Crime & punishment

Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining himself through work, he now obsesses over the idea of changing his fortunes through an act of extreme violence: the killing of an elderly pawnbroker. His mind baulks at the horror of his plan, but wh…

Letters to Milena

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ISBN/ISSN

9781784874001

Collation

247p

Series Title

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Call Number

836 KAF l

The way forward

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ISBN/ISSN

9781524874834

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823 PUE t

Tales from the Cafe

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time . . . From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes Tales from the Cafe, a story of four new customers each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Cafe Funiculi …

Klara and the Sun

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ISBN/ISSN

9780593468494

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823.914 ISH k

Strange weather in Tokyo: a novel

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781640090163

Collation

179 p. ; 21 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

895 KAW s

Lord of the Flies

At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from realit…

Para Valkyrie (The Valkyries)

Kisah perjalanan spiritual dan petualangan Paulo bersama istrinya di padang gurun, menghadapi tantangan masa lalu dan konflik batin, serta bertemu para Valkyrie sebagai simbol dan ujiannya

Five children and it

When Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother move to the countryside, they encounter ‘It’ – a grumpy, strange-looking Sand-fairy known as a Psammead. The Psammead can grant the children one wish every day – but whether they request to be beautiful or rich, to fly or live in a castle, it seems every wish is destined to lead the five children into a great deal of trouble . .…

Just so stories

Inspired by the bedtime stories Rudyard Kipling told his daughter that had to be recited ‘just so’, this collection includes mythical animal origin stories like ‘How the Camel got his Hump’ and ‘How the Rhinoceros got his Skin’, alongside other playful inventions, such as the reason for the ebb and flow of the tides and how the alphabet was invented. These rhythmically told, trad…