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The Canterville Ghost
Despite multiple warnings, Horace B. Otis and his family move to Canterville Chase, a sprawling English manor with a dark history and a lingering guest. From the brilliant mind of Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost is an irreverent mix of horror and humor. Canterville...- $ 250.00
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Daisy Miller
Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of...- $ 250.00
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The Haunted Hotel
An English aristocrat, Lord Montbarry, abandons his fiancée for an enigmatic countess with a dark past, before moving with her and her brother, Baron Rivar – who is rumoured to be her lover, and is fond of gambling and alchemy – into a decayed...- $ 250.00
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
One of Tsutsui's best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The Girl Who Leapt through Time is the story of fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Kazuko, who accidentally discovers that she can leap back and forth in time. In her quest to uncover the identity...- $ 250.00
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Sons and Lovers
As the sensitive and delicate Gertrude begins to shrink from her drunken and violent husband, their marriage becomes a battleground. Gertrude turns increasingly towards her two eldest sons, William and Paul, and determines that they will not grow up to be coal miners living...- $ 250.00
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The Good Soldier
When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister and their...- $ 250.00
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Jettatura
This 1856 novella from the master of fantasy and the supernatural is a brilliant and witty examination of man's innermost fantasies and fears.When Paul d'Aspremont travels to Naples to join Alicia Ward, his beautiful fiancé, he is surprised to see her grow pale under...- $ 250.00
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Madame Bovary
Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and when her doctor, the well-meaning but awkward and unremarkable Charles Bovary, begins to pay her attention, she imagines that she may be granted her...- $ 250.00
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Incest
When the immoral libertine Monsieur de Franval marries and fathers a daughter, he decides to inculcate in her a sense of absolute freedom, an unconventional education that involves the two becoming secret lovers. But Franval's virtuous, God-fearing wife becomes suspicious and confronts him, setting...- $ 250.00
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one of love and passion to jealousy and resentfulness, culminating in a mad act of desperation while she practised Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata with her...- $ 250.00
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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...- $ 250.00
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The Intelligent Woman's Guide
As a lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic inequality was a poison destroying every aspect of human life, perverting family affections and the relations between the sexes. According to him, all British institutions were “corrupted at the root by pecuniary interest” – and idealism,...- $ 250.00
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Daisy Miller (Alma)
When the young American Frederick Winterbourne meets his compatriot Daisy Miller in the garden of a grand hotel in Switzerland, he is struck by her beauty, but slightly unsettled by her open ways and her flirtatiousness. Undeterred by this and by his aunt's disapproval,...- $ 250.00
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Children of Dune
Dune #3. Now in a beautiful new package; book three in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib,...- $ 250.00
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Eileen
The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the...- $ 250.00
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Human Acts
In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing...- $ 250.00
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Legend
What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the...- $ 250.00
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Macbeth
This edition of Macbeth is edited with an introduction by series editor Stephen Orgel. and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia. Waldia received a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators for the Pelican Shakespeare series. The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series...- $ 250.00
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The Call of the Wild and White Fang
The Call Of The Wild is the story of Buck, a dog stolen from his home and thrust into the merciless life of the Arctic north to endure hardship, bitter cold, and the savage lawlessness of man and beast. White Fang is the adventure of an animal -- part...- $ 250.00
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Nightbitch
One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else... An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years...- $ 250.00
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American Pastoral
Philip Roth crafts a devastating portrait of a nation’s broken promise—and one man’s fall from the American dream into chaos. Seymour "Swede" Levov has everything: a flawless athletic legacy, a beauty queen wife, a thriving family business, and a picture-perfect home in postwar suburban...- $ 250.00
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Forward The Foundation
Foundation #2. As Hari Seldon struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory and ensure a place for humanity among the stars, the great Galactic Empire totters on the brink of apocalyptic collapse. Caught in the maelstrom are Seldon and all he holds dear,...- $ 250.00
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How Do You Live?
