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A classic poem about Santa Claus coming to life on Christmas Eve.

Neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi’s poignant memoir chronicles his battle with stage IV metastatic lung cancer and his reflections on life, medicine, and mortality.

The definitive collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s 67 short stories and 55 poems, spanning Gothic horror, detective mysteries, and lyrical verse, showcases his seminal role in American literature.

In this memoir‑essay collection, Rebecca Solnit examines how we weave our identities from stories, using anecdotes of historical figures and her own family to show how empathy, narrative, and imagination connect us all.

A collection of Maya Angelou's poetry celebrating life, strength, love, and remembrance.

A comprehensive anthology of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic short stories—such as "The Tell‑Tale Heart" and "Murders in the Rue Morgue"—and iconic poems including "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven", showcasing his mastery of horror, mystery, and lyrical verse.

An anthology of Edgar Allan Poe’s 21 short stories and 34 poems, showcasing his mastery of horror, mystery, and gothic themes. Featuring classic tales like “The Tell‑tale Heart,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” and the haunting poem ‘Annabel Lee’.

"On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as she struggles through the first months following the tragedy, furiously clenched against a reality that she cannot face and cannot deny; and then, over the ensuing years, as she emerges reluctantly, slowly allowing her memory to take her back through the rich and joyous life she’s mourning, from her family’s home in London, to the birth of her children, to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge, to her childhood in Colombo; all the while learning the difficult balance between the almost unbearable reminders of her loss and the need to keep her family, somehow, still alive within her"--From publisher's website.

Travis Morgan Parker’s bold, genre‑blending collection interrogates contemporary Black womanhood through vivid poetry that melds personal narrative with pop‑cultural critique, exploring themes of identity, femininity, and resistance.

A collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tales including "The Tell‑tale Heart" and famed poems like "Annabel Lee," featuring gothic suspense, crime mysteries, and melancholic lyricism.

Contains 73 tales and 48 poems by Edgar Allan Poe.

A comprehensive anthology of Edgar Allan Poe’s 68 stories and 31 poems, spanning horror, detective fiction, gothic tales, and lyrical poetry, showcasing his mastery of suspense, the macabre, and the supernatural.