The Troll Garden and Selected Stories
By: Willa Cather
3.95
Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. The Halloween Tree
By: Ray Bradbury
3.78
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
A fast-moving, eerie tale set on Halloween night... Eight costumed boys running to meet their fr… read more
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- classics
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"Because of this one brave, new-thinking man, summer lives in the winter cave."-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
"When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die."-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
"Night and day. Summer and winter, boys. Seedtime and harvest. Life and death. That's what Halloween is, all rolled up in one."-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
"The day Joe Pipkin was born all the Orange Crush and Nehi soda bottles in the world fizzed over; and joyful bees swarmed countrysides to sting maiden ladies."-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
2. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
By: Kate Chopin , Marilynne Robinson
3.75
Format: 210 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Contents: Introduction by Marilynne Robinson The Awakening Beyond the Bayou Ma'ame Pélagie Dés… read more
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- short stories
- american
"In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like…"-Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
3. Navajo Autumn (A Navajo Nation Mystery #1)
By: R. Allen Chappell
3.97
Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition
Thomas Begay is found dead-drunk under the La Plata Bridge ...not unusual for Thomas Begay. What is… read more
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4. Little Men (Little Women, #2)
By: Louisa May Alcott , James Spanfeller
3.50
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
With two sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the informal school at Plumfield, … read more
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- historical
- classics
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5. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
6. The Pit and the Pendulum
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.15
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more
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- classics
- short stories
"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
7. Mansfield Park
By: Jane Austen
3.87
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more
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- historical
- classics
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"I was quiet, but I was not blind."-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
8. At the Mountains of Madness
By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
9. Cold Comfort Farm
By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more
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10. To The Bright Edge of the World
By: Eowyn Ivey
4.05
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Set again in the Alaskan landscape that she bought to stunningly vivid life in The Snow Child, Eowy… read more
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11. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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12. The Egg and Other Stories
By: Sherwood Anderson
3.80
Format: 654 pages, Paperback
Published two years after the innovative, influential 1919 masterpiece Winesburg, Ohio, this collec… read more
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13. The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.27
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more
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14. The Light Princess
By: George MacDonald , None
3.53
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The Light Princess is a short story that is warm and humorous, with a surprisingly poignant conclus… read more
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15. All Cats Are Gray
By: Andre Norton
4.00
Format: 112 pages,
Under normal conditions a whole person has a decided advantage over a handicapped one. But out in d… read more
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17. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
By: Terry Tempest Williams
3.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The beloved author of Refugereturns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebra… read more
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18. Self-Reliance and Other Essays
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) propounded a transcendental ideali… read more
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19. Salvage the Bones
By: Jesmyn Ward
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for FictionA hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, … read more
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20. People of Darkness (Leaphorn & Chee, #4)
By: Tony Hillerman
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Who would murder a dying man? Why would someone steal a box of rocks? And why would a rich man's wi… read more
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21. Found in a Bookshop
By: Stephanie Butland
4.24
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
Dear Lost for Words, We are trying to stay at home . . . I am enclosing a cheque and I hope that… read more
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22. Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)
By: John Banville
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder.… read more
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- historical
- fiction
"It's an actual fucking library, and there's a body in it!"-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)
"I'm a priest for Christ's sake - how can this be happening to me?"-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)
23. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
By: Eva Jurczyk
3.23
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
What holds more secrets in the library: the ancient books shelved in the stacks or the people who p… read more
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24. Lanny
By: Max Porter
4.06
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief … read more
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"Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?"-Max Porter, Lanny
"False things, endings. Sutenance for fools and never what they claim to be."-Max Porter, Lanny
"What or who is supposed to manage and regulate Lanny and his gifts," he asks. "Oh fuck, it's us. Who can have children and not go completely mad?"-Max Porter, Lanny
"Dead Papa Toothwort wakes from his standing nap an acre wide and scrapes off dream dregs of bitumen glistening thick with liquid globs of litter."-Max Porter, Lanny
25. Strangers on a Train
By: Patricia Highsmith
3.73
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more
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- fiction
- american
"The word “marriage"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I know that Southern redhead type,"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
26. The Snow Child
By: Eowyn Ivey
4.00
Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel.… read more
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- fiction
"A boy trying out a man's language."-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
"Why was it always the woman's fate to pace and fret and wait?"-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
"Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?"-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
"It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had forgotten belonged to her."-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
27. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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28. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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- fiction
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
29. Zorrie
By: Laird Hunt
3.86
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award (Fiction) From prize-winning, acclaimed author Laird Hun… read more
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"You could get whiplash trying to watch time go by."-Laird Hunt, Zorrie
"Still, it was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she thought, what she knew."-Laird Hunt, Zorrie
"As she began to doze, she wondered if when you rode in airplanes, love, even old impossible love, sent hearts tumbling end over end."-Laird Hunt, Zorrie
"She asked Janie what it was like to have a mother, and Janie leaned over and gave Zorrie a kiss on the top of her head and then turned her around and gave her a quick kick in her seat and told her th…"-Laird Hunt, Zorrie
30. Hattie Vavaseur
By: M. Rebecca Wildsmith
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
If you enjoy the suspense of Agatha Christie, the cerebral Sherlock Holmes mysteries by Sir Arthur … read more
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31. The Troll Garden and Selected Stories
By: Willa Cather
3.95
Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition
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