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  • Spring and Autumn Annals (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Historical Annals of Early China: The State of Lu, Classical Literature, and Philosophical Texts

    by Confucius, Gianna Patel, Gianna Patel ...
    Translated by James Legge ...
    The Spring and Autumn Annals is a spare chronicle of the state of Lu, recording year by year and season by season events from 722 to 481 BCE. Entries on battles, rites, eclipses, and embassies are famously terse; their wording—the Spring-and-Autumn brush—carries praise and blame. As one of the Five Classics, it links early Chinese historiography with moral-political teaching, elaborated by the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • History of the United States (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. American Revolution to Civil War: Analysis of Social and Economic Forces, Political Development, Primary Sources, and Interpretation

    by Charles A. Beard, Gianna Patel, Gianna Patel ...
    History of the United States offers a sweeping survey from colonial settlement to the modern state. In lucid, didactic prose, it fuses narrative with analysis, foregrounding the economic and institutional forces that shape politics. Located in Progressive-era historiography, it challenges celebratory myths by attending to class conflict, regional interests, constitutional development, and the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Rudin (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An idealist's struggle in 19th-century Russia—social critique, realism, and the intelligentsia's tensions between idealism and pragmatism

    by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Gianna Patel, Gianna Patel ...
    Translated by Constance Garnett ...
    Rudin (1856) inaugurates Turgenev's gallery of the "superfluous man," portraying the eloquent yet ineffectual Dmitrii Rudin on a provincial estate. With limpid, economical prose, shaded dialogue, and lyrical landscapes, Turgenev stages the clash between idealism and action, reason and feeling. Salon debates, a restrained love plot, and a quietly devastating farewell distill the intellectual ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Out of Africa (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Memoir of Colonial Kenya: Coffee Farming, Kikuyu Encounters, and a European Settler's Reflections on Culture, History, and Self

    by Karen Blixen, Jared Covington, Gianna Patel ...
    Out of Africa recounts Blixen's 1914–1931 years on a coffee farm in Kenya's Ngong Hills, interweaving portraits of Kikuyu, Somali, and Maasai neighbors with the saga of Denys Finch Hatton, fire and drought, and the estate's loss. In poised, luminous vignettes rather than strict chronology, it blends pastoral elegy, ethnographic observation, and self-mythologizing romance. Situated within interwar ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Light of Asia (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An epic poetic journey through Siddhartha Gautama's life, Eastern wisdom, and the path to enlightenment and compassion in ancient India

    by Edwin Sir Arnold, Meredith Langley, Gianna Patel ...
    The Light of Asia, Sir Edwin Arnold's blank-verse epic, narrates Siddhartha Gautama's path from palace to renunciation, awakening, and teaching. Drawing on Sanskrit and Pali traditions yet shaped by Miltonic cadence, it renders the Middle Way and universal compassion in lucid, didactic verse. Born of Victorian Orientalist inquiry, the poem brought Buddhism to Anglophone readers with vivid Indian ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Bell Jar (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Feminist, Autobiographical Descent into Depression and Identity in 1950s New York

    by Sylvia Plath, Gianna Patel, Gianna Patel ...
    The Bell Jar (Unabridged) follows Esther Greenwood's ascent and unravelling during a prestigious magazine internship and within the constrictions of 1950s America. With mordant wit and luminous precision, Plath fuses bildungsroman, social satire, and a coolly clinical gaze on depression, casting the bell jar as both image and atmosphere. Episodes of romantic disillusion, professional drift, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • A Description of Millenium Hall (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An 18th-Century Epistolary Tale of Female Empowerment, Gender Dynamics, and an Independent Community in a Secluded Estate

    by Sarah Scott, Harriet Gainsborough, Gianna Patel ...
    First published in 1762, A Description of Millenium Hall refashions the sentimental novel into a female utopia. A male traveler's visit frames exemplary histories, in which trials—abduction, coercive courtship, precarious fortunes—are converted into philanthropy, education, and rational household economy. Scott's lucid style couples moral reflection with social critique, exposing marriage markets ... Read more

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  • Brown on Resolution (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Napoleonic-era naval adventure aboard HMS Resolution, where a young lieutenant confronts duty, battle, and the making of a leader.

    by C. S. Forester, Molly Warner, Gianna Patel ...
    Published in 1929, Brown on Resolution follows seaman Albert Brown, captured after a Pacific action, who escapes to the barren Galápagos islet of Resolution. With a rifle and implacable duty, he snipes at the repair crews of a crippled German cruiser, turning time into a weapon until the Royal Navy can strike. Forester counterpoints the island siege with the hard, overlooked life of Brown's mother ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Death of an Airman (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An aviation whodunit of upper-class intrigue, a pilot's-eye mystery with suspense, wit, and intricate plotting in early 20th-century England

    by Christopher St. John Sprigg, Gianna Patel, Gianna Patel ...
    Death of an Airman unfolds at a provincial flying club, where an Australian bishop in training witnesses what seems a routine crash. Sprigg converts that spectacle into a fair puzzle: aerodynamic minutiae, the geometry of stalls and spins, and the hierarchies of club life all become evidence as Scotland Yard is drawn into smuggling and a staged death. The prose marries crisp technical exposition ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

    In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

    by George Saunders ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.**LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Dhammapada (Mobi Classics)

    by Anonymous,Max Muller (Translator) ...
    Dhammapada, a collection of verses; being one of the canonical books of the Buddhists Translated from Pali by F. Max MullerThe Dhammapada is a versified Buddhist scripture traditionally ascribed to the Buddha himself. It is one of the best-known texts from the Theravada canon. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

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  • The Bell Jar

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational—as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest ... Read more

    $2.50 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook