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Gambler Louis Lane reaches the French rancho after nearly dying in the desert. There he meets Joan French, a young woman who plays the violin in the hills and carries a gun. Drawn into the household’s outlaw affairs, Lane faces a choice between joining its planned raid and helping Joan find another future.
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An elderly widow prepares her cottage for the family who will rent it for the summer. Their arrival promises both income and relief from her loneliness, and she puts care into every room and meal. As the expected boat fails to bring her visitors, her preparations give way to an increasingly anxious wait.
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Communications specialist Roy Auckland joins an expedition studying the Vaec on Carolus. Their advanced abilities and playful customs are difficult for the human visitors to understand. Suspicions of poisoning and a death among the expedition turn the visit into an investigation involving the crew and the planet’s past.
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The Rodman family gathers after the war, discussing work, business and a coming marriage as they await Stephen's return. His experience of service clashes with the comfort and ambitions he finds at home. His grandfather's memories of an earlier war complicate a reunion shaped by different ideas of sacrifice and duty.
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American visitor Newsome Holder comes to Styles determined to commit a murder worthy of British detective fiction. After carrying out his plan, he meets a local writer whose reaction is far from what he expected. This dark satire follows Holder’s desire for distinction into a community with peculiar ideas about crime.
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At a sales convention in Providence, Sam Potter receives a telegram directing him to a midnight train and a destination called Nothing. He assumes it is a practical joke and throws it away. When the message returns, his attempts to dismiss it become a growing struggle with fear and the approaching hour.
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Captain Owen Coulter and his crew are ordered to leave Sirius by the telepathic Primes. While the humans debate whether to obey, ecologist Lloyd Mason studies another local species, the slow-moving Stampers. The expedition’s confidence in its own intentions is tested by beings whose behavior it does not understand.
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On a flight to Mars, James Gerris discovers a wounded young stowaway who has escaped from a correctional institution. Returning her to Earth is difficult, but the small research colony has almost no spare space or privacy. Her arrival forces Gerris to confront a problem that his expedition was never equipped to handle.
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Carter consults Dr. Harcourt about a nightmare that is disrupting his sleep and disturbing his wife. In it, trees turn into enormous white legs that begin to threaten him. The doctor looks for an explanation in Carter’s years as a truck driver, but the recurring dream gives their conversation an unsettling urgency.
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Young women serving with the Free French Forces share barracks in wartime London. Tereska recounts the friendships, rivalries and intimate relationships that develop among women from different backgrounds. Military routines and air raids frame a story of exile, desire and the strain of living closely together.
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Don Quijote confunde el mundo de los libros de caballerías con la vida que lo rodea. Acompañado por Sancho Panza, recorre España, lucha contra molinos de viento y encadena aventuras y malentendidos.
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Durante su viaje a Granada y su estancia en la Alhambra, Washington Irving observa la vida del palacio y escucha las tradiciones del lugar. El libro combina esas experiencias con leyendas de tesoros escondidos, encantamientos y amores, entre ellas las del astrólogo árabe y el príncipe Ahmed Al Kamel. La memoria de la Granada musulmana enlaza los relatos.
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Gregor Samsa erwacht eines Morgens als ungeheures Ungeziefer. Bisher hat er mit seiner Arbeit die Familie ernährt, nun kann er sein Zimmer kaum verlassen. Während seine Schwester ihn zunächst versorgt, verändern Angst und Geldsorgen das Zusammenleben mit den Eltern.
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Manrique, un joven que prefiere la soledad y la poesía, cree ver a una mujer entre las ruinas junto al Duero. Convencido de haber encontrado el amor que imaginaba, la busca por las calles de Soria. Su deseo convierte una impresión fugaz en una obsesión.
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Sakima es un niño ciego al que le encanta cantar. Cuando el hijo de un hombre rico desaparece, Sakima quiere acercarse al padre para aliviar su tristeza con una canción. El relato sigue su decisión de ayudar, aunque los demás duden de lo que puede hacer.
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