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  • Bracelets for Bina's Brothers
    Celebrate diversity, math, and the power of storytelling! For the Hindu holiday of Raksha Bandhan, Bina is determined to make beaded bracelets for her brothers all by herself. She finds out which colours her brothers like and dislike and sets to work. Working with her every-other-one beading pattern causes Bina to discover something new about patterns—and her brothers. Storytelling Math...
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  • Anna Karenina
    Leo Tolstoy's evocative tale of doomed love—one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. Anna Karenina startled the world with its powerful portrayal of the human need for love and purpose. In a story that brings to vivid life nineteenth-century Russia across various social classes, Anna renounces a respectable yet stifling marriage for a passionate affair that weighs her...
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  • Wieland; or The Transformation
    A thrilling tale that leads from ventriloquism and mania to a family murder and emotional breakdown, Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland; or The Transformation (1798) ties revolutionary-era Gothic themes to struggles over the politics of Enlightenment on both sides of the Atlantic. This edition of Wieland includes Brown's Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist and writings on Cicero, as well as his...
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  • The Siren's Lament
    The sage Confucius visits a cultured duke, whose pursuit of virtue is threatened by the desires of his dazzling, malicious consort. A naïve servant elopes with his master's daughter, only to be plunged headlong into a world of murder and corruption. Exhausted by a lifestyle of never-ending debauchery, a young prince finds himself obsessed with a sorrowful, beguiling mermaid. These...
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  • The Awakening
    This Norton Critical Edition includes: The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a modernist novel of marital infidelity, set in New Orleans and Grande Isle, Louisiana. This edition features the annotated text of the novel. A preface, a critical essay, and explanatory annotations by Margo Culley enrich the reading experience. It includes essays by acclaimed Chopin biographers Per Seyersted and Emily...
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  • Tales of Moonlight and Rain
    First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm of the uncanny and exemplify the period's fascination with the strange and the grotesque. They were also the inspiration for Mizoguchi Kenji's brilliant 1953 film Ugetsu....
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  • Persuasion
    Eight years ago, Anne Elliot followed the advice of Lady Russell, her only true friend, and broke off her engagement to the dashing young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. When Anne and the newly wealthy Captain Wentworth cross paths years later, it is clear that he has neither forgotten nor forgiven their past. Can true love survive heartbreak? Who should we...
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  • Mansfield Park
    Sent to live with her rich cousins, the Bertrams, at the age of ten, Fanny Price is acutely aware of her humble rank. As she grows up, she falls in love with her cousin, Edmund Bertram, her only ally and friend. But when the Crawfords move into the neighbourhood, bringing the glamour of London, and a reckless taste for flirtation,...
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  • Erewhon
    Erewhon, an anagram for "nowhere," is a faraway land where citizens follow a unique set of rules disregarding conventional beliefs about money, health and science. Beneath the surface, Erewhon is fueled by hypocrisy and inhabitants are riddled with fear. A traveller stumbles across a remote country that appears to be a peaceful paradise. It's a utopian society that doesn't use...
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  • The Sufferings of Young Werther
    "Corngold's new translation is of the very highest quality, punctiliously faithful to Goethe's German and sensitive to gradations of style in this extraordinary, trail-blazing first novel." — J. M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books A masterpiece of the European imagination, The Sufferings of Young Werther is the classic strum und drang tale of youthful angst and tragedy. The acclaimed...
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  • The House With a Dragon in It
    An adventure to treasure from two multi award-winning creators, discover a classic story of family, friendship and believing in your own magic. When Summer and her foster family are having lunch one day, a hole appears in the middle of the living room. That hole leads to a dragon and the promise of three wishes, granted by a very unusual...
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  • The Brown Fairy Book
    Originally published in 1904, The Brown Fairy Book is a vibrant collection of classic stories that have been shared among various cultures, scholars, and critics. This is one instalment of Andrew Lang's popular children's series. The Brown Fairy Book brings the nuance and history of the Americas, Australia, and Asia into one compelling collection. With more than 30 stories to...
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  • Sindbad
    Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed—new deluxe trade paperback editions of the beloved stories. Husain Haddawy's rapturously received translation of The Arabian Nights is based on a landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version. Readers of this classic will also want to own Sindbad, a collection of four later stories associated with the Arabian Nights tradition,...
