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On an excursion steamer on the Hudson, Eddie Collins stands apart from the dancing, laughing passengers, brooding over the social world around him. A lively young woman with a ukulele notices him and begins to draw him into conversation, while her quieter companion stays in the background. The opening presents a brief encounter marked by flirtation, resentment, and Eddie’s wary, hard-edged response to the crowd.
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Woodrow Wilson’s biography presents George Washington as a product of colonial Virginia and the social world that shaped him. It traces his birth in 1732, the character of the English colonies, and the distinctive habits of Virginia society, where plantation life, self-government, and a small center at Williamsburg defined public life. Washington emerges as a gentleman of honor whose military apprenticeship and political leadership were formed by these conditions.
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Set in Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, this story follows Senator Kennicott and Hobson as they argue over a political bill and its possible consequences for war while walking home from a banquet. They encounter a young, troubled soldier in faded khaki who seems overwhelmed by the dead around him and challenges their assumptions about sacrifice, war, and what the fallen died for.
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In Monte Vista, Sheriff Joe Cook is frustrated after a masked bandit robs the Second National Bank and escapes with cash, leaving only a few vague clues. Deputy Shorty McKay reports that he has been gathering information and trying to organize a public celebration for local hero Max Hill, including plans to honor other heroes in town. The sheriff rejects the idea for the moment and sends Shorty and himself out to search the valley and nearby roads for the robber.
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Sheriff Joe Cook of Monte Vista is vexed by unsigned warning letters about trouble in town and by a telephone caller who identifies himself as Mr. All Wet. While he tries to track slang and suspects a stranger staying at the Lone Spruce Hotel, Deputy Shorty McKay watches the man and begins piecing together the odd connection between the lightning talk and the warnings.
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Marshal Pete Williams in Gunsight City has jailed George DeNue, a smooth stranger wanted from Monte Vista for allegedly passing a worthless draft and taking eight hundred dollars from a bank. Sheriff Joe Cook and his deputy Shorty McKay arrive to take the prisoner back, and Shorty is disappointed to have been beaten to the arrest. DeNue proves proud and uncooperative during the handover, while the sheriff warns him against any trouble on the ride to Monte Vista.
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Gambler Louis Lane reaches the French rancho after nearly dying in the desert. There he meets Joan French, a young woman who plays the violin in the hills and carries a gun. Drawn into the household’s outlaw affairs, Lane faces a choice between joining its planned raid and helping Joan find another future.
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This book reflects on the last years of Louis XV, from the death of Marie Leczinska to the king’s own death, as a period of tension between the old regime and the emerging new order. It moves between Versailles and Paris, evoking court life, salons, theaters, philosophers, and political disputes, while contrasting those who fear social collapse with those who trust in progress and reform. The narrator presents himself as mentally inhabiting the eighteenth-century world in order to study its habits, ideas, and anxieties closely.
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This slim 1895 work is associated with Portland, Maine, and appears to present a poetic or sectional treatment of rural winter in New England. The surviving notes indicate the original text included sections VI, VII, and X, with some stanzas unmarked or omitted, and later corrections were made to spelling and punctuation.
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Young women serving with the Free French Forces share barracks in wartime London. Tereska recounts the friendships, rivalries and intimate relationships that develop among women from different backgrounds. Military routines and air raids frame a story of exile, desire and the strain of living closely together.
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This biography sketches the life of Frank Hewitt Peterson, a Maine shipmaster born in Machiasport in 1876. It traces his early decision to go to sea, beginning as a young sailor on a schooner in 1892, and follows a career that moved from coasting vessels to large multi-masted schooners, then into steam and other types of ships. The book is also framed as a personal account by Charles S. Morgan, who knew Peterson closely and drew on memories, journals, and a scrapbook.
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This volume is a detailed account of the Boxer crisis in China, tracing anti-foreign agitation, official responses, and the mounting danger to missionaries, railways, and foreign residents around Peking and Tientsin. It also includes reports of diplomatic correspondence, imperial decrees, attacks on villages and mission houses, and the movement of naval and military forces as the situation worsens. The author states that the aim is to record events as they occurred and avoid prejudice.
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This western centers on Jerk Line Smith, a freighter hauling supplies, dynamite, and whisky to Montana mining camps with a wagon outfit and team of horses. It also follows his swamper, Two Dog Moore, who helps with the hard work on the road but lives in constant fear of powder because of a past mining accident that cost him fingers and toes. The book presents the rough travel, harsh weather, and colorful talk of these frontier freighters as part of the old West.
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Edith Rand is abducted during a ball and taken into a guarded Central Asian valley. There she becomes involved with John Donovan, known as the Falcon, and the Sayak people whose cause he has joined. Rivalries, captivity and the interests of slave traders complicate her efforts to understand whom she can trust.
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Set on the edge of an English moorland estate, the story centers on Rhoda Carlton and her seven brothers gathered at Verners Manor. Their household faces the strain of keeping the property together, as money troubles, political ambitions, and a lease to a wealthy cousin shape the family’s prospects. The opening also places Rhoda in a reflective position, with marriage and the future on the minds of those around her.
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