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

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…

The antidote

The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a "Prairie Witch," whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns h…

On the calculation of volume II

I was sure that through careful listening you could solve any problem that might arise. If you really listened. The great questions in life. Everything.

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Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780241685174

Collation

72 p. ; ill. ; 26 cm

Series Title

Eyewitness

Call Number

599 CLU c

A case of mice and murder

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781526668721

Collation

338 p. ; 20 cm

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-

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823 SMI a

Insect

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780241685198

Collation

72 p. ; ill. ; 26 cm

Series Title

Eyewitness

Call Number

595 MOU i

Weather

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780241684979

Collation

72 p. ; ill. ; 26 cm

Series Title

Eyewitness

Call Number

551 DOR w