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Working among the ruins left by war, porter Palpo finds a blue jewel and secretly takes it home. His pleasure in possessing it gives way to unease when the stone seems to change from day to day. Keeping the discovery hidden becomes increasingly difficult as its presence takes over his room and his thoughts.
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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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An elderly widow prepares her cottage for the family who will rent it for the summer. Their arrival promises both income and relief from her loneliness, and she puts care into every room and meal. As the expected boat fails to bring her visitors, her preparations give way to an increasingly anxious wait.
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Communications specialist Roy Auckland joins an expedition studying the Vaec on Carolus. Their advanced abilities and playful customs are difficult for the human visitors to understand. Suspicions of poisoning and a death among the expedition turn the visit into an investigation involving the crew and the planet’s past.
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The Rodman family gathers after the war, discussing work, business and a coming marriage as they await Stephen's return. His experience of service clashes with the comfort and ambitions he finds at home. His grandfather's memories of an earlier war complicate a reunion shaped by different ideas of sacrifice and duty.
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American visitor Newsome Holder comes to Styles determined to commit a murder worthy of British detective fiction. After carrying out his plan, he meets a local writer whose reaction is far from what he expected. This dark satire follows Holder’s desire for distinction into a community with peculiar ideas about crime.
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At a sales convention in Providence, Sam Potter receives a telegram directing him to a midnight train and a destination called Nothing. He assumes it is a practical joke and throws it away. When the message returns, his attempts to dismiss it become a growing struggle with fear and the approaching hour.
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Captain Owen Coulter and his crew are ordered to leave Sirius by the telepathic Primes. While the humans debate whether to obey, ecologist Lloyd Mason studies another local species, the slow-moving Stampers. The expedition’s confidence in its own intentions is tested by beings whose behavior it does not understand.
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On a flight to Mars, James Gerris discovers a wounded young stowaway who has escaped from a correctional institution. Returning her to Earth is difficult, but the small research colony has almost no spare space or privacy. Her arrival forces Gerris to confront a problem that his expedition was never equipped to handle.
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Sergio Abelenda se enamora de Federica, una criada a la que llaman Volvoreta, en una casa rural gallega. La relación crece entre encuentros secretos, celos y la oposición de su familia a la diferencia de clase. Su paso por la ciudad y por un periódico amplía el mundo del joven sin resolver las contradicciones de ese primer amor.
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Carter consults Dr. Harcourt about a nightmare that is disrupting his sleep and disturbing his wife. In it, trees turn into enormous white legs that begin to threaten him. The doctor looks for an explanation in Carter’s years as a truck driver, but the recurring dream gives their conversation an unsettling urgency.
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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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George Washington Cable writes about his garden and the relationship between paths, plants and open spaces. His essays offer a view of gardening in the early twentieth century. This edition presents the original English text.
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Encuentros misteriosos en iglesias y bosques, recuerdos del amor y cartas desde un monasterio. Este volumen reúne Leyendas, Desde mi celda y Rimas de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. Conserva la introducción del autor y omite el prólogo posterior de otros escritores.
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Novela picaresca centrada en Don Pablos, que cuenta su origen en Segovia y la difícil reputación de sus padres. El relato presenta a su familia como ligada al hurto, la prisión y la marginalidad, y muestra cómo el muchacho busca aprender virtud y entra en la escuela, donde comienza a sufrir las tensiones y envidias del entorno.
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