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This western short story follows a prospector narrator and his partner Magpie Peters on Plenty Stone Creek in Montana, where they live in a cramped cabin furnished with leftover pieces and a phonograph. After a night of music and sleep, a huge bear enters the cabin and gets tangled in the furniture, the bed, and Magpie’s blankets while the narrator looks for something to use against it.
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Ann S. Stephens’s novel centers on Bertha Canfield, Egbert Fletcher, and a riding excursion that turns tense when Bertha refuses Fletcher’s renewed declaration of love. Their exchange is interrupted by two schoolgirl riders, and the party soon realizes that heavy rain has swollen the Naugatuck and made the ford and bridge dangerous. The story places romance beside an immediate flood threat and the concern of getting home before dark.
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Set in the late Cretaceous, the book imagines human boys living among prehistoric landscapes and creatures in Colorado. It follows their tense movement through ridges and lake country as they keep watch for enemies and prepare with flint darts and a stone axe. The narrator also frames the story as a blend of fiction and science, explaining the liberties taken with early humans and the animals and birds of the period.
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A salvage company is working to raise the wreck of the Warpindi on a North Sea shallows when divers discover five undamaged German submarines lying close beneath it. The crew also finds a damaged freighter named the Artic nearby, and the unexplained presence of the vessels becomes the focus of their discussion and suspicion. As evening falls aboard the Seabird, the men debate how such ships came to rest together on the seabed and whether the submarines should be raised.
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The novel follows Joseph Adams, a young carpenter’s apprentice returning home through a country town after work. In the market square, he comes upon a group of boys mocking and attacking an elderly man known for collecting rubbish, and he steps in to defend him. The opening establishes Joseph’s strength, music-loving nature, and readiness to stand up for the helpless.
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This book presents the life and travels of Titus Coan, an American missionary whose early training, strength, and religious conviction prepared him for foreign service. It describes his selection for an exploratory mission to Patagonia after reports of a possible field there, his brief experience in that region, and his return to the United States before later missionary work in the Hawaiian Islands. The narrative also sketches his quick mastery of language, his practical care for the people he served, and the long course of his service among them.
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Nat Fleischer’s autobiography looks back on five decades of sports reporting, with boxing at its center. It gathers eyewitness accounts, behind-the-scenes stories, and reflections on champions, promoters, managers, and the changing eras of the sport. The book presents boxing as a world of controversy, hero worship, color, and human interest drawn from a long career at ringside.
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Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler’s memoir reflects on her long campaign against a social system connected with prostitution and the legal control of women and girls in Britain and beyond. It also presents her family background, early life in Northumberland, and the formative influence of her parents, especially her father’s opposition to oppression and injustice. The book is framed as a remembrance of a public struggle whose principles, it says, still need defending.
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Das Stück ist ein utopisches Kollektivdrama in drei Aufzügen in deutscher Übersetzung von Otto Pick. Es spielt in der Zentrale von Werstands Universal Robots und zeigt eine Fabrikwelt, in der Roboter in großer Zahl produziert, vermarktet und an Kunden in verschiedenen Ländern geliefert werden. Zu den Figuren gehören Fabrikleiter und Techniker ebenso wie Helene Glory, die die Anlage besuchen möchte und auf die Geheimhaltung der künstlichen Menschen stößt.
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A Western mystery told by Sleepy Stevens centers on his work with Hashknife Hartley for the Triangle A outfit and on a newspaper notice about a silver-mounted saddle. The story also sketches the rough reputations of the two riders and then turns to a round-up show in Pemberton, where they enter a bucking contest and face fierce outlaw broncs while trying to secure the saddle prize.
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Edward Carpenter’s memoir traces his life in distinct periods, beginning with an uncomfortable childhood in Brighton amid strict social conventions and a sense of alienation at home and school. He also reflects on his early attraction to religion and his intention to take Orders, then outlines later phases spent at Cambridge, in extension lecturing in northern England, and among working people while engaged in manual labour. The book is presented as autobiographical notes written over time, with occasional dates added to clarify chronology.
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Set in the Montana cattle country of Piperock and Yellow Rock County, this western centers on sheriff Magpie Simpkins and his associate Ike Harper as they deal with repeated cattle thefts. A self-styled preacher known as Obadiah Ezekiel Moses, or the Bringer of Light, arrives in town, and his arrival overlaps with talk of rustlers, missing cows, and the county’s need for help. The story also brings in Scenery Sims, one of the cattlemen involved in seeking a detective to track the thieves.
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After her father’s funeral, Lilah Norris returns to his New York apartment and takes stock of the life he left behind. She reflects on their difficult bond, his love of books, and the fact that he has left her without money, even as she feels newly free and intent on shaping her own future. The opening centers on her self-awareness, grief, and restless sense of possibility in 1920s New York society.
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This volume presents an English edition of Plato’s works, with editorial notes, corrected printing errors, and introductions that briefly outline the arguments of each dialogue. It explains that the translator aimed to stay close to the Greek original while retaining the London division into sections. The included material also focuses on Socrates’ trial and defence, describing the charges against him and the arguments made in response.
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This study examines craft-gilds in thirteenth-century Paris as organized bodies of masters, journeymen, and apprentices bound by rules and supervision. It describes their efforts to protect labor rights, regulate trade, exclude outsiders, and secure control or even monopoly over their crafts. The discussion also distinguishes the gild from the commune and surveys theories about guild origins and early Parisian charters.
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