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This short story follows three American adventurers serving with General Juan Banzilla’s rebel army in a Central American civil war. As the rebels near victory, a Federal airplane appears and threatens to upset their advantage, forcing Ace Faulkner and his companions to consider how to counter the new danger. The story centers on the rebels’ camp, their rough camaraderie, and the practical problem of protecting their cause and pay.
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Karl Detzer’s novel follows Paddy Maguire, a Chicago firefighter shaped by memories of the Great Fire of 1871 and a long career in the department. As horse-drawn apparatus gives way to steam, gasoline, and then motor pumps, Paddy resists the changing machinery and clings to horses as the heart of firehouse life. By 1920, he is ordered to prepare for a new thousand-gallon motor pumper, threatening the world he has served for decades.
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Gloria Gordon is on the eve of marriage and is looking over the wedding dress that belonged to her mother and grandmother. She contrasts the hard domestic lives of the older women with her own determination to avoid housework, children, and dependence on a husband. Expecting Dick Gregory to provide comfort and ease, she imagines marriage as a life of leisure and admiration rather than sacrifice. The opening also shows the bride and groom exchanging words late at night on the wedding day.
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Jimmie Grant of the Secret Service and Arizona Ranger Jimmie Earpe join forces against dope smugglers and Chinese tong men. The story opens on the Arizona border, where a fast car, gunfire, and a desert pursuit lead to a scene of dead Chinese and white men. The pursuers turn out to be Arizona Rangers, and the men in the car are arrested after being caught armed on the trail.
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Sylvia Townsend Warner’s novel follows Reverend Timothy Fortune, a humble Anglican missionary who has spent years on the Pacific island of Fanua with only one convert. After earlier clerical work and a practical life in a bank, he feels called to leave St. Fabien and settle on Fanua, despite warnings that the island will offer little success. The opening traces his character, his literal faith, and the preparations he makes for an isolated new mission.
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Mary Ann Ashford presents the early life of a licensed victualler’s daughter, beginning with her decision to describe her own history after seeing a fictional servant story advertised in London. She traces her family background through her father’s apprenticeship and work in trade, then turns to her mother’s Scottish parents and the difficulties that followed her grandfather’s financial suretyship and death. The account sets out the circumstances of the family before the author’s own service years and later life are introduced.
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During a long return voyage from Ganymede, a cramped spaceship’s crew struggles with isolation and Dr. Neil’s experiments in artificial human reproduction. Mechanic Jacobsen builds a small robot squirrel that becomes an unexpected source of companionship. Its place aboard the ship brings the crew’s tensions into sharper focus.
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Die Erzählung spielt in einem Kloster, wo der Abt bei Nacht auf eine kleine Gruppe uniformierter Männer trifft, unter ihnen Friedrich. Der König verlangt Unterkunft und ruft den Abt zu sich, um mit ihm bei Wein ins Gespräch zu kommen. Dabei stehen sich der weltliche Herrscher und der Mönch in Spannung gegenüber: Friedrich sucht Gespräch und Nähe, während der Abt ihm ruhig und standhaft begegnet.
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Recollections of Juliana presents memories of Juliana, an older Black woman and long-serving household figure on a plantation or island estate in South Carolina. The narrator recalls first meeting her after marrying Juliana’s master, and the uneasy relationship that developed as Juliana tried to manage the household in her own forceful way. The book also includes stories Juliana tells about her past, including her 12-year courtship with Toby and her work for Mr. Bly at the old plantation house.
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In El Paso in 1930, a science-fiction fan meets Jimmy Miles, a struggling electrical engineer with a fascination for odd objects. Over lunch, Miles explains that he bought a star-shaped red crystal from a pawnshop, traced to ruins in Chihuahua, and spent weeks testing it in near-poverty. He believes the crystal is a link to another world and shows how he tried sending his watch through it.
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James Otis’s The Castaways opens aboard the schooner Sea Queen in Brooklyn as it prepares to leave dock in summer heat for a voyage to Mexico. A boy named Ben talks with the cook, Jake, about the captain, the tugboat, and the arrival of passengers, while their conversation reveals concern over the crowded trip ahead. When Captain Irwin returns with a stern, bearded man and a reluctant little girl, Ben forms an uneasy first impression of the newcomers.
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Rex Morgan returns home after his mother’s funeral to find himself alone, penniless, and unsure of his past. Shielded from the world by his mother and educated privately, he has little preparation for earning a living or understanding the family secrets surrounding his father and their finances. His neighbor Amos Weed then offers him work driving a grocery delivery wagon, forcing Rex toward a life he has never known.
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Otis Adelbert Kline’s science-fiction novel follows Dick Perry, a young Chicago desk worker, and his fiancée Sue Davis as they spend a weekend at her father’s country home. The story frames their quiet afternoon with the history of Green’s comet, whose close passage near Earth is linked to ominous disturbances and a looming threat to terrestrial life. As a mail plane approaches overhead, an unusual cloud in the sky becomes part of the scene, hinting at the strange events to come.
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Set in the D. & R. railroad works, the story follows Juan Mendoza, a quiet ash pit worker who labors through the night amid smoke, machinery, and the pit’s dangerous waters. While walking to work, he hears a faint cry from an empty freight car and finds a starving puppy abandoned inside. He rescues the animal, feeds it, names it Sammee, and brings it to the pit crew, where the men react with curiosity and one co-worker responds harshly.
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Hunter Mayo lies on his deathbed after being told to make his will, and he becomes disturbed by the thought that his young wife Elinor may marry again. He asks her to promise never to remarry, but she refuses and admits she may have a second husband someday. Elinor then argues that their marriage lacked the harmony and mutual understanding she had hoped for, and that each had failed to meet the other’s ideal.
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