Arnica, The Duck Princess

A hilarious classic children’s tale about true love, friendship… and what happens when your fiancé is turned into a duck. Princess Arnica is so sweet and gentle that when she smiles even wolves and bears forget their fierceness. Everyone loves her, but she loves only Poor Johnny. Luckily, he loves her too, and even more luckily Arnica has a very sensible king for a father, who is happy …

Children's Encyclopedia Of Earth

This indispensable book introduces the latest thinking on all aspects of Earth science, from the formation of the planet to the ever-changing patterns of life on Earth. Subject areas include: Earth's history, planet Earth, inside Earth, restless Earth, oceans and seas, land, and weather and climate. Packed with illustrations and lively, authoritative text, maps, charts and hard-working cutaways…

Let's Go to the Hardware Store

When the new house needs fixing up, it's off to the hardware store to find the tools and materials needed to get the job done―a hammer, a screwdriver, a shiny tape measure, and even a stepladder. This family outing explores a familiar errand that fascinates plenty of young the hardware store. Anne Rockwell's perfectly pitched story and Melissa Iwai's child-friendly illustrations make this …

The Book of Mistakes

One eye was bigger than the other. That was a mistake. The weird frog-cat-cow thing? It made an excellent bush. And the inky smudges... they look as if they were always meant to be leaves floating gently across the sky. As one artist incorporates accidental splotches, spots, and misshapen things into her art, she transforms her piece in quirky and unexpected ways, taking readers on a journ…

Afterlives

While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war against his own people, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Another young man returns at the same time. Hamza was not stolen for the war, but sold into it; he has grown up at the right hand of an officer whose p…

Eileen

So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes—a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had year…

The Bone Season

Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of Scion London. Her job: to scoul for information by breaking into people's minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing ...

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-four Stories

Collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakami’s mastery of the form. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and relentlessly entertaining. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an iceman, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we mi…

The Beautiful Bureaucrat

A young wife's new job pits her against the unfeeling machinations of the universe in a first novel Ursula K. Le Guin hails as "funny, sad, scary, beautiful. I love it." In a windowless building in a remote part of town, the newly employed Josephine inputs an endless string of numbers into something known only as The Database. After a long period of joblessness, she's not inclined to questio…

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9784097345855

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823 KIM と