The thursday murder club: a novel

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our u…

The Odyssey

After ten bloody years of fighting in the Trojan War, the intrepid Odysseus heads homeward, little imagining that it will take another ten years of desperate struggle to reclaim his kingdom and family. The wily hero circumvents the wrath of the sea god Poseidon and triumphs over an incredible array of obstacles, assisted by his patron goddess Athene and his own prodigious guile. From a literal …

The 24th Name: A Thriller

At the CIA, he used twenty-two names. When he left the CIA, he went back to his birth name. He went back to being a normal American. Back to being a guy who trusts authorities. Back to being a guy who doesn't need to get involved. Then, Jake Beamer called. And he took on the twenty-fourth name.

The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

Mitch Albom creates a magical world through his love of music in this remarkable new novel about the power of talent to change our lives This is the epic story of Frankie Presto—the greatest guitar player who ever lived—and the six lives he changed with his six magical blue strings Frankie, born in a burning church, abandoned as an infant, and raised by a music teacher in a small Span…

Breasts and eggs

On a hot summer’s day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko’s teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in search of breast enhancement surgery. She's accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently stopped speaking, finding herself unable to deal with her own …

Intermezzo

The demands of other people do not dissolve; they only multiply. More and more complex, more difficult. Which is another way, she thinks, of saying: more life, more and more life.

The demon headmaster

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780192758583

Collation

158 p. ; 21 cm

Series Title

The headmaster demon book #1

Call Number

823 CRO t

The demon headmaster and the prime minister's brain

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780192758583

Collation

191 p. ; 21 cm

Series Title

The demon headmaster book #2

Call Number

823 CRO t

The revenge of the demon headmaster

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780192758583

Collation

190 p. ; 21 cm

Series Title

The demon headmaster book #3

Call Number

823 CRO t

The demon headmaster strikes again

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780192758583

Collation

183 p. ; 21 cm

Series Title

The demon headmaster book #4

Call Number

823 CRO t