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Beebo Brinker

Ann Bannon

Set in Greenwich Village, this novel follows Jack Mann, a thirty-three-year-old Manhattan draftsman whose war service left him wary, cynical, and accustomed to love affairs with young men. Living amid the neighborhood’s artists, bars, and police raids on homosexual hangouts, he moves through a bohemian world marked by secrecy and restless desire. Beebo Brinker appears in an intimate encounter with Paula, where the two women acknowledge loneliness and the possibility of desire between them.

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Ride 'em and weep

Raoul Whitfield

Set at a Texas air circus, this story follows the arrival of Happy Hennessy, a red-headed pilot with a reputation for wild flying. The boss and the crew try to fit him into a safety-first outfit that handles sky-writing, parachute jumps, stunt work, and passenger flights with a mixed fleet of old aircraft. Tension builds when Happy takes interest in a two-seater tied to Pack Kennedy, who is also attached to the woman connected with that plane.

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Meadow Brook

Mary Jane Holmes

Mary Jane Holmes’s Meadow Brook is a 19th-century American novel drawn from the author’s recollections of childhood and early home life, centered on Rosa Lee, a young girl in New England. The story presents family life, school troubles, and the social world around Meadow Brook, while also introducing a range of characters and settings, including a schoolmistress, a Georgia backdrop, and figures such as Mr. Clayton, Ada Montrose, and a Southern planter. Its chapter list suggests a broad domestic and romantic narrative that moves through childhood, schooling, family conflicts, travel, and courtship.

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The last September

Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen’s novel is set at Danielstown, a country house in Ireland, where the Naylor household waits for visitors from Carlow. It focuses on Lois, a young woman who has recently left school and feels her own awkwardness and distance as the Montmorencys arrive, while the family’s talk hints at a settled social world shaped by country life, generational tension, and British-Irish circumstances.

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Life in Hawaii

Titus Coan

Life in Hawaii is an autobiographical account of Titus Coan’s mission life and labors, framed as a sketch written late in his life. It describes his Connecticut childhood and family background, then turns toward his ministry and long work in Hawaii. The book also points to accounts of travel in the Marquesas Islands and to vivid descriptions of volcanic eruptions in his parish.

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The lavender dragon

Eden Phillpotts

Eden Phillpotts’s The lavender dragon is a fantasy novel set in the Middle Ages and centered on Sir Jasper de Pomeroy, a young knight devoted to chivalry and knight errantry. Traveling with his seasoned squire, George Pipkin, he reflects on the changed world around him, where the old marvels of dragons, giants, robber barons, and distressed maidens seem to be gone.

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Hagar

James Arthur MacKnight

Set in Ohio during the autumn of 1862, the story begins amid the Civil War, when the region feels the effects of enlistment, rumor, and wartime change. A barefoot young traveler on a country road near Cleveland is drawn into a violent encounter when he hears a woman cry for help and finds her being dragged through a hedge-row by an armed assailant. The episode establishes a tense, outdoor setting and introduces a rescue that involves both the traveler and the frightened woman.

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Diana Carew

Mrs. Forrester

Diana Carew is a nineteenth-century English novel centered on Diana Carew and her close family life with her father and brother. The opening follows Diana as a social invitation from Mrs. Warrington leads to discussion of travel, dancing, hunting, and whether she will leave her secluded life to join the household’s New Year gathering. The book is framed as both Diana’s own account and sections told by others, suggesting a wider web of relationships and courtship concerns.

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Bathe your bearings in blood!

Clifford D. Simak

Joe Crane, a newspaper man working alone in an early-morning newsroom, notices his watch and the wall clock disagree and begins to suspect something is wrong. He then encounters a small shining machine-like creature, and soon after his typewriter starts typing a warning on its own. As he tries to dismiss his fear and continue his routine, the story sets up an odd world where machinery and ordinary office life are starting to clash.

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Passage to Gomorrah

Robert F. Young

Robert F. Young’s science fiction story follows Cross, a pilot on the Pandora, who is assigned to transport the Lady Berenice, a famed and beautiful prostitute, to Gomorrah. As the ship prepares for an A Priori run, she asks about the danger of a time storm, and Cross explains that such an event could force both of them to relive their pasts and even one another’s experiences. The setup centers on their tense, intimate passage through space and time, with Cross unsettled by her composure and by the possibility that the journey may reveal more than either expects.

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Crowd-horror

Robert E. Howard

The story follows boxer Slade Costigan, a powerful fighter whose chief weakness is that he seems to lose his judgment once he is in the ring. A manager takes him on after seeing both his raw ability and his need for guidance, then tries to turn him from a reckless slugger into a more scientific boxer. As training continues, Costigan shows surprising skill in sparring, yet his strange split between practice and actual fights remains central as he is prepared for a bout with Joe Handler.

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The face in the abyss

Abraham Merritt

A framed adventure set in the Peruvian Andes follows an American narrator who meets Nicholas Graydon, a mining engineer found gravely ill in a remote village near Chupan. Graydon has come from the feared Cordillera de Carabaya with a strange wound in his neck, and the locals fear both the place and the things he mutters in fever. As the narrator stays with him, he begins to examine Graydon’s background and the mystery surrounding his injuries and journey.

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Another ace for Ananias

W. C. Tuttle

In this Western story, Telescope Tolliver, Chuck Warner, Muley, and Henry Peck spend their time trading jokes about honesty, lying, and the way cowboys use exaggeration as a kind of art. Telescope insists on honesty but is teased for not being able to lie, while Chuck and the others boast about falsehoods, poker faces, and invented family history. The group also argues over a letter Telescope receives and over what can truly be called a birthplace or a fortune.

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Between Pike's Peak and a pickle

W. C. Tuttle

In Piperock, Yuma Yates boasts that he can ride anything and backs the claim with a five-hundred-dollar wager. Judge Steele formalizes the bet after Magpie Simpkins accepts, and the challenge is set for the next afternoon in the town’s main street, with the teased target described only as something between Pike’s Peak and a pickle. The story centers on frontier banter, gambling, and the problem of turning a reckless boast into a real test.

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Atmosphere

Murray Leinster

Set in Hawaii near the leper settlement of Molokai, the story follows a small circle of white men whose daily life is shaped by heat, isolation, and the sight of the colony across the water. The narrator describes how the place and its constant presence unsettle everyone, especially Colin Drew, whose fear of leprosy grows into anxious self-testing and strained behavior. The book centers on the psychological pressure of that environment and the tensions it creates among the men.

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