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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 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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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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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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This volume gathers short tales set mainly in Muscovy and the Ukraine, with an introductory note that explains the author’s original plan to present Russian Christianity in a more accessible form. It also sketches the Ukraine as the background for many narratives and comments on its land, people, and political grievances. One tale begins in Moscow at the Golden Net, a club known for gambling, drink, and shady patronage, before following Alexis Koslevin home after a late night there.
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Anthony Wynne’s The Double Thirteen opens with Hon. Robert Barling, a wealthy, controlled young man, dining at the Monopole Hotel before going to a London ball. There he watches for a pale young woman whose arrival deeply affects him, and when they dance he speaks with unusual urgency about a promise he intends to break. The opening establishes their strained, secret connection and the tension around his determined meeting with her.
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At the Council of Suns on Canopus, Nort Norus addresses leaders from many different alien races about a crisis threatening the galaxy. He explains that the stars of the Federation are beginning to drift apart and that astronomers have discovered immense vibrations that are canceling gravity between the suns. As the panic spreads, the council tries to understand why the galaxy’s great stellar swarm is breaking up.
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Shirley Mason hopes to build a marriage with Kent while continuing her work in interior decoration. His flirtations and the traces of another woman make her question the trust their life together requires. A mocking stage performance sharpens her doubts about what a wife is expected to accept.
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Florence Barker grows restless in her comfortable home while her husband Howard travels for work. The attentions of Roy Osney, a younger aspiring performer, offer excitement and lead to a request for money. Florence must decide how much she understands about the man she admires and the marriage she takes for granted.
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Frank Westfield is viewed by his ambitious family as a disappointing and unproductive member of the household, despite the steady income he brings home and the work he does for the Barnett Brick Company. He is quietly involved with Ruth Barnett, whose struggling brick company depends in part on his bookkeeping and informal management. The story centers on family disapproval, business pressure in Rocky Ford, and the conflict around Frank’s relationship with Ruth.
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In this western short story, Sheriff Bill Ludden is repeatedly interrupted by the loud, troublesome Croup Kadem just as he is dealing with court business and a cattle-rustling problem. Seeking a more effective answer, Ludden appoints the swaggering gunman Dud Pilarn as a special deputy and sends him to Tipping Rock to handle Kadem and restore order. The townspeople react with disbelief as the risky arrangement becomes known.
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Gladys discovers that her toy, John James, edits a tiny newspaper. With Freda and Tommy, she follows its reports into a world of talking toys and animals, seaside outings, football matches and a dolls’ parliament. John James gathers stories and becomes involved in the quarrels and celebrations he reports.
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A boy enters Tockerlore, a kingdom where the hours are living characters. Three O’Clock guides him through its towns and introduces him to Father Time. As the Duke of Procrastination threatens the realm, the boy learns why its inhabitants care so much about making good use of each passing hour.
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Mary Lennox arrives at a secluded house in Yorkshire and discovers the entrance to a locked garden. With Dickon and Colin, she begins to bring it back to life. Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel explores friendship and change. This edition contains the original English text.
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A village struggles with water shortages, hunger and unsafe streets. When the communal tap runs dry, the narrator’s father calls a meeting beneath a tree. Adults and children begin offering practical ways to help, discovering how much depends on their willingness to work together.
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