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1) The thief
Author
Language
English
Description
A literary crime masterpiece that follows a Japanese pickpocket lost to the machinations of fate. Bleak and oozing existential dread, The Thief is simply unforgettable.
The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from...
The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Killing Commendatore is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art--as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby--and a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers"--
4) The snow day
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A little rabbit enjoys having a day off from kindergarten and spending time with his mother during a snowstorm, but his father's flight home is cancelled until the snow stops falling.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A political comedy on two American academics who are recording story-singers in Albania. The two are on a project to show that story-singers were the source of Homer's epics, but this is much too highbrow for the district governor, convinced the pair are spies. By an Albanian writer, author of The Concert.
Author
Series
Thora Gudmundsdottir novels volume 6
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A luxury yacht crashes into a Reykjavik pier. But the boat is empty; no one is on board. What has happened to the crew? And what has happened to the family who were very much present when the yacht left Lisbon? What should Thora Gudmundsdottir, the series sleuth, make of the rumors that the vessel was cursed? She is spooked even more when she boards the yacht and thinks she sees one of the missing children. Where is Karitas, the glamorous young wife...
Author
Series
Colección Andanzas volume 929/1
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Author
Series
Reiko Himekawa novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When a body wrapped in a blue plastic tarp and tied up with twine is discovered near the bushes near a quiet suburban Tokyo neighborhood, Lt. Reiko Himekawa and her squad take the case. The victim was slaughtered brutally---his wounds are bizarre, and no one can figure out the "what" or the "why" of this crime. At age twenty-nine, Reiko Himekawa of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's Homicide Division is young to have been made lieutenant, particularly...
10) Emily's balloon
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A little girl's new friend is round, lighter than air, and looks like the moon at night.
12) 999 tadpoles
Author
Publisher
NorthSouth
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When 999 tadpoles grow into frogs they do not fit in the pond so they have to move.
14) Good little wolf
Author
Publisher
NorthSouth
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A good little wolf treats his toys with kindness.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that, as the only woman at her new workplace-a company that manufactures cardboard tubes-she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can't clear away her colleagues' dirty cups-because she's pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is . . . Ms. Shibata is not pregnant. Pregnant Ms. Shibata...
16) Blade runner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Rick Deckard prowls the steel-and-microchip jungle of 21st-century Los Angeles. He's a "blade runner" stalking genetically-made criminal replicants. His assignment: kill them. Their crime: wanting to be human. This new version omits Deckard's voiceover narration, develops in slightly greater detail the romance between Deckard and Rachel, and removes the "uplifting" finale.
18) Trieste
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, in northeastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper clippings. Now an old woman, she waits to be reunited after sixty-two years with her son, fathered by an SS officer and stolen from her by the German authorities as part of Himmler's clandestine Lebensborn project. Haya reflects on her Catholicized Jewish family's experiences, dealing unsparingly with the massacre of Italian Jews in the...
19) Jailhouse rock
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A young man is sent to prison when he accidentally kills a man in a barroom brawl. While behind bars he takes up singing and is helped in the record business by a beautiful young woman.
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