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The Real Jefferson Davis
Landon Knight
A portrait of the Confederacy's president reveals a remarkably gentle, disciplined leader whose unyielding principles guided him through military triumphs, political battles, and total defeat.
The Real Robert Burns
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
A devotion to human dignity and freedom kindles a fiery, transformative voice that redeems a poet from the slurs of history.
The Rover Boys in the Jungle
Edward Stratemeyer
A trio of spirited brothers trades the regulated life of a military academy for the untamed wilds of Africa to rescue their long-lost father.
The Scientific Spirit of the Age, and Other Pleas and Discussions
Frances Power Cobbe
A passionate, lucid defense of human emotion, moral duty, and spiritual reverence against the cold encroachments of unbridled Victorian materialism.
The Ship of Stars
Arthur Quiller-Couch
The story follows a young boy’s journey from a sheltered childhood to the harsh, wind-swept coast of Cornwall, where dreams of heroism collide with the realities of love and duty. It is a quiet, lyrical exploration of what it means to grow into a man of integrity while navigating the wreckage of the past.
The Spiritual Guidance of Man and of Mankind
Rudolf Steiner
Early childhood hides a vast spiritual architecture, one that quiet wisdom slowly surrenders to human reason.
The Spy: Condensed for use in schools
James Fenimore Cooper
In the neutral borderlands of Westchester County, a family's loyalties are torn apart as the American Revolution rages around their doorstep.
The Stolen Statesman: Being the Story of a Hushed Up Mystery
William Le Queux
In a bustling Edwardian London, a Cabinet Minister vanishes into thin air after a secret dinner, leaving behind a web of blackmail, political ruin, and long-buried romance.
The Story of a Hare
J. C. (John Coulson) Tregarthen
A delicate leveret steps into the wild edge of nineteenth-century Cornwall, learning that survival demands absolute vigilance and a brilliant mastery of trickery against the relentless teeth of the countryside.
The Sultan and His People
C. (Christopher) Oscanyan
Behind the ornate gates of Stamboul lies a society caught between ancient religious fatalism and the urgent pressure of modern reform.
The Swedes on the Delaware, 1638-1664
Amandus Johnson
Out on the wilderness edge of North America, seventeenth-century Sweden attempted to carve an empire from the forest, only to discover how quickly balance sheets, shipwrecks, and geopolitical reality transform ambition into survival.
The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice: From "The New Decameron", Volume III
V. (Victoria) Sackville-West
A chance encounter in a dingy London café spirals into a haunting confession of obsession, betrayal, and a terrifying act of maritime vengeance.
The Topanga Culture: Final Report on Excavations, 1948
Adan E. (Adan Eduardo) Treganza
Deep in the Santa Monica Mountains, thousands of stone tools and scattered human bones lie buried in compact earth, revealing an ancient coastal life long predating written history.
The Torch and Other Tales
Eden Phillpotts
These vignettes capture the quiet, often prickly, and deeply human rhythms of rural Devon life. They offer a window into a world where reputation is currency and the village clock sets the pace of every morality tale.
The Vortex Blaster
E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
A brilliant physicist, shattered by the loss of his family to a laboratory accident, transforms his grief into a singular, dangerous mission to purge the galaxy of lethal, uncontrolled atomic energy.
The Wiles of the Wicked
William Le Queux
Bound by a dark trap near the river, a young man loses his sight, only to recover it through a mysterious surgery that hurls him into a web of identity theft and forgotten years.
Three Little Cousins
Amy Ella Blanchard
A quiet summer on the Maine coast becomes an unexpected meeting ground for three young girls from vastly different worlds, as family ties, shared misadventures, and small daily grace notes build an enduring lifelong bond.
Warrior of the Dawn
Howard Browne
A solitary warrior faces an ancient, walled civilization to rescue the woman he loves.
Water Reptiles of the Past and Present
Samuel Wendell Williston
Driven by a field collector's eyewitness wonder, this study of ancient aquatic life reconstructs how terrestrial reptiles abandoned the land to conquer the oceans of the Mesozoic era.
Windmills and Wooden Shoes
Blair Jaekel
A steady sea wind sweeps across a landscape scraped flat against the ocean, where massive dikes, churning windmills, and centuries of human grit hold back the tide.
Wintry Peacock: From "The New Decameron", Volume III
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
A chance meeting in a snow-bound village pulls an observant stranger into the volatile, private battle between a husband and his wife, a struggle centered on a mysterious letter and a pet peacock.
With Rod and Line in Colorado Waters
Lewis B. France
Escaping the city’s gray routines, a hunter of mountain streams takes up rod and line to wander through Colorado’s untamed valleys, finding sharp comedy, unpredictable companions, and quiet reverence in the shadow of the Rockies.
