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Jim Allen, better known as the Laramie Kid, is a hard-luck gambler and gunman whose suspicion of crooked play gets him into trouble in Los Noches. After a street gunfight, he takes shelter at a ranch and overhears two men planning a stage robbery involving twenty thousand dollars and a driver who is part of the scheme. With his blue shirt matching the planned disguise, Laramie decides to stake out the holdup and profit from it himself.
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In summer 1920, Ralph Wallace and Julian Conrad are driving through the French countryside on an unplanned tour of north and mid-France. While following a winding road near the Marne, they come upon the Château Grammont, and Conrad is immediately stirred by memories of having spent a month there during the war. The novel begins with their journey into a district marked by both scenic beauty and war scars, and with the château’s appearance reviving mixed recollections for Conrad.
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Set in a prison governed by strict routine, the story follows a governor’s ordinary day of inspections, correspondence, petitions, and preparations around a condemned prisoner. The opening establishes the prison’s ritual order and the familiar procedures surrounding execution, from the cell visit to the planned inquest and burial arrangements. That order is abruptly disturbed when a visitor arrives to see the condemned man and confronts the governor with a revolver.
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Ann Bannon’s novel centers on Sunny and Page Pringle, whose marriage is shaken by a phone call that brings devastating news from Page’s stepfather. Their relationship is portrayed as intense, secretive, and increasingly strained, with their friends Jack and Laura Mann drawn into the uncertainty surrounding the couple. The story also places the Pringles’ bond in the context of a socially forbidden relationship and the fear that it may not survive.
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A war-time adventure centers on Captain Sir Owen Kettle, who is frustrated that his wooden leg keeps him from enlisting and soon becomes involved with Martin Carnforth, an MP determined to act against a German submarine threat. The story follows their plan to take matters into their own hands, with Kettle and his wife joining a covert trip under assumed names to the United States and New Orleans to deal with a suspicious tanker linked to German interests. The book belongs to the Captain Kettle short-story sequence and is set against World War I.
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This autobiographical fiction follows a young man moving through Greenwich Village after the war, where he enters a lively circle of artists, radicals, and social idealists. At a party in a smart downtown house, he observes the host, hostess, and guests while measuring himself against their confidence, politics, and glamour. His reflections show how his views have been shaped by his friend Hugo Bamman, by wartime experience, and by a growing skepticism toward money and conventional status.
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This work surveys the cathedral libraries of England, focusing on ecclesiastical collections attached to cathedrals and the books they preserve. It explains that these libraries are chiefly used by clergy and clerical students, and that they combine medieval learning, theology, classical literature, and historical research. Botfield also situates his account among earlier bibliographical catalogues of manuscript collections in English cathedrals.
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Nicholas Kane, a chemical engineer and Ph.D. holder, develops an uncanny problem after years of assorted metal additions to his body, including a pencil point in his palm, dental work, glasses, a hearing aid, and a wedding band. While sitting at work, he begins hearing voices in his head, and the story follows his immediate confusion as he wonders whether the experience is psychological or something like a radio pickup. The account also places his marriage and home life in the background as the strange episode unfolds.
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In a war-torn future Earth where night streets stay lit and curfews are enforced by the Night Police, editor Kerry Donalson is drawn into a secretive meeting with a young man named Lewis Fallon. The story centers on Earth’s conflict with the Pharigs, the failed attempt to reach the moon, and Kerry’s uneasy suspicion that a dead rocket scientist may still be involved in events shaping the war. As Kerry follows Fallon through a heavily controlled city, the atmosphere of surveillance and hidden communication grows more intense.
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This biography traces Henry Thoreau through the larger family and social background that shaped him, beginning with his father John Thoreau’s life as a Jersey-born seaman who settled in Boston and built a trade in molasses and other goods. It places the family in Concord, the New England village where Thoreau lived and died, and emphasizes the author’s effort to combine Thoreau’s own writings with testimony from his contemporaries. The book presents Thoreau as a reserved figure and aims to recover the fuller truth of his life and character.
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This detective novel is set in New York around the French company French's, where a prominent member of the French family has been murdered and a wide cast of relatives, executives, and police figures is gathered around the case. The story introduces Inspector Richard Queen and his son Ellery Queen, along with a floor plan of the relevant rooms and shafts, signaling a puzzle built around the murder scene and the investigation that follows.
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In Mohave Wells, Sheriff Buck Brady watches a brother and sister heading by stage to Lone Mule City, a rough mining town dominated by Dave Skinner and Charley Eley. Troubled by what he hears about the pair’s control of the town and their use of deceptive job offers to draw women into their saloons and honky-tonks, Buck follows their situation through the stage driver Larry Lebec. The story centers on Buck’s misgivings about Lone Mule’s corruption and the danger facing the Nestor siblings there.
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The volume centers on Mina Frazer and the intense attachment shown toward her by Miss Warmond, whose warmth and fascination appear more performative than sincere. Mina is portrayed as genuine, steady, and pure-hearted, while Cecilia Warmond is described as clever, adaptable, and capable of seeming to match whatever feelings others expect. The narrative reflects on how quickly friendship can form, how charm can mislead, and how admiration can be manipulated in social life.
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Jay Bird Whittaker is a wealthy but temperamental cow-ranch owner who distrusts women after a near engagement and is known for explosive outbursts. At the Cross-J ranch, he is surrounded by cowboys who tease him and by the practical burdens of running the place. The story turns when he receives letters from a woman named Clementine, related to his brother Bill, who wants to visit the ranch with a friend and seems drawn to cowboy life.
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This book is a historical study of Tudor England centered on Mary I, Philip II, Elizabeth I, and the wider struggle between England, Spain, France, and the Empire. It opens with the death of Edward VI and the diplomatic efforts around Mary, Renard, and Philip’s acceptance of the marriage that would be used to help secure England. The narrative also traces Charles V’s late reign, his war aims, and his efforts to win English support against France while managing religious conflict.
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