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Dan Todd, a Forest Service man traveling through a dark, rainy forest with his horse Chinook, is headed for Black Lake cabin after a long night on the trail. He is leaving the Forest Service after opposing the powerful Sim Ludwig and is worried about the timber country and the logging interests around him. During the journey he discovers a woman’s golden slipper near Ludwig’s lodge and begins to follow the trail that led to it.
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In Silver Springs, the outwardly sleepy Deputy Sheriff Napoleon “Ducky” Drake poses as a bumbling, overweight officer while quietly handling the business of the town. In a barroom conversation with a newcomer from Milwaukee, he talks about reward notices, including one for the diamond thief Clarence B. “Dandy Claire” Winslow, and reveals both his knowledge of local crime and his deceptive, shrewd nature. The exchange also shows how Ducky’s plainspoken manner and small-town routine can hide a far more capable man hunter.
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Ward Remington is asked to help track down the children of a human woman and a visitor from Gemini. The authorities regard the mixed family as a threat, while a young boy with an unusual ability to communicate with insects struggles to escape pursuit. Remington begins to question the fear and prejudice behind his assignment.
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Set after Culloden, the novel follows David Scott, a young Scots prisoner in Edinburgh who fears hanging or transport to Virginia and refuses to accept either fate. After escaping from the Tolbooth, he makes his way through the stormy city to hide with Sandy Scott, where he waits in secrecy while soldiers search for him and he remains uneasy about leaving Scotland. Secluded in a loft, he passes the time with food, news, and a Bible, while still thinking of a place in the glen he hopes to reach.
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At Wistaria Lodge in Port Cardinal, the boarders gather around the radio and spar over jazz, programs, and the habit of leaving the set on. Miss Bascom, the hostess, manages the household while several residents, including a professor, a mathematics teacher, and members of the local station’s staff, trade opinions about broadcasting and its effects on their shared life. The opening also hints at shifting social and romantic tensions among the lodgers.
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On the dying world of Ghakk, Malan and Vanna are hunted as monsters. Joined by Rhee, a fugitive who can change shape, they cross a hostile landscape in search of safety. Their journey brings them closer to the wreck of an ancient starship and raises questions about the origins of the people who reject them.
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Set in the fashionable winter city of Floralia, the novel opens on a place of former grandeur now altered by wealth, idleness, and modern “improvements.” Lady Hilda Vorarlberg, a beautiful, fastidious aristocrat, has come there only recently and already dislikes its society and appearance, while the narrative also notes her marriage at sixteen and her ties to the impoverished but distinguished Clairvaux family.
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A father and his seventeen-year-old daughter travel quietly up the Hudson by steamer toward a river town in autumn. The girl, who has lived away from America, questions why they have returned and recalls fragments of an early childhood home, including a stone house, orchard, and a woman who looked much like herself. Her memories prompt her father into anxious, guarded answers, suggesting a hidden family history tied to her past.
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Anthropologist Sam Sarno and his pregnant wife Sally spend six months on Altair 3 studying its inhabitants. The aliens paint elaborate pictures but seem to ignore every human attempt at contact. As supplies become a problem and frustration grows, Sam must reconsider what he understands about their behavior.
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A fisherman tests his homemade fish-spotting device on the Rogue River and hooks a steelhead that speaks through his earphones. The catch argues with him, criticizes his technique and proposes a bargain. What began as an ordinary fishing trip becomes a contest of persuasion between a stubborn angler and his equally stubborn prey.
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Tom Jones, a newly graduated Harvard engineer, is resting on his yacht in Canadian waters with a small crew when another vessel bumps the Miami and armed men seize the boat. The leader, Scarface, reveals that the hijackers are gun-runners bound for Costa Rica, and Tom is left captive with his crew while the intruders take control of the yacht. The presence of Captain Ferreira’s disguised teenage daughter and the gang’s radio equipment also shape the situation aboard the captured ship.
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On a passenger liner bound for a Mars scientific meeting, the wealthy businessman Ezra Markham insists on special treatment, commandeers a suite, and quickly clashes with the ship’s crew over smoking and other rules. The story is set against a wider mystery involving strange disappearances, kidnappings, and a colony of experimenters on an inhabited asteroid.
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James Huneker brings together essays on music, painting and literature, discussing figures including Chopin, Wagner, Flaubert and Cézanne. His portraits and criticism move between individual works and arguments about artistic tradition, new movements and public taste. The collection also considers the relationship between art and social ideas.
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Summer camp follows Peggy Matthews, an eighteen-year-old counselor at a girls’ camp, as she meets Lilian Parker and the husky, athletic Karen Michaels, called Mike. The book frames Peggy’s summer as one marked by emotional instability and growing same-sex desire, set against the camp’s busy waterfront and the presence of counselors, a nurse, directors, and young campers. The tone of the opening passages also suggests mounting unease at the camp, where tensions among the adults and concern for the children begin to surface.
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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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