With the Colors: Songs of the American Service
Everard Jack Appleton
The call to service is a heavy burden, but the heart can remain light if it beats in time with a nation’s honor. This collection of verse captures the urgent, patriotic pulse of a country on the brink of a new era.
With the Indians in France
Willcocks, James, Sir
A veteran returns home to his village on the Jhelum to recount the harrowing, noble realities of fighting in the mud-laden trenches of the Western Front.
A Book Without a Title
George Jean Nathan
A sharp edge cuts through human pretension in seventy-four brief fables, exposing the illusions people hold about love, art, fame, and vanity.
A Bride from the Bush
E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
A wild Australian bushwoman marries into an elevated Thames Valley family, sparking a fiery clash of cultures that tests the bounds of marriage, social expectation, and personal identity.
A Man Four-Square
William MacLeod Raine
A young cowpuncher rides into the crossfire of a range war, forced to choose between the swift justice of the gun and the slower work of building a life.
A man's woman
Frank Norris
A brutal struggle against arctic ice transforms into an equally fierce clash of wills between a ruthless explorer and an uncompromising nurse.
A Short History of Germany
Mary Platt Parmele
A nation's true story lies not in its recorded battles, but in the slow, unseen forces shaping its collective soul.
A Short History of Spain
Mary Platt Parmele
Spaniards build their empire upon the bedrock of ancient conquests, yet their grandest civilizational triumphs repeatedly crumble under ideological zeal and imperial overreach.
A Tour Up the Straits, from Gibraltar to Constantinople: With the Leading Events in the Present War Between the Austrians, Russians, and the Turks, to the Commencement of the Year 1789
Sutherland, David, Captain
Observing a world balanced on the knife-edge of conflict, a young British officer charts the Mediterranean, recording the grand theaters of history alongside the startling, intimate oddities of human life at the dawn of a geopolitical crisis.
A Tramp Abroad
Mark Twain
An American traveler sets out to walk across Europe, but his grand itinerary constantly dissolves into lazy boat rides, absurd legends, and comic misunderstandings.
A Week of Instruction and Amusement
Unknown
A devoted mother builds an entire educational universe for her young daughter, wrapping grammar, geography, sacred history, and moral fables into a single gift of lifelong learning.
Alien Minds
E. Everett (Edward Everett) Evans
A secret agent with the power to project his mind into animals must stop a political conspiracy on a distant, alien world.
Appropriate Clothes for the High School Girl
Virginia M. Alexander
A quiet revolution begins in the high school classroom, where young women reject impractical fashions to demand democratic, sensible, and artistic standards for their daily attire.
Arkansas Governors and United States Senators
John L. (John Lewis) Ferguson
Before statehood, territorial governors arrived from eastern states to manage a wilderness frontier. By tracing every chief executive and federal senator, this collection maps how local leadership evolved from raw appointment to enduring, self-determined governance.
Aunt Deborah
Mary Russell Mitford
An old woman's endless scolding hides a deep-seated craving for power, until a sudden plunge into a village fish-pond shatters her spite and rewrites her legacy.
Aunt Hannah and Seth
James Otis
A small, lame city boy cradles his tiny white dog as he faces the roar of New York traffic, terrified of a life he does not yet understand.
Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation
L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
A summer retreat in upstate New York turns into a trial by printer's ink when three wealthy young women set out to run a small-town newspaper.
Beaumaroy Home from the Wars
Anthony Hope
War breaks down the inner compass; love and a quiet cottage on the heath must rebuild it.
Betty Lee, Sophomore
Harriet Pyne Grove
In this vibrant slice of high school life, a grounded sophomore navigates the trials of teenage social hierarchies, track meets, and class loyalties with straightforward charm.
Biographies of Working Men
Grant Allen
A poor upbringing cannot chain a determined mind, nor can hard manual labor stifle a quiet genius.
Bound to Succeed
Allen Chapman
A determined small-town boy builds a mail-order business from salvage and grit, defying corrupt enemies to secure his family’s future.
Brotherly House
Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond
A frail, bedridden bachelor uses his failing strength to gather his estranged relatives for Christmas, hoping the warmth of the holiday will heal their bitter grudges.
Capitola the Madcap
Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
She escapes forced marriages, outwits bloodthirsty outlaws, and climbs into her own enemy's fortress, refusing every script written for a nineteenth-century heroine.
Confessions of an Etonian
I. E. M.
A boy’s tearful night journey to Eton begins a reflective life story defined by early independence, religious misgivings, and an unquenchable wanderlust.
Cousin Maude
Mary Jane Holmes
A warm-hearted New England orphan endures a cold stepfather, selflessly cares for her family, and ultimately finds love and her true place in the world.
Down the Mackenzie and up the Yukon in 1906
Elihu Stewart
A government official sets out into the vast sub-arctic wilderness of Canada and Alaska, recording the raw beauty, economic potential, and human isolation of a region on the brink of modern transformation.