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David Hughes stays in Queens while his wife and children spend the summer in the country. An affair with Janice Keller, who lives across the hall, offers an escape from his dissatisfaction with married life. Secrecy becomes harder to maintain as Janice’s expectations and the risk of discovery grow.
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The Otis family moves into an English house whose resident ghost expects to frighten them away. Instead, the Americans meet his rattling chains and mysterious stains with practical remedies and jokes. Only Virginia begins to understand the sorrow behind his haunting.
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William Rameses, a businessman fascinated by ancient Egypt, hires a woman whose appearance reminds him of Cleopatra. A visit to an antique dealer brings them into contact with a ring said to have belonged to the queen. As they investigate its inscription and history, an old curse begins to intrude on their lives.
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Millionaire Asa Brand recruits Clark Stannard and a group of desperate men to search for the legendary Lake of Life in Africa. Their expedition enters a hidden region divided by rival peoples and dangerous alliances. Stories of waters that promise immortality draw the travelers into a struggle over who will reach the lake first.
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In this first volume, Count Angelo D’Albini takes shelter with the reclusive Montmorency and his daughter Gabrielle in Switzerland. Gabrielle falls in love with their visitor, whose restlessness and vanity threaten the quiet life she has known. The story moves toward Naples, where Angelo’s attachments draw him into jealousy and intrigue.
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A plain pine coffin seems to bring improved health to each person who owns it. When it reaches Emery’s wealthy uncle Sim, the young bank clerk fears that his hoped-for inheritance will never arrive. His plans to marry Meg become tangled with greed and the coffin’s apparent ability to keep its owner alive.
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Working among the ruins left by war, porter Palpo finds a blue jewel and secretly takes it home. His pleasure in possessing it gives way to unease when the stone seems to change from day to day. Keeping the discovery hidden becomes increasingly difficult as its presence takes over his room and his thoughts.
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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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