Caligula

The original biography of the murderous, crazed and incestuous Roman emperor Caligula - who pronounced himself a God.

The dhammapada

Ancient aphorisms on endurance, self-control and perfect joy, widely acknowledged as the Buddha's own teachings

How a ghastly story was brought to light by a common or garden butcher's dog

Sparkling miniature German fables, sketches and tall tales - including Kafka's favourite story.

The tinder box

Andersen's bittersweet fairy tales propelled their troubled author to international fame and revolutionized children's writing.

The gate of the hundred sorrows

Opium dens, curses, ghostly tombs - these sinister tales of Imperial India made Kipling's name as a writer

Circles of hell

A terrifying depiction of sin and eternal damnation from Dante's Inferno, the medieval epic that revolutionize the Italian language

The nightingales are drunk

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780141980263

Collation

48 p. ; 14 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 HAF t

Mina's matchbox

In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt’s family. Tomoko’s aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home—and handsome, foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company—are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms ar…

Salt house

On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Lyrical and heartbreaking, Salt Houses follo…

Spin-the-heel extreme deserts

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9781445415451

Collation

47 p. : ill.

Series Title

Discovery

Call Number

577 JON s