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Forbidden Notebook

Forbidden Notebook

Alba De Céspedes

Out running an errand, Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse - she buys a shiny black notebook. She starts keeping a diary in secret, recording her concerns about her daughter, the constant churn of the domestic routine and her fears that her husband will discover her new habit. With each entry Valeria plunges deeper into her interior life, uncovering profound dissatisfa...

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Q. 140

Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead

Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead

Tokarczuk, Olga / Antonia Lloyd-Jones

With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she's unconventi...

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Q. 260

The Codger And The Sparrow

The Codger And The Sparrow

Scott Semegran

Hank O'Sullivan, a sixty-five-year-old widower, lives a routine life, nursing his loneliness with cocktails at his favorite local bar in Austin, Texas. After a parking lot brawl lands him in jail, a judge sentences Hank to community service, picking up trash along the highway alongside a sixteen-year-old troublemaker, Luis Delgado. Luis has remarkable artistic abilities, but hi...

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Q. 260

Land

Land

O'farrell, Maggie

The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger."A breathtaking hymn to the sanctity of natural spaces, operating on timescales both intimate and geological. I finished Land moved not only by the vivid lives of its human characters, but the thrumming, ...

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Q. 330

Overdue

Overdue

Stephanie Perkins

A SPARKLING ADULT DEBUT FROM BELOVED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR STEPHANIE PERKINS! Pre-order now to receive the stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION—available while supplies last! The collector's hardcover features beautiful lush pink edges, custom endpapers and a unique foiled case stamp. Perfect for any bookshelf!"Stephanie Perkins is the reason we write romance. OVERDUE is...

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Q. 360

Victim

Victim

Andrew Boryga

"You will burn through Victim and find your hands scalded when you are done...Pitch perfect." --Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies DreamingThere's a fine line between bending the truth and telling bold-faced lies, and Javier Perez is willing to cross it. Victim is a fearless satire about a hustler from the Bronx who sees through the veneer of diver...

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Q. 280

The Three Lives Of Cate Kay

The Three Lives Of Cate Kay

Fagan, Kate

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets First Lie Wins in this electric, voice-driven debut novel about an elusive bestselling author who decides to finally confess her true identity after years of hiding from her past. Cate Kay knows how to craft a story. As the creator of a bestselling book trilogy that struck box office gold as a film series, she's one of the most successful...

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Q. 190

Everyday Movement (Exp)

Everyday Movement (Exp)

Gigi L. Leung

On a weekend morning, college roommates, Ah Li and Panda, wake up with very different reactions to the night before. They have been chased and tear-gassed in the streets of their city after joining tens of thousands of others to protest a national security law that would effectively spell the end of democracy in Hong Kong. Ah Li couldn't get out of bed, her heart heavy with the...

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The Night Before Christmas At Dunder Mifflin

The Night Before Christmas At Dunder Mifflin

Brian Baumgartner / Ben Silverman

A new Christmas classic for all ages and the ultimate holiday gift for every fan of The Office: Spend "The Night Before Christmas" at Dunder Mifflin in this hilarious and timeless illustrated retelling of the beloved poem, featuring a visit from Michael Scott as Santa and narrated by Kevin Malone (author Brian Baumgartner).'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through Dunde...

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Q. 210

Interpreter Of Maladies

Interpreter Of Maladies

Lahiri, Jhumpa

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD WINNER. With a new foreword by Domenico Starnone, this stunning debut collection flawlessly charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion whe...

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Q. 200

Poor Deer

Poor Deer

Claire Oshetsky

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss--and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life--from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire Oshetsky Margaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died. No one bla...

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How Strange a Season

How Strange a Season

Megan Mayhew Bergman

Award-winning short story writer Megan Mayhew Bergman's debut novel--a beautiful and engrossing tale of a southern family, set outside of Charleston in the 1920s and 1930s, with an unforgettable young heroine. Win Spangler and Helena Glass met on the dunes at a beach resort in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1919. Helena, a skilled shooter and former beauty queen, was born and r...

