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Aisle 01 — Featured

Featured

The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells

4.5

$1.40

The Happy Prince and Other Tales

Oscar Wilde

4.7

$1.40

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum

4.9

$1.40

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

4.8

$1.40

Moby-Dick; or, The White Whale

Herman Melville

4.6

$1.40

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

4.9

$1.40

The Trial

Franz Kafka

4.7

$1.40

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

4.8

$1.40

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

4.9

$1.40

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

4.8

$1.40

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

4.8

$1.40

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

4.6

$1.40

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

4.3

$1.40

Dracula

Bram Stoker

4.7

$1.40

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

4.8

$1.40

The Time Machine

H. G. Wells

4.7

$1.40

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

4.6

$1.40

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano

4.7

$1.40

Rizal's Own Story of His Life

José Rizal

4.6

$1.40

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor

R. D. Blackmore

4.6

$1.40

The Blue Lagoon: A Romance

H. De Vere Stacpoole

4.4

$1.70

Modern Cookery for Private Families

Eliza Acton

4.6

$1.40

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Classic Novels

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

4.8

$1.40

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

4.8

$1.40

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

4.9

$1.40

The Odyssey

Homer

4.6

$1.40

Middlemarch

George Eliot

4.6

$1.40

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

4.7

$1.40

Moby-Dick; or, The White Whale

Herman Melville

4.6

$1.40

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

4.9

$1.40

The Trial

Franz Kafka

4.7

$1.40

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

4.6

$1.40

A Room with a View

E. M. Forster

4.7

$1.40

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

4.8

$1.40

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

4.6

$1.40

The Pirate

Walter Scott

4.3

$1.40

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

Philip Sidney

4.0

$1.40

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Mystery & Detective

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

4.7

$1.40

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

4.9

$1.40

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

4.8

$1.40

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Agatha Christie

4.6

$1.40

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

4.8

$1.40

Le Fantôme de l'Opéra

Gaston Leroux

4.5

$1.40

Murder Mask

Edgar Daniel Kramer

3.9

$1.40

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Horror & Gothic

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

4.6

$1.40

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

4.3

$1.40

The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.5

$1.40

Tales of Terror

Dick Donovan

4.1

$1.40

Twenty-Five Ghost Stories

W. Bob Holland (ed.)

4.0

$1.40

Murder Mask

Edgar Daniel Kramer

3.9

$1.40

Dracula

Bram Stoker

4.7

$1.40

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Romance

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

4.8

$1.40

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

4.9

$1.40

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

4.7

$1.40

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor

R. D. Blackmore

4.6

$1.40

The Blue Lagoon: A Romance

H. De Vere Stacpoole

4.4

$1.70

Carmen

Prosper Mérimée

4.5

$1.40

Under the Red Dragon: A Novel

James Grant

4.1

$1.40

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Children

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

4.8

$1.40

The Happy Prince and Other Tales

Oscar Wilde

4.7

$1.40

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum

4.9

$1.40

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

4.8

$1.40

Max und Moritz

Wilhelm Busch

4.7

$1.40

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

4.8

$1.40

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Science Fiction

The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells

4.5

$1.40

The Man Who Mastered Time

Ray Cummings

4.0

$1.40

Thuvia, Maid of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

4.1

$1.40

A Honeymoon in Space

George Griffith

3.9

$1.40

The Time Machine

H. G. Wells

4.7

$1.40

Space Station 1

Frank Belknap Long

4.2

$1.40

Lone Star Planet

H. Beam Piper & John J. McGuire

4.3

$1.40

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Biography & Memoir

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

4.6

$1.40

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano

4.7

$1.40

The Life of Florence Nightingale, Volume 2

Sir Edward Tyas Cook

4.4

$1.40

Rizal's Own Story of His Life

José Rizal

4.6

$1.40

The Life of John Marshall, Volume 4

Albert J. Beveridge

4.3

$1.40

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Food & Drink

The Forme of Cury

Samuel Pegge (ed.)

4.4

$1.40

Modern Cookery for Private Families

Eliza Acton

4.6

$1.40

All About Coffee

William H. Ukers

4.5

$1.40

Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

Apicius

4.4

$1.40

Science in the Kitchen

E. E. Kellogg

4.2

$1.40

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Health & Medicine

Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners

B. G. Jefferis & J. L. Nichols

4.1

$1.40

The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure

Edward Hooker Dewey

4.2

$1.40

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

William Thomas Fernie

4.5

$1.40

Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica

Merck & Co.

4.3

$1.40

Healthcare Management for Respiratory Care Practitioners

Kenneth R. Winn

4.5

$1.40

Adult (18+)

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Walk the whole library

Every aisle, with what's on the shelf right now.

Classic Novels

The great novels — sweeping sagas, sea voyages and quiet comedies of manners.

15 titles

Mystery & Detective

Clues, locked rooms and the detectives who see what everyone else missed.

7 titles

Horror & Gothic

Candlelit castles, night journeys and the things that wait at the window.

7 titles

Romance

Courtships, letters and long-awaited returns — the shelf for love stories.

7 titles

Children

Picture books, adventures and bedtime stories for younger readers.

6 titles

Science Fiction

Time travel, distant stations and frontier planets — the shelf that looks ahead.

7 titles

Biography & Memoir

Lives told in the first person: letters, notebooks and long looks back.

5 titles

Food & Drink

Old kitchen classics — family recipes, Roman feasts and the long story of coffee.

5 titles

Health & Medicine

Practical guides for caregivers, clinicians and the people who run healthcare.

5 titles

Adult (18+)

Classic erotica and grown-up curiosities. For adult readers only.

2 titles

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