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 …

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

The last noo-noo

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9780744598353

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unpaged ; ill. ; 25 cm

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