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Spawn of the comet

Otis Adelbert Kline

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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Ashes

Theodore Thomas Flynn

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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Mrs. Mayo's second husband

Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

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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The next-to-last laugh

Raoul Whitfield

At Rook Field, test pilots and inventors take on a stream of experimental aircraft, and Eric Burnson brings in a small single-seat Gull built on bird-flight ideas. The story centers on the tension between Burnson and Joe Curtis after Joe refuses to fly the plane and mocks it, while Al, the narrator, agrees to inspect and test the risky machine. The Gull is described as a highly unusual, tricky design meant to take off and land in very short spaces.

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Snow-berries

Alice Cary

Alice Cary’s Snow-berries opens with an autumn evening on the Ohio, where a stranger lands near Little Sandy Creek and climbs toward the village of Lewisburgh. The settlement is presented as a recent French-descended community of farmers, surrounded by orchards, gardens, children, pets, and nearby Native trade, and the stranger is warmly received at an outdoor supper and evening dance.

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The book of a naturalist

W. H. Hudson

W. H. Hudson’s The book of a naturalist is a collection of essays and sketches on natural history and animal life. The author explains that some pieces are new while others were previously published in periodicals, and he frames the volume as observations from a naturalist’s perspective. One extended group of chapters considers life in a pine wood and the effect of that setting on its human inhabitants.

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Hell's Angel

Raoul Whitfield

Raoul Whitfield’s story follows Dantone Marcosson, a man shaped by violent family history, repeated moves, and a volatile temper. Raised across Morocco, Africa, America, and the United States, he drifts through laboring jobs, jails, and the heat of the Pacific borderlands before discovering aviation and the Air Service. The narrative then frames him as a seasoned army captain traveling by transport toward the Philippines, with his military record marked by both skill and disciplinary trouble.

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Named right

Andrew A. Caffrey

This short story follows Pilot Rutter, an experienced San Francisco to Reno air mail flier known for never having been lost. He is irritated by the publicity another pilot, Page, receives after getting badly lost, and the story contrasts that notoriety with Rutter’s own workmanlike attitude. When Page cannot fly one morning, Rutter is called in for the run and faces a difficult trip over poor weather and the Sierra.

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The Salvation Army in Switzerland

Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler

Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler writes about the conflict surrounding the Salvation Army in Switzerland and the authorities’ response to it. She frames the issue as a struggle over liberty of conscience, justice, and respect for individual rights, especially as these principles were applied to a young English woman associated with the movement. The book also reflects on Switzerland’s political and religious character and Butler’s own long involvement in defending such principles through her work.

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Cormac Ua Conaill

Patrick S. Dinneen

Sa scéal seo, bíonn Cormac Ua Conaill ina bhuachaill óg atá ag filleadh ón scoil nuair a labhraíonn seanduine rúndiamhair leis agus a thugann rann fáidhiúil dó. Spreagtar Cormac chun machnaimh ar bhrí na bhfocal, ar shaol na hÉireann faoi smacht na Sasanach, agus ar a mhian go bhfeicfeadh sé saoirse agus creideamh Caitliceach á gcosaint. De réir a thuiscint féin, ceanglaíonn sé an tuar le ceist na ceannaireachta i gcoibhneas le hIarla na Deasmhumhan agus le Seaghán, deartháir an Iarla.

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Lady Wedderburn's wish, Vol. 1 (of 3)

James Grant

The novel is set around the Wedderburn family as news arrives that Cyril Wedderburn’s regiment may be ordered for foreign service, with the Crimea named as a possible destination. At a family breakfast, letters are opened and the household reacts with concern, while the presence of visitors and the mention of gambling losses add to the sense of strain. The story is framed as a fictional account woven with episodes connected to the Crimean War.

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Lady Wedderburn's wish, Vol. 2 (of 3)

James Grant

Set during the buildup to the Crimean War, this volume follows Cyril Wedderburn as he returns to Chatham Barracks and prepares with Sir Edward Elton and the Royal Fusileers for embarkation to the East. Amid military routines, last mess nights, and talk of the coming voyage to Varna, Cyril also broods over his troubled ties to Mary Lennox and the changes in his personal life.

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Lady Wedderburn's wish, Vol. 3 (of 3)

James Grant

Set during the Crimean War, the novel follows British, French, Turkish, and Greek officers around Varna and other military stations as they navigate camp life, camaraderie, and the strangeness of the Eastern theater. Horace and Cyril Wedderburn move among their brother officers, including French allies and familiar comrades, amid scenes in a crowded restaurant, where talk turns to service, local customs, and the hardships of war.

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The Devil's deputy

Erle Stanley Gardner

In a rough mining camp hidden in the mountains, a rider follows a forked trail past crude warning signs, a wounded horseman, and signs of illegal or makeshift travel toward Caliente Flats. He reaches a hard-bitten settlement of shacks, saloons, and mines, then enters a restaurant where the room falls tense at his arrival and armed men react as if they know him. The opening establishes a Western mystery atmosphere built around a dangerous valley town and an encounter that could turn violent.

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The sky jinx

Raoul Whitfield

Set in Manila’s hot Walled City near Burton Field, the story follows an Army pilot-narrator and his companion Prop Owens, who can identify people by voice and becomes unsettled after hearing a familiar one. Prop recognizes the speaker as Eddie Bride, a pilot known in the Service as a jinx, and his reaction suggests a past connection and concern over another man, Bert Allen. The opening establishes a tense air-service situation, local landmarks, and the heat and routines of military life in the Philippines.

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