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Q. 280

The Fur Person

The Fur Person

Sarton, May

"In whatever May Sarton writes one can hear the human heart pulsing just below the surface."—Washington Post Book World This enchanting story and classic of cat literature is drawn from the true adventures of Tom Jones, May Sarton's own cat. Prior to making the author's acquaintance, he is a fiercely independent, nameless Cat About Town. Growing tired of his vagabond lifestyle,...

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The Poppy Fields

The Poppy Fields

Nikki Erlick

From the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit The Measure--a runaway bestseller and a Read with Jenna TODAY Show pick--comes a stunning speculative story of healing, self-discovery, forgiveness, and found friendship. "A masterful, tender exploration of love, loss, and the poignant echoes of memory... A profoundly moving read." --Jamie Ford, New York Times bestsell...

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Q. 220

Nightmare Alley

Nightmare Alley

William Lindsay Gresham

Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd's gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There's no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him....

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Erotic Fiction Ver todos

1982, Janine

1982, Janine

Alasdair Gray

Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover and businessman is alone in a hotel room, drinking whisky, fantasizing about sex and contemplating suicide. As he tries to distance himself from reality, his lonely, alcohol-fuelled fantasies are interrupted by a flood of memories, reminding him of his own shortcomings. An unforgettably imaginative book, deeply experimental in its form and ch...

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Sons And Lovers

Sons And Lovers

Lawrence, D.h.

‘When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through the agonies of the young Lawrence striving to win free from his old life'. - Richard AldingtonThis novel is Lawrence's semi-autobiographical masterpiece in which he explores emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lo...

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Q. 70

Holiday Ever After

Holiday Ever After

Grace, Hannah

Clara Davenport wants to solve Fraser Falls' biggest problem. According to Jack Kelly, Clara is Fraser Falls' biggest problem. All Clara Davenport has ever wanted to do is climb the ladder at Davenport Innovation Creative, her family's toy business. Everything was going according to plan, until the company was accused of stealing a doll design from an independent toy maker, cre...

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Q. 150

Summer In The City

Summer In The City

Aster, Alex

This deluxe paperback edition features special stenciled edges and interior cover art."This was a fun, stay-up-late-to-finish read! Elle and Parker have chemistry from the jump, but a combination of forced proximity and her hatred of him is fuel for witty banter, a long, slow burn and plenty of steam! I loved how Elle's true enemies-to-lovers journey is with New York City itsel...

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The Bride Test

The Bride Test

Helen Hoang

"Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but he doesn't experience big, important emotions like love and grief. Rather than believing he processes emotions differently due to being autistic, he concludes that he's defective and decides to avoid romantic relationships. So his mother, ...

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Q. 180

The Italy Letters

The Italy Letters

Vi Khi Nao

"Vi Khi Nao's fictional language is full of magical slippages ... an esoteric sadness seeps up through surface deadpan and pizzazz." —Jonathan LethemA mesmerizing epistolary tale of a sensual queer love affair set against the backdrop of Las Vegas' gritty underbelly.The Italy Letters is a slim, powerful shot of literary fantasia from one of America's best-kept secrets. Long an ...

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Q. 200

Dykette

Dykette

Jenny Fran Davis

Named one of the Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2023 by Vogue • Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker • Named a Best Book of 2023 (So Far) by Cosmopolitan • Named a Best Book of Spring 2023 by Esquire • Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2023 by Buzzfeed, Electric Lit, and ThemAn addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day g...

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Q. 200

Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons

Choderlos De Laclos, Pierre

The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Dangerous Liaisons one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a game - a game which they must win. ...

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Q. 190

Blood And Roses Volume 1

Blood And Roses Volume 1

Hart, Callie

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Quicksilver comes a dark contemporary romance in a stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION with designed edges and cover effects, only available while supplies last. What happens in the dark never stays in the dark. As one of Seattle's most dangerous, feared men, Zeth Mayfair always carried out the jobs he's sent on without a second t...

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Hispanic Fiction Ver todos

Aunt Julia And The Scriptwriter

Aunt Julia And The Scriptwriter

Vargas Llosa, Mario

The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho, whose racy, vituperative soap operas are holding the city's listeners in thrall. Pedro chooses young Marito to be his confidant as he slowly goes insane.Interweaving the story of Marito's life with the ever-m...

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Q. 220

The War Of The End Of The World

The War Of The End Of The World

Vargas Llosa, Mario

Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form, a state with al...

