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"The Sittaford Mystery" by Agatha Christie is a classic whodunit set in the remote Dartmoor village of Sittaford during a harsh winter. During a séance at Sittaford House, a spirit message eerily predicts that Captain Trevelyan has been murdered. Major Burnaby braves a snowstorm to check on...

"The Waves" by Virginia Woolf is a modernist novel that explores the inner lives of six friends - Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis - from childhood to old age. Told through a series of poetic soliloquies, the book captures their shifting identities and perceptions as they...

"The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins is a groundbreaking detective novel often regarded as the first of its kind in English literature. The story revolves around a priceless Indian diamond — the Moonstone — stolen from a Hindu temple and later presented to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That same night, the gem mysteriously disappears from Rachel's room, setting off a wild and complex investigation. Through multiple narrators, including the loyal servant Gabriel Betteredge and the eccentric Miss Clack, the narrative unfolds with twists, misunderstandings, and revelations.

The Prairie Trilogy is a series of three novels centered around life in the Midwest during the late 19th/early 20th centuries by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather.  First, in "O Pioneers!," we meet Alexandra Bergson, who inherits the family farm after her father dies and leaves her to care for her three siblings. While many immigrant families are giving up their farms and moving back to the city (or to their home countries), Alexandra decides to try to tough it out on the prairie.

The story centers on Sybylla Melvyn, a headstrong girl growing up in rural Australia whose family is plunged into debt by their alcoholic father. Young Sybylla's story follows her romance with suitor Harold Beecham, her forced servitude to one of her father's creditors and her attempts to become a famous writer.

This is a SoundCraft Audiobooks production - enhanced with music and sound effects - of two of Lewis Carroll's classic tales of nonsense and imagination. Here, brought together in a single volume, are the complete tales of young Alice, a girl who dreams of fantastical lands full of talking rabbits, grinning cats, mad hatters, and vengeful queens. 

"The Age of Innocence" is considered by many critics to be author Edith Wharton's masterpiece. When it was published in 1920, it was received with rapturous reviews and earned Wharton the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making her the first woman in history to receive this honor. Set amid the aristocracy of New York City in the early part of the 20th century—a world with which Wharton was deeply familiar—the book relates the story of Newland Archer, a rich New York bachelor who has become engaged to fellow socialite May Welland.

Dashiell Hammett is universally regarded as one of the finest American writers of "hard boiled" detective fiction and his short stories and novels have been hailed as some of the best mystery stories ever written. Hammett would doubtless have gone down in literary history simply for his creation of the detective Sam Spade ("The Maltese Falcon") as well as Nick and Nora Charles ("The Thin Man" series), but he is also the creator of another of the most popular detectives in fiction: the nameless private investigator known as the Continental Op, who appears in dozens of his stories.

Experience two of Dashiell Hammett's most celebrated noir novels in this unabridged collection: The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key. In The Maltese Falcon, private detective Sam Spade is drawn into a deadly search for a priceless and elusive statuette, where every ally may be a liar and every...

Dashiell Hammett's "The Glass Key" is one of the most popular hardboiled crime novels ever written. The book's twist-filled plot formed the basis for the Coen Brothers' critically acclaimed film "Miller's Crossing." The book is centered on Ned Beaumont, the loyal right-hand man of political boss...

Step into the shadowed world of hardboiled fiction with "The Dashiell Hammett Omnibus." This powerful collection brings together four of Hammett's defining works: The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, and The Glass Key. From smoky back rooms and crooked cities to treacherous betrayals...

"Shadows on the Rock" is Willa Cather's 1931 novel set in late 17th-century Quebec City during the French colonial period. The story follows Cécile Auclair, a young girl living with her father Euclide, an apothecary, in the shadow of the great rock of Quebec. After the death of her mother...

"The Virginia Woolf Omnibus" gathers five of Woolf's most remarkable works into a single, enduring volume: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando: A Biography, A Room of One's Own, and The Waves. Together, these novels and essays showcase Woolf's extraordinary range, from the intimate...

Collected here are three of E.M. Forster's classic novels: "A Room With a View," "Howards End" and "A Passage to India," each a stand-alone masterpiece and all of them celebrated as among the finest novels of early 20th century literature.

"Nightmare Town" is among the more popular short novels by Dashiell Hammett, who was at the top of his writing game when this story was first published in 1924. The story presents a seemingly ordinary town - Izzard, Arizona - whose social order is deeply distorted by crime, deception, and...

Pooh and all of his friends are here: Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Rabbit, Owl, Kanga, Roo, and Christopher Robin. As they explore the Hundred Acre Wood, they have all sorts of adventures: tracking the Heffalump, visiting with Rabbit (and getting stuck in a very tight place), dressing up as a little black rain cloud to get honey from the bees, and even going on an "expotition" to the North Pole!

Among the more popular of the Continental Op stories, Dashiell Hammett's "Corkscrew" follows the Op on an unusual mission. He is dispatched to Corkscrew, Arizona, a scorching border town where murders, smuggling, and lawlessness have overwhelmed the local authorities. Hired by worried landowners...

In 1924, Dashiell Hammett—considered the father of hard-boiled detective fiction - wrote two short stories in his Continental Op series of mysteries: "The House on Turk Street" and "The Girl with the Silver Eyes." Rather than create two stand-alone stories, however, Hammett instead sends the Continental Op into a maze of stolen bonds, missing women, criminal rivalries, and lethal betrayals, all of which lead him to the mysterious, red-headed vixen named "Elvira," an elusive, intelligent, and dangerously charismatic woman who manipulates everyone around her while preserving her own secrets.

"The Young Women of Mystery Collection" brings together two of Agatha Christie's most entertaining mysteries, each led by a determined young woman whose courage and intelligence carry her into danger. In The Seven Dials Mystery, spirited Bundle Brent investigates a baffling death linked to a secretive society, fashionable parties, and a sinister conspiracy. In The Man in the Brown Suit, Anne Beddingfeld follows the trail of a mysterious stranger from London to South Africa, uncovering murder, romance, and international intrigue along the way.

"The Whosis Kid" by Dashiell Hammett is a gritty detective story featuring the Continental Op, a hard-boiled private investigator navigating a world of crime, deceit, and shifting loyalties. The story follows the Op as he tracks down a notorious criminal known as the Whosis Kid, a slippery figure whose identity and motives remain elusive. Set against Hammett's trademark backdrop of corruption and moral ambiguity, the tale unfolds with sharp dialogue, terse prose, and a relentless pace.