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  • Lysistrata, Women at the Thesmophoria, Frogs
    Arnson Svarlien's translation offers fresh insight into three of Aristophanes's greatest comedies. The verse flows smoothly, and throughout it is stressed that these plays belong on a stage, with guidance on how that might be accomplished. At the same time, the detailed Introduction and interpretative notes on every page show that both Arnson Svarlien and Storey are deeply committed to...
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  • Luminaries
    Agnes has been drifting away from herself. People look through her, her husband doesn’t understand her, and lately, she’s begun losing the sensations in her body. When a tube of shoplifted lipstick awakens her back to life, an impulse for stealing emerges that leads her to a court-ordered service at a camp for grieving children. Initially hoping only that the...
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  • Classic Starts®: The Swiss Family Robinson
    A shipwreck; a deserted island; a family wondering if they can survive. Rich in suspense and surprises, The Swiss Family Robinson entices young readers to come along on a wonderful adventure, where each moment brings a new thrill. Featuring amazingly resourceful characters and a landscape bursting with exotic wildlife and plants, it's an irresistible tale of ingenuity.
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  • Classic Starts®: The Jungle Book
    Run with the jungle animals in this illustrated chapter-book retelling of The Jungle Book, part of the bestselling Classic Starts series that has sold more than 8 million copies! Mowgli has lived among his wolf brothers for as long as he can remember. Baloo and Bagheera teach him the ways of the jungle, but some animals view him as a...
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  • A Blue Tale and Other Stories
    This story collection is a welcome port of entry for any reader not yet familiar with Marguerite Yourcenar's works. Published to great acclaim in France in 1993, this collection is not only a delight for Marguerite Yourcenar fans but a welcome port of entry for any reader not yet familiar with the author's lengthier, more demanding works. This collection includes...
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    Winnie-the-Pooh
    Celebrate the 100th anniversary of everyone’s favourite bear-of-little-brain with this special bind-up edition of A. A. Milne’s classic novels Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner—featuring a flocked cover that’s soft to the touch. The story of the honey-loving, bumbling bear Winnie-the-Pooh has been a staple in children’s libraries since its original publication in the 1900s. Venture into the Hundred...
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  • Three Bengal Kittens
    Three Bengal Kittens, by Philipp Schott, follows Dr. Peter Bannerman as he uses his sniffer dog, Pippin, to uncover suspects, treat animals, track a kitten kidnapper, and solve a locked-room mystery. In this fourth book in the series, Dr. Peter Bannerman’s brother, Sam, takes in three Bengal kittens after the previous owner—his neighbour in a Winnipeg north end apartment building—is...
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  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
    What a study in contrasts is the friendship between Henry Jekyll and his boon companion, Edward Hyde. Where Jekyll is a handsome and respected man of science, Hyde is a surly and brutish misanthrope. Nevertheless, Jekyll has allowed Hyde free access to his home and laboratory and, surprisingly, made him the sole beneficiary of his will. Given the closeness of...
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  • The Romance of a Shop
    With this elegant edition, Smith & Taylor Classics celebrates Levy's sharp and modern tale of ambition, survival, and the female gaze. The Romance of a Shop follows the four Lorimer sisters in the wake of their father's death. Penniless and reliant on each other, they decide to open a photography studio at 20B Baker Street, offering the citizens of London...
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  • The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais
    Rip-roaring and rib-tickling, François Rabelais's irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagruel, and their companion Panurge is a classic of the written word. This complete translation by Donald Frame, helpfully annotated for the nonspecialist, is a masterpiece in its own right, bringing to twentieth-century English all the exuberance and invention of the original sixteenth-century French. A final...
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  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
    Mark Twain's adventurous story of boyhood is now available in an unabridged, illustrated, cloth hardcover volume in Union Square and Co.'s Signature Clothbound Editions series. Whether he's tricking others into doing his work or running away with Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer always manages to wiggle his way out of trouble. But when he accidentally witnesses a murder, Tom is suddenly...
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  • Oracle Bone
    Life in seventh-century China teems with magic, fox spirits, and demons; there is a fervent belief that the extraordinary resides within the lives of both commoners and royalty. During the years when the empress Wu Zhao gains ascendancy in the Tang court, her evil-minded lover Xie becomes obsessed with finding and possessing the oracle bone, a magical object that will...
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  • Hauntings
    Bewitching ghost stories from seminal short story writer Vernon Lee, beautifully captured in the Smith & Taylor Classics series. "My ghosts are what you call spurious ghosts, of whom I can affirm only one thing, that they haunted certain brains, and have haunted, among others, my own..." Shipwrecked before a remote Italian coastal village, a young girl discovers the ability...
