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P. G. WodehouseBertie agrees to house a sheltered young lord in New York, then discovers that the guest has plans his mother never imagined.
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P. G. WodehouseAt a Christmas house party, Bertie pursues Roberta, plots revenge on Tuppy, and tries to stay in Sir Roderick’s good graces.
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P. G. WodehouseWhen Bingo falls for a waitress, Jeeves proposes a reading list to persuade his wealthy uncle that class should not stand in love's way.
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P. G. WodehouseAn artist needs his wealthy uncle's approval to marry, so Bertie brings in Jeeves to find a way past the man's stubbornness.
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P. G. WodehouseDetermined to solve a problem without Jeeves, Bertie devises a plan to help Bingo win Honoria Glossop—and avoid her himself.
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P. G. WodehouseBertie must convince a nerve specialist that he is a suitable son-in-law, but his flat is about to give the wrong impression.
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P. G. WodehouseA poet who hates New York must send his aunt lively reports from its nightlife to keep the allowance that lets him stay in the country.
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P. G. WodehouseBertie has one job: get his troublesome cousins onto a ship. Both fall for the same woman and refuse to leave.
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P. G. WodehouseBertie backs a village sermon contest, but the clergy keep upsetting his carefully calculated odds.
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P. G. WodehouseSippy cannot refuse his old headmaster or tell a poet he loves her, so Bertie tries to cure both problems with a bag of flour.
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P. G. WodehouseBingo tries to win Mary with a village Christmas show, while a rival and a bookmaker watch his every move.
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P. G. WodehouseBertie and Jeeves back two unlikely contenders at a village sports day, but their bookmaker has plans of his own.
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P. G. WodehouseBiffy has lost the woman he loves and is engaged to another. Bertie’s rescue plan takes them to a crowded exhibition.
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P. G. WodehouseAfter a Boat Race night arrest, Bertie poses as his jailed friend at a Cambridge house full of people he'd rather avoid.
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Philip K. DickA casual reader finds an alien invasion hidden in plain sight inside the figures of speech in a paperback novel.
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Ray BradburyAfter a Mars-based spiritual grifter strands a group of elderly women, their leader decides they will take the promised journey anyway.
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Ray BradburyA terrified Mars-bound crewman is given a mental refuge so convincing that his childhood memories become the only world he can see.
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Ray BradburyIn a crime-free future, a pulp writer discovers that a perfect society has left him dangerously short of material.
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Ray BradburyAn aging, disgraced navigator claims he can guide a vital supply ship through an asteroid belt after its computers fail.
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Ray BradburyA Venus-bound rocket crew blunders into battle in a delirious send-up of space-adventure pulp.
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Ray BradburyStranded on an asteroid with minutes of oxygen left, a patrolman and his camera-obsessed partner confront monsters that may exist only in the mind.
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Ray BradburyAcross peaceful future suburbs, children take up a new game called Invasion—and their parents cannot decide whether to take it seriously.
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Robert SheckleyA freighter’s failed engine sends three incompatible crewmen out of the solar system with no ordinary route home.
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Robert SheckleyWhen the stars vanish and a voice schedules Earth’s judgment, a New York dress seller watches humanity prepare for the end.
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