After the death of his father, fifteen-year-old Copper must confront inevitable and enormous change, including the aftermath of his own betrayal of his best friend. Between episodes of Copper’s emerging story, letters from his uncle share knowledge and offer advice on life’s big questions. ...- $ 250.00
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The Dunwich Horror
A classic tale of terror and grotesquerie by the original master of horror. H. P. Lovecraft proclaimed his Dunwich Horror "so fiendish" that his editor at Weird Tales "may not dare to print it." The editor, fortunately, knew a good thing when he saw...- $ 250.00
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Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner is a powerful memoir that tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares...- $ 250.00
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Around the World in Eighty Days
A clockwork English gentleman. A reckless wager. A race against time. October 1872. When the unflappable Phileas Fogg bets his fortune that he can circle the globe in just eighty days, he sets off with his loyal valet, Passepartout, on an unforgettable adventure. From...- $ 250.00
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A Fantasy of Dr Ox
In the sleepy Flemish town of Quiquendone, life moves at a glacial pace—arguments are rare, romances stretch on for decades, and excitement is virtually unknown. That is, until the enigmatic Dr. Ox arrives with a bold plan to modernize the town’s lighting system. But...- $ 250.00
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
This in-depth guide explores Benjamin Britten’s operatic adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, his seventh major opera, which premiered in 1960. Working alongside his partner, tenor Peter Pears, Britten transformed Shakespeare’s beloved comedy into a haunting and lyrical operatic experience—retaining much of the original...- $ 250.00
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A Voyage to the Moon
A bold and eccentric attempt to reach the moon—via vials of dewdrops—sends the narrator on a strange and dreamlike journey. What begins as a fantastical expedition soon lands him in a landscape resembling the Garden of Eden, inhabited by Biblical patriarchs and overseen by...- $ 250.00
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The Scarlet Letter
At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester...- $ 250.00
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The Magician's Nephew
Narnia... a land frozen in eternal winter, a country waiting to be set free. On a daring quest to save a life, two friends are hurled into another world, where an evil sorceress seeks to enslave them. But then the lion Aslan's song weaves...- $ 250.00
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Four adventurous siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie—step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the...- $ 250.00
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The Cruel Prince
Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many...- $ 250.00
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The Wicked King
The enchanting and bloodthirsty sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince. After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her younger brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to...- $ 250.00
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The Queen of Nothing
A powerful curse forces the exiled Queen of Faerie to choose between ambition and humanity in this highly anticipated and jaw-dropping finale. Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over...- $ 250.00
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The Giver
Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. Everyone is the same. Except Jonas. Not until...- $ 250.00
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The Burnout
Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, “urgent” email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn’t seen her friends in months. Sex? Seems like a lot of effort. Even cooking dinner takes far too much...- $ 250.00
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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Emily Wilde, 1. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde...- $ 250.00
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Antony and Cleopatra
One of Shakespeare’s great tragedies—a sweeping tale of politics, passion and power set against the backdrop of ancient Rome and Egypt. At its heart is the doomed love between Mark Antony, a Roman general torn between duty and desire, and Cleopatra, the fiercely intelligent...- $ 250.00
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Check & Mate
Mallory Greenleaf walked away from the chess world years ago, vowing never to return after it fractured her family. Now her life is about keeping things together: working a thankless job, caring for her mom and sisters and avoiding anything that might stir up...- $ 250.00
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Bride
Misery Lark has always been the outcast of her powerful Vampyre lineage, living quietly among humans to escape the shadow of her father’s rule. But peace comes at a cost. To uphold a tenuous treaty between Vampyres and their bitter enemies, the Weres, Misery...- $ 250.00
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Not in Love
Rue Siebert has worked hard for her perfectly balanced life—loyal friends, hard-won financial stability, and a fulfilling career as a biotech engineer at one of the most exciting food science start-ups around. She’s poured everything into her job at Kline, and she’s proud of...- $ 250.00
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Better Than the Movies
Liz Buxbaum has always believed in grand romantic gestures, sweeping movie moments, and the promise of a perfect prom. So when her longtime crush Michael moves back to town, it feels like fate—and Liz is ready to script her own love story. There’s just...- $ 250.00
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I Hope This Doesn't Find You
Sadie Wen is a high-achieving student who secretly vents her frustrations in a folder of unsent emails—messages she never intended anyone to read, especially those about her academic rival, Julius Gong. But when the emails are suddenly sent out, Sadie becomes the most unpopular...- $ 250.00
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A Crane Among Wolves
In a kingdom ruled by fear, hope is rebellion—and love could be the deadliest weapon of all. Joseon, 1506. Under the bloodstained reign of King Yeonsan, the people are silenced. Books are burned. Girls are stolen. And no one dares defy the crown—until seventeen-year-old...- $ 250.00
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
What if no one remembered you... but one person did? In 1714, in a quiet corner of France, a desperate young woman strikes a bargain with a dark god: she will live forever—but be remembered by no one. Not a friend. Not a lover....- $ 250.00
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Letters to a Young Poet
A timeless guide to the creative life from one of literature’s most profound voices. At the dawn of the twentieth century, poet Rainer Maria Rilke exchanged a series of heartfelt letters with a young aspiring writer—a correspondence that would become a lasting source of...- $ 250.00
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Here One Moment
What if you were told the exact moment you'd die? Would it change how you lived? On her twenty-eighth birthday, Allegra Patel—a cheerful flight attendant used to smoothing turbulence in the sky—faces a far more unnerving kind of disruption. During a frustrating delay, a...- $ 250.00
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Homegoing
In 18th-century Ghana, two half-sisters are born in separate villages, unaware of each other's existence. One is married off to a British colonizer and lives in luxury within the Cape Coast Castle. The other is seized during a raid, imprisoned in that same fortress,...- $ 250.00
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Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
Emily Wilde, 3. The story follows Professor Emily Wilde, a brilliant but introverted scholar of faerie lore, as she travels to the fae realm of Silva Lupi with her fiancé, the charming and mysterious fae prince Wendell Bambleby. Wendell has returned home to claim...- $ 250.00
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