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Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is the enduring classic of wit, courtship, social pressure, misjudgment, and the gradual correction of first impressions.

From $8.00

The Huguenots in France

The Huguenots in France

<p>Samuel Smiles’s The Huguenots in France explores persecution, exile, and endurance in French Protestant history.</p>

From $8.00

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

A governess with a fierce heart navigates love, loss, and the shadows of Thornfield Hall.

From $5.00

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

<p>A feverish descent into guilt and redemption, Dostoevsky’s 'Crime and Punishment' follows a tormented student who believes he’s beyond morality—until his

From $5.00

Meditations

Meditations

A Roman emperor's private reflections on power, mortality, and inner freedom.

From $7.50

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

A boy who refuses to grow up leads children to a world of pirates, fairies, and endless adventure.

From $7.00

Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick

Ahab’s monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale becomes a swirling vortex of biblical allusions and salt-stained philosophy.

From $5.00

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Staff picks.

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Grimms' Fairy Tales

Grimms' Fairy Tales

A lantern-lit path through the dark woods of storytelling, where every rustling leaf hides a lesson and every cottage door creaks with consequence.

From $8.50

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

<p>A girl chases a pocket-watch-wielding rabbit into a realm where logic unravels like a ball of yarn.

From $7.00

Meditations

Meditations

A Roman emperor's private reflections on power, mortality, and inner freedom.

From $7.50

The Odyssey

The Odyssey

<p>Odysseus’ decade-long voyage home from the Trojan War is a tale of cunning, endurance, and the unyielding pull of Ithaca.

From $5.00

Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass

<p>Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' is a wild, uncontainable ode to life itself, a celebration of the individual and the infinite.

From $5.00

Little Women

Little Women

<p>Four sisters come of age in a world of scraped knees and secret ambitions, where the warmth of family cushions every fall.

From $5.00

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

<p>A feverish descent into guilt and redemption, Dostoevsky’s 'Crime and Punishment' follows a tormented student who believes he’s beyond morality—until his

From $5.00

Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick

Ahab’s monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale becomes a swirling vortex of biblical allusions and salt-stained philosophy.

From $5.00

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Reading the canon.

A small rotating shelf of the books everyone says they should read.

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Grimms' Fairy Tales

Grimms' Fairy Tales

A lantern-lit path through the dark woods of storytelling, where every rustling leaf hides a lesson and every cottage door creaks with consequence.

From $8.50

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

A boy who refuses to grow up leads children to a world of pirates, fairies, and endless adventure.

From $7.00

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

<p>A girl chases a pocket-watch-wielding rabbit into a realm where logic unravels like a ball of yarn.

From $7.00

Meditations

Meditations

A Roman emperor's private reflections on power, mortality, and inner freedom.

From $7.50

The Odyssey

The Odyssey

<p>Odysseus’ decade-long voyage home from the Trojan War is a tale of cunning, endurance, and the unyielding pull of Ithaca.

From $5.00

Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass

<p>Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' is a wild, uncontainable ode to life itself, a celebration of the individual and the infinite.

From $5.00

Little Women

Little Women

<p>Four sisters come of age in a world of scraped knees and secret ambitions, where the warmth of family cushions every fall.

From $5.00

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

<p>A feverish descent into guilt and redemption, Dostoevsky’s 'Crime and Punishment' follows a tormented student who believes he’s beyond morality—until his

From $5.00

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