Henry Kolker
Series
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"Jeff Butler, overseer of the Union Pacific's construction, finds a network of schemers bent on sabotage. Most prominent are gamblers Sid Campeau, Jack Cordray and Dick Allen. Dick is a forrmer pal of Jeff's, but their relationship changes as they fight over the railroad and over Mollie Monahan, the railroad's spirited postmistress." -- Container.
2) The holiday
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Amanda lives in Los Angeles and is a movie trailer editor. Iris lives in Surrey, England and is a journalist. The two live five thousand miles apart and have never met, but both are dealing with the same problem: men. Amanda just broke up with her cheating boyfriend. Iris has pined for her ex. Amanda comes upon a website that advocates home exchange and the two decide to swap houses for two weeks at Christmas - both with a goal to forget their troubled...
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Even though their families are feuding, Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly marry. Romeo gets in a fight and kills Juliet's cousin Tybalt, resulting in his banishment from Verona. When her parents insist that she marry Paris, Juliet and the friar devise a plan that she hopes will make things right.
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Theodora goes wild: A small-time author whose racy bestsellers, written under a pseudonym, bring her notoriety when a New Yorker discovers her secret.
Together again: The mayor's widow falls for a sculptor as he works on a statue of her late husband.
The doctor takes a wife: A feminist writer is forced to pretend she's married to a man whom she loathes.
A night to remember: A woman and her mystery writer husband take an apartment in Greenwich Village...