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  • Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Vol. 2
    Curl up by the fire and enter the sinister, supernatural world of Montague Rhodes James, the master of the English ghost story. An influence on writers from H. P. Lovecraft to Stephen King, James created tales of understated horror that continue to transfix readers 80 years after his death. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Vol. 2 comprises graphic adaptations of...
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  • Ghosts Revisited 3
    Ghosts Revisited 3 by William P. Robertson is the third collection of his ghost stories, featuring 34 chilling tales from Pennsylvania and Western New York. Within these pages, you will encounter a witch, wailing babies, and a faceless phantom that lurk in creepy graveyards. Plane crash spectres shop at the Aliquippa Giant Eagle, too, while a Lady in White searches...
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  • Ghosts from the Library
    A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age—thrills, spills, and chills perfect for Halloween. It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives—to show us places we want to escape to, lives we want to live, people we want to love. But...
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  • A Murderous Plot
    ‘A cozy murder mystery that kept me guessing till the end’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ NetGalley reviewer When an amnesiac man covered in blood mysteriously appears in the woods during her morning run, retired amateur sleuth, Jen, promises to stay away from the case. She has a murder mystery to write, and absolutely no interest in being involved in another case with the...
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  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Deluxe Edition)
    Age range: 9 to 12 Down the rabbit-hole and through the looking-glass! Lewis Carroll's novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (first published in 1865 and 1871, respectively) have entertained readers young and old for more than a century. Their magical worlds, amusing characters, clever dialogue, and playfully logical illogic epitomise the wit and whimsy of Carroll's writing....
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  • Vita Nuova
    Part love story, part instruction manual, part spiritual journey, Dante's "little book," the Vita Nuova, has had a profound and far-reaching influence on global culture. It is considered by many to be the perfect expression of the medieval ideal of courtly love, as well as an essential precursor to Dante's sublime poetic apotheosis, the Divine Comedy. Now Joseph Luzzi, celebrated...
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  • V is for Venom
    Finalist in the 2026 Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Best Critical/Biographical) ‘Hugely entertaining and informative’ — Mark Aldridge ‘Harkup balances the macabre with the scientifically intricate’ — New Scientist Fourteen stories. Fourteen more poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn’t mean it's all made-up ... Agatha Christie is renowned for her captivating plots and creative ways of killing off ill-fated victims. And...
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  • Under a Dark Angel's Eye
    Disturbing, exhilarating, potent, savagely funny.
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  • To the Lighthouse
    The Ramsays spend their summers on the Isle of Skye, where they happily entertain friends and family and make idle plans to visit the nearby lighthouse. Over the course of the book, the lighthouse becomes a silent witness to the ebbs and flows, the births and deaths, that punctuate the individual lives of the Ramsays. When referencing the title, avoid...
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  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    One of the true classics of children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is now available in an unabridged, illustrated, cloth hardcover volume as part of Union Square and Co.'s Signature Clothbound Editions series. Dorothy and her little dog, Toto, are swept away from their home in Kansas by a powerful tornado and dropped into an enchanting new land called...
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  • The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings
    A chilling medieval ghost story, retold by bestselling historian Dan Jones. Published in a beautiful small-format hardback, perfect as a Halloween read or a Christmas gift. One winter, in the dark days of King Richard II, a tailor was riding home on the road from Gilling to Ampleforth. It was dank, wet and gloomy; he couldn't wait to get home...
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  • The Scarlet Letter
    It is the mid-seventeenth century in Boston. Hester Prynne, dignified and silent, is led through prison doors to her public shaming by members of the Puritan town. Holding her illegitimate child to her breast, and bearing a bright scarlet letter A embroidered on her bodice, Hester must now struggle to create a new life for herself and her child within...
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  • The Metamorphosis & Other Stories
    Franz Kafka's bizarrely comedic meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation is expressed through the story of a man who is transformed overnight into a giant beetle, now repackaged with a beautifully designed jacket by noted illustrator Malika Favre. Only yesterday, Gregor Samsa was a meek salesman, browbeaten by his unappreciative employer and depended on fiercely by his...
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  • The Ghost Trio
    A story set in Prague that crosses the lines between the living and the dead. The great love of your life is dead, but that doesn’t stop him from communicating with you—or luring you to join him in the afterlife. To remain safe in this world, you accept the help of a professional medium who develops his own emotional agenda....
