A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
September 2, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles' splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe. Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-i ...Show more
City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
Category: Teen | Series: Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar
A search for the Beast, a Yeti-like creature within the heart of the Amazon, becomes a quest for self-discovery in this young adult coming-of-age story filled with international adventure, rich mythology, and magical realism from globally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende. Fifteen-year-old Alexander C ...Show more
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Category: No Category | Reading Level: near fine
The Sunday Times bestseller Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life and the fate of his country forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile in Chile. There, they find them ...Show more
Ines of My Soul - A Novel by Isabel Allende
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"Powerfully evocative. . . . Allende is at her best here; spinning words like spells, enthralling the reader with surreal visions of the New World."-- Newsweek A passionate epic of love, freedom, and conquest, based on historical events, from the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Sp ...Show more
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin; Aneesa Abbas Higgins (Translator)
Category: No Category
As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman -- a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French-Korean author. It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach gun ...Show more
Men Without Women: Stories by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
THE SUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLER Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories ...Show more
The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto
Category: Fiction
I had a melancholy premonition of reaching the end of the road and getting lost inside a distant tide. It was the beginning of summer, and I was nineteen years old. Yayoi lives with her perfect, loving family - something 'like you'd see in a Spielberg movie'. But while her parents tell happy stories o ...Show more
Wind/ Pinball: Two Novels by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'If you're the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens at three o'clock in the morning, you can only write accordingly. That's who I am.' Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's earliest novels. They follow the fortunes of the narrator and his friend, known only by ...Show more
The Pachinko Parlour by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of Winter in Sokcho, which won the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature. The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and gaze out of the window. Women's calves, men's shoes, heels trodden down by the weight of bodies borne ...Show more