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When the brilliant but hubristic Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret to animating life, he assembles a creature from stolen body parts and brings it to life. Horrified by his grotesque creation, he abandons it, unleashing a chain of tragic events that will haunt...
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2026-02-17
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“Silence for the Murderer” is a 1949 Inspector French mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts about a blackmailed ex-soldier, Frank Roscoe, who gets involved in a swindle with a woman named Dulcie Heath, leading to the suspicious death (ruled suicide) of Roscoe's wealthy...
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2026-02-17
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White Cap by Ethel LinaWhite is a tense and atmospheric thriller that exemplifies her mastery of suspense and psychological intrigue. Known for her skill in crafting stories where ordinary lives are suddenly overshadowed by fear and danger,White delivers a novel that...
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Asimis Books
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2026-02-17
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''Murder in Absence'' by Miles Burton (John Rhode) is about two seemingly separate crimes: first, the baffling murder of estate agent Rufus Jones in English market town Hembury, followed by an investigation into suspicious activities on a Norwegian freighter in the...
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2026-02-16
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''A Will in the Way'' by Miles Burton (John Rhode) is a 1947 detective novel featuring Inspector Arnold and amateur sleuth Desmond Merrion, focusing on the suspicious death of Dilys Botesdale, wife of a man recovering in a mental institution, with the investigation...
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2026-02-15
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The Crook's Shadow by J. Jefferson Farjeon is a classic British mystery novel about a Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Edward Strood, hunting a master jewel thief aiming for a fortune in diamonds aboard a yacht in Cornwall, mixing suspenseful cat-and-mouse pursuit...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-02-13
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J. Jefferson Farjeon is one of the defining voices of Golden Age detective fiction, and The Classic Collection ofJ. Jefferson Farjeon (19 Books) brings together his most celebrated mysteries in an authoritative illustrated edition. This volume spans Farjeon’s full...
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Asimis Books
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2026-02-13
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These Lovers Fled Away (1955) by Howard Spring is an epic, intergenerational British family saga spanning from the Boer War to World War II. Narrated by Chad Boothroyd, the novel follows the complex, long-lasting romantic entanglements and social changes affecting a...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-02-12
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The Loves of Lord Roxboro:The Complete Collection, Volumes 1–6. Illustrated by Sir Walter Bone is a classic example of Victorian-era erotic fiction, blending melodrama, satire, and sensual adventure into a sprawling, six-volume narrative of aristocratic excess and...
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Asimis Books
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2026-02-12
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The Classic Collection of J. J. Connington: Sir Clinton Driffield (5 Books) brings together five celebrated Golden Age detective novels featuring one of British crime fiction’s most methodical and intellectually compelling investigators. This illustrated volume includes...
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Asimis Books
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2026-02-12
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The Classic Collection of Marie Belloc Lowndes (7 Novels). Illustrated:The Lodger,The Heart of Penelope, What Timmy Did, From Out the Vasty Deep,The Lonely House, and Others brings together a compelling selection of works by one of the early masters of psychological...
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Asimis Books
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2026-02-11
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''Dunkerley's'' by Howard Spring is about the Dunkerley family, now wealthy from their successful penny journal Hard Facts, as their children come of age amidst family secrets, romance, ambition, and conflict in late 19th-century England, leading to drama and a...
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2026-02-11
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Set in Akagera National Park, The Greedy Buffalo and Rhinoceros is a lively moral tale about responsibility, teamwork, and the consequences of selfishness. As the dry season approaches, all the animals agree to work together by storing food and water in a shared granary...
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Mudacumura Publishing House
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2026-02-11
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In the heart of bustling, 19th-century Wall Street, a respectable lawyer hires a new clerk for his office. His name is Bartleby. At first, he is a model of silent, diligent work. But when asked to perform a routine task, he responds with a phrase that will become his...
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Cactus
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2026-02-11
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This is a very Irish and poetic work of prose from a great writer little read these days. The story is based on ancient Irish hero tales, particularily 'The Hostel of Da Derga'. It is a very simple but engaging tale of four brothers, sons of a swordmaker, living in Gaul...
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2026-02-11
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Published in 1852 as the bewildering follow-up to the then-failed Moby-Dick, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is Herman Melville’s dark doppelgänger. On the surface, young Pierre Glendinning is the golden heir to a proud patrician family, betrothed to the blonde Lucy Tartan....
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Cactus
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2026-02-11
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Ishmael, a restless sailor with a taste for the sea, signs aboard the whaling ship Pequod under the command of Captain Ahab—a man possessed. Haunted by a monstrous white whale that took his leg, Ahab is not on a voyage for profit or discovery, but for vengeance. He...
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Cactus
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2026-02-11
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In the summer of 1842, a young sailor named Herman Melville deserted the whaling ship Acushnet on the remote Marquesan island of Nuku Hiva. With a companion known only as "Toby," he fled into the jungle-covered mountains, descending—exhausted, starving, and injured—into...
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Cactus
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2026-02-11
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For decades, the old house on Benefit Street in Providence has been a byword for dread and desolation. Tenants flee, vegetation refuses to grow, and an aura of profound, inexplicable malaise clings to its very stones. While the town prospers around it, the shunned house...
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Cactus
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2026-02-11
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In the isolated, decayed village of Dunwich, Massachusetts, a shadow lies heavy upon the land. The locals speak in whispers of strange lights atop Sentinel Hill, of a twisted family living in a crumbling farmhouse, and of blasphemous rites heard echoing through the...
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Cactus
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2026-02-11
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