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The ghost of Gamblin' Dan

James W. Egan

Set in an Arizona hotel and framed by a ranchman’s uneasy reaction to a man he believes he has seen from the past, the story begins with Major Remington Meeker and his nephew talking over the possible return of Gamblin’ Dan Glade. The major says he shot Dan years earlier in Texas and now fears Dan may be alive and seeking revenge, prompting him to explain the old trouble as he arms himself and starts recounting their days together in Tapwater.

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The last poems of Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell

This volume presents the late poetry of Alice Meynell, with attention drawn to poems such as “Renouncement,” “Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age,” “San Lorenzo’s Mother,” and “To a Daisy.” The surrounding commentary places her work in the tradition of refined, spiritually oriented verse, emphasizing its distinctiveness, tenderness, and contemplative quality.

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In case of fire

Walter Kellogg Towers

A humorous short story follows two men who borrow a fire engine and a pair of helmets for a trip to Springfield, treating the rig as a ride rather than a response to an emergency. As they drive through towns, the siren and red vehicle cause confusion, send people into the streets, and attract volunteer firefighters and police who think they are heading to a fire. The story centers on their improvised journey and the comic misunderstandings it creates along the way.

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Tama of the light country

Ray Cummings

Ray Cummings’s novel follows Jack Dean, a broadcaster who is drawn to Moose Head Lake in Maine after a secret attack on a girls’ summer camp. There, amid police cordons, confusion, and conflicting accounts, he and aviator Jimmy Turk try to piece together what happened as missing girls, deaths, and the suspicion of an otherworldly threat unsettle New England.

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Neptune speaks

Frank Richardson Pierce

The story centers on an old shipbuilder who has retired to a beach shack and reflects on a last vessel he helped build, the Aleut, which was lost with all hands after striking a rock. Rumor and memory frame his belief that the sea hides its greatest tragedies, and the narrative turns to a night when Neptune himself is said to speak. That account describes a storm-lashed wreck, a fearful struggle among passengers and crew, and a captain trying to hold order as panic and mutiny rise aboard the stranded ship.

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Poems

Elizabeth Bibesco

This volume is a 1927 poetry collection by Elizabeth Bibesco, published in New York by George H. Doran Company and printed in Great Britain. The front matter also lists other books and plays by the author and dedicates the book to her beloved father.

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The confessions of a dancing girl

Anonymous

The book presents an autobiographical account of a girl born in Camden Town in 1887 who grows up amid poverty, family breakup, and repeated changes of guardians. She describes being passed among relatives, sent to a convent school with little education, and enduring beatings and neglect in several homes. After running away from her grandfather’s house, she is taken by a policeman to a police station and then to a workhouse, from which her grandmother later removes her.

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A history of the American people, Vol. 4 [of 5]

Woodrow Wilson

This volume of Woodrow Wilson’s history treats the rise of Andrew Jackson and the political transformation associated with his presidency. It describes how Jackson’s election and inauguration marked a sharp break from earlier national leadership, expanding popular influence while unsettling older political traditions. The discussion contrasts Jackson’s style of personal government with Jeffersonian democratic ideas and emphasizes the changing electorate and party conflict of the era.

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In the town

Douglas Goldring

This 1916 volume by Douglas Goldring was issued in London by Selwyn and Blount. It is a poetry collection that includes twenty verses printed for the first time, some pieces previously published in magazines, and the rest taken from an earlier book called Streets.

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A six-hour shift

William McFee

A shipboard narrator describes taking a six-hour night watch in the refrigerating room during wartime, aboard a vessel carrying frozen meat to the Armée d’Orient. The piece dwells on the rain, the machinery, the cat Thomas, and the routine of dressing, tea, and inspection, while showing how a year of unbroken service has worn the crew down. Its subject is the monotony of war work and the shared desire among officers and men to go home.

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A history of the American people, Vol. 5 [of 5]

Woodrow Wilson

This volume of Woodrow Wilson’s history turns to the closing phase of the Civil War and the first problems of Reconstruction. It examines Lincoln’s amnesty and restoration policy for the seceded states, Johnson’s succession, and the growing conflict with Congress over whether those states were to return at once or only after further guarantees, including the permanent freedom and education of formerly enslaved people.

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Space rays

Jr. John W. Campbell

Space rays follows Lt. Roger Lane and the crew of a patrol cruiser after their ship is overwhelmed by pirates armed with hand projectors and an overpowering space vessel. Stripped of weapons and sent adrift in a damaged escape ship, the men struggle toward Mars while facing low air and a crippled drive. The story also centers on Commander Morrison’s response and the arrival of Special-Captain Donald Barclay, who is known for carrying out difficult assignments.

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Mr. Mulliner speaking

P. G. Wodehouse

A frame narrative set in the Anglers' Rest introduces Mr. Mulliner, whose talkative storytelling leads into a tale about his nephew Archibald. Archibald, an unremarkable young man at the Drones Club, falls helplessly in love at first sight with Aurelia Cammarleigh after seeing her in Dover Street, and Mr. Mulliner explains the romance by sketching Archibald’s character and the unlikely force of his attraction.

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What the butler winked at

Eric Horne

This memoir presents Eric Horne’s account of more than fifty years in domestic service with British nobility and gentry. He reflects on changing country-house life, the decline of old aristocratic households after the war, and the shrinking place of servants in a faster, more unsettled society. The book is framed as a personal, unconventional record of those experiences, with names and places altered.

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I, the vampire

Henry Kuttner

Set in Hollywood, this horror story follows an assistant director at Summit Pictures during a party where a mysterious European performer, Chevalier Futaine, is being promoted as a vampire-like figure. The narrator also becomes concerned with the collapse of star Hess Deming after his wife Sandra’s recent death, which he believes was tied to a strange illness and her fear of fire. As rumors, publicity, grief, and unease gather around the film world, the narrator senses something sinister behind the glamour.

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