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Don Quixote

Don Quixote

De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel

Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story by creating a fictional Moorish chronicler for Don Quixote named Cide Hamete Benengeli. Published in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and 1615), Don Quixote is the most influential work of liter...

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Seven Empty Houses

Seven Empty Houses

Schweblin, Samanta

Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Translated LiteratureA blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the 3 time International Booker Prize finalist, lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon." -O, the Oprah magazineThe seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A ...

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Don Quixote (English)

Don Quixote (English)

De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel / Rutherford, John / González Echevarría, Roberto

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadDon Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray--he tilts at windmills, imagining them...

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Until August

Until August

García Marquez, Gabriel

A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude—a moving tale of female desire and abandon Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven y...

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Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Xochitl Gonzalez

REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious deathA Most Anticipated Book of 2024: TIME, The Washington Post, Refinery 29, Barnes & Noble, Marie Clare, Real Simple, Entertainment Weekly, LA Daily New...

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Q. 200

The Prisoner Of Heaven

The Prisoner Of Heaven

Ruiz Zafón, Carlos

Once again, internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón creates a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge, set in a dark, gothic Barcelona, in which the heroes of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game must contend with a nemesis that threatens to destroy them."Gabriel García Márquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge...

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Don Quixote

Don Quixote

De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel

Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated generations of readers, and inspired other creative artists such as Flaubert, Picasso and Richard Strauss. The tall, thin knight and his short, fat squire, Sancho Panza, have found their way in...

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Blow-Up

Blow-Up

Cortázar, Julio

A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer's intended victim . . .Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected here—including "Blow-Up," which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni's film of the same name—shows ...

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Q. 180

The Dream Of The Celt

The Dream Of The Celt

Vargas Llosa, Mario

In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world. But when he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in African and American colonies and those committed by the British in Northern Ireland, he became involved in a cau...

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Q. 250

The Infinite Plan

The Infinite Plan

Allende, Isabel

Born in the Hispanic barrio of Los Angeles, Gregory Reeves grew up in poverty, survived the killing fields of Vietnam, and is now a lawyer in San Francisco. Though he has successfully survived this hard journey, Gregory's life has suddenly gone off the rails thanks to an illusory and wrongheaded quest that has left him feeling lost and listless. To find what he is missing and w...

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Q. 190

Where There Was Fire

Where There Was Fire

John Manuel Arias

A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias"An exciting new voice with a prowess for lyricism." ?Publishers WeeklyMOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023: CrimeReads, Debutiful, Library Journal, Zibby Mag, The Mary Sue, and more!Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Compa...

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Q. 300

Collected Fictions

Collected Fictions

Jorge Luis Borges

For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called "the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century" collected in a single volume"An event, and cause for celebration."—The New York TimesA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of...

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Q. 300

The Sum Of Our Days

The Sum Of Our Days

Allende, Isabel

In this powerful memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her life after the death of her daughter, Paula. But The Sum of Our Days is not a tragedy; narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, it is a remarkable story of life that is as exuberant and passionate as Allende herself. Baring her soul, Allende reflects on love, marriage, motherhood...

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Q. 190

Horror Fiction Ver todos

S (Paperback)

S (Paperback)

Koji Suzuki

The latest edition of the RING series is set years after the original Sadako story. Now in a modern age of computers and the internet, the Sadako virus is revitilized and is potentially even more dangerous. Combining classic Japanese horror and modern themes, S is Koji Suzuki's powerful return to the J-Horror field!New paperback edition!28-year-old image processing specialist T...

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Q. 160

The Haunted Hotel And Other Strange Tales

The Haunted Hotel And Other Strange Tales

Wilkie Collins

Editedand with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'Have you ever heard of the fascination of terror?' This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. The star attraction is the novella The Haunted Hotel, a clever combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of grim wate...

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Q. 90

The Fury

The Fury

Michaelides, Alex

A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex-movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneous trip to a private Greek island is upended by a murder — from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient This is a tale of murder.Or maybe that's not quite true. At its heart, it's a love story, isn't it?Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the...

