The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Category: Classics
A beautiful hardback edition of a Latin American classic - the enthralling saga of three generations of the Trueba family, their love, magic and fate. As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious deat ...Show more
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the world Toru Watanabe is looking back on the love and passions of his life and trying to make sense of it all. As his first love Naoko sinks deeper into mental despair, h ...Show more
Japanese Tales of Fantasy and Folklore - 90 Stories of Ghosts, Demons and Other Supernatural Beings from the Konjaku Monogatari Shu by Naoshi Koriyama (Translator); Bruce Allen (Translator); Karen Thornber (Foreword by)
Category: Horror
Supernatural tales from the most famous anthology in all of Japanese literature!The Konjaku Monogatari Shu is a collection of tales from Buddhist and popular Japanese folklore that was compiled in the twelfth century. The stories in this book tell of fearsome demons, tengu goblins, kitsune fox spirits, ...Show more
Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
Category: Fiction
Elegant novellas-in-translation, VINTAGE EDITIONS celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found. FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE 'A conspicuously gifted writer...To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tin ...Show more
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Magic Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers. Here we meet a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who is on the run, and Nakata, an aging simpleton who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami en ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes; Tom Lathrop (trans)
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself “Don Quixote” and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it is clear that his ability to distinguish between reality and the fantasy world of literary romance has broken down. His exploits turn into comic misadventures, in which everyda ...Show more
The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
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This collection of stories includes the story of revenge against a man who mistreated his wife and lover, of Maria who, throughout her life of prostitution, retained her innocence and El Captain who waited 40 years before telling his dancing partner that he wanted to marry her.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Category: No Category | Series: Clothbound Classics
Tolstoy's epic novel of love, destiny and self-destruction, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition from Penguin Classics. Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count ...Show more
First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and ...Show more
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
Named one of the most anticipated novels of the year by "New York Magazine," "The Wall Street Journal," " Entertainment Weekly," "Cosmopolitan," "Harper s Bazaar," "Publishers Weekly, The Huffington Post," and more. From "New York Times" and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisit ...Show more
Aphrodite - A Memoir of the Senses by Isabel Allende
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Like Diane Ackerman''s bestselling book, The Natural History of the Senses, Allende's book is a very personal blend of imagination, memory and the senses.aIn Aphrodite, a combination of personal narrative and treasury of erotic lore, Isabel Allende uses her storytelling skills brilliantly to evoke the p ...Show more