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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

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Indian Aesthetics cover

P.N. Virkar

Indian Aesthetics

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Middlemarch cover

George Eliot

Middlemarch

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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale cover

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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More than Friends cover

Rashmeet Kaur Chawla

More than Friends

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My Lady’s Money cover

Wilkie Collins

My Lady’s Money

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Taking a U-Turn cover

Rashmeet Kaur Chawla

Taking a U-Turn

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes cover

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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The Blue Castle cover

L. M. Montgomery

The Blue Castle

Available until Jun 11, 2026

The Brothers Karamazov cover

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

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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

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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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Sometimes the Earth Shakes

When the world rumbles, kids need stories that steady them—Jeff Pelton’s Sometimes the Earth Shakes does this with heart and clarity. This thoughtful, gentle story helps young children understand earthquakes in a way that replaces fear with confidenc...

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Sometimes the Earth Shakes

Spy's Mate

Spy’s Mate by Brad Buchanan pulls off a rare feat, blending two seemingly distant genres into a compelling and highly entertaining chess spy novel that feels both fresh and fully realized. Yes, you read that correctly: a chess spy novel. Buchanan’s d...

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Spy's Mate

Black Corrosion

A fierce and imaginative epic, Black Corrosion marks the powerful third installment in Costi Gurgu’s Corrosion series—an unflinching meditation on power, survival, and what it means to remain human when the world around you is not. This is a multifac...

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Black Corrosion

Final Approach: A Test Pilot's Story of Caring for Loved Ones

Equal parts heartwarming and heart-wrenching, Jonathan Knaul’s Final Approach: A Test Pilot's Story of Caring for Loved Ones details the emotional, physical, and financial complexities of looking after ailing parents. Refreshingly candid, Knaul provi...

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Final Approach: A Test Pilot's Story of Caring for Loved Ones

My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress

My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress recounts the dizzying rise and turbulent collapse of Anna Delvey, a puzzle box of a young woman whose relentless drive and bottomless opportunism allowed her to swindle dozens of people out of thousand...

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My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress

Inconceivable: From Infertility to Motherhood

Alex Johnston’s memoir, Inconceivable, is an enthralling account of one woman’s reproductive pilgrimage to motherhood, delivered through the pernicious lens of unexpected infertility. Like many educated and successful women, Alex has waited until the...

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