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Nine points in the law

W. C. Tuttle

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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Day before yesterday

W. C. Tuttle

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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The shadow shooter

W. C. Tuttle

At the AH bunk-house, Soapy Weed struggles into a badly fitted mail-order suit and hat that Cling Heffner helped order from his measurements. The two cowboys joke over the mismatch as Soapy prepares to ride out to the IS ranch and take Yvonne LeClere to a dance. The opening also introduces Cling’s own plainspoken, good-humored manner and hints at his grudge against Tuck Hayward.

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Border bred

W. C. Tuttle

Dobie Dixon is a fifteen-year-old border boy living alone near the Mexican border after his father, a revenue officer, is killed while trying to stop contraband smugglers. Though he is urged to follow in his father’s footsteps, Dobie has drifted into a hard life around the border officers and cares most for little Jane Langdon. When he sees a smoke signal in the hills and reports it, the men discuss how hard it is to police the long border against smuggling.

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Because he listened in

W. C. Tuttle

Jim Allen, better known as the Laramie Kid, is a hard-luck gambler and gunman whose suspicion of crooked play gets him into trouble in Los Noches. After a street gunfight, he takes shelter at a ranch and overhears two men planning a stage robbery involving twenty thousand dollars and a driver who is part of the scheme. With his blue shirt matching the planned disguise, Laramie decides to stake out the holdup and profit from it himself.

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The monster of Grammont

George Goodchild

In summer 1920, Ralph Wallace and Julian Conrad are driving through the French countryside on an unplanned tour of north and mid-France. While following a winding road near the Marne, they come upon the Château Grammont, and Conrad is immediately stirred by memories of having spent a month there during the war. The novel begins with their journey into a district marked by both scenic beauty and war scars, and with the château’s appearance reviving mixed recollections for Conrad.

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The fifteen cells

Stuart Martin

Set in a prison governed by strict routine, the story follows a governor’s ordinary day of inspections, correspondence, petitions, and preparations around a condemned prisoner. The opening establishes the prison’s ritual order and the familiar procedures surrounding execution, from the cell visit to the planned inquest and burial arrangements. That order is abruptly disturbed when a visitor arrives to see the condemned man and confronts the governor with a revolver.

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The marriage

Ann Bannon

Ann Bannon’s novel centers on Sunny and Page Pringle, whose marriage is shaken by a phone call that brings devastating news from Page’s stepfather. Their relationship is portrayed as intense, secretive, and increasingly strained, with their friends Jack and Laura Mann drawn into the uncertainty surrounding the couple. The story also places the Pringles’ bond in the context of a socially forbidden relationship and the fear that it may not survive.

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Captain Kettle on the war-path

C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne

A war-time adventure centers on Captain Sir Owen Kettle, who is frustrated that his wooden leg keeps him from enlisting and soon becomes involved with Martin Carnforth, an MP determined to act against a German submarine threat. The story follows their plan to take matters into their own hands, with Kettle and his wife joining a covert trip under assumed names to the United States and New Orleans to deal with a suspicious tanker linked to German interests. The book belongs to the Captain Kettle short-story sequence and is set against World War I.

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I thought of Daisy

Edmund Wilson

This autobiographical fiction follows a young man moving through Greenwich Village after the war, where he enters a lively circle of artists, radicals, and social idealists. At a party in a smart downtown house, he observes the host, hostess, and guests while measuring himself against their confidence, politics, and glamour. His reflections show how his views have been shaped by his friend Hugo Bamman, by wartime experience, and by a growing skepticism toward money and conventional status.

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Der Hochlandspfarrer

Ingeborg Maria Sick

Der Band ist eine deutsche Übersetzung einer dänischen Erzählung und führt in das abgelegene norwegische Kirchspiel Li im Hochgebirge. Geschildert wird eine Reise durch Fjorde, Gebirgsseen und einsame Täler zu verstreut liegenden Höfen, an denen nur wenige Menschen leben. Dabei werden auch die Erzählungen der Bewohner über Elfen, Kobolde und andere Volksglaubensgestalten in diese stille Landschaft eingebettet.

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Notes on the cathedral libraries of England

Beriah Botfield

This work surveys the cathedral libraries of England, focusing on ecclesiastical collections attached to cathedrals and the books they preserve. It explains that these libraries are chiefly used by clergy and clerical students, and that they combine medieval learning, theology, classical literature, and historical research. Botfield also situates his account among earlier bibliographical catalogues of manuscript collections in English cathedrals.

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The voices

Edward Wellen

Nicholas Kane, a chemical engineer and Ph.D. holder, develops an uncanny problem after years of assorted metal additions to his body, including a pencil point in his palm, dental work, glasses, a hearing aid, and a wedding band. While sitting at work, he begins hearing voices in his head, and the story follows his immediate confusion as he wonders whether the experience is psychological or something like a radio pickup. The account also places his marriage and home life in the background as the strange episode unfolds.

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Peace in the wilderness

Marion Zimmer Bradley

In a war-torn future Earth where night streets stay lit and curfews are enforced by the Night Police, editor Kerry Donalson is drawn into a secretive meeting with a young man named Lewis Fallon. The story centers on Earth’s conflict with the Pharigs, the failed attempt to reach the moon, and Kerry’s uneasy suspicion that a dead rocket scientist may still be involved in events shaping the war. As Kerry follows Fallon through a heavily controlled city, the atmosphere of surveillance and hidden communication grows more intense.

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Henry Thoreau, bachelor of nature

Léon Bazalgette

This biography traces Henry Thoreau through the larger family and social background that shaped him, beginning with his father John Thoreau’s life as a Jersey-born seaman who settled in Boston and built a trade in molasses and other goods. It places the family in Concord, the New England village where Thoreau lived and died, and emphasizes the author’s effort to combine Thoreau’s own writings with testimony from his contemporaries. The book presents Thoreau as a reserved figure and aims to recover the fuller truth of his life and character.

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