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Q. 300

Night Terrors

Night Terrors

E. F. Benson

'His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty. But the eyes were already glazed in death, and before Francis could reach the bed the body had toppled over and lay inert and lifeless. Even as he looked, he heard a limping step go down the passage outside.' E. F. Benson was a master of the ghost s...

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Q. 90

The Storm

The Storm

Rachel Hawkins

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins is back with a thrilling new gothic suspense set in a Gulf Coast beach motel where hurricane season can be murder. St. Medard's Bay, Alabama is famous for three things: the deadly hurricanes that regularly sweep into town, the Rosalie Inn, a century-old hotel that's survived every one of those storms, and Lo Bailey, the local gi...

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Q. 210

Dracula

Dracula

Stoker, Bram

Regarded as one of the most influential horror stories of all time and the inspiration for countless literary spin-offs, the tale of the young Englishman Jonathan Harker's journey into the very heart of Count Dracula's evil realm remains a compelling read to this day.A thriller of hypnotic power, a dark exploration of human passion, mythology and the paranormal, and a plain old...

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Pink Slime

Pink Slime

Trias, Fernanda

Longlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated Literature • Named a BEST BOOK of 2024 by NPR, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, and ScreenRant • "The disconcerting familiarity of this strange, windswept world will haunt you." —Esquire A hair-raising, poetic novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them edges toward apocalypse.In a city ravaged b...

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Q. 190

The Dust Never Settles

The Dust Never Settles

Karina Lickorish Quinn

Sweeping from the bustling beaches of contemporary Lima to local ceviche bars crammed with fishermen, music and folklore; from the rise and fall of the Inca Empire to a civil war that will devastate a nation, The Dust Never Settles is a love letter to Peru. ‘A breath-taking writer of singular voice' Patrick Flanery, author of Absolution‘I have seen ghosts. They will not rest. T...

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Q. 160

Holly

Holly

King, Stephen

#1 New York Times Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of the Year Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King's most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this chilling "exploration of grief and delusion, just pure undistilled evil" (New York magazine) as she uncovers the truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.When Penny Dahl calls...

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Q. 130

Trad Wife

Trad Wife

Saratoga Schaefer

A "traditional wife" influencer allows a demonic creature to impregnate her in this unnerving horror novel, perfect for fans of Nightbitch and Mary, from the author of Serial Killer Support Group. Every #tradwife needs a baby. She'll get one at any cost.When Camille Deming isn't cooking, cleaning, or homesteading in her picture-perfect country farmhouse, she's posting about her...

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Q. 215

Never Flinch

Never Flinch

King, Stephen

Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, AV Club, Variety, The Boston Globe, The Minnesota Star Tribune, Vulture, Men's Health, Book Riot, New York Post, Goodreads, AARP, Paste, and more--one of the top psychological thrillers of 2025!From Stephen King, " a writer of towering brilliance" (The Spectator), a " cinematic, brilliant" (The New Yor...

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Q. 210

Irish Ghost Stories (Mystery And Supernatural)

Irish Ghost Stories (Mystery And Supernatural)

Various.

He told more about it to the priest than to others. He certainly had a secret to tell. He might as well have divulged it frankly, for the neighbours all knew well enough that it was the face of dead Ellen Coleman that he had seen. - J.S. Le Fanu I felt a strange creeping sensation as I looked up the vast black staircase, wide enough for a coach to drive down, and at the heavy d...

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The Heiress

The Heiress

Rachel Hawkins

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A January Indie Next Pick and LibraryReads Pick"The reigning queen of the Gothic thriller." —Entertainment WeeklyTHERE'S NOTHING AS GOOD AS THE RICH GONE BAD.When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four ti...

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Q. 300

How To Build a Haunted House (Hardback)

How To Build a Haunted House (Hardback)

Caitlin Blackwell Baines

Do you have what it takes to cross the threshold?Crumbling turrets, crenelated walls, creaking floorboards. We all know a haunted house when we see - or feel - one. That creeping sense of wrongness. An icy shiver stealing down the spine.But why do certain structures set this super-sensory alarm bell jangling, while others leave us unmoved? Can a house be purpose-built to be hau...

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Q. 290

Dracula

Dracula

Stoker, Bram

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific disc...

