Author: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400079276
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man. Now with a new introduction by the author. Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey. “As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.”—Chicago Tribune
A Girl on the Shore
Author: Inio Asano
Publisher: Kodansha USA
ISBN: 1942993765
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Longing for Something Bigger From the Eisner Award-nominated Inio Asano, creator of Solanin and Nijigahara Holograph, comes one of his most challenging works yet—an intense teen romance set in what may at first glance be one of the sleepiest places in Japan. When Koume and Keisuke's relationship begins to take shape, it is apparent that they are both searching for something. Maybe Keisuke wants something more than a kiss from the fair Koume. Maybe Koume is looking for someone better than Misaki, the local playboy. But what they find in each other over the course of a summer might be far greater than anything they were expecting. Their lives are going to change. And this will all transpire before high school exams!
Publisher: Kodansha USA
ISBN: 1942993765
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Longing for Something Bigger From the Eisner Award-nominated Inio Asano, creator of Solanin and Nijigahara Holograph, comes one of his most challenging works yet—an intense teen romance set in what may at first glance be one of the sleepiest places in Japan. When Koume and Keisuke's relationship begins to take shape, it is apparent that they are both searching for something. Maybe Keisuke wants something more than a kiss from the fair Koume. Maybe Koume is looking for someone better than Misaki, the local playboy. But what they find in each other over the course of a summer might be far greater than anything they were expecting. Their lives are going to change. And this will all transpire before high school exams!
The Girls on the Shore
Author: Ann Cleeves
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250859379
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A USA Today Bestseller! Ann Cleeves—New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—returns with a darkly delicious short story, "The Girls on the Shore", featuring DI Matthew Venn from the Two Rivers series. It was winter. Cold and clear, a different sort of day for this coast where the westerly winds usually blew rain and cloud. Detective Inspector Matthew Venn is standing by his kitchen window when he first spots them. Two young girls, facing away from him, seemingly staring towards something in the distance. They are holding hands, and they are alone. Though not a natural with children, Matthew knows he must find out why the girls are here, on a school day, unsupervised. And so he meets Olivia and Imogen, a pair of sisters whose secrets Matthew must uncover if he hopes to get them home.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250859379
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A USA Today Bestseller! Ann Cleeves—New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—returns with a darkly delicious short story, "The Girls on the Shore", featuring DI Matthew Venn from the Two Rivers series. It was winter. Cold and clear, a different sort of day for this coast where the westerly winds usually blew rain and cloud. Detective Inspector Matthew Venn is standing by his kitchen window when he first spots them. Two young girls, facing away from him, seemingly staring towards something in the distance. They are holding hands, and they are alone. Though not a natural with children, Matthew knows he must find out why the girls are here, on a school day, unsupervised. And so he meets Olivia and Imogen, a pair of sisters whose secrets Matthew must uncover if he hopes to get them home.
The Girl on the Shore
Author: F. M. Hughes
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1843101114
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
When Gemma gets a job at The Beacon residential unit, little does she realize how much impact she is to have on the lives of its residents and how they will shape her own. Showing how a caring community can be much more than a place where people wait to die, this book is a 'must read' for teenagers and all those with an older person in their life.
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1843101114
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
When Gemma gets a job at The Beacon residential unit, little does she realize how much impact she is to have on the lives of its residents and how they will shape her own. Showing how a caring community can be much more than a place where people wait to die, this book is a 'must read' for teenagers and all those with an older person in their life.
Listening to Midnight
Author: Rokki Leigh Reeves
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595146678
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Modern Paranoia is a collection of eerie tales about ordinary people caught in twisted circumstance. Sometimes real life is the scariest thing of all. These spine-tinglers could happen to anyone...even you. All of the stories are based, in part, on tiny seeds of truth. Conflicts is an exploration of life lessons through fantasy characters and settings. The parables may be read for the moral, or for simple enjoyment as fairytales for younger readers. These brief stories are a great way to grab a mental boost during lunch break.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595146678
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Modern Paranoia is a collection of eerie tales about ordinary people caught in twisted circumstance. Sometimes real life is the scariest thing of all. These spine-tinglers could happen to anyone...even you. All of the stories are based, in part, on tiny seeds of truth. Conflicts is an exploration of life lessons through fantasy characters and settings. The parables may be read for the moral, or for simple enjoyment as fairytales for younger readers. These brief stories are a great way to grab a mental boost during lunch break.
