J. M. Smallheer
Night and Day
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Virginia Woolf
Night and Day (1919) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of two friends, Katharin…
The Devil's Pool
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George Sand
George Sand (the pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin 1804-1876) is famous for flaunting the conventions of behavior expected of women o…
The Fortieth Door
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Mary Hastings Bradley
A young American archeologist, a masked ball in Cairo, an illusive young woman and the unexplained disappearance of a Frenchman fifteen year…
The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist and essayist, was an advocate of the theory of evolution and a self-proclaimed agnostic. A talented w…
The Bird Study Book
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Thomas Gilbert Pearson
Do you enjoy bird watching? Would you like to learn a little more about the early conservation efforts to protect wild birds? In the Preface…
The Old Man in the Corner
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Baroness Emma Orczy
Created by Baroness Orczy, author of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series, The Old Man in the Corner was one of the earliest armchair detecti…
Fanny Herself
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Edna Ferber
Fanny Herself is the story of Fanny Brandeis, a young girl coming of age in the Midwest at the turn of the 20th century. It is generally co…
A Master of Mysteries
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L. T. Meade
"It so happened that the circumstances of fate allowed me to follow my own bent in the choice of a profession. From my earliest youth t…
The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings
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L. T. Meade
"THAT a secret society, based upon the lines of similar institutions so notorious on the Continent during the last century, could ever …
That Mainwaring Affair
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Anna Maynard Barbour
As wealthy financier, Hugh Mainwaring dictates his last will and testament to his private secretary, it would be impossible for him to imagi…
Moths of the Limberlost
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Gene Stratton-Porter
Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 - December 6, 1924) was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, specializing in…
The Tree-Dwellers
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Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
Katharine E. Dopp was well-known as a teacher and writer of children's textbooks at the turn of the 20th Century. She was among the first e…
The Haunted Bookshop
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Christopher Morley
Roger Mifflin is the somewhat eccentric proprietor of The Haunted Bookshop, a second-hand bookstore in Brooklyn that is "haunted by the…
The Dragon's Secret
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Augusta Huiell Seaman
Sixteen year old Leslie Crane has come to the New Jersey shore as a companion to ailing Aunt Marcia, whose doctor has sent her there for a s…
The Slipper Point Mystery
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Augusta Huiell Seaman
When fourteen year old Sally Carter shares her secret about When fourteen year old Sally Carter decides to share the secret she has discover…
The House of a Thousand Candles
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Meredith Nicholson
A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Gl…
Essay on the Creative Imagination
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Théodule-Armand Ribot
"It is quite generally recognized that psychology has remained in the semi-mythological, semi-scholastic period longer than most attemp…
The Eye of Osiris
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R. Austin Freeman
The Eye of Osiris is an early example from the Dr. Thorndyke series of detective stories written by R. Austin Freeman. In these stories, th…
The Stillwater Tragedy
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American poet, novelist and editor. Of his many books of poetry and fiction, he may be best known for his semi…
The Book of the National Parks
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Robert Sterling Yard
Robert Sterling Yard was an American writer, journalist, and wilderness activist. Born in Haverstraw, New York, Yard graduated from Princeto…
The Mystery of the Four Fingers
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Fred M. White
A fabulously rich gold mine in Mexico is known by the picturesque and mysterious name of The Four Fingers. It originally belonged to an Azte…
The Sheridan Road Mystery
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Paul Thorne and Paul Thorneandmabel Thorne
A shot rings out in the middle of the night in a quiet Chicago neighborhood. Patrolman Murphy is directed to an apartment where a man says …
The Romance of Modern Chemistry
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James C. Philip
A fascinating look back at the state of the art of chemistry 100 years ago, this book by James C. Philip, PhD, an assistant professor of che…
The Crevice
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William J. Burns
The sudden death of wealthy and prominent financier, Pennington Lawton from an apparent heart attack, followed by the shocking revelation of…
A-Birding on a Bronco
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Florence A. Merriam and Florence A. Merriam Bailey
Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey was an American ornithologist and nature writer. She started observing bird behavior at a time when most bir…
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
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Baroness Emma Orczy
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. It was written…
The Sorceress of the Strand
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L. T. Meade
From the moment Madame Sara arrived on the scene, she has taken London society by storm. Madame is both beautiful and mysterious, but it so…
Rocks and Their Origins
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Grenville A. J. Cole
Do you know the difference between sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks? Are you interested in their geologic origin, chemical compos…
The Red Seal
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Natalie Sumner Lincoln
Nothing is what it seems to be as events unfold in this entertaining mystery by Natalie Sumner Lincoln. Red seals and red herrings abound a…
The Fairy Tales of Science
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John Cargill Brough
This book, written in the mid 19th century and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, provides an entertaining introduction to topics in science…
Chemical Phenomena in Life
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Frederick Czapek
