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Silver Bird's flight

Gordon Stiles

Set at a Long Island flying field, the story follows Ray Folsom and his backer, Mrs. Jarvis Benham, as they prepare the Silver Bird for a nonstop flight from New York to Warsaw. Ray, a veteran pilot with wartime and mail-flying experience, sees the attempt as a chance to achieve long-sought fame, while Mrs. Benham is determined to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air. Reporters, weather concerns, and the strain of takeoff frame the moment when the great machine finally gets airborne.

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Some town

Ray Humphreys

In Monte Vista, Sheriff Joe Cook tells his deputy Shorty McKay to spend less time at the telephone exchange with Belle Haynes and more time on official duties. Shorty is torn between his work, his worry for Belle, and the sheriff’s concern over an anonymous warning that gunmen may be planning trouble in town. Meanwhile, Cook hosts two Denver cattle buyers at the Red Spruce Hotel to discuss a large herd of white-faced cattle, while other train passengers, including a jewelry salesman, arrive in town.

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Democracy and leadership

Irving Babbitt

Irving Babbitt’s book examines democracy in relation to leadership, civilization, and the moral limits of power. Drawing on political, philosophical, and religious questions, it argues that economic and political issues cannot be separated from deeper concerns about human nature, authority, and the control of appetite. Rousseau is treated as a central figure in the rise of radical democracy and in the challenge he posed to civilization.

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The invisible enemy

Jerry Sohl

A Federation ship reaches a dangerous planet where several previous crews and three search ships have vanished without a visible enemy. As the crew studies a half-buried wreck on the desert surface, Commander Warrick briefs nearly fifty men on the losses and says their mission is to identify and destroy whatever is causing the disappearances. Computer specialist Harley Allison works amid the tension while the ship circles the site and the crew prepares to go down for a closer look.

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Underestimation

Algis Budrys; Jerome Bixby

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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A minute to think

Ray Humphreys

This western short story follows Old Pappy Stewart, the longtime stage driver for the Q-B Stage Lines, as he is pushed to leave his six-mule team and learn to drive a new motor bus between Gunsight and Central City. He resents the change, worries about his mules, and endures teasing from coworkers while the road and his driving lessons are adjusted to the new vehicle. The story centers on his stubborn loyalty, his reputation for reliability, and the uneasy shift from mule stages to motor buses.

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All's fair

Ray Humphreys

In Monte Vista, Sheriff Joe Cook is beset by two worries: a falling potato market threatens his farm income, and the elusive thief Foxy Fromera has again avoided arrest. His deputy, Shorty McKay, tries to calm him with advice to store the potatoes and take time away from the office. As the sheriff weighs whether to go fishing to clear his head, Shorty is already thinking about how to help him.

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Connie Morgan in the cattle country

James B. Hendryx

James B. Hendryx’s novel follows Connie Morgan and his partner Waseche Bill in the cattle country and the northern frontier around Ten Bow. The story centers on their cabin, their work on the trail, and tensions with outsiders over land and settlement, while Connie also encounters cow towns, bad roads, and armed confrontations. A chapter list suggests episodes involving neighbors, branding, fire, the bad lands, an outlaw, an agency, and the cowboys who help out.

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The fourth plague

Edgar Wallace

Set in Siena and the Palazzo Festini in 1899, the story centers on the aristocratic Festini family, whose name carries old feuds and a reputation for political violence. Salvani Festini, an imposing and menacing patriarch, sits with his two sons while one asks about government suspicion of the Red Hand and the family’s links to crime. The elder son is connected to an investigation led by a professor, and tensions within the household rise around loyalty, suspicion, and the family’s secretive standing.

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Als ich noch der Waldbauernbub war. Band 3

Peter Rosegger

Der Band versammelt ausgewählte Erinnerungsbilder aus Roseggers Jugend, darunter Kindheitserlebnisse, Familienalltag und einzelne Begebenheiten aus dem ländlichen Leben. Im Mittelpunkt steht eine weihnachtliche Winterfahrt des zwölfjährigen Erzählers nach Langenwang, wo er im Auftrag des Vaters Einkäufe erledigen und anschließend die Christmette besuchen soll. Auf dem Weg werden Schnee, Dunkelheit, Tal und Dorf ebenso schildert wie die Atmosphäre des Heiligen Abends und die Aufgabe in der Kirche.

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Ganymede House

David Grinnell

A New York salesman steps into Ganymede House, a shop whose unusual merchandise appears to come from another world. He chooses a salt cellar as a present for his wife, only to find that it behaves in ways no household object should. When he tries to return to the shop, locating it becomes a puzzle of its own.

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The neurotic rose

Jr. H. Nearing

Professor Ransom has used an experimental technique to cross a rose with a borrowed dog, Cooley. Preparing the result for a flower show proves difficult as the hybrid develops unexpected appetites and habits. Ransom and his colleague MacTate struggle to keep their creation under control and out of Mrs. Underdouble’s sight.

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Alias Napoleon

John Jakes

Jack Morris runs a carnival wax museum in Peelsville, Illinois. After a child insists that one of the figures is alive, Morris investigates the Napoleon display and encounters a presence studying its human visitors. The discovery turns a routine evening at the carnival into a confrontation with an unfamiliar threat.

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Dangling doom

W. C. Tuttle

Set in a bitterly cold snowbound mountain country, this western follows a deputy sheriff who tracks a fugitive through the snow after a killing in Galena. He finds the man camped by a dying fire, disarms him, and binds him to a lodge-pole tree while accusing him of murder. The scene is shaped by exhaustion, hunger, and the harsh winter wilderness as the two men face each other in the isolated backcountry.

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The lake of life

Edmond Hamilton

Millionaire Asa Brand recruits Clark Stannard and a group of desperate men to search for the legendary Lake of Life in Africa. Their expedition enters a hidden region divided by rival peoples and dangerous alliances. Stories of waters that promise immortality draw the travelers into a struggle over who will reach the lake first.

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