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The novel follows Norman Overbeck, a young Chicago lawyer working in his father’s firm, as he struggles with a sense of inadequacy despite his professional success and his engagement to Madge. While sorting his mail, he receives an unexpected letter from a child adoption society in Chicago that asks him to visit about a personal matter of interest to him, hinting at a problem connected to his private life and family circumstances.
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W. C. Tuttle’s western story follows Brown, a wandering desert rider, and his companion Taos Thompson as they cross harsh country with their pack animal Amarilly. Taos is a seasoned prospector with a taste for reading, and an evening at Poison Springs leads to talk of love, marriage, and a woman from his past. The tale sets up their friendship and Taos’s recollections of a stage robbery and a possible romance.
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A traveling salesman gives a ride to a hitchhiker named Almira after seeing her by a billboard on a highway at night. Their conversation turns oddly intense and abstract, and before long he finds himself far off his route and drawn to a remote cabin. There, her beauty and mysterious presence have a disturbing effect on him, and the story begins to move toward a vampire-like horror premise with hints of future science.
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Set in a frontier region of space, this science fiction story follows a Watcher stationed alone on a small moon, where he monitors radar screens and robot patrols for signs of Rumi raiders. The Rumi are an oxygen-breathing alien race in conflict with humanity over habitable planets, and the Watcher’s duty is to trigger an alarm when their ships appear. As he tracks an approaching squadron, a private Terran craft also enters the area, drawing the attention of an alien cruiser.
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In Micaville, assayer Solomon Kane has come into money and built a reputation for underpaying prospectors by skewing their ore certificates, then picking up abandoned claims. His interest turns to the Winters family property, especially after he learns there is a richer vein there and begins pressuring old Cale Winters to part with it. Jennie Winters and her family mistrust Kane, while his assistant Bush Cleveland helps him trace the hidden value of the claim.
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A collection of American poems by Wallace Stevens, Harmonium was published in 1923. Most of the poems had appeared earlier in magazines such as Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, The Dial, The Little Review, and others, with a few exceptions. One brief French line also appears in the book, suggesting the presence of multilingual or experimental material.
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After three years prospecting on Venus, Bill returns to Earth expecting to reunite with Gwen and his old friends. Instead, he finds a changed society marked by red stars on many foreheads, vanished robots, and new routines that include dream-service barbershops and government-run labor. As he tries to reconnect with Gwen, he learns that Tommy has become a rival for her attention and that people around him are no longer quite what he expected.
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Set in a vast galactic bureaucracy, the story follows Naron, a long-lived Rigellian who keeps records of intelligent races and those judged mature enough for the Galactic Federation. When Earth is added to the list, he learns that its people have achieved thermonuclear power while still remaining on their own planet. That contradiction leads him to remove Earth from the maturity register.
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On a westbound train crossing the plains and desert, a young woman finds herself stranded in a rough sleeping car when her reservation fails to appear. An anxious journey turns calmer as she notices two men across the aisle: one coarse and threatening, the other, Jasper Holt, who seems steady, protective, and unlike anyone she has known. As the trip continues, his guarded interest in her grows into the sense that she may embody the purity and goodness he has long been searching for.
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This 1915 volume by Fannie Stearns Davis is a book of American poetry from the early 20th century. The publication details show it was issued by Macmillan and gathers poems previously copyrighted in 1913 and 1914 in several periodicals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Magazine, Poetry, The Yale Review, and others.
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Brick Davidson and Silent Slade are driving a lumber-wagon on a mountain road when their runaway team collides with a stage-coach blocked by masked robbers. The wreck leaves the stage overturned and reveals a missing iron box from the Whippoorwill mine, while the stage-driver Limpy Squires questions what happened and hints at a woman passenger near the coach. The story centers on the aftermath of the hold-up and the quick-witted exchange among the men involved.
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Godfrey T. Vigne’s travel account records his journey through the United States and Canada, observing roads, canals, forests, towns, and the habits of travel. In this volume he moves from Washington toward Harper’s Ferry and up the Shenandoah and Potomac regions, describing scenery, river crossings, arsenals, manufactories, and the condition of American roads and coaching.
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This book presents a historical approach to modern philosophy through a series of connected papers on major thinkers and problems. It treats figures such as Bruno, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, pragmatism, and progress as recurring moments in a reflective life, rather than as parts of a single smooth narrative. The opening materials also frame the work as an invitation to read history for what it reveals about present thought and experience.
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Set in the Montana cow town of Piperock and the wider Yaller Rock County, the book follows local characters Ike Harper, Magpie Simpkins, Dirty Shirt Jones, and others amid the town’s rough, comic rivalries. It introduces a plan by the Chamber of Commerce and Scenery Sims to make a moving picture using Piperock people, while Ike and Dirty Shirt return to find the town caught up in the production and its odd purpose of rescuing a queen of the jungles of Africa.
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A duck-hunting tale built around the joke that the best shooting is always said to have happened “day before yesterday,” when the birds were supposedly plentiful and the hunters are always a little too late. The narrator moves through calls, long drives, club visits, and inflated reports from hunting grounds, only to find empty promises, crowded blinds, and disputes over who shot which ducks. The story satirizes duck hunters’ hopes, travel, and claim-jumping at the clubs.
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