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Oliver Constable, miller and baker, Vol. 3 (of 3)

Sarah Tytler

In this volume of Sarah Tytler’s novel, Harry Stanhope continues to pose as a yeoman while becoming deeply involved in farm work, markets, hunting, and social visits around Copley Grange and Friarton Mill. His easy, intrusive friendship with Oliver Constable and his attention to Fan Constable shape the domestic tension, while Oliver tolerates the young man’s frequent appearances with mixed annoyance and affection. The book presents rural English life, class feeling, and the everyday business of farming and milling in winter.

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Dark power

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

Di is left alone after the end of Angelina Herbert’s sensational wedding and the household is stripped of its former brightness. As she prepares to leave, she reflects on her own precarious position: no money, no firm prospects, and only a promised recommendation that may never come. The story sets up her effort to find work while carrying the burden of a difficult childhood, a dead mother, an unsuccessful father, and years of anxious self-reliance.

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Bound south

Ernest Haycox

Joe Breedlove rides south from Prairieville after a friend’s wedding, reflecting on his own solitude and need for companionship. Along the trail, he reads signs of recent riders and follows them toward a rough country and the notorious town of Canyon, where trouble and lawlessness are common talk. He then meets an armed stranger hiding near a dead horse, and the two begin a wary exchange that hints at danger and shared experience.

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Sixteen to One on Friday

W. C. Tuttle

A humorous Western story set around Paradise, Montana, follows saloonkeeper Hip Shot Brady, his free-silver talk, and the loss of a whisky stock that leaves him bitter about a mocking sign left behind. The tale then shifts to Shiner Seymour, who describes the Bar B ranch crew and his companion Friday McGovern, a tall cowboy with a romance in town. Friday asks Shiner to ride with him to speak with Sheriff Wilmot about marrying Wilmot’s daughter, but the meeting turns dangerous when they encounter the sheriff and armed men on the road.

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Stories of gypsy life

Konrad Bercovici

This collection presents short fiction centered on Romani life and customs. One story focuses on Dimitru’s old mill on the Bistritza River in Moldavia, a place that serves as the village’s economic and social center, where grinding grain, sawmill work, oil pressing, and local gatherings all take place. The narrative also draws on village legends and family memory, including stories of the mill’s supposed refusal to grind stolen grain. It introduces Dimitru, his son George, and the role of the mill across generations.

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Partners in crime

Agatha Christie

The book follows Tommy and Tuppence Beresford several years into their marriage, living comfortably in a London flat with money, routine, and little excitement. Tuppence grows restless and longs for adventure, while Tommy teases her about her craving for danger and romance, recalling their earlier espionage days. Their conversation sets up a domestic detective story centered on their desire for something more than ordinary life.

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Only a girl-wife

Ruth Lamb

The story is set at Steynes-Cote, the home of Dr. Fereday and his wife Grace in Shelverton, where he serves a wide district as a physician and she is beloved for her kindness to local poor people and children. Their marriage is portrayed as affectionate but uneven in daily habit, with Grace often yielding to her husband's long, distracted breakfasts and his tendency to treat her attention as always available. The account also notes that the couple are childless and that Grace soon comes to have an adopted son.

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Germantown old and new

Edwin C. Jellett

This book is a locally focused sketch of Germantown’s notable plants, gardens, mansions, and historic places, prepared for the Germantown Horticultural Society and later issued in print. It presents the town as a place where old houses, cultivated grounds, and the people who maintain them reflect its growth in culture and character, while also identifying specific sites, botanists, and horticulturists of interest.

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The crime code

William Le Queux

Lionel Hipwell, a young London man of good family and political prospects, tells how gambling and a chance night out draw him from an ordinary life into danger. Secretly engaged to Joan Gell, the daughter of his father’s political enemy, he moves between society circles, the Foreign Office, and gaming tables as the night of November 12 begins to shift his fate.

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Empfindungen aus meinem Leben

Amand Berghofer

Der Band versammelt lyrische Texte, in denen ein Sprecher die Stellung der Dichtkunst gegenüber Vorurteil, Verstand und Gefühl verteidigt. Wiederholt wird Poesie als Ausdruck von Würde, Begeisterung, Harmonie und moralischer Veredelung dargestellt, im Gegensatz zu bloßem Zeitvertreib oder sinnlicher Zerstreuung. Zugleich zeigt sich eine persönliche, empfindsame Haltung, die sich von Lieblosigkeit und städtischem Druck abwendet und in der Natur Ruhe und Trost sucht.

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A secret agent in Port Arthur

Wirt Gerrare

A first-person account of the Russo-Japanese War follows a newspaper man sent incognito through Russia, Siberia, Manchuria, and toward Peking to gather information for his paper. The book describes his experiences in Port Arthur and elsewhere in Manchuria and the Far East, along with the uneasy overlap between secret agents, spies, and correspondents during the siege of Port Arthur. It also reflects on censorship, military secrecy, and the role of foreign journalism in the conflict.

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Rustlers' roost

W. C. Tuttle

Tex Rowland, a cowpuncher serving time as prisoner 1733, is quietly warned by Hump Sherrill, an older trusty from the same cattle country. The story centers on prison suspicion and a possible setup after an attempted escape leaves the prison unsettled, while Tex is summoned to face hard-nosed warden Jim McHague and seems to be in danger himself. The opening builds a tense mystery around why Tex is being blamed and what Hump’s message is meant to prevent.

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The taming of Nan

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

Set in industrial Lancashire, this novel opens in Narrowfields among working-class households waking before dawn, with the Cherry family at the center. Nan Cherry is introduced as a fierce, outspoken woman whose anger dominates the street and household, while the home itself is crowded, worn, and marked by strain. The passage also suggests a family shaped by labor, dogs, and rough domestic tension, with a mixture of harshness and dark humor.

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The surprise party

Erle Stanley Gardner

The story follows the High Collar Kid, a seasoned underworld operator with sharp instincts, as he drives through a rain-soaked city and senses he may be under observation. When he spots a lone young woman walking along the highway, he slows and then pulls off onto a side road, waiting with his automatic ready to see whether the situation is a trap or a chance encounter. The tense setup centers on his caution, pursuit, and uncertainty in the storm.

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The man from Oregon

Mary B. Arbuckle

Kendall, a weary schoolmaster recovering from illness, boards at a Southwest ranch run by Mrs. Brownlie and her children. Expecting the color of Western romance, he instead sees hard, repetitive labor, meager comforts, and a household worn down by poverty and neglect. He notices especially the strained mother, the overworked boys, and Lily, a delicately dressed child kept away from chores.

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