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Q. 270

Four Quartets

Four Quartets

T. S. Eliot

'Four Quartets' is the culminating achievement of T. S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in 20th-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was...

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Selected Poems

Selected Poems

Rossetti, Christina

Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth-century poetry can be complete without attention to this prolific and popular poet. Rosetti's inner life dominates her poetry, exploring loss and unattainable hope.Her divine poems have a freshness and toughness of thought, while many of he...

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"Spain, Take This Chalice From Me" (And Other Poems)

Cesar Vallejo

A major new bilingual edition of the Peruvian poet's workCesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar Ilan Stavans tackles the avant- garde poet's politics head-on in an enlightening new intr...

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Q. 190

Robert Frost: Sixteen Poems To Learn By Heart

Robert Frost: Sixteen Poems To Learn By Heart

Robert Frost / Parini, Jay

Celebrate Robert Frost's 150th birthday with a deluxe keepsake edition featuring 16 of his greatest poems—with brilliant essays highlighting his special genius and the power of memorization to unlock the magic of his languageDuring a public reading Robert Frost was once asked why he so frequently recited his poems from memory. With typical wit, he replied: "If they won't stick ...

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Selected Poems

Selected Poems

Yeats, William Butler

The present selection traces the development of Yeats's verse, encompassing the poet's interest in Irish folklore and national identity, his engagement with the political situation of his day and the rich symbolism that is the hallmark of his work and a reflection of his lifelong fascination with the occult. It contains some of his best-known pieces, including the elegiac ‘East...

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Q. 130

Poems For Tortured Souls

Poems For Tortured Souls

Varios Autores / Ison, Liz

Soothe your spirit with this emotional, romantic, must-have collection, an homage to some of the poets and writers who have inspired Taylor Swift. This collection of timeless poems is a beautiful introduction to the passionate words that have inspired artists and lyricists for generations. Discover poetry that overflows with folklore, love, heartbreak, revenge, and peace - t...

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Q. 170

Paris Spleen

Paris Spleen

Charles Baudelaire

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city with all its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art and women.Published posthumously in 1869, ...

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Q. 140

Howl And Other Poems

Howl And Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg

"Allen Ginsberg's Howl & Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. Customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trial at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene.Allen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, the son of Naomi Ginsberg, Russian emig...

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Q. 90

Another America/Otra America

Another America/Otra America

Barbara Kingsolver

"Before becoming the bestselling author we know today, Barbara Kingsolver was a fresh college graduate who had just moved to Tucson, Arizona with hopes of open space and adventure. What she found was quite different, "another America" that she chronicled through her poetry, in which she came to share her home with refugees and committed to paper their tragic stories of life at ...

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Q. 180

Collected Poems

Collected Poems

Kipling, Rudyard

This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His poetry is striking for its many rhythms and popular forms of speech, and Kipling was equally at home with dramati...

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Leaves Of Grass

Leaves Of Grass

Walt Whitman

First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades, Leaves of Grass embodies Walt Whitman's lifetime ambition to create a new voice that could capture the spirit and vibrancy of the young American nation, while celebrating at the same time "Nature without check with original energy".Famously written in free verse and brimming with sens...

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Winter Recipes From The Collective

Winter Recipes From The Collective

Louise Glück

"A new collection from Louise Glèuck, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature"-...

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Q. 260

The Book Of Hours

The Book Of Hours

Rainer Maria Rilke

Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, The Book of Hours (1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilke's distinctive voice and vision--where clarity of diction meets unexpected imagery and first-person poetry discovers its full lyric possibility. In these audacious poems, a devout but candid speaker addresses an ultimately unknowable deity, passing through lov...

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The Complete Poetry Of Edgar Allan Poe

The Complete Poetry Of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

From the exquisite lyric "To Helen," to the immortal masterpieces "Annabel Lee," "The Bells," and "The Raven," The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates the author's gift for the form. ...

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Q. 80

Forever Words

Forever Words

Cash, Johnny

Since his first recordings in 1955, Johnny Cash has been an icon in the music world. In his newly discovered poems and song lyrics, we see the world through his eyes. The poetry reveals his depth of understanding, both of the world around him and within - his frailties and his strengths alike. He pens verses in his hallmark voice, reflecting upon love, pain, freedom, fame and m...

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