Published in 1911 as part of the "Harper's Library of Living Thought," this volume presents an introduction to the chemistry of ce…
The Adventures of a Grain of Dust
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Hallam Hawksworth
This charming book for children is full of interesting facts about all sorts of plants, insects, birds and animals and how they all help to …
Bacteria in Daily Life
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Grace Coleridge Frankland
The author provides a fascinating look at the emerging science of bacteriology at the start of the twentieth century including early progres…
Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures
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Arabella B. Buckley
"The present volume is chiefly intended for those of my young friends who have read, and been interested in, The Fairyland of Science. …
The Dead Letter
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Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
Published in 1866, "The Dead Letter: An American Romance" written by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor under the pseudonym, Seeley Rege…
History of Chemistry, Volume II. From 1850-1910
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Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe
A history of the advances in chemistry, in the fields of inorganic, organic and physical chemistry from the mid-nineteenth century through t…
History of Biology
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Louis Compton Miall
A history of biology from ancient times to Darwin and Pasteur by Louis Compton Miall, Professor of Biology, Fellow of the Royal Society, Ful…
House, Garden and Field: A Collection of Short Nature Studies
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Louis Compton Miall
"Nature study seeks above all things to develop the earliest rudiments of the scientific discover." L. C. MiallThis book contains…
That Affair at Portstead Manor
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Gladys Edson Locke
An English country home during a house party becomes the scene of a double mystery. One of the three detectives employed on the case is a w…
Constance Dunlap
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Arthur B. Reeve
Constance Dunlap is a young woman who in Chapter 1 turns amateur criminal in order to to save her husband from disgrace and imminent arrest.…
Volcanoes and Vulcanology (1885-1917)
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Various
This is a collection of short scientific articles on the study of volcanoes and related seismic activity published in Knowledge, A Monthly R…
The Miss Florence Cusack Mysteries
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L. T. Meade
Miss Florence Cusack was featured as an amateur detective who assists in solving crimes in five short stories authored by L. T. Meade and Ro…
Theism or Atheism, The Great Alternative
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Chapman Cohen
A thought-provoking treatise from 20th century English freethinker, atheist and secularist writer, Chapman Cohen. Here, he lays out the deve…
The Heart of a Mystery
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Robert Eustace and L. T. Meade
The Heart of Mystery by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace was published in 1901 in six installments in the Windsor Magazine, Vol. 14. The stori…
The Case of Miss Elliott
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Baroness Emma Orczy
A sequel to the stories published in The Old Man in the Corner, this second book in the series includes twelve new mysterious cases that The…
Chapters on Evolution
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Andrew Wilson
Dr. Andrew Wilson FRSE was a Scottish physiologist and zoologist and lecturer in zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Edinbu…
Unravelled Knots
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Baroness Emma Orczy
Unravelled Knots is the third and final installment of the Old Man in the Corner stories by Baroness Orczy. After a break of several years,…
The Lady in Blue
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Auguste Groner
A Joseph Muller Mystery originally published in 1905 in German as "Die blaue Dame" (The Blue Lady). Translated by American writer…
The Man with the Black Cord
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Auguste Groner
A baffling disappearance. A bedroom door locked from the inside. A housekeeper with something to hide. Will retired policeman turned privat…
Infection and Immunity
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George M. Sternberg
Infection and Immunity with Special Reference to the Prevention of Infectious Diseases presents a subject that is as relevant today as it wa…
Nine Biological Lectures
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Various
Nine lectures on a variety of biological subjects delivered at The Marine Biological Laboratories of Wood's Holl in the summer session of 18…
The Case of the Lamp That Went Out
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Auguste Groner
"The Case of the Lamp That Went Out" is one of the earlier Joseph Muller stories by Austrian author, Auguste Groner, originally pu…
The House on the Downs
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Gladys Edson Locke
Mark Brandon, a writer from Australia is in England to visit an old friend, Sir Quenton Rotherdene. However, while walking across the Downs…
Exterior to the Evidence
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J. S. Fletcher
"Exterior to the Evidence" is a mystery novel by J. S. Fletcher originally published in The Black Mask, a magazine of mystery and …
The Chemical Constituents of the Active Principle of the Ava Root
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Alice A. Ball
The Chemical Constituents of Piper Methysticum or The Chemical Constituents of the Active Principle of The Ava Root is the text of a Master’…
Einstein and the Universe
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Charles Nordmann
"M. Nordmann has presented Einstein’s principle in words which lift the average reader over many of the difficulties he must encounter …
The Terriford Mystery
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Marie Belloc Lowndes
The Terriford Mystery is a 1924 novel by prolific English author, Marie Belloc Lowndes. The story revolves around handsome Harry Garlett an…
White Mountain Trails
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Winthrop Packard
"A survey of the White Mountains of New Hampshire from a naturalist's standpoint, useful alike to the tourist, the "tramper" …
The Kingdom of the Heavens
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Charles Nordmann
Thought is the most swift and subtle of vehicles. Let us therefore use that craft to reach a trysting-place in the skies. The light which r…
The Adventures of a Man of Science
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Clifford Halifax and L. T. Meade
"We have taken down these stories from time to time as our friend. Paul Gilchrist, has related them to us. He is a man whose life study…