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A Room with a View cover

E. M. Forster

A Room with a View

Available until Jun 11, 2026

Chasing Shadows: A Novel cover

Jasveer Singh Dangi

Chasing Shadows: A Novel

Available until Jun 11, 2026

Indian Aesthetics cover

P.N. Virkar

Indian Aesthetics

Available until Jun 11, 2026

Middlemarch cover

George Eliot

Middlemarch

Available until Jun 11, 2026

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale cover

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Available until Jun 11, 2026

More than Friends cover

Rashmeet Kaur Chawla

More than Friends

Available until Jun 11, 2026

My Lady’s Money cover

Wilkie Collins

My Lady’s Money

Available until Jun 11, 2026

Taking a U-Turn cover

Rashmeet Kaur Chawla

Taking a U-Turn

Available until Jun 11, 2026

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes cover

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Available until Jun 11, 2026

The Blue Castle cover

L. M. Montgomery

The Blue Castle

Available until Jun 11, 2026

The Brothers Karamazov cover

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

Available until Jun 11, 2026

The Great Gatsby cover

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

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The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling cover

Henry Fielding

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

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The Metamorphosis cover

Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles cover

Agatha Christie

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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The Picture of Dorian Gray cover

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Available until Jun 11, 2026

Twenty Years After cover

Alexandre Dumas

Twenty Years After

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Mad Spiders and Fishermen

Even if you’re wary of spiders in real life, you can’t help but root for them here. In Walter Tarnowsky’s Mad Spiders and Fishermen, Booker is a hard-working spider living with his wife, Silken, and their five children inside an abandoned Ontario fi...

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Gradie the Groundhog's First Groundhog Day

Gradie the Groundhog’s First Groundhog Day is a delightfully cute and cozy introduction to one of North America’s most beloved traditions. Bonnie Lemaire and Darrin Laurin combine clever wordplay with vibrant illustrations to create a story that feel...

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Gradie the Groundhog's First Groundhog Day

Built to Thrive

Part memoir, part guide, Mary-Jo Bathe’s Built to Thrive: How To Use Generational Wisdom to Grow Your Resilience gifts readers a framework for cultivating a resilient lifestyle, even in the darkest of times. Through sharing stories of survival—such a...

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Built to Thrive

The Call of Abaddon

Delivering a generous dose of action and intrigue, Colin Searle's The Call of Abaddon shares a heart-pounding dystopian vision of corruption and those that choose to fight against it. An eldritch nanopunk wonder, The Call of Abaddon sees protagonist...

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The Call of Abaddon

The Prophet of Frogs Hollow

In The Prophet of Frogs Hollow, author Sean Patrick Dolan delivers a chilling and immersive tale of faith, manipulation, and the harrowing fight to reclaim truth from the shadows of a cult—told through the gut-wrenching realities and unimaginable sac...

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Wife by the Hour

After ten gratifying years of being “Just Julia,” a sought after, high-end escort in Toronto, it's time to hang up the lingerie. In Gail Treasure’s debut novel, Wife by the Hour, Julia attempts to retire from her services, but her final client, Alex,...

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Wife by the Hour

The Bee That Waved at Me

Jenny Alexander’s The Bee that Waved at Me is a lovely story about a little girl who has a chance encounter with a talking bee whose stinger is broken. Through her kindness, Sara helps the bee realize that he can still be useful despite his perceived...

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