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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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Fontranges, noble propriétaire de chenils, découvre avec malaise qu’il aime de moins en moins les chiens qu’il a longtemps élevés et connus individuellement. Ce trouble l’amène à remettre en cause sa fidélité aux races, aux castes et à l’ordre ancien du monde canin, jusqu’à soupçonner que son indifférence gagne aussi les chevaux, pourtant encore plus liés à la tradition familiale des Fontranges. Le récit s’ouvre ainsi sur une crise de goût, de devoir et de pensée chez un homme que sa lignée a consacré aux animaux de chasse.
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A memoir of Jessie Millward’s life and stage career, framed as recollections drawn from letters, old clippings, memories, and friends rather than a diary. It looks back on her theatrical upbringing in Liverpool and London, her family’s connection to the stage, and her early encounter with Henry Irving that led toward her own acting career. The book also gathers memories of theatrical people, journalism, and London’s dramatic world.
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Fred MacIsaac’s novel follows young James Vincent Morrison in Rosa Blanca, capital of the Central American republic of Santa Rosa, where the heat, the hotel, and the politics of a banana republic frame his uneasy stay. He has remained there because of Ellen Goring, whom he plans to marry, and after seeing her in the hotel dining room he acts on that impulse at once, only to discover he has already offended her father, the American consul.
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This book explains the bodily causes behind familiar expressions such as crying, frowning, smiling, and blushing. It argues that tears, brow contraction, and facial changes can arise from both physical conditions and strong emotions, and it connects these reactions to the action of the tear glands, blood pressure, and inherited habits of expression.
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