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During a bitter winter, Elizabeth Whittle and her son Hanley share a small household shaped by poverty and illness. Clothes and keepsakes draw Elizabeth back to the romances and losses of her youth, while Hanley struggles to care for her in the present. The story follows the uneasy meeting of memory, longing and daily dependence.
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The King of Bohemia asks Sherlock Holmes to recover a photograph from Irene Adler before it threatens his marriage. With Watson at his side, Holmes devises a plan to discover where she keeps it. His confidence meets an unexpected challenge in a woman who can anticipate his next move.
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Looking for lodgings in London, Dr Watson meets Sherlock Holmes. Their first case begins with a dead man in an empty house and uncovers a story of love and revenge. This edition presents the first Sherlock Holmes novel in its original English.
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Henry Potts becomes a local hero after risking his life to save children from runaway horses. Confined to bed by his injuries, he receives visitors and praise while his family faces mounting practical worries. The story follows the distance between public admiration and the care Henry and his wife actually need.
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Jack Morris runs a carnival wax museum in Peelsville, Illinois. After a child insists that one of the figures is alive, Morris investigates the Napoleon display and encounters a presence studying its human visitors. The discovery turns a routine evening at the carnival into a confrontation with an unfamiliar threat.
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Anthropologist Sam Sarno and his pregnant wife Sally spend six months on Altair 3 studying its inhabitants. The aliens paint elaborate pictures but seem to ignore every human attempt at contact. As supplies become a problem and frustration grows, Sam must reconsider what he understands about their behavior.
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A junior prospector describes a survey expedition to the asteroid Mauritia under the bullying Captain Braun. Braun’s admiration for Hitler and claims about his ancestry unsettle the crew. When he becomes convinced that an unseen visitor has entered their ship, the expedition takes a frightening turn.
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Adele accepts a canoe outing with David, a reserved young man whom other students call the Monk. She approaches their time together as a flirtation, while he takes their growing intimacy seriously. As they move upriver, the difference between their expectations turns an apparently carefree afternoon into an uncomfortable encounter.
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Store clerk Sheldon Thorpe spends his days in a basement stockroom with Red, a younger colleague who dreams of becoming an artist. Red's plans stir Sheldon's own desire to escape a life of duty and routine. A possible promotion and his wife's expectations make him question whether the security he has worked for is worth staying.
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Emil Carraway has devoted his life to finding a way to live forever. When science and years of study fail to satisfy him, he turns to vampire lore and travels to a ruined castle in Transylvania. He arrives convinced that an encounter with its occupant will finally provide the immortality he has pursued.
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A Hollywood technical director hires physicist Paul Conrad to help develop a film system that gives men and women different views of the same story. The invention brings Paul attention and draws him toward starlet Gloria Breen. For the man who recruited him, professional success becomes entangled with jealousy and personal ambition.
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With her youngest son away at war, Mary sits in his empty room and wonders what remains of the years she has devoted to her family. Farm work and resentment have worn down her relationship with her husband. A visit from her daughter Alice brings another generation into a household struggling with absence and change.
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Dr. Reed Fassin visits a mountain town where a healer uses wax figures and ritual to treat patients. Convinced that the practice exploits their suffering, he challenges the healer and the gathered crowd. His intervention draws him into a conflict that tests his certainty about belief, suggestion and physical harm.
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A fisherman tests his homemade fish-spotting device on the Rogue River and hooks a steelhead that speaks through his earphones. The catch argues with him, criticizes his technique and proposes a bargain. What began as an ordinary fishing trip becomes a contest of persuasion between a stubborn angler and his equally stubborn prey.
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A New York salesman steps into Ganymede House, a shop whose unusual merchandise appears to come from another world. He chooses a salt cellar as a present for his wife, only to find that it behaves in ways no household object should. When he tries to return to the shop, locating it becomes a puzzle of its own.
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