The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet

Be transported to a place like other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the 18th-century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. Instead he loses his heart. Step onto the streets of Dejima and mingle with scheming traders, spies, interpreters, servants and concubines as two cult…

Cloud Atlas

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9780812984415

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514p; bw; pbk

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823.92 MIT c

Cloud Atlas

Six lives. One amazing adventure. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and one of Richard & Judy's 100 Books of the Decade, soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent and Hugh Grant.

Number 9 Dream

As Eiji Miyake's twentieth birthday nears, he sets out for the seething metropolis of Tokyo to find the father he has never met. There, he begins a thrilling, whirlwind journey where dreams, memories and reality collide then diverge as Eiji is caught up in a feverish succession of encounters by turn bizarre, hilarious and shockingly dangerous. But until Eiji has fallen in love and exorcised his…

Ghostwritten

The dazzling debut novel that launched David Mitchell as one of the most exciting talents to emerge for the new millennium.

Numberland the world in numbers

The world is full of fascinating facts and statistics, but presented without context and in no particular order they can be overwhelming. By interpreting the world around us through numbers, you can break the most amazing and revealing of facts down to their bare bones. For example, did you know that the average eyelash lasts five months? That 400 quarter-pound hamburgers can be made out of one…

Mathematics for the International Student Mathematics HL (Core)

Mathematics for the International Student: Mathematics HL (Core) has been written to embrace the core syllabus for the two-year Mathematics HL Course, first examined in 2014. The new edition reflects the new Mathematics HL syllabus and includes syllabus references at the beginning of each chapter. In response to the introduction of a calculator-free examination paper, the review sets at the end…

The time-traveling fashionista and Cleopatra, queen of the Nile

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9780316224901

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813.6 TUR t

The House on Mango Street

Random House USA Inc, United States, 1991. Paperback. Condición: New. Reissue. Language: English. Brand new Book. Here is Sandra Cisnero's greatly admired and best-selling novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children and their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the coun…

Cranford

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9781853260469

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823.8 GAS c