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Adele accepts a canoe outing with David, a reserved young man whom other students call the Monk. She approaches their time together as a flirtation, while he takes their growing intimacy seriously. As they move upriver, the difference between their expectations turns an apparently carefree afternoon into an uncomfortable encounter.
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Anthropologist Sam Sarno and his pregnant wife Sally spend six months on Altair 3 studying its inhabitants. The aliens paint elaborate pictures but seem to ignore every human attempt at contact. As supplies become a problem and frustration grows, Sam must reconsider what he understands about their behavior.
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Store clerk Sheldon Thorpe spends his days in a basement stockroom with Red, a younger colleague who dreams of becoming an artist. Red's plans stir Sheldon's own desire to escape a life of duty and routine. A possible promotion and his wife's expectations make him question whether the security he has worked for is worth staying.
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Emil Carraway has devoted his life to finding a way to live forever. When science and years of study fail to satisfy him, he turns to vampire lore and travels to a ruined castle in Transylvania. He arrives convinced that an encounter with its occupant will finally provide the immortality he has pursued.
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Gregor Samsa erwacht eines Morgens als ungeheures Ungeziefer. Bisher hat er mit seiner Arbeit die Familie ernährt, nun kann er sein Zimmer kaum verlassen. Während seine Schwester ihn zunächst versorgt, verändern Angst und Geldsorgen das Zusammenleben mit den Eltern.
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A Hollywood technical director hires physicist Paul Conrad to help develop a film system that gives men and women different views of the same story. The invention brings Paul attention and draws him toward starlet Gloria Breen. For the man who recruited him, professional success becomes entangled with jealousy and personal ambition.
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Manrique, un joven que prefiere la soledad y la poesía, cree ver a una mujer entre las ruinas junto al Duero. Convencido de haber encontrado el amor que imaginaba, la busca por las calles de Soria. Su deseo convierte una impresión fugaz en una obsesión.
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With her youngest son away at war, Mary sits in his empty room and wonders what remains of the years she has devoted to her family. Farm work and resentment have worn down her relationship with her husband. A visit from her daughter Alice brings another generation into a household struggling with absence and change.
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Dr. Reed Fassin visits a mountain town where a healer uses wax figures and ritual to treat patients. Convinced that the practice exploits their suffering, he challenges the healer and the gathered crowd. His intervention draws him into a conflict that tests his certainty about belief, suggestion and physical harm.
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A fisherman tests his homemade fish-spotting device on the Rogue River and hooks a steelhead that speaks through his earphones. The catch argues with him, criticizes his technique and proposes a bargain. What began as an ordinary fishing trip becomes a contest of persuasion between a stubborn angler and his equally stubborn prey.
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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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Constance Sprague's engagement to Lynn Holt draws her into a family intent on preserving its reputation. When her widowed mother's friendship with John Barse becomes a subject of gossip, Constance faces demands that test both her loyalty and her love. The story examines what happens when a marriage is expected to satisfy an entire family.
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Sakima es un niño ciego al que le encanta cantar. Cuando el hijo de un hombre rico desaparece, Sakima quiere acercarse al padre para aliviar su tristeza con una canción. El relato sigue su decisión de ayudar, aunque los demás duden de lo que puede hacer.
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En una venta de las afueras de Sevilla, el narrador conoce a Amparo y al hijo del ventero. Años después regresa al lugar y descubre cuánto ha cambiado. Los recuerdos de una jornada alegre dan paso a la historia de una separación y sus consecuencias.
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Jenara de Baraona participa en las intrigas absolutistas que rodean la intervención francesa de 1823 en España. Sus gestiones políticas se mezclan con la búsqueda de Salvador Monsalud y con los sentimientos que la unen a él. La novela sigue a sus personajes entre persecuciones, alianzas y enfrentamientos durante el final del Trienio Liberal.
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