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Thoughts of a fool

Evelyn Gladys

A satirical essay collection from 1905, this book presents a narrator who calls herself foolish while arguing that her supposed folly is a matter of ancestry, public judgment, and changing standards of respectability. It traces a comic family pedigree, contrasts being right in life with being right after death, and reflects on how wisdom is circulated through books, schools, and public institutions. The narrator then turns to her own decision to put her wisdom into book form.

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And life is better

Helen R. Hull

Set in a New York family home during the war years, the novel centers on Ann as she tries to manage the uneasy balance between her husband Peter, her lively children, and her mother, Mrs. Reed, who has come to stay after a long illness. The household is outwardly calm, but old tensions remain between Ann and her mother, especially as Mrs. Reed judges the children and Peter resents her presence. The story focuses on domestic routines, strained affection, and the difficulty of living together across generations.

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Twisted bars

Erle Stanley Gardner

Set in a Western ranch community, the story follows tension between the Circle C and Bar Y outfits after a Bar Y newcomer provokes a street confrontation with Sam Eaton, the feared fighter of Mayama Valley. The fight reveals that the newcomer has boxing skill rather than cowboy brawling, and the onlookers realize the Bar Y men are being trained with new methods. Old Walrus argues against escalating the feud with guns and urges the Circle C men to respond more cautiously.

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The spectacles

Frank Belknap Long

In a far future where humanity is gone and the Earth is covered by water, Willie is one of the museum guardians left to tend a preserved human relic. He sneaks into a hall and takes a pair of spectacles from the glass case, then looks through them from a window over the sea. The lenses seem to reveal visions of human life and longing, but a mother-model robot arrives and orders him to put them back, insisting that their kind was made to obey rather than understand.

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D. P. from tomorrow

Mack Reynolds

In a newspaper city room, Ed Kerry and the others field odd phone calls from strangers asking obscure factual questions, and the staff is usually able to answer them. The routine is disrupted when Ted Ruhling calls about a man claiming to be from another space-time continuum, prompting the editors to treat it as a possible story. The conversation turns to science fiction and the idea of alternative universes while Kitty Kildare also appears with a story for her column.

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Naked holiday

Don Elliott

Al Fieldston comes to the Sunland Health Colony hoping for peace and time to write, but instead finds himself amid tangled sexual relationships and the expectations of the nudist camp. The story opens on his first morning there, when he wakes to the sight of Joanie Baker, a naked resident who greets him casually and leads him toward breakfast. The setup follows his awkward adjustment to camp life, his naked debut, and his efforts to wake his friend Jack before heading out.

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The cosmic cloud

Edmond Hamilton

On Betelgeuse, a member of the Interstellar Patrol listens as the chief explains that interstellar commerce is being threatened by the cosmic cloud near the galaxy's center. Ships that approach the immense region of darkness have been pulled inside and lost, first in hundreds and then in thousands, with no clear sign of what causes the danger. The Patrol has already sent cruisers to investigate, but the source of the force remains unknown.

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Gloria e sventura - Canti repubblicani

Giuseppe Ricciardi

Il volume raccoglie canti politici di Giuseppe Ricciardi, pubblicati a Parigi nel 1839, incentrati sulla condizione dell’Italia e della Sicilia sotto la dominazione straniera. I testi richiamano episodi storici di resistenza italiana e sostengono un’azione nazionale ispirata da energia civica e da un orientamento repubblicano, contro la fiducia nei sovrani e negli interventi esterni. Un’attenzione particolare è rivolta anche alla repressione seguita ai fatti siciliani del 1837.

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The planet of peril

Otis Adelbert Kline

Robert Ellsmore Grandon is a dissatisfied young man from wealthy Chicago life, hungry for purpose and adventure beyond the routines arranged by his aunt. After being approached in the theater by a stranger, he loses consciousness and awakens confined in a locked, barred room where he meets Harry Thorne and Dr. Morgan. They begin questioning him about telepathy and astral projection, indicating that his abduction is tied to unusual psychic experimentation and the larger danger awaiting him in the story.

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Mavericks

W. C. Tuttle

In the Southwest near the Painted Desert, three men flee after a stage robbery with stolen gold, one of them badly wounded. When they reach a shack they expect to hide in, they discover two babies inside and learn the injured man is the children’s father, who asks them to protect the infants and send them to his sister in Denver. The story centers on the robbers’ uneasy choice between escaping with the loot and taking responsibility for the children.

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The dilemma of the liberated

Gorham Bert Munson

Gorham Munson presents this 1930 study as an interpretation of twentieth-century humanism, especially the New Humanism associated with American literary criticism. He treats it as more than a school of letters, arguing that it offers a broader critique of modern civilization and addresses the practical question of how to live after older authorities and conventions have weakened. The book is aimed at readers who want books to clarify life rather than merely supply literary interest.

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The voice of El-lil

Robert E. Howard

A frame narrator in a busy port meets a large Englishman who is disturbed by the sound of a gong and begins telling why it unnerves him. Bill Kirby recounts how he and John Conrad, an American bug collector, trekked into the unknown back country of Somaliland after hearing a mysterious voice from the jungle. As their expedition moved deeper into wild country, local carriers grew frightened by tales of a curse, then deserted, while the strange sound continued to draw the two men onward.

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Evidence

Murray Leinster

In a hot Texas setting, the narrator rides with Jimmy Calton, who is headed to see the coroner after Abe Martin has been shot and Harry Temple has been arrested. Jimmy talks in his characteristic mix of English and Spanish while driving his old car, and the ride turns into a discussion of reason, lying, and how people decide guilt. His comments suggest he believes the accusation against Temple is dubious and that the circumstances around the killing should be examined more carefully.

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Clever—?

Jack Woodford

Janice is finishing the evening alone in a small Chicago restaurant when a smooth, theatrical-looking customer unsettles her. Another man enters with a gun, robs the cash register, and tries to force her into the kitchen, but the first customer intercepts him, recovers the money and gun, and explains that he had been waiting to stop the holdup. After the danger passes, he jokingly serves her water and speaks with playful confidence as they prepare to close the shop together.

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Recluses

Raymond S. Spears

Recluses is a short story about Queen, a dog raised from wolf stock who lives among sportsmen at the Cougar Den camp on the edge of the wilderness. Though she shows the manners of a domestic dog, she keeps much of her wild skill, hunts fish and game, and later roams with a wolf mate named President while avoiding people and hunters. The story follows her movements between camp life, the open country, and periods of retirement when she raises wolf pups.

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