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  • The Essential Christmas Classics Collection (Boxed Set)
    Celebrate the holidays with this collection of Christmas classics, including A Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker, and a collection of holiday short stories—together in one hardcover boxed set! Celebrate the season with this collection of popular holiday stories from Christmases past. This set includes E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker, the story of a girl’s Christmas gift coming to life and...
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  • The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos
    Álvaro de Campos is one of the most influential heteronyms created by Portugal's great modernist writer Fernando Pessoa. According to Pessoa, Campos was born in Tavira (Algarve) in 1890 and studied mechanical engineering in Glasgow, although he never managed to complete his degree. In his own day, Campos was celebrated — and slandered — for his vociferous poetry imbued with...
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  • The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I
    Here, in one volume, are the stories that transformed Sherlock Holmes into a household name: the fateful first meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in A Study in Scarlet, the mysterious treasure of The Sign of the Four, the formidable Irene Adler of A Scandal in Bohemia, and many more! This collection includes A Study in Scarlet, The Sign...
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  • Tell Me Something Good
    This is a writer that understands people down to the bones. Her characters are fallible and hopeful, flawed and loving, and so real they have stayed with me. --Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author A knockout. --Booklist Starred Review This is a story of the rich and the very poor. This is a story of an illegal auction with...
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  • Point Counter Point
    Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterises the symptoms of "the disease of modern man" in the manner of a composer—themes and characters are repeated,...
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  • Ovid’s Metamorphoses
    This fresh translation revives the politics and power at play in classical mythology’s foremost source Centuries of conservative translators have robbed the Metamorphoses of its subversive force. In this boldly lyrical translation, C. Luke Soucy revives the magnum opus of Rome’s most clever and creative poet, faithfully matching the epic’s wit and style while confronting the sexuality, violence, and politics...
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  • Lowe and Le Breton mysteries - Death at the Playhouses
    It’s 1971 and, in between filming seasons of Floggit and Leggit, ageing actors Edward Lowe and John Le Breton sign up for a short run of Shakespearean tragedies at the Bolton Playhouse. But, once in Lancashire, they discover they have been invited to join the theatre’s repertory company for two reasons – because the company manager is keen to take...
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  • Little Women
    The beloved story of four sisters growing up in the mid-19th century is now available in an unabridged, illustrated, cloth hardcover volume in Union Square and Co.'s Signature Clothbound Editions series. Ladylike Meg, tomboy Jo, sensitive Beth, and charming Amy each March sister has her own dreams, struggles, and fears. The March sisters come to see that learning how to...
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  • Little Women
    Ladylike Meg, artistic tomboy Jo, frail Beth, and charming Amy each March sister has her own dreams, struggles, and fears. The March sisters learn that learning how to be a little woman is never simple, but it's much sweeter to do when they have their sisters by their sides. This rich and realistic portrait of growing up is now available...
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  • Kafka
    Nine of Franz Kafka's most memorable tales are here given fresh life with dazzling graphic renderings by the brother-and-sister manga creators Nishioka Kyodai. With their distinctive, surreal style of illustration, they have reimagined the fantastic, the imperceptible, and the bizarre in Kafka's work, creating a hauntingly powerful visual world. These stories of enigmatic figures and uncanny transformations are stripped to...
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  • Ghost Music
    THE DEAD CAN’T PUNISH PEOPLE – BUT THEY CAN SEEK REVENGE When composer Gideon Lake moves into his new apartment building, he becomes infatuated by his neighbour Kate Solway. After they begin a passionate affair, they travel to Europe to continue their fling in secret. But, when strange and unexplainable events start to happen, what should have been a romantic...
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  • Don't Go to Sleep in the Dark
    Spine-chillingly creepy Halloween tales of horror from the author of Waterstones Thriller of the Month, Uncle Paul: the 'grandmother of psycho-domestic noir' (Sunday Times) for fans of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith and Stranger Things. 'Few people can chill the blood like Celia Fremlin.' Telegraph 'Grips like grim death.' Spectator I tried to open my mouth to call out again; but...
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  • Crime and Punishment
    Crime and Punishment is the 19th-century psychological thriller by esteemed Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. Now, 200 years after his birth, we celebrate this bicentennial with a new introduction by Professor Robin Miller, the perfect lead-in to the celebrated translation by Constance Garnett.
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  • Classic Starts®: The Time Machine
    Travel into the future in this abridged retelling of The Time Machine, part of the bestselling Classic Starts series that has sold more than 8 million copies! After inventing a time machine, the Traveller leaves Victorian London and goes far, far into the future. At first, the world he discovers seems peaceful and prosperous. But as he looks farther below...