Hawkfall
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1848549504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This collection of sharply-etched fables, dealing with death, legend, love and violence create an Orcadian world that spanning myth and reality - a world set firmly between the sea and the sky - a collection of islands which are life-sustaining and soul refreshing.
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1848549504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This collection of sharply-etched fables, dealing with death, legend, love and violence create an Orcadian world that spanning myth and reality - a world set firmly between the sea and the sky - a collection of islands which are life-sustaining and soul refreshing.
My Journey to Safety
Author: Peter Abui
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504963628
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
My life was full of many unexpected experiences. Some were good, and some were bad. During that time of war, mostly bad times occurred more often than good times. Those good times didnt last longer. I think there is a reason why things happen to people, and as always there are results afterward, either good or bad. My hope all these years of war in South Sudan was that someday, there would be a joyful moment for me as the outcome of my horrible suffering. I do not have many good times to remember in my past life since the day I left South Sudan until the day I arrived in the United States of America. However, even then still, I always felt like I was missing something. Of course, indeed, part of me is missing: my whole family was not with me. I never gave up on myself when I was in that horrible situation. I resisted the pain I was facing. I wish of no ravage that I should do against my foes for what they did to me. I wish for the bad day to get over and hope for better tomorrow. I never except the weakness to engage my mind. Instead, I wish to preach the word of peace to my enemies for the sake of freedom in order to save the lives of the innocent. I wish to just speak out only the word of unification. I want to make the world aware of the war situation that was going on in my hometown and convey peace among the people and avoid more lives to be lost. War is wrong; we are all human beings with only one common goal: the soul. However, the only message you should be saying to your enemies is peace. Bear in mind that when you are torturing someone, you are torturing yourself as well. You might not feel it physically but emotionally, maybe not at the moment, but afterward, in the near future, when peace comes and when justice prevails. My parents used to tell me not to be afraid but to brave and strong. The fear one is the one got kill first in battle because they panic and run randomly into ambush.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504963628
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
My life was full of many unexpected experiences. Some were good, and some were bad. During that time of war, mostly bad times occurred more often than good times. Those good times didnt last longer. I think there is a reason why things happen to people, and as always there are results afterward, either good or bad. My hope all these years of war in South Sudan was that someday, there would be a joyful moment for me as the outcome of my horrible suffering. I do not have many good times to remember in my past life since the day I left South Sudan until the day I arrived in the United States of America. However, even then still, I always felt like I was missing something. Of course, indeed, part of me is missing: my whole family was not with me. I never gave up on myself when I was in that horrible situation. I resisted the pain I was facing. I wish of no ravage that I should do against my foes for what they did to me. I wish for the bad day to get over and hope for better tomorrow. I never except the weakness to engage my mind. Instead, I wish to preach the word of peace to my enemies for the sake of freedom in order to save the lives of the innocent. I wish to just speak out only the word of unification. I want to make the world aware of the war situation that was going on in my hometown and convey peace among the people and avoid more lives to be lost. War is wrong; we are all human beings with only one common goal: the soul. However, the only message you should be saying to your enemies is peace. Bear in mind that when you are torturing someone, you are torturing yourself as well. You might not feel it physically but emotionally, maybe not at the moment, but afterward, in the near future, when peace comes and when justice prevails. My parents used to tell me not to be afraid but to brave and strong. The fear one is the one got kill first in battle because they panic and run randomly into ambush.
The Island of the Women and Other Stories
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1848549466
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
In these six stories George Mackay Brown leads us back along the sweep of Orkney's past and beyond even that to the remoteness of fable. He reveals the timelessness of the lived moment and the constants of island life in the harvest of sea and land and the compulsions of voyage and homecoming.
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1848549466
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
In these six stories George Mackay Brown leads us back along the sweep of Orkney's past and beyond even that to the remoteness of fable. He reveals the timelessness of the lived moment and the constants of island life in the harvest of sea and land and the compulsions of voyage and homecoming.