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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461: Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852
Various
An anti-slavery steamer on the African coast intercepts a suspected vessel; inside a locked suburban house, a young man with pockets full of silver spoon tries to convince a lady he is not a burglar.
Civilization: Tales of the Orient
Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) La Motte
Under a thin veneer of imperial progress, white settlers and local elites across East Asia trade their dignity and humanity for petty status and transient power.
Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
William Wells Brown
A light-skinned enslaved woman and her courageous lover risk everything to flee the American South, seeking a sanctuary that only the wider world can truly provide.
Colonel Starbottle's Client
Bret Harte
A man travels cross-country to offer his life to the family of the opponent he killed in a duel, only to find revenge is far more complicated than a straight exchange of blood.
Conscience and Sin: Daily Meditations for Lent, Including Week-days and Sundays
S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
A clear-sighted moral compass can turn self-scrutiny into a quiet act of healing rather than a sentence of endless regret.
Correlated courses in woodwork and mechanical drawing
Ira Samuel Griffith
A practical handbook designed to transform manual training into a rigorous, sequential, and deeply engaging educational discipline for young craftspeople.
Crab, shrimp, and lobster lore
William Barry Lord
Under the calm waters of rock pools and distant tropical reefs lies a world of armored creatures whose remarkable adaptations rivals human engineering.
Ditte: Girl Alive!
Martin Andersen Nexø
Born into the world without wedlock, a child inherits the heavy burden of her community's quiet cruelty before she takes her first breath. ---
Dwell Deep
Amy Le Feuvre
A young woman holding fast to her Christian convictions faces the push and pull of high-society expectations, finding that standing quiet and firm transforms both her own life and the lives of those around her.
Elsie's Journey on Inland Waters
Martha Finley
A wealthy extended family cruises American waterways together, filling their long days afloat with historical storytelling, patriotic gratitude, and gentle moral instruction.
Fire in the Woods: Illustrated
James De Mille
Surviving a sudden torrent is only the first mistake two boys make when an unheeded warning sends them drifting into the wilderness.
Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt
Pa.) Daughters of the American Revolution. Pittsburgh Chapter (Pittsburgh
A lonely wooden redoubt at the confluence of two rivers anchors a legacy of frontier warfare, shifting empires, and forgotten pioneers.
From trail to railway through the Appalachians
Albert Perry Brigham
A rugged mountain barrier once kept early America divided, but human ingenuity slowly carved paths across the ridges, transforming wilderness trails into vital ribbons of steel and water.
Fuzzy-Wuzz, a little brown bear of the Sierras
Allen Chaffee
A tiny bear cub rescued from a mountain stream grows up among human children and tame animals, only to slowly hear the irresistible call of the high Sierras drawing him back to the wild.
Gaut Gurley
Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson
Lured by the promise of wealth in the northern woods, a fallen family finds that the deadliest predator on the frontier walks on two legs.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave
Oliver Optic
Bound to a Southern plantation by law but to his young mistress by profound devotion, an enslaved man becomes her fierce shield against calculating villains and sudden catastrophe.
Herbs and Apples
Helen Hay Whitney
Offers of fleeting joy, dark city shadows, and lost romance yield to quiet acceptance when a soul learns to give up impossible desires and rest in nature's uncalculated beauty.
History of the Discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634: With a Sketch of his Life
Consul Willshire Butterfield
Long before English colonists crossed the Appalachian Mountains, a single Frenchman paddled into the vast heartland of North America, seeking a shortcut to China and striking the first European bargains with the nations of the upper Great Lakes.
History of the missions of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions to the oriental churches, Volume I
Rufus Anderson
In the nineteenth century, American idealists crossed the Atlantic not to conquer territory, but to reshape the ancient Christian worlds of the Mediterranean and the Levant.
Hormones and Heredity: A Discussion of the Evolution of Adaptations and the Evolution of Species
J. T. (Joseph Thomas) Cunningham
A bold synthesis of physiology and evolutionary theory, proposing that chemical messengers form the missing link between environment, development, and heredity.
How to Do Chemical Tricks: Containing Over One Hundred Highly Amusing and Instructive Tricks With Chemicals
Anderson, A., active 1894-1902
Magic emerges from basic atmospheric forces, transforming ordinary household items into vivid displays of fire, light, and motion.
In old Narragansett
Alice Morse Earle
A rich tapestry of colonial tradition, folk beliefs, and regional eccentricities brings a vanished coastal New England world vividly back to life.
In The Valley Of The Shadow
Josephine Daskam Bacon
A sudden medical crisis brings a weary bachelor into the orbit of an unyielding nurse, upending his settled ideas about women, duty, and love.
Indian speeches (1907-1909)
John Morley
Preserving imperial control while expanding native representation creates a precarious balance between maintaining order and conceding power.
Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic Fowl
Charles Benedict Davenport
A meticulous hybridizer pairs odd-toed, rumpless, and split-combed chickens to discover the physical rules governing how living traits pass through generations.
Ioläus: An Anthology of Friendship
Unknown
This collection gathers historical, poetic, and philosophical meditations to illuminate the profound, often romantic, role that deep friendship between men has played across diverse cultures and centuries. It serves as a scholarly but deeply felt archival project, intended to recover a lost or overlooked dimension…
Jane Cable
George Barr McCutcheon
A high-society secret threatens to tear two Chicago lovers apart when past sins catch up with their families.
Lady Inger of Ostrat: Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Vol III
Henrik Ibsen
No knight rides through the halls of Ostrat Manor without paying a toll in blood, deceit, and broken vows.
Lake country sketches
H. D. (Hardwicke Drummond) Rawnsley
A countryside clergyman roams the hills of Lakeland, gathering the voices of aging gardeners, shepherds, and wallers to preserve the living memory of a region and its famous poet.
Letters from Palestine: Written during a residence there in the years 1836, 7 and 8
J. D. (John D.) Paxton
An American traveler navigates the mountains, sacred sites, and ancient towns of the Ottoman Levant, recording the landscape with an eye split between biblical memory and practical observation.
Life of Frederick Marryat
David Hannay
A life forged in naval gunfire and quiet sea routine shapes the foundation of a literary career built on sharp observation, practical sense, and unpretentious prose.
Lost on the Orinoco
Edward Stratemeyer
Bound for South American waters, four American youths set out on an educational river expedition, discovering that the real test of character comes when wilderness currents sweep them into sudden, life-threatening peril.
Madame Delphine
George Washington Cable
A mother’s desperate sacrifice exposes the harsh boundaries of race, law, and love in nineteenth-century New Orleans.
Mattie:—A Stray (Vol 2 of 3)
F. W. (Frederick William) Robinson
A young woman rescued from the London streets fights to clear her name, protect the people she loves, and survive a web of deceit.
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge: Extracted from His Letters and Diaries, with Reminiscences of His Conversation by His Friend Christopher Carr of the Same College
Arthur Christopher Benson
A gifted young Cambridge graduate abandons ordinary academic ambition to forge an uncompromising inward philosophy, testing his ideals through travel, heartbreak, and devastating personal loss.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency
Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de
An insider's view of absolute monarchy reveals how granular etiquette, ceaseless ambition, and personal rivalry shape the destiny of a kingdom.
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
A intimate, eye-level view of the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte reveals a leader operating at the thin margin where boundless personal ambition, administrative genius, and sheer luck collide.
Metamorphosis
Charles V. De Vet
Extraterrestrial parasites grant two scouts extraordinary abilities, but their deadly final form forces one man into a high-stakes hunt to destroy his former friend before humanity is consumed.
Method in the Study of Totemism
Andrew Lang
A fiery exchange in early twentieth-century anthropology exposes how easily scholars mistake local anomalies for universal rules when attempting to trace the primitive origins of human society.
Middy and Ensign
George Manville Fenn
Two junior officers aboard a British gunboat navigate heat, hidden traitors, and sudden ambushes along a dense river in the Malay Peninsula.
Mother Hubbard, Her Picture Book,: Containing Mother Hubbard, The Three Bears, & The Absurd A, B, C
Walter Crane
A remarkably dutiful woman tries to care for her mischievous domestic animal, while three forest creatures discover an intruder in their woodland home.
New lands
Charles Fort
A blistering, eccentric attack on orthodox astronomy, this work gathers decades of strange celestial reports to argue that our world is surrounded by nearby, inhabited lands hidden by scientific dogma.
Notes and Queries, Number 178, March 26, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Various
A period periodical gathers scholars, antiquaries, and curious readers to unravel historical mysteries, etymological puzzles, and emerging Victorian technology.
Odd
Amy Le Feuvre
It takes a single, resolute child to mistake ordinary life for a battlefield and every childhood setback for a holy trial.
Origin of the 'Reorganized' Church and the Question of Succession
Joseph Fielding Smith
A fierce jurisdictional dispute between rival branches of Latter-day Saint tradition hinges entirely on who holds the legitimate right to lead.
Our Little Spanish Cousin
Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
In turn-of-the-century Spain, young Fernando and his little sister Juanita step through local traditions, sunny haciendas, and ancient Moorish palaces with wide-eyed curiosity.
Ourika
Duras, Claire de Durfort, duchesse de
Rescued from a slave ship as an infant, an educated Black woman in aristocratic revolutionary France finds herself trapped in a gentle social exile that leaves her entirely alone.
Out of the deep
Charles Kingsley
Out of the deep, a voice calls from the floor of human suffering, refusing to separate the pain of loss from the steady comfort of a loving God.