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Edward Falkland survives in a deserted city after plague and war, sheltering in a hospital while hungry dogs gather outside. Fear and isolation have made him hostile to the animals around him. An encounter with a wary Great Dane challenges that hostility and the habits on which his survival has come to depend.
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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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In prison, Luis hears Old Juan describe a cell where a hidden scorpion is said to kill its occupants during the night. When the guards move him there, the story becomes a threat he cannot put out of his mind. Alone in the darkness, he listens for movement and tries to endure until morning.
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After her death, Mona Wilson wakes in a gray world that resembles her former roominghouse. Bells, repetitive work and unfamiliar devices regulate life there, but the routines offer her little comfort. Her attempts to escape raise troubling questions about whether death has changed the conditions she wanted to leave behind.
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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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