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  • Classic Starts®: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
    Tom Sawyer's energetic antics—treasure hunting, fishing, and general mischief-making—have captured the imaginations of children for almost 150 years. Now, this abridged edition of the classic story is refreshed with an appealing new cover and contemporary interior illustrations. The Classic Starts series has sold more than 8 million copies since it launched in 2004. These abridged, kid-friendly editions are the perfect...
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  • Classic Starts®: Little Women
    Classic Starts®: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is a timeless novel that has captivated even the most reluctant readers. Set during the Civil War, it follows the adventures of the four March sisters—Meg, Beth, Amy, and, most of all, the tomboy Jo. Experience the joys and disappointments, tragedies and triumphs, of growing up alongside the March sisters in this...
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  • Classic Starts®: Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
    Have a tea party in Wonderland with this abridged retelling of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, part of the bestselling Classic Starts series that has sold more than 8 million copies! "Life, what is it but a dream?" In Alice in Wonderland, Alice falls down a rabbit hole to find herself in a bizarre land ruled by a...
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  • Almost There (Disney: A Twisted Tale #13)
    What if Tiana made a deal that changed everything? Sometimes, life in the Big Easy is tough. No-one knows that better than Tiana, though she also believes that hard work can go a long way. But when the notorious Dr. Facilier backs her into a corner, she has no other choice but to accept an offer that will alter the...
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  • The Woman in Black
    During a trip to a nearby village, the proudly unmarried Sir Ashleigh Carruthers attends an evening service in the small local church. There, he finds himself seated next to the alluring and hypnotically beautiful Woman in Black and is instantly enraptured. But when the vicar collapses mid-sermon after looking upon the Woman's face, Carruthers is left to wonder: Who is...
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  • The Witch and the Priest
    PENGUIN HORROR- A celebration of the very best literary horror, a series of terrifying novels and tales that for generations have thrilled, captivated and kept readers wide awake at night. Joan Flower is long dead when she first appears to Samuel Fleming, a priest plagued by doubts about her and her daughters' execution for witchcraft. Did he do all he...
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  • The White Priory Murders
    The White Priory Murders presents an 'impossible situation' regarded as the best Mr Dickson has given us, according to Torquemada in The Observer, 1935. "Sir Henry is at his best in this baffling yarn, and so is Carter Dickson," praised The New York Times in 1934. James Bennett has been invited to stay at White Priory for Christmas among the...
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  • The Swiss Family Robinson
    If you were stranded on a desert island, what would you do? Young readers can read and imagine in this unabridged paperback edition of The Swiss Family Robinson. After their ship crashes onto a deserted island, the Robinson family begins a castaway life of adventure, scientific exploration, and the primal instinct to survive. As the years pass, the family begins...
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  • The Pink Fairy Book
    Originally published in 1897, The Pink Fairy Book is a dynamic collection of world-renowned stories that are deeply rooted in Japanese, Italian and Scandinavian culture. These rich and compelling stories are staples within the children's genre. The Pink Fairy Book is a continuation of Andrew Lang's popular fairy tale book series. This edition includes more international fare such as "The...
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  • The Mysterious Correspondent
    Newly discovered stories from one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Throughout Proust's life, nine of his short stories remained unseen - the writer never spoke of them. Why did he choose not to publish them along with the others? One possible answer is that he was developing his themes in preparation for his masterpiece, In Search of...
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  • The Haunting of Velkwood
    Winner of the 2025 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel Finalist for the 2025 Shirley Jackson Award From Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes an “emotionally devastating, character driven ghost story” (CrimeReads) about three childhood friends who miraculously survive the night everyone in their suburban hometown turned to ghosts—perfect for fans of Yellowjackets. The Velkwood Vicinity...
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  • The Garden Party and Selected Short Stories
    When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a kinship with the staff and the helpers hired to set up the venue for the festivities. As she learns of the death of one of their working-class neighbours, this burgeoning sense of class consciousness is heightened by a realisation of...
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  • The Fantastic Tales of Fitz-James O'Brien
    In the field of supernatural and fantastic literature, certain names come readily to mind – E.T.A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft – but the name of Fitz-James O’Brien has been unjustly overlooked and nearly forgotten since his premature death in 1862 during the American Civil War. The Diamond Lens, O’Brien’s most famous short story, can be regarded as a...
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  • The Divine Comedy
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