalist's Note-Book
Frank Frankfort Moore
A veteran newsman surveys the chaotic, often absurd landscape of the late-Victorian press, trading the polish of formal history for the gritty, colorful reality of the editor’s desk.
A Little House in War Time
Egerton Castle
An intimate chronicle of domestic life during the Great War, this narrative captures the quiet, persistent pulse of an English family as they navigate the anxieties and adjustments of 1914–1915.
A Short View of the Frauds and Abuses Committed by Apothecaries: As well in Relation to Patients, as Physicians: And Of the
Christopher Merret
A 17th-century doctor exposes the reckless shortcuts, inflated prices, and bad ingredients of local druggists, arguing that physicians must reclaim their craft by making their own remedies.
A Sister of the Red Cross: A Tale of the South African War
L. T. Meade
A dedicated nurse and her impulsive younger sister navigate the dangers of the South African War, their lives inextricably bound by a shared affection for the same man. This Victorian-era drama explores duty, sacrifice, and the possibility of redemption amidst the backdrop of a brutal historical siege.
A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country
T. D. (Thomas Dykes) Beasley
A solitude of whispering pines and sun-baked stone holds the ghosts of gold diggers and writers.
A White King in East Africa: The Remarkable Adventures of John Boyes, Trader and Soldier of Fortune, Who Became King of the Savage Wa-Kikuyu
John Boyes
A young merchant-adventurer finds himself the accidental ruler of a vast East African tribe, navigating a perilous landscape where he must balance survival against the encroachment of colonial authority.
An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn (1725)
Bernard Mandeville
A cold-eyed examination of 18th-century London’s criminal justice system, this polemic argues that public hangings have become perverse spectacles that encourage, rather than deter, the very violence they are meant to stop.