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1. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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- classics
"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
2. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
By: E.L. Konigsburg
3.76
Format: None pages,
When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn't just want to run from some… read more
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- classics
- childrens
3. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more
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4. Emil and the Detectives
By: Erich Kästner , Walter Trier
3.98
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
If Mrs Tischbein had known the amazing adventures her son Emil would have in Berlin, she'd never ha… read more
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- classics
- childrens
- adventure
"Die Stadt war so groß. Und Emil war so klein. Und kein Mensch wollte wissen, warum er kein Geld hatte, und warum er nicht wusste, wo er austeigen sollte. Vier Millionen Menschen lebten in Berlin und …"-Erich Kästner, Emil and the Detectives
5. A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)
By: Michael Bond , Peggy Fortnum
4.23
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition of this ISBN can be found here. Mr. and Mrs. Brown first met Paddingt… read more
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- classics
- childrens
"I'm not a criminal,"-Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)
"[Paddington] looked up to see that Mrs Brown had been joined by a little girl, with laughing blue eyes and long, fair hair."-Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)
6. The Princess Diarist
By: Carrie Fisher
4.04
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
The Princess Diaristis Carrie Fisher's intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happe… read more
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7. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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- historical
- classics
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
8. Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street
By: Eve Garnett
3.45
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
More adventures of the Ruggles, a working class family from a small English town in the 1930s. read more
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- historical
- classics
- childrens
- adventure
9. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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- classics
"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
10. The Family from One End Street: And Some of Their Adventures
By: Eve Garnett
4.01
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A story of everyday life in the big, happy Ruggles family who live in the small town of Otwell. The… read more
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11. The Trumpet of the Swan
By: E.B. White , Fred Marcellino
4.10
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Generations have grown up with E. B. White's classic novels. One of his best-loved books, The Trump… read more
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- classics
- childrens
"When in love, one must take risks."-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan
"Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom."-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan
"Besides, my life is a catastrophe. It's a catastrophe to be without a voice."-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan
"In almost everyone's life there is one event that changes the whole course of his existence."-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan
12. The Chalet School and the Lintons
By: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
3.91
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1934, 'The Chalet School and The Lintons' was broken into two volumes in pa… read more
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- historical
- childrens
- adventure
13. Good Night, Mr. Tom
By: Michelle Magorian
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
London is poised on the brink of World War II. Timid, scrawny Willie Beech -- the abused child of a… read more
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14. Moominland Midwinter (The Moomins, #6)
By: Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
This children's story is one of a series of books about the Moomins that blend magic, humour and ad… read more
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15. Comet in Moominland (The Moomins, #2)
By: Tove Jansson , Elizabeth Portch
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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16. 84, Charing Cross Road
By: Helene Hanff
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspo… read more
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17. The Queen of Spades
By: Alexander Pushkin , None
2.18
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The Queen of Spades(Russian: Pikovaya dama) is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about … read more
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18. The Greengage Summer
By: Rumer Godden
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by … read more
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19. My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)
By: Jean Craighead George
2.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Terribly unhappy in his family's crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the soli… read more
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20. And Away...
By: Bob Mortimer
4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more
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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
21. Mr. Flood's Last Resort
By: Jess Kidd
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
From the award-winning author of Himself comes a spellbinding and “magically entertaining read” (Go… read more
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"Memory is like a wayward dog. Sometimes it drops the ball and sometimes it brings it, and sometimes it doesn’t bring a ball at all; it brings a shoe."-Jess Kidd, Mr. Flood's Last Resort
"The wind grabbed a handful of sand and scattered it like bright confetti along the hard-packed, sea-scoured, deserted beach. The sky had a newly rinsed look, the clouds spun and wrung out on high."-Jess Kidd, Mr. Flood's Last Resort
"My sister said that when the tide was out you could walk all the way to America; the waves pulled back that far. So far that the starfish forgot there ever was an ocean and stiffened with dismay. So …"-Jess Kidd, Mr. Flood's Last Resort
22. The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.09
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit followin… read more
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"It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions."-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)
"Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own..."-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)
23. The Twyford Code
By: Janice Hallett
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
It's time to solve the murder of the century... Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a … read more
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"A lot of talk inside about feelings. How feelings are like visitors with something to give you. If they knock on your door: answer. Let em in. Accept the gift. Say cheers, mate. Otherwise, they said,…"-Janice Hallett, The Twyford Code
24. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
By: Janice Hallett
3.95
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into belie… read more
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25. The Christmas Pig
By: J.K. Rowling
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A heartwarming, page-turning adventure about one child's love for his most treasured thing, and how… read more
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- childrens
- adventure
"Nobody's heart broke when we disappeared. We're easy to replace."-J.K. Rowling, The Christmas Pig
"I may not shine as brightly as my friend Happiness, but my flame is harder to extinguish."-J.K. Rowling, The Christmas Pig
26. The Salt Path
By: Raynor Winn
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more
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"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
27. The Appeal (The Appeal, #1)
By: Janice Hallett
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The Fairway Players, a local theatre group, is in the midst of rehearsals when tragedy strikes the … read more
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28. Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1)
By: A.J. Pearce
3.80
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
A charming, irresistible debut novel set in London during World War II about an adventurous young w… read more
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- historical
- war
"Find out what you're good at...and then get even better. That's the key."-A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1)
29. Flamingo Boy
By: Michael Morpurgo
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A stunning new classic from master storyteller Michael Morpurgo for readers of 9+, in the vein of P… read more
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- historical
- war
- childrens
30. Wish for a Pony
By: Monica Edwards
3.97
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
At the beginning of the holidays, Tamzin's white arab horse Fallada, existed in a picture on a cale… read more
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- childrens
31. Children Who Stayed Behind
By: Bruce Carter
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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- classics
- childrens
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